Sentences with phrase «in equity in education»

Senior Lecturer Kay Merseth pushed me to think in her Equity in Education course.

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(Individual schools are required by the Department of Education to publicly disclose data related to the equity in athletics.)

The Facebook co-founder co-led a $ 4 million round in survey startup Panorama Education in what appears to be his first national equity investment through his foundation Startup: Education.

• Pacific Equity Partners is in «exclusive talks» to acquire Academic Colleges Group, a New Zealand - based provider of academic education services to international students, according to Reuters.

Sullivan seems to be everywhere in this red - hot area, whether it's backing work on gender equity in education or a push to nurture women entrepreneurs in Africa.

SYDNEY, Aug 27 (Reuters)- Pacific Equity Partners (PEP), Australia's top buyout firm, is in exclusive talks about a possible acquisition of New Zealand's largest training provider for university education for about NZ$ 530 million ($ 340 million), a source told Reuters on Thursday.

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In individual terms, those that are looking for double - digit returns of stocks to pay for education and retirement are bound to be disappointed, and that's why the cult of equity is dead.

So if you need a way to finance your child's college education or your own retirement, using the equity in your house to get a home equity loan could be a better alternative in the long run to taking on more credit card debt.

Through the unique combination of early growth equity and the Edison Edge platform, consisting of strategic advisory, the Edison Director Network, and executive education programs, Edison employs a holistic approach to nurturing invention and creating value for growth - stage businesses ($ 5 to $ 20 million in revenue) in financial technology, healthcare IT, interactive marketing, and enterprise IT industries.

These factors include historical reliance on national banking institutions for investment guidance, a public company venture capital markets in Canada being down 75 % from its peak in 2011 causing risk capital investment fatigue and a need for education, success stories and media attention on equity crowdfunding.

Then we created SMBU, our education arm, which offers the same trader training in equities, options, futures and automated trading, as we use to develop our firm traders.

Other Uses of Funds In view of the near impossibility of replicating the debt cancellations of prior millennia in the modern context, we have re-interpreted the prior objective of seeking to sustain a property - owning democracy in terms of equity participation by the State to enable any (young) person to afford the down - payment for a home, to finance a start - up business, and to benefit (if academically gifted) from tertiary educatioIn view of the near impossibility of replicating the debt cancellations of prior millennia in the modern context, we have re-interpreted the prior objective of seeking to sustain a property - owning democracy in terms of equity participation by the State to enable any (young) person to afford the down - payment for a home, to finance a start - up business, and to benefit (if academically gifted) from tertiary educatioin the modern context, we have re-interpreted the prior objective of seeking to sustain a property - owning democracy in terms of equity participation by the State to enable any (young) person to afford the down - payment for a home, to finance a start - up business, and to benefit (if academically gifted) from tertiary educatioin terms of equity participation by the State to enable any (young) person to afford the down - payment for a home, to finance a start - up business, and to benefit (if academically gifted) from tertiary education.

Private equity firms and strategic acquirers interested in making deals in K - 12 education this year will be looking to invest in businesses that provide adaptive learning and assessment, according to a report from Berkery Noyes, a New York - based investment bank.

Camden Partners is a Baltimore - based private equity firm providing growth capital to lower - middle market companies in the education, healthcare and business services sectors.

If you're interested in becoming a better advocate for kids caught up in education inequity and are looking for some place to start, consider getting involved in Educational Equity Sunday.

I think we can all agree that equity in education can help effect change that we all want to see in this country.

Three or four years ago we decided to shift the focus of our equity efforts in Massachusetts: instead of emphasizing access to educational opportunities we emphasize the effectiveness of the education provided to minority students.

Such steps would free funds which could be used to lift the level of excellence in the education of the young, thereby restoring balance and establishing equity.

Senator Kennedy on the Gender Equity in Education Act, New Republic, October 4, 1993.

Angela Glover Blackwell, Appointee for Member, President's Advisory Council on Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Angela Glover Blackwell is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Policy Link, a nonprofit organization that strives to advance economic and social equity, improving access and opportunity for all low - income people and communities of color, particularly in the areas of health, housing, transportation, education and infrastructure.

Instead, our role as Christian leaders within the community can be to actively engage in conversations around education equity issues like accountability, state vision, and transparency and accessibility in reporting so parents and community leaders alike have the needed information to know how to best support strengthening local schools.

Chaudhry notes that no action is taken on gender equity in sports unless someone speaks up; the Department of Education is not out actively looking for violations.

Gender equity in sports remains an issue at the vast majority of universities and colleges across the country, and how the Department of Education will enforce Title IX under the new Trump administration is unclear.

Any cost to employers or government would likely be offset by reduced costs through better retention of working mothers and the greater likelihood of their working to their education / skills levels: Goldman Sachs have estimated an economic boost of 13 % in Europe were gender equity achieved within the workplace.

The Birthworker Program offers training, education, and practical experience to women of color who are dedicated to the advancement of maternal health equity in underserved communities.

