Sentences with phrase «more than public education»

They fear that schools catering to parents will appeal to sectarian or ideological interests, that schools will segregate children more than public education already does, that schools will no longer socialize children into a common democratic culture.

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Unifor will initially represent more than 300,000 workers across roughly 20 sectors of the economy, primarily in manufacturing, communications and transportation, as well as some public sector employees in the health, education and transit sectors.

«There are more than 230 million people with credit reports,» said Rod Griffin, director of public education for Experian.

According to Fed economist Andrew Haughwout, sharply higher outlays for public welfare and education fueled the increase in the two states» public budgets, which grew more rapidly than those of the other states over the same period.

Public and private colleges and universities expanded their payrolls by 28 percent between 2000 and 2012, more than 50 percent faster than the previous decade, according to an analysis of higher education staffing by the Delta Cost Project.

Question: Are families that choose private schools and home education for their children more likely than families involved in public schools to be socially isolated and withdrawn from participation in civic life?

Well considering your writing sucks, your reading comprehension is worse and your facts are completely wrong (starting with the US being the world's lowest and ending with Hitler wanting to only kill jews) I was insinuating that your education was so terrible it must have been on another planet because I have more faith that a public school in Rwanda could give a person a better education than the one you apparently received.

Americans may finally be ready to see that biculturalism is an advantage more than a defect and agree with Berkson that «True universalization, colloquially called «broadmindedness,» can only come through the multiplication of loyalties, not through the suppression of them... «24 The beginnings of a shift in public policy in education and other areas to the preservation of community and cultural diversity are hopeful, even though developments in this direction are still quite fragile.

If they would stop constantly trying to inject their nonsense into public education, politics, television, radio, reproductive laws, the workplace, and on and on and on, everyone else would be more than happy to let you go live in your fantasy land.

Longman identifies the key fact by quoting a 1977 study by economists Spencer Spengler and Robert Clark: «Expenditures for the elderly at all levels of government exceed the amount spent on children, age seventeen and under, including the total amount spent on public education, by more than three to one.»

Even people with less than a high school education today recognize the priority of the brain over the blood, so much so in fact, that in the movie, Hannibal (about a cannibalistic serial killer), the thought of slicing out tiny parts of a person's brain, cooking them in a pan, and serving the pieces to that person to eat has become in the public's mind a more disturbing image than, say, serving a person a glass of their own blood to drink, which appears relatively tame in comparison.

Thus the G.I. Bill, the Public Facilities Act, the National Defense Education Act, and the various forms of student aid initiated in the 1960s — BEOGs, SEOGs, Work - Study, Pell grants, etc. — have subsidized the survival of many colleges and universities, but inexorably they have served as well to make the grantee institutions more anxious to observe the laws and regulations of the State than the strictures of the Church whose sponsorship is, by comparison, so intangible.

Far more serious than any of the startling events of the decade was the massive erosion of the legitimacy of American institutions — business, government, education, the churches, the family — that set in, particularly among young people, and that continues, if public opinion polls are to be believed, in the 1970s even when overt protest has become less frequent.

First, what happened at CUA in 1967 — 68 was part of something much larger and more important than change in American Catholic Education, namely, worldwide, public theological dissent beginning around the time of Vatican II and quickly gaining control of most of the world's Catholic graduate programs and journals.

Nord devotes more pages to the process of public school secularization than his neutrality thesis requires and fewer than would be necessary for a thorough cultural history of religion and education.

Through programs in public affairs, food safety, research, education and industry relations, FMI offers resources and provides valuable benefits to more than 1,225 food retail and wholesale member companies in the United States and around the world.

With more than 15 years of experience, Dr. Dubost has worked in the areas of clinical nutrition, research, public health intervention, education and communications.

The association is the leading policy and public education advocate for the non-alcoholic beverage industry which employs nearly 240,000 people across the country with a direct economic impact of more than $ 169 billion.

Connections Education counts more than 45,000 students among its accredited private and public schools.

Brooke and more than 30 leaders from the realms of medicine, education, academia, media, the military, and the football industry, will look at when children should begin playing tackle football, public health concerns, and the role of the National Football League and its players» association.

In the U.S., the «Back to Sleep» public education campaign has been credited with cutting SIDS - also known as «crib death» - by more than 50 percent since 1994.

In fact, most homeschool parents pay even more on average for their student's education than those subsidized within the public school system.

During the last school year, most Chicago public schools did not offer recess, regular nutrition classes or more than 40 minutes of physical education a week.

Some policy makers are trying to get the public to believe that they should be starting formal education earlier, advocating Head Start programs for children as young as 1 year, hoping to take advantage of the time when the brain is growing more than ever.

It is also ideal for parents wanting a more personalized education and thorough instruction than from a public carseat inspection done at a free fitting station or check - up event.

