Sentences with phrase «biggest public effort»

Laws said that this was the biggest public effort to improve the schools estate in decades, and that the initiative was on track to meet its goal of improving 261 school buildings in very poor condition by the end of 2017.

Not exact matches

So it was «big political money» - not the industry, not the Koch brothers» campaign, not an all - out effort to shift public opinion, just «political money».

It will be easier to convince the public of the central bank's efforts to re inflate the world's third - biggest economy if they can easily measure jumps in the size of the BOJ's balance sheet, supporters of the idea say.

But despite its best efforts, VMware itself is not a big player in the brave new world of public cloud computing, the shared data center infrastructure pioneered by Amazon Web Services (amzn), which is now facing heated competition from Microsoft (msft) and Google (googl).

Graduates are not only often the public face of a university, they also tend to be its biggest supporters, through their donations and volunteer efforts.

More important, the cliff is an obvious effort at correcting the biggest flaw in public budgeting — the tendency of politicians to ignore the broader, long - term implications of what they do by continually kicking problems down the road.

I am for recognizing that big public companies will continue to cut jobs in an effort to prop up stock prices, which in turn stimulates the need for more government involvement.»

The big difference between public relations and advertising is that PR takes a lot more effort, thus it is often referred to in the marketing industry as «earned media.»

The biggest advantage Mr. Bush had over the present incumbent was a general feeling among the public that his heart was in the right place, even though he could be clumsy with words, and his administration's relief efforts were less than stellar.

Expanding the Illinois public school breakfast program next year is a big win for the state in an effort to end child hunger.

Thanks to big governmental financial and public efforts obesity rates are stabilizing.

While I do not dismiss the recent grassroots efforts that have gained significant strength via a petition to get pink slime out of school cafeterias, I worry that the focus on it detracts from bigger and more important food system issues, and provides the meat industry with a convenient distraction and an easily fixable problem that can effortlessly be spun into a public - relations success.

«The amazing thing is how the school smells like real food, like delicious roasting chicken,» said Stanley, of School Food Focus, which launched a similar program in St. Paul, Minn., public schools before taking on the pilot effort in Chicago, whose school district is more than six times bigger.

The last big Democratic Senate Scandal was 1986 when the used Public Money in an effort to capture the Majority.

In an effort to crack down on the «vaping» craze, the Legislature is set to follow in the Big Apple's footsteps and ban e-cigs in public places, backers of the bill said Monday.

Off the top of my head the biggest ones are: (1) corruption within the Buildings & Grounds Department (2) corruption involving school district vendors over-billing and paying bribes and kickbacks that led to those two Federal indictments and convictions; (3) corruption involving police harassment of a woman on behalf of the manager of a local beach club; (4) a child rapist operating out of a public middle school; (5) an illegal gambling and pornography web site operated by members of the New Rochelle Police Department; (6) a retired police officer defrauding charities including St. Jude's Children's Research; (7) illegal asbestos handling and asbestos removal at an elementary school; (8) an effort to artificially inflate the salaries and pensions of senior police commanders; (9) the relationship between the New Rochelle Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of former New Rochelle Schools Administrator Freddie Dean Smith.

Sen. Marc Panepinto, who is no fan of the push for mayoral control over the troubled Buffalo public school district, suggested during a CapTon interview last night that there are forces bigger than a certain local assemblywoman behind the effort.

Later, in his speech, Mandelson resurrected the 1997 Labour manifesto commitment to be «wise spenders, not big spenders» in an effort to seize the initiative in the row over public expenditure.

The effort on part of employers» and big business is yet another example of the race to the bottom mentality and how to vilify public employees rather than address the real problems that our local communities face.

This evening, State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver gave a big boost to the plan, endorsing CB3's guidelines: «I want to commend the leadership and members of the Community Board 3 Land Use, Zoning, Public and Private Housing Committee for their effort to achieve, at long last, a true consensus about the future of Seward Park.

In the biggest test of public opinion since the general election, efforts to wrest the strongholds of Westminster, Wandsworth and Barnet from the Tories fell flat.

«Oneida County has continually made it a priority to proactively raise Breast Cancer awareness by engaging with our employees and the public through various educational efforts and events,» said Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. «Many of us have had our lives impacted by this disease in some way and know that preventative measures and early detection are big keys to winning the fight.»

That's a big start for a 2014 re-election campaign or efforts to try to counter a possible advertising blitz by public employee unions if he goes ahead with scheduled layoffs.

Risks One big risk would be public perception and resistance to the effort.

Although this response speaks to the time and effort involved in making improvements, the big guy's tendency to succumb to using his brute force in a revengeful way and another naked public appearance (this time he is seen from the waist up) strips away much of what could have been positive in this message.

Yet not to confront the challenges of structure and governance in public education in our time is to accept the glum fact that the most earnest of our other «reform» efforts can not gain enough traction to make a big dent in America's educational deficit, to produce a decent supply of quality alternatives to the traditional monopoly, or to defeat the adult interests that typically rule and benefit from that monopoly.

So no one should be surprised that the AFT's Big Apple local, the United Federation of Teachers, has allegedly been caught engaging in such activity as part of its effort against moves by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his school reform allies to expand school choice and transform the Empire State's public education systems.

