Sentences with phrase «of education the power»

By giving the State Department of Education the power to implement an evaluation system in New York City, the Governor will bring this three - year saga to a successful conclusion.

But what provision gives the Department of Education the power to make its supplicants agree to Race to the Top - like mandates in return?

because North Carolina's constitution explicitly gives the State Board of Education the power to «supervise and administer the free public school system and the educational funds provided for its support.»

The bill's constitutionality comes into question because North Carolina's constitution explicitly gives the State Board of Education the power to «supervise and administer the free public school system and the educational funds provided for its support.»

In his «historic» call for «education reform», an end to teacher tenure and a disproportionate transfer of public dollars to charter schools the Governor failed to point out that (1) Connecticut already has one of the longest probationary periods for teachers in the country — four years — which gives school administrators more opportunity to judge a teacher's capability than do those in most other states and that (2) in 2010 the Legislature adopted major revisions to the teacher evaluation process that already gives Malloy's Department of Education the power to revamp how teachers are evaluated and require school administrators to actually conduct appropriate evaluations.

Missouri law gives the State Board of Education the power to appoint an SAB when a school district is unaccredited based on academic performance, lack of financial stability or other factors.

Georgia's charter school law, passed in the early 1990s, initially gave only local school boards and the state board of education the power to approve the conversion of standard public schools into charter schools, according to the Augusta Chronicle.

The Bill proposes to give the Minister of Education the power to investigate threats to the physical or emotional safety of students in preschool, primary education, high school and college.

Not exact matches

These companies are harnessing the power of technology to improve most aspects of life, from education to shopping and gun safety.

In addition to the tech mogul's widespread revolutionizing of communication through social media, the couple is using their power to research and improve global health, education, and community through the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

One of Yoh's hires, a Ph.D. in education, recognized that power operators at electric - and nuclear - power plants had the same need to get it right 100 % of the time; he was right.

Still, I believe in the power of education, at least in the way others perpetrate it, and I have always believed that college is the way to go if you want to get ahead in this country.

Or will you hit it out of the park by putting the power of financial education behind every swing you take?»

«The desire for power, status, and money characterizing dark triad individuals may steer them toward, for example, economics, business, and law educations because these educations pave the way for a career in the corporate world, and the corporate world generally rewards self - serving behavior and provides an environment in which individuals with dark personalities can make use of their qualities and succeed,» commented the researchers.

While the rich don't necessarily put much stock in furthering wealth through formal education — many of the most successful people have little formal education — they appreciate the power of learning long after college is over, Siebold explains.

While there is no evidence that a large number of Chinese students or academics at US universities poses a threat to US interests, the Chinese government uses several education efforts as vehicles for soft power.

Other functionality that can be added to jump - start community development includes social facilities and entertainment; power generation for charging phones; cooling / refrigeration of vaccines; education opportunities; and much more.

They believe that after so long in power, not only was there a wave of change, they became tone deaf to issues of affordability and early childhood education, issues that resonated in the suburbs around Vancouver and lower main land, where they lost.

Previously, I wrote «The Education of Millionaires» (Penguin, 2011) and «The Power of Eye Contact» (HarperCollins, 2010,) and co-wrote «The Last Safe Investment» (Penguin, 2016.)

We believe our job as venture capitalists is to magnify the creative power of entrepreneurs through relationships, education and resources essential to their success.

With an initial focus on education and health care, the Christensen Institute is redefining the way policymakers, community leaders, and innovators address the problems of our day by distilling and promoting the transformational power of disruptive innovation.

nexquare is an EdTech startup leveraging the power of new - age thinking and science of data to re-imagine education.

Developed by the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) and its American Savings Education Council (ASEC) program, Choose to Save ® utilizes the power of the media to promote the idea that saving today is vital to a secure financial future.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

How can design harness the power of the Internet and mobile devices to transform education and training?

The success of the concurrent delegations was an excellent example of how Canada can capitalize on some of its constitutional similarities with India — in this case, the devolution of power over issues such as education and national - resource management to the provinces — in order to improve relations for Canada as a whole.

J. Christopher Giancarlo's recent speech at Vanderbilt University Law School underlined «the relevance of a principles - based approach to legal education» that is built into the architecture of decentralized networks of distributed wealth and power.

MEC has been a customer of Bullfrog Power since 2007, and has a long history in Vancouver, making them an excellent bridge between SPEC's education programs and Bullfrog's energy initiatives.

That education is important because while the spending power of China's consumers continues to rise, their awareness of international brands is still limited.

Fortunately for the GOP, Christian conservatives do not believe in education and just are not intelligent enough to realize that the GOP is only using them to gain power so that they can implement policies that benefit the Top 5 % at the exclusion of the rest of America, Christian conservatives included.

This «war on christianity» baloney is just pederast priests and embezzling adulterous ministers seeing their cash flow slipping away with increasing education and recognition of their hate - fear - power - based anti-science fraud.

