Sentences with phrase «than education policy»

More coverage is spent on school budgets, crime and flu outbreaks, the report notes, than education policy issues.

I reserve the right to winnow the finalists further if someone pops up who mostly tweets about something other than education policy.

Not exact matches

Policy makers favor the manufacturing sector because it has historically provided good paying jobs for middle - skill workers, or those folks who have more than a high school education but not a four - year college degree.

A huge number of doctors — 89 percent — said they believed that consumers had not been adequately educated about how the exchanges» policies will function, and more than 9 percent didn't know if there had been adequate education of consumers.

Low - Wage Workers Have Far More Education Than They Did in 1968, Yet They Make Far Less, by Lawrence Mishel, Economic Policy Institute, January 2014.

Americans may finally be ready to see that biculturalism is an advantage more than a defect and agree with Berkson that «True universalization, colloquially called «broadmindedness,» can only come through the multiplication of loyalties, not through the suppression of them... «24 The beginnings of a shift in public policy in education and other areas to the preservation of community and cultural diversity are hopeful, even though developments in this direction are still quite fragile.

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.

The association is the leading policy and public education advocate for the non-alcoholic beverage industry which employs nearly 240,000 people across the country with a direct economic impact of more than $ 169 billion.

Previously over more than two decades, Pablo had professional policy and management roles at different times in all three levels of government, industry, the tertiary education sector, and not - for - profit organisations.

Most developed countries support families better than America — which has no comprehensive family policy for paid parental leave or flexible work, daycare, or early childhood education.

He is also the senior advisor for policy, research, and education at SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions), an organization he served as national chairman and chief executive officer for more than fifteen years.

Through quarterly meetings and an annual conference that draws more than 500 education advocates, the Water Cooler elevates the needs of California's students to the forefront of policy decisions.

As a politically active feminist and a mother myself, I believe her time and ability to command editorial space in The Wall Street Journal would be far better spent opining about things like the need for better family leave and health care policies, improved access to birth control and higher education and affordable child care for working mothers rather than whether Angelina Jolie plans to adopt again or how long my friends plan to breastfeed their babies.

She has spent more than 15 years leading education reform efforts as a social entrepreneur and education policy and philanthropy advisor.

Some policy makers are trying to get the public to believe that they should be starting formal education earlier, advocating Head Start programs for children as young as 1 year, hoping to take advantage of the time when the brain is growing more than ever.

Education is needed, change in policies at the local level are needed, the level of homelessness among families with young children needs to decline, but in the meantime there are families who don't have the option (the laudromats near us are pretty clear in this policy as are the daycares, and I had more than one funny look from guests when they saw me putting diapers into the washing machine, I imagine the reaction in shared housing is more difficult to battle.)

The results of a study on state high school athletic association policies for managing sport - related concussions revealed that concussion education policies for more than 70 % of high school athletic directors did not exist (Miller & Ammon, 2017).

He further noted that under the free SHS policy, all fees approved by the Ghana Education Service (GES) Council for first year students other than Parent - Teacher Association (PTA) dues, would be absorbed by the government through settlement of the «onetime fee» for all first years — whether day or boarding.

John Hildebrand is Newsday's senior education writer and has covered school news and policy issues affecting Long Island for more than 40 years.

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.

Clegg's comments — seen by many as a hint that he might even work with the Tories rather than Labour in the event of a hung parliament — came as the Conservatives outlined their flagship education policy.

«In particular, over the last session, the Legislature seemed unusually willing to pull the leash on [the department] regarding education policy rather than just money, which has tended to be their main concern.»

Roll back Malloy education reform policies by not interfering in high - performing schools, which would be subjected to different standards than lower - performing schools.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo argued today that Mayor Bill de Blasio's resistance to closing the city's famous — and infamous — island incarceration complex is little more than political obstinacy and inertia, and took a shot at his rival Democrat «s education policies while he was at it.

Education policy should focus on making sure that every student makes great progress, rather than accountability for test scores or teacher performance pay.

Teachout spoke to the mostly multi-aged crowd, sprinkled with children, students, adults and senior citizens, saying that she has a vision for New York that will make public higher education affordable; a New York that «should be leading the way in renewable resources» and environmental policies; a New York that bans fracking and all fracking byproducts; and a New York that «supports small local businesses and farms, rather than giving tax breaks to corporate campaign donors.»

