Sentences with phrase «education of the public as»

Education of the public as well as business owners about fire safety is a huge priority and making it accessible to all is a key factor in the role of the FIA.

Through the care and sheltering of animals needing protection, investigative practices which will prevent abuse, education of the public as to ownership duties and responsibilities, vetted and thorough adoption services, and targeted, high - impact spay / neuter policies, the South Suburban Humane Society will make every effort towards ending animal homelessness, reducing pet overpopulation, and ending cruel, inhumane treatment and abuse towards pets.

Not exact matches

If you're dedicated enough to get into U of T's MPP program as well as their JD program (law school), you can combine the degrees and complete them simultaneously for a well - rounded law and public policy education.

Unifor will initially represent more than 300,000 workers across roughly 20 sectors of the economy, primarily in manufacturing, communications and transportation, as well as some public sector employees in the health, education and transit sectors.

An advocate for a local teachers union also expressed concern to the New York Times Magazine about the quality of the education, arguing Bridge focuses less on getting poor students to the baseline as enticing public school students to switch to Bridge schools.

As for his parenting techniques, Zuckerberg hasn't gone into lengthy detail, however it's public knowledge that both he and his wife Priscilla Chan are extremely invested in childhood education, which is likely a part of their parenting style.

As economic satisfaction increases, «consumers are more comfortable spending and confident they can manage any new debt,» said Rod Griffin, Experian's director of public education.

Similarly, in 2001's economic dip, women's job losses accounted for only 14 % of total layoffs, largely because women overwhelmingly work in recession - proof industries such as health care, education and the public sector.

«Education used to be thought of as a teacher sort of opening up a kid's brain and pouring in the knowledge,» Dr Meghan Groome, Executive Director of Education and Public Programs at the New York Academy of Sciences, said.

It's tempting to see tacit support for education as a win - win, a move that's both in the public interest and in the interests of corporations.

Professor Poole is one of a six - member committee appointed to review collaboration between Australia's public universities and publicly funded research agencies, as part of the Federal Government's higher education reform package.

Williams said he has attempted to collect information about the highest - paid public employees in the past but has struggled to obtain the salaries of coaches at public universities as well as other higher - education administrators.

The DASH for the STASH multi-state program is an investor education and protection poster contest that takes place as part of April's Financial Literacy Month in public libraries and other venues in participating States.

Moreover, they argue that federal subsidies are warranted because a significant portion of state and local government spending is for education, health, public welfare, and transportation, all of which have important spillovers that benefit the population in other jurisdictions as well.

Borrowing to complete an undergraduate, graduate, or professional degree program is often the only means to pay for the cost of higher education, as the price tag continues to increase at public and private institutions alike.

IPT worked with the Kiplinger Washington Editors to draft seven investor education booklets as part of IPT's investor education and protection programs in public libraries.

The DASH for the STASH multi-state program is an investor education and protection poster contest that takes place as part of April's Financial Literacy Month in public libraries and other venues in participating states.

He has served as a founder and trustee of the Investor Protection Trust, a public charity dedicated to investor education.

Public libraries and other institutions in the District of Columbia and five states — Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, and Nebraska — will participate in the DASH for the STASH investor education / protection program and contest taking place April 15 - May 15, 2015 as part of Financial Literacy Month.

We invest much less in young children, and that stems largely from the fact that most other advanced economies view early childhood education, child care and other benefits targeted at parents with young children as «public goods,» meaning investments that, absent public support, would be insufficiently made from the perspective of society's well - being.

With growing interest and support from public markets (including through the incorporation of DanoneWave as the largest public benefit corporation in the U.S. and their public commitment to become a Certified B Corp by 2020 as well as Laureate Education's IPO in early 2017), multi-billion dollar companies are following suit and choosing to operate their businesses with purpose and accountability.

For one thing, Ward says, most of these analyses do not take into account societal costs, such as the property taxes all homeowners pay to support public education.

If anyone in academia is puzzled as to why higher education is seen as spoiled by much of the rest of the public sector (and indeed the public - at - large), this graph is the answer.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

While property taxes in the state serve as an important source of revenue for local governments and public services (including public education) the average Alabama homeowner pays just $ 550 per year in property taxes.

Other significant year - ended wage increases were recorded for a number of industries with substantial public - sector representation, such as education.

«You can appreciate, then, that as our summer upgrade projects wind down, it continues to be an extreme source of frustration to watch over $ 4 million in funds that the public invested in public education make their way to the private sector.»

