Sentences with phrase «allowing public questions»

Vivien Lowndes and I argue it will be essential that the Mayor learns from the good practices of (some) Police and Crime Commissioners and avoids some weaknesses in opening up transparency of decision making — allowing public questions and providing information about the timing and outcomes of decisions.

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The idea was to establish a record that will allow for better questions from senators when Cohen is summoned back for public testimony, the official said.

Though senators then called for a public hearing, Cohen ultimately was allowed to answer questions in private on Wednesday.

These appearances are in public, and allow the public, via the parliament, to question whether the central bank's actions remain consistent with the inflation target.

There is no question that a man who would abuse a woman is socially and psychologically twisted, but we should not allow this to in any way ameliorate the moral and public evil involved in these cases.

Also I have a question to the public, if this becomes the «legal» then should we also allow people to have more than one wife or husband since it makes them happy and they are not bothering society?

This raises the question of whether public money should be used to allow parents to choose private schools for their children.

The fact is that the two questions regularly posed over the past ten years do not allow us to understand the state of public opinion on a whole range of issues associated with homosexual marriage and parenting.

The fact is that the two questions regularly posed over the last ten years do not allow us to understand the state of public opinion on a whole range of issues associated with homosexual marriage and parenting.

I challenge the FA to allow Managers to question officials 48 hours after the game in public with access to match replays.

I loved this expectant mom, Afifa's question: «Isn't it legally allowed for women to bf in the malls and public?

It might also feature members of the public being allowed to contribute points in debates, and — one day — to even ask questions to the prime minister.

UKBA officers are allowed to enter into «consensual» conversations with potential immigration offender but members of the public are under no obligation to answer their questions.

On this week's Capitol Connection, our Alan Chartock asks Blair Horner, legislative director of the New York Public Interest Research Group about one of the six ballot questions New Yorkers will vote on next Tuesday — specifically, question as to whether certain judges in New York should be allowed to serve up to ten years after the age of 70...

Question # 2, «Allowing the Complete or Partial Forfeiture of a Public Officer's Pension if He or She is Convicted of a Certain Type of Felony,» and question # 3 «Authorizing the Use of Forest Preserve Land for Specified Purposes» received unanimous approval at the October Question # 2, «Allowing the Complete or Partial Forfeiture of a Public Officer's Pension if He or She is Convicted of a Certain Type of Felony,» and question # 3 «Authorizing the Use of Forest Preserve Land for Specified Purposes» received unanimous approval at the October question # 3 «Authorizing the Use of Forest Preserve Land for Specified Purposes» received unanimous approval at the October meeting.

No - one hosting her should be allowed to do so without facing public questions about the quality of their product and the judgement of their editors and proprietors.

There is no question that while the investigation revealed serious issues with regard to fundraising and the manner in which it was conducted, including the use of public resources, I am confident that Mr. Levy did not personally profit... The decision to allow Mr. Levy to complete his term was carefully considered and involved weighing his conduct, the need for stability in government in these difficult economic times while affording a smooth transition after the 2011 elections.»

While this may not directly answer your question in a day - to - day sense, congress.gov (formerly thomas.gov) allows public access to revision history for all bills going through either chamber of the US congress.

Mr Brown said programmes such as Question Time allowed the public to see party leaders and other MPs debating evolving issues, a democratic opportunity which is not available in other countries such as France and the United States.

The prime minister still has serious questions to answer about how this scandal was allowed to happen, and whether she knew Amber Rudd was misleading parliament and the public last week.

Question topics included the recent rollout of the City's municipal ID program, an internal PBA meeting reported to have degenerated into yelling and shoving over PBA President Pat Lynch's demands for an apology from the mayor and whether that provided «consolation» to the mayor, whether he takes comfort from the low number of PBA members reported to have signed «stay away from my funeral» statements, Bratton's comment that the «well was poisoned» by de Blasio's bring of former Sharpton aide Rachel Noerdlinger, a potential Teamsters strike at Hunts Point market, Governor Cuomo's consideration of legislation allowing public access to grand jury minutes, the mayor's objections to a City Council proposed bill outlawing police use of chokeholds, a reported Cuomo / Lynch meeting and what role the governor should fill in the Lynch / de Blasio dispute, whether the mayor is willing to acknowledge «missteps», the reports of Legionnaire's Disease in Co-op City, de Blasio's reaction to a possible 2016 Mitt Romney candidacy and when he last spoke with the Rev. Al Sharpton.

Question Two on the ballot was an amendment proposal to allow the complete or partial forfeiture of a public officer's pension if he or she is convicted of a certain type of felony.

Gianaris questioned the position of Republican senators who oppose a public campaign financing system, but support allowing politicians to seek state reimbursement for criminal defense fees.

