Sentences with phrase «local education initiatives»

As a master composter instrumental in advancing local education initiatives, I've been part of pushing my community to responsible agriculture, including composting sewage solids [the pictures on this Wikipedia entry are mine, as well as those on various other compost related entries:)-RSB-, and campaigning to ban chemical pesticides locally.

Such a revamped ESEA should fix the current law's flaws; align with state and local education initiatives; and guide subsequent revisions to other federal programs that support students, such as special education and career - technical education.

The idea is that other people will be encouraged to also donate to help local education initiatives.

Not exact matches

«We have been working closely with the local planning authority and meeting with the public in the surrounding communities on the proposal, and we are partnering with local organisations to provide public benefits from the mast, including community radio, wireless broadband access and education initiatives.»

The Practical Education Program (PEP) is a new initiative by the Small Business Council that connects local businesses with students from post-secondary institutions across the Lower Mainland.

The Starbucks Community Store in Daehakro, like the Langsuan Neighborhood Starbucks in Bangkok, plays a role in supporting education, job training and apprenticeship initiatives by working directly with non-profit organizations to offer local services.

And as a responsible corporate citizen, Saxo Bank contributes substantially to the Danish economy and supports a variety of local initiatives in education, entrepreneurship, sport and the arts.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

Robert Mondavi Winery, Franciscan Estate and Mount Veeder Winery raise over half a million dollars for local health and education initiatives.

Seventy five percent (75 %) of the net dollars raised through local events, including the annual Race for the Cure ®, stay in Broward, Miami - Dade and Monroe Counties to fund breast cancer screening, education and treatment initiatives.

I'm so excited to have teamed up with a local registered dietitian to create an education initiative targeting the people in our school community with the greatest power to influence our kids: our teachers.

• The 37 distinct action items of the Oneida County Farmland Protection Plan which lay out five goals of supporting ag - business while creating new businesses; connecting local farmers with consumers; bringing new individuals to agriculture through education initiatives; increasing public awareness and protecting important farmland resources.

Education secretary Nicky Morgan also sung the praises of the initiative, which sees schools run independently of local authorities and exempt from teaching the national curriculum.

Recommendations included continued investment to hire from within the community, initiatives to focus on higher education and the neighborhood's senior population, and the strengthening of local businesses.

Common Core effectively destroys local control of our schools, transferring community educational initiatives to the vast and faceless federal bureaucracy, shifting yet more power from the local community to Washington so that it can impose continental control over the education of our nation's children.

Upholding federal support for STEM education initiatives through incentives and corporate and philanthropic partnerships, for instance, will become more critical to help states and local governments improve their STEM programs.

Brenner FIT, a pediatric obesity program of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center» sBrenner Children's Hospital, was awarded a two - year grant by the department store chain Kohl's, through its Kohl's Cares program, to continue its ongoing support of children's health and education initiatives in the local community.

At least one local driver's education program in Saline has already used parts of the Kohl's Drive Smart initiative for its teen students.

On October 7, the Harvard Graduate School of Education hosted the local launch of the XQ: The Super School Project initiative — a national campaign, backed by Laurene Powell Jobs, president of the Emerson Collective (EC), calling on educators, students, and sector leaders to design a new high school model.

State education officials and local school districts are working to use technology money from the federal economic - stimulus package to develop initiatives that do everything from consolidate data systems to create high - quality digital content for school laptops.

Drawing on the expertise of teachers at other local schools, Yang has established a group of teachers who work to support psychology education lectures in schools and prisons — an initiative which has reaches more than 50 000 teenagers, teachers and parents.

Our group of experts discuss initiatives at the national, state, and local levels that aim to prepare all students for postsecondary education.

I explore three broad hypotheses for why African Americans might not have benefited as much as whites from the funding initiatives: 1) kindergarten funding disproportionately drew African Americans out of higher - quality education settings; 2) instead of raising additional revenue to fund local kindergarten programs fully, school districts offered lower - quality kindergarten programs to African Americans or moved funds from existing school programs from which African Americans may have disproportionately benefited; and 3) African Americans were more adversely affected by any subsequent «upgrading» of school curricula as more students entered elementary grades having attended kindergarten.

Our group of experts discussed initiatives at the national, state, and local levels that aim to prepare all students for postsecondary education.

Tax hikes that would have raised more money for education in Illinois were voted down in 48 of 60 local school district referendums, or 80 percent of the ballot initiatives held across the state on Nov. 5.

So far, the task force has succeeded in completing the first - ever performance assessment of reform initiatives in the four provinces and continues to work closely with local governments to develop long - term strategy and action plans to improve performance of the education sector.

Funders get excited about things like small high schools, education technology, or a local teacher - pay initiative and they dive in.

For the last 13 years Matt has worked in charity leadership as a director of local youth and community services, as Operations Director at School Councils UK, a national education charity specialising in youth participation and active citizenship in schools, and more recently leading on the delivery of ThinkForward, the successful Social Impact Bond funded, five year education - to - employment initiative.

