Sentences with phrase «public purpose of public education»

Not exact matches

With growing interest and support from public markets (including through the incorporation of DanoneWave as the largest public benefit corporation in the U.S. and their public commitment to become a Certified B Corp by 2020 as well as Laureate Education's IPO in early 2017), multi-billion dollar companies are following suit and choosing to operate their businesses with purpose and accountability.

«Neither an EIN, which a business - specific tax identification number, nor an ITIN, which is for an individual, is considered a valid identifier for the purposes of consumer credit reporting,» says Rod Griffin, Director, Public Education for Experian, which offers both consumer and business credit reports.

The Christian Right wants public money to be used for private religious education (vouchers), buildings and services to be used for private religious purposes (this article), and they want subsidies in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions of other sorts, and they even want to destroy Aid to Needy Families so they can drive people into seeking help at their private religious «missions» where you are not allowed to eat unless you are a Christian, and so on.

For this purpose, this Public Law designated March 26, 1991 as Education Day, U.S.A.»... Google (Yahoo, etc.) «The Seven Universal Laws» Results 1 — 10 of about 23,400,000 for the seven universal laws.

No doubt this will be helpful for purposes of interfaith dialogue or in interfaith settings such as public education where particular religious allegiances must remain muted.

Quite rapidly the public understanding of the purpose of higher education changed.

Waldorf educators, whether they work in independent or in public schools, hold Rudolf Steiner's goal for education to be eloquently expressed in this quote: «Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and meaning to their lives.»

The Alliance core principles document begins with the assertion that the purpose of the principles is to ensure that Public Waldorf education is ever - evolving, and continuously renewed through practice, research, observation, and active reflection.

«The basic purpose of this commission, according to the governor's charge, was to «comprehensively review and assess New York State's education system, including its structure, operation and processes...» In failing to deal at all with such major issues as funding, special education, the lack of appropriate supports for English language learners, as well as ignoring major current controversies such as implementation of [teacher evaluations] and common core systems, the commission has ill - served students, parents, and the public at large.»

What started out as a small, off - budget, temporary surcharge on insurance to help pay for charity care, hospital debt and graduate medical education as New York hospitals deregulated in the late 1990s, has ballooned over 19 years into a multibillion - dollar all - purpose revenue fund that supports dozens of public health programs, and plugs billion - dollar holes in the state's general budget.

The Parental Choice in Education Act would provide tax credits for those who donate to private and parochial schools for purposes of scholarships, tax credits to parents who pay tuition to private and parochial schools and tax credits to teachers - in both public and private schools - who make personal purchases of school supplies and food to support their underprivileged students.

Said DeSantis: «The purpose of updating the guidance is to ensure that all New York state students, whether they attend a public or nonpublic schools, receive a quality education.»

AQE formed in 2001 with a singular purpose: to push the state to meet its obligation of funding a «sound basic education» for children in public schools, as per the New York State constitution.

[2] This picture comes from the ESO Cosmic Gems programme, an outreach initiative to produce images of interesting, intriguing or visually attractive objects using ESO telescopes, for the purposes of education and public outreach.

-- The purpose of the program is to provide grants to public and private institutions of higher education to carry out projects which will improve understanding of the effects of consumer behavior on energy consumption and conservation.

The main purpose of the Crochet Guild of America is to educate the public about crochet, provide education and networking opportunities, and set a national standard for the quality, art and skill of crochet through creative endeavors.

My purpose here is to provide a simple overview of the pivotal roles that teacher unions actually play in public education - and to suggest why, if Americans want to improve their schools, something needs to be done about the unions and their extraordinary power.

I'm concerned that all of this is a way to avoid a real conversation about the purposes of public education and then to acknowledge our ignorance about «ensuring» success.

Any school in the UK can take part in the challenge, which tasks students with designing one building to live in; and designing a public building for one of a range of purposes, including social, sport, education or health.

If that's the case, then why is the mayor's chancellor of schools, Carmen Fariña, the board chair of the Fund for Public Schools, whose express legal purpose is «improving New York City's Public Schools by attracting private investment» in public educPublic Schools, whose express legal purpose is «improving New York City's Public Schools by attracting private investment» in public educPublic Schools by attracting private investment» in public educpublic education?

As a high - school student, I planned someday to join their ranks and to do my small part to make the purpose of public schools educating students, not just providing an education to «those few who want it.»

Thus very different concepts of schooling can be embraced without sacrificing the core purposes of public education.»

There's no reference to any public purpose for education, despite acknowledging a paragraph or two later that «maintaining American preeminence requires a world - class system of education.»

The purpose of public education is to provide an education for those few who want it.»

In particular, Russo argues that Eli Broad thought, «The main purpose of ED in ’08 [was to make] education a number - one issue with the public: the «outside» half of the organization's strategy.

In a 2006 article, Citizenship, Identity and Education: Examining the public purposes of schools in an age of globalization, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Fernando Reimers stressed the importance of teaching tolerance and global values, as well as developing foreign language skills and knowledge of world history, cultures, and geography.

Defenders of the status quo are able to effectively attack certain reforms as «anti-public education» because Americans believe that the public has a legitimate responsibility to ensure that all children receive an adequate education... The divisions emerge when we consider how to act upon these shared purposes.

