Sentences with phrase «right education policy»

Michael Petrilli, president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a center - right education policy think tank, wrote in a blog post last week, «if scores drop among low - income and low - performing students — the kids least likely to be comfortable with digital devices, especially in the fourth grade — that could signal that something went awry.»

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They were celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which granted American women the right to vote, but they were also protesting the limits and expectations placed on American womanhood, demanding changes to childcare and abortion policies and education and employment opportunities.

Let me briefly mention a few steps that could be taken to increase the economy's potential over time — immigration policies that attract workers with scarce skills to the United States; education policies and job retraining programs that build and replenish human capital; spending on infrastructure to remove bottlenecks; tax simplification and the elimination of tax policies that distort investment and saving decisions; regulatory policies that are attentive to costs and benefits and that emphasize getting the incentives right.

In Fault Lines, Rajan demonstrates how unequal access to education and health care in the United States puts us all in deeper financial peril, even as the economic choices of countries like Germany, Japan, and China place an undue burden on America to get its policies right.

Key policies include introducing a Guaranteed Annual Income; ensuring universal access to quality childcare and early childhood education; cutting debt for post-secondary students; honouring the Kelowna Accord with Aboriginals; expanding the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transsexual Canadians; and easing the income support levels required for immigrant family sponsorship.

Among them are the rights to: bullet joint parenting; bullet joint adoption; bullet joint foster care, custody, and visitation (including non-biological parents); bullet status as next - of - kin for hospital visits and medical decisions where one partner is too ill to be competent; bullet joint insurance policies for home, auto and health; bullet dissolution and divorce protections such as community property and child support; bullet immigration and residency for partners from other countries; bullet inheritance automatically in the absence of a will; bullet joint leases with automatic renewal rights in the event one partner dies or leaves the house or apartment; bullet inheritance of jointly - owned real and personal property through the right of survivorship (which avoids the time and expense and taxes in probate); bullet benefits such as annuities, pension plans, Social Security, and Medicare; bullet spousal exemptions to property tax increases upon the death of one partner who is a co-owner of the home; bullet veterans» discounts on medical care, education, and home loans; joint filing of tax returns; bullet joint filing of customs claims when traveling; bullet wrongful death benefits for a surviving partner and children; bullet bereavement or sick leave to care for a partner or child; bullet decision - making power with respect to whether a deceased partner will be cremated or not and where to bury him or her; bullet crime victims» recovery benefits; bullet loss of consortium tort benefits; bullet domestic violence protection orders; bullet judicial protections and evidentiary immunity; bullet and more...

Top priority of the campaign is to call on elected officials to create legislation that supports economic justice, anti-racism and anti-white supremacy policies, women's rights, the ending of voter suppression, immigrant rights, LGBTQ rights, as well as affordable quality housing, healthcare and education.

This observation is underscored with a special pointedness in the 1979 report of the Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education, titled Fair Practices in Higher Education and somewhat ominously subtitled «Rights and Responsibilities of Students and Their Colleges in a Period of Intensified Competition for Enrollments.»

Witness (to provide a different illustration) the draconian moves being made in education policies across the country, right down to the control of pronouns, not to mention powder rooms.

It's part of the larger Let Her Learn movement by the NWLC that tries to end all of the policies that end up denying students their right to their education, especially at a young age.

Disputed policies ranging from parental choice in education, to a tax break for married couples, to opposing the legalization of gay rights are all included in the «pro-family» package.

For a few examples: the protection of the unborn, the handicapped, and the dying; parental choice in education; tax and other policies supportive of marriage and the family; the defense of individual merit against quotas and related discriminations; the defense of property, civil, and religious rights against expansivist government control; and the vigorous affirmation of the achievements of Western culture, in opposition to multiculturalist fashions.

On a number of specific policies, notably parental choice in education, and, more important, on principles regarding the right ordering of religion and public life, JCS is usually and sometimes harshly opposed to the position of the Catholic Church.

Stackhouse's proposal can be read to urge that theological education must shape the will by a paideia that forms in students dispositions to «right action,» to Christian praxis.9 The «basis» of this praxis is a piety structured by institutions, policy, and principle.

