Last year, a bill mandating the parent education program died in the Senate Transportation Committee, with its chairman arguing that it would overly burden parents.
As founder of the Van Bokkelen Family Network, the program provides local community resources such as GED, health, and housing education for parent in the school.
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But education and parent teacher groups criticised the survey by North Yorkshire County Council, which contained more than 100 questions - half of which were about drugs and drug abuse and 26 others about sex.
Also, Secretary Duncan will meet with representatives from parent, teacher, and education groups.
And even if Barack Obama could snap his fingers and all the resources exist in the world and every school had education and every parent had health care, that still doesn't determine whether or not you're going to be a good person.
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Apollo Group Inc. (APOL) : For-profit education firms like this parent company of the University of Phoenix have come under great regulatory scrutiny in recent years.
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Another advantage: If the original beneficiary doesn't use up all of the funds in the 529 plan, they can be used by another child or the parent for his or her higher education.
Then some people say, well, why are you always talking about parental responsibility in front of black folks? (Laughter and applause.) And I say, I talk about parent responsibility wherever I talk about education.
In education, we want every parent to be able to choose a good secondary school.
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Janelle Sperry is being honored as a Champion of Change for her time and effort in supporting parent involvement in our children's education.
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Deirdre Pierce is being honored as a Champion of Change for her time and effort in supporting parent involvement in our children's education.
For what was emphasized in Seattle, and in the materials released so far, is mostly an educator's (and student's) version of education reform, not a parent's, taxpayer's or policymaker's version.
As a parent, I see how important quality education is in inspiring children to have a passion for learning and to have the foundation they need to lead fulfilling and productive lives.
Conservatives must be the warriors for pro-child, pro-parent, pro-innovation and pro-choice education reforms.
It will take parents getting involved in their children's education, consistently -- going to parent-teacher conferences, helping their children with their homework.
But there are organizations like Folds of Honor that step up and answer the call to duty and patriotism, and try to raise scholarship dollars so that the children of our fallen heroes can pursue a college education of their own, despite having a parent severely wounded, or killed in action.
If parents have concerns about their children's education, they should be able to contact the parent co-ordinator.
Tony Blair and Education and Education Secretary Ruth Kelly have promised to put "parent power" at the heart of their schools policies.
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As a partner of the Malaysian Ministry of Education's 1BestariNet project, Yes 4G's parent company YTL Communications has so far ensured that 7, 000 local state schools are covered by its WiMAX network, with the remaining 3, 000 to be connected over the next six months.
As a parent, a businessman and a former college professor, I believe education is the best asset we can offer our children, but unless we improve the substandard quality of education in this country, we're not doing all we can to assure a strong future.
When ordering a speech aid one parent found her child had to be assessed by health officials before the education department would agree to the request.
But a growing body of evidence suggests that her basic points are right: children of divorce are more likely to have problems at school, to drop out of education and to have difficult relationships than those who lose a parent through death or whose parents' marriage survives.
These organizations are taking advantage of the full range of innovations available, incorporating technology in curriculum planning and delivery, classroom management, teacher training and parent communication to create new models for providing excellent, affordable K-12 education.
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Stay-at-home parents should qualify for a new government program while they are raising young children--one that provides money for good food, as well as education on cooking, meal planning and shopping--so that one parent in a two-parent household, or a single parent, can afford to be home with the children and provide wholesome, healthy meals.
He has been widely praised outside of New York for pushing to improve the education outcome of poor and minority students, but often sparred with unions and parent groups, particularly over his emphasis on testing.
Recognizing the importance of the role of Parent Teacher Councils, effective use of school development funds, increasing enrollment, reducing dropout, and ensuring quality of teaching, UNESCO in collaboration with Provincial Institute of Teachers Education (PITE) Peshawar, is organizing series of workshops on "Reactivation of Parent Teacher Councils" of Sufaid Dheri and Malkandher Union Councils, and FR- Peshawar area.
Having left college without completing my degree, my AmeriCorps education award made it possible to complete my studies while managing the responsibilities of being a single parent.
Cambridge Education Associates, which run the London Borough of Islington schools said it was writing to each parent in the borough to inform them of the new criteria.
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When a public school fails to meet its obligations to students, parent -- when it fails to meet its obligations to students, parents deserve a choice in the education of their children.
One is I don't think any parent in America who has a child would think it snobbery to hope for that child the best possible education in the future, and that includes college.
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