Sentences with phrase «form of public education»

We have been, and will likely continue to be, subject to public policy lawsuits filed against virtual and blended schools by those who do not share our belief in the value of this form of public education.

By legislative mandate, all students have access to some form of public education, and schools are required by law to serve all students.

Of course, most advocacy campaigns involve some form of public education, since even corporate marketers want people to «learn» about the attributes they want to see associated with a particular brand.

The business taps into a formidable coalition of private groups and officials promoting nontraditional forms of public education.

That opened the door for alternative forms of public education, such as charter schools that shifted control from the Orleans Parish School Board into the hands of parents and a state agency, the Recovery School District.

Not exact matches

Following the enactment of the Securities and Futures (Amendment) Ordinance 2012, the Investor Education Centre (IEC) was formed as an SFC subsidiary to educate the public on a broad range of retail financial products and services.

The Christian Right wants public money to be used for private religious education (vouchers), buildings and services to be used for private religious purposes (this article), and they want subsidies in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions of other sorts, and they even want to destroy Aid to Needy Families so they can drive people into seeking help at their private religious «missions» where you are not allowed to eat unless you are a Christian, and so on.

This is of course what they say about education, politics, work and all other forms of public life.

We all need to care when their beliefs are imposed on the rest of us in the form of laws and leak into our public education system, that's when we need to care.

Thus the G.I. Bill, the Public Facilities Act, the National Defense Education Act, and the various forms of student aid initiated in the 1960s — BEOGs, SEOGs, Work - Study, Pell grants, etc. — have subsidized the survival of many colleges and universities, but inexorably they have served as well to make the grantee institutions more anxious to observe the laws and regulations of the State than the strictures of the Church whose sponsorship is, by comparison, so intangible.

The school was started by a group of committed parents and teachers who believed they could offer a distinct educational alternative by forming a school guided by the Core Principles of Public Waldorf education.

In March, the Boards of Directors of the Alliance for Public Waldorf Education and the Association of Waldorf School of North America signed a letter renewing the mandate of the Joint Venture Committee, formed one year ago, to implement... more

Concussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: Code 18 -2-25a (2013) requires the governing authority of each public and nonpublic elementary school, middle school, junior high school and high school, working through guidance approved by the department of health and communicated through the department of education, to do the following: (A) Adopt guidelines and other pertinent information and forms as approved by the department of health to inform and educate coaches, school administrators, youth athletes and their parents or guardians of the nature, risk and symptoms of concussion and head injury, including continuing to play after concussion or head injury; (B) Require annual completion by all coaches, whether the coach is employed or a volunteer, and by school athletic directors of a concussion recognition and head injury safety education course program approved by the department.

Her public school internship had left her with the question of whether there was a form of education which would better meet the needs of children.

Cuomo this year faces his own political challenge from the left in the form of a primary waged by actress and public education advocate Cynthia Nixon.

Only solution is to improve political education of the public so they can check the facts and form their own opinion, and brace for the fact that a fraction of it will always vote for irrational motives (peer presure, self - image of one social class, tradition, or the politician who shouts louder).

And what we see is this real assault on public education coming in all kinds of different forms.»

The release, explaining the decision was reached unanimously by the group's two component boards of directors, stated, «The Boards» decision comes on the heels of securing the Pride Agenda's top remaining policy priority ---- protecting transgender New Yorkers from discrimination in housing, employment, credit, education, and public accommodations ---- in the form of new regulations announced in partnership with Governor Andrew M. Cuomo at the organization's Fall Dinner on October 22, 2015.»

Democrats in the Assembly have generally resisted the education tax credit as has the state's teachers unions, who fear it could be a back - door form of creating a voucher program and hurt public education.

Formed in April 2012, StudentsFirstNY with more than 150,000 members, is New York State's leading voice for students who depend on public education for the skills they need to succeed, but who are too often failed by a system that puts special interests, rather than the interests of children, first.

About StudentsFirstNY Formed in April 2012, StudentsFirstNY with more than 150,000 members, is New York State's leading voice for students who depend on public education for the skills they need to succeed, but who are too often failed by a system that puts special interests, rather than the interests of children, first.

