Sentences with phrase «debate over public»

Although the national debate over public education has become polarized during the past several years, with bitter divisions inside and between political parties, the PDK / Gallup poll showed a surprising level of agreement in the public at large.

For more than a decade, the debate over public school reform has created friction between teachers unions, administrators, school boards, parents, policymakers, and other stakeholders in public education and has fueled disagreements over how to improve the quality of teaching and learning for children.

Charter schools remain among the most controversial and divisive subjects in the national debate over public education.

But the staid event quickly turned dramatic when a busload of angry residents followed Anderson from Newark in a display of the slugfest politics that have infused debate over public education across the country.

[14] «Hillary Clinton Wades into the Internal Democratic Debate over Public Schools.»

The debate over public access got an airing before a House Science Committee panel today.

The continuing economic crisis in the U.S. and Europe is quickly sharpening the debate over public finances.

The debate over public financing has begun in the state Senate, with the introduction of new legislation by Senator Eric Adams, which would establish a public financing program, create an independent enforcement counsel in the State Board of Elections, lower contribution limits and improve disclosure of independent political spending.

But the debate over public financing is a complex one for the Senate, with Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein facing pressure from liberal advocacy groups to deliver on the issue.

Already the debate over public funding of physician - assisted suicide for those receiving state - supported medical care has begun.

Many of the challenges that urban regions face spill over the boundaries of municipal governments — none more so than in the current Ontario debate over public transit.

The phrase «public square» evokes images of the political arena with its partisan games and intense debates over public policy.

«The crisis in Flint brought the true costs of a neglected infrastructure to the nation's attention, but in the finger - pointing there are deeper debates over public and private responsibility and the impact of dysfunctional politics on public health,» said David Rosner, PhD, co-director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and author of the commentary, «Entry Point: A Lead Poisoning Crisis Enters Its Second Century,» which is available online in the May issue of the journal, Health Affairs.

Signed by artists Loris Gréaud and Valerie Bélin, Palais de Tokyo cofounder Jérôme Sans, Galerie Art Concept director Olivier Antoine, Galerie Lelong president Jean Frémon, and Galerie Max Hetzler senior director Samia Saouma, the letter places the controversy surrounding the Koons monument within a history of debates over public art works throughout the French capital.

Not exact matches

But what the prime minister must do first is engage the public in the debate over monetary policy.

Wheeler's «split the baby» approach to the contentious net neutrality debate, reported on over the weekend by the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, would effectively reclassify Internet service providers as public utilities akin to the phone companies under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, but only in dealing with large content providers such as Netflix and Google's Youtube.

Web scraping and other alternative data collection practices are already fueling debate over what constitutes nonpublic information and insider trading — and whether investors can misuse information even when it's public and legally obtained.

Tower of Babble chronicles Stursberg's tumultuous CBC stint from 2004 to 2010, a stretch largely defined by the ongoing debate over what a public broadcaster is and should be.

The Committee for Perth has added to the debate over Perth's public transport system by releasing research indicating light rail systems attract more passengers, have lower running costs, and travel faster than rapid bus systems.

LONDON — Chancellor Philip Hammond has said that Britain needs a «grown - up» debate over whether pay for public sector workers should be increased, arguing that the government must «hold its nerve» on austerity.

It was aimed at critics of the deal known as the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, including left - leaning politicians in Europe as well as the clamouring anti-trade civil society movement, as an «unambiguous statement» to assuage concerns over «provisions that have been the object of public debate and concerns.»

Despite the bipartisan popularity of business - friendly proposals, including increasing the cap on H - 1B work visas for skilled workers and creating a visa category for venture - backed entrepreneurs, the public debate frequently devolves into shouting matches over whether people should be deported and how quickly.

I can't speak for other Canadian cities, but here in Toronto the debate over congestion has centred on what kind of public transit additions we need.

Fox News (fox), seen by many as being solidly in Trump's corner, had a very public falling out with him over a debate, and now some see MSNBC (cmcsa) as cozying up to the candidate.

While he doesn't believe MEC has any control over that debate, the organization can help advance the public conversation around the Feb. 14 shooting that resulted in 17 deaths at a high school in Parkland, Fla., he said.

