Sentences with phrase «over schools and education»

Focusing on a notion of accountability which is broader than just league tables and published measurement scores, the Big Education Inquiry argued for greater local control over schools and education and a democratic input into local school systems.

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According to a 2011 report from Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce, people with just a high school diploma earn an average of $ 32,600 a year, which adds up to $ 1,304,000 over the course of their time in the workforce.

The most famous is probably York University's Schulich School of Business (renamed in his honour in 1995 after an over - $ 15 million donation), but his educational namesakes include Dalhousie University's School of Law (2009, $ 20 million), the University of Calgary's School of Engineering (2005; $ 20 million) and Nipissing University's School of Education ($ 15 million).

They are the center of where education is being delivered because the materials they provide reach students in over 60,000 K - 12 schools and on nearly 1,000 college campuses.

Used in over 20,000 schools worldwide, Chalk.com solves the problems of lesson planning, assessment, and collaboration designed to ease teachers» pain, facilitate personalized education, and help drive student success.»

While on the campaign trail in 2015 at the age of 44, the presidential candidate spoke at Liberty University and alluded to his experience of having to finance his education: I, Cruz said, «took over $ 100,000 in school loans, loans I suspect a lot of y» all can relate to, loans that I'll point out I just paid off a few years ago.»

Dozens of local organizations have received financial support from the Diamond Foundation over the years, including the BC Cancer Foundation, BC Women's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery, United Way of the Lower Mainland, King David High School, the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre, and many more.

In addition, they partner with the Department of Education and schools to service over $ 51 billion dollars in student loans under the Federal Family Education Loan Program.

NBK Capital Partners Mezzanine Fund II has already invested in two companies: Qimam El Hayat, a private K - 12 school in Riyadh that provides quality education to over 2,500 students and Perkon, the market leader in the Turkish payment systems / automatic identification and data capture («AIDC») industry.

The number of states that require high school students to complete a course in economics has dropped over the last two years, and mandates for personal finance education in the upper grades remain stagnant, a new survey shows.

Over half of black children in public primary and secondary schools are concentrated in the nation's twelve largest central city school districts, where the quality of education is poor, and where whites constitute only about a quarter of total enrollment.

It is probably the largest network of private primary and secondary education with over 7,000 schools in the US alone educating over 2 million grade school and high school students in 2009/2010.

Study after study over the last twenty years has demonstrated the dramatic disparity between government - run education and schools of choice.

The alternative would be to make a tactical retreat, hand over our schools gradually to the state, and insist on the right of Catholic pupils in state education to be treated with the same consideration as people of other faiths.

Bibles in every motel room God on our money Prayer before public events Christian cable networks 24/7 Discounts on insurance for being christian Churches every 6 blocks in every city over 100,000 Laws that prevent non-christians from holding public office Christian bookstores in every town over 12,000 God in the Pledge of Allegiance Televangelists 24/7 Christian billboards along the highway advertising Vacation Bible School and «Repent or go to He.ll» Federally recognized christian holiday Radioevangelists 24/7 Religious organizations are tax free 75 % of the population claims to be christian National day of prayer God in the National Anthem Weekday christian education for elementary students.

Even people with less than a high school education today recognize the priority of the brain over the blood, so much so in fact, that in the movie, Hannibal (about a cannibalistic serial killer), the thought of slicing out tiny parts of a person's brain, cooking them in a pan, and serving the pieces to that person to eat has become in the public's mind a more disturbing image than, say, serving a person a glass of their own blood to drink, which appears relatively tame in comparison.

A necessary consideration is that in Canon Law it is parents who are given all the rights over the education of children and not the state, not even bishops whose role is the very limited one of providing Catholic schools where they do not exist and inspecting and regulating them.

As Kuyper's heirs immigrated to North America, they brought over his penchant for establishing and maintaining Christian institutions of all sorts, including a network of Christian day schools, a Christian trade union, more than one political organization, and a network of institutions of higher education.

widely accepted and even insisted upon at the high school level, carries over into attitudes toward higher education.

The National Association of Teachers of RE accuses a third of community schools and over a third of academies in England of failing to meet their legal or contractual agreements to provide religious education for this key age group.

The poll also identified characteristics among evangelicals which correspond to other characteristics already noted as significant in distinguishing the religious television audience from the non-audience: the typical U.S. evangelical was characterized as a white female Southerner, aged 50 or over, with a high - school education and a modest income.

The school board association said that it will take time to go over the 230 - page decision to see what it means for Catholic education in the province and for families who choose Catholic education.

San Francisco Wine School was the first school dedicated to wine education and has grown to be the largest in existence today, offering 15 professional certification programs, over 75 workshops, customized corporate training, and a wide variety of trade and consumer eSchool was the first school dedicated to wine education and has grown to be the largest in existence today, offering 15 professional certification programs, over 75 workshops, customized corporate training, and a wide variety of trade and consumer eschool dedicated to wine education and has grown to be the largest in existence today, offering 15 professional certification programs, over 75 workshops, customized corporate training, and a wide variety of trade and consumer events.

The Special Olympics Northern California Schools Partnership Program is a unique education program active in over 300 K - 12 public schools, positively impacting 36,560 general and special education stSchools Partnership Program is a unique education program active in over 300 K - 12 public schools, positively impacting 36,560 general and special education stschools, positively impacting 36,560 general and special education students.

