Sentences with phrase «with new educational opportunities»

«We've now set out plans and money to do so - with a new eco-region offering a great quality of life for its inhabitants; with new educational opportunities and transport links as well as affordable homes; and with better training to equip the local workforce.»

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Benefits include 16 - week paid maternity leave, $ 1,000 «Baby Bucks» to all new parents, designated nursing rooms with fully equipped hospital grade pumps and fridges in all our offices, free overnight breast milk shipping for nursing mothers on business trips, free backup child care and on - the - job educational opportunities to advance employees» skill sets and career opportunities.

Our small group format, filled with eye opening experiences, provides a creative, educational opportunity for Campers to spread their wings and try new things.

The same blocks they played with a year or two ago can provide them with new and different educational opportunities as their knowledge expands.

Shedd Aquarium is now formally affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., making possible new opportunities for collaborative exhibits, artifact loans, research and educational programs.

This study aims to establish a unified and sustainable vision for a stretch of waterfront with the potential to provide new recreational and educational opportunities, while improving storm resiliency.

Frontier Communications Vice President of Business and Community Development Kevin Smith ($ 43 million Awarded to - date, Capital Region, Central NY, Finger Lakes, Mohawk Valley, Mid-Hudson, North Country, Southern Tier, Western NY) said, «The significant educational and economic opportunities that come with a broadband connection are important to New York's future, and Frontier.

«I thought it was inappropriate for funds that were meant to be able to promote educational opportunity to start validating a business transaction involving the state of New York that had nothing to do with universal pre-K,» Peebles said.

The free educational event provided residents with the opportunity to learn about new blood pressure guidelines, how to take their own blood pressure and what their blood pressure numbers mean.

It is the objective that each initiative associated with that environment will advance the educational and research mission of SUNY Polytechnic Institute through the enhancement of research opportunities for faculty, students and staff; to promote the economic development and competitiveness of New York State by encouraging and facilitating the transfer of technology resources to the marketplace; and to enhance the ability of SUNY Polytechnic Institute to attract public and private funds to further research and technology development.

«I am inspired to magnify educational opportunities throughout the Brownsville and East New York communities to empower our youth and equip them with the tools necessary to influence the next generation of leaders our communities,» said NED Executive Director Mawuli K. Hormeku.

The entire day included several eye catching and educational opportunities which started off with a warm welcome by New York State Assemblyman Mark Gjonaj, NYS Senator Jeff Klein, and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. followed by a luncheon, meet and greet with sponsors, a tour of the Capitol and Egg Building.

«Because our findings strongly suggest that attending public pre-K helps to promote information access and test taking for gifted and talented programs, with the advent of universal pre-K, the New York City Department of Education has an even greater chance to provide information about public educational opportunities to many more children across all demographic subgroups,» said Weinberg.

According to Albonetti, the Regional Council has provided resources such as financial and educational support, with the goal of «supporting growth by appealing to our strengths, but also by turning weaknesses into opportunities, for instance by capitalizing on the different forms of creativity, knowledge, and skills within the territory and supporting new, globally competitive value chains for new market opportunities.»

Largely as a result of my teaching experience at St. Jude, I arrived at law school with a deep desire to combine the new set of skills I would develop in law school with my passion for improving educational opportunities for under - served students.

Celebrating brave thinking, innovative pedagogy, new products and education game changers, Bett Futures 2017 presented a one ‑ of - a-kind opportunity for emerging learning solutions to hit the ground running by inspiring attendees with practical ideas on how to improve their own educational practice.

Much has changed since the fledgling Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE), 14 New York City community school boards, and 23 individual parents and their children lodged the initial complaint charging the State of New York with denying «thousands of public school students in the City of New York their constitutional rights to equal educational opportunities.»

Also, after talking with one of their promoters, Franco Lacomella, Global Education Magazine and the new project emerged after the documentary, Reevo, will work together in the future to create opportunities for dissemination of alternative educational experiences worldwide.

Shaping musical learning The Expo has become an essential part of the educational calendar, with its unique opportunities to allow delegates to quiz key figures from the world of education, and to gain insight into new qualifications and the direction of education policy.

As a new presidential administration nears the close of its first year in office and educators across the country grapple with the challenges and opportunities in implementing the Every Student Succeeds Act, the nation's educational performance earns a grade of C from Quality Counts 2018, the 22nd annual report card issued by the Education Week Research Center.

Advocates for Children of New York (AFC) leads a statewide coalition of educational and advocacy organizations and families who have come together to urge the creation of multiple pathways to a diploma in New York State, each of which holds all students to high expectations, provides them with quality instruction, and opens doors to career and post-secondary education opportunities.

New Haven, CT — Connecticut's public charter school movement turned 20 - years old this past Saturday, marking two decades of providing students with innovative and new educational opportunities and parents with real public school choiNew Haven, CT — Connecticut's public charter school movement turned 20 - years old this past Saturday, marking two decades of providing students with innovative and new educational opportunities and parents with real public school choinew educational opportunities and parents with real public school choice.

New Haven, CT — Connecticut's public charter school movement turned 20 years old this month, marking two decades of providing students with innovative and new educational opportunities and parents with real public school choiNew Haven, CT — Connecticut's public charter school movement turned 20 years old this month, marking two decades of providing students with innovative and new educational opportunities and parents with real public school choinew educational opportunities and parents with real public school choice.

