Sentences with phrase «role in local education»

Despite lengthy and sometimes raucous debate, Republicans reiterated their firm commitment to reducing the federal government's role in local education decision making.

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That's why Andre Dua, who counsels local governments and schools in his role as a director at McKinsey & Company, says there's plenty of opportunity for disruption in education finance.

He also served in roles outside the business department, covering education, editing local news and developing technology strategy.

The Starbucks Community Store in Daehakro, like the Langsuan Neighborhood Starbucks in Bangkok, plays a role in supporting education, job training and apprenticeship initiatives by working directly with non-profit organizations to offer local services.

Since many Candler students serve local churches in pastoral roles while they attend seminary, the kind of field education program common in theological schools, a program that provided elementary exposure to the tasks of ministry, was not appropriate.

Instead, our role as Christian leaders within the community can be to actively engage in conversations around education equity issues like accountability, state vision, and transparency and accessibility in reporting so parents and community leaders alike have the needed information to know how to best support strengthening local schools.

Having serves as the first President of the Professional Footballers Association, he went onto become Mayor of Fleetwood in later life, combing the role with that of a teacher in the local education system.

The database, commissioned by the Department for Education and Skills and called the Commissioners» Toolkit, is intended for use by commissioners of parenting support in local authorities and by others in similar roles across England — who will be able to use it to select and locate parenting support programmes that can be replicated for use in their area.

Further information on local authorities» role in home education is available on teachernet.

He played an instrumental role in ensuring New York State qualified for, and won, $ 700 million in Federal Race to the Top dollars, a US Department of Education sponsored effort to spur innovation and reform in state and local district K - 12 eEducation sponsored effort to spur innovation and reform in state and local district K - 12 educationeducation.

In the major debates of the past two or three years, the Orange Book tendency has whittled away at broadly centre - left policies on, for example, public spending, income - tax rates and the role of local government in educatioIn the major debates of the past two or three years, the Orange Book tendency has whittled away at broadly centre - left policies on, for example, public spending, income - tax rates and the role of local government in educatioin education.

Cuomo said, «There's no doubt that tests or assessments have a role in education — I understand that — but I think the number of tests should be reduced, including the number of local tests.»

Other concerns include what will happen to the community role that used to be performed by local education authorities in relation to badly - behaved pupils or pupils with special educational needs.

We need a comprehensive strategy to fix rather than abandon struggling schools, and we need to give parents — who have for years been ignored by the city's Department of Education — a real role in important decisions about their local schools.

He has forgotten the role of local education authorities in those days, often a force for innovation and an important counter balance to central government and special interests.

• Give communities a central role in identifying cases, contact tracing and risk education by engaging local, religious and traditional leaders and healers

The award recognizes «an AFW member whose leadership has advanced the role of women in the WSU system and / or who has demonstrated leadership in higher education, the community or her profession at the local, state, regional, national or international level.»

Refining her skills in improvisational theater, she later found roles in commercials and small local productions, though her future as an actress came into question as she pursued further education and a move overseas.

The Screen Queensland collaboration and the role it plays in fostering talent and production activity is taken very seriously by Fisher, who states, «For the local industry, we develop future film professionals through screen culture and screen education, (including) dedicated screenings, career forums and workshops for high - school students.

Yet we know very little about these local leaders, and we seldom hear their voices in debates about the role that their organizations do and should play in public education and school reform.

Compared with 2015, the public prefers a smaller role in education for the federal government and a larger role for local governments in three policy areas: setting standards, identifying failing schools, and fixing failing school.

The positive responses came not from the reformers but from the field, mostly from folks who work in leadership roles in state education agencies and local districts.

Her research will examine education in post-conflict settings and the role of transnational interactions between Diasporas and local communities in educational reconstruction.

In 26 states (including 10 of the 12 states above), the initial decision by a local school board to deny a charter school application may be appealed to the state board of education or another institution, thus curbing school districts» control over the approval of charters even where school districts are given a role.

The SNP manifesto, published last month, called into question the future role of councils in the delivery of education: it vowed to «extend to individual schools responsibilities that currently sit solely with local authorities» and «allocate more resources directly to headteachers».

In other words, local control is primarily a matter of state policy rather than a constraint imposed by federal or state constitutional law on the states» role in educatioIn other words, local control is primarily a matter of state policy rather than a constraint imposed by federal or state constitutional law on the states» role in educatioin education.

