Sentences with phrase «lesser education issues»

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There is racial inequity: less of the overall resources are ending up in predominantly black neighborhoods, which leads to compounding issues in many areas, be it health, law, education... you get the idea.

One of the issues Jordan is looking into these days is sports related — how big money - making collegiate sports like football and basketball push lesser revenue - producing sports like men's wrestling slowly into obscurity and how to keep college education and sports connected in a way that emphasizes academics and not TV money.

(or a class of «behavior challenged» Middle Schoolers who could care less about taking a test) Sad that this is what education has come to in an effort to make sure that no child is «left behind»... This is the underlying issue right here ~ too much emphasis on penciling in the correct letter circle and not enough student driven cirriculum.

De Blasio acknowledged that some Senate Republicans could be holding off support in hopes of linking mayoral control with less - palatable issues for the mayor, including the education tax credit or an increase in the cap on charter schools.

AFT President Randi Weingarten said Astorino is using an anti-Common Core campaign to «cloak» his other positions on education issues that would be far less palatable to public school advocates.

ALBANY — American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten said Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino is using an anti-Common Core campaign to «cloak» his other positions on education issues that would be far less palatable to public school advocates.

Less than two days after the Commissioner issued his rebuke, news reports revealed that Chancellor Klein would use «emergency powers» granted to the Chancellor in State Education Law, and proceed with the expansion.

Dromm focused his campaign on depicting Sears as less than effective during her two terms and on his knowledge of education issues from two decades as a public educator.

Among primary care physicians, the spending patterns in the regions in which their residency program was located were associated with expenditures for subsequent care they provided as practicing physicians, with those trained in lower - spending regions continuing to practice in a less costly manner, even when they moved to higher - spending regions, and vice versa, according to a study in the December 10 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on medical education.

Although education is often listed as a fundamental issue by voters, the faculty agreed that it usually receives less of the campaign spotlight, especially in light of issues with the economy.

Access and costs can be a challenge when rolling out these new types of innovations, but by showing what children can get out of it, it becomes less about the cost and more about the value and potential it holds for addressing long - term issues in early learning and education.

If the government starts to think about the problem in a new, less reactive way and start making significant investments in education to focus on the whole - person and support a whole - school approach we can eliminate our mental health issues.

No less important is the fact that opinion on many key education issues does not polarize the public along partisan lines.

Almost 60 percent of those we surveyed say they are «very» or «quite a bit» interested in education issues, as compared to less than 40 percent of African American and white voters.

Washington — Seeking to refute the Bush Administration's contention that the United States spends more on education than its economic rivals, an economic - policy think tank issued a report here last week asserting that the U.S. spends proportionately less on precollegiate education than 13 other major industrialized nations.

But it is possible to imagine that voters passionate about these issues could persuade their elected officials to address them, and it is also possible that action may be more feasible at the state level where the politics may be less toxic and where most of the policy action on K - 12 education is located anyway.

This pattern has received less policy attention than the race - based participation gap, and may point to issues with how schools identify students for special education.

The U.S. Department of Education said in a statement that it «has not had to withhold money — yet — over this requirement because states have either complied or have appropriately addressed the issue with schools or districts that assessed less than 95 percent of students.

So to avoid that appearance of intransigence the teacher's unions were relatively less obstinate about charters and shackled them with all sorts of limitations against the day when the public would once again lapse into disinterest in education issues and charters could be quietly and tidily done away with.

He deals with many of the hot - button issues by drawing on his own experiences as a student at the Taft School and his subsequent encounters in the less privileged world of urban education.

Buchanan, who is also headteacher of Ashford school in Kent, said the desire among teachers to organise trips «had not diminished» but guidance from the Department for Education (DfE)-- Keeping Children Safe in Education — updated in September last year was «less clear» on the issue of foreign exchange trips than previously and placed an onus on schools to carry out vetting and barring checks on host families in England.

And research demonstrates that early childhood education is definitely a good investment as it is most often less expensive and more efficient to prevent or address problems early as opposed to mediating and recovering from often much more complex issues later (Stegelin, 2004).

Johnson said that the main issues he is focusing his campaign around are changing Utah's education system and making Utah less reliant on the Federal government providing money for the state budget.

Reston, VA — The National Association of Secondary School Principals issued the following statement on the Trump administration's rescinding of the Guidance Related to Civil Rights Protections for Transgender Students: «It is disheartening that the Trump administration's first education action is designed to make students less safe.

This is especially an issue when the journalists are less familiar with education issues.

With a system in which the governor and the state education chief have less power over school issues than their counterparts in almost any other state, initiative has been left to local school districts, and little has happened.

The national group, Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools, issued a statement explaining: «As public schools are increasingly threatened by a view of education that supports privatization, zero - tolerance discipline policies, less funding, and high - stakes standardized tests, AROS is fighting back with a broad vision of American public education that prioritizes racial justice, equity and well - resourced, world - class, public community schools.»

What would happen if I had two middle schools in my suburban town and one had a lottery — and one didn't and the one with the lottery ended up with the students who are less poor, face less language issues, don't come from immigrant, have fewer special education students....

Indeed, schools that teach character education, like WSD, can look forward to «higher academic performance, improved attendance, reduced violence, fewer disciplinary issues, reduction in substance abuse, and less vandalism.»

As the impact of the Department of Education is minimized in coming years, expect less guidance regarding complicated issues such as standardized testing and transgender students.

What is at issue here is nothing less than the quality of education and the independence of publishing houses.»

Global students generally have to do part - time work too in order to handle their monetary issues due to the high living and education cost in Australia, so students get less time to complete their essays, assignments, reports and dissertations and thus seek the help of a specialist who can perfectly write their assignments and essays.

Some Demographic Groups Under - Represented Among Investor Households, FINRA Foundation Research Finds Wednesday, September 30, 2015 More than 3 in 10 U.S. households own taxable investment accounts, but black and Hispanic households are significantly less likely than white households to hold taxable accounts, according to A Snapshot of Investor Households in America, a new report issued by the FINRA Investment Education Foundation.

By researching this problem, we may be one step closer to answering the question of why some dogs and cats are seen as less adoptable than others which could lead to adoption programs dedicated to addressing and resolving this issue through education and outreach.

On the other hand, Democrats with less wealth (and education) are less likely to care one way or the other about the issue because they're more concerned about simply making ends meet.

Without the overall context that a legal education provides, knowing what issues you should be looking for is difficult or impossible, and this is particular true in Anglo - American common law systems, where the law is embedded in an opaque network of appellate cases rather than laid out more or less completely in a carefully organized statute.

Premier Colin Barnett and Aboriginal Affairs Minister Peter Collier yesterday issued their first formal statement on the plans (see it in full below), saying the government would be assessing the employment, education child protection and health care options available to Aboriginal people in remote areas «to determine how to ensure services were provided in the most efficient and effective way with less duplication and better coordination.»

Level of education is less important than the ability to think relationally and systemically about the issues which families present.