Sentences with phrase «public agenda also»

The study released last week by Public Agenda also found that teachers share the public's support for higher academic standards, but do not rank such standards among their highest priorities.

Not exact matches

But the show has also done good, small - bore reporting on President Trump's domestic agenda — the impact on Kentucky drug - treatment programs if Obamacare is repealed, or how public - private partnerships, of the sort championed by Trump to rebuild infrastructure, have failed to work in building highways in Virginia.

My article also discusses directions for an ambitious public agenda: 1.

We'll also be taking part in an assembly on the last day, dealing with public services and Harper's «austerity» agenda.

In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

That means the candidates should have principles but also policy agendas that are plausible given the state of public opinion in those constituencies.

The report also said directors of public health in each locality should be a chief officer of the local authority, who has a statutory duty to address the local public health agenda in full.

Public contracts, such as the educational maintenance allowance (EMA) scheme for young people continuing with education, are also expected to be on the agenda.

Of course, Obama and Trump are characterized by wholly different domestic agendas, political leadership styles and public rhetoric, but they are also both US presidents, who govern the leading economic and military global power, confronted by largely the same foreign policy problems and endowed with the same bureaucratic structures and military capabilities.

Dinallo also announced a six - point agenda for investigating public corruption, which includes stringent new disclosure requirements for charities (like, say, the Bronx - based Soundview, which Cuomo says Espada looted of more than $ 14 million), using the Tweed Law to investigate the misuse of public funds, and pursuing election law violations under the existing Executive Law.

Ethical culture overlaps with the public - service ethos: for reasons that are blandly uncontroversial (everyone wants better standards of service - quality and delivery) but also partisan and contentious (better standards in a fiscally - straightened world need to come at higher cost to public - sector workers and lower cost to tax - payers) this leads the standards agenda into highly - contested territory.

The convention also used regional public meetings to help set its agenda.

Cuomo has also talked of making schools and school administrators more accountable, and he has yet to fulfill a key component of his reform agenda, the public financing of campaigns.

Massey also briefly mentioned his «Public Safety Agenda», released this morning.

IDC Leader Jeff Klein said he's «excited» by the prospect and said he also wants the rest of the Democrats to adopt his group's policy agenda, including transgender rights and public financing for campaigns, items supported by many mainstream Democrats.

Brady also opposed abortion even in cases of rape and incest, embraced the agenda of the National Rifle Association and indicated he favored teaching creationism in public schools.

Mr. Cuomo will also meet with Democrats in New York's delegation, where the agenda includes «taxes, health care and infrastructure,» according to the person with knowledge of the meeting, who requested anonymity because the trip was not yet public.

She also said she favored lowering the speed limit and was in favor of bringing back the B51 bus to Manhattan as part of an agenda that would provide better public transportation throughout the region.

Cuomo also touted his 2017 agenda, which includes a proposal to provide free tuition to qualifying families than earn less than $ 125,000 a year at public colleges and universities in New York.

This is hardly surprising, but it's also worth noting that the WFP has agreed to embrace Cuomo's «New NY Agenda» — a condition laid out by the AG in order for him to accept the party's nod — which includes a property tax cap, creation of another pension tier and a wage freeze for public employees, among other proposals of which many unions (mostly the progressive and public sector types) aren't fond.

Also, by intentionally putting their own warcrimes on the public agenda, they remove any leverage the US could use against them.

She also told public television's «New York Now» at the time that the governor's 10 - point women's equality agenda was «incredibly progressive» and «incredibly forward thinking.»

But we also believe that our governments at all levels should be stepping up to issues like ensuring health care for all Americans rather than letting the public policy agenda be dictated by those who are not acting in the broader public interest.»

Jeffries has taken a leading role in criticizing de Blasio over his support of the New York Police Department's broken windows policy and public safety agenda, while also faulting the freshman mayor for trying to organize a presidential forum in Iowa while critics say homelessness, inequality and quality - of - life issues in New York City have worsened.

