Sentences with phrase «public school sector for»

One educational arena that has been slow to adopt digital textbooks has been the public school sector for grades K through twelve, partly due to the technology required to utilize the textbooks, but also because of the mandated adoption of specific texts at the school system level, if not the state level.

If so, then they might manage something that has eluded much of the charter and traditional public school sector for decades — integration.

Not exact matches

For the last 15 years, Partners for Progress, a group of private and public - sector leaders in St. Charles County, Missouri, have invested a significant amount of time and money to create a culture of STEM education in the area's school districFor the last 15 years, Partners for Progress, a group of private and public - sector leaders in St. Charles County, Missouri, have invested a significant amount of time and money to create a culture of STEM education in the area's school districfor Progress, a group of private and public - sector leaders in St. Charles County, Missouri, have invested a significant amount of time and money to create a culture of STEM education in the area's school districts.

The ground is being prepared for a neoliberal «cure»: cutting back pensions and health care, defaulting on pension promises to labor, and selling off the public sector, letting the new proprietors to put up tollbooths on everything from roads to schools.

Originally, Quest concentrated its efforts on serving high - end parochial schools in the Chicago area, but in time the company discovered that there was need for its services in the public school sector.

The Vegan Society in the UK has called for the inclusion of vegan meals in public sector catering such as in hospitals, schools, universities, government and council offices.

A briefing document produced by the Good Food for Our Money campaign calling for legally binding sustainability standards for seafood served in public sector institutions such as government departments, hospitals, schools, prisons and the armed forces.

Other CIA initiatives have further enhanced the college's position of leadership on these vital issues, including Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Lives ®, a continuing medical education (CME) conference co-presented by the CIA and the T.H. Chan Harvard School of Public Health; and Menus of Change ®, a ground - breaking leadership initiative launched in 2012 by the CIA in collaboration with select partners who are working to create a long - term, practical vision for the integration of optimal nutrition and public health, environmental stewardship and restoration, and social responsibility concerns within the foodservice sector and bPublic Health; and Menus of Change ®, a ground - breaking leadership initiative launched in 2012 by the CIA in collaboration with select partners who are working to create a long - term, practical vision for the integration of optimal nutrition and public health, environmental stewardship and restoration, and social responsibility concerns within the foodservice sector and bpublic health, environmental stewardship and restoration, and social responsibility concerns within the foodservice sector and beyond.

The potential for change is happening not just in the private school sector, but in the public school arena.

I have no objection to private industry being involved in building schools etc under public sector management, but, as has been detailed time and time again, the financing issues are simply a licence for banks and investment companies to print money.

In any event, the city's premier charter school network, Eva Moskowitz's Success Academies, is having none of it: «While it is true that New York's charter sector made some gains in this year's budget, backroom manipulation... ensures public charter school children will be dangerously shortchanged for years to come,» Success asserted in a press release.

With extra funding for the NHS, schools and public sector pay, the document appealed to those exasperated with austerity.

Who in their right mind would even want the job of school superintendent: parents hate you, teachers hate you (if you're doing your job)-- and the pay scale for superintendents is absurdly below what would be paid to a private sector CEO / COO managing the people and contracts and mandates that public school superintendents manage.

Caveating his concerns, the man of God said his comments should not be misinterpreted as an endorsement of corruption or wrongdoing, but rather a warning about the destruction of the private sector which has the potential of providing jobs for over 95 per cent of employable graduates and secondary school leavers, since, according to him, the public and civil service has room for just about five per cent of all employable Ghanaians.

«This is truly an outstanding achievement for the Buffalo Public Schools and a significant milestone for New York State's effort to create a thriving solar energy sector in our state,» said Alicia Barton, president and chief executive officer of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, or NYSERDA.

It is ironic that while the Tory manifesto makes clear the «need for public sector - belt tightening» they want to extend the expensive and untested Academies programme to primary schools.

«If the Report recommendations on the workforce are implemented it will be akin to using schools as a test bed for removing the employment rights of workers in the public sector.

The Minister of State in charge of Public Procurement, Hon. Sarah Adwoa Safo, has commended the Ministry of Education, particularly the sector minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, for strictly adhering to the procurement laws in the various procurement activities his outfit is undertaking for the implementation of the free Senior High School (SHS) policy.

A smaller public sector, perhaps, but it is noticeable that as Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove is creating a far more market - like system of school provision; he is also protecting spending levels.

Cuomo spent his first term attacking public sector unions, undermining funding for public hospitals and pursuing an education deform agenda that funded charter schools, pushed high - stakes testing and undermined public schools.

Hawkins» told local supporters that his platform includes guaranteeing jobs for all — be they private or public sector — a $ 15 per hour minimum wage, universal healthcare, fully funded public schools, eliminating the Common Core education standards and providing 100 percent clean energy by 2030.

The seeming implication by Breslin's camp is that Martland, an Albany High School graduate who left the Capital Region for Princeton University and Brooklyn Law School and spent more than two decades as a prosecutor and lawyer in the public and private sector downstate, is an outsider.

He is for reducing taxes, public - sector pensions, and the salaries (and number) of public - school superintendents.

