Sentences with phrase «choice than the nation»

A nationwide poll recently conducted by EdChoice shows that parents with school age children are more likely to support school choice than the nation as a whole.

Parents Overwhelmingly Support School Choice October 27, 2016 by Brett Kittredge A nationwide poll recently conducted by EdChoice shows that parents with school age children are more likely to support school choice than the nation as a whole.

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Again, I'm not religious, but if I had to make a choice, I'd much rather live in a nation that is majority Christian than Muslim.

Certainly individuals are different than nation states (by this I mean that as individuals our choices are clearer - not that we can not properly discern whether a particular war is or is not necessary - but even then its much much tougher) and matters of war and peace are very much filled with variables men and women as individuals would have an a very difficult task of unwinding to find some acceptable scenario.

Jeremy good message and quite relevant for today God is still looking at our hearts and motives for serving him or are we serving our own agenda as Jonah was.He did nt feel compassionate towards his enemies and who could blame him they had cruelly killed many Jews it was a question of life or death to his own people.The Jewish nation was no more deserving of Gods grace than the other nations that is revealed by sending Jonah to preach a message of hope and life.Ultimately God calls all by faith in him and is willing to be merciful to all nations and peoples that do not not deserve it just like us it is by grace that we all are forgiven.I am pleased that God is sovereign and knows whats best he is merciful to us.Our human nature is that it is better to kill our enemies before they can kill us and that is essentially Jonahs message that is why he struggled to be obedient to Gods will.Gods message is to forgive those that trespass against us and show mercy.Its complicated and it is natural to protect ourselves and our families from those who would seek to destroy them but ultimately its about trusting God with everything easier said than done.If it comes to a choice we will have to trust God and ask for his strength because we cant do it in ours.As Christ laid down his life for us are we ready to lay our lives and the lives of our families as a sacrifice for him.To me that is where the story of Jonah is leading to we have the choice to fight our enemies or to love them as God loves them.brentnz

Increasingly those who were followers of Jesus were such by deliberate individual choice rather than by the tradition of the people or the nation and were distinct from those who were not.

Nation's Restaurant News awarded the chain «Best Healthy Choice Menu Selection for 2004,» based on more than 30 new low - carb dishes added to the menu, including low - carb cheesecake, burgers in high - fiber tortilla wraps, and other low - carb stand - ins such as Creamy Mashed Cauliflower.

«Nothing gives us more pleasure than being able to honor standout local restaurants with our premier Diners» Choice Awards for Top 100 Best Neighborhood Gem Restaurants in the nation,» said Caroline Potter, OpenTable Chief Dining Officer.

I think in this election cycle, more so than ever before in my lifetime, the nation is forced to either sit out this presidential election or invest some time to make a choice they can live with.

For Fast Food Nation, the team brought director Richard Linklater to a butcher, only to discover that the dedicated vegetarian was less than pleased with the choice of venue.

An analysis of more than 100 million individual searches on the nation's largest school - quality website finds that expanded local choice motivates families to become more informed about their educational options.

The nation's first modern private school choice program — in Milwaukee — has been around for more than 25 years.

Rather than asking kids in need of a better shake to change homes, forsake their friends, or take long bus rides, course choice enables them to learn from the best teachers in the state or nation.

The result could be a personalized, customized system of education in which families have greater choice and control over their children's education than at any time since our nation was founded.

The reality that choice remains illusory for four - fifths of all children in this country and especially for the kids who need strong, comprehensive college - preparatory curricula the most (and, as Dropout Nation has documented ad nauseam, are the least likely to get it in traditional districts) is more than enough reason to adopt Common Core (alongside expanding the array of choice options that can allow for a variety of curricula choices).

«The first half of his tenure was marked by a series of reforms: closing more than one dozen failing schools and programs and creating several others that have thrived; decentralizing the system by cutting the headquarters staff by more than half; giving principals power over budget decisions; creating choice for city families, and competition among middle and high schools; and signing a landmark pay - for - performance teachers» union contract that was hailed as a model in the nation.

While the fight for school choice rages across the nation, perhaps no better example exists than that of the Windy City.

Maryland currently has one of the weakest charter school laws in the nation, which has left parents here with fewer choices for educating their children than in many other states.

In just 12 months, more than half of the nation's towns and counties have seen a fall in the proportion of Year Six pupils winning a place at their first choice school, according to analysis of government data.

As the pro-voucher Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice estimates, more than 530,000 Indiana students — more than half of the state's student population — already qualify for the program, referred to in many education circles as the nation's broadest voucher program.

They helped to write the nation's first public school choice and charter school laws in Minnesota, and have assisted with such laws in more than 20 other states.

The United States — and Georgia in particular — can learn lessons from this nation of almost 18 million where there is more private - sector school choice than almost anywhere else in the world.

Today, there are 41 private school choice programs serving more than 308,000 children across the nation.

With more than 1100 schools and 500,000 students, California sets the pace for public schools of choice for the nation, with CCSA as a foundational force.

These days, you can choose to keep your money at almost any bank in the nation rather than limit yourself to the brick - and - mortar choices in your local area.

Maldivian leaders have long been out front on climate, and, in the case of Nasheed, on non-polluting energy choices, mainly because the nation, with hardly any land more than eight feet above sea level, is particularly vulnerable should seas rise several feet by the end of the century.

In our video chat, he and the other authors acknowledged the challenge in gaining traction, even with such findings, given the deep - rooted human bias toward immediate gratification and the development and energy gaps that mean today's poorer nations have few affordable choices other than fossil fuels.

I am not sure that the rational decision based on science is related to the best hindsight decision (at lest at the level of the nation state), it seems rational to think that logic would favour the best choice but it may be no better than guessing.

In this they seem to have fallen upon a very good expedient for their own happiness and safety; for since the good or ill condition of a nation depends so much upon their magistrates, they could not have made a better choice than by pitching on men whom no advantages can bias; for wealth is of no use to them, since they must so soon go back to their own country; and they being strangers among them, are not engaged in any of their heats or animosities; and it is certain that when public judicatories are swayed, either by avarice or partial affections, there must follow a dissolution of justice, the chief sinew of society.

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As the credit crisis drags on, debt - ladened General Growth Properties, the nation's second largest regional mall REIT, may have no other choice than to sell the company.