Sentences with phrase «few public community»

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This pronouncement, along with Johnson's (and executive chairman Howard Schultz's) apology, meetings with community leaders, and enlisting the guidance of civil rights leaders such as former Attorney General Eric Holder and the NAACP's Sherrilyn Ifill, ensures that this incident and the specter of racial bias will remain in the public's mind beyond a few days.

Those close to the process said that Thiel — who is on the Facebook board with Sandberg — and others helping Trump reach out to the tech community had a hard time convincing them to attend, largely due to his persistent public hostility to one of the U.S. economy's few bright and innovative arenas.

Outside of emergency rooms and outreach programs in high - risk communities, few saw the public - health potential.

And, historically, the evangelical community has taken several steps back from public schools over the last few decades — particularly since prayer was removed from schools.

This negative reaction to black conservatives by most blacks partly explains the reluctance of the new black conservatives to engage in public debates in the black community, and their contrasting eagerness to do so in the mass media, where a few go so far as to portray themselves as courageous, embattled critics of a black liberal establishment — while their salaries, honorariums and travel expenses are paid by well - endowed conservative foundations and corporations.

Whether it is Lutheran social service agencies in the Midwest or Presbyterian parochial schools in New Mexico (founded because the Catholics so dominated the territory's few public schools) or Jewish philanthropies in New York or the ubiquitous Catholic hospitals and Protestant colleges throughout the land, religions have provided much of the social (and financial) capital for building local communities.

In smaller communities with few other public facilities, churches are a vital resource in that they provide a meeting (dare I say congregating) place for the locals.

Still, Rabbi Avi Shafran, director of public affairs for Agudath Israel of America, the largest organization of Haredi Jews in the United States, sees the future differently: «There will be an economic crunch, and there already are many two - income families in the community, but no Haredi Jew is starving, or having fewer children because of economic restraints....

If in public places like our major universities we are going to operate on the premise that moral judgments are relative to communities, then we should follow the implications of that premise as consistently as we can and not absolutize one, or perhaps a few, sets of opinions and exclude all others.

You've gathered together a few faithful families and individuals from within a community, and you're likely now meeting in homes, rented office space, or more likely --- a public school building.

With the rapid development of metropolitanism few American communities will escape the concomitant problems of residential segregation, deteriorating public schools, physical and social planning, and a host of other problems that will have to be solved by the people who move most decisively and swiftly.

The Australian Beverages Council also recognises its responsibility to provide extensive communication to Governments, community groups, the media, and consumers with respect to the industry's views on regulatory matters, legislation, and public policy, dietary guidelines, health claims, and front - of - pack labelling are just a few examples of specifics that are proactively addressed to these audiences within these fields.

A few months ago I told you all about FoodCorps, a promising new public service organization (part of AmeriCorps) dedicated to improving the health of children in low - income communities.

«Few who serve the public have participated, performed or were so willing to accept the tremendous reponsibilities beyond the boundaries of her own community, «the Long Grove Village Board is quoted in the campaign flier for Verna Clayton, former Buffalo Grove village president.

This occurred only a few hours after Lula's appointment by Rousseff, and sparked a flurry of public quarrels in the legal community which heatedly debated the legality of the release.

«Yellow Brick Casino has been very successful in just the few months that it has been operational, but that certainly has an impact on the community and there are public safety issues that need to be taken into consideration,» Valesky said.

Flanked by Assemblymember Millman and Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez, Simon stressed her deep roots in the district and decade of experience as district leader, her progressive credentials and her work on community issues both big and small — from public transportation to traffic calming in Downtown Brooklyn, access to affordable housing and education, and saving Long Island College Hospital, to name a few.

«The policies that dictate public and private finance are designed to remove resources from communities and cities and designed to consolidate them in the hands of a few people,» he said.

At the conclusion, the message for the public to take away from this Community Unity Breakfast was the state of Rockland County's current condition can be attributed equally to the inaction of apathetic voters and to a few unprincipled political operatives.

Dinowitz said, «DEP's ridiculous proposal to give the public very limited access for a few days in the year 2013 is an insult to our community.»

Evidence collected by public health experts over the past few decades repeatedly shows that less obvious forces, including proper diet and exercise, higher levels of education, good jobs, greater neighborhood safety, and underlying support from family and friends, provide a powerful, and often unappreciated, boost to a community's health and well - being.

According to the acting regional secretary of the Community and Public Sector Union, Jessica Munday, AAD has already lost 30 employees over the past few months, leaving the remaining 300 staff members stretched.

African American and white men who live in racially integrated communities and who have comparable incomes have far fewer differences when it comes to behaviors that contribute to poor health — such as physical inactivity, smoking and drinking — compared to African American and white men overall in the U.S., according to a new study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Even fewer interventions are tailored for racial and ethnic minorities, and not one intervention has been evaluated with sexual - and gender - minority people,» said Robert Coulter, M.P.H., a doctoral candidate in Pitt Public Health's Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences and lead author of both studies.

Despite decades of public CPR training, in most communities fewer than half of all individuals with cardiac arrest receive any BCPR, and bleak survival rates persist.

