Sentences with phrase «making education organizations»

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The nonprofit organization behind the SAT college entrance exam has teamed up with a Silicon Valley pioneer in online education to make test preparation materials available for free starting Tuesday, a move aimed at making the college admissions race less stressful and more fair.

Several private organizations are joining hands with the Government to make that ultimate dream of offering quality education in India come true.

The organization that made the loan initially; the lender could be the borrower's school; a bank, credit union, or other lending institution; or the U.S. Department of Education.

Instead, she has redoubled her commitment to Emerson Collective, the organization she formed about a decade ago to make grants and investments in education initiatives and, more recently, other areas.

The earlier $ 2 million grant is already supporting 159 food banks across Canada to provide operational support for retail food pick - up programs; education resources to improve safe food handling; and grants helping 50 local organizations to purchase equipment to expand cold chain capability to make fresh and perishable foods more accessible.

The conversation made an impression on Nicole, who is the president and founder of The Expectations Project, a national organization that mobilizes people of faith to support public education reform and close the academic achievement gap.

Little Georgie Dubya was from skull & bones, an organization that hand picks people from wealthy families to be placed in powerful positions to make policy from banks, oil industries, world trade, education, wall street, and yes... politics.

The decisions that a man makes about where he will live, how he will furnish his home (the women's magazines, of course, will make this decision in co-operation with the furniture manufacturers), how he will discipline his children, what radio and TV commentators he will listen to, what newspapers and magazines he will subscribe to, and what organizations he will join in his community — all of these daily decisions are, to an inestimable but unquestionable degree, influenced by the legislation, education, and plain ballyhoo daily propagated by these groups and the power centers that control them.

For every pound of Community Signature Blend coffee served on a Southwest flight, the two companies make a donation to the ECOM Foundation, a nonprofit organization that funds education for the families of farmers who grow arabica beans in Mexico.

New York based wine importer Cape Classics is making great strides to transform the South African wine industry through the establishment of the Indaba Education Fund (IEF), a fully accredited 501 (c)(3) organization which provides early childhood teacher training, learning materials, and educational infrastructure to young, at - risk children living in the South African Winelands.

New York based wine importer Cape Classics is making great strides to transform the South African wine industry through the establishment of the Indaba Education Fund (IEF), a fully accredited 501 (c)(3) organization which provides early childhood teacher training,...

I am attending in a unique and dual capacity, both as a member of the Youth Sports Safety Alliance (www.youthsportssafetyalliance.org)- an alliance of 60 organizations, like MomsTeam, committed to education, research and legislation to make youth sports safer, which is partnering with the NATA to put on the summit - and as a member of the media reporting on the event.

«Just to mandate a change on the plate isn't going to mean anything unless we train the children to make better choices,» Haas told representatives from education, health organizations and government.

In settling the D.C. lawsuit, Chartwells agreed to make $ 14 million in credits and payments to the school system and committed to provide $ 5 million in philanthropic support for the schools, including $ 4 million to the D.C. Public Education Fund for «innovative programs» and $ 1 million to several nonprofit organizations that promote literacy and provide mentors, college scholarships and academic enrichment.

[4] The organization makes independent expenditures to influence elections based on a candidate's stated education policies and how those policies align with those of the NEA.

New Federal Education Law Gives State Policymakers Chance to Improve Opportunity for All Students — But Risks Retreat from High Standards and Meaningful AccountabilityNew York, NY — A dozen major civil rights, education, parent, and business organizations from across New York State released a policy brief today thatEducation Law Gives State Policymakers Chance to Improve Opportunity for All Students — But Risks Retreat from High Standards and Meaningful AccountabilityNew York, NY — A dozen major civil rights, education, parent, and business organizations from across New York State released a policy brief today thateducation, parent, and business organizations from across New York State released a policy brief today that makes...

The union president said the organization will be looking at all candidates and making a decision based on what's best for education and what's best for Buffalo.

As the budget clock ticks down, a host of progressive / left - leaning organizations and the labor - backed Working Families Party is making what amounts to a Hail Mary attempt to stop the Legislature from passing the education portion of the budget deal.

Teachers and directors at pre-K centers in community - based organizations (CBOs)-- which make up about half of all the city's pre-K offerings — make significantly less and have fewer benefits than their counterparts at Department of Education pre-K centers.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in his 2016 - 17 executive budget proposed establishing a $ 150 million credit for donations made to public schools, local education funds, school improvement organizations or private education scholarship organizations.

Bill Gates» philanthropic organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is making an about - face on its education priorities to focus on networks of traditional public schools aimed at improving student achievement.

Cuomo's proposal would establish a $ 150 million credit providing incentives for donations made to public schools, local education funds, school improvement organizations or private education scholarship organizations.

The investment tax credit is available to anyone who makes a donation to public education or to scholarship - making organizations.

According to Gillibrand's office, the legislation would help improve nutrition and enhance learning in under - served areas by better integrating summer education and meals programs, making it easier for public - private partner organizations to participate in the summer meals program, and by providing a third meal for children who attend evening enrichment programs.

I have been watching with growing alarm as our City government continues to flounder, making little if any headway on issues such as police and community relations, rampant violence, decaying relationships with neighborhood organizations and the lack of progress on jobs, poverty and education.

