Sentences with phrase «government out of education»

Though the law was initiated and signed by a Republican president, presidential candidates like Mitt Romney and Rick Perry, who once supported it, now talk about getting the federal government out of education, echoing Tea Party members who deem federal involvement a constitutional travesty.

The Every Child Achieves Act would help to get the federal government out of the education - micromanagement business.

«Getting the federal government out of education» would undercut these two decades of efforts to raise academic standards.

The agreement to toss whole chunks of the landmark law reflects a rare political convergence, uniting liberals who decried rote testing regimes, conservatives who wanted the federal government out of education, state officials angry about unfunded mandates and powerful teachers unions who said NCLB punished them, rather than giving them needed assistance.

The Republican candidates all stress accountability and favor school choice, though they prefer leaving the federal government out of education policy decisions.

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Reacting to the announcement, the Spanish ministry of education, culture and sport said the company was making a business decision to pull out of certain services but that the government remained open to negotiation about how it implemented what its statement referred to as a «Google tax».

Martin suggested, roughly, that the most important thing private enterprise can do is this: when governments try to invest in education, at all levels, stay out of the way.

She and the authors of the report, «Education to Employment, Designing a System that Works,» call for countries to create the role of «integrator» — a government appointee or someone designated by a public - private partnership, to make sure employers, educators, and students are getting what they need out of the system.

Although I don't pretend to understand all the «ins & outs» of banking, public financing, etc., it seems to me to be self - evident that if Canadian governments at all levels were able to borrow, at low or preferably no interest rates, to finance infrastructure projects and other issues such as health care and education, rather than indebting Canadians in perpetuity in order to pay big interest payments to the greedy Big Banks, it would ultimately be in the best interests of most ordinary Canadians.

Stay out of my education, out of my bedroom, and out of my government's policy making.

Whether or not the present Government will seek to reintroduce some of these measures remains to be seen, but there has certainlybeen no let - up in the efforts of the sex education establishment to lobby in favour of statutory SRE and to remove the right of parents to opt out.

because, jose... it's a well reasoned effort to keep delusional religious idiocy out of government bodies that make decisions for our industry, trade, and public education system.

My last point and Im out... Throughout our great nations history... we always found a way to fight through national issues and come up with solutions... Giving the problems we have now to people in the 50's and 60's... and they may actually come up with a solution... if you earnestly care about making a change... start at the lowest levels of government... go do something... find out costs... expenses... how to get more health care to people... do things like that... quit waiting on the government to provide all the answers... its not the way this country was founded... and not the way we get through problems... If you or ur family does nt have insurance... get a job that can provide you that... instead of hoping the government will do so... If you or ur family lacks access to education... move to an area that excels at it... education is invaluable... Do something about your problem... and quit waiting for the next big lotto...

Why is it that the religious right when it comes to things like healthcare, education, gun control and the enviroment wants government to stay the heck out of it?

In the Youth Indicators, 2005 report from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), we can see that athletic teams is the favored school - related extracurricular activity for boys in 1990 and 2001 at 43.2 % and 45.3 % respectively, out of a choice of music / performing arts, athletic teams, academic clubs, student council / government, and other school clubs / activities.

The Minister of Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has reassured Ghanaians of the rolling out of the free SHS policy by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government from the 2017/2018 academic year.

The former Ashanti regional Secretary of the NDC says he is highly grateful to God for seeing him through his Masters Education and adds that he is now ready to «go all out in ensuring the victory of the NDC and the second term of the President» who he says gave him the opportunity to serve in government.

David Cameron defended his education secretary on television this morning, insisting he was happy with the government's record of getting more highly qualified teachers into schools and taking 250,000 children out of failing schools.

We've seen tremendous improvement in the economy and at the social level since 1992, the Rawlings regime and that of Kufour all contributed immensely to the growth we seeing, the Mahama administration has added value to what he inherited.The infrastructure development recorded under this government is the highest after Nkrumah, the improvement in the health and education sector can not be downplayed.Policies rolled out by the regime to close the yawning gap between the toiling but highly productive rural folks and city officials is commendable.The IMF director Christie Lagarde was right when she described what we called economic success between 2005 - 2008 as mediocre growth.The base of the economy was still shattered and now being built to restore the confidence of the people.

Both the Major and Blair governments promoted «active citizenship» and rolled out polices such as Citizenship Ceremonies for the naturalised and citizenship education in schools — with the civic republican philosopher Bernard Crick a significant influence over many of these reforms.

With Andrew Lansley having being sacked as health secretary in mid-term and Michael Gove just shunted out of education, sacking Duncan Smith would have reflected too badly on this government's public service reform agenda.

Meanwhile discussions elsewhere reached consensus on disability rights, taking competition out of the NHS, tribunal fees, legal aid, zero - hours and short - hours contracts, agency workers, immigration, local government funding, housing, the Middle East, the minimum wage, the living wage, Royal Mail, the railways, science and technology, mental health, fracking, animal welfare, Lords reform, reducing smoking and consumption of alcohol, fats and sugar, reaffirming all - women shortlists, youth services, careers advice, sexual and relationship education, and even the 11 - plus (recognising that selection at age 11 damaged education for all children, but stopping short of abolishing existing grammar schools).

The Guardian today claims Tory education secretary Michael Gove had hoped to allow free schools to make profits in the government's second term and quotes a supporter of Gove as saying «Gove has never had an ideological issue with profit in schools, whereas Clegg is ruling it out for ideological reasons.»

A former Minister of Education and co-convener of Bring Back Our Girls campaign group, Oby Ezekwesili, has called on the Federal government to listen to the voice of the masses crying out their pains.