Loudmouth Education & Training (www.loudmouth.co.uk) deliver over 600 sessions every year in schools, youth clubs and training centres across the UK, using theatre - in - education methods, on a range of Personal, Social and Health EducatioEducation & Training (www.loudmouth.co.uk) deliver over 600 sessions every year in schools, youth clubs and training centres across the UK, using theatre - in - education methods, on a range of Personal, Social and Health Educatioeducation methods, on a range of Personal, Social and Health EducationEducation issues.

Over 94 % of North American Waldorf graduates gain admission to a post-secondary school of their choice and 50 % go on to postgraduate education.

As of 2014, Waldorf education has nearly 2,500 schools and kindergartens in over 60 countries.

She graduated from the University of Washington with a B.A. in Art Education and over three decades taught Art in grades 7 - 12 in public schools, Waldorf schools and Public Waldorf schools.

The «practical skills therapeutic education method» developed over nearly 30 years by the RMT resonates with the care methods of Rudolf Steiner College, Waldorf schools, and Meristem.

Liz Beaven has over 30 years experience in Waldorf education, spanning class teaching, school administration, adult education, research, consulting, and public speaking.

Jessica graduated from Emory University and the New York University School of Law, after which she worked as an intellectual property counselor and litigator for four years, and as an education, technology and disability law policy consultant for over ten years.

For over 30 years, Duke Youth Programs, hosted by Duke Continuing Education, has offered a wide range of intellectually stimulating and fun activities for middle and high school students.

The school is well recognized for its positive, educational environment and contribution of quality dance education to the community for over 40 years.

«For more and more students in this economy, the meals they receive at school are their nutritional safety net,» said U.S. Rep. George Miller, D - Calif., who chairs the Education and Labor Committee, which has jurisdiction over the legislation.

We have Katie Holloran, a Gentle Sleep Coach with her Masters in Special Education and Board Certified Behavior Analyst with over 15 years clinical and school - based experience with children with special needs.

Over the years we've talked about the importance of continuing education here at Beyond Breakfast, and one - on - one with school nutrition professionals from around the country at various conferences.

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.

To date, the School Nutrition Foundation has awarded SNA members over $ 2 million in scholarships, which have helped provide opportunities for SN professionals to pursue higher education, career training, and attend professional conferences across the United States.

Pine Hill Waldorf School provides early childhood and elementary education following teaching methods proven in hundreds of Waldorf schools around the world for over 90 years.

But with increasing dissatisfaction over the high - stakes testing currently consuming mainstream education; the growing recognition of the many benefits a child receives through experiences with art, movement, and nature; a concern over a reliance on technology by younger and younger students; and the news that leaders in the high - tech industry are touting the lifelong benefits of low - tech Waldorf schools in educating their own children, more and more parents and educators are taking a closer look at the Waldorf approach and what it has to offer.

Thacker is a driving force behind «Turning the Tide,» a new report he co-authored, published by the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Making Caring Common Project and endorsed by over 85 major college stakeholders, including deans of admissions from the most elite American universities.

Today, Waldorf Education is represented across the globe, with about 1000 schools and nearly 2000 early childhood programs in over 60 countries.

The school has 2,088 students, which already puts it 33 over capacity, and Burns recently told the Township High School District 214 Board of Education that, even after a renovation planned for next summer, the school will be able to handle only 2,250 stuschool has 2,088 students, which already puts it 33 over capacity, and Burns recently told the Township High School District 214 Board of Education that, even after a renovation planned for next summer, the school will be able to handle only 2,250 stuSchool District 214 Board of Education that, even after a renovation planned for next summer, the school will be able to handle only 2,250 stuschool will be able to handle only 2,250 students.

This year's goal is to bring compulsory food education to schools in the G20 countries, and a related Change.org petition started by Jamie Oliver currently has over one million signatures.

The Ventura County SELPA is the second largest SELPA in the state, serving over 16,000 students with disabilities in the 21 districts in Ventura County, the Ventura County Office of Education and the Las Virgenes Unified School District in Los Angeles County.

The author has followed some of urban America's poorest young people through their secondary school careers over some years, tracking their rocky road towards higher education and revealing how their teachers are compensating for the missing investment in their early years by fostering what Tough sums up as «character».

PT: One of the ones I'm most excited about is Expeditionary Learning Schools [now known as EL Education]-- about 150 schools spread out over the country in both public and charter schools, some with well - off kids, some with kids in pSchools [now known as EL Education]-- about 150 schools spread out over the country in both public and charter schools, some with well - off kids, some with kids in pschools spread out over the country in both public and charter schools, some with well - off kids, some with kids in pschools, some with well - off kids, some with kids in poverty.

Eisenberg said he hopes to find a framework to assess the program's long - term effects «in terms of their physiology, weight, obesity rates, eating habits outside school and education potential over the next several years.

Today, Mass Audubon is a nationally recognized environmental education leader, offering thousands of camp, school, and adult programs that get over 225,000 kids and adults outdoors every year.

And GLSEN's 2015 National School Climate Survey found that over one third of LGBT students said they avoided physical education or gym classes (31.9 %), and more than one fifth avoided school athletic fields or facilities because they felt unsafe or uncomfortabAnd GLSEN's 2015 National School Climate Survey found that over one third of LGBT students said they avoided physical education or gym classes (31.9 %), and more than one fifth avoided school athletic fields or facilities because they felt unsafe or uncomforSchool Climate Survey found that over one third of LGBT students said they avoided physical education or gym classes (31.9 %), and more than one fifth avoided school athletic fields or facilities because they felt unsafe or uncomfortaband more than one fifth avoided school athletic fields or facilities because they felt unsafe or uncomforschool athletic fields or facilities because they felt unsafe or uncomfortable.