Sentences with phrase «private education corporations»

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She has sat as member of the Legislative Administration Committee, the Law Amendments Committee, Crown Corporations Committee and the Public Accounts Committee, and has been a member of the Select Committees on Education, Health, Local Governance and Regional Collaboration, and Private Passenger Automobile Insurance.

Mr. Jiwan has served on numerous boards of directors and advisors, including: (i) Future Finance Loan Corporation, a European private student lender that has helped students at over 130 universities fund their education, where Mr. Jiwan is a co-founder and non-executive Chairman; (ii) BFRE, a Brazilian private real estate finance company, which was subsequently sold to affiliates of BTG Pactual; (iii) GP Investimentos, one of Latin America's leading private equity firms, where he served on its shareholder advisory board; (iv) NewPoint Re, a Bermuda - based reinsurance business; and (v) Kaletra QD product development program with Abbott Pharmaceuticals, where he served on the Joint Oversight Committee.

Eat»n Park Hospitality Group's Parkhurst Dining Services company is dedicated to creating personal relationships and exceptional culinary experiences for corporations, private higher - education institutions and cultural centers throughout the Mid-Atlantic region.

The Fund for Great Public Schools, a teachers union backed SuperPAC has weigh in support of Senator Rivera, while New Yorkers for Independent Action have sided with CM Cabrera because of his strong support for charter schools and education tax credits for individuals and corporations that donate to public, private and parochial schools.

Another independent expenditure (or IE) group, New Yorkers for Independent Action weighed in on behalf of CM Cabrera who is a staunch supporter of school choice, charter schools and education tax credits for individuals and corporations that donate to public, private and parochial schools.

The initiative, launched March 2 by the Northrop Grumman Corporation, aims to unite higher education and the private sector to accelerate the application of thought leadership to global public health informatics, policy development, strategic planning, programmatic implementation and evaluation.

NRMP is a private, not - for - profit corporation established in 1952 to provide a uniform date of appointment to positions in graduate medical education in the United States.

Over the past 15 years, private corporations have made their mark on public schools in America, but whether this will be education reform's salvation remained an unanswered question for many educators at the Askwith Education forum on Wednesday, Oceducation reform's salvation remained an unanswered question for many educators at the Askwith Education forum on Wednesday, OcEducation forum on Wednesday, October 11.

The National Education Technology Funding Corporation will aim to stimulate private investment in school technology and encourage states to sponsor information networks for public schools and libraries, said James E. Murray, a member of the group's board and a former president of the Federal National Mortgage Association.

The White House launches the New American Schools Development Corporation, a nonprofit, business - led group seeking to raise $ 150 million to $ 200 million in private money to finance research in support of President Bush's education - reform plan.

She is an acclaimed historian of education whose many published works include An Elusive Science: The Troubling History of Education Research (2000), The Politics of Knowledge: The Carnegie Corporation, Philanthropy, and Public Policy (1992), and Private Power for the Public Good: A History of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teachineducation whose many published works include An Elusive Science: The Troubling History of Education Research (2000), The Politics of Knowledge: The Carnegie Corporation, Philanthropy, and Public Policy (1992), and Private Power for the Public Good: A History of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of TeachinEducation Research (2000), The Politics of Knowledge: The Carnegie Corporation, Philanthropy, and Public Policy (1992), and Private Power for the Public Good: A History of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (1983).

Maybe, if our corporations and corporate leaders gave our public schools the time, money, and respect they currently lavish on a very few private schools, they would find that a quality education is available to every child — no strings attached.

Students can investigate possible internships in diverse educational contexts (e.g., in schools and alternative educational settings, higher education, NGOs, research organizations and labs, public agencies and non-profits, museums, private corporations, technology, as well as other professional settings related to their academic studies.

Last month, Hartford, Conn., became the first district in the nation to turn over control of its 32 public schools to a private corporation, Education Alternatives Inc..

Consider the contrast in how private foundations, corporations and individuals make their investments in public education efforts.

32 The New Hampshire Supreme Court likewise rejected the standing of petitioners challenging the state's scholarship tax credit law, ruling that they could not demonstrate any harm.33 The following year, citing the decisions in Arizona and New Hampshire, the Alabama Supreme Court also held that a «tax credit to a parent or a corporation... can not be construed as an «appropriation»» but rather such funds retain their status as private funds until they enter the public treasury.34 That view seems to be the prevailing one in courts, so with the possible exception of Michigan, where the state constitution explicitly prohibits tax benefits for religious education, tax credits should survive scrutiny under such provisions.