In addition, he has met with numerous elected officials and education reformers to advocate for charter schools and has contributed to an op - ed article in the New York Post on educational opportunity for underprivileged students in NYC.

And, the report is written in the hope that the state will step up and design a strong, new era accountability system that partners effectively with local districts to ensure schools deliver on the promise of educational opportunity for English Learners.

Further, New York's proposal to selectively provide students with disabilities who are below grade level a different test from students without disabilities who are below grade level unjustly discriminates and violates these students» rights under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 [viii] since it deprives these students with disabilities equal educational opportunities and benefits as those available to non-disabled students.

But along with a similar initiative launched last year by the administration to expand educational opportunities for Native American kids (and slowly revamp the U.S. Bureau of Indian Education), the new effort does bring attention to the low educational achievement among young black children — especially young black men — and reinforces Obama's generally laudable record as School Reformer - in - Chief.

The NYS Charter Schools Act of 1998 was created for the following purposes: • Improve student learning and achievement; • Increase learning opportunities for all students, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for students who are at - risk of academic failure; • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods; • Create new professional opportunities for teachers, school administrators and other school personnel; • Provide parents and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system; and • Provide schools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement results.

A constantly updated library of educational applications serves to provide new and exciting enrichment opportunities, and ongoing support is available on an unlimited basis through the NOW Channel, a team of educational and technical professionals with over 30 years of experience in instructional support.

Then, just to follow up with Lindsey just said, we saw this as an opportunity to break some new ground in terms of asking questions about educational choice issues and subjects.

With ESSA opening up new opportunities, the Broader, Bolder Approach campaign re-launches to tackle educational disparities.

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We look forward to a robust and collaborative relationship with Governor - elect Murphy and Commissioner Repollet as we work together to support social justice in New Jersey by enhancing access to high - quality educational opportunity for all and improving the outcomes of education for all New Jersey's students.

«Principals in more than 300 New York City public schools have the freedom and flexibility that comes with being empowered and have been using it to improve the educational opportunities for their students,» the school system says.

To close the gaps and provide all students with the same educational opportunities, state officials will adopt new, more vigorous standards than are in place now.

«Leaders of professional learning at all levels of the educational system have the responsibility to support classroom teachers with opportunities to learn from using high - quality instructional materials designed for more rigorous college and career - ready standards,» said Jim Short, program director, Leadership and Teaching to Advance Learning within the National Education Program at the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

As a partial solution, Duncan proposed creating new roles for teachers that let them continue to work with children in the classroom «while being an integral part of educational improvements» locally and nationally, with «regular opportunities to give feedback» to the administrators who are changing policy.

We ask you to help make New York one city, with equal educational opportunity for all.

Similarly, New Teacher Center works with state departments of education, school districts, and other local educational agencies to design, develop, and implement successful and sustainable teacher induction programs.43 The center's programs support qualified, trained mentors; strong school leaders; positive school environments; and opportunities for professional learning for mentors and new teacheNew Teacher Center works with state departments of education, school districts, and other local educational agencies to design, develop, and implement successful and sustainable teacher induction programs.43 The center's programs support qualified, trained mentors; strong school leaders; positive school environments; and opportunities for professional learning for mentors and new teachenew teachers.

The chance to work with a talented and dedicated staff as well as a committed board to ensure meaningful educational opportunities for the children of New Orleans was too hard to pass up.

Keeanna and Scott bring to the fellowship their experience working with Goodwill Education Initiatives (GEI), Goodwill's arm that launches new educational opportunities throughout the Indianapolis region, and its Excel Center, a network of high schools for adults who had previously dropped out.

She is grateful to work with partners to expand high - quality educational opportunities for all students in New Orleans.

Opportunity 180, in partnership with Public Impact, published The New Frontier to provide our community with insights about the key role public charter schools can play in working alongside the local school district and committed nonprofit programs to help solve the educational equity problem in Clark County.

«Blended, or hybrid, learning offers exciting opportunities for schools and districts faced with shrinking resources to look for and find new ways to get a bigger bang for their educational buck.»

«We look forward to supporting the new Administration's efforts to provide parents with the ability to determine the educational environment where they believe their children will have the greatest opportunity to succeed.»

Key values that define the Educational Service Center of Lake Erie West are providing quality services to our educational partners; being flexible and responsive to the individualized needs of our partners; promoting collaboration with local schools, school districts and community agencies to plan current and future program offerings and services; taking a leadership role in creating innovative programs that provide new opportunities for our partners; and maintaining cost effectiveness for the schools and school districts served by the Educational Service Center of Lake Erie West.

We conclude with a proposal for the Senate to consider an approach to new charters that would aim to ensure high quality, equal educational opportunities in a diverse learning environment.

With plans to eventually serve students through eighth grade, the new charter school and its staff of experienced teachers will present supreme educational opportunities through carefully planned curriculums.

It seems clear that ESSA has provided the committee with an opportunity to design and develop an «authentic assessment», based on evidence - based classroom performance indicators, that will establish a new era of meaningful, student - centered testing that CT teachers, parents, students, and citizens have proudly come to expect from educational leadership.

The 100 - plus scheduled educational events for the 2012 SEMA Show gave attendees the opportunity to absorb new technologies and technical skills, catch up on industry trends and return to work the following week with practical tools that can be implemented the day they return.