Sentences with phrase «in education policy making»

Creating spaces for teachers to learn about the many ways they can be involved in education policy making.

We believe that parents will be truly empowered, and children better educated, only when parents are full partners in education policy making.

We believe that parents are empowered, and children are better educated, only when parents are full partners and have an equal voice in education policy making.

This campaign will educate and empower teachers at all phases in their careers on how to be active, engaged leaders and create spaces for them to learn about the many ways they can be involved in education policy making, with the ultimate goal of improving student outcomes and opportunity.

As long as states play the lead role in education policy making, their actions will have significant implications for other actors with greater access to levers for change.

Not exact matches

She observes that since the provinces control most of the social programs that are responsible for settling and integrating immigrants into Canadian society, such as education, health care, welfare, and share labour - market training with the feds, it only makes sense that they take a bigger role in implementing immigration policy.

«Making appearance part of official antidiscrimination policies would be a start, and she also wants more health and nutrition education in schools and in the workplace, to address weight issues in a positive way.

Low - Wage Workers Have Far More Education Than They Did in 1968, Yet They Make Far Less, by Lawrence Mishel, Economic Policy Institute, January 2014.

In the interest of greater exploration of these topics, the FINRA Investor Education Foundation has made datasets, questionnaires, and other research documents available to researchers and policy makers in our Data and Downloads sectioIn the interest of greater exploration of these topics, the FINRA Investor Education Foundation has made datasets, questionnaires, and other research documents available to researchers and policy makers in our Data and Downloads sectioin our Data and Downloads section.

Runcie won't discuss the specifics of Cruz's education and disciplinary record, which makes it difficult to evaluate what role, if any, district policies might have had in the many missed warning signs before his rampage.

Among them are the rights to: bullet joint parenting; bullet joint adoption; bullet joint foster care, custody, and visitation (including non-biological parents); bullet status as next - of - kin for hospital visits and medical decisions where one partner is too ill to be competent; bullet joint insurance policies for home, auto and health; bullet dissolution and divorce protections such as community property and child support; bullet immigration and residency for partners from other countries; bullet inheritance automatically in the absence of a will; bullet joint leases with automatic renewal rights in the event one partner dies or leaves the house or apartment; bullet inheritance of jointly - owned real and personal property through the right of survivorship (which avoids the time and expense and taxes in probate); bullet benefits such as annuities, pension plans, Social Security, and Medicare; bullet spousal exemptions to property tax increases upon the death of one partner who is a co-owner of the home; bullet veterans» discounts on medical care, education, and home loans; joint filing of tax returns; bullet joint filing of customs claims when traveling; bullet wrongful death benefits for a surviving partner and children; bullet bereavement or sick leave to care for a partner or child; bullet decision - making power with respect to whether a deceased partner will be cremated or not and where to bury him or her; bullet crime victims» recovery benefits; bullet loss of consortium tort benefits; bullet domestic violence protection orders; bullet judicial protections and evidentiary immunity; bullet and more...

Witness (to provide a different illustration) the draconian moves being made in education policies across the country, right down to the control of pronouns, not to mention powder rooms.

Little Georgie Dubya was from skull & bones, an organization that hand picks people from wealthy families to be placed in powerful positions to make policy from banks, oil industries, world trade, education, wall street, and yes... politics.

They involve new laws and policies, radical changes in mentalities and lifestyles, codes of conduct for businesses and institutions, changes in the content of curricula and textbooks, new norms and decision - making methods in politics, health care and education systems, new strategic priorities for international cooperation, radically new approaches to development, fundamental transformation of democratic principles and mechanisms - a new social ethos imposed on all.

There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and economic growth.

It is in fact an extension into the field of higher education of the government policy of globalization, that is, of letting the global market decide the pattern of economic development of the nation without intervention from the government in the name of social justice, protection of the natural environment or national self - reliance; it is a decision to make economic growth the ultimate criterion not only of economic development but also of social and cultural development of the peoples of the country.

Their informative chapters on social insurance, tax policy, education, efforts to improve jobs and wages for less - skilled workers, and in - kind and cash assistance make clear why current policies are often regressive.

Recess Before Lunch: The State Department of Education includes providing recess before lunch as a sample goal in its guidance document for wellness policy implmentation and monitoring, Making Wellness Work: A Guide to Implementing and Montoring Welness Policies in Maryland (2009).

Guidance Materials: The Department of Education provides guidance for wellness policy monitoring and implementation in Making Wellness Work: A Guide to Implementing and Monitoring Wellness Policies in Maryland (2009)

Above all, Tough makes a compelling case for giving poverty greater prominence in the education policy debate.

Indeed, it is now possible to make a strong case that parent education programs can lead to better parenting all along the continuum of caretaking effectiveness, thereby achieving widespread gains in child development long sought by researchers and policy makers.

School districts are typically responsible for top - level decision - making when it comes to food: they oversee the food services group that determines breakfast and lunch menus; they set the district - wide wellness policy, which usually covers the food that may be sold or distributed during the school day; and they decide whether vending machines may or may not be placed in schools (although in some cases this is decided at the level of the state board of education).