The bill, sponsored by City Council Member Vanessa Gibson, chair of the public safety committee, also adds another plank to the Council's broad agendas of criminal justice reform and

NYSUT is big enough so that its active «no» vote on Cuomo would make it difficult for him to hit the threshold necessary to get the AFL endorsement, especially if the public employee unions, which are not pleased with the AG's proposed wage freeze and other parts of his «New NY Agenda» plan, also decided to oppose him.

New Yorkers also gave a thumbs up to other items on the governor's agenda, including the raising the minimum wage, at 83 % to 15 %, and public financing of political campaigns at 59 % to 36 %.

GOP strategists also like school choice because it adds a spark of positive energy to a 2014 campaign agenda that's awfully heavy on the negatives: no to Obamacare, no to minimum - wage hikes, no to gay marriage — but yes to rescuing struggling kids from failing public schools through the power of the free market.

Bruce, the «hype and hoopla» Caroline usually refers to are some high profile charter schools that have touted successes not necessarily deserved, though other pro-reform issues are also part of her agenda to impugn any efforts to create more parental choice in public education.

Their legislative agenda also includes taking away local citizen control of public schools and supporting the Malloy administration's effort to punish school districts in which more than 5 percent of the parents opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme.

«My goal — and what I believe we are doing — is advancing an agenda that is pro-child, but also will save and preserve public education.»

Also, while the Smarter Balanced field test plan allows for a 12 - week test administration window, I suspect it is not widely known that CA - specific plans for the 2014 field test require shorter test administration windows for each school — 3 - week windows as assigned by the CA - specific «Field Test Participation Plan» that was first made public as part of state board agenda materials on Nov 6.

During public comment, ACSA recommended the 2015 results not be used for a 2015 Base API as currently anticipated, but the State Board did nothing with that recommendation and it likely will return to the state board agenda for their next meeting in January, also likely to be taken up by the PSAA advisory committee on Dec 2 next month in preparation for consideration by the state board in January.

Also, the implicit agenda of most of these new entrepreneurs is (1) Get enough funding to make the company big enough go public while keeping enough equity to get rich when it does; (2) Buy a Ferrari; (3) Repeat with another company.

Councilman Tony Kranz, who initiated the agenda item, urged the public speakers to also advocate for anti-puppy mill legislation at the state and federal level.

I also don't share former Scientific American editor John Rennie's confidence that politicians, led by public conern, will someday set their agendas based on the «objective facts» on climate risk.

He is also a popular public speaker who loves to make up «facts» to suit his particular agenda.

On a more serious note, Brunelli's cover note also makes very clear that, far from the «transparent,» «educational» organization ALEC now claims to be, ALEC told its funders a different story: «One hundred percent of our energy and effort goes into winning the public policy debate and championing a free market economy... [elipses original] a pro-business, pro-growth, pro-freedom, limited government agenda.»

It also allowed Harper to prevent the public knowing about research that went against his own anti-climate agenda.

Effectively communicating the scientific consensus can also help move the issue of climate change forward on the public policy agenda [6][15][20][24 — 25].

If the science of the hockey stick is wrong, then the symbolism it represents in the public mind is also wrong, and that is a situation The Team can not allow to develop if they are to gain the public's confidence in pursuing their long - term agenda.

What I take from Paul Nurse's comments is that, apparently, the climate scientists thought they could do «science» AND be heavily involved in radical political agendas that directly benefited their enterprise, and while doing so, NOT expect to get some push back by the tax paying public (who, after all, are paying their salaries while also being the targets of the CAGW activists).

On the ground, ICLEI will be also working with local and regional governments to take action in areas that cut across the 2030 Agenda like biodiversity around urban areas and sustainable public procurement.

Public documents also show that the main agenda will be to discuss the technology behind crypto assets and its potential in promoting inclusion.