Sentences with phrase «focused on education funding»

Likewise, Mr. Cuomo said he would ask upstate legislators to focus on education funds and the potential for new jobs for New Yorkers, even if there was no guarantee that a casino would land in a particular district.

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After selling Trader Classified Media in 2006, John MacBain has been focused on philanthropic work, founding the Geneva - based McCall MacBain Foundation, which grants funding for efforts in education, health and the environment.

His Azrieli Foundation focuses on Holocaust education and Jewish cultural preservation, and has also begun funding research into neurodevelopmental disorders and health care in general.

In Detroit, many businesses funded by Chase - backed EOCFs have been focused on contracting and construction — industries that generate middle - wage jobs that don't require a college education.

On Wednesday, Hawkins announced the release of an education - focused app through his new startup called If You Can, as well as a $ 6.5 million funding round from Greylock Partners and Almaz Capital.

The Clinton platform also focuses heavily on education, including a call to broaden computer science education in public schools, revamp job training programs, and provide more funds for minority colleges to help tackle tech's diversity problem.

Ideation Startup Fund is focused on early stage investments in education, healthcare and green energy.

In China, JMD Education Media's Future Works is the first seed round accelerator / angel fund to focus on ed - tech startups.

With offices in Northbrook, Illinois, Santa Monica, California and Ann Arbor, Michigan, MK Capital invests in companies at all stages of the funding lifecycle, with a strong sector focus on digital media, data center automation, software, and education technology.

He does so in front of school kids and that's a clue: Primary education is a provincial responsibility, but it was symbolic of where much federal attention is focused these days, on funding matters in, or of relevance to the provinces.

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They reduced Airtanker contracts by 5.1 million dollars and cut funding for FireSmart grants that funded projects focused on fire preparedness planning, public education and fire mitigation projects such as creating buffers between buildings and forests.»

Thomas says educators should focus on a campaign for a November ballot measure that would raise education funding from an income tax increase on wealthy residents.

He started the Education Freedom Fund, which awarded more than 4,000 scholarships to underprivileged children in Michigan, the West Michigan Aviation Academy, (a High School that aims to provide a rigorous educational program through an aviation focus), and has served on the State Board of Education.

The report finds makes a list of recommendations for business, industry, professional bodies and government, namely: Construction businesses · Focus on better human resource management · Introduce and / or expand mentoring schemes · Boost investment in training · Develop talent from the trades as potential managers and professionals · Engage with the community and local education establishments Industry · Rally around social mobility as a collective theme · Promote better human resource management and support the effort of businesses · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Support diversity and schemes that widen access to management and the professions · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility Professional bodies and institutions · Drive the aspirations of Professions for Good for promoting social mobility and diversity · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility · Provide greater routes for degree - level learning among those working within construction Government · Produce with urgency a plan to boost the UK as an international hub of construction excellence, as a core part of the Industrial Strategy · Provide greater funding to support the travel costs of apprentices · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Place greater weight in project appraisal on the impact the built environment has on social mobility The report is being formally launched at an event in the House of Commons later today.

While African governments now invest around US$ 2000 of public funding per student (more than the average for developing countries), this follows decades of underinvestment in which drives for education focused on primary and secondary learning.

Former teacher Linares said he also intends to focus on education, and called for more funding to help community schools and provide wrap - around services for public school students.

At 8:30 a.m., the New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund hosts the third installment of their Getting New York City to 80 × 50 Policy Forum Series, with panels focusing on the waste sector, New York University Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, 295 Lafayette St., second floor, Manhattan.

UCU general secretary Sally Hunt said such courses will be «starved of funds» and warned that higher education was about to enter an era «in which many arts - based and teaching - focused institutions, which rely on public funding far more than the larger research - intensive universities, will face an uncertain future».

Compared to when he announced the Buffalo Billion, Cuomo spoke less about region specific initiatives this year --- but Upstate Mayors Byron Brown and Lovely Warren say the governor's focus on things like education funding, infrastructure and economic development remain important to their cities.

«We also will focus on things that women care about, such as creating jobs for women and their families, funding education so their children get the best education possible,» Young said.

One question focused on possible reasons to vote for «Woodstock,» citing reasons like fighting to improve the economy by taking on big businesses and monopolies, pushing for campaign finance reform, increasing education funding, changing the tax code to require the wealthy and large corporations to pay more and raising the minimum wage.

This week will include a focus on what the city can do to stop gas - related explosions after another such explosion occurred this weekend, this time in Borough Park; education politics and policy, as the pro-charter, anti-de Blasio group Families for Excellent Schools will hold a large rally; a continuation of negotiation and criticism between city and state entities over MTA funding; and more.

The Governor is insisting that we focus on student achievement rather than funding the education bureaucracy as a measure of success.

But New York State's primary focus and obligation has to be on the proper and appropriate funding of education.

Now the President's renewed focus on higher graduation rates will be dramatically undermined by the consistent under - funding of public higher education in this state.»

