Sentences with phrase «at being productive citizens»

Mr. Coleman, 65, an attorney and a prominent legislator for decades — currently the chairman of the Judiciary Committee and vice chairman of the Public Safety and Security Committee — has been a strong supporter of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's Second Chance Society reforms that aim to reduce the number of people going to prison and give people in prison second chances at being productive citizens.

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«Whether through sponsoring local high school activities, being an active supporter of the county 4 - H program, educating youth through the dozens of tours given at the mill each year, providing flour for various service organizations» fundraisers, helping at the area health fair or providing equipment for the volunteer fire department, we believe that a healthy community builds strong, productive citizens.»

Civil service clerks who unionize and advocate for a wage structure that enables them to participate in our economy as productive, middle - class citizens are demonized, ridiculed and exhorted to accept their status as serfs and vassals while an economy on the brink of complete failure can't throw enough money at the self - syled «nobility».

Hanushek was careful to state that the goal was not to strengthen U.S. performance at the expense of other nations: The creation of well - educated citizens does not constitute a «a zero - sum game that countries or states are playing against each other,» but one in which every country and state can become more productive, and create more wealth for one another by boosting and sharing their talents.

She talks about her excitement at first being introduced to the charter school movement and her continued excitement at seeing how it will mold her own kids children into «productive citizens.»

At the heart of her work alongside schools is the development of young people as life - long learners and productive citizens.

Governments on both sides of the border need to raise the age at which they pay citizens to stop being productive, keynote speaker Michael Falk told the Morningstar Canada annual conference in Toronto today.

When social skills are combined at an early age with cognitive skills, they help create more capable and productive citizens.

Principal Dedy Fauntleroy knows her students will benefit from these skills all their lives: «One of the reasons that social - emotional learning is so important is because our job at school is to create productive, happy citizens.