Sentences with phrase «top education priority»

-- K - 12 & higher ed: In what was clearly a tit - for - tat yesterday between the House and the Senate, the House passed the Senate's top education priority, making Bright Futures scholarships permanently cover full tuition, at almost the exact same time as the Senate passed the House's top education priority, more vouchers for private schools and the decertification of some teachers unions.

DeVos has been an advocate of vouchers for decades — and has made clear that she and Trump intend to promote school «choice» as a top education priority.

President Donald Trump has proposed slashing $ 10.6 billion from federal education initiatives, including after - school programs, teacher training, and career and technical education, and reinvesting $ 1.4 billion of the savings into promoting his top education priority: school choice, including $ 250 million for vouchers to help students attend private and religious schools.

President Trump has proposed slashing $ 10.6 billion from federal education initiatives, including after - school programs, teacher training, and career and technical education, and reinvesting $ 1.4 billion of the savings into promoting his top education priority: school choice, including $ 250 million for vouchers to help students attend private and religious schools.

Opponents of national testing last week won the first of what could be several battles in the new session of Congress over the future of what was once President Clinton's top education priority.

For them, «lifting the floor» will continue to be the top education priority, along with micromanaging the system.

Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco made teacher pay a top education priority in her State of the State Address last week, asking Louisiana lawmakers to hand teachers raises of about $ 1,500.

«This was their top education priority that they talked to us about.»

Some of President Bush's top education priorities — especially his plans for improving the nation's high schools — are rebuffed in a spending bill making its way through the Republican - controlled House of Representatives.

2) Call on Governor Tom Wolf to make Sustainable Community Schools one of his top education priorities in the first 100 days

This lines up with one of his top education priorities: «Return the powers of the Department of Education to state and local governments.»

Not exact matches

But if the couple's past giving is any indication of the future, education and health care charities will be top priorities.

As a student of personal development himself, he made it a priority to provide constant education and training so his people could perform at the top levels.

TweetOctober 26, 2016 The STEM Education Coalition Policy Forum and the Afterschool Alliance have collaborated to develop a toolkit of materials to help advocates make the case at the state and local level for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education to be a top priority and to integrate afterschool and informal learning strategies into overall plans Education Coalition Policy Forum and the Afterschool Alliance have collaborated to develop a toolkit of materials to help advocates make the case at the state and local level for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education to be a top priority and to integrate afterschool and informal learning strategies into overall plans education to be a top priority and to integrate afterschool and informal learning strategies into overall plans -LSB-...]

The STEM Education Coalition continues to include veterans inclusion in STEM to be a top priority and looks forward to the opportunity to work with Congress and the Administration on this issue.

Promised to make addressing homophobic bullying a «top priority» during her leadership race, and then released an education platform that had no mention of fighting homophobia or transphobia.

According to Altimeter Group, social media education is a top priority for companies.

The MassINC Polling Group, working for the Barr Foundation found that improving Massachusetts highways, roads, and bridges was the top priority for respondents, ahead of improving education or lowering taxes.

Top priority of the campaign is to call on elected officials to create legislation that supports economic justice, anti-racism and anti-white supremacy policies, women's rights, the ending of voter suppression, immigrant rights, LGBTQ rights, as well as affordable quality housing, healthcare and education.

The results were published in a pamphlet titled «What We Learned from What You Said,» and evangelism and Christian education were the top two priorities listed.

These pastors and their flocks must live pretty well - to - do lives if this one thing on its own is their top priority in the election, and not the economy, education, the law, and the US's place in the world.

Continuous education and training are top priorities in the foodservice industry.

As funding for education programs face dramatic cuts under some plans, we must work to ensure keeping students well - fed and ready to learn remains a top priority.

Verna May Foreman was a retired librarian who ranked education among her top priorities, loved the outdoors, and enjoyed traveling, having visited 45 states.

I remain committed to securing a budget that brings ridesharing upstate, rejects millions in proposed taxes and fees, and fully - funds our region's top priorities, like job training, education, and public safety.»

The reality is that education reform was Cuomo's top priority this year — even dating back before his successful 2014 campaign for re-election to a second term — until it wasn't, thanks to Assemblyman Sheldon Silver's corruption scandal, and US Attorney Preet Bharara's ominous «stay tuned».

He shared his position on major issues — job creation, education and healthcare; and he told the CWA members that, «The well - being of my constituents is a top priority.

He says his top priorities are creating more jobs, keeping the community affordable, and improving education.

He says his top priorities are education, health care and affordable housing, and supports better ballot design, easier registration and Equal Pay for Equal Work.

His top priorities are better nutrition and health care in schools, education, jobs and raising minimum wage.

Ensuring all children receive the fundamental building blocks of an early education has been a top priority of mine and I am thrilled we are moving forward with this joint effort.»

Still, there are key pieces of his speech that the governor has kept under wraps, including what he has said are top priorities: government ethics, homelessness, and education.

He said achieving ethics reform and education policy changes remain the top priorities for him in the budget, and that he won't sign a budget without them.

The release, explaining the decision was reached unanimously by the group's two component boards of directors, stated, «The Boards» decision comes on the heels of securing the Pride Agenda's top remaining policy priority ---- protecting transgender New Yorkers from discrimination in housing, employment, credit, education, and public accommodations ---- in the form of new regulations announced in partnership with Governor Andrew M. Cuomo at the organization's Fall Dinner on October 22, 2015.»

Among the priorities at the top of her list: sustaining «the say yes to education» program and planning for a projected 33 - million dollar budget deficit.

DeSantis said he would make civics education a top priority in his administration.

We said we would take this new stream of revenue and use it to develop our economy, improve our infrastructure, make our community safer while expanding opportunities for the arts and put the future of education front and center as a top priority.

At least 40 percent of those polled statewide believe education and jobs should be one of Cuomo's top two priorities for the 2015 session.

Helping working families doing things like improving the minimum wage, fighting for women and the women's health and the ten point women's plan as well as helping to make sure children are a top priority, education is a top priority.

In the letter, Paterson insists Cuomo remains supportive of public education and it will be a «top priority.»

Carlucci was first elected to the chamber in 2010 and has since fought for quality education, property tax reform, and employment — some of the keys issues that he says remain the top priority.

Ensuring that all children in New York State have access to a high quality education has always a top priority for me, regardless of our state's budgetary situation.

Improving our public schools in order to provide our children with a first - class education has been my top priority.

The bill is expected to come for a vote in the Senate Education Committee tomorrow and it's a top priority of Mayor Bloomberg, who is scheduled to make a special trip to Albany to lobby on its behalf.

Keeping New Jersey's best and brightest students in New Jersey is a top priority, which means keeping our institutions of higher education competitive and affordable.

«Gov. Andrew Cuomo gets his lowest grade on education, which is the top priority for voters, a grade so bad it pulls down his whole job approval score,» Maurice Carroll, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll, said in a statement.

PLATTSBURGH — Increasing education, reducing stigma top priorities, says Clinton County coalition more

PLATTSBURGH — Increasing education, reducing stigma top priorities, says Clinton County coalition

Education was listed as the top priority by 24 percent of voters, topping other leading issues such as jobs, 15 percent, and taxes, at 12 percent.

The council's top priorities going forward are said to include manufacturing, health care, education, energy and tourism.