Sentences with phrase «american public control»

«We really need robust privacy laws on the books that finally give the American public control over their sensitive information,» said Senator Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat.

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While it's rare to see CEOs here take a public stand (witness the silence of Toronto's business leaders when the Rob Ford scandals unfolded), a growing number of American executives are stepping into the public spotlight, taking stands on issues like religious freedom, gay marriage and gun control.

«Aside from that, the number of districts controlled or influenced by the Afghan government had been one of the last remaining publicly available indicators for members of Congress — many of whose staff do not have access to the classified annexes to SIGAR reports — and for the American public of how the 16 - year - long US effort to secure Afghanistan is faring,» he added.

«The number of districts controlled or influenced by the Afghan government had been one of the last remaining publicly available indicators for members of Congress — many of whose staff do not have access to the classified annexes to SIGAR reports — and for the American public of how the 16 - year - long US effort to secure Afghanistan is faring,» he added.

This reevaluation comes as public anger over political inaction on gun control shifts toward the American companies that profit from gun sales.

After the February 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, at least six public opinion polls suggested that Americans were becoming more receptive to gun control.

Backed by the Koch brothers and their American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, legislators across the American West, where most of the public lands are located, are calling on the federal government to cede control and management of them to counties and states.

The militia movement's stance on such issues as gun control or abortion or the sightings of UN troops in the American heartland do not threaten the Jewish community and thus need not trigger the public opposition of the Jewish community.

«17 Toward this end Sierra even drew up a list of American «saints,» which included Washington and Lincoln from the north, Bolivar and Marti from the south, and Hidalgo and Juárez from Mexico.18 This group who controlled public education during the decades prior to the revolution clearly wanted to create a civil religion.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

First, what happened at CUA in 1967 — 68 was part of something much larger and more important than change in American Catholic Education, namely, worldwide, public theological dissent beginning around the time of Vatican II and quickly gaining control of most of the world's Catholic graduate programs and journals.

For the first time in American history inexpensive, reliable birth - control methods became available to the public.

How could he sustain an American's need for control in a country where strikes stopped the mail and public transportation every few weeks, where shops closed unexpectedly and the owners hoarded goods because they couldn't keep up with the 4,000 % inflation?

The U.S. Surgeon General, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Centers for Disease Control - just about every medical and public health group has come out in support of breastfeeding.

Quid showed that while the media narrative was focused on corporate control and Washington corruption, people were talking about fairness, diversity of public voices and what it means to be American.

Cambridge Analytica's rise has rattled some of President Trump's critics and privacy advocates, who warn of a blizzard of high - tech, Facebook - optimized propaganda aimed at the American public, controlled by the people behind the alt - right hub Breitbart News.

This opinion is shared by several leading health organisations, including the American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, American Lung Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council and American Public Health Association.

Nothing excites the American public like a competition for control of that body, and China has just launched Shenzhou - 5, its first manned spacecraft.

«The letter, from some of the world's most knowledgeable experts in the fields of nuclear weapons and arms control, arrives as Mr. Obama is lobbying Congress, the American public and the nation's allies to support the agreement,» William J. Broad wrote in an article in the New York Times.

As Jeffery D. Sachs argues in this month's issue of Scientific American, the failure to play a more active role is policy proposals — namely in health care and climate change control — has created weak policies and a suspicious American public.

The study, a large collaboration between researchers at Columbia University, Fordham University, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was published by the American Journal of Public Health.

He has received numerous honors, including the CDC Charles C. Shepard Science Award; the American Public Health Association, Injury Control and Emergency Health Services Section Distinguished Career Award; the American Academy of Pediatrics, Section on Injury and Poison Prevention, Physician Achievement Award; the UW School of Public Health Distinguished Alumni Award; the Academic Pediatric Association Miller - Sarkin Mentoring Award; and the University of Washington Minority Faculty Mentoring Award.

When the American Academy of Environmental Medicine evaluated the animal feeding studies, he peer reviewed public studies on GMOs, they found that the animals that were fed GMOs, compared to the controls, suffered from gastrointestinal problems.

The size and significance of voucher effects for African - Americans appear unchanged after controlling for the class sizes in the public and private schools students attended.

By giving these schools true control over their programs, staff, and curricula, and by opening them to all families, authors of the charter school law resurrected the true American vision of public schooling: equal access to great instruction and accountability for results.

On average in the three cities, African - American students who switched from public to private schools scored 6.3 percentile points higher than their peers in the control group on the reading portion of the test and 6.2 points higher on the math portion.

This creates concern why public education is now controlled by two private organizations,» says Gretchen Logue, a Missouri education activist and one of the co-founders of Truth in American Education, a network of activists and organizations opposing Common Core.