A reader hoping for an in - depth analysis of inequalities in the American educational system and promising approaches towards school reform would likely be better off picking up a copy of Linda Darling - Hammond's book, The Flat World and Education: How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future.

He returned the favor to Easton, praising him for having the «leadership and the courage... to stand up for fairness and equity in education funding, standing up for fairness and equity in our tax structure because I'm fairly certain that it was not students who made those terrible gambles that caused this economic hardship.»

Patrick Roach said: «As the number and diversity of providers in education is unlikely to decrease, the government must face up to the implications of a system which has the potential to become highly fragmented and recognise that the challenge of ensuring equity for all children and young people will be greater and require new arrangements for system governance.

Look at the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit, and the court settlement there and the fact that to this day we still are owed billions and billions of dollars in education funding.

Adamu pointed out that the decision was in line with the university's vision of providing highly accessible and enhanced education anchored by social justice, equity, equality and national cohesion through comprehensive reach that transcends all barriers.

Professor Stephen Lee is chief executive of CentreForum and author of the report «Access and equity: positing alternative providers in higher education provision»

«We're going to demand that Governor Cuomo provide the funding that was afforded to us in a court decision for our schools,» she said as she joined advocates to push for more funding under the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which in 2007 won a lawsuit against the state to provide increased education funding to the city.

Also at 11 a.m, Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa will participate in the Advocates and Organization Leaders» Panel at the Schott Foundation for Public Education 25TH Anniversary Forum: Accelerating Advocacy for Equity and Opportunity, Baruch College, William and Anita Newman Conference Center, 7th Floor, 151 East 25th St., Manhattan.

Farley, a partner at the equity firm Mistral Capital, launched her effort with a video that borrowed an argument recently deployed by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo: New York State pays roughly more in federal taxes ($ 40 billion in 2016, she noted) than it gets back in federal aid — money, Farley said, that could be used to rebuild state infrastructure and boost education, among other things.

The Report highlights the significant shift since 2010 in DFID's international development strategy to increasingly promote private sector involvement in the design and delivery of education services, despite the fact that DFID's own research evidence questions the impact of such interventions in relation to education quality and equity for learners.

«The court order in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit was founded on the principle that all schools need adequate funding levels in order to provide every student a «sound basic education.»

The Alliance for Quality Education and the Campaign for Fiscal Equity met with sympathetic members of the Assembly Democratic conference, who heard the results of the advocates» statewide tour through 14 hard - pressed districts, including several in the Capital Region.

He even hit the Cuomo for not honoring Gov. Eliot Spitzer's plan to reimburse the city billions in education dollars the State Court of Appeals determined Albany owed in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity decision, and for favoring the proliferation of charter schools.

First, advocates who seek additional aid for education frequently invoke the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit and the Legislature's adoption of «Foundation Aid» in 2007, insinuating that the CFE lawsuit found that schools statewide were underfunded and that the court ordered additional funding statewide.

The foldout also includes commitments to «support our public schools» and to «close the $ 4.4 billion annual gap in funding owed by the state to public schools» — a figure apparently derived from the Court of Appeals» 2003 Campagn for Fiscal Equity, Inc. v. State decision, which ruled Albany had shortchanged the city billions in education funds.

The rally, organized by the Rise and Resist and the Alliance for Quality Education (AQE) in recent weeks, is part of a statewide push to fulfill the 2007 Campaign for Fiscal Equity court ruling that mandates education funds be distributed to New York's school districts to ensure all schools can provide students with a «sound basic educatioEducation (AQE) in recent weeks, is part of a statewide push to fulfill the 2007 Campaign for Fiscal Equity court ruling that mandates education funds be distributed to New York's school districts to ensure all schools can provide students with a «sound basic educatioeducation funds be distributed to New York's school districts to ensure all schools can provide students with a «sound basic educationeducation.»

James held a rally at City Hall on Sunday to call on the State to fully fund city schools in line with the Campaign for Fiscal Equity and to criticize Gov. Cuomo's education reform policies.

The governor this week sought to turn the education equity argument back on de Blasio, suggesting that any bill that doesn't approve pre-K for all kids in the state won't pass.

«We must work collectively to break through barriers that limit the success of our youth, so we can truly achieve equity in education.

Instead, she will lead an effort between the American Federation of Teachers and the state AFL - CIO focused on issues such as wage equity, education opportunities and women in leadership roles.

Citing the UFT's battle with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, keynote speaker Lorretta Johnson, a paraprofessional and the secretary - treasurer of the AFT, urged the event participants to redouble their efforts to fight for fairness and equity in public education.

Lasher is running against Marisol Alcantara, a former union organizer for the New York State Nurses Association, and Robert Jackson, a former councilman who is also a plaintiff in a landmark case by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which argued that New York was under funding schools and not meeting its constitutional burden to provide children with a «sound basic education.»

The schools were supposed to get around 5.5 billion more dollars in education aid, after the Court of Appeals ruled in 2006 in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity case.

While the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit was supposed to give the city its fair share of education aid, Walcott said city revenue would cover 61 percent of non-federal education spending in next year's budget.