Our Flexi - schooling policies and methodologies are designed and implemented taking into account the UNESCO «4 A's» a simple rights - based approach to education of:

He is currently researching the use of technology by young people in their social lives and the implications of this for education, rights and social policy.

«From providing early education to increasing access to affordable housing and expanding labor and paid leave protections, Mayor de Blasio's progressive policies are having a real, positive impact right here in the 30th District.

New Federal Education Law Gives State Policymakers Chance to Improve Opportunity for All Students — But Risks Retreat from High Standards and Meaningful AccountabilityNew York, NY — A dozen major civil rights, education, parent, and business organizations from across New York State released a policy brief today thatEducation Law Gives State Policymakers Chance to Improve Opportunity for All Students — But Risks Retreat from High Standards and Meaningful AccountabilityNew York, NY — A dozen major civil rights, education, parent, and business organizations from across New York State released a policy brief today thateducation, parent, and business organizations from across New York State released a policy brief today that makes...

And this history is important precisely because it demonstrates, as with the later «education, education, education» nonsense, how New Labour was, right from the very beginning, much more interested in importing salesmanship from abroad than in policy needs at home.

John and Furnish in a statement credited Cuomo for having «championed a progressive agenda that has included significant policy and legislative progress on affordable housing, public education reform, and women's rights.»

At our state conference last month, we overwhelmingly passed resolutions supporting guaranteed healthcare as a human right, free public education from pre-K through college or trade school, a living wage and fair compensation for all, investments in environmental protection and renewable energy, restoration of voting rights to former felons, public financing of elections to eradicate the corrupting influence of big money in politics, and other policies that serve the people.

In the meantime please keep writing to the policy commissions (copying me in) at: Britain in the World, Sustainable Communities (for housing, environment, local government, transport, culture, media, sport), Crime, Justice, Citizenship and Equalities, Education and Skills, Health and Prosperity and Work (for economy, welfare, pensions, workers» rights).

Skelos says «Right now, it's basically Shelly Silver picking the Regents...» And, he is in support of «it's basically Andrew Cuomo» picking the one and only one person who'll make education policy decisions.

As for other education policy initiatives, the DN's Ken Lovett reports this morning that Cuomo will proposal linking together two proposals that have split the left and the right: The education tax credit and the DREAM Act.

We preview the Albany Law Review event, A Loaded Debate: The Right to Keep and Bear Arms in the 21st Century, with Robert L. Schultz, Founder and Chairman of the We The People Foundation for Constitutional Education, Inc. and Robert Spitzer, Ph.D., SUNY Cortland professor and author of Encyclopedia of Gun Policy and Gun Rights and The Politics of Gun Control.

«Whilst this Government's education policies remain in place, ruining the life chances for children and young people and robbing them of their rights and entitlements, there is little cause for celebration.»

The proponents of the separation of prosecutorial functions from the ministerial (policy) functions appear to agree with Nana Addo's position that the A-G should be turned into an Independent Prosecutor whose tenure of office is guaranteed just as the chairpersons of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Electoral Commission (EC), and the National Commission on Civic Education (NCCE).

Any country that aims to transform itself into a modern productive player in the global marketplace must get its educational policies right, adding that the countries that have made rapid progress around the world put education at the heart of their development.

Democracy Matters is a campus - based organization that advocates for campaign finance reform as well as issues concerning the environment, civil rights, education, health care and foreign policy.

Nick Clegg seems to be taking exactly the same stance as Blair — push through pro-market, fundamentally right - wing policies (the market - education, NHS, etc policies which the Tories are now pushing to their logical conclusions) but throw some left - wing scraps (minimum wage, etc) to keep your party in line.

She released a policy agenda two weeks ago that highlights her goals for improving education, women's rights and housing.

My platform is about economic human rights — education, jobs, health care — I didn't think I had to say water,» he said, sliding into a critique of Cuomo's policies about cities.

«The Summit on Latinos seeks to advance the collective interests of Latinos in the city of New York by identifying common ground on key policy areas such as health, immigration, education, civil rights, and business and workforce development, among a host of others.»

On Tuesday 12th September, 2017 at the West Africa Senior High School, the President, H.E. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo launched the free senior high school education policy ushering the nation into an era where the age old creed of «education as a right not a privilege» assumes its true meaning.