The results of these studies, which are expected to be made public by the end of the year, can be seen as preparatory work, soliciting ideas from the scientific community for the next Planetary Science Decadal Survey that is due to come out in a few years.

There will be only a few CO2 capture and storage projects at first, simply because of the time it takes to get them on stream and build the infrastructure - those few projects should give further confidence that the technology will work - provided they are transparent to the scientific community and the public.

It didn't involve side by side bikini pictures in People Magazine, and it played out in front of millions fewer people — the public forum of this intimate community.

For our ongoing community «Public Square» photo project with KPCC, @erinleight photographed a few of her favorite things.

At the community level, support for schools might also be enhanced under a regime of public school choice, because fewer people would feel compromised, silenced, or alienated in an environment where well - intentioned school officials are forced to accommodate conflicting constituent demands and wind up doing so in ways that favor the most vocal, affluent, or well - organized.

Particularly in urban communities that have few, if any, high - quality public school options, the demand for charters can be significantly higher than there are seats available.

Community groups and parents had also expressed concern about locating a new charter within a few blocks of an existing public school, Oakland Technical High School.

A decision by a rural family to withdraw a child from the public school and enroll them elsewhere doesn't mean that the family disconnects from the school — it simply means that the school has fewer resources to provide the non-educational benefits critical for community members.

Eli Broad, who endows the prize, was one of the few prominent education reform donors to publicly oppose DeVos» nomination, and recently said the proposed cuts to education programs in Trump's budget would «hurt the very communities that have the most to gain from high - quality public school options.»

It means talking with parents and community activists worried about children with greater needs having access to fewer resources, local business leaders concerned about protecting the critical contributions of public schools to their local workforce and economy, and many others who have a stake in public education and our country's future.

Declares Ravitch: «Let us hope Governor Malloy learned something these past few days about the role of public schools in their communities.

Nearly 9 in 10 respondents said it was a problem for public schools in low - income communities to have fewer qualified teachers than public schools in wealthier areas, and a majority felt that shortages should not be resolved by recruiting individuals who are not fully prepared — the very thing many districts have been forced to do in response to deep shortages across the state.

The central idea of the school - reform community, Perry said, is that improving public education will lead to an overall improvement in New Orleans social conditions, and that this goal justifies the radical changes they have imposed on schools here — firing teachers, closing schools, moving students every few years.

Let us hope Governor Malloy learned something these past few days about the role of public schools in their communities.

While legally required to offer a public - school - equivalent education, there is an ongoing New York City investigation into practices at some schools in the highly insular ultra-Orthodox community, with claims that more than a few used by the Hasidic religious group prioritize religious studies to the point that many students graduating 12th grade are near ignorant when it comes to anything more than basic math, grammar, science or history, leaving them all but unemployable.

Contrary to the belief of a few, funneling public money to private schools will not fuel improvement of public education, but instead drain already limited resources and dilute broad community support for what has long been considered a valid civic function.

In a rebuttal to those who say states should use common tests so that the public can compare how students perform across state boundaries, fewer than one in five public school parents said it was important to know how children in their communities performed on standardized tests compared with students in other districts, states or countries.

Principals have to manage, lead, and are held accountable for: common core; technology initiatives; social and emotional learning; referendum initiatives; math implementation; science implementation; special education, community outreach; reading; testing (local and state); effective instruction; transportation; public relations, parent custody issues, residency; student and staff discipline, evaluations; hiring; parent complaints; bullying; safety issues; budgeting; human resources issues; immigration questions / concerns; school safety, visibility in and out of school; championing the never ending requests and demands from the central office (one of the biggest challenges); the constantly increasing demands around social media and communications; and the barrage of emails / texts demanding immediate response 24/7, just to name a few.

Decreases the population, leading to smaller community cat colonies and fewer public nuisance problems and health concerns

Even with open - admission shelter policies that encourage the public to turn in cats at any time without restriction, few shelters take in more than 10 % of the community's free - roaming cats each year.

The first step will be a large public meeting at the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library on Monday, October 10th, where representatives from Target Zero will introduce themselves to the local animal advocacy community and outline a few things they've done in other cities.

Even with open - admission shelter policies that encourage the public to turn in cats at any time without restriction, few shelters take in more than 10 % of the community's free - roaming cats each year [9].

TNVR stabilizes the population (fewer to no births), results in lower animal control costs, taxpayer dollars, reduces nuisance complaints by residents, address neighbors» concerns, alleviates public health concerns, improves the cats» lives, saves and helps the entire community reach a solution that benefits everyone.

«We think having [the Portal] in this public / democratic space — our parklands — offers a great platform for discussing all kinds of topics and ideas not only with people on the other side of the world, but also with those a few states over,» says Sabrina Bedford, the Parks Conservancy's Art & Community Engagement Coordinator.

Here, the average person can still afford to own land nearby the ocean, commute into the city with ease on fantastic public transportation, live in a safe community, have access to all modern amenities of the first world, and be able to visit breathtaking public land within a few minutes drive.