Sentences with phrase «of education pushed»

Broward County, site of the Parkland shooting, was one of the nation's first school districts to implement «restorative justice» policies the Obama Department of Education pushed on school districts.

The Bridgeport CT board of education pushed back against superintendent Paul Valles and his program of closing schools and increasing charters.

Not exact matches

She may also try to address the skills gap of U.S. workers by pushing for educational incentives, such as free tuition for some kinds of college education, as President Obama has proposed.

Whatever the case, it is clear that Google is trying to push Chromebooks further outside of the education sector in which they're most popular today.

The country was in the midst of a major push to deliver several core subjects — including math and science — in English instead of Arabic and the education ministry needed to recruit thousands of teachers on two - year contracts.

I pray to whichever holy name (God, Allah, Jehovah, Krishna, Jesus, etc.) suits the ONE Omniscient, Omnipresent, Omnipotent being that ignorance is wiped away from our species and we become a closer, more loving, peaceful creature and that we realize how much time we waste and how much further we push our fellow neighbor and brother under God, regardless of creed, away debating over who's God is better and discover the error of our ways before we destroy each other... before it's too late, because The End is Nigh!!!!! LOL!!!!! Really though, isn't the world full of enough tragedy, and aren't their so many more important things that need our energy and attention like the innocent children in Pakistan dying from diseases from the flood or the homeless children in our own country, or the lack of education, which is exactly what leads to this kind of debate?

Now, as minister of education, Belkacem is pushing to introduce «gender theory» into state schools.

Not by chance, Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, General Secretary of the Synod of Bishops, underscored in an interview with the Italian weekly magazine La Settimana that the strong points of the last Synod of Bishops were the doctrinal framework, the Gospel of the Family, and the push for young people to receive an education about love.

Many of my friends believe that the push for diversity in higher education has led to a decline in emphasis on academic achievement.

After both Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan pushed for acceptance of same - sex marriage over the weekend, North Carolina became the 30th state to amend its constitution to define marriage as an act between one man and one woman.

It is surely a «dramatic» situation that at the heart of our Catholic community we are pushing many, probably most, of our 14 year olds into the moral minefield of the current Religious Education GCSE.

A chapter called «Praxis and Solidarity» explores the push of many in the church for a more direct relationship between theological education and specific contexts and «underrepresented constituencies,» such as blacks, women, Hispanics, Native Americans and Third World peoples.

Although Christians might become social workers, that is not the vocation of most of us and the Church is not a Non-Governmental Organisation or NGO pushing through drastic social change, though again Christians have introduced radical social change, everything from the abolition of slavery to the promotion of education.

Mormons have always pushed the importance of education and learning.

Sexually repressed people, usually very devout often try to push their brand of sex education into public policy.

The Guardian: Turkey lifts ban on headscarves in schools Turkey has lifted a ban on female students wearing headscarves in schools providing religious education, in a move drawing criticism from secularists who see it as fresh evidence of the government pushing an Islamic agenda.

«It was my idea to get a bunch of brewers together and see how we can push things into different territories,» Kiser says of the birth of Uppers & Downers, a collaborative series with Intelligentsia focused on education and the unexplored intersections of coffee and brewing.

One of the issues Jordan is looking into these days is sports related — how big money - making collegiate sports like football and basketball push lesser revenue - producing sports like men's wrestling slowly into obscurity and how to keep college education and sports connected in a way that emphasizes academics and not TV money.

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Again, this principle is absolutely essential to Waldorf education, however and wherever it is practiced, working with, rather than pushing against, the lawful developmental arc of each child.

As the Chicago Board of Education prepares to approve a 2011 - 12 budget Wednesday, school officials and the teachers union are battling publicly over related issues of withdrawn raises and the mayor's push for a longer school day.

In our frenetic world, where pushing children to «hurry up or fall behind» has become the norm, Waldorf Education takes the point of view that childhood is something to be savored.

The push to rid the cafeteria of hydrogenated oils, artificial coloring and the deep fryer grew from a health education program in 2005.

education was taken many years ago and I've apparently pushed most of that info out of my brain and replaced it with newer, important info (like who's John Mayer dating this week) hence I can not for the life of me figure out how to finish flannel edges.

