Sentences with phrase «amount of public support»

The bill had died, but by 2007, the Rivera Herrera and the coalition had built a formidable amount of public support for the protection of the corridor.

The results of the poll suggest there isn't a huge amount of public support for the idea, but responses were mixed.

Public Opinion A YouGov poll found that only 38 per cent of people believe the government should build more grammar schools and encourage more schools to select on academic ability, which suggests there isn't a huge amount of public support for the idea.

Public financing allows candidates who show some threshold amount of public support to receive sufficient funding for their campaigns.

The other bet of the week will be a moneyline parlay of Arsenal / Manchester City (which pays out +116 using Pinnacle's current lines), two big road favorites who actually aren't seeing a lopsided amount of public support.

With the Rondo / Wade / Butler core, I expect Chicago to draw a similar amount of public support this season, which could set them up to be profitable fade if that trio can not figure it out.

Not exact matches

Specific policies include a Canada Employment Credit and Tax Fairness Plan to reduce taxes for working families and seniors; tax credits for public transit, kid's sports, textbooks, tools, and apprentices; increased support to the provinces and territories to create new child care spaces; increasing the Senior Age Credit amount by an additional $ 1,000; and allowing income splitting for caregivers of family members with disabilities.

Financial support faced strong public resistance and it took a considerable amount of time before public funds were actually injected into financial institutions.

The figure is their calculation of what each Florida student is worth to the Republican senator; they came up with it by dividing the amount the National Rifle Association has spent to support Rubio's campaigns, $ 3.3 million, by the 3.1 million public and private students in the state.

Rather than having the poor on the public dole, thus providing a double hit, not paying taxes, and also requiring huge amounts of support, they believe in getting people back to work.

Removing the flag from public displays has seen increasing amounts of support among Christian leaders.

«Bama has been one of the public darlings this season and it's not surprising they've received a significant amount of support throughout the week.

I appreciate it is an important issue for some, but more needs to be done If one contrasts the amount of civic campaigning activity and public support behind the Scottish Constitutional Convention in the early 1990s (building on a range of efforts over a longer period), then it is clear that there has been no campaign in England of similar.

To support the Mount Vernon Public Library, donations of any amount can be given at go to their website.

• Proposition 3 - Authorize the Canastota Central School District to levy and collect an annual tax, year after separate and apart from the annual school district budget in the amount of $ 334,822 which will be paid to the Canastota Public Library for support and maintenance.

• Proposition 3 - authorize the Hamilton Central School District to levy a tax in the amount of $ 132,535 and pay the trustees of the Hamilton Public library for the support and basis of the library.

«Marc has shown a great amount of dedication to public service as well as an unwavering support of law enforcement.

Public employee unions have a huge amount of sway near the heart of the state's bureaucracy, and in 2014, they worked against the governor who had angered their members with his tough negotiations on labor contracts and his support for pension and education reforms.

«The Conservative Party made their voice heard,» Cuomo said, referring to Skelos» inaction on a bill, supported by the governor, to ease penalties for suspects caught with small amounts of marijuana «in public view.»

With a tremendous amount of support for the bill, and with expectations that the legislation will pass with an overwhelming majority vote of the public, there are still a handful of individuals who oppose it, Buchwald said.

Bharara issued Cuomo a warning last week after a Cuomo aide solicited public statements of support from some members of the commission, suggesting that such orchestration could amount to witness tampering.

Health research requirements to support the public health sector in Africa are on the order of US$ 5 billion (a conservative estimate), but a fraction of this amount is available.

«Again, without the public support for this dedicated observing run, we would not have this large amount of data.»

However, what the public fails to grasp is that the claims neither constitute support for alarm nor establish man's responsibility for the small amount of warming that has occurred.

In states, for example, that have some of the best public universities in the country, the amount of money that can be used to support research activities has declined precipitously.»

«Scientific data continue to support the premise that small to moderate amounts of alcohol on a regular basis are consistent with a healthy lifestyle for middle - aged and older adults,» said Dr. R. Curtis Ellison, professor of medicine and public health at Boston University School of Medicine.

Companies like K12, Inc. must inform students and parents up front what it's like to learn in a full - time virtual school that requires a significant amount of individual effort, parental support, and persistence before they commit and K12, Inc. receives the associated public funds.

When the public was asked the friendly question in 2011, support for vouchers climbed to 47 percent, 8 percent over the previous year, the same amount of gain revealed by the unfriendly question.

If you combine the campaign spending of all those entities it does not match the amount spent by the National Education Association, the public - sector labor union that represents some 2.3 million K — 12 public school teachers and nearly a million education support workers (bus drivers, custodians, food service employees), retirees, and college student members.

The need for richer data constitutes a primary reason why fellow researchers and I support the creation of a citywide program that offers vouchers set at the amount of per - pupil funding in area public schools.

As governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007, Mr. Huckabee supported a proposal that would have given undocumented children who had lived in Arkansas for a certain amount of time and graduated from a public high school in the state the same chance at an academic scholarship to state institutions as other students.