White stated that the move was made to address an education system in Ramapo which he says is failing, specifically mentioning a 50 percent graduation rate for Hispanic students and private school placements which the organization stated was discriminatory and illegal.

Vergun, colleagues, and tribal education specialists from the Oregon Indian Coalition for Post Secondary Education made this possible by partnering with state and federal agencies, academic institutions, museums and aquaria, non-government organizations, and the Native tribal ceducation specialists from the Oregon Indian Coalition for Post Secondary Education made this possible by partnering with state and federal agencies, academic institutions, museums and aquaria, non-government organizations, and the Native tribal cEducation made this possible by partnering with state and federal agencies, academic institutions, museums and aquaria, non-government organizations, and the Native tribal community.

You are strengthening an organization that develops evidence - based policy making, enhances science education, communicates unbiased science to the public, and more.

Wang therefore advises that governments, community centers and service organizations should consider the introduction of guidance programs or leisure education that teach people the management techniques that they need to schedule their free time better and to make the most of their retirement life.

The Convention recognizes the importance of women in the implementation of the Convention, and identifies critical areas for their engagement: (i) awareness - raising, and participation in the design and implementation of programmes; (ii) decision - making processes that men and women adopt at the local level in the governance of development, implementation and review of regional and national action programmes (RAPs and NAPs); and (iii) capacity - building, education and public awareness, particularly at local level through the support of local organizations.

Justyn Comer, author of Meditation for Life, is the co-founder of RWM Education Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to making meditation available to as many people as possible.

All proceeds from the event will be benefiting the West Palm Beach chapter of the organization, making tech education and training affordable to girls and women throughout the South Florida community.

Dr. Bullock is also the Founding Director and Principal Consultant of the International Science & Education Alliance, an organization devoted to exceptional research, program evaluation, assessment design, strategic planning and capacity building to support equity, programmatic diversity and scientific integrity, and promote effective leadership, decision - making and social change.

Kaiser Permanente, the largest U.S. managed care organization, publishes patient education materials to help make plant - based diets the «new normal» for patients and physicians.

www.Project-AWARE.org ProjectAWARE The Association of Women for the Advancement of Research and Education (AWARE) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing the menopausal and pre-menopausal woman with comprehensive information regarding all resources, therapies, and research data, enabling her to make informed decisions about all healthcare options.

You want to find a Waldorf school, if you choose to go this way, you want to interview the teachers and make sure they have a functioning organization and this is the Achilles heel of Waldorf education system.

I'm proud to be a PCOS Challenge supporter and to be a part of the historic achievements the organization is making with regard to PCOS awareness, education and advocacy.

A portion of the proceeds of each Wayuu Made purchase will go directly to Aguayuda, a non-profit organization in Colombia, whose mission is to improve life and health in poor rural communities through clean water, sanitation and education, of which include the Wayuu people.

The 2013 McGraw Prize has been awarded to the leaders of three organizations devoted to making a college education achievable for disadvantaged students.

The nation's governors and business executives have tapped Harvard Graduate School of Education Lecturer Robert B. Schwartz to head the organization created to help implement the commitments made at the 1996 Education Summit.

Action for Healthy Kids is comprised of more than 50 education, health, fitness, and nutrition organizations forming our Partner Steering Committee that provides guidance to the 6,000 volunteers working across the country to make improvements in schools.

EPE believes that the diversification of its revenue sources — including subscriptions, other paid content, advertising, and foundation grants — is a guarantor of independent decision - making by Education Week across its print, digital, and video platforms, as well as a wise business strategy that best ensures the long - term sustainability of the organization's editorial mission and independence.

Some civil rights organizations say lumping together different types of students, such as English - language learners and students in special education, makes it much tougher to see how individual groups are progressing relative to other groups of students and the student population as a whole.

To make sure students met California state standards, Carpenter adopted a curriculum from the Global Education Partnership, a nonprofit organization that gives students in low - income communities access to educational resources with a business focus, in 2001.

For example, Project Exploration is a science education organization that strives to make science accessible to students from groups that are traditionally underrepresented in the sciences by providing personalized experiences with science and real scientists.

In education we tend to talk about pieces of a school or district (teacher quality, technology, early - childhood education, etc.) and pay too little attention to what makes schools coherent and productive organizations and how government can promote or detract from those attributes.

Like most established organizations in other sectors, the education system's inclination when it sees a potentially disruptive technology is to cram it into its existing model to sustain what it is already doing, but not fundamentally transform that model into a student - centric one (the importance of making this transformation should be clearer in light of the ACT's announcement today that 60 percent of 2012 high school graduates are at risk of not succeeding in college and career).

«I have never seen him call someone a name to make his point,» says Lily Eskelsen García, president of the National Education Association, an organization that has about as much love for the conservative think tank AEI as the Red Sox do for the Yankees.

In particular, Russo argues that Eli Broad thought, «The main purpose of ED in ’08 [was to make] education a number - one issue with the public: the «outside» half of the organization's strategy.

Podcast: Education Next's Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk this week (Dec. 4) about what the National Education Association is buying with its campaign contributions, which total $ 56.3 million and exceed the campaign contributions made by any other organization in America.