Sentences with phrase «larger public education initiative»

This program is being studied and is situated within a larger public education initiative to promote high quality play provision in schools.

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Overall, the foundation is spending about $ 20 million a year to «leverage change in public education — especially in schools serving disadvantaged students — through large strategic investments in a small number of initiatives that bolster student achievement.»

Still others see the initiative as part of an even larger conspiracy to dismantle public schools and privatize education.

As a long - time member of the Public Education Leadership Project, a joint initiative between HBS and HGSE, Higgins co-authored a book with her colleagues on managing central office - school relationships called, Achieving Coherence in District Improvement; this book is based upon their work with large urban districts over a ten - year time period.

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The death of a small federal school - integration initiative is connected to a much larger concern that DeVos's primary education - reform idea — using public money for private school vouchers — will produce poor academic results for students, and Balkanize students by religion, race, and class.

Previously, she coordinated Walter H. Annenberg's $ 500 million «Challenge» to reform America's schools — at the time the largest private initiative to reform public education in U.S. history — from its inception in January 1994 until June 2000.

The new law was part of Malloy's larger «education reform» initiative that has been forcing Connecticut public school students and their teachers to devote more and more time preparing for and taking the «Common Core aligned» standardized tests.

In addition to being one of Malloy's largest sources of campaign cash during his 2014 re-election campaign, the owners and operators of Connecticut's charter schools, along with the corporate elite who support Malloy's «education reform» initiatives have dumped more than $ 9 million into the lobbying effort to support Malloy's agenda to undermine public education in Connecticut.

Fur Ball is OAA's largest annual fundraiser with all proceeds funding our many initiatives such as Unchain OK, spay and neuter assistance, public education initiatives, and pet adoption events.

At the William Penn Foundation, a leading philanthropy with an endowment greater than $ 2 billion, she was responsible for numerous initiatives addressing social and environmental challenges in America's fifth largest city and for designing programs in education, public space, the arts and the environment.

· Ten Strands is working to leverage existing California state infrastructure and education initiatives within the nation's largest public school system to bring environmental literacy to its 6.2 million K - 12 students.

This initiative is unique because it brings together justice sector institutions as partners in the creation of a large - scale online public legal education resource.

She has managed large - scale public health initiatives and gained extensive mental health and early childhood experience as a consultant, clinician, project manager and trainer across the health, education and disability sectors.

Partners from the public at large will include parenting, child - care, health, education programs, social work organizations, counselors, and psychologists.The initiative will guide partners and their networks as they integrate multimedia materials into their existing programs.