Few activists were mollified by ESPA's statement that a new directive from Governor Andrew Cuomo — interpreting existing state human rights law's sex discrimination and disability discrimination protections to cover transgender New Yorkers — amounted to «securing the Pride Agenda's top remaining policy priority, protecting transgender New Yorkers from discrimination in housing, employment, credit, education, and public accommodations.»

Jacobowitz, who wrote the resolution, said «this is not a matter of politics or even a policy debate; rather, this is a matter of basic government function, an informed decision - making process for our communities, and the right of our children to a sound basic education.»

In announcing the deal, Klein said that despite the IDC's achievements, «it is also clear that core Democratic policy initiatives that the IDC championed remain unfinished,» including «equal education for all New Yorkers» through the DREAM Act, protecting abortion rights, increasing workers wages and campaign finance reform.

The work of AAAS in connecting science with society, public policy, human rights, education, diplomacy and journalism — through its superb journals and programs — is essential,» said Chu in his candidacy statement.

Activities supported by the Fund include the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition's Student Essay, Poster, and Digital Media Competitions; efforts to promote the integration of human rights into STEM education; technical training of human rights practitioners in innovative applications of science and technology; collaborative partnerships between scientists, engineers and human rights organizations; and policy engagement on issues at the nexus of science and human rRights Coalition's Student Essay, Poster, and Digital Media Competitions; efforts to promote the integration of human rights into STEM education; technical training of human rights practitioners in innovative applications of science and technology; collaborative partnerships between scientists, engineers and human rights organizations; and policy engagement on issues at the nexus of science and human rrights into STEM education; technical training of human rights practitioners in innovative applications of science and technology; collaborative partnerships between scientists, engineers and human rights organizations; and policy engagement on issues at the nexus of science and human rrights practitioners in innovative applications of science and technology; collaborative partnerships between scientists, engineers and human rights organizations; and policy engagement on issues at the nexus of science and human rrights organizations; and policy engagement on issues at the nexus of science and human rightsrights.

But Britain's domestic policy is more confused: parents still have the right to withdraw their children from sex education in school.

Perry wants to cut the size of the Department of Education in half by consolidating its functions, and his energy policy is big on states» rights and freeing oil and gas companies to access existing resources.

Getting the balance right Incorporating safety education in the curriculum would be a valuable aspect of your policy, with the aim to equip pupils with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to enable them to recognise hazards, assess and manage risks according to their ability and deal with risky situations safely — lessons they will build upon throughout their lives.

By the time they can measure «student A» from the fourth grade through post secondary and beyond, education changes so much through initiatives and new policies that right there the data is irrelevant from one year to the next, and of course from one student to the next!

Even the teachers unions have been in the grip of neoliberal education policies, although for years I have advocated a social movement unionism — that is dedicated to engage beyond workplace concerns, but also in terms of wider political struggle for social and economic justice, for human rights, and for participatory and direct democracy.

«Right now, classrooms are the telecommunications ghettos of American culture,» said John Yrchik, a senior professional associate for research at the National Education Association and an author of the policy statement.

Even when a government has relatively inclusive policies in place that uphold the right to education for refugees displaced in their country, the implementation of these policies may be frustrated by contradictory policies issued by the Ministry of Interior or other government offices.

In a test of Denver's new system of school - based management, several schools are engaged in what is being called a «power struggle» with the board of education over the right to set testing policy.

Between midday on 4th and 14th December, all donations online can be doubled, which means in the future twice as many teachers could be learning about child rights and gender - based violence, twice as many communities learning about the importance of girls» education, twice as many school - boards understanding and enforcing national policies aimed at supporting girls, and hopefully twice as many girls could be making that crucial transition from primary to secondary school, become shining beacons for hundreds of other women and girls who dream of a better future but wonder if it's possible.

How we got from a state constitution requiring that the legislature «provide for the maintenance and support of a system of free common schools, wherein all the children of this state may be educated» to laws taking away the right of citizens to determine what they spend for that «free» education is a long and hard legal and policy road.

The policy was the subject of a civil - rights lawsuit filed in 1999 by a group called Parents United for Responsible Education (PURE).