Local MP and former Shadow Education Secretary Tristram Hunt is leading the initiative, working with local schools, the council and emploLocal MP and former Shadow Education Secretary Tristram Hunt is leading the initiative, working with local schools, the council and emplolocal schools, the council and employers.

Last August, the federal Administration for Children, Youth, and Families commissioned a study of the degree to which state early - childhood - education initiatives work in concert with local Head Start programs.

Belonging to a deliberately small group of academic educators, each with a strong practitioner history, members of Sustainability Frontiers have agreed to collaborate in different combinations as they undertake local, national and international projects, consultancies and initiatives at the leading edge of sustainability education, often in partnership with other organizations.

The initiative has grown rapidly since its origins as a regional programme through the Mayor of London, and the concerns raised by teachers, students, industry professionals and local government during the panel discussion only cements the need to develop computational thinking skills in a more effective way to support a 21st Century education.

Nine local authorities and 72 individual schools have been allocated funding from the Scottish Attainment Challenge for education initiatives and projects targeting the most deprived children.

WorldSkills UK Skills Competitions play a vital role in raising standards, esteem and levels of expertise in further education, apprenticeships and skills, through competition activities and local initiatives.

The Lab's staff will also continue to lead the national advocacy agenda that NCTL launched in 2007 Additionally, grant will support the Lab's «By All Means» initiative by providing advice and support to the city teams, leveraging financial and technical assistance resources, conducting research on the effectiveness of local work, documenting local work and disseminating best practices, brokering national partnerships with organizations in the health, education, social service, and community schools» fields, and providing direct technical assistance in relevant areas of expertise.

For the last 13 years Matt has worked in charity leadership as a director of local youth and community services, as Operations Director at School Councils UK, a national education charity specialising in youth participation and active citizenship in schools, and more recently leading on the delivery of ThinkForward, the successful Social Impact Bond funded, five - year education - to - employment initiative.

A member of numerous national, state, and local boards, he has participated in national initiatives and associations to reform K - 12 education.

While the national discourse focuses on the merits of school choice initiatives in their own right and for their own sakes, as leaders of state and local education systems, as educators of diverse regional, political, and professional backgrounds, we believe that these policies are better thought of as means to critical ends, and that the goal of these and other education policies should be, above all else, the enhancement of skills for America's youngest generation and expanded opportunity for children to thrive as adults.

Previously, Courtney was the Senior Statistician for the New Mexico Public Education Department, where she worked with state and local leaders to evaluate policy initiatives and support data driven decision - making.

She created the AFT Innovation Fund, a groundbreaking initiative to support sustainable, innovative and collaborative education reform projects developed by members and their local unions.

Fortunately, the incremental cost of evaluating any new education initiative has dropped dramatically in recent years, as a result of annual testing and investments in state and local longitudinal data systems.

driven by local educator needs, including implementation support for NYS and federal education initiatives such as: APPR, CCSS and Data - driven instruction.

Kantor (1991) also noted that one of the major fears with ESEA was the idea that local education authorities would have little interest or initiative in using federal funds to support economically disadvantaged students.

State policy makers and education agencies should find ways to disseminate the creative initiatives that local districts develop to comply with and exceed state policy expectations and expand on those expectations in light of local needs and priorities.

Leaders in the House and Senate education committees are holding oversight hearings with the U.S. Department of Education (USED), state and local leaders, and other stakeholders to discuss how states and districts will tackle adjustments to state accountability systems, educator support initiatives, and implementation of other programs now offered through the largest federal educaeducation committees are holding oversight hearings with the U.S. Department of Education (USED), state and local leaders, and other stakeholders to discuss how states and districts will tackle adjustments to state accountability systems, educator support initiatives, and implementation of other programs now offered through the largest federal educaEducation (USED), state and local leaders, and other stakeholders to discuss how states and districts will tackle adjustments to state accountability systems, educator support initiatives, and implementation of other programs now offered through the largest federal educationeducation law.

Yet Governor Malloy's ill - conceived «education reform» initiatives and the new Common Core standards and standardized testing mandate will require local communities to spend tens of millions of dollars of additional dollars that they do not have.

Dave now serves as Senior Policy Analyst with the Cowen Institute for Public Education Initiatives at Tulane University, and is currently developing a broad engagement strategy that outlines communication and staffing needs to better connect with school board members at the local and state level.

The net result of Malloy's «plan» for Connecticut would be cuts in local schools, high property taxes, especially for Connecticut's dwindling middle class, and more money for his campaign donors and political allies who are profiting off Malloy's Corporate Education Reform Industry initiatives.

The Center for Collaborative Education is partnering with schools participating in the New Hampshire Performance Assessment of Competency Education (PACE) initiative to support them in building assessment literacy and creating local competency - based assessment systems anchored in performance assessments.

IEL's Coalition for Community Schools is working with community school initiative leaders to enhance local capacity to make schools and communities healthier places for all by bridging the gap between the health and education sectors.