Sentences with phrase «help lower education»

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Successful workplace education programs are built on good partnerships: they help to lower costs, facilitate knowledge - sharing and provide access to resources.

Where a dollar can be saved in an area of lower priority, it will be redirected to help sustain high - priority areas, such as health, education and job creation.

Through New Mexico Student Loans, eligible borrowers have the option to access low - cost loans to help fund their education endeavors.

Depending on your circumstances, variable rate student loans could help you save on interest, lower your monthly payments, and even pay off your education debt ahead of schedule.

The provincial government is streamlining the application process for Manitoba Student Aid and Manitoba Bursary to help more low - income and Indigenous students access funding, Education and Training Minister Ian Wishart announced today.

In addition, the bank's demanding Trapp vacate the property just before Christmas and asking the court to lower the list price of the house by $ 50,000 to speed the sale process — money that might otherwise end up in Trapp's pocket to help pay for a new home or her daughter's post-secondary education.

Private student loans make up a small percentage of the total student loan market, but many more borrowers have moved toward private lenders to help fund their education in the past several years.Private student loans offer some benefits over federal student loans, including the potential for a lower interest rate and extended repayment terms.

Even as you have done away with the recreational - education and physical - education majors in which football players were often stashed, an enhanced academic support system has helped the team's graduation rate climb steadily, topping out in the respectable low 70's the last time the NCAA checked.

The goal with this universal distribution approach, and scope of education that Babies Need Boxes provides, will not only help families better access a safe sleep space and essential items, but will ultimately engage the greater Cleveland community in conversations regarding racial inequity in childbirth, and help build the commitment needed to lower our infant mortality rates.

Challenge number two is — this is something that I became more aware of working on Helping Children Succeed — that even going beyond the challenges that low - income kids face and the gaps in our academic outcomes, there are significant problems with some of the basic approaches to teaching and education that we have in our schools: The basic principles of American pedagogy, how we teach math, how we teach anything.

In this role, he is helping to lead Maryland's premier hunger advocacy, education, and outreach organization as it works to end hunger and improve the nutrition, health, economic security, and well - being of low - income families in Maryland.

Courtney is dedicated to helping individuals, couples, and families who struggle with various issues including anxiety, depression, low self - worth, trauma, grief and relational difficulties, and aims to promote mental health awareness and education throughout the community.

The spat was about the Conservative Party's position on Education Maintenance Allowances (EMAs), a weekly cash payment for 16 to 18 - year - olds from low income families to help with the costs of staying in eEducation Maintenance Allowances (EMAs), a weekly cash payment for 16 to 18 - year - olds from low income families to help with the costs of staying in educationeducation.

Percoco, 48, of South Salem in Westchester County, and Kelly, 54, of Connecticut, are accused of a bribery scheme to pay $ 287,000 over three years to Lisa Percoco for a «low show» job designing an energy education program for children in return for official help on power plant issues.

Kelly, an executive with Competitive Power Ventures, is accused of bribing Percoco to help with a planned power plant by hiring his wife, Lisa Percoco, for a $ 90,000 a year «low show» job designing and occasionally teaching an energy education outreach class for elementary students.

In his endorsement, Schumer praised Latimer as a «fighter for Westchester» who has «fought to lower taxes, pass strong ethics reforms and help fix our broken education system.»

The son of a disgraced former top administrator in Buffalo schools has been charged with stealing money intended to help the education of low - income people.

Sean has successfully fought for billions more in education aid, to help school districts hire more teachers, lower class sizes, and actually make investments in arts, music, and sports.

The Education Investment Tax Credit will increase funds in two areas — donations to public schools, school districts and teacher - driven projects; and scholarships to help low - and middle - income students attend religious and other tuition - based schools, according to the NY Archdiocese.

The Federal TRIO programs in the United States offer support and fellowships to high school students with low - income and low - education family histories, helping them pursue a degree and a Ph.D..

Just a few low - tech public health weapons help a lot: water chlorination, vaccinations, and basic health education.

Mayor Reardon hopes the high school internship and mentoring programs he has helped establish within the city government and within some of the county's high - technology firms will help turn around those low scores on education.

«We found that higher rates of poverty and lower levels of education helped explain breastfeeding gaps between black and white women, especially in determining whether mothers started breastfeeding in the first place,» said Sharon Landesman Ramey, a professor and distinguished research scholar at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute and an author of the paper.

