Sentences with phrase «rally around education»

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The report finds makes a list of recommendations for business, industry, professional bodies and government, namely: Construction businesses · Focus on better human resource management · Introduce and / or expand mentoring schemes · Boost investment in training · Develop talent from the trades as potential managers and professionals · Engage with the community and local education establishments Industry · Rally around social mobility as a collective theme · Promote better human resource management and support the effort of businesses · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Support diversity and schemes that widen access to management and the professions · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility Professional bodies and institutions · Drive the aspirations of Professions for Good for promoting social mobility and diversity · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility · Provide greater routes for degree - level learning among those working within construction Government · Produce with urgency a plan to boost the UK as an international hub of construction excellence, as a core part of the Industrial Strategy · Provide greater funding to support the travel costs of apprentices · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Place greater weight in project appraisal on the impact the built environment has on social mobility The report is being formally launched at an event in the House of Commons later today.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia has canceled a trip to the state's most controversial and politically connected charter network, Success Academy, as she seeks to tamp down a recent drama around her appearance at a charter school rally.

This is an education record and vision that New Yorkers are rallying around,» said De Blasio campaign spokesman Phil Walzak.

Teachers have been holding rallies all around the state protesting Governor Cuomo's education proposals, and hundreds are expected to converge on the Capitol late Monday to protest over reliance on standardized tests, and other issues.

Gibson offered a brief outline of his platform, stating, «I believe our state can rally around four points: growing the economy through meaningful tax cuts and policy changes, achieving excellence in education by returning power to parents, students and teachers, cleaning up corruption and restoring our faith in our ability to be self - governing and protecting our freedoms while improving on the safety and security of all New Yorkers.»

Much of the school reform marketing revolves around the idea of treating parents and students like consumers: «Students and parents are our clients» is a rallying cry heard throughout the education - reform market.

Speakers at today's rally included Governor Tom Corbett, Education Secretary Ronald Tomalis, Senator Jeffrey Piccola, Senator Anthony Williams, Representative Jim Christiana and representatives from groups around the state who support educatioEducation Secretary Ronald Tomalis, Senator Jeffrey Piccola, Senator Anthony Williams, Representative Jim Christiana and representatives from groups around the state who support educationeducation reform.

Rally organizers will call on union leadership to demand a «real path to better public schools,» including reduced class sizes; a renewed focus on the arts, music, civics, and physical education; and funding for afterschool programs and wrap - around programs.

As I discussed in this week's Dropout Nation Podcast, there are 51 million households — single mothers, grandparents caring for kids, and immigrant families — ready to be rallied around improving American public education.

On September 17th, 2016, around 3,000 families from the northeast San Fernando Valley came together for a huge march and rally to both celebrate the success of charter public schools in their area, and to come together as a community to continue the fight for quality public education.

Around 3,000 families and educators from northeast San Fernando Valley charter schools marched in support of expanding high quality schools, securing better facilities and protecting parent choice in public education at last Saturday's «Rally in the Valley.»

On the other hand, added Schuster — citing a thesis being circulated at the time by Chester Finn, then a faculty member at Vanderbilt — it might be possible for education advocates to rally around a new agenda, one powerful enough to attract widespread support and perhaps even bring federal policy makers back into the fold.

The Norwalk case produced hundreds of stories around the nation and led to major rallies and calls for action both for and against those who would steal public education.

At the same time, McDowell's case has also brought up an argument that this is another «predictable» outcry among school choice supporters — who can rally around another case of a poor mother looking to improve education for their kids — who gloss over the more - complex problem of providing education for children of the homeless.

Making higher education more affordable might be a better campaign to rally around.