Sentences with phrase «broad public mandate»

«There is a pretty broad public mandate» to expand CPP, he said.

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The Conservative's promise of a referendum on Lisbon was always about something far broader than the Treaty itself; it sought a mandate to go to Brussels to renegotiate the terms of our membership of the EU commensurate with British interests and public attitudes.

Against the background of a general breakdown of public confidence in the political elite, politicians on both left and right have seen themselves not as part of a broader governing elite but as outsiders, empowered by their democratic mandate to shake up government and make it more responsive to the wishes of the people.

The law creating the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission gives it a broad mandate to:

In addition, they pontificate that students learn best when schools are mandated to use the ill - conceived Common Core standards so classrooms become little more than Common Core testing factories and the teaching profession is opened up to those who haven't been burdened by lengthy college based education programs designed to provide educators with the comprehensive skill sets necessary to work with and teach the broad range of children who attend the country's public schools.

Instead, the new «mandate» is part of the broader corporate education reform agenda that is successfully diverting scarce public funds away from teacher - student instruction to private companies.

This new «mandate» is part of the broader corporate education reform agenda that is crippling public education in Connecticut and across the nation.

Umberger seemed circumspectly optimistic about the broader implications of this growing receptiveness to vernacular art: «[The] more often public audiences encounter powerful art made by minority demographics, the more lopsided old narratives appear, and the mandate for inclusion continues to grow.»

Following the 2007 amendments to the Code under Bill 107, which removed the gatekeeper function of the OHRC, the main mandate of the Commission is in regards to broader systemic problems, including greater public education.

Historically in Canada, since the emergence of the first comprehensive human rights codes, human rights commissions have been central to the fulfillment of the public interest purpose of human rights legislation, and have been given a broad mandate to: investigate, screen and carry complaints to hearing, represent complainants; launch systemic complaints; conduct public hearings; approve affirmative action programs; issue guidelines and public reports; and promote human rights through education.

In light of this broad Congressional mandate not to interfere with current public health practices, we believe the broad definition of «public health authority» is appropriate to achieve that end.

The law creating the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission gives it a broad mandate to:

The reason public schools have not reached their mandate is that they have not emphasized purposeful, effective teaching to have students acquire the critical social - emotional skills necessary for any academic outcome, not to mention the broader outcomes public education is mandated to achieve.

Private actors may desire broader relief than the commissioner, in the exercise of her public interest mandate, may require.