Sentences with phrase «increasing access to education»

Many Democrats and good number of Republicans claim that the program creates a more well - rounded and modern workforce by increasing access to education overall.

In conclusion, increasing access to education has been a hallmark of the American experience and a key to its progress.

On the other hand, rigorous research supports the hypothesis that increasing access to education reduces subsequent criminal behavior.

While increasing access to education is still a major challenge in many countries, improving the quality and relevance of education is now receiving more attention than ever, with due emphasis on the importance of values, attitudes and skills that promote mutual respect and peaceful coexistence.

Going forward, the Fund's goal is to disperse between eight and 10 investments per year to entrepreneurs working to increase access to education, from Asia to Africa to Latin America.

Millennials would also like to see Congress make it easier to start a business by providing increased access to education, training, and student loan relief.E2

This, she said, had made Ghana a role model for many African countries in the provision of free education and free compulsory universal basic education and free community day Senior High Schools had increased access to education for many vulnerable groups.

It has become the essential infrastructure of our day and is how we will grow our economy, expand businesses, foster innovation, increase access to education, improve healthcare, and even transform entertainment in the years to come.

[xiv] Joshua Goodman, Julia Melkers, and Amanda Pallais, «Can Online Delivery Increase Access to Education?»

EdTech in Africa has the chance to increase the access to education for Africans by benefiting of the rising internet penetration rates.

See, for example, Joshua Goodman, Julia Melkers, and Amanda Pallais, «Can Online Delivery Increase Access to Education?»

In my analysis of these issues, I find that there are dynamics where access and quality can be seen to be mutually reinforcing, where improving the quality of education can increase access to education, and vice versa.

Read more about Bernie's record on affordable child care and increased access to education at our Public Assistance and Education issue pages.

Not exact matches

New companies create opportunities, which in turn increase the tax base and provide better access to education.

«We have dramatically increased access to school options for Newark families, provided grants directly to teachers at 37 schools, given 300,000 books to Newark students through the My Very Own Library program, and just recently, we committed to a $ 1 million initiative to improve early childhood education in Newark,» the foundation said in a statement to CNBC.

They created the Kapor Center to help increase access to STEM education and bring more diverse entrepreneurs into the tech ecosystem.

«With increased education and access to information on the Internet, eating right is not going away,» Repole says.

What's more, the middle class in Asia doesn't just have increasing amounts of disposable income, but also time, education and access to information.

Through coding camps, career scholarships and a growing community of coders, Kode With Klossy is increasing access to computer science education and opportunity.

But, some things must be called out to protect consumers from a rule that favors certain stakeholders over others, that increases the cost of education and advice, and severely limits access to qualified annuity IRA experts.

«We have repeatedly said that action by the DOL runs the risk of increasing costs and decreasing access to education for the everyday consumer.»

We are committed to improving student performance and increasing access to quality education so that children and adolescents around the globe have improved opportunities for success.

The Employee Ownership Foundation supports research, education, and public awareness of programs that will increase the level of understanding and appreciation of the benefits of employee ownership and increase the number of employees who have access to this benefit.

«The first step is to raise awareness among women and minority entrepreneurs — or would - be entrepreneurs — about what tools exist and work together to increase engagement by providing access to key resources, education and support.

The foundation also lead a study to increase access to high education globally.

Poverty has various manifestations, including lack of income and productive resources sufficient to ensure sustainable livelihoods; hunger and malnutrition; ill - health; limited or lack of access to education and other basic services; increased morbidity and mortality from illness; homelessness and inadequate housing; unsafe environments; and social discrimination and exclusion.

The trend is directly tied to increasing gender equality, as women gain greater access to resources and opportunities in business, politics and education.

During her three years at DCCK, she managed a program to increase access at corner stores in food deserts throughout DC, created and implemented an 8 - week long nutrition education lesson to at risk adults during their culinary job training program and assisted in using donated food to provide menus and food for nearly 5000 homeless adults daily.

