Sentences with phrase «core issues like»

And, because climate change touches almost every aspect of Earthjustice's work, we'll continue to defend and protect our core issues like protecting and preserving wildlife and wild places.

Also, be sure to understand the difference between copy editors who correct spelling and punctuation and development editors who work with core issues like story, characterization and structure.

✅ Feel free to ignore all of the above advice and go to timely and well - designed panels on core issues like ESSA, personalized learning, and school finance.

«For my part, I will spend the next 27 days continuing to spread the word about the clear choice facing voters in this race — between my progressive plan for better healthcare and high - paying jobs in Queens, and Peter Vallone's extreme Conservative Party - backed views on core issues like women's healthcare and marriage equality,» she added.

He also spoke with senior researchers and staff from the Regional Australia Institute about the role of the regions on the national policy agenda and where core issues like labour force demands and decentralisation fit into the overall economic picture.

Not exact matches

When we pursue real understanding, we can progress beyond knowledge about an issue like child hunger or poverty to being moved to address the core issues that result in so many children not having a home or bed or even a toy to call their own, who wake up or go to sleep hungry, insecure or fearing for their own safety.

The most critical need for similarity is in core values regarding potentially contentious issues like child - rearing, how money should be spent and religion.»

To move that kind of big money, Harris began an organizational expansion of the foundation when she took over in 2010, building an outfit that has gone beyond Bloomberg's core interests of global public health and climate change to tackle new issues, like overfishing.

In recent issues of The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor I've covered the U.S. government's ongoing «War on Cash»... how our government is trying to take over the Internet with the latest push for «net neutrality»... the risks and advantages of digital currency like bitcoin... how U.S. banks are preparing for «bail - ins» during the next financial crisis... how the U.S. government is using Common Core to indoctrinate children so they'll submit to the coming socialist society... and much, much more.

It's the core issue behind questions like, «How do smart people fall for tricks like that?»

First, young Christians are increasingly turning away from the supernatural nonsesnse of religion (immortality, mind reading, sky - gods, talking snakes etc.) and no longer buy into the core morality of the evangelicals on important issues like gay rights and $ exual mores.

Despite what many, many of the comments here sound like (and how hate - filled they are), that's not what is at the core of the issue.

The first is that Christian denominations that have taken this form of liberalism most to heart are also those that seem to be experiencing a serious crisis of confidence, as evidenced by declining membership, intra-denominational splits over issues like homosexuality, and ¯ in some cases ¯ increasing discomfort with core Christian beliefs about Jesus Christ and the Trinity.

Nuttall does this well personally, ridiculing Labour for obsessing about issues like climate change and Palestine when their core voters care about immigration, the NHS and jobs.

He was also as animated when clarifying issues on the other core areas like manufacturing, power and agriculture.

The pamphlet argued that the Conservative Party needed to convince the British people that it would not only advance the material interests of its core voters but that it must also become a party that cared for society's most vulnerable people and for quality of life issues like the environment.

The newest chancellor of the Board of Regents, she hails from the Bronx and will be tasked with dealing with fraught issues like teacher evaluations, the Common Core and the growing movement to opt out of the curriculum's exams.

Flanagan's post as chair of the education committee has helped him grow in prominence, particularly as issues like the Common Core standards, teacher evaluations and charter schools have dominated the political landscape.

«The only debate tentatively scheduled — no firm date is set — would be a local debate held in Buffalo that will include minor party candidates, cutting in half the time Mr. Astorino and Mr. Cuomo will have to discuss key issues, like tax reform, economic development, the Moreland Commission Scandal, and Common Core.

Some mainstream Democrats, though, downplayed the political contention of issues like charter schools and the tax credit and even differences in nuanced positions regarding the Common Core standards and how the Board of Regents should be governed, arguing that those are secondary to decisions around school funding.

Cuomo's ad seeks to appeal to the Democratic base on a core issue for the party at a time when a Republican tide supporting tea party candidates like Paladino is threatening Democrats once thought to be easily elected.

That's why they've begun having surrogates like state Sen. Tim Kennedy (D - Buffalo) attack Astorino on a range of issues including abortion rights, and the controversial Common Core public - school curriculum.

The New York State Allies for Public Education wants a much more open process with candidates explaining how they stand on issues like the Common Core and high - stakes testing.

While Weingarten and Astorino aren't too far apart on the Common Core, they are at odds on issues like the statewide property tax cap, collective bargaining rights, tenure, charter schools and voucher programs.

EDIE WINDSOR ENDORSEMENT OF CHRISTINE QUINN IS IRRELEVANT BECAUSE THE RACE TO LEAD NYC IS «NOT» ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE — The race to lead New York City is about many issues, including the commitment to core middle class issues like fair and affordable housing, job growth, equal pay and expanding opportunity for the middle class.

Teachout represents Cuomo's left flank, and Astorino is trying to appeal to as many conservative and moderate Republicans as possible — and has been making attempts to appeal to all voters on issues like Common Core and corruption — in an effort to raise his statewide profile.

