Sentences with phrase «need greater education»

Although we want to invest in charter schools, we also want to ensure that the schools we support are actually serving those students in their community who need a great education the most.
I knew that my sons needed a great education if they were going to be successful, and I realized it was my job to make that happen — nobody else was going to do it for me.»

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Many respondents also noted that while spending on mind - expanding travel or education is great if you can swing it, you also need to at least start to get a handle on your finances.
We must remain committed to education, retraining, and help for displaced workers... We need to help displaced workers make ends meet between jobs and move people quickly on to the next opportunity... [C] ommunity colleges do a great job of providing the right skills to workers and the right workers for firms.
With the rapidly rising price of college tuition, many top students are realizing you don't need to pay an arm and a leg for a quality education, and that state schools are just as great.
The company, led by CEO Richard Levin, former president of Yale University, has also recently established partnerships with a number of governments and nonprofit organizations to bring education to those in the greatest need.
Contributions can not be greater than the amount needed to pay the qualified education expenses for the designated beneficiary.
In addition, greater education about living benefits in that channel may bring about greater interest in purchasing an FIA to meet retirement income needs, in addition to accumulation needs.
A great deal of education in political affairs is needed, for prayer is no substitute for political wisdom.
The focus of the Jubilee Centre reminds us that we need to reach further back into history than we have been accustomed to if we are to revive Catholic education: in particular, we need to learn from the great Catholic schools and universities of the pre-Reformation era.
Through their associated non-profit, Sudara Freedom Fund, they have an even greater impact on the lives of women and children in India by equipping even more women and their children with education and housing and micro-loans — tools needed to build and sustain a new life such as the Sunetha Home, supporting long - term, systemic change by directly addressing issues that lead to generational sex work.
As Christians in the U.S. learn to live with many different voices and cultures, one of the greatest needs in theological education will be to form persons in symbolic biculturalism — the ability to move and flourish amid various symbolic patterns.
In the so - called practical fields the unity is even greater; here there is common concern for developing relevant, effective preaching in the local church on the basis of Scriptures; for a religious education Christian rather than either humanistic or denominational in character; for guiding men into pastoral work that meets human needs.
Some considerable segment of higher education should be devoted to responding to the greatest public needs of our time.
I think it's great that BGCA is on a mission to help set kids and teens on a path to success by giving them the education and basic tools that they need in order live happy, healthy lives.
-LSB-...] my post earlier today about the need for child nutrition education, it was so great to hear about a project which seems -LSB-...]
I am hoping to have a progressive home and raise my daughter to be open and aware, but I do not think I will allow someone elses child into my home to possibly infect or abuse my daughter... He could certainly be a great guy, or he could not be... He could be a bad guy who could change my daughter by hurting her in many different ways... Sex is sex, but another human being being raised by some one you do not know could potentially be harmful... Even if I know the other childs mother or father... the other child could be not so good at heart... I will just raise my child to focus on herself and her future and her education and wants, needs, likes, and dislikes before jumping in the bed with some body who could hit her, impregnat her, or give her an STD: S
They need to do a great job in educating children, and we need to insist on schools being accountable for education.
As I moved through the early years of my career in the maternal child health field I became increasingly fascinated with childbirth education, lactation, and nutrition, as I saw a great need for this in our community.
This is, what we think is, the greatest benefit of home schooling your children: you will be able to create a tailor - made education for your child — one that directly fits their learning needs.
It goes without saying that the health and safety of infants is of great importance, but effective education and debate does not need to involve specific names; it only invites personal attacks on suffering people.)
If you need a bit of a start often locally run adult education courses have great starters in Life Drawing, Painting etc and they are often inexpensive.
The goal with this universal distribution approach, and scope of education that Babies Need Boxes provides, will not only help families better access a safe sleep space and essential items, but will ultimately engage the greater Cleveland community in conversations regarding racial inequity in childbirth, and help build the commitment needed to lower our infant mortality rates.
