Sentences with phrase «on closing the gap»

A second thing is a concerted focus on closing gaps between groups of kids in a meaningful way over time.

The latest progress report on Closing the Gap shows that efforts to address appalling levels of disadvantage have made marginal improvements, in spite of billions of dollars in government funding.

Experts have many theories, but no clear answers, about why national progress on closing the gap has slowed.

And if schooling were to be delayed, that would mean that it was even later that we started working on closing that gap.

Keep your eyes on the prize, but focus your daily attention on closing the gap just a little.

All publicly funded schools — traditional and charter alike — should be subject to the same rigorous performance expectations, with a deep focus on closing gaps.

• Conference agrees that racism is undermining any progress on Closing the Gap.

It said the Government must allocate appropriate funding for the Health Plan in this year's Budget, and increase health funds generally — critical given the National Partnership Agreement on Closing the Gap in Indigenous Health Outcomes actually expired in 2014 and funding was discontinued.

Improving the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples is a priority under the Australian Government's National Partnership Agreement on Closing the Gap on Indigenous Health Outcomes [1].

Even though the original 2008 targets had been built on the Close the Gap campaign led by Indigenous agency and organisations, he said they had been essentially determined in «a closed shop», «a conversation between governments».

The Australian public demand that government, in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their representatives, build on the close the gap platform to meet this challenge.

We still need another DM / GK / CB / ST if we plan on closing the gap with Chelsea.

It is an agreed national priority and it is clear that the Australian public demand that government, in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their representatives, build on the close the gap platform to meet this challenge.

So are you excited to face Arsenal at this point in the Europa League, or were you hoping for an «easier» opponent so that Milan could focus on closing the gap between them and the teams above them in the table?

De Blasio cites the city's 21 % poverty rate as proof of this, and he campaigned on closing the gap by pushing real estate developers to build or preserve 200,000 affordable homes and creating a universal pre-K program for the poor, funded by raising taxes on those who make a $ 500,000 or more.

The Harry Potter star on closing the gap between rich and poor, irrating toilet attendants and sex...

However, the Campaign Steering Committee is concerned that despite continued Australian Government commitment to closing the gap, broader structural reform to the federal system of the type that is currently being discussed could potentially have an adverse impact on the Closing the Gap Strategy.

Last Friday, a group of prominent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders were invited by the Federal, State and Territory governments to meet in conjunction with the first Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting of 2018 to provide advice on the Closing the Gap refres, which is currently underway.

Our response was to form, from the Indigenous health peaks on the Close the Gap Campaign Steering Committee, a historic alliance of Indigenous health peaks and key stakeholders including the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples

Kevin Rudd presented his report card on closing the gap in Indigenous disadvantage and life expectancy to Parliament today (correction, it was actually on Thurs 11th), but he got a much tougher assessment from a «shadow report» released by Close the Gap, a coalition of more than 40 of Australia's leading health, human rights and Aboriginal organisations.

As such, Reconciliation Australia urges all Australian governments — both federal and state — to renew and lift their action on the Closing the Gap targets and framework.

This is particularly important as there is insufficient attention to Indigenous nutrition as a contributor to chronic disease in recent policy initiatives, particularly the NPA on Closing the Gap on Indigenous Health Outcomes.

Other great initiatives have seen the establishment of the National Indigenous Health Equality Council, the appointment of the first ever Minister for Indigenous health, and the Prime Minister's annual report to Parliament on closing the gap, to which the campaign produces a shadow report each year.

The campaign co-chairs said they expect the Government to grasp the opportunity to lead on closing the gap in health equality between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and other Australians.

Recently I was working on a Closing The Gap project with some focus children in Upper Primary.

After 20 years of reform in education, we need to move beyond the «charter wars» and concentrate on closing these gaps by providing a high quality education for all of our students.

Title I, centered on closing the gap between low - income and other students, would remain stable at $ 14.8 billion.

«So, even where overall attainment is high, we want schools to focus relentlessly on closing this gap by improving outcomes for those from disadvantaged backgrounds.»

Lingham, who is also a Trustatom advisor, was bullish on the potential of blockchain applications, echoing Rashkovskii's thoughts on closing the gap that separates bitcoin users from mainstream consumers.

I want to close by recalling some of the commitments that the Prime Minister and Minister for Indigenous Affairs signed in the historic Statement of Intent on closing the gap.

The National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards (NSQHSS) are another excellent example of how the government has placed priority on closing the gap.

By Kellie Bisset On Closing the Gap This fortnight, we learned that Australia's progress in closing the gap on Indigenous disadvantage was, in the words of the Prime Minister, «p...

The appointment of Ken Wyatt hopefully signifies a reinvigorated focus on Closing the Gap policy.

«The latest COAG report on Closing the Gap shows that, while there is some improvement against targets, overall little has changed.

One thousand Aboriginal babies visited an ACCO in the past 12 months, an imperative to continuing the momentum forward on closing the gap and achieving equality of health outcomes for our people.

«We've seen a 3.6 % reduction in smoking rates over that time yet the Federal Budget has reduced spending on closing the gap anti-smoking initiatives,»

Australia's biggest Aboriginal health and public healthcare and hospitals bodies today signed a national agreement to work together on closing the gap in Aboriginal health.

[18] Prime Minister, «Annual Prime Ministerial Statement on Closing the Gap» (Media Release, 5 April 2008).

This is aggravated by the December 2013 decision of the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) not to proceed with this National Partnership Agreement on Closing the Gap on Indigenous Health.

[7] National Partnership Agreement on Closing the Gap on Indigenous Health Outcomes, Council of Australian Governments, 2008.

This new partnership on closing the gap will set concrete targets for the future: within a decade to halve the widening gap in literacy, numeracy and employment outcomes and opportunities for Indigenous children, within a decade to halve the appalling gap in infant mortality rates between Indigenous and non-Indigenous children and, within a generation, to close the equally appalling 17 - year life gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous when it comes to overall life expectancy.