Sentences with phrase «on education priorities»

Kevin Courtney, the deputy general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said: «Finally the government has come clean on its education priorities and admitted that its real agenda all along has been that every school must become an academy.

Republican Gov. Scott Walker was invited to submit a column on his education priorities, but did not.

It advises the Scottish government on education priorities and ensure its plans are influenced by international best practice.

Bill Gates» philanthropic organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is making an about - face on its education priorities to focus on networks of traditional public schools aimed at improving student achievement.

Not exact matches

ECU's focus on identifying opportunities in priority or high growth areas such as nursing, education, communications, environmental studies, law and security and entertainment and culture is also unique, Professor Poole says.

This past Sunday the liberal leader, Justin Trudeau, in an interview on CBC's French - language service Radio Canada, said that a Liberal government would give priority to infrastructure investment, education and research over tax relief.

The STEM Education Coalition continues to include veterans inclusion in STEM to be a top priority and looks forward to the opportunity to work with Congress and the Administration on this issue.

Successful applicants will have a background in Asia - related research in a variety of fields, including (but not limited to) social sciences, humanities, business, education, statistics, and natural sciences, and will be based on excellence and fit with the Foundation's research priorities (energy and the environment; trade and investment; education; and sub-national relations with Asia.)

The survey also showed that Albertans placed the highest priority on two specific areas: health care and education.

Mr. Jean released his party's «Five Priorities» that include positions on taxes, health care, education, democracy and rural Alberta.

My goal would be to both ensure that those who depend on the program are protected, while also balancing the growing cost of Social Security with other pressing priorities — from programs for children, the vulnerable, public investments, and shoring up our education and worker retraining systems.

Top priority of the campaign is to call on elected officials to create legislation that supports economic justice, anti-racism and anti-white supremacy policies, women's rights, the ending of voter suppression, immigrant rights, LGBTQ rights, as well as affordable quality housing, healthcare and education.

They involve new laws and policies, radical changes in mentalities and lifestyles, codes of conduct for businesses and institutions, changes in the content of curricula and textbooks, new norms and decision - making methods in politics, health care and education systems, new strategic priorities for international cooperation, radically new approaches to development, fundamental transformation of democratic principles and mechanisms - a new social ethos imposed on all.

These pastors and their flocks must live pretty well - to - do lives if this one thing on its own is their top priority in the election, and not the economy, education, the law, and the US's place in the world.

Women in the unenlightened cultures are expected to have children early because women's education isn't a priority, women are on the lower rung of the class - ladder and are used to doing what they're told.

While the young pair has blossomed into successful amateur MMA competitors with legitimate opportunities for professional fighting careers, they both have placed a priority on education before pro fighting.

«Clinicians, parents, and coaches should make concussion education and awareness a priority, and address factors to provide a more optimal concussion - reporting environment,» says Johna Register - Mihalik, Ph.D, LAT, ATC, Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and lead author of the one of the recent studies on underreporting.

The multi-disciplinary Task Forces reported on their progress and discussed the priority areas including: site of birth decision - making, interprofessional collaboration and education, regulation and licensure, health disparities and equity, consumer engagement, liability, research and data collection, and physiologic birth care.

Based on a shared vision from DASH, Healthy Schools BC, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education, the grants support education and health - sector professionals to collaborate and build relationships, create a plan for identifying and addressing priorities and taking collaborative action regarding mental well - being to create healthyEducation, the grants support education and health - sector professionals to collaborate and build relationships, create a plan for identifying and addressing priorities and taking collaborative action regarding mental well - being to create healthyeducation and health - sector professionals to collaborate and build relationships, create a plan for identifying and addressing priorities and taking collaborative action regarding mental well - being to create healthy schools.

Rebecah's work is strongly influenced by her training in Waldorf education, which places a priority on helping children of all temperaments develop self - management, social skills, and social responsibility.

Nature offers many benefits to minority youth, which is why the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum places the highest priority on taking nature and science education programs to underserved communities, and on creating greater awareness and opportunities to experience urban nature.

Education, with a focus on outward perspectives which don't forsake Arab values, is consistently a prominent policy priority in the Gulf states» job - creation strategies.

He said: «We've struck the balance between building on our impressive track record and delivering on the priority areas - including the economy, transport, health, education and justice - while also putting forward a detailed case for securing more powers.

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.