But over the last decade, the charter school movement has morphed from a small, community - based effort to foster alternative education into a vehicle for privatizing public education, pushed by free - market foundations, big education - management companies, and profit - seekers looking for a way to cash in on public - education funds.

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.

In St. John the Baptist Parish Public Schools — a district just outside of New Orleans where 85 percent of students qualify for free or reduced - price lunch — the state's efforts to prioritize aligned instructional materials are having a big impact.

In an effort to do this, the Teacher Salary Project has increased public awareness, pushed to influence policy, provided thought leadership, and shared stories and research, including The New York Times bestselling Teachers Have it Easy; the Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America's Teachers and the nationally acclaimed feature length film, American Teacher.

Consider that so much of the big money flowing into Massachusetts is «dark money,» meaning that its source does not have to be revealed, the harsh reality that that whether or not a Massachusetts resident votes on Election Day 2016 is a matter of public record, but these same voters will never know exactly which billionaires were responsible for the record breaking effort to mislead them into voting Yes on Question 2.

Sarah supports three groups of teacher scholars: a cross-district team of Oakland Unified Computer Science teachers participating in a two - year effort to bring quality computer science instruction to every Oakland school; the staff at Lorenzo Manor Elementary in San Lorenzo Unified serving a diverse population of more than 600 students; and the teachers at MetWest High School, a small Oakland public school and member of the Big Picture Schools network.

In addition to «The Big Six,» other organizations that are presently lobbying Connecticut legislators in favor of the charter school and «education reform» agenda include the Bronx Charter School for Excellence, the North East Charter Schools Network, Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Families for Excellent Schools, the New York - based lobbing and political entity that bused in charter school students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston last year to rally in support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more public funds.

Those who are watching the education reform industry's massive effort to «transform» public education in the United States won't be surprised to learn that the influx of SFER, DFER money into the Denver Board of Education election was just the tip of a much bigger attempt by the Corporate Education Reform Industry to control the outcome of recent Colorado elections.

These and similar effort have now been replicated in more than 100 cities, showing that even mundane public races might make a big difference in the health and well - being of citizens, if not the entire U.S. economy.

Those efforts include placing into adoptive or foster homes the kittens and friendly strays found during TNR projects, heightening public awareness, and recruiting more volunteers in order to make a bigger difference faster.

Some of these include Furburbia pet adoption centers in malls (taking pets out of the shelter to the public); pet super adoptions (adopting hundreds of animals at a time over a weekend), the first coalition - based effort to end the killing; the Big Fix statewide mobile clinic, serving every nook and cranny of the state and cranking out more surgeries than any other mobile clinic of its kind (around 100,000 surgeries during its time); creative corporate partnerships, including Squatters Chasing Tail Ale and Hooters for Neuter; the first statewide community cat trap / neuter / return (TNR) programs; and the first dedicated shelter program to save pit bull terriers (the Pit Crew).

Related efforts include placing into adoptive or foster homes the kittens and friendly strays found during TNR projects, heightening public awareness, and recruiting more volunteers in order to make a bigger difference faster.

Through a major public awareness effort by the Conservancy and its partners, nitrogen pollution from sewage is now recognized as the biggest environmental threat facing Long Island.

Program Managers talk big about joint proposals, cross-discipline efforts at public meetings but throw up their hands when the proposal is in front of them.

11:09 p.m. Updated below You may be aware of the effort under way in Italy to convict six scientists and a public official for manslaughter for statements they made about the improbability of a big earthquake as low - level tremors unnerved citizens in the Abruzzo region of central Italy in late March 2009.

Entitled «The Big Picture: Help Obama Build Our Clean Energy Future,» the grassroots effort will employ online and off - line tactics to generate public comments and support for the numerous administrative findings, rules and regulations expected over the coming months and years.

Some of the authors in AR4 were paid for their effort by Big Oil, others were paid by Big Environment, most were on public money working for an interested department, but I've never met anyone who worked for the IPCC on a grant of the National Science Foundation or suchlike.

Not long after the release of Ross Gelbspan's 1997 «The Heat is On» book, words in its book jacket sleeve about him being a «Pulitzer - winning journalist exposing industry efforts to confuse the public about global warming» drew a response from skeptic climate scientist Dr S. Fred Singer, who categorically denied any quid pro quo arrangement with «big coal & oil», while also directly saying Gelbspan was not a Pulitzer winner.

The neoliberal agenda is putting profit before people, big fossil fuel businesses are having overbearing power over politicians, pushing private greed over public interest, and undermining the fundamental principles of democracy with their aggressive lobbying efforts.

The world's biggest provider of public finance to developing countries will refocus its financing efforts towards tackling climate change, group said

«but one big part of the critique from from the sceptics (scientists and public) is that the results / descriptions from establishment science do not stand apart from the efforts to publicize and to confirm AGW.»

The coal industry's efforts to export huge amounts of taxpayer - owned coal from Montana and Wyoming to Asia has generated unprecedented opposition in the Pacific Northwest - tens of thousands of people have rallied, attended public hearings, and called on their elected officials to oppose coal export terminals that would disrupt and pollute communities and pose one of the biggest threats to the climate of any fossil fuel project in the world.

We won't hold our breath, however about that or the global warming pimps continued efforts to brainwash the public so they can make big bucks on snake oil.