Sentences with phrase «exercising local decision making»

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If economic decision - making is by transnational corporations impervious to local interests, then the power that can be exercised locally is too limited to hold the interest of people.

To help older students learn to make good financial decisions, Country Bank offers a «Credit for Life» financial literacy exercise to more than 1,000 local high school seniors each spring.

For example, the Commission could help facilitate local deliberative bodies or citizen assemblies, support local authorities conduct effective participatory budgeting exercises, and experiment with new means for the public to engage in political decision - making processes in more direct and sustained ways.

In addition, Colorado teachers help civics come alive in the classroom through the Judicially Speaking program, which was started by three local judges to teach students how judges think through civics as they make decisions.19 As a recipient of the 2015 Sandra Day O'Connor Award for the Advancement of Civics Education, the Judicially Speaking program has used interactive exercises and firsthand experience to teach students about the judiciary.

Policy Decisions: No proceeding based on negligence in connection with the exercise or non-exercise of a discretionary power or the performance or non-performance of a discretionary function, if the action or inaction results from a policy decision of a municipality or local board made in a good faith exercise of the discretion, shall be commenced against,