«They just don't know how the game is played,» said Thomas Mortenson, a policy analyst for the Council for Opportunity in Education, about the lack of experience many lower - income families have in dealing with financial aid.7 Many «high - income high schools» help students apply to college - entrance preparation classes at top universities, and they sometimes provide private admissions counselors.8

Using mobile apps in preschool classrooms may help improve early literacy skills and boost school readiness for low - income children, according to research by NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

The authors of «Undocumented Students Pursuing Medical Education: The Implications of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals,» published in the current issue of the journal Academic Medicine, suggest that these students, who are often highly motivated and qualified, can help alleviate the nationwide shortage of primary care physicians, particularly in underserved, low - income areas.

He prepared a measure that restored year - round Pell grants that help lower - income students pay for their college education.

Education and communication help world citizens to take informed decisions and move towards more sustainable, low carbon societies.

This ministry helps restore low - income urban communities through economic means, education, health and spiritual development.

Programs for low - income (Title I) and special education students (those served by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) get help eveeducation students (those served by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) get help eveEducation Act) get help even sooner.

Options that don't end in a bachelor's degree will fail to help disadvantaged students see themselves as college material, and predictably channel them into less promising options, forming an «educational caste system,» according to Kati Haycock, the president of the Education Trust, a Washington group that presses for better opportunities for low - income and minority students.

Education Innovation Africa will focus on how the private sector can help deliver national and regional education plans, by providing financing, improving infrastructure, investing in new education models and also by providing innovative low - cost technology sEducation Innovation Africa will focus on how the private sector can help deliver national and regional education plans, by providing financing, improving infrastructure, investing in new education models and also by providing innovative low - cost technology seducation plans, by providing financing, improving infrastructure, investing in new education models and also by providing innovative low - cost technology seducation models and also by providing innovative low - cost technology solutions.

Compacts thus help top charter groups deal with two political Achilles heels that now limit their growth: special education and better accountability for low - performing charters.

For example, this year's first - year students are helping the Education Achievement Authority of Michigan implement a student - centered instructional model as a means of improving achievement in some of Detroit's lowest - performing schools.

That's the quandary facing the Department of Education, which is reviewing why many eligible students seem not to have taken advantage of two new federal grant programs that help high - performing students from low - income backgrounds pay for college.

As I read the profile, though, I couldn't help but wonder if the more disruptive force in education is lower - tech and already more widespread than Christensen himself realized.

The apple of Michigan education could have looked a lot more wormy last week when Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm announced her plan to help some of the state's lowest - performing schools.

It's proving to be a viable, low - cost strategy that could substantially help overcome the huge, recession - driven deficits in education budgets across the country.

Education programmes in schools can help make students aware of these opportunities and get them excited about a career in the new low carbon economy.

Among U.S. fourth graders whose reading achievement was in the lowest 5 % of the distribution — children who were all experiencing clinically significant and severe reading difficulties — over 80 % of white children were receiving additional help through special education.

The news from the Education Next poll had become so bad we were accused of asking an unfriendly voucher question (it referenced the «use» of «government funds to pay the tuition»), so we agreed to split our respondents into two equivalent groups and ask the second group a «friendly» voucher question instead: «A proposal has been made that would give low - income families with children in public schools a wider choice, by allowing them to enroll their children in private schools instead, with government helping to pay the tuition.»

In a spirited hearing on reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, 10 representatives of the United States Students Association, many of them low - income or at - risk students, detailed how federal aid had helped them get into college and how it had helped them stay there.

I first witnessed the power of education when I taught and later led the Hoya Empowerment and Learning Program (HELP) to teach English, and computer and financial literacy to low - income migrant workers on campus.

As part of his residency, Ventura worked for the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), where he helped design a program to turn around eight low - performing middle schools in Springfield, Massachusetts.

A state judge's threat to close some of North Carolina's lowest - performing high schools is prompting angry reactions among local education leaders, while also spurring state efforts to give the schools promised technical help.

Imagine a national effort to improve the education of disadvantaged children that focuses extra funds on poorer schools, gives principals and teachers the authority to decide how best to help children, and encourages states to raise their academic standards and to hold accountable low - performing schools.

We remain hopeful that Congress will pursue bolder action to help kids in lower - income and military families, and those in Bureau of Indian Education schools.

An «Income - Achievement» Gap Within Kids» Brain Structures Boston Globe, 5/4/15 «As educators explore ways to shrink the income - achievement gap, programs that improve the quality of education, particularly for low - income students, may help, says Martin West, associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Educatioeducation, particularly for low - income students, may help, says Martin West, associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Educatioeducation at the Harvard Graduate School of EducationEducation.»

«In order to find a lasting solution to the problem of the UK's stubbornly low levels financial capability, we need to help parents be better role models, build their confidence in speaking to their children about these matters and support schools to deliver effective financial education.»

Many of the education policies he would pursue as governor were designed to help close the achievement gap between students from low - income families and those from more affluent circumstances, a goal most voters shared.