Education - focused rallies at the Capitol on Tuesday called for greater accountability and funding for schools and teachers in the new year.

On Friday, Teachout, her voice still hoarse from Tuesday's election, urged voters to now focus on helping Democrats take control of the state Senate, calling it an «essential» step toward addressing income inequality and boosting funding for education and local communitieOn Friday, Teachout, her voice still hoarse from Tuesday's election, urged voters to now focus on helping Democrats take control of the state Senate, calling it an «essential» step toward addressing income inequality and boosting funding for education and local communitieon helping Democrats take control of the state Senate, calling it an «essential» step toward addressing income inequality and boosting funding for education and local communities.

Deborah Cunningham, director of education and research for the New York State Association of Business Officials, said the state should first focus on equitably and fully funding the public schools.

Concerned Citizens of Montauk and the New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund will co-host a candidates forum focusing on the environment today at Scoville Hall in Amagansett from 5 to 7 p.m..

The funding will also support YouthBuild, which trains at - risk youth in the construction industry with a focus on education, occupational skills, and leadership development.

New York negotiations also focused on how to divide increased education funding and whether to increase the number of authorized charter schools.

Though many subsequent reports may have failed to mention AQE by name, and the headlines focused heavily on Nixon's choice words for the governor, the message of education funding inequity was at part of the conversation and is a pillar of Nixon's campaign.

City Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras (D - East Elmhurst) said she focused on domestic violence, sanitation, education and parks in doling out her about $ 629,000 in discretionary funds this year.

WHEREAS, research shows that women are substantially less likely to self - select or be recruited for elective office, this gender gap in political ambition persists across generations and over time and that qualified female candidates who are equally or more qualified than men are often seen as less qualified or less viable than male candidates; and WHEREAS, research confirms that the presence of more women in a governing body leads to greater transparency and a focus on progressive policies such as closing the funding and achievement gaps in education, closing gaps or loopholes in contraception coverage and affordable health care, closing the wage gap, and removing obstacles that contribute to poverty of women & children; and

«The bill's $ 5.5 trillion in spending cuts focus mostly on Republican's favorite targets, programs crucial to low - income families and the middle class: health care programs, funding for higher education, assistance for the families that need it the most, and infrastructure investment.

WBFO's Focus on Education reporter Eileen Buckley says the funding will allow the district to increase the use of healthy foods served up on school menus.

Pearl's placement in 2002 at the National Science Foundation, an agency that funds nearly a quarter of all the basic research conducted by U.S. colleges and universities, began a touchstone year focused on improving graduate education in science and engineering.

The FY 2018 request also terminates Education and Research Centers (ERCs) investments, including funding to academic programs focusing on industrial hygiene, occupational health nursing, occupational medicine, and occupational safety.

Her current work focuses on topics in the physical sciences, and she is principal investigator on a test development project funded by the U.S. Dept. of Education's Institute of Education Sciences.

Universities, colleges, and their students in Canada were not anticipating much in the way of increased funding for postsecondary education initiatives because much of the talk leading up to this year's federal budget focused on health care..

The new initiative, Enhancing the Diversity of the NIH - Funded Workforce, aims to address the issue by focusing on undergraduate and graduate education.

He turned to the California Wellness Foundation, a large private charity based in Los Angeles that focuses on health care and health education, and the foundation provided the funds to complete his study.

For Jersey City Public Schools teachers, hands - on STEM education is an important area of focus — but one that is often difficult to adequately fund.

Letchworth Garden City About Blog Multiple Sclerosis Test focuses on providing information for anyone affected by multiple sclerosis, education programmes for health professionals, funding for practical research and campaigning for specialist multiple sclerosis services.

To focus more directly on the gap between rich and poor, the Education Trust began issuing its own equity rankings several years ago, with «The Funding Gap.»

Rather than focusing on whether or how much to invest, the discussion has increasingly focused on whether free tuition is the most effective use of additional funds for higher education.

These leaders should focus their efforts on moving to a competency - based education that requires students to demonstrate mastery of the material, ending the archaic practice of seat - time, funding education based on achievement instead of attendance, eliminating the all too common practice of restricting students to district boundaries, and removing barriers to effective, high quality instruction.

Catherine Snow: Incorporating Rich Language in Early Education Educations Funders Researchers Initiative, November 18, 2013 «Taking on the task of improving reading skills, for all children and especially for those scoring at the bottom of the skill distribution, requires three simple things: first, we must provide all children with experiences designed to ensure a broad knowledge base and rich language before entry to kindergarten; second, we must redesign post-primary instruction to focus on discussion, analysis, critique, and synthesis; and third, we must redirect resources from testing children to assessing what is actually going on inside classrooms,» writes Professor Catherine Snow.

The creative writing schools fund will be delivered to children between eight and 12 and will focus particularly on children from impoverished areas, with the aim of easing the transition from primary to secondary education.