CCSD's School Nutrition program, which serves more than 5 million meals each year in school cafeterias, has won the Golden Radish Award at the Gold Level from the Georgia's Departments of Agriculture, Public Health, Education and Georgia Organics.

In my opinion, introducing a for - profit service provider into a public education environment amounts to an abdication of responsibility that does little more than put the corporation's well - being over the welfare of children.

Evidence is emerging that the combination of law reform and public education is more effective than either strategy alone in changing parental attitudes and behaviours.54

While African governments now invest around US$ 2000 of public funding per student (more than the average for developing countries), this follows decades of underinvestment in which drives for education focused on primary and secondary learning.

These statements come from a Minister who in the past has attacked secularism as «intolerant and illiberal», has said that religious people contribute more to society than the non-religious, has championed religious groups as being at the heart of the «Big Society», and even tried to amend the Equality Bill in a way which would leave humanists unprotected against discrimination and unequal treatment in the provision of, and access to, public services, employment, education, funding, and elsewhere.

She has also said that religious people contribute more to society than the non religious, has championed religious groups as being at the heart of the «Big Society», and even tried to amend the Equality Bill in a way which would leave humanists unprotected against discrimination and unequal treatment in the provision of, and access to, public services, employment, education, funding, and elsewhere.

Mount Vernon — Accusations of impropriety continue for Mayor Richard Thomas, who is already facing corruption charges as the Mount Vernon Board of Ethics has accused Mayor Richard Thomas of collecting more than $ 100,000 as a trustee of the Amani Public Charter School in violation of state education law.

In the other four categories, job creation, fighting corruption, public education and government efficiency, the governor received more bad marks than good marks.

UCU general secretary Sally Hunt said such courses will be «starved of funds» and warned that higher education was about to enter an era «in which many arts - based and teaching - focused institutions, which rely on public funding far more than the larger research - intensive universities, will face an uncertain future».

Following a month of abundant citywide community activism and outreach, City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has submitted to City Hall more than 10,600 parent petition signatures, dozens of video and audio testimonies and nearly 20 resolutions from Community Education Councils, Community Boards and the Schools Chancellor's Parent Advisory Council, all protesting teacher and day care cuts.

We should explore funding for public education about safe storage, as more than half of crime guns in the Rochester area originated as legal guns in New York State.

Iannuzzi will begin his latest term at a critical juncture for the labor movement, as issues like collective bargaining and seniority are under attack nationwide, and as public K - 12 and higher education in New York struggle to cope with the devastating effects of more than $ 1 billion in cuts by state government.

· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

ALBANY — Unlike past proposals, Governor Andrew Cuomo's new legislation establishing an education tax credit offers more incentives for donations to private school scholarship funds than public schools.

«For more than 30 years, Robert Jackson has been fighting for New York City's public school children and has championed many causes that have improved education in this city,» UFT President Michael Mulgrew said.

According to the governor, more than 200,000 families will be eligible for the additional child care tax credit, while 85 percent of New York families would qualify for tuition - free public college education.

«The truth is that New York dedicates more money per pupil to education than any other state — including over $ 25.8 billion in this year's budget,» Rich Azzopardi, a spokesman for Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, said in a statement, «and we'll continue to work to strengthen our public schools and provide New York children with the education they deserve.»

BY ANDY HUMM Out gay City Councilmember Daniel Dromm of Queens, on October 30, presided over a hearing of the Committee on Education he chairs that heard more than six hours of testimony on bullying in the city public schools, with representatives from the Department of Education (DOE) on the defensive and students and advocates -LSB-...]

Mayor de Blasio seems more concerned with raising his national profile than improving the education of New York City public school children,» said StudentsFirstNY Executive Director Jenny Sedlis.

NYS Allies for Public Education said last year more than 225,000 students opted out, and they expect the trend to continue this year.

The day Nixon actually announced her candidacy, he released a statement that put front and center his liberal accomplishments, which read like a progressive wish list: «Governor Cuomo has delivered more real progressive wins than any other Democrat in the country, including passing marriage equality, the strongest gun safety law in the nation, a $ 15 minimum wage, free college tuition, paid family leave, record setting funding for public education, expanding and protecting healthcare for our most vulnerable, and banning fracking.»

City charter schools in public school buildings are far more overcrowded than their district - run counterparts, a new analysis of NYC Education Department data shows.

The ranks of the anti-Cuomo protestors were stronger, with more than 1,000 teachers and public education advocates marching through the Empire State Plaza concourse, clogging security checkpoints into the Capitol and rallying on the Million Dollar Staircase in a boisterous protest of the governor's plan.

The letter, organised by the Accord Coalition for Inclusive Education, of which the British Humanist Association (BHA) is a co-founder, has been signed by more than 70 prominent public figures.

That is an aim we're fulfilling through public service reform — as in schools, where parents are getting more control than ever before over their children's education.