Sentences with phrase «school education demands»

Learning a foreign language has been compulsory since the times of the Soviet Union, but the recent reform of school education demands more from today's students, giving extended opportunities to young Ukrainian women and men to perfect the knowledge of their chosen overseas dialect.

Not exact matches

Now, thanks to increased demand for entrepreneurship education, many colleges and business schools are creating new programs or expanding existing ones.

The demands of school and secular activities can squeeze out any serious efforts at religious education.

«The inequitable distribution of the national revenue; the disparity in the scale of salaries (some dispose of emoluments which are an insult to the poverty of the country, while the immense majority receives a miserable pittance); the fact that a bare two per cent of the active population owns seventy per cent of the arable land; the system of recruiting our agricultural laborers, who do not even enjoy legal status; the fact that hundreds of thousands of school - age children lack basic education; the disintegration of the family; the growing immorality everywhere — all this demands bold and definitive change.»

From his vantage point as president of Harvard, Bok analyzes the dilemmas of liberal education, showing how its coexistence with the demands of professional schools in times of change and uncertainty requires its advocates to set it on a sound course.

In a question to the Education Secretary, the MP for Enfield, Southgate, said: «There are reports that Ofsted is demanding that a Christian school invites an imam to take collective worship and that Jewish schoolchildren have been asked intrusive questions about their views on sexuality.

The demand for distinctive forms of education (most clearly seen in the growth of nonpublic schools) reveals that we do not all agree about the message that schooling should be passing on to the next generation.

If Santa Clausism became the dominant «religion» of the country, tried to influence the government, inst / itute laws and public policies and demand that it be taught in public education - start every school day with a reading from «Twas the Night Before Christmas» and have «Ho Ho Ho» on your money - I'm just betting that you would have something to say about it on an internet forum and elsewhere!

After the founding of the Republic, in response to the progressive demands of the period, several new style schools were founded for religious education, of which the three best were the Cheng. - tai Normal School at Peking, the Islam Normal School at Shanghai, and the Ming - teh High School at Kunming.

[5] Pius XI made clear in his encyclical on education, «when the faithful demand Catholic schools for their children, they are not raising a question of party politics, but simply performing a religious duty which their conscience rigidly imposes upon them.»

People who demand religion in schools are either a) too lazy to provide religious educations to the kids themselves or b) trying to indoctrinate the children of others.

Food Revolution Day aims to educate and inspire people everywhere to cook and enjoy better food and empower them to demand better food standards and improved food education from governments, schools and food manufacturers.»

The demand for wine education keeps growing, and new schools are being founded every year.

To me, the solution to the attrition issue, whether it's at a KIPP middle school or the Promise Academy middle school, is the Harlem Children's Zone's «conveyor belt» model, which provides continuous, high - quality early - childhood and elementary education to precisely those «disengaged families and students,» so that when those children arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first few years.

After 28 years working to get kids into college, Thacker left his job as a high school counselor in 2004 to write «College Unranked: Ending the College Admissions Frenzy» and found the Education Conservancy, through which he is building a broad - based reform coalition of educators at both the supply (high school) and demand (college) sides of the equation.

Incorporating nutrition education, school gardens, and farm - to - school initiatives into the classroom curriculum and school culture can go a long way in creating demand for healthier food choices among the students.

Realistically, the only way we can do this is to create a very small number of state schools that have the freedom to select the most gifted children regardless of their wealth — perhaps just several thousand in a given year - and which provide these children with the most academically demanding education available anywhere in the country.

Our bid was rejected because the Teachers Union stooped common - sense education reforms like allowing more charter public schools and demanding more accountability from teachers in the classroom.»

Sen. Simcha Felder threw the state budget into chaos by demanding language about «substantially equivalent» education measures for non-public schools.

«We're going to demand that Governor Cuomo provide the funding that was afforded to us in a court decision for our schools,» she said as she joined advocates to push for more funding under the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which in 2007 won a lawsuit against the state to provide increased education funding to the city.

At 4 p.m. Tuesday, Black Lives Matter activists will rally in front of the Department of Education to deliver a list of demands to Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña, which include ending zero tolerance programs, ending «black teacher pushout,» and a mandatory K - 12 black history curriculum.

The fee - free Senior High School project, she noted, provides the demand side of incentive for SHS in addition to the easing of barriers for parents who wish to finance their children's education at the secondary level, but do not have the means.

Cabrera's «war for our children» led him to lead a 2012 march over the Brooklyn Bridge demanding that the Department of Education end its policy barring church congregations from meeting in public schools.

Supporters of East and Lafayette High Schools are demanding State Education Commissioner John King come to their schools to see they are succeeding, not fSchools are demanding State Education Commissioner John King come to their schools to see they are succeeding, not fschools to see they are succeeding, not failing.

The local authorities have no say in this, and the department for education has no sanction for those new schools, set up apparently because of high demand, that end up with many unfilled places.

New York, NY — More than one hundred district school parents stood outside the Department of Education's headquarters today to demand equity for their children — and full transparency from Mayor de Blasio.

