Sentences with phrase «problems funding public education»

Metzger compared the SUNY challenges to the problems funding public education, as both have suffered due to decreasing state aid.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

You still have the problem that funding higher education through flat rate contributions rather than proportionately through the tax system undermines some of our wider goals around public support for universal provision of public services.

This program may yet lift the performance of our pupils as they go through the school system, although problems remain: out of Australia's total expenditure on early childhood education in 2010, parents contributed almost half the cost and only 56 per cent was met from the public purse — compared with an OECD average of 82 per cent public funding — and the rest was from private sources, probably parental pockets.

Yet it is pretty much political suicide to say there is any problem other than insufficient funding... and you will be attacked for «not supporting public education» if you imply any other government - funded alternative or even support basic literacy tests for teachers (Yes, the teachers unions are opposed to basic literacy tests for teachers!!!

District officials say the fundamental problem has been that CPS has long been unfairly treated in the way the state divvies funds for public education and pays for teacher pensions.

In addition to suffering from the problems that all voucher bills have in common, this bill would also undermine the main purpose of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), which is designed to target federal funds to public schools with high concentrations of poverty in order to provide additional educational services for these students.

«Wealthy anti-union advocates like David Welch, the funder of this suit, are obscuring the real problems of public education, which are best addressed by restoring funding to programs that ensure student success.

But this week the education secretary faced strong criticism from the Public Accounts Committee, who warned the Department for Education had failed to engage with the seriousness of funding problems facingeducation secretary faced strong criticism from the Public Accounts Committee, who warned the Department for Education had failed to engage with the seriousness of funding problems facingEducation had failed to engage with the seriousness of funding problems facing schools.

NewSchools Venture Fund is a not - for - profit organization working to close the achievement gap by funding and supporting entrepreneurs who are creating innovative solutions to the problems in public education so that all children have the opportunity to succeed in college and beyond.

Obama sees the test score data and charter schools, which are publicly funded but independent of local school boards, as solutions to the problems that plague public education.

A study by the Center on Education Policy, a public education advocacy group in Washington, D.C., found that states and school districts are having problems meeting the law's stringent requirements with limited funding and Education Policy, a public education advocacy group in Washington, D.C., found that states and school districts are having problems meeting the law's stringent requirements with limited funding and education advocacy group in Washington, D.C., found that states and school districts are having problems meeting the law's stringent requirements with limited funding and staffing.

So, put simply, in the aggregate, we don't have a funding problem in public education finance, we have a cost structure and productivity problem.

The Corporate Education Reform Industry, with the help of elected officials likes of Dannel Malloy, Andrew Cuomo, Jeb Bush and others, have used the problems facing public schools in poorer communities to institute an agenda of more standardized testing, inappropriate teacher evaluation programs and the privatization of public education through the creation of privately owned, but publicly funded charterEducation Reform Industry, with the help of elected officials likes of Dannel Malloy, Andrew Cuomo, Jeb Bush and others, have used the problems facing public schools in poorer communities to institute an agenda of more standardized testing, inappropriate teacher evaluation programs and the privatization of public education through the creation of privately owned, but publicly funded chartereducation through the creation of privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools.

Title V — to strengthen those state departments of education most in need of helping because the inequality that exists between states is a long - standing problem and funding improvements at that level helps move them closer to fulfilling their responsibility in providing a quality system of public schools.

And yet this lack of funding for school safety and security is only one small aspect of a much bigger, growing problem presented by the lack of public education investment: teacher salaries.

Moreover, the EdNext pollsters theorize that support for increases in funding rises in election years, when this issue is most hotly debated, and it's therefore unsurprising that it was seen as the biggest problem in public education.

The Corporate Education Reform Industry claims that the Common Core, more standardized testing, doing away with teacher tenure and privatizing public education by shifting to privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools will solve the biggest problems and challenges facing public education in the UniteEducation Reform Industry claims that the Common Core, more standardized testing, doing away with teacher tenure and privatizing public education by shifting to privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools will solve the biggest problems and challenges facing public education in the Uniteeducation by shifting to privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools will solve the biggest problems and challenges facing public education in the Uniteeducation in the United States.

Rather than focus on poverty, language barriers, unmet special education needs and inadequate funding of public schools, the charter school proponents and Malloy apologists want students, parents, teachers and the public to believe that a pre-occupation with standardized testing, a focus on math and English, «zero - tolerance» disciplinary policies for students and undermining the teaching profession will force students to «succeed» while solving society's problems.

In testimony last week before the Connecticut General Assembly, the Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding [CCJEF] identified the most serious problems with Malloy's plan to slash funding for public schools in ConneFunding [CCJEF] identified the most serious problems with Malloy's plan to slash funding for public schools in Connefunding for public schools in Connecticut.

He sees the test score data and charter schools, which are publicly funded but independent of local school boards, as solutions to the problems that plague public education.

The charlatans can smell the easy money; they readily understand that it is just a matter of playing out a role — you only have to say that you believe in «choice for all children» and that «bad teachers» are the problem, and that charter schools are pathways to success, and, in good time, the public money will come rolling in, as Stefan Pryor and his gang of reformers at the State Department of Education are only too happy to fund private initiatives, just so long as the required rhetoric.

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.

Many of the reports advance recommendations to address this problem: more funding for community based Indigenous groups treating survivors and victims of violence and their families, more training for police engaging with Indigenous women and communities, more data collection and sharing, more public education and better coordination of services and programs.