Sentences with phrase «local education structure»

In each country where Lions Quest is implemented, curriculum materials are reviewed and adapted to ensure they conform to cultural norms and the local education structure.

In each country where Lions Quest is implemented, curriculum materials are reviewed and adapted to ensure they conform to cultural norms and the local education structure.

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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.

He says state education officials have been receptive to feedback on the amount of testing at the local level, though the general structure of the assessment tests will remain the same.

Other determinants, including local labor market conditions, parental education and family structure appear to have a greater impact on child poverty levels, according to Myungkook Joo, assistant professor in Rutgers School of Social Work, who authored the study.

Academy schools lie beyond the control of local authorities, receiving direct funding from the Department for Education, and rely on a self - governing structure.

• U.S. Department of Education's leadership and structure — trim programs and staffing; eliminate the Office of Civil Rights and transfer its functions to the Justice Department; restore the bully pulpit and reduce the use of regulation as the Secretary's principal lever for affecting state and local policy; and create collaborative relationship with relevant House and Senate leadership.

Having the freedom to decide term times, teaching structure and curriculum are key drivers for those schools considering academy conversion, as many in the education sector feel controlled by central and local government decisions.

Among these conditions are 1) education's privileged legal status in most state constitutions; 2) schooling's uniquely decentralized operation and diffuse revenue - generation structure; 3) local political dynamics and institutions that foster a favorable fiscal environment for public schools; 4) a multitiered structure for funding schools with complicated intergovernmental funding incentives and reliance on inelastic tax sources, such as property taxes at the local level.

Of course, OCR never explicitly states that its new rules are at odds with the very structure of the American education system — but based on the standards it has established, it is hard to see how local control can survive.

Separately and independently from the NUVO education roundtable, local parent Brenda Williams contacted the news desk to report her long - term distress with the structure of the state's special - education system.

In fact, our letter said, the regulations are overly prescriptive and «run afoul of congressional intent to restore governance to state and local education leaders [and they] perpetuate the «No Child Left Behind» - like structure of maintaining rigid federal specifications for state accountability systems.»

However, the structure, format, and rules of the competitions may vary depending on the educational goals, student needs, local resources, and personal preferences at various school sites, school districts, county libraries, or offices of education.

Factors contributing to that include the power of the state teachers union and the education structure of the state, with its traditional emphasis on local, rather than state - level, decision - making.

Roy Perry, chairman of the Local Government Association's children and young people board, said: «Councils have long been highlighting the fact that school structures are not a magic bullet to improve education, and what really matters is outstanding teaching and strong leadership.

The third component was local flexibility in organizing capacity to determine how best to meet the academic expectations.1 This structure of clear goals (standards), measures (assessments), and incentives (accountability) at the state level, combined with implementation autonomy, fit with our historical conceptions of education as a local effort.

At the local level, the project has been designed to develop model legal aid centres in four of China's poorest provinces by supporting training, management and administrative structures as well as public legal education.

Some communities have had to deal with changes to local government, regionalisation of their representative structures, as well as changes to the Community Development Employment Program (CDEP), Welfare to Work and other welfare programs and reforms to Indigenous education assistance.

Donations like yours help us to provide local parenting education classes that include family meals and structured child care.

Some communities have to deal with changes to local government, regionalisation of their representative structures, as well as changes to CDEP, Welfare to Work and other welfare programs, reforms to indigenous education assistance, having significant changes to the rules that govern Indigenous corporations being phased in, as well as changes to native title laws, dealing with issues relating to water rights, environmental protection and climate change, and so forth.

Global Business Councils are groups within the local board structure of NAR dedicated to globally themed education, programming, and networking for their members.

The top response was to «increase the percentage of new home construction,» followed by «better education of clients on rent versus buy and the view of current inventory,» «motivating agents to be more proactive with lead generation,» «reevaluation of local zoning and permit laws,» «changes to the tax structure,» «reevaluation of national housing regulations,» and «creative solutions such as manufacture housing.»