Sentences with phrase «thoughts about education funding»

What are your thoughts about education funding in Connecticut, including Governor Malloy's current budget proposal to provide tax breaks through 529 plans (CHET) for funding private K - 12 education?

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They can fund their children's education, provide for their families and think about moving forward.

It has been nurtured in many ways: by research into basic issues in theological education underwritten by competitive grants offered by the Association of Theological Schools (ATS) and funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc.; by the work of some theological educators commissioned by the Endowment to think about these questions; and by a series of seminars and conferences convened by the ATS to discuss some of the results of this research and reflection.

I think there are some areas where clearly there is value and rationale in there being closer decision - making between Wales, Scotland and England, whether that's around higher education funding or about how we're going to fund social care in future [or] the nature of our education systems.

Assemblymember Deborah Glick, a Manhattan Democrat and chair of the Committee on Higher Education, said that funds would have been better allocated to operating aid for CUNY, but did not think there was anything inappropriate about the governor requesting support from members of the system.

Neptune Beach, Florida About Blog A blog for information, advice, updates and thoughts on funding an international education — for international students that want to study in the US, as well as US students that want to study abroad.

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Moving on to what people think about education and schools, Page said that overall, concern about education is drifting downwards and that it is actually pupil behaviour and discipline that is the biggest issue (at 17 per cent) followed by funding (nine per cent) rather than standards and attainment.

The 50th anniversary of the Coleman Report presents an opportunity to reflect on our collective failure and to think again about how we organize and fund education studies in the United States.

With considerable unhappiness about what it thought to be an intrusion into its role as determining appropriations, the legislature increased the overall education funding and set a plan for future spending.

Choices about timetabling, resourcing, funding... It's perfectly possible to offer children a rich education that values their character, their thinking and their knowledge.

The potential inclusion of an amendment to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) that incorporates both a definition and a specified funding source for social - emotional learning (SEL) has me thinking about SEL often.

And because parents can spend the education funds made available for their child in a piecemeal fashion, this type of policy incentivizes providers to think creatively about new ways to structure teaching and learning.

When asked about charter schools, Vermont's Deputy Secretary of Education said she did not support charter schools saying «No I don't think we need them... The state's longtime tradition of allowing public funding to flow to private, non-religious schools when a community does not have a public school... provides enough flexibility.»

«When we talk about whether or not education is the great equalizer, I don't even think we can ever get there, if the funding system is so unequal and inequitable,» Hinojosa said.

I think about the visits from the Policy Director of the New Teacher Project, and the former aide to New York City charter operator, Eva Moskowitz, who said she was moving to Portland and trying to set up a chapter of Democrats for Education Reform, the pro-charter, hedge - fund driven organization.

If yours is truly an organization that cares about the quality of life and education for ALL Connecticut students, I would think you'd want to see a balance in funding so no matter what district or school a child is in, they get the benefit of being able to succeed, not just the kids of the parents associated with your organization.

Now I know you are going to jump on that last comment and get all worked up over it and say I am probably corporate education reform person, but what you should do is think about what you would do differently, if contracts, and funding were not a factor what education system would you create, what would it look like?

It also makes recommendations for Local Education Agencies (LEAs) interested in creating Title I - funded early education programs or thinking about how to sustain these types of investments in the face of policy and funding chEducation Agencies (LEAs) interested in creating Title I - funded early education programs or thinking about how to sustain these types of investments in the face of policy and funding cheducation programs or thinking about how to sustain these types of investments in the face of policy and funding challenges.

«Hopefully this will start to have our policymakers and our public start to think about how we redefine education to stop talking about school type and start focusing on how we fund kids and how we get quality,» says Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice President Robert Enlow.

Thank you to Glenn Christenson for sharing his thoughts about our recent article: «Funding for Education Must be Targeted to be Effective.»

I think it was alot easier back in the day for a parent to support their child for a college education... the rates now are just so rediculous... ontop of all the other things a parent has to save for now... 401k, IRA, costs of everything have gone up... i think rather than funding the education it would be wise for hte parents to give some money to them to live while at college as you point out that... part of college is more than just the text book education... its about the life education... and if they had to work they might miss out on some of that life education... i had college for free as my father worked at one... but i still lived on campus as part of college is the experience... i hate paying hte loans now but it was part of the experience that i will forever remember..

Should i increase any more fund and which one?I am not very confident about Gold savings and planning to stop it as continuously it is giving negative return.Your thought please.My financial goals are Retirement, child education and one personal house (not flat) and a car in next 10 years.

You might also think about contacting the US Department of Education's Office of Inspector General, since FedLoan is receiving funding from that agency.

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Think Minecraft, minus the creepers, and add a team of advisors that constantly complain about things like air pollution, education funding, traffic congestion and power consumption.

There is also a need for more clarification and creative thinking about the roles of different stakeholders: is this a funding issue requiring greater public sector intervention, an education and training issue requiring greater collaboration between lawyers, law schools and other disciplines, or solely a regulatory issue?

In a report for the Legal Education Foundation (which funds this site) I chose four themes: the general progress of thinking about technology and its application specifically in the wider legal services market; an evaluation of the Dutch Rechtwijzer project which failed during the period; the Online Court programme in England and Wales; and a roundup of developments organised geographically around British Columbia (somewhat of a global hotbed) and thematically around the growth of interactivity (with developments such as the use of Skype, chatbots and the ultimately overambitious Nadia project in New South Wales).

Neptune Beach, Florida About Blog A blog for information, advice, updates and thoughts on funding an international education — for international students that want to study in the US, as well as US students that want to study abroad.

The potential inclusion of an amendment to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) that incorporates both a definition and a specified funding source for social - emotional learning (SEL) has me thinking about SEL often.

Neptune Beach, Florida About Blog A blog for information, advice, updates and thoughts on funding an international education — for international students that want to study in the US, as well as US students that want to study abroad.