American philanthropy, by local and national foundations, corporations, and wealthy individuals, has played many important roles in K — 12 education: creating new schools, underwriting research, funding scholarships, testing hypotheses, generating new curricula, invoking ideals, setting agendas, bolstering training, and building a case for policy changes.

Overall, the tradition of local control has not constrained the states» role in education.

Despite federal officials» emphasis on state and local reforms, the program at the heart of the Administration's education agenda has become a battleground in the war over the federal role in education.

Preparing for adulthood • Planning for young people's futures • A broad range of education and learning opportunities: Wolf Review • Employment opportunities and support: the role of disability employment advisers • A coordinated transition to adult health services: joint working across all services • Support for independent living Services working together for families • Local authorities and local health services will play a pivotal role in delivering change for children, young people and families • Reducing bureaucratic burdens on professionals • Empowering local professionals to develop collaborative, innovative and high quality services • Supporting the development of high quality speech and language therapy workforce and educational psychology profession • Encouraging greater collaboration between local areas • Extending local freedom and flexibility over the use of funding • Enabling the voluntary and community sector to take on a greater role in delivering services • Exploring a national banded funding framework • Bringing about greater alignment of pre 16 and post 16 funding arrangeLocal authorities and local health services will play a pivotal role in delivering change for children, young people and families • Reducing bureaucratic burdens on professionals • Empowering local professionals to develop collaborative, innovative and high quality services • Supporting the development of high quality speech and language therapy workforce and educational psychology profession • Encouraging greater collaboration between local areas • Extending local freedom and flexibility over the use of funding • Enabling the voluntary and community sector to take on a greater role in delivering services • Exploring a national banded funding framework • Bringing about greater alignment of pre 16 and post 16 funding arrangelocal health services will play a pivotal role in delivering change for children, young people and families • Reducing bureaucratic burdens on professionals • Empowering local professionals to develop collaborative, innovative and high quality services • Supporting the development of high quality speech and language therapy workforce and educational psychology profession • Encouraging greater collaboration between local areas • Extending local freedom and flexibility over the use of funding • Enabling the voluntary and community sector to take on a greater role in delivering services • Exploring a national banded funding framework • Bringing about greater alignment of pre 16 and post 16 funding arrangelocal professionals to develop collaborative, innovative and high quality services • Supporting the development of high quality speech and language therapy workforce and educational psychology profession • Encouraging greater collaboration between local areas • Extending local freedom and flexibility over the use of funding • Enabling the voluntary and community sector to take on a greater role in delivering services • Exploring a national banded funding framework • Bringing about greater alignment of pre 16 and post 16 funding arrangelocal areas • Extending local freedom and flexibility over the use of funding • Enabling the voluntary and community sector to take on a greater role in delivering services • Exploring a national banded funding framework • Bringing about greater alignment of pre 16 and post 16 funding arrangelocal freedom and flexibility over the use of funding • Enabling the voluntary and community sector to take on a greater role in delivering services • Exploring a national banded funding framework • Bringing about greater alignment of pre 16 and post 16 funding arrangements

Whilst the last few years have seen a significant change in the role of the local education authority (LEA), successive governments have still seen fit to ensure the responsibility for school place planning still rests with the local authority.

Senior leaders or even business managers can and have taken driving roles in creating a new school by bringing together a team of teachers and other professionals and using their knowledge and experience to help bring an outstanding education to more students across their local area.

At the same time, we have much to share in terms of culture - oriented education, the role of local wisdom in education, and innovative forms of education that reach disadvantaged students.

Third, student responses are regionally specific, emphasizing the role of the higher - education marketplace and local options in selecting which colleges to attend.

In its submission to the Treasury ahead of the Autumn Statement, the LGA has called on the Government to take advantage of councils» unique position in the community and give them a clear and strategic role in overseeing local schools systems, accompanied by appropriate resources, powers and flexibilities, so that they can support local school improvement and hold schools to account for education standardIn its submission to the Treasury ahead of the Autumn Statement, the LGA has called on the Government to take advantage of councils» unique position in the community and give them a clear and strategic role in overseeing local schools systems, accompanied by appropriate resources, powers and flexibilities, so that they can support local school improvement and hold schools to account for education standardin the community and give them a clear and strategic role in overseeing local schools systems, accompanied by appropriate resources, powers and flexibilities, so that they can support local school improvement and hold schools to account for education standardin overseeing local schools systems, accompanied by appropriate resources, powers and flexibilities, so that they can support local school improvement and hold schools to account for education standards.