He shared his position on major issues — job creation, education and healthcare; and he told the CWA members that, «The well - being of my constituents is a top priority.

Remarks by MaryEllen Elia, New York State Education Commissioner on the 2018 budget and legislative priorities and state aid request for the 2018 - 2019 school year

Remarks by MaryEllen Elia, New York State Education Commissioner on the 2017 State Aid Request and Budget & Legislative Priorities.

She says she is happy there is more money being focused on more vulnerable students, but even more so, that the district was able to take time and really look at the special education programs and priorities.

But Lipton also said there is «more to do,» like restoring «progressivity» to the state's tax code, closing the carried interest tax loophole, and investing in a new «social contract» on public education that ensures full funding for schools — including universal pre-K (an early de Blasio priority)-- and restoration to the public university system to pre-recession levels.

«It reveals a lot about Michael Gove's priorities that he has found time to meet with News Corps executives 21 times since he became education secretary - including meeting Rupert Murdoch on seven separate occasions - but in his first seven months in the job he didn't manage to visit a single sixth form college, further education college or special school,» said shadow education secretary Andy Burnham.

We are proud that the final agreement not only includes these longstanding priorities of our conference but also makes significant investments in our public education system, community schools, and struggling schools while holding the line on tuition increases at our SUNY and CUNY institutions.

Questions and answers from MaryEllen Elia, New York State Education Commissioner on the 2018 budget and legislative priorities and state aid request.

According to him, education has been one of the priority sectors that government had embarked on.

The release, explaining the decision was reached unanimously by the group's two component boards of directors, stated, «The Boards» decision comes on the heels of securing the Pride Agenda's top remaining policy priority ---- protecting transgender New Yorkers from discrimination in housing, employment, credit, education, and public accommodations ---- in the form of new regulations announced in partnership with Governor Andrew M. Cuomo at the organization's Fall Dinner on October 22, 2015.»

Jenny Sedlis, executive director of StudentsFirstNY, a education group that's closely aligned with Cuomo on issues related to schools, said she's not concerned that her priorities will suffer in King's absence.

Repeating the governor's claim that state cuts to education do not require layoffs, Mulgrew said it was clear that Mayor Bloomberg's priority «is not to get money for the schools; he would rather fight over who to lay off than fight on behalf of children.»

Spano said his priorities will be to fight for a fair share of education funding for Westchester school districts, to ensure the area economy remains strong, and to hold the line on taxes.

President John Dramani Mahama has reiterated the importance of education to the development of the country with a call on parents and guardians to make education of their wards a priority.

State applications are graded in part on whether they lift artificial caps on charter schools — a key education priority of President Obama.

«They were included in the budget on the theory of, «statement of priority,» because if it's not in the budget, then it's not important,» Cuomo continued, speaking specifically about the Dream Act and Education Investment Tax Credit.

Following the Great Recession in 2008, many states decreased the amount of appropriations set aside for higher education, with many states» budget cuts tending to focus largely on education spending, according to a Center on Budget and Policy Priorities report.

The issue, he said, is that legislators are not only over-promising, but choosing between hundreds of options to fund, and the priority is not on education.

In a statement, Cuomo's spokesman Rich Azzopardi said, «The governor's priority is providing education funding based on the number of students it helps, not growing the education bureaucracy to serve the demands of the special interests.

[3][7] In this capacity Cummings wrote a 240 - page essay, «Some thoughts on education and political priorities», [8] about transforming Britain into a «meritocratic technopolis», [5] described by Patrick Wintour as «either mad, bad or brilliant — and probably a bit of all three.»

«Every minute spent on this document is a distraction from more important priorities such as health, education and crime.»

The NUS said widening participation must be made a priority and concluded: «With many of the key questions still unanswered, these statistics provide a shaky foundation on which to base arguments for further marketisation of the higher education system.»

Speaking on the adverse effects of Social media, Professor Adewale decried the way most students place priority on its usage at the expense of their education.

On their priorities when given the chance, he mentioned creation of more jobs for all, roads, health and education, since to the party, every child had the right to free education up to the senior high school level.

Lavine, 61, said her priorities as mayor are to reverse what she sees as signs of the city's decline on several fronts, including crime, poverty, infrastructure and education.

The MP who is charge of the pre-manifesto, outlined on Monday, spoke about making priorities about education and income tax commitments.