They also trust the state Education Department and the Board of Regents more than Cuomo of the Legislature when it comes to setting education policy, even though it was SED and the Regents that botched the Common Core implementation, causing widespread consternation in receEducation Department and the Board of Regents more than Cuomo of the Legislature when it comes to setting education policy, even though it was SED and the Regents that botched the Common Core implementation, causing widespread consternation in receeducation policy, even though it was SED and the Regents that botched the Common Core implementation, causing widespread consternation in recent years.

Both proposals are more than Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan of a $ 1.1 billion spending hike for education aid, with much of that money tied to approving the governor's policy proposals, including bonus pay for high - performing teachers and a strengthening of charter schools.

The report called for a major shake - up of the Government's drugs policy, concentrating on education and harm reduction for users rather than criminal sanctions.

Through the policy of Free Senior High School education introduced in September 2017, President Akufo - Addo told the gathering that 90,000 more students gained access to Senior High School in 2017, than they did in 2016.

The government's flagship Free Schools are under greater scrutiny than most because their very existence is part of a huge political debate about the direction of education policy.

Rather than answering the West Lothian Question, Gordon Brown exhorts us to promote «Britishness» — albeit that this ignores the fact that the Education Secretary in Westminster has no say over education policy in Scotland, Wales or NorthernEducation Secretary in Westminster has no say over education policy in Scotland, Wales or Northerneducation policy in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.

Nii Korle said the school, which would be the community's contribution towards President Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo's free education policy would serve more than 15 communities, including Korleman, Samsam Odumase, Medie, Manchea, Adusah, Mayera, Kutunse and Hebron.

According to Nana Addo, since the introduction of the policy, the number of students who would have missed out on Senior High School education has dropped by more than 30 percent.

Though the funding comes from the state, Cuomo has little influence over education policy in New York other than through legislation — policy is crafted by the Board of Regents, appointed through a legislative process dominated by Assembly Democrats.

For more than a decade these CIOB awards have played an important role in bringing together practitioners with education and training providers as well as policy makers.

So in my opinion, the free policy in education must happen because we can do it, but I think it is the technical institutions that must be given more priority than the general SHS system.

Fewer than half of New Yorkers think Cuomo is doing a good job setting policy on education.

Teachers, parents and community members crowded into Long Island City HS for the monthly Panel for Educational Policy meeting on May 18 and made it clear they had a lot more on their minds than the Department of Education agenda items.

Currently however, due to shortsighted state policies, a new immigrant that does succeed likely does so in spite of his or her schooling, rather than because of the quality of his or her public education.

In short, Walcott is more than an education reformer with soul; he is also a policy wonk who can translate his aims so that parents can embrace them as their own — so that the self - appointed advocates will have to get on board or be left on the sidelines.

Avella's concern has been echoed by other parents and school advocates, who have complained that Bloomberg's selections for the school boss spot have revealed a preference for businessmen and women rather than those with a background in education policy.

The federal Department of Education reports it received more than 1,200 responses to the government's policy options paper released in the 2016 - 17 budget.

WHEREAS, research shows that women are substantially less likely to self - select or be recruited for elective office, this gender gap in political ambition persists across generations and over time and that qualified female candidates who are equally or more qualified than men are often seen as less qualified or less viable than male candidates; and WHEREAS, research confirms that the presence of more women in a governing body leads to greater transparency and a focus on progressive policies such as closing the funding and achievement gaps in education, closing gaps or loopholes in contraception coverage and affordable health care, closing the wage gap, and removing obstacles that contribute to poverty of women & children; and

«More than just an advocate for public safety, education and the environment, along with many other policy issues, Peter and his family have been defenders of diversity and tolerance, which has fostered Queens becoming one of the most inclusive places on earth.

No issue better crystallizes the unwillingness of progressive politicians in New York to confront religious bigotry squarely than the ongoing legal battle over the Department of Education's policy barring religious congregations from renting space in schools.

Example: To remove barriers to girls» participation in science education or to international collaboration among scientists principally requires policy changes rather than financial resources.

I realized during my year off that my passions lie in science and education policy rather than in basic research.

According to the EUA report, although nearly 80 % of European higher education institutions have a policy in place to support students with disabilities and 69 % to support socioeconomically disadvantaged students, less than one - quarter have specific policies for ethnic minority groups and immigrants.

Kate Stoll, an NSF - based AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow, said, «We know that graduate education affects graduate students and their lives more than anybody else, so we want to create more opportunities for them to reach out to us.»