Sentences with phrase «state of public education in»

Jones, S.L. (2010) The State of Public Education in New Orleans: Five Years After Hurricane Katrina.

The Senator and former Secretary shared their thoughts on the current state of public education in -LSB-...]

I'm now launching my own blog for readers who are primarily interested in the state of public education in the District.

As the saying goes, the story pretty much says it all when it comes to the state of public education in Connecticut.

A coalition of Rhode Island mayors, including Cumberland's then - Mayor Daniel McKee (now RI's Lt. Gov.), asked Public Impact and Martin West (then at Brown University) to analyze the state of public education in the Ocean State and in the five - town region surrounding Cumberland, which is north of Providence.

«Not a day goes by where you don't see some story in the news media about charter schools, (or) when some legislator is not having to discuss to how they feel about the state of public education in the state of Mississippi.

The Dearborn school is «fairly well - resourced,» Blair said, but it is not representative of the overall state of public education in Michigan.

February 25 College Students To Debate the State of Public Education in Florida Sixty - four students from across the state will recommend ways in which education can be improved

February 11 College Students To Convene & Debate The State Of Public Education In FloridaThe 2nd Annual Florida Student Education Policy Conference will be held at the University of South Florida

Considering the state of public education in the U.S. today, how anyone can suggest with a straight face that what we have now is «producing valuable student outcomes?»

I strongly recommend it to anyone remotely concerned with the state of public education in this country.

This is an interactive, informational, agitational fun event on the state of public education in Chicago.

Hamalian recently sat down with CCSA to reflect on the state of public education in Los Angeles, Teach for America, education reform and the charter movement.

I wish I could say I walked away with a renewed burst of enthusiasm regarding the state of public education in NYC.

Time magazine has released the results of a new poll on the state of public education in America.

Politicians, educators, and parents, long frustrated with the state of public education in New Orleans, suddenly had the opportunity, as the waters receded, to build, almost from scratch, a new school system.

Instead, the day's focus was on vouchers, charter schools, and the woeful state of public education in Cleveland.

In the early 1980s, spurred by disappointing national test results and reports such as «A Nation At Risk» — the seminal document published in 1983 that decried the mediocre state of public education in America and recommended sweeping change to fix the problem — other states mounted reforms using administrative reorganization or new curriculum as levers for change.

These include commentaries on the state of public education in the United States, a trend of shirking responsibility for one's actions, and what it means to stand up for what one believes.

Wilmers» comments came during an address at Canisius College's Montante Center on the State of Public Education in Buffalo.

As the city school district grapples with failing schools, a powerful Buffalo stakeholder will lead a discussion on «The State of Public Education in Buffalo» Wednesday evening.

Not exact matches

During that time, they are free from the dangers of living in their home countries and entitled to free public education in the United States.

However, with technology - based education initiatives likely to see a reduction in federal and state funding in the coming years, the public sector will likely not have the resources to step in and help bridge the gap between a lack of skilled workers and unfilled jobs.

A total of 138 public libraries and other locations in seven states — Alaska, Florida, Iowa, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wyoming — and the District of Columbia took part in the 2017 DASH for the STASH investor education and protection program and contest conducted by the Investor Protection Institute (IPI) and state securities agencies.

The DASH for the STASH multi-state program is an investor education and protection poster contest that takes place as part of April's Financial Literacy Month in public libraries and other venues in participating States.

According to Fed economist Andrew Haughwout, sharply higher outlays for public welfare and education fueled the increase in the two states» public budgets, which grew more rapidly than those of the other states over the same period.

Moreover, they argue that federal subsidies are warranted because a significant portion of state and local government spending is for education, health, public welfare, and transportation, all of which have important spillovers that benefit the population in other jurisdictions as well.

The DASH for the STASH multi-state program is an investor education and protection poster contest that takes place as part of April's Financial Literacy Month in public libraries and other venues in participating states.