This policy brief outlines the reasons educators need to learn more about adoption issues, explains the negative consequences of a lack of knowledge, and proposes steps that teachers, schools, curriculum developers and institutions of higher education can make progress toward placing all children and families on a level playing field in the classroom and beyond.

SNP policies designed to «make life easier» for families include; flexible working, improved access to childcare, investment in education including small class sizes, first - time buyers» grants worth # 2,000 to help young buyers, abolishing the council tax, more police and protecting local health services.

With the education budget set to be extremely tight in the next parliament, it is vital that all funds are spent on policies where we have concrete evidence that they can make a difference.

«In the last few years, we've always made adjustments to education policy,» he said.

State lawmakers earlier this year agreed to a package of education policy changes that linked test scores to evaluations as well as in - classroom observation and made it more difficult for teachers to obtain tenure.

In 2001, he was made its chair and was widely understood to be one of Blair's key aides, credited as the mastermind behind many of the government's flagship education policies.

ALBANY — As he gets ready to roll out his agenda for 2017, Gov. Andrew Cuomo plans to introduce a proposal for tuition - free two - year college — a move that will make a splash in state education policy and could draw wider attention, with the governor seemingly considering a national run in 2020.

He made this statement in response to President Mahama's address, Irina Boko commended president Mahama for starting his «Progressively Free SHS Education Policy».

Meanwhile, back at the policy making process... There is very little informed debate in the Labour party about education.

LaValle said the bill would make «one person» responsible for education policy in the state: the governor.

Excerpt: «My experience in education has taught me that empowering parents, teachers and principals to make decisions about school policies is essential to building good schools.»

«A balanced approach to balancing the state budget makes good economic sense, but is also important from a societal perspective that the pain of balancing the state budget be spread more fairly and that counter-productive cuts in essential services, from education to mental health, be avoided,» said Frank Mauro, Executive Director of the Fiscal Policy Institute.

CECs are the local representative bodies that help inform education policy decision making and have been highlighted during the «Mayoral Control Forums» held by Public Advocate Letitia James in recent weeks.

Teachout spoke to the mostly multi-aged crowd, sprinkled with children, students, adults and senior citizens, saying that she has a vision for New York that will make public higher education affordable; a New York that «should be leading the way in renewable resources» and environmental policies; a New York that bans fracking and all fracking byproducts; and a New York that «supports small local businesses and farms, rather than giving tax breaks to corporate campaign donors.»

Skelos says «Right now, it's basically Shelly Silver picking the Regents...» And, he is in support of «it's basically Andrew Cuomo» picking the one and only one person who'll make education policy decisions.

In 2016, President Akufo - Addo campaigned on the Free SHS policy and promised to make education in second cycle institutions freIn 2016, President Akufo - Addo campaigned on the Free SHS policy and promised to make education in second cycle institutions frein second cycle institutions free.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo made two policy - related appointments Monday, announcing Michael Laskawy would become a senior policy advisor in the administration, while Ian Rosenblum will be elecated to deputy secretary for education and economic opportunity.

Education policy issues are due to dominate the legislative session once again next year after lawmakers and Cuomo agreed to changes in the state's teacher evaluation the state's teachers unions deeply opposed in part due to the weakening of tenure and making it harder to obtain.

Any country that aims to transform itself into a modern productive player in the global marketplace must get its educational policies right, adding that the countries that have made rapid progress around the world put education at the heart of their development.

IMANI Centre for Policy and Education has launched a report assessing the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government's first year in office, based on promises made in their 2016 manifesto.

«In his report on the financing of Higher Education (HE), Lord Browne has made several recommendations that, if implemented by the government, would put at risk the key principles in Higher Education — widening participation, fair access and financial equity — that must remain at the heart of Liberal Democrat policIn his report on the financing of Higher Education (HE), Lord Browne has made several recommendations that, if implemented by the government, would put at risk the key principles in Higher Education — widening participation, fair access and financial equity — that must remain at the heart of Liberal Democrat policin Higher Education — widening participation, fair access and financial equity — that must remain at the heart of Liberal Democrat policy.

State Senator Jim Seward is co-sponsoring legislation that if approved would make major changes in New York State education policy.

Above all, the Conservatives have a progressive trump card in the shape of their education policy, which could smash the middle - class opportunity hoarding made possible by high house prices in the catchment areas of the best schools.

According to the party, the policy, which is aimed at making Senior High School education in public schools free will not address the key issues on education.

I've just noticed that Andrew Adonis (a former education policy adviser who was made a Lord so he could be education minister, and is one of the people most responsible for the Government's obsession with league tables, testing and Academies) has been made Minister of State in the Transport Department, about which he presumably has little or no expertise.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the creation of the group on Tuesday, made up of experts in health care, drug policy, advocacy and education, as well as parents and recovering addicts.

With education policy set to play an important part in the May general election campaign, debates around the future direction of the school system will take place against the backdrop of fast - paced reforms made during the coalition's time in office.

The dossier goes on to document the transition Progress has made in its political activities: in its first ten years, it was totally loyal to Labour's then leader, Tony Blair, and engaged in political education in support of Blairite policies.