Thus, as a public union, the NEA (so too the American Federation of Teachers), is, essentially, spreading around tax dollars, money over which the taxpayer has no control, an income redistribution effort that could easily be mistaken for a kickback or, in states where union membership and dues are not voluntary, a not - so - hidden and not - so - representative tax.

Conclusion The American public is of two minds: state and local control is preferable to federal control, and yet most of the major problems facing the schools result from state and local decisions.

Local control is a hallmark (and in many ways a unique strength) of American public education.

Such clashes are inevitable in government - run schooling because all Americans are required to support the public schools, but only those with the most political power control them.

The committee stalled desegregation efforts by giving local school districts control over student assignments at particular schools, blocking African - Americans from attending all - white public schools.

Until the voice of experience permeates the hegemonic control over public education reform — whether teachers buy solely into current reforms, overturn the existing system, or a combination of the two — no sustainable transformation will ever take place in American schools.

The difficulty lies in the lack of awareness of the union's control over teachers and schools by the American public.

Americans still have control of their public schools through their local school boards.

American public education has a long tradition of local control, with many decisions made by schools or districts and the rest typically settled at the state level.

For four years I taught in an all - boys public school in Queens that serves an almost 100 percent African - American student body — a population of students that has been historically and systematically under - represented in the upper echelon of standardized test scores for many factors beyond anyone's control.

Academy of Nutrition Dietetics Active Schools Alliance for a Healthier Generation American Academy of Pediatrics American Association for Health Education American Association of Family & Consumer SciencesAmerican Cancer Society American College of Sports Medicine American Diabetes Association American Federation of Teachers American Heart Association American Public Health Association American School Health Association Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development Association of State and Territorial Health Officials Association of State Public Health Nutritionists Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Council of Chief State School Officers Directors of Health Promotion and Education Family, Career & Community Leaders of America Food Research and Action Center Healthy Kids Challenge KaBOOM!

Marc Carignan is CFO of the Idaho Charter School Network and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.Marc has a unique blend of corporate and non-profit experience in finance, accounting, information systems, internal controls and management.

We want an end to mayoral control, state takeovers and other privatization schemes that remove our right to hold public officials accountable for the education policy they set; and curiously target cities whose public school systems serve primarily African - American and Latino children.

«We're seeing in the last year or so that the silver bullets are starting to lose their luster — charter schools, merit pay and mayoral control,» said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers and a major figure in the country's debate about the role of teachers» unions in public education.

The new report, «Out of Control: The Systemic Disenfranchisement of African American and Latino Communities Through School Takeovers,» shows how elected school boards have been dissolved or stripped of their power and voters have been denied the right to local governance of their public schools.

«a new revolutionary era of permissiveness in this country fostered by the judiciary... I wish, therefore, wholly to disclaim any purpose on my part to hold that the Federal Constitution compels the teachers, parents, and elected school officials to surrender control of the American public school system to public school students.»

Several other states, including Michigan, have opened the roads to autonomous testing, even as the American Center for Mobility in Ypsilanti, Michigan, continues to build its $ 2 - million testing facility that will avoid placing the general public at risk with testing available in realistic, though controlled, conditions.

He has argued that failed banks should not be bailed out, Lehman's collapse was not a disaster, AIG should be declared bankrupt, that naked short selling is not a problem, that backdating isn't so bad, insider trading should be legal, many corporate CEOs are underpaid, global solutions are worse than local solutions, Warren Buffett is overrated, Michael Milken is a great American, the collapse of the hedge fund was not a scandal, hedge funds are over-regulated, education is overrated by the educated, bonuses at successful Wall Street's firms are deserved and possibly undersized, management buyouts are boons to the economy, Enron's management was victimized by an over-zealous prosecution, Sarbanes - Oxley should be repealed, corporate compliance culture is a disaster, shareholder democracy is overrated, hostile takeovers ought to be revived, the market is permanently moving away from public ownership of equity in corporations, private partnerships are on the rise, public ignorance is encouraged and manipulated by governments and corporations, experts overrate expertise, regulatory agencies are controlled by the businesses they supposedly regulate and Wall Street is much more fun than people give it credit for.

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American Humane believes that all cats and dogs adopted from public or private animal care and control facilities should be spayed or neutered (i.e., sterilized).

«American Humane Association believes that all cats and dogs adopted from public or private animal care and control facilities should be spayed or neutered (i.e., sterilized).

American Humane Association supports the passage of laws and regulations mandating that all cats and dogs adopted from public or private animal care and control facilities be sterilized.»

Over the past two years, more than 100 municipalities across the USA have overturned bans and other restrictions that target dogs in the pit bull family, and opposition to BSL comes from sources as diverse as the American Bar Association, animal rescue groups, the Center for Disease Control and even President Barack Obama, who said in August that the laws are largely ineffective while doing nothing to improve public safety, and are often a «waste of public resources».