Sentences with phrase «on funding public education»

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The Clinton platform also focuses heavily on education, including a call to broaden computer science education in public schools, revamp job training programs, and provide more funds for minority colleges to help tackle tech's diversity problem.

H.B. 929 Status: Failed Relates to promotion of cybersecurity in the Commonwealth, initiates several efforts to promote economic development, research and development, and workforce development of the cybersecurity industry in the Commonwealth, creates two new matching grant funds, adds one administered by the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Investment Authority for private entities that collaborate with one or more public institutions of higher education on research and development related to cybersecurity.

Taxes on real estate in Maryland account for about 35 % of city budgets and 30 % of county budgets, funding local services like public education and fire protection.

A third town hall meeting is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. April 17 to solicit public input on the Broward Education Foundation's draft plan to distribute donations from its Stoneman Douglas Victims Fund, currently at $ 7.1 million.

Teachers in Arizona and Colorado turned their state Capitols into a sea of red Thursday as they kicked off widespread walkouts that shut down public schools in a bid for better pay and education funding, building on educator revolt that emerged elsewhere in the U.S. but whose political prospects were not clear.

The poll on education funding, done by Environics Research for the Alberta Teachers Association, dealt only with public attitudes about public funding for private schools.

They reduced Airtanker contracts by 5.1 million dollars and cut funding for FireSmart grants that funded projects focused on fire preparedness planning, public education and fire mitigation projects such as creating buffers between buildings and forests.»

and that's why the Republicans want to cut funding for public schools — so ghetto kids will never be able to leave the ghetto because they have no education — and they won't be able to get birth control either so they will proliferate and perpetuate their situation for generations — and this will never stop until America ends its dependence on fossil fools like Romney, McConnell, Cantor, Ryan, The Bohner, Limbaugh, etc..

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

«If DeVos follows through on her plans to privatize education and hold charter schools receiving federal funds to different standards than public schools, as she indicated she would in her confirmation hearing, this could mean that fewer and fewer schools are even required to follow Title IX guidelines at all,» Gibbs wrote.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

At her first official campaign event, Nixon pledged to fix public education funding and the crumbling NYC subway system, and also teed off on Cuomo, calling him out on his progressive credentials.

While African governments now invest around US$ 2000 of public funding per student (more than the average for developing countries), this follows decades of underinvestment in which drives for education focused on primary and secondary learning.

Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan nudged New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to provide more information on how the city spends $ 9 billion in state funding for education as a precursor to considering an extension of mayoral control of public schools.

Former teacher Linares said he also intends to focus on education, and called for more funding to help community schools and provide wrap - around services for public school students.

Click here to signup for our call relay to Governor Cuomo on Wednesday, March 28th to demand that he fully fund public education in New York State: 518-474-1041, press 2.

At 8:30 a.m., the New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund hosts the third installment of their Getting New York City to 80 × 50 Policy Forum Series, with panels focusing on the waste sector, New York University Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, 295 Lafayette St., second floor, Manhattan.

UCU general secretary Sally Hunt said such courses will be «starved of funds» and warned that higher education was about to enter an era «in which many arts - based and teaching - focused institutions, which rely on public funding far more than the larger research - intensive universities, will face an uncertain future».

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.

Hawkins will speak on the need to fully fund and desegregate public schools, while ending high - stakes testing, to provide a quality education for all students in New York.

«However, despite the fact that 99 percent of this federal funding would go to traditional public schools, union leadership has tried to kill this education reform legislation because it increases the cap on public charter schools, which don't necessarily have to be unionized.»

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Nixon, an actress known for her role in the HBO series «Sex and the City» is a prominent advocate for public education funding and has often pushed Albany to spend more money on schools, criticizing Cuomo's stance on funding issues.

«I'm certainly concerned on how public education funding is going to fare in the state budget,» Osborne said.

The funding crisis facing public education will be on display during forums held in the coming weeks across central New York.

But Kolb says he knows talks are going on about the top two remaining issues, renewing New York City's rent laws and an education tax credit for donors who give up to a million dollars to fund scholarships for poor children in private schools and fund afterschool activities at public schools.

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.

