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The Petco Foundation investment will help to provide lifesaving veterinary care, spay / neuter procedure, first set of vaccinations and daily nurture; promote pet adoption, and provide transformative public education opportunities on responsible pet ownership, importance of sterilization, and the humane treatment of animals.

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One could go on enumerating undemocratic elements in our society — the vast disparity in incomes and living conditions, the myth of equal opportunity for education and employment, the regimentation and militarization of the public mind, the threat to democracy which would ensue if a system of compulsory peacetime military training should be adopted.

If he is not re-instated, a public exoneration of his character on the part of Texas Tech University should be forthcoming, since Mr. Bethel's future opportunities for an education as well as an athletic career have been jeopardized.»

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

Each of the voices in this conversation brings a breadth of experience, research, and knowledge — and BOND is a tremendous opportunity to bring it all together: research on infant / early child development, attachment, sociology, public health, education, the experience of medical professionals, pediatric support professionals, educators, volunteer, and manufacturers, and of course, our collective minds and skills as a service community working to strengthen human bonding and family health.

«This is an exciting opportunity to work hard on behalf of people who are concerned about public safety, education, public transportation and fighting overdevelopment.»

«The marketisation and privatisation of our great public education service compounds this disadvantage with access to important educational opportunities, for too many children and young people, now on the basis of parents» ability to pay.

At 10:30 a.m., the Assembly Committee on Higher Education holds a public hearing on the changing demographics of students in higher education and educational opportunity programs, Roosevelt Hearing Room C, Legislative Office Building, 2nd FloorEducation holds a public hearing on the changing demographics of students in higher education and educational opportunity programs, Roosevelt Hearing Room C, Legislative Office Building, 2nd Flooreducation and educational opportunity programs, Roosevelt Hearing Room C, Legislative Office Building, 2nd Floor, Albany.

Albany, New York — StudentsFirstNY, a statewide education reform advocacy organization, today was joined by public school parents and advocates in testifying before a New York State Joint Committee on Education in support of Governor Andrew Cuomo's Opportuniteducation reform advocacy organization, today was joined by public school parents and advocates in testifying before a New York State Joint Committee on Education in support of Governor Andrew Cuomo's OpportunitEducation in support of Governor Andrew Cuomo's Opportunity Agenda.

New York, NY — As final negotiations wrap up on the state budget, public school parent activists and students today rallied outside Tweed Courthouse to urge legislators to pass the meaningful education reforms outlined in Governor Cuomo's education Opportunity Agenda.

The report proposes a series of policy recommendations to close the wage gap, including launching statewide public education campaigns on the breadth of career opportunities, salary negotiation and financial literacy, expanding access to child care and family leave, increasing career mentoring for young women and improving data and transparency on job titles, pay and benefits.

«Access to public education and important educational opportunities is now, for an increasing number of children and young people, on the basis of their parent's ability to pay.

Coalition for Opportunity in Education, a group whose advocacy is focused exclusively on the Education Investment Tax Credit, which would incentivize donations to private school scholarships or public schools, spent $ 659,404.

We are focusing on our core mission of education and research, while continuing to advance critical economic development projects that foster the creation of good New York State jobs through public - private partnerships, which also provide unparalleled opportunities for our research faculty and students.»

About the Parent Advisory Board The Parent Advisory Board gives Queens public school parents an opportunity to be heard on education issues and concerns and provides a forum to meet with senior city and state DOE officials.

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.

More corrupt states spent less on education at all levels, public welfare, health and hospitals, areas that offer fewer opportunities for public corruption.

See the Grants & Funding section of the website to stay informed about select funding opportunities and provide background information on the key public and private agencies supporting plant biology research and education.

«I credit my own Montana public school education for affording me the opportunity to go on to the Harvard Graduate School of Education, a place that reinforced the importance of giving all kids a quality education, no matter where they're froeducation for affording me the opportunity to go on to the Harvard Graduate School of Education, a place that reinforced the importance of giving all kids a quality education, no matter where they're froEducation, a place that reinforced the importance of giving all kids a quality education, no matter where they're froeducation, no matter where they're from.»

As the new president — only five months on the job — of the Universite Pyublique de l'Artibonite aux Gonaives (Public University of Artibonite) in Gonaives, Haiti, Lourdy K. Dorismond was thrilled to attend IEM, a well - known institute that provides opportunities for senior leaders in higher education to assess leadership skills, renew commitment to higher education, and develop tangible strategies for long - term institutional success.

In Public Impact's latest Opportunity Culture case study, Touchstone Education: New Charter With Experienced Leader Learns From Extending Teachers» Reach, we look at how this teacher, Tiffany McAfee, led the school's teachers in their focus on literacy, and how the school combined her leadership with online instruction.

Her professional career has focused on addressing design opportunities in education, healthcare and public services.

