Sentences with phrase «of education funding under»

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has warned that the stifling of education funding under the Muhammadu Buhari government is preparing the country for a...

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The following options may be available to students in need of loans to fund their education under the federal student loan program:

if you pay attention to discussions of higher education funding, one of the memes that inevitably pops up revolves around the notion that higher education has been under some brutal, neo-liberal assault since... well, I'm not sure, but probably since 1995 at least, and everything is being defunded, laid on the backs of students, it's the end of civilization, dark ages ahead, etc., etc..

In regard to primary and secondary education, initiatives include imposing caps on class sizes; ensuring schools have the necessary support staff; funding full - day kindergarten and half - day junior kindergarten for vulnerable children; eliminating fees and fundraising for learning essentials, such as computers; phasing out private schools and bringing charter schools under the jurisdiction of school boards; and providing breakfast and lunch programs.

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.

Nurseries will be stripped of funding if they «promote extremist views» to children as young as two, under proposals to be announced by the new education secretary Nicky Morgan.

Much of the support from hedge funds for Cuomo is being organized by Joe Williams, executive director of Democrats for Education Reform, who include the founders of funds like Anchorage Capital Partners with $ 8 billion under management, Greenlight Capital with $ 6.8 billion, and Pershing Square Capital Management with $ 5.5 billion.

$ 27 Million for Public School Programs: Under this portion of the Education Scholarship and Program Tax Credit, public school students and educators will benefit from $ 27 million in new funds for education improvement Education Scholarship and Program Tax Credit, public school students and educators will benefit from $ 27 million in new funds for education improvement education improvement programs.

The final paragraph, under the heading Education, reads: «If the response of the government to Lord Browne's report [the review into higher education funding] is one that Liberal Democrats can not accept, then arrangements will be made to enable Liberal Democrat MPs to abstain in any votEducation, reads: «If the response of the government to Lord Browne's report [the review into higher education funding] is one that Liberal Democrats can not accept, then arrangements will be made to enable Liberal Democrat MPs to abstain in any voteducation funding] is one that Liberal Democrats can not accept, then arrangements will be made to enable Liberal Democrat MPs to abstain in any vote.»

· 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.

Students» associations in the Niger Delta, acting under the aegis of the South - South Students» Assembly, have alleged poor funding of education in the region.

Queens Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras - Copeland, who chairs the powerful Committee on Finance, suggested the city could lose precious monies for the NYPD for its non-cooperation on immigration issues, while the public hospital network could suffer if the president repeals the Obama - era Affordable Care Act and the school system might lose funding under the policies of U.S. Secretary of Education - designate Betsy DeVos.

From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting over a billion naira meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.

The funds will come from the Higher Education Capital Matching Grant Program, under which grantees must match every dollar awarded with three dollars of their own, according to a press release.

The public spending cuts will wound a sector bolstered by injections of funding under Labour from the mid-90s when money was redirected away from universities to early years learning and further education.

But lawmakers this legislative session have chaffed under what they see as an executive overreach with linking so much controversial policy to spending increase for education and the funding of capital projects.

Now the President's renewed focus on higher graduation rates will be dramatically undermined by the consistent under - funding of public higher education in this state.»

My tweet of Friday April 20, 2018 was typical of the reaction, «Actually Buhari was describing himself - he didn't get a good education and has no certificate; he's lived on the Nigerian state all his life; he doesn't like work; and he's fixated on Nigeria's oil...» In truth, Buhari has not presented evidence of completing secondary school - in all the elections he contested, including in 2015 he tendered affidavits to INEC and has declined to perform the simple task of providing his school certificate; since he joined the army in 1961, he has been a «ward» of the Nigerian state and served in multiple states as military governor, as Minister of Petroleum and Chairman of NNPC board under illegal military regimes; he was himself an unconstitutional military head of state; he was Chairman of Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) under the despotic and thieving dictator, Abacha; and is now back as civilian president.

Under the provisions of the education tax credit proposed by Cuomo, people and businesses can donate up to $ 1 million to a scholarship fund to send underprivileged children to private schools, or the publicly funded, but privately run, charter schools.

Nixon's criticism mirrored an op - ed she published last month that slammed Cuomo for his support of charter schools and for proposing to eliminate the so - called Foundation Aid formula for funding public schools, which critics argued would deprive districts of billions of dollars that they are still owed under 2006 court decision that found the state had underfunded public education.

Cuomo has been a vigorous advocate of the education «reform» movement, a collection of hedge fund funded charlatans that are looking to siphon as much public money as possible from public education under the guise of «disrupting» education as we know it.

Under half of the UK's new free schools have submitted their accounts for the tax year 2011/12 to the Education Funding Agency (EFA), an influential group of MPs has warned.

With the publication today of the Browne Review into higher education funding, the Deputy Prime Minister is under immense pressure from student groups not to go back on his word.

It also directed funds to an independent expenditure committee called the People for Quality Education, which spent just under $ 86,000 in the 2014 election cycle (most of it on a political consulting firm) and then fizzled away.

Under the provisions of the education tax credit proposed by Governor Cuomo, people and businesses can donate up to $ 1 million to a scholarship fund to send underprivileged children to private schools, or support enhanced programs at public schools.

The Ghana Education Service (GES), says it will sanction Heads of Senior High Schools who fail to submit returns on the funds released to their schools under the Free SHS programme by Friday.

A reinvented «New Labour» had further improved its credibility under Blair by promising traditional Labour essentials including more funding for healthcare and education, but also promising not to increase income tax and ending its commitment to the nationalisation of leading industries.

