Sentences with phrase «funding for our schoolchildren»

«The need to get the budget done is starting to overtake some of the issues, and we do not want to see the need to restore funding for our schoolchildren get lost in the mix.»

Government advisers have spoken out against cuts to careers service funding for schoolchildren.

Not exact matches

Mr. Kenney, chanting the mantra of «choice,» appears to be committed to increasing that public subsidy while cutting education funding for most Alberta schoolchildren.

Tories and Liberal Democrats also had priorities in common which could provide «a strong basis for a strong government», said Mr Cameron, citing the scrapping of ID cards, enhanced funding of disadvantaged schoolchildren with a «pupil premium», support for low carbon industries and avoiding the National Insurance rise.

But although President Barack Obama ordered the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to recommence gun research in the wake of last December's massacre of 20 schoolchildren and 6 adults in Newtown, Connecticut, federal funding for research on gun violence remains scarce so far.

The best part: each sale funds the purchase of 75 meals for schoolchildren worldwide.

The Red Cross has collected almost $ 1.5 million in a special relief fund for Afghan children after President Bush called on American schoolchildren last month to send a dollar apiece to the cause in care of the White House.

Last year, Nevada's Legislature passed and Gov. Brian Sandoval signed a sweeping privatized education finance bill that would create Education Savings Accounts for all Nevada schoolchildren, regardless of their parents» income levels, allowing them to use the funds to send their kid to a private school or pay for tutoring or supplies in a home school or hybrid approach.

«Secretary DeVos continues the sins of school segregation by canceling funds for the Opening Doors grants to promote the proven benefits of school diversity for many schoolchildren of color.»

Charter schools are publicly funded but privately operated, sometimes by for - profit companies, and have been proliferating for more than 25 years, with thousands of them enrolling as much as 6 percent of America's schoolchildren around the country.

In looking out for what is best for low - income and minority students, Brill contends, Wall Street hedge fund managers are a much more reliable ally than the middle - class teachers who educate schoolchildren every day.

Could anyone truly imagine that those 2012 reforms, together with whatever initiatives and meager funding may come out of the 2013 legislature, are sufficient for affixing the «Mission Accomplished» banner outside the Capitol complex, proclaiming that the state at long last is meeting its constitutional obligation to schoolchildren?

But the Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding, a statewide coalition of municipalities, local boards of education, education associations, unions, pro-education advocacy organizations, parents, public schoolchildren and taxpayers, are working to change that once and for all.

With Alexander's nearly 400 - page draft bill, «Every Child Ready for College or Career Act of 2015,» under scrutiny, and in advance of congressional hearings next week, NSBA calls for a comprehensive, strategic reauthorization of ESEA that provides school districts with the flexibility and funding essential to support local community public schools and our nation's public schoolchildren.