Sentences with phrase «member of the education funders»

She was a member of the Education Funders Strategy Group, the Latino Student Success Funders Group, and the Redesign PD Partnership.

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The systematic gutting of publicly funded education — be it in elementary schools or in colleges — was done by officials we've elected, many of whom have received strong support from members of the business community who regularly complain about the lack of a prepared workforce.

Professor Poole is one of a six - member committee appointed to review collaboration between Australia's public universities and publicly funded research agencies, as part of the Federal Government's higher education reform package.

That was the message members of the school community offered at a town hall held to solicit comments about distribution plans for donations to the Broward Education Foundation's Stoneman Douglas Victims Fund.

We offer members access to the Draper Venture Network of funds, world - class speakers and the best entrepreneur education events in Silicon Valley.

The Sikh Coalition, United Sikhs and the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund are lobbying members of Congress in an effort to pressure federal transportation authorities to re-examine a policy they say unfairly scrutinizes members of the Sikh community.

On the first day of the Church of England's General Synod in York, John Sentamu asked members of the synod whether they would personally be willing to pay extra tax to fund health care, education and social care.

Members of our Board of Directors have been providing postharvest training for many years (sponsored by a variety of organizations and funding bodies), and starting in 2012, PEF has been offering these programs via e-learning (low cost distance education) for a wide range of young horticultural professionals in more than 25 countries.

Co-sponsored by the Greater Marathon Chamber of Commerce, the seafood fest also helps fund members» continuing - education opportunities.

As a public education advocate and founding member of Parents Across America, I'm one of many who are speaking up for empowering parents and educators to set the direction for our education policy — not the billionaires, hedge - funders and corporate titans who are currently driving it.

It is up to parents, whether it be individually or as members of a booster club, «Friends of Football,» or PTA, to raise money to (a) fund the hiring of a certified athletic trainer (who, as we always say, should be the first hire after the head football coach); (b) consider equipping players with impact sensors (whether in or on helmets, in mouth guards, skullcaps, earbuds, or chinstraps); (c) purchase concussion education videos (which a new study shows players want and which they remember better); (d) to bring in speakers, including former athletes, to speak about concussion (another effective way to impress on young athletes the dangers of concussion); and (e) to pay for instructors to teach about proper tackling and neck strengthening;

For more than 30 years, the School Nutrition Foundation has been raising funds to provide SNA members with the opportunity to achieve their higher education goals through a wide variety of scholarships.

For over 20 years, the School Nutrition Foundation has been raising funds to provide SNA members the opportunity to achieve their higher education goals through a wide variety of scholarships.

This event is an opportunity to applaud this year's honorees, share memories with old and new friends, celebrate our successes and raise funds to ensure that SNF can continue to support education, research and scholarships for the benefit of the school nutrition community and the millions of students SNA members serve every day.

«For over 20 years, SNF has been raising funds to provide SNA members the opportunity to achieve their higher education goals through a wide variety of scholarships; to date, SNF has awarded members over $ 2 million in scholarships.»

«I support the Annual Fund because of the scholarships for our members to support their training and education.»

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

Earlier today, Silver made a very friendly appearance before members of the Alliance for Quality Education — a group partially funded by the teachers union that often comes under fire from the Cuomo administration.

Other commission members were Scott P. Campbell, executive director of the Elton John AIDS Foundation; Rose Harvey, commissioner of the State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation; Thomas Krever, CEO of the Hetrick - Martin Institute; Kelsey Louie, CEO of Gay Men's Health Crisis; Christine Quinn, the former City Council speaker who is now CEO of Women in Need; Melissa Sklarz, development director at the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund; and Glennda Testone, executive director of the LGBT Community Center.

The New York Academy of Sciences Environmental Sciences Section and Green Science and Sustainability Program, the Sallan Foundation and the New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund will host an address by a senior member of Governor Spitzer's team about his strategic approach to the environmental, energy and climate challenges facing New York.

«Our members are very knowledgable about education issues, and while there is great concern about the implementation of the Common Core and the over-reliance on testing, there are many other issues that are front - burner for NYSUT members,» he said, listing concerns over the property tax cap, equitable school funding, the teacher evaluation system and the statewide expansion of pre-kindergarten.

First - term State Sen. Cecilia Tkaczyk has been a tireless advocate for schools, bringing the experience and expertise of a former Board of Education member to questions of funding and curriculum.

The IDC's budget proposal, introduced in January, «included a $ 1.47 billion investment in the Foundation Aid formula for the first year with a multi-year commitment to achieve complete funding,» Alcantara told parents earlier this week, adding that as an IDC member, she has «a voice at the budget table» and is «confident that the end of this year's budget process New York state will have invested a record amount of funding in education.»

«From fighting for education funding to bringing economic development to his community, Anthony has worked with members of both parties to solve problems and get things done.

Assemblymember Deborah Glick, a Manhattan Democrat and chair of the Committee on Higher Education, said that funds would have been better allocated to operating aid for CUNY, but did not think there was anything inappropriate about the governor requesting support from members of the system.

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.

Vince Cable has placed himself on a collision course with members of his Liberal Democrat party by declaring that the idea of a graduate tax to fund higher education is dead.