Public libraries and other institutions in the District of Columbia and five states — Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, and Nebraska — will participate in the DASH for the STASH investor education / protection program and contest taking place April 15 - May 15, 2015 as part of Financial Literacy Month.

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While property taxes in the state serve as an important source of revenue for local governments and public services (including public education) the average Alabama homeowner pays just $ 550 per year in property taxes.

Teachers in Arizona and Colorado turned their state Capitols into a sea of red Thursday as they kicked off widespread walkouts that shut down public schools in a bid for better pay and education funding, building on educator revolt that emerged elsewhere in the U.S. but whose political prospects were not clear.

The first public education law in the United States was the «Old Deluder Satin Act» often now referred to as the «Old Deluder Act» to make it sound less «religious» and theyby reduce the influence of Christianity in the establishment of the United States.

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Right now the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada is conducting a major study of the public character of theological education, with a special focus on how seminaries can educate leaders who take their public role seriously.

Kozol's description of the corporate presence in and influence on schools makes one wonder whether the public education system in the United States has become a domestic version of NAFTA: an effective way for companies to guarantee access to a steady supply of cheap, uneducated labor.

Much as the Study of Theological Education in the United States and Canada, directed by H. Richard Niebuhr in the 1950s, became an influential inquiry into the nature of the church and its ministry, so the Danforth study, ostensibly of campus ministries, became an important resource for exploring the necessary relation of religious faith, social ethics and public - policy formulation.

As anywhere else in the world, Church initiatives in public education, social ministries, historical commemoration, and establishment of new parishes require Church and state to negotiate such matters as licensing, training standards, and financing.

Since higher education was usually thought of as a religious enterprise as well as a public service, it seemed natural for church and state to work hand in hand, even after the formal disestablishment of the churches.

What is clear, however, is that church - state issues in public education have changed forever and that such issues as school - sponsored prayer, the posting of the ten Commandments and the teaching of creation science are the arguments of yesterday.

Thus the G.I. Bill, the Public Facilities Act, the National Defense Education Act, and the various forms of student aid initiated in the 1960s — BEOGs, SEOGs, Work - Study, Pell grants, etc. — have subsidized the survival of many colleges and universities, but inexorably they have served as well to make the grantee institutions more anxious to observe the laws and regulations of the State than the strictures of the Church whose sponsorship is, by comparison, so intangible.

Education was being placed under the control of the state and was becoming secularized, but on the frontiers of white settlement, especially in the United States, those moved by their Christian faith were founding most of the institutions of higher learning and were even responsible for much of the public school system.

Meanwhile, the Republican Party has in recent decades become the champion of the Church's public priorities — the protection of innocent human life, parental choice in education, the defense of marriage, church - state cooperation, and an array of issues under the rubric of religious freedom.

There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and economic growth.

Builders, based in Aledo, Texas, whose expressed goal is «to exert a positive influence in government, education, and the family by 1) educating the nation concerning the Godly foundation of our country; 2) providing information to federal, state and local officials as they develop public policies which reflect Biblical values; and 3) encouraging Christians to get involved in the civic arena.

About three thousand students are already benefiting from the latest wrinkle in five states, «education savings accounts,» which provide even more flexibility to families by allowing those who withdraw their children from public schools to receive a deposit of public funds into government - authorized savings accounts that can be used to pay for private school tuition, online learning programs, private tutoring, educational therapies, or college costs.

There need not be an either / or situation, with education divided between Christian schools that teach religion and public schools that exclude it — all in the name of the separation of church and state.

There is now a clear consensus that this type of education provides a far better source of Jewish identity for Jewish children in America than education that can only supplement the education offered in the public (that is, state) schools.

A number of state and territory governments have invested in public education campaigns to reduce food waste.

Paul Tough discussing the work of Elizabeth Spiegel, the chess teacher at I.S. 318, on «The State of Education in Nebraska» on Nebraska Public Television, April 2014.