Sentences with phrase «own public education system»

«It has become clear that at the most fundamental level, appropriate representation in technology or any other industry will depend upon more people having the opportunity to gain necessary skills through the public education system,» said Williams in Facebook's 2016 diversity report, released Thursday.

In his witty, 18 - minute takedown of the talent - squandering treadmill that is the traditional public education system, Sir Kenneth Robinson challenges us to «radically rethink» the way we teach our children.

B.C.'s renewed Liberal government faces so many unchanged challenges, but in particular a public education system that's still crying out for cash.

If you're the kind of person whose only financial education has come from the limited curriculum of our public education system, this book can really change the way you think about finances.

Commitments to allow the establishment of foreign for - profit institutions, for example, could undermine domestic efforts to build a strong public education system.

Good labour relations in education and positive working relationships between provincial governments and teacher unions are a critical ingredient in the relative success of our public education system.

Tesla and CEO Elon Musk have made charitable donations in the past, pledging $ 37.5 million to Nevada's public education system in 2014.

This is our public education system, but for parents, it's far from free.

Parochial schools are supported by church funds in addition to tuition, not tax dollars, providing in many areas a reasonable alternative for working class and middle class parishioners and removing these millions of students from the public education system paid for by taxpayers.

The limitations of the engineering approach to social problems become clear as the reader follows Murray through the two chapters in which he discusses the public education system.

In my opinion, a public education system that does not teach students about GOD is creating a morally and spiritually bankrupt society that is destined to decline and destruction.

We all need to care when their beliefs are imposed on the rest of us in the form of laws and leak into our public education system, that's when we need to care.

Why does religion even have to get involved with our public education system?

Kozol's description of the corporate presence in and influence on schools makes one wonder whether the public education system in the United States has become a domestic version of NAFTA: an effective way for companies to guarantee access to a steady supply of cheap, uneducated labor.

We also want the best possible public education system since that is the single best resource for a successful future.

because, jose... it's a well reasoned effort to keep delusional religious idiocy out of government bodies that make decisions for our industry, trade, and public education system.

Similarly, we have a public education system which has been an effective agent in dissolving the ties and virtues of a traditional society.

Should I have the money, and a child in the public education system, I belive I could take the issue to court and win that educators must always preface any remark that deals with the theory of evolution with statements such as: «it is thought» or «there is reason to believe» or some or qualifying statement indicating that it is just a theory, not fact.

His accomplishments in his island paradise service to the crown (1846 - 54) range from establishing the postal system, creating the first library and public education system on the island, to having piped water delivered to Port of Spain, the capital.

JULIE CHANG Julie Chang writes about the state's public education system and social services for the Austin American - Statesman.

The Graphic Classroom founder, Chris Wilson, has made it his mission to seek out excellent graphic novels covering a wide range of subjects and styles and get them into the public education system here in the U.S.

Secondly, the preconceived idea that attributes the public education system as the key to children's happiness and success.

if we homeschooled them instead of putting them into the institutional public education system.

In Paul Tough's book, Whatever It Takes, he takes the reader on a journey through Harlem, New York's fractured public education system, and introduces a remarkable person with a solution to fix it.

«We also have to remember the public education system is about the students and we want to get the best teachers in the classroom that we can,» Cuomo said in earlier in the year.

«Reforming how our state measures student performance and evaluates educators will help ensure a fairer and more successful public education system,» said Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, D.

The letter, which was signed by 72 CEOs, said, «Failure to enact this extension before the end of June will throw New York City's public education system into chaos.

Comegys says if elected he would fight for a single - payer health care system and policies to strengthen the public education system.

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.

Think about how we could transform that public education system and really make it a model of pride and be able to say to every child in this city and in this state, «you are going to get every shot you deserve,» because we have a public education system that is second to none.

At the same time, the governor and the WFP are currently feuding over his recent comments knocking the public education system as a «monopoly» and pledged to fight next year for more charter school protections.

But although Cuomo has railed against he belief that the public education system has grown to become more about protecting the administrative bureaucracy and less about educating kids, the focus of his wrath has been the teachers unions and not — so far, anyway — superintendents, who I'm sure are breathing a sigh of relief.

«It is deeply debilitating and demoralising for teachers that any attempt to have a public debate about developing the teaching profession and the quality of teaching inevitably is hijacked by commentators and presented as a system to «root out incompetent teachers» and present our public education system as failing.

Teachers unions oppose additional charters — as well as the proposed tax credit, which they say will undermine the public education system.

«Since 2010 there has been an obsessive focus on structural change and increased autonomy for individual schools and providers, which has compromised the values and ethos of the public education system.

Co-operation and collaboration are important ways to deliver consistent improvements in our public education system.

«Despite the progress outlined in this tentative deal there is clearly a lot of work ahead of us, including stronger criminal justice reforms; full funding for our state's public education system; ensuring affordable college for all New Yorkers, including DREAMers; additional support for Planned Parenthood; and ethics and voting reforms,» said Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said: «Our public education system is a promise we make to the nation's children and young people that they will have opportunity, high quality, good outcomes and an expectation of success for all.

He's been discussing the need for broad changes to the public education system — including giving the governor more control over setting policy — since before the November elections.

Cuomo made it clear long before he unveiled his 2015 - 16 budget — and even before the November 2014 elections — that he had the teachers unions in his crosshairs, and intended to break the so - called «monopoly» he believed is to blame for most of the public education system's woes.

Cuomo and NYSUT have been at odds over the evaluation push, as well as the governor's strong support for charter schools as an alternative to the present public education system.

«It affords parents a choice especially in districts where the public education system is failing them and there kids.

Failure to enact this extension before the end of June will throw New York City's public education system into chaos.

«Mayoral control of New York City's public education system is essential to the continued growth and success of its students,» the members of Congress wrote.

Excerpt: «Our Pre-14 public education system and CSU and UC systems must be funded adequately to give all of our children the chance to succeed in the new economy.»

While these schools represent only a fraction of the 1.1 million schoolchildren in the public education system, the charter school movement has spurred heated debate across the country.

Mayoral control of New York City's public education system is essential to the continued growth and success of its students.

Teachers want a serious conversation about what's needed in this next chapter for the state's public education system.

«He did anything but help the public education system,» says Florida Education Association Joanne McCall, who leads the state's largest teachers union.

«We have to say to people, «You have a public education system that is the escalator and can bring you as high as you want to go,»» Cuomo told students at the Academy of Finance and Enterprise in Long Island City.