Cuomo told reporters during an event at Yonkers City Hall that the money wouldn't be tied to the passage of an education tax credit, which some Assembly Democrats — particularly members representing school districts that could greatly benefit from the upstate - only fund — have vehemently opposed.

And there was some excitement when a group of protesters led in part by the Alliance for Quality Education, which favors funding increases, chanted outside the offices of Cuomo and members of the Senate.

Commenting on Gordon Brown's call for a global education fund and a co-ordinated plan for universal primary education, Patrick Roach, Deputy General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, and a board member of Education Internationeducation fund and a co-ordinated plan for universal primary education, Patrick Roach, Deputy General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, and a board member of Education Internationeducation, Patrick Roach, Deputy General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, and a board member of Education InternationEducation International, said:

If the Assembly and Senate don't address the FMAP problem, Paterson threatened, he will not only veto their $ 519 million (about $ 419 million of which is education spending), but also the $ 193 million worth of member item funding that as reappropriated from last year.

A group of Indian River Central School District Board of Education members and administrators met with Congresswoman Elise Stefanik on March 20th, as a part of the National Association of Federally Impacted Schools (NAFIS) conference to discuss the critical need for continued Impact Aid funding.

National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for the North Tongu Constituency, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has said the government can not afford to rely on voluntary contributions to fund education, particularly free SHS, as projections for those funds may not materialize.

National Democratic Congress [NDC] Member of Parliament for Ashaiman, Ernest Norgbey, wants Ministers of state and their deputies in the Akufo - Addo administration to contribute at least 10 % of their salaries into the Voluntary Education Fund to support the government's Free SHS programme.

On Wednesday, members of the city council's Progressive Caucus, including Councilman Daniel Dromm, chair of the Education Committee, came to Albany asking state legislators to adopt a budget that provides funding mandated by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity court decision, excludes additional resources for charter schools, leaves the charter school cap at current levels and provides more local control over the city's schools.

IDC delivers Raise the Age & historic immigrant legal aid fund in this year's budget State Budget Changes New York for the Better with higher wages, increased education funding & college affordability plans Albany, NY — Members of the Independent -LSB-...]

DESY is a member of the Helmholtz Association, and receives its funding from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)(90 per cent) and the German federal states of Hamburg and Brandenburg (10 per cent).

As a member of the Education & Workforce committee, I strongly oppose recent efforts to reduce federal funding in these areas, and I am the author of H.R. 258, the STEM Master Teacher Corps Act, which would award competitive grants to school districts or states to partner with colleges and universities or nonprofit organizations to establish a program which will develop, support and retain exceptional teachers in the STEM disciplines.

As a member of the Education & Workforce committee, I strongly support STEM education initiatives and strongly oppose recent efforts to reduce federal funding in theEducation & Workforce committee, I strongly support STEM education initiatives and strongly oppose recent efforts to reduce federal funding in theeducation initiatives and strongly oppose recent efforts to reduce federal funding in these areas.

«If we can preserve these important cells, we may be able to decrease the negative impacts of traumatic brain injury,» said first author David Cantu, Ph.D., a postdoctoral scholar at Tufts University School of Medicine, and member of the NIH - funded Institutional Research Career and Academic Development Awards (IRACDA) Program, Training in Education and Critical Research Skills (TEACRS), at the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts.

For academics who desire employment on this diverse and captivating continent, it is important to remember that while many aspects of European science are the same no matter which country you are in (for example, all EU scholars can apply for funds from the European Research Council [ERC]-RRB-, there are also numerous differences that exist between the members states and their higher education systems.

As a member of the appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health, Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, Specter has long pushed for more funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The Romanian Ministry of Education, Research, Youth and Sport has asked universities to nominate replacements for the 19 members of the National Research Council (CNCS), Romania's main research funding agency.

Each will make solid contributions to ornithology, while educating members of the public in the scientific method, says Barbara Butler of the National Science Foundation's informal science education programme, which is funding the experiments.

«In Macfarlane's world, whole branches of discovery would never have been funded,» wrote Kim Carr, a member of the Labor Party and the opposition's shadow minister for higher education, research, innovation, and industry, today in The Guardian.

Member of the initial Working Group for the NSF - funded project, Infrastructure and Training to Bring Next - generation Sequence (NGS) Analysis Into Undergraduate Education.

Committee Work and Service: Professional: Faculty member of the CSHL Infrastructure and Training to Bring Next - generation Sequence (NGS) Analysis Into Undergraduate Education; Diversity committees for the Society for the Study of Reproduction (SSR) and American Society of Andrology; Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society (vice-president and co-chair student research funding with Mary Shaw), Reviewer for a variety of scientific journals (Lab Animal, Andrology, Asian J Andrology, Reproduction, Cell and Tissue Research).

The MDC is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (90 percent) and the State of Berlin (10 percent), and is a member of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers.

Good, sustainable farming supports regional communities by working with groups like Fair for Life fair trade funds and partnering with the farmers and members of a community to jointly develop programs that address needs in local communities such as medical support, improving critical local infrastructure, supporting local schools, establishing sources of potable water, nutrition education, to name a few.

Tina is a founding member of the Consortium for the Assessment of College Equivalency (CACE) and the Collaborative for Quality in Alternative Learning (CQAL), a grant - funded project exploring quality assurance for innovative providers in higher education.