Senior Corps» Foster Grandparents program provides an opportunity for volunteers age 55 and older to serve as mentors and tutors for students.39 In 2016, an estimated 24,000 Foster Grandparents volunteers served approximately 200,000 students.40 Similarly, in 2016, AmeriCorps VISTA volunteers were approved to provide capacity - building assistance to more than 2,900 education - related project sites.41 Cutting funding for the CNCS would mean eliminating a substantial amount of necessary support for traditional public and public charter schools and would hurt low - income students across the country.

According to a 2016 Gallup poll, Millennials rate the opportunity to «learn and grow» as an extremely important aspect of jobs to which they might consider applying.31 Eighty - seven percent of Millennials said that «development» was an important part of a job.32 Unlike many school districts, various entities elsewhere in the public sector and in the private sector have responded to their interests and are increasing the amount of feedback, professional development opportunities, and support they provide to employees.33

EdWeek's state education blog summed things up: «Evers received a large amount of support from the state's teachers union and campaigned on increasing public school funding and building more wraparound services for the state's poor, black, and Latino students.

The most significant change in the state over his tenure, he said, is the level of public support for schools after years of state funding cuts, which can be seen in the record amounts of spending through school referendums.

From where Casey sits, the criticism of Brown and others about the unwillingness of the AFT to embrace any reform of the obsolete process for teacher dismissals — including the Big Apple affiliate's successful opposition to Bloomberg's effort this year to give the city's schools chancellor final say over dismissing those alleged and convicted of criminal misconduct (and those engaged in inappropriate behavior with students)-- amounts to» a vicious slander» geared to «chip away at public support for the due process rights» and to «distract» people from the city's failures to put more effort into firing such teachers.

During his tenure in New York, King ushered in practices such as teacher evaluations tied to student performance and supported the Common Core State Standards and aligned assessments, all of which garnered a significant amount of public pushback.

The bill doubled the amount of money private donors could give to political parties, removed the cap on how much political parties could spend to support candidates participating in the public finance system and created a massive loophole by allowing candidates, in this case Malloy, to better coordinate their activities with political parties and other political action committees.

Of particular note is that while pledging to support Hartford's Public Schools, Bronin relied heavily on donations from the Charter School and Corporate Education Reform Industry, collecting huge amounts of money from charter school advocates and Greenwich residents Jonathan Sackler and Billionaire Paul Tudor Jones II, as well as employees, board members and lobbyists for Connecticut's charter schoolOf particular note is that while pledging to support Hartford's Public Schools, Bronin relied heavily on donations from the Charter School and Corporate Education Reform Industry, collecting huge amounts of money from charter school advocates and Greenwich residents Jonathan Sackler and Billionaire Paul Tudor Jones II, as well as employees, board members and lobbyists for Connecticut's charter schoolof money from charter school advocates and Greenwich residents Jonathan Sackler and Billionaire Paul Tudor Jones II, as well as employees, board members and lobbyists for Connecticut's charter schools.

Your generous contribution of any amount helps support our efforts to reach out to Washington voters with important information about the Washington Public Charter Schools Initiative.

That includes giving every public school student the same amount of support by giving all public schools — district and charter — the same amount of financial support and access to space.

There has been an overwhelming amount of support from the public and millions of rands have already been raised to assist firefighters» efforts to win the battle against the blaze.

Experian's spokeswoman said a consumer's credit report contains four types of data on the borrower: identifying information (including name, address, phone number, Social Security number, date of birth and spouse's name), account history (individual credit account information such as the date opened, credit limit or loan amount, balance, monthly payment, payment status and payment history), data from public records (such as federal bankruptcy records, tax liens, monetary judgments and overdue child support payments) and a record of inquiries into your credit history.

Proof of public assistance, including Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Reference from Integrated Community / Communidad Integrada (ciiccolorado.org) Two most recent pay stubs W - 2 1040 Proof of children in the reduced - cost school lunch program Proof of unemployment benefits currently or within the last three months Proof of Food Stamps Latest award letter for Social Security or disability payments Proof of Medicaid Extreme medical expense or other demonstrable extreme financial hardship Court documents showing amount of child support or spousal maintenance

We're so thankful for the tremendous amount of support from the animal rescue community, and of course you, the public, who are helping make all of this happen.

All the Trainers did an amazing job and the amount of support and public appearance we received was wonderful.

Total amount granted: USD 140,000: i) USD 30,000 from the Rapid Response Facility for the monitoring of unauthorized activities in the Bladen Nature Reserves which were impacting the property; ii) USD 30,000 for emergency conservation actions in favour of the critically endangered wide sawfish (2010); iii) USD 80,000 in support of public use planning and site financing strategy development for the Blue Hole Natural Monument (2008 - 2009).

A grant of # 7.4 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund plus contributions made by the Linbury Trust, the Garfield Weston Foundation and the Headley Trust helped raise the funds, but a significant amount also came from public support: 8,000 individual donations totalled # 1.5 million.

We are pleased to announce that we not only had a significant amount of feedback on this most vexed of questions but received a variety of responses that ranged from supporting artistic practices that, successfully or otherwise, negotiated the exigencies of institutional, public and civil spaces to responses that pointedly questioned the need (and, indeed, the inherent demand) for art to engage with such issues at all.

... what the public fails to grasp is that the claims neither constitute support for alarm nor establish man's responsibility for the small amount of warming that has occurred.