Taking the questions from the public via Facebook Live, and simulcast via NO Soundbites Allowed podcast.

The town board members were allowed to question Conroy during the night portion of the meeting after members of the public spoke.

«The video lectures allowed for flexibility, as students could repeat sections they didn't understand for clarification and prepare questions to send to section leaders ahead of time, although the video lectures did make it difficult for students to engage directly with the lecturers,» said Stephanie Shiau, PhD, a post-doctoral student in Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health, and co-first author.

The information provided should allow members of the public and journalists to understand how and why animal research is conducted and answer the questions they may have about the institution's approach to such research.

This fits into the following syllabi: - A-Level - 3.1.2 - Understanding Different Business Forms IB - 1.2 - Types of Organizations This allows students to practice their knowledge of: - Features of Private Limited Companies Features of Public Limited Companies Advantages and disadvantages of each type in the context of an organization This case study is based on a fictional organization and contains a number of questions.

We sought to cast some light on this heated topic with the following survey question, posed in 2008 and again in 2017: «Do you support or oppose allowing a group of Muslim students to organize an afterschool club at your local public school?»

Survey Question # 8: A proposal has been made that would allow parents to send their school - age children to any public, private, or church - related school they choose.

The new question read: «Do you favor or oppose allowing students and parents to choose a private school to attend at public expense?»

We also posed many new questions in 2015, allowing us to explore opinion on curricular and other issues that have never before been examined in a nationally representative survey of the American public.

The news from the Education Next poll had become so bad we were accused of asking an unfriendly voucher question (it referenced the «use» of «government funds to pay the tuition»), so we agreed to split our respondents into two equivalent groups and ask the second group a «friendly» voucher question instead: «A proposal has been made that would give low - income families with children in public schools a wider choice, by allowing them to enroll their children in private schools instead, with government helping to pay the tuition.»

Legislature passed a measure allowing public access to questions on the state's student assessment, called ISTEP Plus.

Instead of arguing whether charter schools should be included in No Child Left Behind, a more fruitful question is how to ensure that state accountability schemes allow enough flexibility for boutique programs within the public system while not opening up loopholes that low - quality schools can slip through.

To investigate the public's views about race - and income - based enrollment programs, we asked Americans one of two variations of the following question: «In order to promote diversity, should public school districts be allowed to take the racial background [family income] of students into account when assigning students to schools?»

PDK asked a nationally representative sample of the American public the following question: «Do you favor or oppose allowing students and parents to choose a private school to attend at public expense?»

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who has written passionately about the need to break the ironclad link between educational opportunity and zip code and advocated a voucher system that would allow open access to all public schools in a region, hemmed and hawed for weeks before issuing a statement against the ballot question.

Teachers have also questioned why some students who did no class work were allowed to remain on school rosters, potentially allowing the company to continue receiving public money for them.

A PDK / Gallup poll released last summer found that, when asked nearly the same question — whether they supported allowing students to choose private schools at public expense — 44 percent of Americans said yes.

They are questions that require a full and complete investigation by Connecticut's policymakers to determine whether Achievement First should even be allowed to continue to receive public funds.

They question the way levy dollars could be converted to a new purpose without consulting voters if a regular public school is converted to a charter school, as is allowed under the new law.

Local tests would eventually be modified to include questions that would allow the public to gauge how average student performance compares to international standards.

Here's how education reform was phrased in the poll question: «The education reform bill passed last year by the State Legislature and signed by the Governor takes essential steps to close Connecticut's worst - in - the - nation achievement gap, raise standards for educators, allows immediate action to improve failing schools, increases access to high - quality public school choices, and improves how education dollars arespent.

DeVos has «not been shy about avoiding the media,» noted a recent AP article, citing lack of public announcement of her first school visit and her refusal to allow those who showed up anyway to join her on the school tour: «DeVos does not take reporters» questions after speeches and her few interviews were with conservative news outlets.»

The overarching question is, if charter schools are taking over closed traditional public schools, then why were the facilities allowed to reach such condemnable conditions?

Kelsey's retreat calls into question the future of the voucher legislation in Tennessee, home to a perennial tug - of - war over whether to allow parents to use public money to pay for private school tuition.

While the election of Donald Trump raises many questions about the future of public education, state Department of Education officials remained cautiously optimistic yesterday that the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) signed into law last year will allow Connecticut schools to move in a positive direction.

They allow the public audience to question whether all children of all backgrounds are receiving equitable educational opportunities.

Imagine, the question informs voters that the Governor's legislation «takes essential steps to close Connecticut's worst - in - the - nation achievement gap, raise standards for educators, allows immediate action to improve failing schools, increases access to high - quality public school choices, and improves how education dollars are spent.»