The Scottish government, Education Scotland, the SQA, teachers, schools, colleges and local authorities all have an important role to play in reducing this workload.»

Other features included Local Authorities Connect, which focused on the continuing important role by local authorities in the procurement and management of education spaces, following the government's proposed White Paper in October last Local Authorities Connect, which focused on the continuing important role by local authorities in the procurement and management of education spaces, following the government's proposed White Paper in October last local authorities in the procurement and management of education spaces, following the government's proposed White Paper in October last year.

WorldSkills UK Skills Competitions play a vital role in raising standards, esteem and levels of expertise in further education, apprenticeships and skills, through competition activities and local initiatives.

And both national polls released this month show that adults have mixed feelings — and perceptions — concerning the federal government's role in the financial affairs of local schools, which provides just about one - tenth of U.S. public K - 12 education funding.

«In our submission to the Treasury ahead of the Autumn Statement, we have called on the Government to take advantage of councils» unique position in the community and give them a clear and strategic role in overseeing local schools systems, accompanied by appropriate resources, powers and flexibilities, so that they can support local school improvement and hold schools to account for education standardIn our submission to the Treasury ahead of the Autumn Statement, we have called on the Government to take advantage of councils» unique position in the community and give them a clear and strategic role in overseeing local schools systems, accompanied by appropriate resources, powers and flexibilities, so that they can support local school improvement and hold schools to account for education standardin the community and give them a clear and strategic role in overseeing local schools systems, accompanied by appropriate resources, powers and flexibilities, so that they can support local school improvement and hold schools to account for education standardin overseeing local schools systems, accompanied by appropriate resources, powers and flexibilities, so that they can support local school improvement and hold schools to account for education standards.

In an era of widespread disagreement on education reform, increased confidence in local control of education, and the absence of a dominant theory on where reform goes from here, visionary mayors are emerging as leaders of thought and action in defining a new role for municipalities to play in developing and educating young people, with particular attention to children living in povertIn an era of widespread disagreement on education reform, increased confidence in local control of education, and the absence of a dominant theory on where reform goes from here, visionary mayors are emerging as leaders of thought and action in defining a new role for municipalities to play in developing and educating young people, with particular attention to children living in povertin local control of education, and the absence of a dominant theory on where reform goes from here, visionary mayors are emerging as leaders of thought and action in defining a new role for municipalities to play in developing and educating young people, with particular attention to children living in povertin defining a new role for municipalities to play in developing and educating young people, with particular attention to children living in povertin developing and educating young people, with particular attention to children living in povertin poverty.

And he can can explain that progressives should support an active federal role in education, not local control that has perpetrated mediocrity and segregation.

Since her election to this role in 2008, Weingarten has led a series of projects, one of which was the creation of the AFT Innovation Fund, which supports education reform projects developed by teachers in collaboration with their local unions.

With the focus of education policymaking increasingly on local control, mayors and state policymakers play a significant role in improving our Nation's schools.

As states have assumed a greater role in financing education and the assumption of local control has been replaced by systems of state control.

It's a compromise position of sorts, putting us between the «Army of the Potomac» (lefty reformers who have never glimpsed a problem that Uncle Sam can't solve) and the Local Controllers (Tea Party types who want zero federal role in education, thank you ma'am).

In this section we address our second question about the state «s leadership role in efforts to improve teaching and learning: How do clusters of policies — systemic efforts at shaping education reform — get embedded in state agencies and transmitted to create a local impacIn this section we address our second question about the state «s leadership role in efforts to improve teaching and learning: How do clusters of policies — systemic efforts at shaping education reform — get embedded in state agencies and transmitted to create a local impacin efforts to improve teaching and learning: How do clusters of policies — systemic efforts at shaping education reform — get embedded in state agencies and transmitted to create a local impacin state agencies and transmitted to create a local impact?

This policy report focuses on the state education agency (SEA) role in supporting P - 3 system building at the state and local levels.

Alexandria, VA — It's Teacher Appreciation Week (May 5 - 11, 2013) and around the country thousands of communities are honoring local teachers and acknowledging the crucial role they play in making sure every student receives a quality education.

In 1972, the Pennsylvania state department of education reported that they encouraged local school boards to consider roles for students on school boards.