Sentences with phrase «also part of the agenda»

IDC Sen. Tony Avell» a proposal aimed at giving families increased flexibility to allow workers to accrue sick - time benefits in order to care for a loved one is also part of the agenda.

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.

Not exact matches

Note that the moving agendas in relations between North and South Korea, as well as between Japan and the US, are also parts of the huge global realignment underway.

He may also be faced with incomprehension and hostility when he tries to persuade the school not to support «Red Nose Day» or «Jeans for Genes»; when he suggests that asking pupils to stand at the front of the class and shout out the names of intimate body parts is an invasion of their modesty; when he objects to the non-Catholic geography teacher's presentation of solutions for over-population, the «gay rights» agenda seeping in through text books, the chaplaincyco - ordinator's failure to get abortion agency leaflets removed from the library, or the school nurse's distribution of cards with information on how to get the morning - after pill.

Perhaps you know atheists who ALSO have some OTHER agenda, but their other agenda is not a PART of atheism..

Also part of Cleveland's new agenda is the regular appearance in the locker room of former NFL star and current businessman / motivational speaker / social worker Jim Brown.

Also that's because he is kroenke's accountant and he is a part of the agenda to finance LA Rams» new staduim with converting Arsenal into an EL — top 10 club.

Cutting a long story somewhat shorter, although the trauma is no longer fresh, it has left me struggling to understand the motivation of midwives in pushing the NCB agenda, but also wondering if my future in medicine could lie in obs & gynae, because I think women deserve honest and excellent care in a pivotal yet vulnerable time and maybe I could be part of that.

The push, part of the 2018 State of the State agenda, will also lead to the creation of an advisory panel to develop a «de-carbonization roadmap» for new investments that bolster fighting climate change and green technology.

The agenda, introduced as part of Cuomo's State of the State address, also includes a strengthening of the state's abortion laws by codifying the Roe v. Wade decision in state law.

Those groups would like to scrap the Common Core as part of a reform agenda that would also target teacher tenure and boost charter schools and voucher systems.

This according to him forms a critical part of the current federal government's diversification agenda of the economy while he also cited instance that the government has already embarked upon a plan for self - sufficiency in rice and wheat production, which, when it succeeds will reduce pressure on foreign exchange.

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.

Family values, another key part of the government's agenda, will also please frustrated Conservative MPs.

The former PM was also open about the fact that he supported key parts of the coalition government's agenda.

Britain, she said, would also give # 15 million to Ghana through DFID to support the country's child protection programmes as part of the post-2015 development agenda.

As part of the 2015 Opportunity Agenda Cuomo has been releasing in recent days, he is also calling for New York's current minimum wage of $ 8.75 an hour to be increased to $ 10.50 an hour by the end of 2016.

«The winds that blow in Washington also blow in New York, that was part of it, and we also had probably the most aggressive agenda I ever put forth.»

The early announcement is also indicative of how little contention there was around the council's budgetary requests, which for the most part aligned with the mayor's agenda and produced little in the way of friction between the two sides.

It also reduced the time in which the Governor was forced to contain his fury while responding that Mr. Astorino has dishonored the memory of Martin Luther King Jr., shown his disrespect for women as part of his «ultra-conservative» agenda, and was a liar as well.

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.

Also part of the same agenda is the use of phony chat messages that are sent to free members to trick them into upgrading.

As such, it is also part of the $ 1.1 billion National Innovation and Science Agenda.

It also changed because STRIVE embraced the new challenge, part of a broader «equity agenda» that includes other changes in enrollment and school practices.

The controversial National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ)-- created by the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute and funded (in part) by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as «part of a coalition for «a better orchestrated agenda» for accountability, choice, and using test scores to drive the evaluation of teachers» (see here; see also other instances of controversy here and here)-- recently issued yet another report about state's teacher evaluation systems titled: «Running in Place: How New Teacher Evaluations Fail to Live Up to Promises.»

This week also brought a startling story about another key part of the Right's education agenda, the rapid and still too unaccountable expansion of charter schools, which in many cases have developed into profit centers for shady operators instead of the «laboratories of education innovation» that we were promised.

Other national groups also propose parent trigger laws as part of agendas that favor charter schools, eliminating teacher tenure, and restricting teachers» unions.

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.

The Obama administration has also made the controversial approach a central part of its educational reform agenda, although officials also note that it only should be part of a teacher's overall review.

But it was also just one part — albeit a large one — of the state's education reform agenda.

But she also said that anyone who did have a personal agenda and was blind to anyone else's perspective could very easily take any part of this article out of context and fool themselves and other people into making it something that it wasn't.

I've been discussing climate change with lots of people at campaign stalls recently, and it has opened my eyes as to how far this «balanced» climate sceptic reporting is shaping the thinking of even those people who are concerned and want to see some action («I am aware that flying might make climate change worse, but I'll still do it because the warming may just be part of a natural cycle — I would stop if I was more certain»; «I am worried, but I have also heard that it is just water vapour which makes us warmer, so we just don't kow if this CO2 thing is true, everybody seems to have a different agenda» etc.).

In order to foster international cooperation, it is also essential that the United States rejoin the global community and lead efforts to secure an international treaty at Copenhagen in December of next year that includes a cap on CO2 emissions and a global partnership that recognizes the necessity of addressing the threats of extreme poverty and disease as part of the world's agenda for solving the climate crisis.

Until then, if each and every remedy is also part and parcel of the standard liberal agenda, most Americans will continue to assume that Global Warming is the liberal version of the GWOT.

I'm delighted that we will continue to count on the support of Charles Layfield, who is also closely involved with the campaign to encourage the government to give due consideration to genuinely injured customers as part of its personal injury agenda.»

She was also a member of the Business Law Agenda Stakeholder Panel, an expert group whose recommendations led to the creation of the council in 2016, and acted for the Securities Advisory Committee to the Ontario Securities Commission and was part of a team who advised the Canadian securities regulators on the reformulation of securities regulation.

New anonymous «virtual accounts» will also see a complete ban as a part of the government's agenda to mandate and strengthen KYC (know - your - customer) rules in the industry.

As he did after the Sandy Hook school shooting, Jones labeled the Parkland school shooting a «false flag operation» carried out by the «deep state» as part of its agenda to enact gun - control legislation, and also claimed that the Parkland students were «crisis actors.»

He also urged Congress to tackle tax reform, despite all the other priorities on its agenda, and he said homes and commercial buildings must be part of the country's effort to improve energy efficiency.

But housing finance reform could also be part of his first - term agenda.