Your gift can provide general charitable support to meet the Medical Center's greatest future needs, or it can fund a specific patient care, research or education initiative that holds special meaning for you.
The risk of these uncontrolled reactions is greater if parents don't have information about soothing a crying child, education about colic and the support needed for caring for an infant with colic.
You don't need a lot of education to provide respite, but to become a great respite provider, complete some training to update your skills and make them relevant.
It is amazing to me, in this great State of New York, with all the financial resources we have, that the Senate and Assembly can not get together, as well as the Governor, to see what needs to be done to provide balance of education and the needed funds to allow students, parents and families more of an opportunity to attend parochial schools.
«We look forward to the Governor's State Aid and budget proposals, which we hope will include a level of education funding sufficient to meet the needs of every student throughout our State, particularly those in schools with the greatest needs
«We think this is a very thoughtful way to look at the great needs in New York state in support for students,» said Mary Ellen Elia, state education commissioner.
Pat Purcell, a member of UP4NYC and the executive director of the Great NY Laborers - Employers Cooperation & Education Trust with the Laborers, said Mr. de Blasio's plan «will not provide middle class wages to the workers employed on what will remain mostly taxpayer subsidized luxury housing, and it will not significantly increase affordable housing production for New Yorkers who need it most.»
County Executive Picente said, «As Phase One implementation continues to make great progress in education and training, access to opportunity and housing, we have expanded our sights and launched Phase Two, which is focused on developing solutions to our transportation needs.
We also need to make sure that we open the doors and make sure that there's a great education campaign to make sure people know about the ailments that can arise.
«We also need to embed employability in education, with a greater focus from schools on employability outcomes for their pupils, and with management modules becoming mandatory in higher education, to give students in different disciplines more opportunities to learn to lead.»
He cited the state's lack of «an established plan for distributing the education monies» as an example of New York's need for greater fiscal controls.
Meanwhile, Barrett says the public education component needs to be greater.
An analysis by AQE found Cuomo's proposed cuts in operating aid average $ 773 per pupil in the 30 urban and suburban school districts classified as «high - need» by the State Education Department that have the greatest concentration of black and Hispanic students.
His 2001 plan for education focused educational resources to help those with the greatest needs, and he required state standards to be placed upon the students.
State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia and Board of Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa said in a joint statement that Cuomo's State of the State address «contains a number of policy proposals that will help New York's students in important ways, including focusing resources on at - risk students and schools with the greatest needs
We know that when it comes to growing the economy, alongside good infrastructure and great education we need to light the fires of enterprise.
In urban central cities, funding levels per student tend to be at least average, but student needs (e.g. for special education for students with learning disabilities and for general support for very poor students such as homeless students) tend to be much greater.
And earlier this month, Nixon — who is known for her advocacy on education issues — argued that New York needs «bluer Democrats» at the Human Rights Campaign's Greater New York gala.
«We can't provide the education CUNY students need without recruiting and retaining great faculty and supporting the faculty and staff who make CUNY work.
Joe Williams, executive director of Democrats for Education Reform, said «It shocks the conscience that we continue to look the other way while we permit our schools to pair our most ineffective teachers with the children most in need of great classroom instruction.
This agenda won't do anything to improve education for our students who have the greatest needs.
«There's a very great amount of education that needs to be done.
The findings remind Rena Subotnik, director of the Center for Psychology in Schools and Education for the American Psychological Association, of a recent effort in New Jersey to put a medical clinic in the neighborhood with the greatest need for services.
There is a tremendous need for such training, says Steven Barnett, co-director of the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University in Brunswick, New Jersey, and an advisor to the Growing Up Great program.
At the 3 - hour - long Senate hearing — which, in an unusual move, was jointly held by an appropriations subcommittee and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions — topics ranged from financing the effort to the need for a greater sense of urgency, public health and scientific issues, and personal experiences.
The need for greater education is growing along with coastal population densities and rising sea levels.
Proponents say there are great advantages too, such as being able to track every lesson and assignment a student embarks on, and then using that information to tailor each child's education to their needs.
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