Sentences with phrase «needs of public education»

So add to the underfunded needs of public education, and a host of other social programs, the promise.

Not exact matches

She and the authors of the report, «Education to Employment, Designing a System that Works,» call for countries to create the role of «integrator» — a government appointee or someone designated by a public - private partnership, to make sure employers, educators, and students are getting what they need out of the system.

The authors note, however, that reducing education fees, increasing funding support for people with disabilities, and increasing public support for long term care are needed to help protect the most vulnerable populations during times of economic recovery.

This is true for transportation systems, public utility systems, education infrastructure, health care infrastructure, and senior care infrastructure, to mention only some of the areas where more infrastructure investments are needed.

One need not be a historian of education or a theologian to assess the damage done to public education and then to society in general by how these cases were decided and what public school officials were empowered to do (or so they believed) despite the clearly given cautions from the Supreme Court itself.

My own research emphasis in harnessing technological tools for public service - in education, in medicine, and in servicing the basic needs of the poor - has led me to conceptualize strategies to facilitate cooperative (linking) ventures because communication technologies change so rapidly and the entrepreneurial opportunities are so vast.

We all need to care when their beliefs are imposed on the rest of us in the form of laws and leak into our public education system, that's when we need to care.

AAFRC now keys its 1960 - 1972 figures for charitable giving in the areas of education and health — the second and third largest areas of charitable giving, religion being the first — to figures developed by the Commission on Private Philanthropy and Public Needs, commonly referred to as the Filer Commission after its chair, John H. Filer.

There is no need to shrug and assume that current government - funded schemes of sex education or vague imitations of them are the only way forward: Catholic schools are popular and highly - regarded by the public in general in Britain and in a stand - off between them and officialdom the latter might find it had fewer allies than it imagines.

Overall, ecumenical campus ministry in public higher education — in the northeast at least — has some well - defined needs, the most critical being a constituency in each denomination that will support it, especially in terms of budgetary increases.

Some considerable segment of higher education should be devoted to responding to the greatest public needs of our time.

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.

There need not be an either / or situation, with education divided between Christian schools that teach religion and public schools that exclude it — all in the name of the separation of church and state.

Multiple approaches are needed to combat VAD, including nutrition education and consuming a diverse and nutrient rich diet; promoting breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices; vitamin A capsule supplementation; food fortification; and other public health measures aimed at the control of infectious diseases.

This highlights the need for public education campaigns to accompany the introduction of any front - of - pack labelling system to inform consumers about how to interpret this labelling in the context of other nutrition guidelines.

Public schools must adhere to government special education requirements and must communicate in specific ways with the families of children with special needs.

We also helped develop the Men's Coalition — a partnership launched in November 2007 by a group of agencies (Men's Health Forum, Respect, Fatherhood Institute, Men's Advice Line, Relate, the Research Unit on Men and Masculinities at Bradford University, NCH and the White Ribbon Campaign) to ensure public policies take full account of the specific needs and experiences of men and boys (eg across health, parenting and caring, relationships, education, employment, crime and violence).

With all of the talk of education reform and what's needed to revitalize public schools, it's refreshing to read Paul Tough's new book, Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why.

We need well funded support for all aspects of public education, including meal programs.

Her public school internship had left her with the question of whether there was a form of education which would better meet the needs of children.

Further, discussion included the implications of the Safety in Youth Sports Act (PA's concussion law) and its future needs, provide information in regards to concussion education programs available to the public, as well as describe who are the appropriate medical professionals trained in evaluation and management of concussions and how you can recognize them.

We need public education reforms, investments in public health, and creation of sustainable financing structures for both health and education.

For example, many politicians demonstrate a need to engage in «moral top - up» of war aims, such adding democracy, girls education and economic development to the list of aims for the war in Afghanistan several years into the conflict, in order to retain the support of an increasingly war weary public for what is, in essence, a strategic, not a moral, policy.

We need to bring common sense to Common Core because New York is wasting too much time and money stressing children out to prepare for these tests which are of questionable educational value instead of focusing on supporting teachers so they can do their job and teach children what's really important,» said Assemblyman Jim Tedisco, a former public school special education teacher and guidance counselor.

In the absence of any public consultation on such a sweeping package of measures as TTIP represents, anyone concerned about the environment, the NHS, education, civil liberties, public safety or even just democracy in its widest sense, needs to make their voice heard.

On six — reducing corruption, improving public education, balancing upstate and downstate needs, improving infrastructure, improving the economy and planning for New York's future — only between 23 and 35 percent of voters say Cuomo has done an excellent or good job.