They continue to work together in Task Forces on strategic initiatives that will increase access to safe, respectful, affordable maternity care; improve inter-professional education; and enable patient - responsive and population - specific research on maternal choice, experience and outcomes related to birth place.

They partner with other organizations to increase access to quality early childhood education for low - income children, address the impact of childhood traumas and enhance parental engagement with at - risk children's social and emotional learning.

The Foundation for the Advancement of Midwifery (FAM) is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to increasing access to midwifery in North America through education, research and public policy.

Project Produce is a grant program sponsored by Healthy Skoop and the Walmart Foundation which helps schools increase kids» access to fresh fruits and veggies and provides nutrition education through fun, lunchroom learning activities.

Last week Nebraska passed the School Readiness Tax Credit Act, creating two new tax credits designed to increase access to high quality early care and education (ECE) programs.

HUMAN Everywhere's mission is to leverage the power of social entrepreneurship to improve the nation's collective health by increasing access to nutrition education and healthful foods while advocating for public policy that contributes to these goals.

What does this partnership mean for HUMAN franchisees across the country: 1) Franchisees provide AACS students / future professionals with convenient access to nutrition education and healthful food and beverage options, including hot meals 2) Franchisees have increased access to high - traffic AACS schools in their area 3) Franchisees have increased visibility and impact in their local communities

The Project Development Objective is to increase access to senior secondary education in underserved districts and improve quality in low - performing senior high schools (SHSs) in Ghana.

Labour also promised to expand entitlement to free school meals and increase access to nursery education.

Concurrently, persons with disabilities face relevant barriers to access social protection and health care services, quality education and livelihood opportunities, increasing their chances of remaining in poverty.

«From providing early education to increasing access to affordable housing and expanding labor and paid leave protections, Mayor de Blasio's progressive policies are having a real, positive impact right here in the 30th District.

Mr. Thompson said the City should focus on fighting obesity through other initiatives including improved health education, increasing access to healthy foods and improving recreation opportunities rather than by banning unhealthy options.

JDM facilitated the construction of 2 Classroom Blocks at UCC; a new Block Lecture Hall at UPSA; a Lecture Hall at UHAS; and a lecture Hall and Science Laboratory at Sunyani Polytechnic to ensure increase access to tertiary education.

Enhancing Access / Reducing Barriers - Improving systems and processes to increase the ease, ability and opportunity to utilize those systems and services (e.g. education, safety, special needs, cultural and language sensitivity).

Government is also building and commissioning more Community Day Senior High schools, to increase access and to reduce imbalance in the provision of education across the country.This is the vision of the government; to transform Ghana into a leading education hub, for the West African Sub-region, and it was also building new universities, training colleges and vocational schools across the country.

New York State has several opportunity programs in place to help increase access to and success in higher education to New Yorkers.

A circular signed and issued by the Director - General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Mr Jacob A.M. Kor, said: «This is to ensure increased equitable access to high quality second cycle educatioEducation Service (GES), Mr Jacob A.M. Kor, said: «This is to ensure increased equitable access to high quality second cycle educationeducation.»

Education secretary Michael Gove told the Commons that payments being made to poorer students will actually increase under the scheme, which would have access to # 180 million funds - compared to # 500 million for the original.

New York spent $ 21,206 per pupil compared to a national average of $ 11,392 in school year 2014 - 2015.38 Better targeting spending to the highest needs districts would contain costs while ensuring that all students have access to a sound basic education.39 The State wastes $ 1.2 billion annually on property tax rebates and allocates $ 4 billion annually on economic development spending with a sparse record of results.40 Curtailing spending in these areas would reduce pressure to increase taxes and lessen the tax differential with other states.

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Nonetheless, given the remarkable increase in the participation of young people in higher education that has taken place over the last 20 years, the brief analysis presented here reveals little evidence that the much vaunted policy ambition - to provide better access to higher education to those from less privileged backgrounds - has been successful.»

It is also to enable students dropping out at the SHS who otherwise would have continued to acquire functional skills, as well as increase the chances of students from poor background accessing high education to reduce the cost of education of many households.