Sentences with phrase «local education issues»

Mark's primary focus areas are state and local education issues, including education finance, education reform, and educator compensation.

Brown, who died late last year, often discussed local education issues on his show.

Gateway is a popular and admired school and SFUSD, as anyone who has followed local education issues knows, has suffered a series of damaging and resource - straining beatings over the years for attempting to oversee charters, even badly troubled ones.

Others are involved with parent - based community groups: the Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation (working to create a dialogue among parents on local education issues, including assignment processes for schools), the Black Ministerial Alliance (working to improve the quality of Boston public schools), and City Life / Vida Urbana (working with a group of Latina mothers advocating for their special - needs children).

On June 27th ~ the U.S Department of Education hosted an event ~ ED Youth Voices: Students Transforming Communities and Schools ~ featuring stories about how students are taking local education issues into their own hands.

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Primary Underwriting The new issue public finance pipeline provides a diverse offering of municipal products, including major governments, agencies and authorities, local governments, essential services, healthcare, housing and redevelopment, education, corporations, middle market corporations and economic development issues.

«In some cases, local NGOs lack the expertise or capacity to address health problems or education issues,» said Puddington.

By staying abreast of issues impacting access to high - quality education like accessible and timely school reports for parents, we can discover specific ways our churches can help to support their local schools.

In previous chapters I have suggested what concerned citizens can do to deal with television without censorship: create local television councils and community action to get stations to accept their responsibility for the public welfare; introduce media education courses in the schools and churches to create media literacy; organize community groups to develop programs relating to community issues on the «narrowcast» media of cable - TV, videocassettes, low - power TV, public - broadcasting facilities, and commercial side - band channels; employ stockholder action and other economic measures.

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.

Since the race question is a world issue, and not simply a local or national one, education and action as to its world implications are necessary.

Guidance Materials: The Michigan State Board of Education Model Local Wellness Policy (2005) provides a comprehensive policy template for districts to meet Section 204 requirements that can be modified to address local governance isLocal Wellness Policy (2005) provides a comprehensive policy template for districts to meet Section 204 requirements that can be modified to address local governance islocal governance issues.

Our issue with our local school is the quality of the education.

And we, as a society, are finding ways to transcend the existing gaps at a rapid pace, with such ideas as mindfulness in schools rather than issuing detention and offering free positive discipline education at local API Support Groups.

Our local team of community experts will help meet the needs of parents as they tackle many challenging parenting issues... sleep, breastfeeding, maternity education and preparation, child and environmental safety, food and nutrition, parenting, and educational and special needs advocacy.

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Assist residents» education about the AAPD as well as current issues facing pediatric dentistry on a local, national, and global level.

To offer one consequence: if after 2020 you have a problem with your child's education, or refuse collection, or any other local government issue, you might seek support from your local MP for the Cotswolds.

Is your issue concerning Health, Housing, Local Government, Education, Economic Development, Transport, Rural Affairs, Arts, Sports and Culture?

The Chancellor traveled to Albany today to address the Assembly Education Committee and meet with lawmakers, including Senators Flanagan and Golden, on key education policy and local schooEducation Committee and meet with lawmakers, including Senators Flanagan and Golden, on key education policy and local schooeducation policy and local school issues.

44 schools continue to have sex and relationships education (SRE) policies that either replicate section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988 or are unhelpfully vague on the issue, the British Humanist Association (BHA) can reveal.

Council members sounded off about some of the same issues, including the high cost of the bus passes given to students and the need to improve vocational education because there are jobs in the booming local construction industry and economy.

However, much work needs to be done on the integration of health and social care and the related issue of payment for residential adult social care, as well as the change back to local authority control of school education.

At 11 a.m., United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew hosts UFT Lobby Day lunch for hundreds of teachers and parents from New York City who will meet with the local members of the Legislature to lobby for more education funding and other issues.

The meeting room was packed out with over seventy local people wishing to discuss the issues raised by Protest the Pope; including the Pope's opinions on condom use, abortion, gay rights and education.

We also interviewed Rodney Carroll, a union organizer; Yasmin Cornelius, the young and dynamic district manager of the local community board; Cynthia Doty, an intelligent district leader and former legislative aide, is the only non African - American candidate in this predominantly Central Harlem District, and Woody Henderson, a cable TV host and associate of Al Sharpton, who focuses on education and housing issues;

At one school, after the principal two years ago «was giving out limited access letters like candy,» McLean said, his local Community Education Council held a meeting with city school officials and the National Action Network to discuss the issue.

