Sentences with phrase «current public system»

Not exact matches

A Boring Company spokesman sought to clarify to Wired that Musk was criticizing current public transit systems, not the concept of public transit as such.

According to a letter sent at the end of May from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to the Securities and Exchange Commission and Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the current system for analyzing and auditing companies» internal controls needs a tune - up.

Less than a year after making public his concept for a «Hyperloop» high - speed transportation system — essentially saying, «have at it, developers» — the erstwhile PayPal co-founder, current CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, and general poster boy for successful geeky entrepreneurs has made another bold declaration of his laissez - faire attitude toward intellectual property.

Moreover, can Postol explain the fact that, with all the current civil defense measures available in Israel during the 2006 Lebanon war, including public alarm systems and shelters already in place, Hezbollah rockets killed scores of Israelis while the same kinds of rockets now fired by Hamas fail to achieve anywhere near the same degree of lethality?

In contrast, spending on public infrastructure, such as transportation systems, that benefit not only the current generation but future ones as well, should also be paid for not just by current generation but also by future generations who will also use them.

Show your employees that you care about them and their ability to do their jobs well by arming them with tools and technology delivered through multi-tenant, public cloud systems — the ones that do the best job of keeping current with consumer - grade standards.»

But the lack of a popular backlash to Trump's questioning of our alliance systems should be cause for worry about the depth of public support for America's current global role.

One example of the threats to religious liberty that have arisen in Congress is the current bill proposing a «voucher» system directing education funds to either public or private (including religious) schools.

Political theorist Kody Cooper and therapist Brandon Wall have teamed up for a Public Discourse essay applying the insights of Internal Family Systems (IFS) psychology to our current political situation.

Any public dissent becomes explosive, because it threatens the legitimacy of our current social system, which is characterized by an increasing concentration of wealth and power among just a few at the tippy - top.

However, this is difficult because the current regulatory systems are based on a schedule of children's viewing times that is not available for public scrutiny.

The current public school education system lacks instruction in some important life skills.

San Francisco is also a current game match for our 2015 NFL Betting Against the Public system which has gone 113 - 66 ATS with +40.09 units won.

Assuming the public continues to overwhelmingly support the Thunder, the Clippers will fit as a current system match.

This relatively new movement, which is also sometimes called student - centered learning, has its roots in the progressive strain of American educational thought, but its current incarnation is also based on the modern belief, common among corporate executives and other business leaders, that there is a major and potentially calamitous disconnect brewing between the historical structures and traditions of the American public school system and the labor - force demands of the 21st - century American economy.

Likened to the Cow on Parade in Chicago and the Community of Angels Project in Los Angeles, the Boy 5A Project was designed to educate the public on the crisis that is the current foster care system.

Likened to the Cow on Parade in Chicago and the Community of Angels Project in LA, Boy 5A is designed to educate the public on the crisis that is the current foster care system.

But still, this is a stark example of how our current system directly sets up public health (of children, which I think is even worse) as an obstacle to financial success.

Brand had argued that voting in general elections is a sign of tacit consent to the current system, which failed to represent the interests of the public.

Instead, we argue for a democratic «war of position», advocating institutional reforms that can be secured in the current context that will nonetheless advance incrementally, but irreversibly, the democratic quality of our political system and governance of our public institutions.

He also expressed optimism that when the 2016 edition takes place, it will consolidate on the gains of the current efforts of government at all levels in improved infrastructure, more efficient business support services, improved public transport system and a more secured and business friendly environment, would have materialized.

This provides a sad commentary on the current state of the political system and standards in public life.

DA Eric Gonzalez's office has moved toward fewer minor marijuana prosecutions, too, aiming to mainly continue with those cases that cause a public nuisance — still a concern for advocates but better than the current system.

The first phase requires that existing public transit systems brought up to a state of good repair, which — as commuters well know — could be a challenge with the current state of the subways.

But MADD Executive Director Richard Mallow says the current system of allowing taxi and limousine commissions in certain municipalities — such as Suffolk and Nassau continues — «has not served the public well» when it comes to current transportation options.

Local authorities may find they are using public money to subsidise the considerable travel costs that can arise from the current admissions system.

A survey published by the Department for Transport on «Public attitudes towards road congestion», which was carried out between November 2009 and February 2010, found that over half of adults agreed that the current system of paying for road use should change so that the amount people paid was based on how often, when and where they used the roads.

· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

Rather, we felt our charge was to recommend a set of tangible actions the Governor and Legislature could undertake to improve the current system of public education in New York so as to produce better outcomes for our children.»

«The basic purpose of this commission, according to the governor's charge, was to «comprehensively review and assess New York State's education system, including its structure, operation and processes...» In failing to deal at all with such major issues as funding, special education, the lack of appropriate supports for English language learners, as well as ignoring major current controversies such as implementation of [teacher evaluations] and common core systems, the commission has ill - served students, parents, and the public at large.»

The first, the Ulster County Legislature's Energy and Environment Committee will meet on Thursday, May 3rd at 5:30 pm (at UCRRA located at 999 Flatbush Road in Kingston, NY) and, more importantly in order for your voice to be heard, a public hearing is set for May 23rd (VIEW our facebook event) with a potential vote to follow that would establish both new policy and a higher fee for our current commingled system imposed upon Kingston.

Barbara Byrd - Bennett, the current CEO of the Chicago public schools, spent decades as a teacher and a principal in the New York City school system, working in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

First, the current system, which calls for self - regulation between HM Prison and Probation Service, NHS England, and Public Health England, should remain.

Terming the Citizens United decision as «one of the worst decisions in the history of the Supreme Court», de Blasio urged «full public financing of elections» while criticizing the current system.

In this post, Jess Garland discusses a new report on party funding, which shows public dissatisfaction with the current system, and provides recommendations of ways to break the current political stalemate.

Critics of the current Democratic plan say if the FEC approves the proposed Malloy mailing, the original promise of the public financing system will be broken.

Critics have carped that the Bloomberg - led system fails to give parents sufficient voice — whatever that means — but the current arrangement is a night - and - day improvement over the old Board of Education, which was not only less accountable to the public, but failed at its most basic mission: improving our schools and teaching our kids.

«What is abundantly clear, however, is the catalogue of failures by the Coalition Government to put in place effective checks, balances and controls in the current system to ensure that the public interest was safeguarded.»

«In the current political campaign environment, the presidential campaign finance system doesn't work at all and can not work,» said Craig Holman, who lobbies Capitol Hill on ethics and campaign finance issues for the nonprofit consumer advocacy group Public Citizen.

«We should increase trust by closing the LLC loophole and open up the electoral process with public financing, but not our current public financing system that has public financing but private loopholes,» Cuomo said during his State of the State address.

His public statements are to just let the healthcare industry implode, but as a President that is not a politically viable option so «deal making» maybe will still have a chance to happen, if and when improvements to the current system can be identified, proposed and debated, but the Big Deal ™ is that Obamacare survives (for now) during a time of Republican control after years of not only talking about repealing it from the ground up but actually voting to do it when it didn't really matter.

Cuomo wants to create a system of public financing with small - dollar matches that is based on the current New York City system.

Others want to use Brexit to put rocket boosters under our current economic system's insecurities and inequalities, turning Britain into a deregulated corporate tax haven with low wages, limited rights, and cut - price public services in what would be a destructive race to the bottom.

In Gallup polls since 1944, only about 20 % of the public has supported the current system of awarding all of a state's electoral votes to the presidential candidate who receives the most votes in each separate state (with about 70 % opposed and about 10 % undecided).

He called for radical change to Buffalo Public Schools, suggesting to throw away the current system and «start from zero.»

The Public Campaign Action Fund has released a new television advertisement and revised an existing spot to more prominently mention the governor, a Democrat, who has said he supports changes to New York's porous campaign finance laws but has also made use of the current system to raise millions.

In response to the inadequacy of the current system to address pay - to - play politics, the commission recommended several reforms including public funding to match small donations.

The organization Fair Elections for NY, which is calling for public financing of campaigns, has for weeks now been trying to raise awareness about the current system by revealing the donations that state lawmakers have recieved from corporations and interest groups.

«The tax legislation, in its current form most recently passed by the US senate, would be a disaster for New York State's public education system and the 2.6 million children it serves,» the groups wrote in the letter.

Current obligations are due to reforms necessitated by the Wall Street crash of recent years and a decade of public employers not contributing to the system while employees contributed 3 percent of salary;