AQE formed in 2001 with a singular purpose: to push the state to meet its obligation of funding a «sound basic education» for children in public schools, as per the New York State constitution.

Phil Haberstro of the Wellness Institute of Greater Buffalo, a key volunteer leader of the policy writing team, noted that the work of policy implementation is the next phase of work that is currently being accomplished through the newly formed District Health Council, the Board and the community at large - The public may view the District wellness policy on the Board of Education Web Site or by contacting Sue Ventresca, the Buffalo School District's Director of Health Related Services.

Unlike Governor Cuomo, who supports privatization in the form of charter schools, the Green Party ticket of Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones advocates a comprehensive «Quality Education for All» platform grounded in fully funding and strengthening our public school system.

«The Boards» decision comes on the heels of securing the Pride Agenda's top remaining policy priority ---- protecting transgender New Yorkers from discrimination in housing, employment, credit, education, and public accommodations ---- in the form of new regulations announced in partnership with Governor Andrew M. Cuomo,» ESPA's release stated.

March 5, 2010 Pomona hearing 1:00 - 4:00 PM Health and Mental Health Transportation, Economic Development, Environmental Conservation Rockland County Fire Training Center Auditorium 35 Firemen's Memorial Drive, Pomona, NY 10970 Contact: Dan Moscato at [phone] or [email protected] March 12, 2010 Bronxville hearing 4:00 - 7:00 PM Education, Labor and Family Assistance Public Protection and General Government Concordia College Sommer Center for Worship & the Performing Arts 171 White Plains Road, Bronxville, NY 10708 Contact: Shelley Andrews at [phone] or [email protected] The Hudson Valley Delegation of the New York State Senate In an effort to ensure the Hudson Valley is fairly represented in all legislative matters before the Senate, nine local Senators representing the counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, and Westchester have formed a bipartisan delegation to more effectively advocate for the needs and concerns of their constituents.

In addition to research, all of these laboratories also engage in a number of forms of public engagement and outreach, ranging from media relations to classroom education.

Thus, too, the persuasiveness of the argument that Catholic schools are a form of subsidy to the nation's public education system.

Few topics stir up as much debate in the education sphere as steering public money in the form of vouchers to pay for students to attend private school.

Schwartz was the first director of the Boston Compact, a public - private partnership formed to improve access to higher education and employment for urban high school graduates.

Throughout the history of American public education, the practice of integrating the teaching of literacy and social awareness has taken many forms, from the explicit and blatant learning of religious vocabulary words and biblical themes in the primers of the 1850s to the more subtle lessons about the implicit social roles of the two - parent suburban life of Dick and Jane's family in the 1950s.

Hechinger places national, long - form stories in prominent publications across the country; StateImpact taps into the infrastructure of National Public Radio affiliates in Florida, Indiana, and Ohio to go deep in their home states (on education and other issues).

As Paul Hill, founder of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, has pointed out, we can leapfrog our system of school finance to truly fund education, not institutions; move money as students move; and pay for unconventional forms of insEducation, has pointed out, we can leapfrog our system of school finance to truly fund education, not institutions; move money as students move; and pay for unconventional forms of inseducation, not institutions; move money as students move; and pay for unconventional forms of instruction.

Young People Let Digital Apps Dictate Their Identities, Say 2 Scholars The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 28, 2013» «Kids feel pushed into developing a public identity early, and since it has been widely posted and effectively branded, it is actually difficult to explore other forms of identity,» says Mr. [Howard] Gardner, a professor of cognition and education in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, who explores these issues in a new book, The App Generation (Yale University PressEducation, October 28, 2013» «Kids feel pushed into developing a public identity early, and since it has been widely posted and effectively branded, it is actually difficult to explore other forms of identity,» says Mr. [Howard] Gardner, a professor of cognition and education in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, who explores these issues in a new book, The App Generation (Yale University Presseducation in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, who explores these issues in a new book, The App Generation (Yale University PressEducation, who explores these issues in a new book, The App Generation (Yale University Press).»