With a goal to have all students reading at or above grade level by the end of third grade, Arizona's Literacy Director Terri Clark seized the opportunity to utilize the 16 memos, sharing them with partners as well as the communities that signed on to work with Read On Arizona — a public - private partnership that includes the Arizona Department of Education, Arizona Head Start Collaboration Office, First Things First, and other state - based foundationon to work with Read On Arizona — a public - private partnership that includes the Arizona Department of Education, Arizona Head Start Collaboration Office, First Things First, and other state - based foundationOn Arizona — a public - private partnership that includes the Arizona Department of Education, Arizona Head Start Collaboration Office, First Things First, and other state - based foundations.

One of the more memorable events associated with my 20 - year tenure as the president of the Council for Basic Education was the opportunity in 1983 to address the members of the National Press Club at one of their lunchtime presentations broadcast throughout the country on National Public Radio.

Scholars focused on higher education generally post low scores, and seem to be quoted much less frequently than K - 12 scholars — though it's not clear whether that's because there's less interest in and opportunity for public discussion of higher education, or a choice that these scholars are making.

In one of his early writings, excerpted in the following pages, James S. Coleman, the brilliant sociologist who later wrote the famous report on the equality of opportunity for education (the «Coleman Report») and the first study of public and private schools, identified the essential high - school problem: «our adolescents today are cut off, probably more than ever before, from the adult society.»

Simultaneously we must capitalize on the resources at HGSE to embark on an endless pursuit of best practices and strong practitioners with whom we can foster equity in public education and begin to chip away at the opportunity debt that still plagues our nation.

The year 2016 marks the 10th anniversary of the Education Next poll on K — 12 education policy, offering us the opportunity to take a retrospective look at public opinion on this vitEducation Next poll on K — 12 education policy, offering us the opportunity to take a retrospective look at public opinion on this viteducation policy, offering us the opportunity to take a retrospective look at public opinion on this vital topic.

Maria Izolda Cela Coelho, the secretary of education of Ceará State in Brazil, says the seminar was an excellent opportunity for her to reflect on relevant issues of public education improvement, such as the promotion of high - quality learning among students, performance gap reduction between different social groups, and the implementation of curricula focused on the development of 21st - century skills.

Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Klein have ramped up the citys efforts to infuse arts into New York City public schools, but the pressure is on all of us — our schools, arts education advocates, business leaders — to seize opportunities for partnerships that can build the type of successful communities that we all want to live in, and support our kids — the future of this city.

-- April 8, 2015 Planning a High - Poverty School Overhaul — January 29, 2015 Four Keys to Recruiting Excellent Teachers — January 15, 2015 Nashville's Student Teachers Earn, Learn, and Support Teacher - Leaders — December 16, 2014 Opportunity Culture Voices on Video: Nashville Educators — December 4, 2014 How the STEM Teacher Shortage Fails U.S. Kids — and How To Fix It — November 6, 2014 5 - Step Guide to Sustainable, High - Paid Teacher Career Paths — October 29, 2014 Public Impact Update: Policies States Need to Reach Every Student with Excellent Teaching — October 15, 2014 New Website on Teacher - Led Professional Learning — July 23, 2014 Getting the Best Principal: Solutions to Great - Principal Pipeline Woes Doing the Math on Opportunity Culture's Early Impact — June 24, 2014 N&O Editor Sees Solution to N.C. Education «Angst and Alarm»: Opportunity Culture Models — June 9, 2014 Large Pay, Learning, and Economic Gains Projected with Statewide Opportunity Culture Implementation — May 13, 2014 Cabarrus County Schools Join National Push to Extend Reach of Excellent Teachers — May 12, 2014 Public Impact Co-Directors» Op - Ed: Be Bold on Teacher Pay — May 5, 2014 New videos: Charlotte schools pay more to attract, leverage, keep best teachers — April 29, 2014 Case studies: Opening blended - learning charter schools — March 20, 2014 Syracuse, N.Y., schools join Opportunity Culture initiative — March 6, 2014 What do teachers say about an Opportunity Culture?

