Sentences with phrase «profit education interests»

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In the use of the mass media of communication, reverence is manifest in the aim of creating a blessed community, bound together in the truth, through media of public education devoted to the common good rather than to propaganda and profit for the advancement of selfish interests.

IPRA is a not - for - profit organization and public interest group who is an advocate in providing quality park, recreation and conservation education, resources and services to professionals and citizens throughout the state of Illinois.

Recommendation 3: Nonprofit and for - profit organizations that have an interest in improving children's health, education, school infrastructure, and community wellness should assist schools in acquiring the necessary equipment.

He now represents a half - dozen interest groups, including Alliant Energy, which spent $ 194,000 on lobbying in the 2011 - 12 legislative session; School Choice Wisconsin, which supports public spending on private schools and has another former Assembly speaker, John Gard, on its lobby payroll; and the Wisconsin Council for Independent Education, which represents for - profit colleges.

• Higher education — fiddle with loan interest rates and repayment periods, seek ways to reintroduce a private market for student loans; use the tax code to incentivize institutions with large endowments to lower tuition costs; and create a friendlier environment for for - profit providers.

And he answers, «certainly not because I have any direct self - interest — no... I'm not profiting from my involvement in charter schools (in fact, I shudder to think of how much it's cost me), and I have little personal experience with the public school system because I'm doubly lucky: my parents saw that I wasn't being challenged in public schools, sacrificed (they're teachers / education administrators), and my last year in public school was 6th grade; and now, with my own children, I'm one of the lucky few who can afford to buy my children's way out of the NYC public system [in] which, despite Mayor Bloomberg's and Chancellor Klein's herculean efforts, there are probably fewer than two dozen schools (out of nearly 1,500) to which I'd send my kids.»

FIRST, founded in 1989 and based in Manchester, NH, is a not - for - profit public charity designed to inspire young people's interest and engagement in science and technology, and to motivate them to pursue education and career opportunities in STEM fields.

In his infomercial on behalf of for - profit education enterprises, there is a technological determinism that assumes no opposition from or conflict with special interests such as teacher unions, administrators, and education bureaucracies.

LEGO Education and FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), an international, K - 12 not - for - profit organization founded to inspire young people's interest and participation in science and technology, announced that the 2017 - 2018 FIRST LEGO League and FIRST LEGO League Jr. seasons task students to explore the human water cycle.

When the news hit twitter on the eve of the Budget the howls were predictable: privatisation; the end of comprehensive education; an ideological, evidence - free assault on local authorities and teachers» pay and conditions in the interests of profit - making sponsors.

By standing together against the interests of corporate driven education reforms, whose sole purpose is for profit, we are creating a vision for the kinds of schools our students deserve.

Self - Interest No. 1: Pure Profit — First and foremost, there's a ton of money to be made in the education «reforms» that Big Money interests are advocating.

Also, as Greg Forster writes, the «unions are quick to point out that education reform serves the interests of for - profit businesses.

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.

And if the schools do, it begs the question of whether it is ethical or legal for private interests to profit from education while many schools in the existing system can't afford adequate learning materials and instructional staff.

Corporate interests pushed the federal overreach of our laws in order to profit from public education, not to benefit public school children.

2) National: A new report by the Offices of Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Katherine Clark finds that the first year of education secretary Betsy DeVos» tenure, «marked by damaging conflicts of interest,» has been «a boon for for - profit colleges, student loan companies, and advocates of school privatization.

All of this chaos is to drive students from Strawberry Mansion in order to bring in outside contractors to provide corporate education technology and other programs and to transform Strawberry Mansion from a public school responsible to the community into a school contracted to corporate profit making interests for whom education is secondary.

Critics on the left blame the voucher system for declining results, saying it has opened the door for schools more interested in making a profit than providing solid education.

But this was never about reform or access or leveling the playing field: it was about opening up public education as a market, siphoning off tax dollars to charters and for - profit vendors, shifting public funds from a system that had public oversight and control to private interests.

Some see the refusal to participate in SBAC testing as an act of courage and conviction; they see it as willful push - back against flawed education reform policies that since the passage of NCLB have failed to improve education in America's public schools and yet continue to be promoted by special interests who seek to profit at student, parent, and taxpayer expense.

The governors and school officers who pushed the Initiative think that standardizing the curriculum provides «a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn...» Corporate interests also think it's a good thing, but for a different reason: It standardizes the education market, thereby significantly upping profit potential.

Despite the reluctance of school administrators to speak up and push back against this ludicrous accountability exercise that has been promoted by politicians and corporate education reformers who have many self - interested reasons for maintaining this misguided testing endeavor, it is well - known that the «standardized» testing mandate only serves to continue the false narrative of failing American public education in order to drive the profit - making agenda of those who seek to privatize education and undermine the public trust.

Never mind that none of these groups are actually interested in either modernizing or elevating anything, and are instead working to hasten the privatization of public education, and turning P - 12 schools and college teacher education programs into profit centers.

These programs have allowed homeowners who want to capitalize on the equity they have in their homes to use the profit from their sale to pay off high - interest credit cards, fund education or even start a business.

All sorts of income can potentially be tax - free, including: Auto rebates; child - support payments; combat pay; damages in lawsuits for physical injury; disability payments, if you paid the premiums for the policy; dividends on a life insurance policy, up to the total of premiums paid; Education Savings Account withdrawals used for qualifying expenses; gifts; Health Savings Account withdrawals used for qualifying payments; inheritances; life insurance proceeds; municipal bond interest; policy officer survivor payments; profits from the sale of a home, up to $ 250,000 if you're single or $ 500,000 if you're married; qualified Roth IRA and Roth 401 (k) withdrawals; scholarships and fellowship grants; Social Security benefits (between 15 percent and 100 percent are tax - free); veterans benefits; and workers» compensation.

Proceeds support Space Horizons, an innovative non profit that promotes interest in STEM education for minority and female students in underserved communities.

Seems to me in hindsight that some prominent properties of current sceptics include — worked many years evaluating technical reports, commonly to approve or reject budget requests from others — many from industry or military rather than academia — careers that promote you for delivering the goods, like making profit — worked in positions requiring accountability — often with a degree in humanities as well as science / engineering, allowing interest in social conduct — education more often degrees short of PhD — old enough to have gained some wisdom — realistic about the horror of climategate and its whitewashes — appreciative of the rigour and good spirit of Climate Audit

The legislature has found and hereby declares that the availability of legitimate courses and programs leading to academic degrees offered by responsible private not - for - profit and for - profit institutions of postsecondary education and the existence of legitimate private colleges and universities are in the best interests of the people of this state.

It's important to note that a not - for - profit employer that is not a tax - exempt organization may still qualify for the PSLF if it provides certain specified public services such as: Public interest law services; early childhood education; public service for individuals with disabilities and the elderly; military service, public safety, or law enforcement services; public health services; public education or public library services; school library and other school - based services.

Kenneth S. Courtis, first vice president of Deutsche Bank Asia Pacific, Tokyo, opened the education program, saying the United States is likely to experience higher interest rates, slower economic growth, and declining profits before the end of the first quarter of 2000.