Touting some of the projects carried out by the government, Mr. Amissah Arthur indicated that, the inroads in the sector, have made education in Ghana attractive for other West African nationals to seek higher...

A former Director - General of the Ghana Education Service, Charles Aheto - Tsegah says the government's decision to roll out the free Senior High School education policy this year is feasible but there must be some changes in the national budgetary expEducation Service, Charles Aheto - Tsegah says the government's decision to roll out the free Senior High School education policy this year is feasible but there must be some changes in the national budgetary expeducation policy this year is feasible but there must be some changes in the national budgetary expenditure.

A former Deputy Minister of Education, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has said the massive improvement in educational infrastructure by the previous NDC government, will facilitate the new government's plan to roll out the free Senior High School (SHS) programme.

It said it was also false that a fresh N25 billion loan was applied for; saying that; «the only fresh loan taken by the government of Fayose was the N10 billion grant from the Excess Crude Account, which was released to all States for capital projects, N2.8 billion requested from Wema Bank to pay State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) counterpart fund out of which N1 billion has been accessed and N600 million for MDGs counterpart fund, which has been repaid.»

The Conservative ex-minister, who currently holds the higher education portfolio in David Cameron's shadow Cabinet, takes a philosophical view of the rigours of being out of government.

Speaking as the Special Guest of Honour at the 60th Anniversary celebration of Okuapeman School Saturday, February 11, 2017, he said the government had a well thought - out plan that involved the building of new public and cluster SHSs to give more meaning to free public SHS education.

He pointed out that the development of children through education is dear to President Mahama and as such the NDC government given a «massive infrastructural facelift» to Jema Senior High School with Ampoma getting a kindergarten complex and modern ICT Centre.

The report is so disconcerting to the government that education minister Elizabeth Truss has hit out at chair Margaret Hodge, something of a remarkable event in and of itself.

Commenting on the information released today that the Government will not be proceeding in this Parliament with the Education for All Bill, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The Secretary of State has again shown a determination to not blithely follow the path marked out by her predecessors, and to, instead, put her own stamp onto the future policy direction for education, for gooEducation for All Bill, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The Secretary of State has again shown a determination to not blithely follow the path marked out by her predecessors, and to, instead, put her own stamp onto the future policy direction for education, for gooeducation, for good or ill.

Since the formation of the coalition, the government have been handing out non-jobs like sweeties in order to maximise the so - called «Payroll vote» (despite many of these roles — such as junior whips and Higher Education Tsar being unpaid).

The Welsh Liberal Democrats have said today that the Welsh Labour Government's «catalogue of failures» on education can no longer be left out of the spotlight.

The 16 local government councils in Kwara State are to share the sum of N1.150 billion while the State Universal Basic Education (SUBEB) is to get N2.150 billion out of the N4b loan obtained by the councils to offset part of the arrears owed their staff.

«The only fresh loan taken by the government of Fayose was the N10bn grant from the Excess Crude Account, which was released to all states for capital projects, N2.8 bn requested from the Wema Bank to pay the State Universal Basic Education Board counterpart fund out of which N1bn has been accessed and N600m for MDGs counterpart fund, which has been repaid.»

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High - profile projects like seeking out other Earths may seem expensive, but they consume a minuscule portion of government spending and deliver an outsize return in education and scientific inspiration.)

The study grew out of work the authors undertook in the Pacific, where scientists met with community members and local, regional, and national government experts to examine issues such as food security, access to fresh water, quality education, sustainable tourism, and protection of marine and terrestrial resources.

Cotgreave points out that the government has upped its Higher Education Innovation Fund by more than 50 % to $ 200 million, but this is small change compared to the size of the total science budget.

Government funding agencies will have examples of documentation they require, many venture capital companies have guidelines on business plans, and there are any number of Web sites devoted to business education that will help you out with such arcane documents as cash - flow summaries, Gantt charts, and the like.

Followers from organizations tended to be health - focused, out - of - state, and from the education, government and nonprofit sectors.

Multiple experts from health professions expressed concerns that a lack of genomics training is hampering roll - out of genomic medicine; the report raises concerns about the current plans to reduce funding to the Health Education England (HEE) Genomics Education Programme, and instead underlines the imperative for the Government to increase support to HEE, as an essential element for the National Genomic Medicine Service.

This committee, informally called the Fink Committee, prepared a report entitled «Biotechnology Research in an Age of Terrorism» that made sweeping recommendations to enact regular risk assessments of biotechnology, enhance education, strengthen international oversight, and establish the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) to carry out reviews and advise the government.

The fact that schools engaging with the Naace Self Review Framework (SRF) have performed significantly better when measured by Ofsted, compared with other schools, puts Naace in a strong position to influence the UK government to ensure that education technology is at the heart of the nation's education system and enables Naace to reach out internationally to build partnerships with likeminded organisations who share Naace's principles.

In state after state, ballooning deficits that already have forced layoffs and other belt - tightening across state governments are hitting an education bureaucracy charged with carrying out a growing list of state and federal mandates.

With key components from the old system as the foundation, ESSA (which Business Roundtable CEOs supported) is designed to move the federal government out of the decision - making process and give states the flexibility to design their own accountability systems and ensure all students receive an education that prepares them for college and career.

Even the most effective attempts to push a government - established curriculum into classroom practice will drag out over a decade, because it just takes so much time to communicate the goals and methods through the different layers of the system, and to build them into traditional methods of teacher education.

«The challenges of offering a decent education to children and youth such as those in Amazonia require the kind of out - of - the - box thinking, creativity, and innovation that the partnership between the local and federal government in Brazil, with support from the IDB, is producing,» Reimers says.