Sentences with phrase «up to the government education»

It is difficult enough to convince legislators to stand up to the government education industry and support school choice without them worrying that the law will be found unconstitutional.

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Sousa, however, is confident investment will pick up, owing to the government's spending on health care, education and other social programs.
Once you open an RESP account, you can take advantage of the Canadian Education Savings Grant, which gives you a 20 % top - up from the government for every dollar you contribute, up to $ 2,500 a year per child.
The concern some people have is that children will end up living for years in a local community, where they'll be entitled to education and other government services paid for with tax dollars.
The government forgives up to $ 17,500 of your federal student debt after you work at a low - income school or education service agency for five consecutive years.
Pew said less money is being allocated to core government services such as education and public safety as states try to prop up their funds.
A far greater part of the text — thousands of pages in more than 30 chapters — has to do with harmonizing regulations (financial, health and safety standards, etc.), reinforcing intellectual property rights (patents, copyrights), opening up new sectors to privatization and foreign investment (health insurance and education), and putting strict limits on how governments choose to protect the environment or create jobs.
Whether or not the present Government will seek to reintroduce some of these measures remains to be seen, but there has certainlybeen no let - up in the efforts of the sex education establishment to lobby in favour of statutory SRE and to remove the right of parents to opt out.
She'll be joined in the department by Nick Gibb who returns to Government as Minister of State for Schools, «to ensure no let up in education reforms», according to a tweet from the Prime Minister as David Cameron announced his appointment.
It presents the Kerala model as something from which the Union Government and other Indian states like UP and Bihar have to learn their lesson that without a basis in social development like literacy, health and women's education and social security there can be no participatory economic expansion which is necessary if economic growth has to serve society.
In Sweden, a worker who loses his or her job for economic reasons, including the introduction of new technology, is entitled to up to two years of government - paid education and retraining.
My last point and Im out... Throughout our great nations history... we always found a way to fight through national issues and come up with solutions... Giving the problems we have now to people in the 50's and 60's... and they may actually come up with a solution... if you earnestly care about making a change... start at the lowest levels of government... go do something... find out costs... expenses... how to get more health care to people... do things like that... quit waiting on the government to provide all the answers... its not the way this country was founded... and not the way we get through problems... If you or ur family does nt have insurance... get a job that can provide you that... instead of hoping the government will do so... If you or ur family lacks access to education... move to an area that excels at it... education is invaluable... Do something about your problem... and quit waiting for the next big lotto...
Fiona has given evidence to Government Committees on the subject of elective home education and can provide you with a clear up - to - date analysis of the key areas of elective home education practice and policy in England and Wales.
The Catholic Education Service has today announced it is working with the Government to draw up plans to have its schools take over the management of many English state schools with a religious character, it has today been announced.
Patrick Roach said: «As the number and diversity of providers in education is unlikely to decrease, the government must face up to the implications of a system which has the potential to become highly fragmented and recognise that the challenge of ensuring equity for all children and young people will be greater and require new arrangements for system governance.
The government will today sign up to the United Nations Convention on Disability Rights, guaranteeing disabled people the right to education, employment and participation in political and public life.
Similarly, an attempt by John Swinney, the dry - as - dust education secretary, to rebut recent internal criticism that the Scottish government lacks a radical edge amounted to little more than claiming the SNP sat «firmly astride Scotland's social democratic centre», while elsewhere he said the currency proposition won't «necessarily» have to be any different from that offered up in 2014, a so - called «currency union».
That apart, Mr. Kyeremeh said, four new schools are being put up by government to help reduce the congestion in schools and also offer opportunities to more students to enroll in the secondary education to produce scholars for Ghana.
These means - tested weekly payments of up to # 30 are a crucial means of support for those who wish to remain in further education - and it is simply not possible for the Government to claim their cuts to be fair at the same time as they remove this support for the poorest in our society.
Just as crucially as opening up a debate on the role of the private sector in education, the government must do a better job at getting a clear message across to the people who really matter.
The University and College Union warned that tuition fees of nearly # 7,000 would end up becoming the norm because of the government's wider cuts to higher education funding, however.
This team, made up of representatives of the Legislature, local government, education and private industry, will conduct a rigorous and comprehensive review of mandates imposed on school districts and other local taxing districts to identify mandates that are ineffective, unnecessary, outdated and duplicative in order to develop the best and most cost - effective ways to deliver mandated programs and services.
The buildup to Wednesday's march is seeing organisers whip up hostility to the government's approach to higher education on websites like Facebook.
That won't be used much to slap the government's education policy across their chops as we run up toward the general election, will it?
«That this House notes that young people today grow up in an increasingly complex financial world requiring them to make difficult decisions for the future, often without the necessary level of financial literacy; believes that financial education will help address the national problem of irresponsible borrowing and personal insolvency and that teaching people about budgeting and personal finance will help equip the workforce with the necessary skills to succeed in business and drive forward economic growth; further believes that the country has a duty to equip its young people properly through education to make informed financial decisions; and calls on the Government to consider the provision of financial education as part of the current curriculum review.»