While students in Catholic schools (the most common form of private education) and secular private schools are more politically tolerant than students in assigned public schools, the 2 percent of America's students in other religious schools - an amalgam of schools sponsored by many different faiths - score lower on the political tolerance index.

From this, the Public Education Leadership Project — a collaboration of HGSE and the Harvard Business School — and the Achievement Gap Initiative — an effort to help study and narrow the achievement gap in education — werEducation Leadership Project — a collaboration of HGSE and the Harvard Business School — and the Achievement Gap Initiative — an effort to help study and narrow the achievement gap in education — wereducation — were formed.

Responding to what they perceive as growing public disillusionment with their profession, 19 deans from some of the nation's leading schools of education are meeting in Wisconsin this week to consider forming a new organization to promote higher standards in the field.

The Alabama Best Practices Center (ABPC) ~ a professional development arm of A + Education Partnership ~ was created because its leaders believed there was great potential in forming substantial partnerships with educators at all levels in public education to help inform policy - making on the state level and address disconnects between the intent of policy and subsequent implemEducation Partnership ~ was created because its leaders believed there was great potential in forming substantial partnerships with educators at all levels in public education to help inform policy - making on the state level and address disconnects between the intent of policy and subsequent implemeducation to help inform policy - making on the state level and address disconnects between the intent of policy and subsequent implementation.

Formed in 2003, PELP continues its mission with the development of tools such as the PELP Coherence Framework and the book Achieving Coherence in District Improvement, and with the annual executive education summer institute which brings public school leaders from around the country to Harvard to focus...

Had the government paid for the voucher, the expenditure could have taken the form of a simple transfer from the public sector to the private sector, which in the long run need not add to the per - pupil cost of education.

Formed in 2003, PELP continues its mission with the development of tools such as the PELP Coherence Framework and the book Achieving Coherence in District Improvement, and with the annual executive education summer institute which brings public school leaders from around the country to Harvard to focus on their districts challenges as well as possible solutions.

The Technical and Further Education Bill will take forward these proposals, which were discussed in the post-16 skills plan and follow a public consultation on the introduction of an insolvency regime for further education and sixth - form colleges launched in thEducation Bill will take forward these proposals, which were discussed in the post-16 skills plan and follow a public consultation on the introduction of an insolvency regime for further education and sixth - form colleges launched in theducation and sixth - form colleges launched in the summer.

About 25 percent of K - 12 public schools offer some form of virtual instruction, according to the National Education Technology Plan, released by the U.S. Department of Education in January 2008.

It wants to add federally - run accountability in the form of an annual U.S. Department of Education audit of K - 12 public education, to be done in collaboration with the Departments of Defense and State and the U.S. intelligence Education audit of K - 12 public education, to be done in collaboration with the Departments of Defense and State and the U.S. intelligence education, to be done in collaboration with the Departments of Defense and State and the U.S. intelligence agencies.

The education packs are another step in our efforts to help the public form an educated perception of frozen food.»

Potter, who like many education reformers supports public school choice in the form of charter schools but opposes vouchers, argues Nevada's private schools will be exempt from requirements to teach the more challenging students, including those with disabilities or those from poor families.

FairTest's Assessment Reform Network — a national project created to support parents, teachers, students and others who are working to end the overuse and misuse of standardized testing in public education and to promote authentic forms of assessment.

«These measures, coupled with our efforts to reduce workload, form a key part of our national mission to raise standards, reduce the attainment gap and deliver an education system that is a source of national pride and public confidence.»

While students with special needs have long had individualized education programs (IEP) to guide them from kindergarten through Grade 12 education — ensuring that they are receiving the instruction and resources they need to be successful — individualized learning is beginning to take hold in all areas of public education in the form of the individualized learning plan (ILP).

As they analyze the ways in which public school leaders successfully formed and transformed American education, historian Tyack and political scientist Hansot conclude that the main challenge facing today's leaders is to create a new community of commitment to public education as a common good.