What started out as a small, off - budget, temporary surcharge on insurance to help pay for charity care, hospital debt and graduate medical education as New York hospitals deregulated in the late 1990s, has ballooned over 19 years into a multibillion - dollar all - purpose revenue fund that supports dozens of public health programs, and plugs billion - dollar holes in the state's general budget.

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.»

Sen. Kathy Marchione questioned whether the money for public financing would be better spent on gap elimination aid for education, while Sen. Greg Ball threw a pointed jab at Democratic Sen. Cecilia Tkaczyk, wondering out loud about independent expenditure groups funded by «Soros.»

At 1:30 p.m., parents, students, educators and advocates from the Alliance for Quality Education call on Sens. George Amedore and Jim Tedisco to to fund «real» Foundation Aid for public schools and not «need - neutral» aid, lobby outside state Senate chamber, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Albany.

Still on the table: Education funding — a battle that is again pitting traditional public schools against charters — worker's compensation reforms that the business community and its Senate GOP allies have been pushing, and the governor's ongoing desire for local government consolidation.

«Today is not a public holiday, but I can tell you that many children, from primary to senior high schools, will be on holiday; this is because he funds many of these children's education, sometimes from his own pocket,» he said.

At 10:30 a.m., the Assembly Committee on Libraries and Education Technology holds meeting on funding public libraries, Celeste Auditorium, New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 476 Fifth Ave., Manhpublic libraries, Celeste Auditorium, New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 476 Fifth Ave., ManhPublic Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 476 Fifth Ave., Manhattan.

Cuomo also famously doubled down on tying education funding to performance and pushing for greater teacher accountability, saying: «l learned that everyone in public education has his or her own lobbyist.

The House of Representatives Public Accounts Committee (PAC) says it will issue an arrest warrant against the chairman of the Presidential Committee on North East Initiative (PCNI), TY Danjuma and the Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TetFund), Abdulahi Bichi.

Lobbying done by UFT members in Albany on March 9 helped boost state education funding, which UFT President Michael Mulgrew called «a down payment on the state's debt to public education.»

Dozens of workshops covered a range of issues, including the impact of the State budget on counties, pension funding, renewable energy, local Medicaid costs, public safety, budgeting, pre-school special education reforms, shared services, and local leadership.

Deborah Cunningham, director of education and research for the New York State Association of Business Officials, said the state should first focus on equitably and fully funding the public schools.

The New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund and WAMC Northeast Public Radio held the 2013 Albany Mayoral Forum on Sustainability this morning at the Linda Norris Auditorium on Central Avenue, one of the only times the candidates to replace Mayor Jerry Jennings will gather during the campaign.

Independent Democrat David Carlucci, who introduced the bill in the Senate, says the legislation will allow for public feedback in future funding projects, budgetary oversight provided by the Commissioner of Education and the continuation of appointed monitors on the ground in the district.

Nixon's celebrity status should be a boon to the fund — which seeks to raise private funding for partnerships on public programs dealing with education, health, the arts and other issues.

The protest, organised by the TUC, called for a higher minimum wage, a ban on zero - hours contracts and more funding for the NHS, education and other public services.

Instead of the privatization schemes pushed by Cuomo and Republican candidate Rob Astorino, Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones are calling for fully funded, quality public education, qualitative assessments instead of the punitive high stakes testing model, and an end to the attack on teacher's unions.»

«No country runs public education on just voluntary funds.

NYSUT spokesman Carl Korn hit back at StudentsFirstNY on Wednesday, arguing the pro-charter school organization was bankrolled by hedge fund managers who seek to privatize public education for a profit.

Friday and the weekend At the New York State Legislature on Friday, the Assembly Standing Committee on Libraries and Education Technology will have a public meeting to discuss funding for Public Librpublic meeting to discuss funding for Public LibrPublic Libraries.

Other areas of our work that also have human rights and equalities angles include our campaigns around state - funded religious schools, religious education, for public service reform, and on ethical issues such as abortion and assisted dying.

This year's push by parents and educators for additional state funding for public schools paid off when the governor and Albany lawmakers on April 1 finalized a new state budget that contained a $ 1.4 billion increase in state education funding, with $ 525 million going to New York City public schools.

NYSUT Executive Vice President Andrew Pallotta said, «The eyes of America are on this governor and how he will fund public education.»