This push has embraced forms of school development and quality assurance that are ubiquitous in the mainstream, while making efforts to adapt them to the special situation of Waldorf education with its focus on individual learning.

Julie was especially concerned about the extent of industry funding of education for health professionals and was also keen to push for legal action in defence of mother's rights to breastfeed.

I am honored to become a part of your «village» and help in any way I can with breastfeeding promotion, education, and lactation support both 1:1 and in the group setting, I have experience in both inpatient and outpatient lactation services, and I am so excited about joining the team at The Perfect Push to empower and support moms.»

Email blasts from the two liberal organizations note that Avella used to be an outspoken opponent of charters — and co-location in particular — and yet voted «yes» on the Senate one - house budget that education advocates say pushes more of the controversial co-locations and hikes state aid to charters at the expense of traditional public schools.

Writing for Politics.co.uk, Stephen Lloyd, former chair of the all - party parliamentary group on religious education, said the group's new boss had pushed through changes to exclude the teaching of values of people with no faith.

Still, event with a raise the agreement in place — believed to be one of the last and most contentious of the policy matters in the budget — there are remaining matters that must be dealt with, including a push to bolster charter schools and funding for education.

The entire landscape of higher education will change if the government pushes ahead with its plans for university funding.

Cuomo is backing an effort in his education reform push that would put a monitor in charge of a school deemed to be failing.

Easton also praised Silver's Democratic majority conference, saying its members have long been «champions of education» who stood with AQE on the Campaign for Fiscal Equity and on the push to make the state's wealthiest residents pay higher taxes.

The bill would overhaul a key component of a contentious education reform bill that was pushed through by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2015, much to the consternation of the New York State United Teachers.

NYSUT often spends heavily on pushing education issues in the halls of the Capitol.

The Syracuse Republican insisted the conference had to remain united on the minimum wage vote, which was packaged with a boost in school aid and an elimination of education cuts GOP lawmakers had pushed for since last year.

Education Reform Now, a pro-charter school organization that is pushing to lift the cap in hopes of improving the state's Round II application for «Race to the Top» funds, has a new radio ad up that darkly hints about getting «rid» of any lawmakers who oppose reform.

Another group, Catholics For Independent Action, transferred $ 250,000 on April 6 to New Yorkers For A Balanced Albany, the political action committee arm of StudentsFirstNY, a grassroots organization that has pushed for education reform policies and charter school support.

Education Reform Now, a coalition of groups pushing for changes that would improve New York's chances at landing «Race to the Top» funds, launched a statewide TV ad that blasts the teachers union for the state's Round I failure.

The New York State United Teachers union today is bringing in hundreds of advocates to push for additional aid for schools and education in the state budget.

Here's yet another TV ad from the pro-charter school group Education Reform Now, which is pushing Albany to raise the charter cap in advance of the next «Race to the Top» funding application deadline on June 1.

No group in NYC has amassed more political clout than the teachers union, which has scored a new contract for its members, helped block charter schools from expanding, pushed for the renewal of mayoral control of city schools, and ensured the city education budget continues to soar.

The New Legislative leaders are eager to put their stamp on the session and get some things done, and Governor Cuomo was out Sunday pushing for one of his priorities, which is the newly improved Education Investment Tax Credit.

Cuomo continues to push for accountability and choice in public education — even if, in the face of union opposition, he doesn't get all that he wants.

The ads are part of a multi-million dollar push for health care spending in the budget, typically one of the costliest areas in the spending plan aside from education aid.

«I'm certainly looking forward to some meetings where the board can get away from distractions that have taken us off the tasks that we really need to do that will push forward the education achievement of the children in this district,» Board President Dr. Barbara Seals Nevergold said.

A day after supporters released a television ad pushing for the approval of the education investment tax credit, the spot is being swapped out for last year's commercial featuring Cardinal Timothy Dolan.

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Nonetheless, successfully wooing an endorsement from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Cuomo pushed a new middle - class tuition subsidy program whose full annual cost he estimated at $ 163 million — a low - balled figure that failed to take account of the disruptive impact it would likely have on SUNY and CUNY budgets, not to mention New York's vital private higher - education sector.

The senator un-spooled the beginnings of a platform, including a desire to cut taxes, push an «all of the above» education policy where teachers are given greater freedom, and an expansion of natural gas pipelines — many of which Cuomo has tied up.