Although I don't pretend to understand all the «ins & outs» of banking, public financing, etc., it seems to me to be self - evident that if Canadian governments at all levels were able to borrow, at low or preferably no interest rates, to finance infrastructure projects and other issues such as health care and education, rather than indebting Canadians in perpetuity in order to pay big interest payments to the greedy Big Banks, it would ultimately be in the best interests of most ordinary Canadians.

Teachers in Arizona and Colorado turned their state Capitols into a sea of red Thursday as they kicked off widespread walkouts that shut down public schools in a bid for better pay and education funding, building on educator revolt that emerged elsewhere in the U.S. but whose political prospects were not clear.

Following the enactment of the Securities and Futures (Amendment) Ordinance 2012, the Investor Education Centre (IEC) was formed as an SFC subsidiary to educate the public on a broad range of retail financial products and services.

While this addition was completely donor funded, as provincial money can't be used for capital projects at private schools, it's a strong reminder of the luxuries that Albertans help subsidize — and the amount of money that could be directed towards public education.

She has sat as member of the Legislative Administration Committee, the Law Amendments Committee, Crown Corporations Committee and the Public Accounts Committee, and has been a member of the Select Committees on Education, Health, Local Governance and Regional Collaboration, and Private Passenger Automobile Insurance.

In the 38th Parliament (2005 - 2009) he served as Chair of the Legislature's Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts Committee, Deputy Chair of the Select Standing Committee on Education and Deputy Chair of the Special Committee to Appoint an Ombudsperson.

Property taxes in North Carolina are a key source of revenue for local governments, providing funding for services such as public education and law enforcement.

As for the U.S., I'd actually be quite comfortable with a reasonable amount of «helicopter money» provided that the accompanying fiscal stimulus package was focused, not on consumption, but on productive investment at the public, private and individual level (infrastructure, investment and R&D tax credits, workforce training, education, and so forth).

K — 12 tuition of up to $ 10,000 per student per year at a public, private, or religious school can also be treated as a qualified education expense with respect to the federal tax benefit.

As the general public, entrepreneurs, regulators, small businesses, educators, students and industry groups become more aware of the facts about crowdfunding and the impact that it can have at the grassroots level for every small business on every street corner to the highest levels of government and regulation, a groundswell of interest has emerged sparking dialogue and events bringing crowdfunding education, awareness and issues into the spotlight.

The critique of public education as simply satisfying the position where students already find themselves is exemplified in this series.

The first public education law in the United States was the «Old Deluder Satin Act» often now referred to as the «Old Deluder Act» to make it sound less «religious» and theyby reduce the influence of Christianity in the establishment of the United States.

Indeed the desire of the counter-cultural types to take charge of the education of their own children seemed a reasonable extension of the kind of liberty we were being taught, in the public school, that America had been founded to protect, and a rational response to the kind of oppressive social control some of the cooler teachers taught (this was a college town, as I said) capitalist society imposed.

For example, we have an atheist Prime Minister — and no one cares because this is personal (it is not about her politics)-- just as public schools are used for general education and religious education is served by your place of worship, associated community, family, etc..

For this purpose, this Public Law designated March 26, 1991 as Education Day, U.S.A.»... Google (Yahoo, etc.) «The Seven Universal Laws» Results 1 — 10 of about 23,400,000 for the seven universal laws.

Comparing national test scores, Catholic schools in general (as with most private schools) perform better in both reading and math than public schools although the advantage is stronger in reading than in Math though the difference in Math was still statistically significant; however, this could be due to the self selecting nature of the students in Catholic schools where the parents have made the decision to value education to the extent of paying for it.

As the gap between the rich and the rest of the population grows, economic policy increasingly caters to the interests of the elite, while public services for the population at large - above all, public education - are starved of resources.

In my view, he underestimates the degree to which Americans cherish the concept of «public education» even as they chafe under its present reality.

The loss of biblical language in public rhetoric or in public education may have telling effect (Lincoln might be incomprehensible today) Sunday school and other agencies of biblical education, where the texts can be restored and minds can as well be re-stored, are neglected, signaling that citizens are not really serious when they ask for more religion in the schools.

No doubt this will be helpful for purposes of interfaith dialogue or in interfaith settings such as public education where particular religious allegiances must remain muted.

The case is similar, as probably no one will really deny, in the domains of social policy, culture and education, in the attitude of Christians to thermo - nuclear and other modern weapons and in innumerable similar questions of public life at the present day.

James was raised with middle - of - theroad Anglican churchgoing as the norm, predominantly through his public school education.

The limitations of the engineering approach to social problems become clear as the reader follows Murray through the two chapters in which he discusses the public education system.