Dozens of workshops covered a range of issues, including the impact of the State budget on counties, pension funding, renewable energy, local Medicaid costs, public safety, budgeting, pre-school special education reforms, shared services, and local leadership.

The federal education department has already issued draft regulations, but Elia expects that a new administration will tweak the regulations, most likely to give states more local control, particularly when it comes to testing and learning standards.

The manifestos are mixed on this issue: while the Conservatives show no inclination to slow down their erosion of the powers of local government when it comes to school places, and UKIP make little mention of it in relation to education, Labour want to return power to local authorities along with The Greens.

Co-sponsored legislation and supported efforts to combat the Heroin and Opioid crisis, including a policy to raise additional revenue for education and prevention, creating a Family Advocate to help individuals and families navigate insurance and other issues while seeking treatment and supporting local advocacy groups.

Eliza Reilly, executive director of the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement, a non-profit which seeks to strengthen student learning and interest in STEM by connecting course topics to issues of local, national and global importance, said rethinking STEM education is necessary to produce graduates equipped to tackle society's environmental, economic and political challenges.

This is how it should be, as STEM education is a state and local issue and should remain so.

The study grew out of work the authors undertook in the Pacific, where scientists met with community members and local, regional, and national government experts to examine issues such as food security, access to fresh water, quality education, sustainable tourism, and protection of marine and terrestrial resources.

Surprisingly, however, political candidates from the program aren't just pushing its national education agenda, they're advancing local issues as well, according to a new study.

But local press report that the school is expected to issue a statement after an 8 March meeting of its education and research council.

Lastly, health and hygiene education taught by local women teaches women and children (the two most vulnerable groups when it comes to any social justice issue!)

The Revisionaries showcases how public education has become the latest battleground in a new wave of cultural, religious and ideological clashes, with local Texas education board members advancing agendas of Creationism and other religious issues in public schools.

Not to be outdone, a «platform» released by the Movement for Black Lives (a group of organizations organized by Black Lives Matter) issued a scorched - earth condemnation of every aspect of the reform agenda, which it characterized as «a systematic attack... coordinated by an international education privatization agenda, bankrolled by billionaire philanthropists... and aided by the departments of education at the federal, state, and local level.»

In real life, Larsen also wanted to bring a key issue to the public's attention: reforming education at the local level.

The Department for Education issued statutory guidance in July 2014 which requires the appointment of a Virtual School Head (VSH) in every local authority and the provision of a Personal Education Plan (PEP) for every child in care - but not for adopted children.

Education is rarely a deciding issue in elections, aside from specialized offices such as state and local school boards and superintendents.

The 2015 Schools Conference session included Tony Dolan of Curtins discussing «Transport and access issues for school construction projects» and Gareth Woodfin, HLM, discussing inclusion in a session entitled «Challenges faced in designing facilities to accommodate both mainstream and special education needs under one roof and how they were overcome to provide an inclusive learning environment for the local community».

school facilities, which remain a central issue for charter schools and local education agencies (LEAs).

This study makes an analysis of the impact of a civic and intercultural education methodology requiring students to analyze the situation of the Roma community at local revel and formulate a public policy proposal related to an issue affecting members of Roma communities.

In this new report, which was funded by the Joyce Foundation and released by Education Sector, the presidents of 30 local unions in six states speak candidly about their views on issues including reforming teacher pay, coping with the No Child Left Behind Act, new competition from charter schools, and the challenges of leading multiple generations of teachers who don't always see eye to eye.

«Accountability for student performance is one of the two or three - if not the most - prominent issues in policy at the state and local levels right now,» says Richard F. Elmore, a professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education (Quality Counts, 1999)

State officials and courts have already grappled with many of these issues, and creating a federal right to education would destabilize policies and decisions that have shaped local school systems for generations,» they say, noting that unlike the federal Constitution, all 50 state constitutions contain provisions that explicitly address education.

90, studies K - 12 and higher education issues including urban education, accountability, charter schooling and school vouchers, teacher licensure, local governance, and school finance.

A California judge has issued a preliminary injunction that orders the state — at least for now — to allow local bilingual education programs to qualify for federal reading grants.