But perhaps more important, they underestimate the depth of legitimate debate over the way even public - minded MBAs ought to put their values into action when at work.

Twitter has triggered a similar debate over whether something can be simultaneously public and semi-private.

The lack of funding combined with the toxic environment that surrounds the debate over gun rights has made most public - health researchers wary of touching the topic.

How many companies would tolerate an active, even public debate by employees over a key product?

Hopefully the time is coming where the ride will be over for this group - there is a huge space for public broadcasting and presentation of centered debates and discussions in this country - and it can only be through a public space lens - the next election will hopefully bring people such as yourself back into such space so that we can get on with having some notion of civilization.

It is a budget that demonstrates the government's inability, or unwillingness, to engage in public discussion and debate over ideas and policy.

The extraordinary public exchange with the president gave voice to an intensely emotional debate over how to respond to the latest gun massacre in an American school.

Neither involved a nearly 5 - mile - long underwater segment in the Straits of Mackinac, the channel that connects Lakes Michigan and Huron, which received several dents from a suspected tugboat anchor strike last month and is the subject of public debate over its safety.

American Outdoor Brands, the parent company of the Smith & Wesson gun brand, replied to BlackRock in a public letter earlier this month, saying that it respects the national debate about gun safety and shares «the nation's grief» over the Parkland killings and «the desire to make our communities safer.»

You know — every time I see religion debated on a public forum, the whole thing is an exercise in mental futility as both the atheists and even some of the Christians make the same type of mistakes over and over again and just yell back and forth at each other.

He also felt that debate over the famous Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom in 1785 formed the essential background to the First Amendment, and that the Virginia Statute was consciously written to guarantee full participation in public life on equal terms by «the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan, the Hindoo, and Infidel of every denomination» (V: 85)

And there is, in fact, very little evidence that champions of ecclesial pluralism have bent over backwards to insure that their opponents are given a fair hearing on occasions of public debate, nor are they conspicuously tolerant or open - minded when they happen themselves to be in positions of extra-ecclesial authority — as journal editors, perhaps, or as deans of theology faculties.

The ongoing public debate over the legalization of assisted suicide draws participants whose primary concern is not the issue itself but who find it the ideal occasion to advance collateral social initiatives.

On the other hand, Tracy, McCann and I (and possibly Groome and Ogletree) would want to abstract from the Christian story a more philosophically identifiable set of principles and procedures which could be used in public debates over the common good.

Although the debate over marriage is a clear and current case in point, the dearth of reason is endemic to the public debates of our time.

That said, I don't know about you, but I can always tell when the slick - sounding press releases are formulated after «the team» gets together for an exhaustive «public statement» strategy session during which every word, phrase, and nuance is carefully considered, debated - over, written and rewritten, and finally aligned - around prior to being released to the general public.

This is undoubtedly the most balanced collection of essays by the leading public intellectuals in our debate over the implications of the coming biotechnological age.

Related to the third problem, above, there is no change in the public debates over cloning, abortion, euthanasia, and so on.

The great debate is not over sentiment but justice, not over personal preference but public policy.

In this case, the Chief Politician of the land has implicitly challenged the churches to a public debate over the application of Christian principles to the war he has launched.

As indicated by the recent debates (in Kansas and elsewhere) over the public school teaching of evolution, they are persuading many conservatives to join them in their attack on evolution.

The Tea Party in particular, with its belief in Jeffersonian ideas, has been responsible for re-introducing the Constitution into the public debate, a place that it has not held in the same way for over a century.

Religion News Service: Catholic bishops fail to agree on statement on the economy A divided Catholic hierarchy on Tuesday (Nov. 13) failed to agree on a statement about the economy after a debate that revealed sharp differences over the kind of social justice issues that were once a hallmark of the bishops» public profile.

The debate over whether a part - public - financed museum can hang art that might be considered offensive is long since settled.

Dr. Hayhoe is the co-author of the book A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith - Based Decisions and describes herself as «a spokesperson with one principal goal — to bring public awareness to the simple truth that the scientific debate is over, and now it's time for all of us to take action.»