Sentences with phrase «publicly funded initiatives»

Accordingly, I favor competitive market - driven approaches alongside publicly funded initiatives, so long as all of these are held publicly accountable using the same standards and measures of performance and benefits.

«The state needs to better understand asthma trends and better target publicly funded initiatives, particularly for Hispanic, African - American and the poorest New Yorkers struggling with this disease,» argued Comptroller DiNapoli.

Not exact matches

Despite worries publicly issued by Cuomo about lawmakers trying to block the next round of funding targeted for Western New York job creation efforts, lawmakers on Monday delighted in announcing their support for the initiative.

She has long supported granting families tax - funded vouchers to help cover private school tuition, as well as initiatives expanding publicly - funded, privately - operated charter schools.

Interestingly, the Cuomo administration declined to put a key policy initiative that arguably WOULD have budget implications — creation of a publicly funded campaign finance system — into the governor's spending plan.

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For a long time, I've dreamed of creating something different within our publicly funded school system, and I've recently been given the opportunity to realize these dreams by designing a new arts - based initiative for seventh - and eighth - grade students in an elementary school near Toronto.

Publicly funded school choice has increased considerably in recent years, helped by a variety of initiatives, including public charter schools, transfer options for students under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), inter-district enrollment programs, and a variety of policies to subsidize private - school tuition.

The Louisiana Scholarship Program (LSP) is a statewide initiative offering publicly - funded vouchers to enroll in local private schools to students in low - performing schools with family income no greater than 250 percent of the poverty line.

New evidence has been collected from publicly funded voucher programs in Florida and Cleveland; new findings from randomized field trials conducted in New York City, Dayton, Charlotte, and Washington, D.C., are now available; and a growing body of evidence collected abroad provides a comparative perspective on the probable effects of large - scale choice initiatives.

With your support of publicly funded programs such as quality early childhood education, college and career prep, STEM initiatives, arts education, and extended - day learning, we will help existing schools work towards closing the achievement gap and help prepare our students for success in academics and in life.

Arizona lawmakers are publicly talking reforms after an audit this year questioned the state's monitoring of the initiative amid reports of more than $ 100,000 in misspent funds in just six months.

«Choice» has become a popular mantra in education - reform circles, used primarily to describe initiatives to increase the number of charter schools, which are publicly funded but privately operated, and to increase funding for private schools through voucher systems.

All together the various corporate funded «education reform» groups dropped another $ 1.4 million, over the last six months, to promote and lobby on behalf of Governor Dannel Malloy's anti-teacher, education reform initiatives that included diverting even more scarce public funds to privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools.

Dedicated to promoting the privatization of public education, more taxpayer funds for privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools, the Common Core, the Common Core testing scheme and a host of anti-teacher initiatives, Students for Education Reform, Inc. (SFER) was created in late 2009, according to their narrative, by a couple of undergraduate students at Princeton University.

It's part of a $ 10bn publicly and privately funded digital learning initiative called ConnectEd, one of the aims of which is to get 99 % of students connected to high - speed broadband within five years.

Since last month, researchers at the Alliance for Securing Democracy, a bipartisan initiative of the German Marshall Fund, a public policy research group in Washington, have been publicly tracking 600 Twitter accounts — human users and suspected bots alike — they have linked to Russian influence operations.

«Ontario's Early Learning — Kindergarten Program: A Transformative Early Childhood Education Initiative» describes the large - scale government implementation of an initiative that most US educators only dream of: a publicly funded, two - year, mixed - age, full - day program for 4 - and 5 - year - olds, with an emphasis on play - and inquiry - based learning, before - and after - school programming, and a team approach to professional learning for teachers and principals.

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