Liberal Democrat leader indicates he would consider vote on on Britain's EU membership in coalition talks in return for deal on schools and public sector pay

Other challenges, it said, included special schools, such as schools for the blind and the deaf, which were either closing down or about to do so, subvention not being released to the psychiatric hospital in Accra, nearly all statutory funds being in arrears and a significant number of public sector workers, including nurses and district chief executives employed by the government over a year ago not being paid.

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Kathy Graham, founder and director, started the school in 1986, when the growing need for Montessori education became apparent in Jacksonville and the Beaches, and has played a major role in the expansion of Montessori in the public sector as a model school.

Kathy Graham, founder and director, started the school in 1986, when the growing need for Montessori education became apparent in Jacksonville and the Beaches, and has played a major role in the expansion of Montessori in the public sector as a model school.

Broadly speaking, the designs for new public sector schools are part of a lowest common denominator outlook and, with their lifespans of 30 - 50 years, a sad reflection of today's throwaway culture.

Key recommendations for government in the report that won API support were: for play to be embedded within a Whole Child Strategy under the aegis of a Cabinet Minister for Children responsible for cross ‑ departmental roll out and co-ordination; for government to require local authorities to prepare children and young people's plans including strategies to address overweight and obesity with its physical, mental and emotional consequences; for funding for play to be ring - fenced within local authority budgets; to address barriers to outdoor play for children of all ages and abilities; to extend the Sport England Primary Spaces and Sport Premium programmes to all schools with a broader scope to incorporate a wide variety of physical literacy activities including play; to communicate through public information campaigns to parents and families the value of active outdoor play, including risk or benefit assessment; and to improve public sector procurement practice for public play provision.

As the number of students entering charters has grown steadily year by year, comprising in 2012 approximately 4.2 percent of public school students nationwide, the case for rethinking the capital requirements of the charter sector has become overwhelming.

A 2005 study by the Rhode Island Education Partnership, for example, found that public school districts in that state uniformly allowed employees to select their own health carrier and plan design and that 73 percent of districts offered no - cost health benefits for retirees; not one of the private - sector firms in the state the study examined offered these perks.

Pre-tendered framework arrangements or agreements provide a solution for all local authorities, public sector schools, colleges and other educational establishments.

Macke Raymond, director of Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), and an expert on monopolies in the public and private sectors, made this clear at a 2006 forum organized by the National Alliance for Public Charter Scpublic and private sectors, made this clear at a 2006 forum organized by the National Alliance for Public Charter ScPublic Charter Schools.

We find that total employer contributions for both groups of public school teachers are higher than for private - sector professionals.

While the overall employer contribution rate for public school teachers is higher than for private - sector professionals, the group average may mask differences between teachers who are and are not covered by Social Security.

Our analysis of evidence from the BLS National Compensation Survey and the NASRA Public Fund Survey shows that the employer contribution rates for public school teachers are a larger percentage of earnings than for private - sector professionals and managers, whether or not we take account of teacher coverage under Social SecPublic Fund Survey shows that the employer contribution rates for public school teachers are a larger percentage of earnings than for private - sector professionals and managers, whether or not we take account of teacher coverage under Social Secpublic school teachers are a larger percentage of earnings than for private - sector professionals and managers, whether or not we take account of teacher coverage under Social Security.

One place schools can check for an existing framework is the Crown Commercial Services (CCS), who provide an integrated commercial and procurement service for government and the UK public sector.

In making this comparison, we must account for the fact that, while all of the private - sector professionals are covered by Social Security, a number of public school teachers are not.

The same BLS report provides separate tables with data for the two appropriate occupational groups: public school K — 12 teachers and private - sector «management, professional, and related» workers.

While the private sector contribution rate has been relatively flat over the four years, the rate for public school teachers has markedly increased, doubling the gap between them from one - fifth to two - fifths.

PASA has taken on this role, acting as the liaison between the public and private sectors (for example, between the school system, the parks, and local business providers).

She even worked with the Harvard Chan School of Public Health, tweaking the material for students who would eventually work in the health sector.

Most public school teachers participate in defined benefit (DB) pension plans, which because of different accounting rules contribute significantly less today for each dollar of future retirement benefits than private - sector DB pensions or defined contribution (DC) pension plans.

Demand for seats in charter schools remains high among families but public enthusiasm for continued growth of the charter sector seems to be slipping.

But despite all the anecdotes about teachers being lured away from public schools to lucrative private - sector work, the available evidence shows that, if anything, teachers earn less when they leave teaching for another job.

In the traditional public school sector in both Florida and Chicago, high schools are almost always separate from middle schools, which is not the case for charter schools.

Foremans» buildings can be purchased in single and multi-storey configurations and can be designed and refurbished for a wide variety of uses, including offices in the public and private sectors; teaching blocks and sixth form centres for schools; transport depots; health centres, and ancillary accommodation for hospitals.

Even within the public sector, there are schools to which students are assigned based on geography and schools they choose to attend (magnet and charter schools, for example).

We are going through a period of great experimentation as more and more for - profit firms enter the market to manage schools for the public sector or establish their own schools.