Sentences with phrase «example of the public advocate»

«This is not an example of the public advocate supporting or advocating for the public.

Not exact matches

«Mayor de Blasio, Public Advocate Tish James, Comptroller Scott Stringer and now myself as the City Council speaker all are affirming and are an example of what the electorate has said they want, which is a new direction in the way that the City of New York in lead,» she told the crowd.

Mr. Wu vowed that he would use the usually ceremonial office of lieutenant governor as a state - level version of the city's public advocate office — and take Mr. Green, the first to hold the office of public advocate, as an example to follow.

In some respects you appear to be to the right of the current Conservative leadership — for example, Rob has advocated regionalised pay rates in the public services, which George Osborne has so far shied away from.

But he gave Public Advocate Letitia James, state Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. as examples of people of color in prominent positions.

For example, in 1996 CMU saw the need for charter schools to have representation in the state capitol and with the media, which led to the founding of the Michigan Association of Public School Academies, which now serves as the unified voice for Michigan's charter schools and was a major advocate for removing the cap.

However, if charter advocates carefully target specific systems with an exacting strategy, the current policy environment will allow them to create examples of a new, high - performing system of public education in urban America.

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, for example, this week accused the city of favoring one of Moskowitz's charters over the schools it shares space with.

For example, a report released recently (by the ACLU SoCal and Public Advocates, a nonprofit law firm and advocacy group) found that more than 20 percent of all California charter schools have enrollment policies that violate state and federal law.

Read, for example, the response to dianeravitch posted by Linda174, part of which says: «I think it's good they're not longer pretending to advocate on behalf of existing public schools

«Education savings accounts are another example of taking public taxpayer dollars and allowing it to be spent on private schools with no accountability and no transparency,» Rep. Graig Meyer, an Orange County Democrat and outspoken public school advocate who sits on the state House education committee, complained Wednesday.

Our Lady also is an example of why public school advocates are panicked about what effect the program could have on the education landscape.

Scientists have always been engaged in > politics, sometimes for good (advocating vaccination campaigns against > smallpox, for example) and sometimes for ill (arguing for the improvement > of > the «white» race by eugenics), but scientists have had their «meddling» > fingers in politics for centuries, maybe millennia, without any lasting > ill > effects on our current ability to investigate the workings of the world or > > to influence the development of public policy today.

The debate over APS's RFP is one example of how clean energy advocates are pressuring utilities to alter their procurement practices and open them up to more public scrutiny as renewable resources and storage become increasingly competitive with conventional generation.

In 2009, for example, he advocated against the cap and trade systems that the Obama administration and its overseas partners were trying to install here and globally, calling it «a market - based approach that has been widely praised but does little to slow global warming or reduce our dependence on fossil fuels... [allowing] polluters and Wall Street traders to fleece the public out of billions of dollars.»

Example resumes for this position showcase skills like advocating and educating the public regarding the issues of hunger and poverty in local counties; providing tours, and performing the recruiting of over 2,000 new volunteers.