With over 15 years of successfully exceeding the expectations and broadband requirements across the UK, the NEN, alongside its partner, the East of England Broadband Network, E2BN — a public sector organisation set up to provide safe and secure broadband to the education sector — have the experience and capacity to ensure schools have secure and fit - for - purpose broadband that meets their requirements.

In Ohio alone, some 250,000 current pupils — about 15 percent of all children in public education there — have been identified by their school districts as «gifted» (using the several metrics that the Buckeye State employs for this purpose, including superior «visual or performing arts ability»).

Get Rid of Compulsory Schooling In the April 1924 issue of The American Mercury, journalist and satirist H.L. Mencken ginned up a well - constructed piece on the true purpose of public education: «The aim... is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.»

One industry that is outside of K — 12 education yet similar to it in its multiple public purposes and has unreservedly embraced computer - based technologies is higher education (see Figure 2).

Public education's sole purpose was, and is, to create the future workforce of America.

If anything, the lack of space made Leach and his staff reevaluate the purpose of the institution, how to serve the public in a variety of ways, and the different ways that education plays a role in the museum.

«Democracy Prep provides a test case of whether charter schools can successfully serve the foundational purpose of public education — preparation for citizenship — even while operating outside the direct control of elected officials,» the Mathematica report concludes.

Nonchargeable activities: lobbying and ballot initiatives; external public relations; litigation, «unless specifically related to collective bargaining, contract administration or organizational maintenance»; get - out - the - vote activities; contributing to charitable, religious, or ideological causes; supporting political organizations or candidates for public office; organizing or recruiting new members and «defending against challenges to exclusive bargaining representative status»; and «monitoring and opposing activities of groups and individuals whose purpose is to undermine public education.»

we must not ignore a crucial purpose of public education — developing effective citizens.

One of the central features of By All Means is a set of convenings which serve two purposes: 1) to bring together teams from the six or seven cities in which we'll be establishing learning labs for our design work; 2) to bring together a national audience of thought leaders to consider some controversial subjects relating to the future of public education and that system's work with economically disadvantaged students.

Professor Alan Reid observes how the emphasis on democratic purposes has been trumped by individual, private purposes that result in such things as marketing of schools, residualisation of public education and the growth in disparity of resources between schools, and by an economic purpose that casts students as human capital to be enlisted in the cause of economic recovery and growth.

To establish that the school was a «state actor,» he made five arguments: that Arizona law defines a charter school as a public school; that a charter school is a state actor for all purposes, including employment; that a charter school provides a public education, a function that is traditionally and exclusively the prerogative of the state; that a charter school is a state actor in Arizona because the state regulates the personnel matters of such schools; and that it is a state actor because charter schools, unlike traditional private schools, are permitted to participate in the state's retirement system.

Today, convoluted Title I formulas coupled with policies in some states that assign students to public schools based on their parents» zip code, do not make Title I a vehicle conducive to achieving its primary purpose of «provid [ing] a good education for every boy and girl — no matter where he lives.»

The California Department of Education and other organizations have created several resources to help educators and the public understand and navigate the new California School Dashboard, which includes data that will be used for school and district accountability purposes beginning next fall.

We just trust that the public purpose of subsidizing education will be served by people pursuing their own interests.

Tanner Jesso, Fifth - Grade Teacher ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, FLORIDA «I quickly became active within my teacher's union because of its purpose as a crucial vehicle for education rights,» says Tanner Jesso, a third - year teacher and member of the Orange County Classroom Teachers Association, where he was recently named chair of Florida's Young Remarkable Educators (FYRE), a branch the local Association.

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.

Even worse, we are losing the promise and purpose of public education — and the joy — by trying to reduce everything about teaching and learning, whether for students or teachers, to a number or algorithm.

As we begin to recognize and embrace again the larger purposes of public education, there is some hope that encouraging and nurturing diversity within schools will no longer seem like a frill or a distraction from the push to increase test scores.

They struggle with the public's lack of understanding regarding their local school board's purpose, but maintain the public's support for local education governance.

The Massachusetts Supreme Court held that using public funds to pay for special education services from private schools was not for the purpose of founding, maintaining, or aiding private institutions in violation of Massachusetts» Blaine Amendment.

If one took all the information presented at the meeting last night, and coupled it with just plain old investigative reporting (hint, hint RR) one would see a pattern: All decisions (state / local) have been made in alignment with the purpose of the having charter schools privatize public education in SAISD and elsewhere (including these calculated layoffs, when charter school hire their own).

Also in November, former Wake County superintendent Del Burns, who resigned on principle when conservatives began trying to re-segregate the public schools, released a significant new book, Preserving the Public in Public Schools, which details the importance of pursuing integrated education and drives home the larger message that the broader purpose of public education is to preserve our democratic reppublic schools, released a significant new book, Preserving the Public in Public Schools, which details the importance of pursuing integrated education and drives home the larger message that the broader purpose of public education is to preserve our democratic repPublic in Public Schools, which details the importance of pursuing integrated education and drives home the larger message that the broader purpose of public education is to preserve our democratic repPublic Schools, which details the importance of pursuing integrated education and drives home the larger message that the broader purpose of public education is to preserve our democratic reppublic education is to preserve our democratic republic.