In a paper to be published in the 9 December issue of Physical Review Letters, Alexander Kusenko and Gino Segre of the University of Pennsylvania argue that the velocity kick that propels pulsars through space may be the result of a flood of neutrinos rushing out from the collapsing core, but in a nonuniform way, like the air from a balloon.

There is a time and place for proper breath holding, like when you are maxing out your deadlift, but if you are suffering from back or neck tightness, hernias, abdominal separation or pelvic floor issues, you really need to take a closer look at how you manage pressure in your core and why that mis - utilization of pressure is causing issues.

My core collection is still going strong also and I've never had issues with the bristles shedding like my Mac ones x amazing brushes!

It's often a platformer and a third - person shooter, but it sometimes feels like a shoot»em up or a character action game, and it's all underpinned by RPG systems... Because of this muddled personality, it never fully delivers on anything, leaving us with an enjoyable experience, albeit one with a few issues at its core.

But Solaris is less a science - fiction film than it is an existentialist melodrama that, by winnowing itself down to the fierce romanticism at the heart of Lem's novel (and Tarkovsky's trance - like adaptation), locates the core issues of identity and love that plague the dark hours.

Sure, at the movie's core there are some serious issues going on, like how a divorce can destroy a family, but who remembers those details?

And with Tom Hooper behind the camera shooting things in the most pedestrian way possible (a hallmark of his after films like The King's Speech and Les Miserables), only every now and then spicing things up with the way he frames Gerda painting from behind the canvas, there is not much to distract from the issues at the core of the film.

Playing alone has never been an issue with Elder Scrolls Online because, much like core Elder Scrolls titles, it's rich in exploration opportunities and quests let you fall into huge stories that introduce you to so much of the world.

I would like to see Congress move ahead with the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) reauthorization and take steps on most of the core issues addressed in the survey.

This year also marks a decade of Education Next's groundbreaking public opinion polling that has seen Americans grow in their understanding of nuanced educational issues, some of which — like the opt - out movement and Common Core — didn't even exist when the research began ten years ago.

With campaign season heating up, public polls that try to get a pulse on American attitudes toward education are likely to play into the policy prescriptions of candidates who are critical of the Common Core and supportive of hot - button issues like charter schools.

His aggressive approach politicized nearly all that it touched, leaving in its wake unnecessarily divisive national debates over issues like Common Core and sexual harassment on college campuses.

What they will do is tackle a range of intriguing K - 12 and higher ed projects, dealing with issues like entrepreneurship, higher ed productivity, philanthropy, mobilizing parents, higher ed transparency, the future of the teaching profession, ESEA reauth, technology, K - 12 and higher ed leadership, career and technical education, Common Core implementation, citizenship, state - and district - level reform, and much else (the mix would be, in part, a matter of interest).

If he were to run for president, Christie «would face some challenges among the more conservative circles of our party... concerned about issues like Common Core and judicial activism,» Bill Gustoff, a member of the Iowa Republican Party's state central committee, said this month as Christie campaigned in the state that hosts the nation's first presidential nominating contest.

Starting with a concrete description of the practice and what it looks like in real action, each speaker would examine core issues or imperatives inherent in the deliberate work of enacting the practice toward justice with students and different kinds of content.

We are encouraged by the appointment of someone who has a record of working collaboratively with teachers to implement shifts on critical issues like evaluation and Common Core.

Consequently, the education sector today is increasingly isolated, ignored in national and state policy talk, riven by internecine conflict over issues like charter schools and Common Core, and abandoned by historical allies like the business community and governors.

Just a few weeks ago, The Grade ran a column about the potential spread of disinformation in education journalism that's already been documented on hot - button issues like the Common Core academic standards.

Unlike some other states that didn't take a break from their accountability system and touted the Common Core as «this is what Arne Duncan wants,» the California leadership consistently put up a fight against the feds on waivers and a number of other issues... I actually accused them in another EdSource opinion piece of treating us like «Southern sheriffs.»

While the repudiation of Common Core standards by tea party - backed politicians like Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Florida Gov. Rick Scott — both of whom had previously supported them — may seem like just another example of pandering to their base, it could also be a rare example of politicians astute enough to seize on an issue that crosses party lines.

The Common Core will continue to be litigated in some state houses, like Arizona, but for the most part legislators are getting tired of the issue.

Over recent weeks the focus of this blog has been on parental right and the importance of opting out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) test, but that issue is only one piece of the puzzle when it comes to the unprecedented activities of the Corporate Education Reform Industry and their supporters like Governor Dannel Malloy.

The new issue describes how major initiatives like the Race to the Top competition, the No Child Left Behind state waiver requirements, and the Common Core State Standards have propelled state efforts to rapidly overhaul their evaluation systems and link teacher ratings to student outcome data.

Teachers» needs are important — I have a mortgage; I have a family; I would like to retire one day — but they are not the core issue.