I find it hard to believe that a man of wealth, power and education would give up everything (money, power, influence, etc) could be converted to believing someone lived and died and was resurrected when he couldn't even be sure the person lived at all.

The power that Israel wields over our Democracy is evident in the miss - appropriation of wealth, while our children are treated to a public education not worthy of circus animals, Israel has our defense industry pumping out fighter jets at 350 million each, and it's no surprise they have the most powerful military on earth.

The treatment of the Nazi period in all its aspects - Hitler's rise to power; his establishment of a dictatorship in Germany; the abolition of the rule of law; the persecution of all kinds of political opponents; the racially motivated persecution of the Jews, culminating in the Holocaust; the reticence and opposition of German citizens; and, Germany's instigation of World War II - is compulsory teaching matter at all types of schools in Germany and at all levels of education.

4 horns means power... they are the Media, Education, Government and the followers of satan that oversee the Chruches (meaning all houses of worship) today.

There, the Vatican played a major role in defeating the plans of the Clinton Administration and its allies to increase the coercive power of the state in family planning and sex education throughout the world.

The republican party has courted, and climbed into bed, with all sorts of slime and trash to gain power — but perhaps the consequences of their appeal to ignorance, to empowering stupid people to reject education as the trappings of elitism and snobbery, are finally starting to accrue.

To promote the common good, society must use government's powers of taxation to ensure that every child has access to the necessary funds for an excellent education.

Among them are the rights to: bullet joint parenting; bullet joint adoption; bullet joint foster care, custody, and visitation (including non-biological parents); bullet status as next - of - kin for hospital visits and medical decisions where one partner is too ill to be competent; bullet joint insurance policies for home, auto and health; bullet dissolution and divorce protections such as community property and child support; bullet immigration and residency for partners from other countries; bullet inheritance automatically in the absence of a will; bullet joint leases with automatic renewal rights in the event one partner dies or leaves the house or apartment; bullet inheritance of jointly - owned real and personal property through the right of survivorship (which avoids the time and expense and taxes in probate); bullet benefits such as annuities, pension plans, Social Security, and Medicare; bullet spousal exemptions to property tax increases upon the death of one partner who is a co-owner of the home; bullet veterans» discounts on medical care, education, and home loans; joint filing of tax returns; bullet joint filing of customs claims when traveling; bullet wrongful death benefits for a surviving partner and children; bullet bereavement or sick leave to care for a partner or child; bullet decision - making power with respect to whether a deceased partner will be cremated or not and where to bury him or her; bullet crime victims» recovery benefits; bullet loss of consortium tort benefits; bullet domestic violence protection orders; bullet judicial protections and evidentiary immunity; bullet and more...

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

New opportunities for recreation, as well as for travel, education, and entertainment, have become available chiefly because of the continued increase in the average American's purchasing power.

By the time W finished his second term, I had graduated from college, come to terms with the fact that the criminalization of abortion is highly unlikely no matter the party in power, expanded my definition of «pro-life» to include Iraqi children and prisoners of war, and experienced first - hand some of the major problems with America's healthcare system, which along with poverty and education issues, contributes to the troubling abortion rate in the U.S. I remained pro-life idealistically, but for the first time, voted for a pro-choice president, hoping that the reforms I wanted to see in the healthcare, the economy, immigration, education, and for the socioeconomically disadvantaged would function pragmatically to reduce abortions.

«In the competitive world of American ethnic communities, there are two paths to success: upward mobility defined according to wealth, education, and political power, and downward mobility measured by degrees of victimhood.»

If that central relationship is distorted, if we look to something less than God for our fulfillment, seeking affirmation on the level of status, wealth, social position, achievement, education, power, or whatever, then our human light will inevitably burn at a lower wattage; our being will be distorted.

It will not require advanced degrees of education, high - powered leadership structures, costly buildings, expensive advertising, salesmanship routines, light shows and Hollywood gimmicks.

I have to leave my immigrant church, a concern for first generation congregations who saw and still see churches as a both a strategy and physical space to connect generations divided by language, education, power, and levels of assimilation through faith.

The U.S. war to destroy revolutionary gains in education and health care and to reduce living standards in Nicaragua was part of a broader psychological war to discourage other third - world peoples from challenging U.S. power.

I think some of the ways we can be more aware of our power is to recognize some of the privileges we have, privileges we take for granted and assume everyone has: our education level, our able - bodiedness level, our sexual orientation, the passport we have, etc..

After the episode with Sodom and Gomorrah, which teaches Abraham both about God's awesome power and about the need to serve righteousness, and after the (second) wife - sister episode involving Abimelech, which completes Abraham's education regarding the meaning of wife, Sarah at last conceives and Isaac is wondrously born, when his mother and father are, respectively, ninety and one hundred years old.

In addition, her intellectual powers and education were of the highest order.