The shadow education secretary said private educators should be sharing their expertise to help state school pupils get into top universities, and should set up joint school programmes such as combined extra-curricular activities, if they wanted to keep receiving government subsidies in future.
Former education secretary Lord Patten has claimed special advisers see it as their job to stir up trouble between government departments and called for a cull.
Across the public sector - in the civil service, education, local government and health - unions representing around one million public sector workers have already either rejected or refused to sign up to the government's «heads of agreement» offer.
The Ministry of Education recently presented 300 buses and 200 Manhindra pick - ups to second cycle institutions in the country as part of government's avowed commitment towards good quality education Education recently presented 300 buses and 200 Manhindra pick - ups to second cycle institutions in the country as part of government's avowed commitment towards good quality education education delivery.
«This needs to be backed up by government investment in money management education for those millions of people struggling to make headway in a difficult landscape of dwindling services.»
The Federal Government is set to establish six more Universities of Science and Technology which would be added up to the existing ones, the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu has said.
Nick Gibb returns to Government as Minister of State for Schools - working with Nicky Morgan to ensure no let up in education reforms.
In the interim, the federal government has set up an advisory board of business and education leaders — including American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten, SUNY chancellor Nancy Zimpher and Stan Litow, an IBM executive and former deputy chancellor of New York City schools — assigned to look at current community college funding programs and formulate the best strategies for the national program.
The good government groups that back a proposed constitutional change to the state's redistricting process plan a voter outreach and education effort in the lead - up to the Nov. 4 election.
Shadow education secretary Lucy Powell says that by just setting aside # 140m, the government has left a shortfall of # 560m — and this means that the chancellor will be forced to raid the money set aside for extra school places to make up the shortfall.
The fed - up governor is expected to propose cuts to education and local - government funding in the near future as additional «budget extenders.»
The organization, in the petition signed by its senior staff attorney, Timothy Adewale, said, «The allegation that N500m has been lost to corruption has resulted in denying the girls access to education, and shows the failure of the former President Goodluck Jonathan government to live up to Nigeria's commitments under the global Safe School Declaration.»
«It was the Welsh Liberal Democrats who prioritised education in the election, setting a challenge for Wales, and we have stepped up to that challenge in government.
Professor Afful - Broni said UEW was a strong believer of the government's agenda for the education sector and would do everything to support to enable many Ghanaians acquire quality higher education to speed up socio - economic transformation of the country.
The election in 2015 is shaping up to be a desperate scramble for cash to fund public spending after the Institute for Fiscal Studies warned that the next government would need to impose large tax rises or even bigger welfare cuts to protect health and education spending.
Government is in the process of setting up a fund to receive voluntary contributions from individuals to support the implementation of its flagship Free Senior High School programme, and the education sector as a whole.
«If you introduce entrepreneurship education to people at the primary, junior high or senior high school level, they grow up with that mentality that they do not only go to school to look at government for...
As part of the many other means of addressing the problem, the government announced the setting up of a voluntary fund to receive contributions from individuals to support the programme, and the education sector as a whole.
Second, he let Sen Landrieu take the heat and be called a whore by his GOP minions for aquiring additional funds for Medicade - althought it was at his bequest Third - he goes around galavanting around the country fundraising» instead of governing - He blasts government for all of the ills and blamed the BP oil mess on Washington - yet he went licking up to DC for funds so he could build berms that wold be mysterious for the coast and let BP off the hook Cut funding for education - although he was afforded a damn good one He sides with his GOP pals about health care reform - REMINDER his child has a pre existing condition - heart problem
«The charitable deduction could work on the local level but again, it's not dollar for dollar and it's not a perfect situation, but a local government could set up a charity for education, could set up a charity for health care, you make a contribution to the charity you get a federal tax deduction and you get a state credit for the amount you contributed.»
Government through the Ministry of Education has presented a Mahindra pick - up to the Private Universities Students» Association of Ghana (PUSAG), ahead of its tenth anniversary this year.
The government promised to provide all children with «access to the kind of education only the rich can afford» when it launched the policy of allowing parents to set up schools free from local authority control.
In 1973 STV was introduced in Northern Ireland for elections to local councils and to the new Northern Ireland Assembly, and the Society and its staff were called upon to advise in the programme of education set up by the government to raise public awareness.
Fortunately, industry, philanthropic organizations, non-profits, parents, teachers, and state and local governments are stepping up to the plate and working together to capture and hold the attention of our nation's youth in STEM education so they will want to pursue these careers, not be forced into them simply because we need them.
Keen to step up the pace, Sander Dekker, the Dutch state secretary for education, culture, and science, announced in 2013 that the government aimed to make the entire Dutch research output available through OA by 2024.
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