«Alternatively, we demand that salaries of primary school teachers be paid through the Universal Basic Education Commission from first line charge from the federation account,» they added.

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Amid growing criticism that New York City is demanding too little improvement from its lowest - performing schools, the Department of Education released a list of the education targets that schools in de Blasio's $ 400 million School Renewal Program are expectedEducation released a list of the education targets that schools in de Blasio's $ 400 million School Renewal Program are expectededucation targets that schools in de Blasio's $ 400 million School Renewal Program are expected to meet.

FBI agents and Rockland district attorney's office investigators fanned out across Ramapo today with search warrants demanding that vendors provide records and account for equipment allegedly bought by religious schools with millions in federal education technology dollars.

«The NSCIA demands that the Federal Government, through the Ministry of Justice, call the Council for Legal Education and the Nigerian Law School to order so that they will not stoke religious crisis in the country.

«We demand the immediate removal of Carl Paladino from the Buffalo Board of Education,» declared Buffalo School parent Rachel Dominguez.

UPPER EAST SIDE — Parents and community education advocates are demanding that the Department of Education put a middle school in P.S. 158's vacaeducation advocates are demanding that the Department of Education put a middle school in P.S. 158's vacaEducation put a middle school in P.S. 158's vacant space.

Cuomo's campaign spokesperson, Abbey Fashouer, counters that he «has made education equity a central focus of his tenure, investing a record $ 27 billion with a focus on our neediest schools, while demanding accountability measures so that the door to opportunity is open for every child — regardless of income, zip code or ethnicity.

Turning rhetoric into reality will be a tough call — public spending cuts show no sign of letting up and the combination of rising demand for school places, lack of accountability and cuts to education budgets in real terms will need careful consideration if we are to improve standards and equity in education within the next administration.

Buffalo parents in the District Parent Coordinating Council have filed a petition with the State Department of Education demanding the removal of School Board Member Carl Paladino for what they call «his history of racist, incendiary and destructive behavior,» including his most recent published statements about the Obamas.

Cuomo has demanded that education policy changes be passed along with the state budget, or he'll hold up school aid increases.

City Councilman Daniel Dromm held a press conference with other elected officials and community members Thursday to demand that the Department of Education designate Diwali as a day off for public school students.

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Manhattan's appellate division unanimously tossed her 2015 suit against the Department of Education that demanded air - conditioned school buses for disabled kids.

With schools and other public services threatened with more budget cuts this year, UFT President Michael Mulgrew joined fellow labor leaders and representatives from community and education advocacy groups at a «99 New York» rally on Oct. 17 on the City Hall steps demanding that the state millionaire's tax be extended.

Stephen Twigg, the shadow education secretary who has written to Mr Gove's most senior civil servant demanding to know why the Education Secretary had ignored the panel, said: «The fact that Michael Gove has ignored the advice of independent experts and ploughed ahead with selling off school playing fields shows he is shamefully out education secretary who has written to Mr Gove's most senior civil servant demanding to know why the Education Secretary had ignored the panel, said: «The fact that Michael Gove has ignored the advice of independent experts and ploughed ahead with selling off school playing fields shows he is shamefully out Education Secretary had ignored the panel, said: «The fact that Michael Gove has ignored the advice of independent experts and ploughed ahead with selling off school playing fields shows he is shamefully out of touch.

The school board first drafted a resolution in late December that demanded Paladino resign over the comments, or else they'd file a complaint with the state education department.

Two state assembly members from Buffalo are demanding answers from state Education Commissioner John on his mandate to the city's school district.

MANHATTAN — Protesters demanding Mayor Michael Bloomberg's choice for School Chancellor be rejected rallied Sunday, a day before the State Education Department was expected to seal Cathie Black's appointment.

Latino elected leaders joined liberal anti-charter school activists on the steps of City Hall to demand that Success Academy Charter Schools return an $ 8.5 million donation from hedge fund manager John Paulson because of his role in the Puerto Rican debt crisis — where the government is slashing education spending in a desperate effort to balance its books... [Click here to read more]

The stark analysis from the governor, released one day after he held his first budget negotiation with legislators, shows his resolve in demanding his education reforms in order for local school districts to get more money.

The Conference of Heads of Private Second Cycle Schools (CHOPSS), is demanding the government expands the coverage of the free secondary education policy to include private schools to save them from possible coSchools (CHOPSS), is demanding the government expands the coverage of the free secondary education policy to include private schools to save them from possible coschools to save them from possible collapse.

Demanding that Gov. Cuomo pay up on the state's long - overdue $ 2.5 billion debt to New York City public schools, two education advocacy groups at a press conference on Feb. 19 released a report that broke down the money owed by Assembly and Senate district in New York City so that each lawmaker who is going to vote on the state budget can tell exactly how much money is missing from his or her district.

WBFO's Focus on Education Reporter Eileen Buckley says the District Parent Coordinating Council is demanding the district fix after - school programs.