According to s. 1002.332, F.S., a high - performing charter school system is a municipality, other public entity, private non-profit corporation with tax - exempt status under s. 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or a private for - profit education management corporation that meets each of the following criteria:

Rocketship Education is a private corporation that receives government money to provide a free public education to elementary school children through the state's charter schoolEducation is a private corporation that receives government money to provide a free public education to elementary school children through the state's charter schooleducation to elementary school children through the state's charter school program.

It is imperative that we openly debate the merits of having private corporations with unelected school boards control education (and its accompanying public tax dollars).

Corporate education «reformers»» self - interest, by contrast, means advocating for policies that help private corporations profit off of public schools, diverting public attention from an anti-poverty economic agenda, and busting unions that prevent total oligarchical control of America's political system.

«We don't believe that a private non-profit corporation appointing board members to oversee and govern the schools provides accountability to the tax payers, who are paying for the schools,» said Catherine Ahl, education chair of Washington's League of Women Voters.

Just as corporations have revamped the private white collar workforce, replacing full - time, salaried personnel with «temporary» workers — a system in which some managers are officially temps — such are the prospects for teachers in the brave new corporate world of education «reform.»

In short, Parent Trigger laws are a «clever way to trick parents into seizing control of their schools and handing it over to private corporations,» according to Diane Ravitch, an education historian and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education in the first Bush Adminieducation historian and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education in the first Bush AdminiEducation in the first Bush Administration.

This bill is so people with six figure incomes can quit and take a 35 grand a year teaching position and put up with spit - balls on their glasses, tacks on their chairs and bureaucratic boards of education that make private corporations look like knitting clubs.

Though some critics are expected to be up in arms over a private corporation getting involved in education reform, Time's Andrew Rotherham believes the gift will put into sharp Read more about Can GE Bring Common Core to Life?

Our experience extends to the areas of economic development corporations and municipal law, and in the representation of special purpose districts, cooperatives, shared service arrangements, utility districts, head start agencies, private schools, public and private colleges and universities, chambers of commerce, and education foundations as well as other nonprofit organizations.

Choice B: Young college grads with degrees in their desired career area — who complete 5 weeks of education training which includes teaching a class 1 hour daily and a small group 1 hour daily, pass the state required tests, continue basic education classes after they begin teaching, are hired with the district paying a minimum of $ 5,000 per teacher to a private organization, are paid salary and benefits negotiated by the district's union, are sought by big corporations, banks, and Wall Street because of their service and skills gained from 2 years of teaching, after 2 years get discounts and benefits from grad schools and employers, after 2 years receive $ 11,000 toward further degrees in education or that initial career choice, and after 2 years are now «experts» in education seeking positions in government to influence education policy.

Choice A: Young Minnesotans with the desire to help children and teach as a career - who complete the required degrees in both education and desired subject areas, pass the state required tests, complete months of student teaching that requires them to plan for and teach full days, are hired without the district paying a private organization thousands of dollars, are paid salary and benefits negotiated through a union, are not sought out by big corporations, banks, and Wall Street because of their service and skills gained from 2 years of teaching, and continue their careers paying their own way, without discounts from grad schools, in pursuit of advanced or additional degrees.

Calling themselves the «Connecticut Council for Education Reform «top executives from New Alliance Bank, The Hartford Insurance Company, UBS Private Wealth Office, Yale New Haven Hospital System, Webster Bank, The Community Foundation of Greater New Haven, Nestle Waters North America, First Niagara Financial Group, Yale University, the Travelers Companies, Inc., The Connecticut Business & Industry Association, United Illuminating Holdings Corporation and GE Asset Management are pushing to take center stage in this year's education reforEducation Reform «top executives from New Alliance Bank, The Hartford Insurance Company, UBS Private Wealth Office, Yale New Haven Hospital System, Webster Bank, The Community Foundation of Greater New Haven, Nestle Waters North America, First Niagara Financial Group, Yale University, the Travelers Companies, Inc., The Connecticut Business & Industry Association, United Illuminating Holdings Corporation and GE Asset Management are pushing to take center stage in this year's education reforeducation reform debate.

The Washington Association for Learning Alternatives is a nonprofit corporation for the benefit all those concerned with providing options in education, public and private, from preschool through post secondary.

The «education reformers» message continues to be that America's public education system is failing and the solution is to hand our public school system over to private corporations who will «turnaround» our schools by introducing the miracle of competitive capitalism in the way in which schools are governed and managed.

His list of lobbying clients has included school superintendents, school employee professional organizations, school boards, private schools, private universities, and the world's largest education services corporation.

The platform will now read: «We oppose making Colorado's public schools private or run by private corporations or becoming segregated again through lobbying and campaigning efforts of the organization called Democrats for Education Reform and demand that they immediately stop using the party's name Democrat in their name.»