Pay Teachers More and Reach All Students with Excellence — Aug 30, 2012 District RTTT — Meet the Absolute Priority for Great - Teacher Access — Aug 14, 2012 Pay Teachers More — Within Budget, Without Class - Size Increases — Jul 24, 2012 Building Support for Breakthrough Schools — Jul 10, 2012 New Toolkit: Expand the Impact of Excellent Teachers — Selection, Development, and More — May 31, 2012 New Teacher Career Paths: Financially Sustainable Advancement — May 17, 2012 Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T. to be Initial Opportunity Culture Site — May 10, 2012 10 Financially Sustainable Models to Reach More Students with Excellence — May 01, 2012 Excellent Teaching Within Budget: New Infographic and Website — Apr 17, 2012 Incubating Great New Schools — Mar 15, 2012 Public Impact Releases Models to Extend Reach of Top Teachers, Seeks Sites — Dec 14, 2011 New Report: Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction — Nov 17, 2011 City - Based Charter Strategies: New White Papers and Webinar from Public Impact — Oct 25, 2011 How to Reach Every Child with Top Teachers (Really)-- Oct 11, 2011 Charter Philanthropy in Four Cities — Aug 04, 2011 School Turnaround Leaders: New Ideas about How to Find More of Them — Jul 21, 2011 Fixing Failing Schools: Building Family and Community Demand for Dramatic Change — May 17, 2011 New Resources to Boost School Turnaround Success — May 10, 2011 New Report on Making Teacher Tenure Meaningful — Mar 15, 2011 Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best — Feb 17, 2011 New Reports and Upcoming Release Event — Feb 10, 2011 Picky Parent Guide — Nov 17, 2010 Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for Excellent Evaluations — Nov 02, 2010 New Teacher Quality Publication from the Joyce Foundation — Sept 27, 2010 Charter School Research from Public Impact — Jul 13, 2010 Lessons from Singapore & Shooting for Stars — Jun 17, 2010 Opportunity at the Top — Jun 02, 2010 Public Impact's latest on Education Reform Topics — Dec 02, 2009 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best — Oct 23, 2009 New Research on Dramatically Improving Failing Schools — Oct 06, 2009 Try, Try Again to Fix Failing Schools — Sep 09, 2009 Innovation in Education and Charter Philanthropy — Jun 24, 2009 Reconnecting Youth and Designing PD That Works — May 29.

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«Take Back Teaching» describes the work of new organizations formed to give classroom teachers opportunities to make a mark on their profession and on public education.

By giving students an opportunity to learn about education theory, talk to the general public about education, and reflect on their own educational experiences, I hoped to help them develop their own ideas and understandings mainstream education, the education they experience at SLA, and -LSB-...] Read Post»

She became a vocal critic of the standardized testing movement and raised alarms on the outsize role that testing is playing in public education: taking over the time students spend in the classroom, being used as a weapon against their teachers, and distracting from the real problem of unequal opportunities for students.

A new report looks at how public education is delivering on the promise of educational opportunity in 50 mid - to large - sized cities in the United States.

We have an opportunity to change that dynamic, but only if President Obama holds firm on his commitment to bring change to public education.

In a recent report, we looked at how public education is delivering on the promise of educational opportunity in 50 mid - to large - sized cities in the United States.

Childhood trauma and its impact on learning, along with racial equity and chronically low - performing schools, were three key areas identified as barriers to providing every child in North Carolina the opportunity to reach their full potential through equal and meaningful public education.

Charter schools in New Jersey ARE public schools, and this transition team understands that we have an opportunity end the us versus them mentality, and focus on what we all care about: making the New Jersey public school system number one in the country, for the sake of all public education students.

And yet he has said that he supports a moratorium — a repeal, if you will — on the approval and expansion of public charter schools, a sector that affords families zoned for long - struggling traditional schools the opportunity to have access to high - quality public education.

For parents who either have been or presently feel underserved by the public school system, Dr. Glass had a perfect opportunity to provide specific solutions on how public education can meet the needs of every single student — not just most.

Today, Mitt Romney squandered an opportunity to participate in a meaningful discussion of real education reform by attempting to disguise attacks on teachers and public education as meaningful policy proposals.

Public education has a role in providing solutions to every important issue facing America and it is the path to capitalize on the opportunities before us.

From centrist Democrats who think that choice should only be limited to the expansion of public charter schools (and their senseless opposition to school vouchers, which, provide money to parochial and private schools, which, like charters, are privately - operated), to the libertarian Cato Institute's pursuit of ideological purity through its bashing of charters and vouchers in favor of the voucher - like tax credit plans (which explains the irrelevance of the think tank's education team on education matters outside of higher ed), reformers sometimes seem more - focused on their own preferred version of choice instead of on the more - important goal of expanding opportunities for families to provide our children with high - quality teaching and comprehensive college - preparatory curricula.

In Public Impact's latest Opportunity Culture case study, Touchstone Education: New Charter With Experienced Leader Learns From Extending Teachers» Reach, we look at how this teacher, Tiffany McAfee (at right), led the school's teachers in their focus on literacy, and how the school combined her leadership with online instruction.

Mr. Pickens and DCSRN focus on seizing the opportunity to collaborate with the DC community at large to ensure the highest quality of public education for all students in DC.

She provides thought leadership and oversight to Public Impact's work on teacher and leader policy, organizational change, parental choice of schools, and emerging opportunities for dramatic improvement in U.S. education.

By bringing people together and creating an informal and balanced environment for discussion, Grantmakers for Education offers important opportunities for meaningful dialogue, collaboration and action on the most critical challenges in public education today and into thEducation offers important opportunities for meaningful dialogue, collaboration and action on the most critical challenges in public education today and into theducation today and into the future.