«Outstanding issues include under - investment in school technology infrastructure, significant inequities in allocation of Fair Student Funding dollars, disparities in gifted and talented education, resistance to training and support for new learning devices like tablets, inaction on liberalizing school space usage policy for community - based organizations, and poor community notification on significant changes to school utilization,» Adams said.

NYSUT, meanwhile, again urged the state to fully fund schools under the terms of a 2007 settlement in the high - profile Campaign for Fiscal Equity case, which required the state to fix its school funding formula and fulfill its constitutional obligation to provide a «sound, basic education» to all children.

The city says the plan under discussion as part of the state budget talks due to conclude by April 1 could hurt the city's ability to fund services like public safety, education and social services.

At a recent Community Education Council meeting, Jamie Smarr, executive director of the DOE's Educational Construction Fund, reassured parents that the sale of the schools would be subject to public review under the Uniform Land Use Review Process (ULURP), which requires a vote by the City Council.

The changes, which Education Commissioner John King said are already under way, include increasing public understanding of the standards, training more teachers and principals, ensuring adequate funding, reducing testing time and providing high school students the option to take some traditional Regents exams while Common Core - aligned tests are phased in.

Education and health The «pupil premium» was one of the areas of agreement David Cameron flagged up in his initial speech offering talks with the Lib Dems last Friday, and under it schools will receive extra funding for teaching children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Federal funding agencies have traditionally addressed sexual harassment in academia under the gender equity provisions — known as Title IX — of a 1972 education law.

Instead of the government determining students» eligibility for financial aid, which can cause social division between those who receive aid and those who don't, Dr. Sara Goldrick - Rab and Dr. Tammy Kolbe recommend that all students should be funded collectively under a taxpayer - supported universal public higher education system.

Under the IWRM Indonesia joint project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), hydraulic engineering experts of KIT built an underground cave power station.

«Sustaining and growing support for research and development under the kinds of constraints that we have experienced in the federal budget» is one of the top S&T - related challenges — along with others involving climate change, NASA funding, and STEM education — facing the Obama administration in its last year and a half, said Holdren who is the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and assistant to the president for science and technology.

Together with other project partners, KIT and INERATEC also study decentralized production of high - quality synthetic fuel from air and renewable power under the «Power - to - X» Kopernikus project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

The researchers published the results of the project, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, in the specialist journal Plant Biology under the title «Functional characterisation and cell specificity of BvSUT1, the transporter that loads sucrose into the phloem of sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) source leaves «(doi: 10.1111 / plb.12546).

I am very much delighted and happy to know that the Department of Crop Botany of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University is implementing a sub-project entitled «Establishment of Digital Herbarium and Herbal Museum for Improving Academic and Research Capability in Crop Botany» with the financial assistance from Academic Innovation Fund (AIF) of Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project (HEQEP) under the University Grants Commission of Bangladesh (UGCB) supported by the World Bank.

In the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that blends adaptive online learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edX.

A team of conservative legal scholars last week filed a complaint charging that two Southern California school districts fail to offer students school choice as required under federal law and asked the U.S. Department of Education to withhold the districts» federal funds.

Horne, a classically trained pianist and founder of the Phoenix Baroque Ensemble, hasn't yet achieved his objective, but he has made progress: He pushed through higher standards for arts education, appointed an arts specialist in the state Department of Education, and steered $ 4 million in federal funds under NCLB to support arts integration in schools throughout teducation, appointed an arts specialist in the state Department of Education, and steered $ 4 million in federal funds under NCLB to support arts integration in schools throughout tEducation, and steered $ 4 million in federal funds under NCLB to support arts integration in schools throughout the state.

TES has reported that Tony Foot, director of the Department for Education's funding group, is under «no illusion» about the financial challenges schools are due to face as a result of rising costs and real terms budget cuts.

«If children with disability are denied a quality education by an under - funded schools system this will affect every part of the rest of their lives.

Meanwhile, The Australian has reported that Labour states are pressuring Opposition Leader Bill Shorten to commit $ 7 billion in federal funds to meet the final two years, 2018 and 2019, of Gonski funding that was agreed to under the Australian Education Act with former Prime Minister Julia Gillard.

The financial integrity of some academies has recently come under question with the Education Funding Agency (EFA) publishing a series of financial notices to improve in December 2014.

Instead, all four were selected to be part of a small group of six Dillard graduates to attend the Ed School under a program sponsored by the Fund for the Advancement of Education.

July 15 — American Indian education: The U.S. Education Department is inviting applications for awards under its Indian Vocational Education Training Program, to provide financial assistance to American Indian tribes and certain schools funded by the U.S. Interior Department, for planing, conducting, and administering projects, or portions of projects, that are authorized by and consistent with the purposes of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Acteducation: The U.S. Education Department is inviting applications for awards under its Indian Vocational Education Training Program, to provide financial assistance to American Indian tribes and certain schools funded by the U.S. Interior Department, for planing, conducting, and administering projects, or portions of projects, that are authorized by and consistent with the purposes of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology ActEducation Department is inviting applications for awards under its Indian Vocational Education Training Program, to provide financial assistance to American Indian tribes and certain schools funded by the U.S. Interior Department, for planing, conducting, and administering projects, or portions of projects, that are authorized by and consistent with the purposes of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology ActEducation Training Program, to provide financial assistance to American Indian tribes and certain schools funded by the U.S. Interior Department, for planing, conducting, and administering projects, or portions of projects, that are authorized by and consistent with the purposes of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Act of 1990.

Under current federal policy, funding for the extra costs associated with low - income and high - need students is provided to districts and states chiefly through Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).