Business leaders have expressed concern about the high level of public spending, the need for better vocational education, and most recently, how Britain is meeting its energy needs.

NYS Education Commissioner David Steiner's judgment and his own personal integrity are at issue here, as well as the independence and disinterestedness of the panel he has named to advise him on whether to grant the waiver to unqualified Cathleen Black, which she needs in order to assume the post of NYC Public Schools Chancellor.

«We share the concerns of the public about poverty, jobs and the need to do better in education, but we're bringing Conservative principles to solve those problems.»

· 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.

Calling it a «pivotal time in the history of our school system,» UFT President Michael Mulgrew focused on the need to rebuild public education in New York City after Mayor Bloomberg in his speech at the union's annual Spring Education Conference at the New York Hilton oeducation in New York City after Mayor Bloomberg in his speech at the union's annual Spring Education Conference at the New York Hilton oEducation Conference at the New York Hilton on May 11.

New York City Public Advocate Letitia James is accusing the Department of Education of failing to provide services to students with special needs as a result of a flawed data tracking system.

The Speaker charged civil society to intensify public education on the need to collect and preserve their PVCs, asserting that people must be driven to partake in electoral processes so that they we continue to wield power as enshrined in the constitution of the federal republic.

«We've lost public trust on why we test, and so we need to make sure we can tell the public why,» said Johnson, a former acting assistant secretary of education in the administration of President Bill Clinton.

NEW YORK — Twenty city public schools will implement longer school days for thousands of high - need students across the city as part of a pilot program this fall, the Department of Education and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced Monday.

The Department of Education's proposal to amend ESSA would label most Westchester public schools as «in need of improvement» and would cut federal funding for any school where 5 percent of students or more opt out of Common Core testing.

It says the state needs to spend billions of more dollars a year on public education.

StudentsFirstNY is New York's leading voice for students who depend on public education for the skills they need to succeed, but who are too often failed by a system that puts special interests, rather than the interests of children, first.

«The governor and Legislature need to acknowledge the faith the betting public has in the racinos currently operating and the importance of each to education and agriculture in New York state,» said Gary Greenberg, a minority owner at Vernon Downs racetrack in central New York.

New York City Public Advocate Letitia James is suing the Department of Education, accusing it of failing to provide services to students with special needs as a result of a flawed data tracking system.

SEX ED IDEOLOGY VS. THE NEEDS OF CHILDREN AND TEENS Beginning last month, the Bloomberg Administration's new sex education mandate was rolled out across all city public middle and high schools.

«If we didn't raise it in this way we'd have to displace investment in other critical parts of public service, not least other parts of education which desperately need it.»

It offers those things we know we need most: proportional representation, taxation to spend on a real improvement in education, green taxes to pay for public transport, a strong, positive view of Europe and a radical trust in genuine democracy.

He stressed the need for the AG's department to collaborate with the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) to embark on educational campaigns to sensitize the public on the laws of the country as well as their civil and legal rights.

Formed in April 2012, StudentsFirstNY with more than 150,000 members, is New York State's leading voice for students who depend on public education for the skills they need to succeed, but who are too often failed by a system that puts special interests, rather than the interests of children, first.

About StudentsFirstNY Formed in April 2012, StudentsFirstNY with more than 150,000 members, is New York State's leading voice for students who depend on public education for the skills they need to succeed, but who are too often failed by a system that puts special interests, rather than the interests of children, first.

But that's something the union cautiously noted as beginning «the essential discussions that must take place about what's needed to provide every student with a quality public education in the wake of the tax cap.»

Turning rhetoric into reality will be a tough call — public spending cuts show no sign of letting up and the combination of rising demand for school places, lack of accountability and cuts to education budgets in real terms will need careful consideration if we are to improve standards and equity in education within the next administration.

U.S. Education Secretary John B. King Jr., a former New York education commissioner, is pushing new regulations that would designate public schools in which large numbers of students refuse to take Common Core tests as in need of impEducation Secretary John B. King Jr., a former New York education commissioner, is pushing new regulations that would designate public schools in which large numbers of students refuse to take Common Core tests as in need of impeducation commissioner, is pushing new regulations that would designate public schools in which large numbers of students refuse to take Common Core tests as in need of improvement.

When he broached the income inequality discussion, he framed it not as a matter of the very rich versus the very poor, but the zeroed in on the need to reform public education in the state, casting the teachers unions (generally supported by Democrats) as the villains in this telling.