Sentences with phrase «public education challenges»

I have worked with you previously on numerous occasions from American Legion Boy's State as a teenager, to various political endeavors, and to address numerous public education challenges within the state of Tennessee.

Our public education challenges run deep.

Editor's Note: This is Part II in a four part series highlighting public education challenges in New Delhi and how the U.S. charter model may be influencing education reform across the city.

Mayor Anthony D. Galluccio, in thanking President Neil Rudenstine and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, said, «this comprehensive summer school program marks a substantive step by a major university to work in a direct way to address Cambridge's public education challenges.

And it demands that we bolster our own societal willingness to look for workable solutions even as our public education challenges seem insurmountable.

IndyHub and Lacy Leadership Association are partnering with The Mind Trust and Indiana University Health to engage young professionals in solving our city's most vexing public education challenge.

Not exact matches

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.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

• Revising how subsidies are allotted to producers, and how different practices are taxed across the value chain; • Influence the evolution of production standards so that they guide producers toward increasingly sustainable practices; • Refining public education regarding what are best practices of production systems (and accounting for them), and how to make them more widespread; • Studying the effects different practices and production systems have on society - wide challenges such as public health (and health insurance, whether it is publicly or privately provided), climate change mitigation, job creation and family income, etc..

On Friday evening, we offered an interactive evening of presentation and conversation on the surprises, opportunities and challenges of our Expanding Field of Public Waldorf Education.

Of interest today, these compromises included questions of assessment and accountability, an ongoing challenge for all Waldorf educators and a particular question for those in the sphere of public education.

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Neither one of them had ever known anyone who homeschooled, so that was a truly scary idea, but public education wasn't for them and they were just too «economically challenged» to afford any kind of private school.

If you have just found out your young child is gifted and want to ensure that your child gets an appropriate education or if you've known your child is gifted and need to remove him from the public school environment because he is not being sufficiently challenged, you may be considering a private school.

Cuomo's push for Democrats, they argue, is based on the primary challenge he's received from Cynthia Nixon, an actress and advocate for public education.

Cuomo this year faces his own political challenge from the left in the form of a primary waged by actress and public education advocate Cynthia Nixon.

The governor is seeking to quickly shore up support among his left - leaning Democratic base — a group with which he has not always seen eye - to - eye — particularly since Nixon, also a public education activist, announced she would challenge him in a primary in September.

In Cuomo's first public remarks since Nixon, also an education activist, declared she would challenge him for the Democratic Party's nomination, Cuomo said in Manhattan: «We're in a democracy, anybody can run, anybody can say whatever they want to say.»

At the same time, Cuomo may face a primary challenge from Cynthia Nixon, an actress and public education advocated who has worked with the Alliance For Quality Eeducation advocated who has worked with the Alliance For Quality EducationEducation.

The «Sex and the City» star and public education advocate is challenging Gov. Andrew Cuomo in September's Democratic primary.

Actress and public education advocate Cynthia Nixon increasingly appears to be a Democratic candidate to challenge Cuomo in a primary.

But the endorsement also comes amid a flurry of activity for Cuomo amid the potential primary challenge from Cynthia Nixon, a public education advocate and actress best known for her role in «Sex And The City.»

Nixon, an advocate for public education issues, has been exploring a potential Democratic primary challenge to the governor, receiving support from former campaign aides to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has been locked in a feud with Cuomo over the last several years.

But Cuomo could face a challenge from Cynthia Nixon, an actress and public education advocate who could present a formidable oppnent to the incumbent governor seeking a third term.

But Cuomo is also facing a challenge from his left this primary season from Cynthia Nixon, an actress and public education advocate who has criticized the governor's record of compromise with Republicans in the Senate liberal advocates contend has led to watered - down results and half - victories.

Cuomo this year faces a primary challenge from Cynthia Nixon, an actress and advocate for public education issues.

The exercise which began on Thursday April 28 had some challenges throughout the period, ranging from lack of inadequate registration centers and poor public education of how the exercise is to be conducted.

At 8:30 a.m., Assemblywoman Maritza Davila, NYC Councilman Antonio Reynoso, parents and advocates challenge the NYC Department of Education for giving public school classroom space to charter schools, School Building K111, 35 Starr St., Brooklyn.

We will take on long - standing challenges in public housing, small business, criminal justice education — and we will do it together.»

Teachout said she wanted to challenge Cuomo on his record on education, fracking, «failure to take care of public infrastructure» and corruption.

People within the Working Families Party have reached out to Diane Ravitch, an advocate of public - school education, about a possible challenge to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Actor and public education advocate Cynthia Nixon is challenging Andrew Cuomo for Governor of New York this year.

Kathryn S. Wylde, president of the Partnership for New York City, a business group, said she had often had dealings with Mr. Klein and that his experience at the Education Department «established his ability to take on a difficult challenge in a straightforward, honest way, and enhanced the credibility that he established during his years in Washington as a defender of the public interest.

ALBANY — People within the Working Families Party have reached out to Diane Ravitch, an advocate of public - school education, about a possible challenge to Governor Andrew Cuomo, according to a W.F.P. officer.

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

The Success Academy charter school network is challenging a recent blow to its pre-Kindergarten program - and its political standing - by filing an appeal to a State Education Department ruling that the network must sign a mandated contract in order to receive public dollars for its pre-K programs.

But that principle is being challenged by states» dwindling investment in their public institutions of higher education.

Following a visit to classrooms at PS 209 in Whitestone, Queens, UFT President Michael Mulgrew met with new District 25 chapter leaders on Sept. 20 in a discussion of their responsibilities in a time of challenges to public education.

It is not yet clear what should be the role of different stakeholders in managing cybersecurity and what are the challenges and opportunities to integrate existing and new strategies.Whether we focus on education, prevention, risk management, deterrence, or treat cybersecurity as a public good, is still up for debate.

Pan: Well, there hasn't been a lot of discussion of it really in the Chinese media, but this is another example of the weakness of the one - party political system, you know, they have shown that the one - party system can deliver economic growth, but it's an open question whether they can deliver other public goods for clean environment, as they discuss, has been a real challenge for them and because local officials are so addicted to economic growth, they are not willing to, addicted because they profit from it personally, they haven't been willing to really enforce environmental laws about, you know, good health care system, and education system.

Podcast interview with Adele Diamond on how insights about the brain are challenging basic assumptions in modern education; from American Public Media, 19 November 2009)

Both eventually led, Reilly said, to the establishment of the center's Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities program, which provides teaching resources to encourage faculty to frame courses around civic challenges such as public health disparities, inequality and environmental issues.

David Johnson, a postdoctoral research associate with Rice's Religion and Public Life Program and the lead author of «Conservative Protestantism and Anti-Evolution Curricular Challenges Across States,» studied the relationship between religious characteristics of states and anti-evolution bills passing through state education committees across the country.

My 2 - year (2002 - 2004) postdoctoral fellowship in science education provides me the opportunity to gain experience with all aspects of the Learning Center's programs, introducing me to the culture and challenges of public education, both in Utah and across the nation.

«Additional reputational challenges faced by the new for - profit medical schools stem from the view that medical education is an inviolable public good that is ethically incompatible with the for - profit motive,» Adashi, Krishna and Gruppuso wrote.

2006 Eugenie Scott, the Dover High School Science Department, and R. Wesley McCoy: These dedicated individuals are honored for their determination to defend sound education in U.S. public schools by vigorously challenging attempts to introduce intelligent design into science classes.

They also touched on the importance of societal discussions in the public domain as well as the challenges of reaching all audiences through education and the need for a multi-faceted approach.

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