Sentences with phrase «officials about education issues»

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The League of Conservation Voters Education Fund (LCVEF) works with our state LCVEF partners, educates the public, media and elected officials about key environmental issues, works to increase voter participation in the democratic process and mobilizes a diverse network of activists to advocate for sound environmental policies.

In relation to internal conversations surrounding the program, he wrote that the Chancellor's office «has been in continuous communication with college presidents and state officials, including at the Higher Education Services Corporation, about details of the Excelsior Scholarship program that will be addressed in the regulations to be issued later this month.»

About the Parent Advisory Board The Parent Advisory Board gives Queens public school parents an opportunity to be heard on education issues and concerns and provides a forum to meet with senior city and state DOE officials.

This is one of the queries I heard most often when interviewing teachers for The Cage - Busting Teacher or just when talking about the issue of educators, public officials, and education policy.

But it is possible to imagine that voters passionate about these issues could persuade their elected officials to address them, and it is also possible that action may be more feasible at the state level where the politics may be less toxic and where most of the policy action on K - 12 education is located anyway.

Aside from that issue, Barley said state education officials felt «pretty positive» about the feedback.

The U.S. Department of Education is once again emphasizing the benefit of diversity in its competitive magnet school funding process, and local officials should build on New York City's history of magnet school success to bring home more of that federal funding (For more information about magnet schools in New York City, see a recent New York Times piece on this issue: «Do Magnet Schools Still Matter?

In 1993, U.S. Department of Education official Francie Alexander addressed the issue as the Clinton administration pushed public dialogue about the importance of creating common benchmarks as a means of preparing students for future success.

New York City Department of Education officials have started speaking publicly about some of the issues holding up negotiations and E4E members proposed...

But officials in the U.S. Department of Education are obviously thinking about this issue.

So while Malloy and Jumoke congratulate themselves about their education reform achievements, parents in every other Hartford school would do well to remember, smaller class sizes, having a teacher and an instructional assistant in every classroom and providing more support services is not a result of Malloy's education reform efforts but a result of Malloy, the State of Connecticut and the City of Hartford actually stepping forward and providing the resources necessary to make appropriate changes --- changes that should be being made at every Hartford School if only elected officials would address the broader issue inadequate funding for Connecticut's schools.

Approximately half of the devices issued to U.S. children are Google Chromebooks, with about 30 million students, teachers, and school officials using Google's G Suite for Education, observes EFF.