Lecker, like many of us, has heard the latest round of ads that side - step the truth in a politically self - righteous attempt to convince us that we can improve out public education system by handing it over to private corporations and charter schools.

Parent triggers are presented as a grassroots way to give parents control — and have been romanticized in the film Won't Back Down — but Diane Ravitch, an education historian and former U.S. assistant secretary of education in the first Bush Administration, characterizes parent trigger laws as a «clever way to trick parents into seizing control of their schools and handing them over to private corporations.»

State legislators left Albany last week without passing the Education Investment Tax Credit, which would have created up to $ 300 million in tax credits for individuals and corporations that donate money to schools and scholarship programs for poor students at private and religious schools.

PAM ROBBINS is an independent educational consultant who works with public and private schools, school districts, educational service centers, state departments of education, leadership academies, principal centers, professional organizations and associations, universities, and corporations throughout the United States and around the world.

I am pleased to see a document, such as this, which speaks to something as important as our education system that uses proper scientific citing of bona fide papers on the subject as opposed to emotional arguments meant to sway voters or think - tank «papers» from thinly (or otherwise) veiled lobby groups whose intent is NOT the betterment of our educational system but rather the increase of funneling of tax - payer dollars away from socially responsible infrastructures (like education) and towards already wealthy private corporations.

We wish that our Governor and State Education Department would pay attention to the need for equitable class sizes, rather than their current focus on taking control of our public schools away from our communities and putting them into the hands of private corporations.»

On Friday 4 May 2018, the National Education Union is demonstrating outside the Pearson Annual General Meeting (AGM) to protest against the corporation's investment in so - called Low - Fee Private Schools provider Bridge.

As I believe you know, at its meeting on November 17 - 18, 2014, the New York Board of Regents, upon the recommendation of the New York Commissioner of Education and his staff, approved granting Steve Perry and his private charter school management corporation an initial charter to open the Capital Preparatory Harlem Charter School in New York City.

EDvestinU ® is the private student loan program of the nonprofit New Hampshire Higher Education Loan Corporation (NHHELCO).

Iowa Student Loan, Iowa Student Loan Liquidity Corporation, Student Loan Game Plan, Partnership Advance Education Loan and Iowa Alliance Private Student Loan Program are registered trademarks and service marks of Iowa Student Loan.

The EDvestinU ® Lending Institution Referral Program, offered by the New Hampshire Higher Education Loan Corporation (NHHELCO), is a turn - key solution for your institution to provide your customers private student loans and consolidation loans from a local, capable, and trusted educational lender.

Established in 1979 as a private, nonprofit corporation, Iowa Student Loan helps Iowa students and families obtain the resources necessary to succeed in postsecondary education.

GCO Education Loan Funding Corporation (GCO - ELF) is a member of the Greystone family of companies, a private investment firm.

GSMR shares their goal of helping students plan for, attend, and pay for college with the other agencies in the organization: the New Hampshire Higher Education Assistance Foundation (NHHEAF), which is the namesake of the organization, specializes in default prevention; and the New Hampshire Higher Education Loan Corporation (NHHELCO) provides private student loans through the EDvestinU student loan program, which are serviced by GSM&R.

He has argued that failed banks should not be bailed out, Lehman's collapse was not a disaster, AIG should be declared bankrupt, that naked short selling is not a problem, that backdating isn't so bad, insider trading should be legal, many corporate CEOs are underpaid, global solutions are worse than local solutions, Warren Buffett is overrated, Michael Milken is a great American, the collapse of the hedge fund was not a scandal, hedge funds are over-regulated, education is overrated by the educated, bonuses at successful Wall Street's firms are deserved and possibly undersized, management buyouts are boons to the economy, Enron's management was victimized by an over-zealous prosecution, Sarbanes - Oxley should be repealed, corporate compliance culture is a disaster, shareholder democracy is overrated, hostile takeovers ought to be revived, the market is permanently moving away from public ownership of equity in corporations, private partnerships are on the rise, public ignorance is encouraged and manipulated by governments and corporations, experts overrate expertise, regulatory agencies are controlled by the businesses they supposedly regulate and Wall Street is much more fun than people give it credit for.

Those loans could come from the federal government, or from private corporations and financial institutions, some of whom specialize in refinancing those loans for the long haul.Brazos Higher Education is just such an organization.

The collateral supporting the National Collegiate Trust 2007 - A notes consists entirely of private student loans originated under First Marblehead Corporation's Guaranteed Access to Education (GATE) program and are serviced by The Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA), both of which are not rated by Fitch.