Sentences with phrase «galvanizing public»

It's an example of galvanizing public support behind an idea whose time has come.

In an era where strikes rarely result in definitive victories for either side, teachers have been unusually successful both in extracting both significant wage increases and galvanizing public sympathy.

The CTU's chief victory lay in galvanizing public education advocates across the country around a vision for public education that took full form in 2013.

The research has direct implications for galvanizing public support and action in relation to environmental issues but it also sheds light on promoting public engagement in societal issues, more broadly.

«The governor proposed legislation, but was not able or not interested in galvanizing public support.»

Despite failing to ignite action from the Senate, Congressman Brian Higgins says the Democratic sit - in at the House chambers «effective in galvanizing public opinion» on what he calls «common sense gun safety measures.»

For 20 years, the International Economic Forum of the Americas has served as a unique platform for galvanizing public and private opinions and expertise on issues topical to the continent.

Even better: there is a proposed initiative, which the IGP just announced, to instal a similar body in Abuja, to galvanize public - private sector partnership, to improve funding for the police.

Blair Horner, with the New York Public Interest Research Group, says Cuomo needs to «galvanize public support.»

Had he used his bully pulpit in the months of April and May, he may have been able to galvanize public support for a comprehensive ethics package.

«But for example when he was pushing for the ethics proposals during the discussion over the pay raise, he didn't do anything to galvanize the public.

The idea has galvanized the public and even caught the attention of the White House.

De-extinction of the Heath Hen will not only galvanize public interest in the conservation of the sandplain grasslands, but the revived Heath Hen would also fill a needed ecological role in this unique ecosystem.

Politics is part of their world, and some of the issues that have recently galvanized public debate — health care, addiction, crime, tensions between the police and African - American citizens — figure prominently in «Quest.»

What really matters is who sets the school board's agenda and who can galvanize public opinion against irresponsible board members.

Teachers need not endorse any particular viewpoint or policy proposal in the current debate over the availability of firearms to help students explore the power of young people to galvanize public opinion and political support behind issues they care about.

According to the National Dog Day website, National Dog Day's mission «is to help galvanize the public to recognize the number of dogs that need to be rescued each year and acknowledges family dogs and dogs that work selflessly each day to save lives, keep us safe and bring comfort.»

«National Dog Day celebrates all breeds, pure and mixed and serves to help galvanize the public to recognize the number of dogs that need... Read More

Many shelters call themselves «no - kill» in an effort to galvanize public support and make themselves out to be «better» than shelters who do euthanize (often called open - admission shelters).

National Dog Day (Also known as: International Dog Day & National Dog Appreciation Day) is celebrated August 26th annually and serves to help galvanize the public to recognize the number of dogs that need to be rescued each year, and acknowledges family dogs and dogs that work selflessly each day to save lives, keep us safe and bring comfort.

National Dog Day celebrates all breeds, pure and mixed and serves to help galvanize the public to recognize the number of dogs that need to be rescued each year, either from public shelters, rescues and pure breed rescues.

Our mission is to help galvanize the public to recognize the number of dogs that need to be rescued each year and acknowledges family dogs and dogs that work selflessly each day to save lives, keep us safe and bring comfort.

This prescient short story, Disney, the Fall of an Empire by John M. Crichton III, written in 2035 by the young great nephew of the famous novelist, finally galvanized the public and, with it the Federal Government, into action.

The preceding excerpt from the prescient short story by John M. Crichton III, written in 2035 by the young great nephew of the famous twentieth century novelist, finally galvanized the public and with it, the Federal Government, into action.

After covering climate for over twenty years, my sense is that there will be no single new finding that will generate headlines that galvanize public action and political pressure.

I don't see much prospect that I or some other writer will suddenly figure out a new way to tell this story that will magically make it fit into the 20th - century template we still use to decide what is important or newsworthy, and thus galvanize the public to care.

Washington, DC, Public Finance partner Mitch Rapaport is quoted throughout this piece on the Government Finance Officers Association's efforts to galvanize public officials to pressure federal banking regulators into more permissive rules on municipal securities.

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And while public dissatisfaction with the legislation has been focused on the notion that the Republican tax cuts are deeply skewed toward the wealthiest Americans and the corporations they run, Barkan, who has spent years galvanizing support for a more diverse and inclusive Federal Reserve, wants to remind Americans this legislation also includes cuts to their healthcare.

appeared in The Atlantic in 1991, it galvanized a national conversation about the state of American literature and how creative writing was being taught, produced, and consumed by the reading public.

substantial, in part because of the political ties of many of its preachers, beginning with their support of a number of conservative causes and candidates in l980, but also because they galvanized strong support from a relatively small group of people who for the first time found a national public articulation of their views.

In fact, despite the faux solidarity that US President Barack Obama expressed to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in early March, Israel's saber - rattling appears to be galvanizing an American modus vivendi with Iran in order to avert an Israeli attack.

The New York Times and The New Yorker won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for breaking the Harvey Weinstein scandal with reporting that galvanized the #MeToo movement and set off a worldwide reckoning over sexual misconduct in the workplace.

Wadleigh supporters say intense pressure from numerous politicians, including Rep. Charles Rangel, Assemblymen Keith Wright, state senator Bill Perkins, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, Comptroller John Liu and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, and even professor and activist Cornel West, helped to galvanize support for the school.

Newsday's political correspondent, Rick Brand, has also described MacKay as «a political alchemist» for his uncanny ability to galvanize support for unknown candidates for public office — and help them win.

Galvanized by public concern, the Territory of Hawaii organized a breeding effort in the 1930s to save what would later become the state bird.

«The contest is a vehicle to accelerate and galvanize that hunger and public interest and civic will,» according to Ali.

A Sampling of College Harvard Gazette, 3/24/14 «Educators from Cambridge's public schools voiced their approval as Suzanne Bouffard, a researcher and writer with the Harvard Graduate School of Education HGSE, spoke about the galvanizing power of helping students believe that college is a goal they can not only pursue, but can master and achieve.»

Her public stance galvanized even more parents and educators.

Jelani McEwen is the Director of External Affairs for the Illinois Network of Charter Schools (INCS), where he utilizes marketing and community organizing tactics to galvanize support for charter public schools.

Recent developments have galvanized people anew to address the racial achievement gap, from a jarring 2013 report called» Race to Equity» that showed the gulf in quality of life between whites and blacks is wider here than nationally, to the current «Black Lives Matter» movement, which has called out racial inequities in numerous public institutions, including schools.

Despite the election setback, exit polls indicated 51 percent of voters favor public sector unions, and state union members appear to have been galvanized by the fight, Bronfenbrenner said.

National Education Association President Dennis Van Roekel told editors and reporters at The Washington Times that Mr. Walker, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and other Republican politicians who have moved to rein in the bargaining power of teachers, firefighters and other public employees instead will galvanize working men and women nationwide.

It's no surprise that Common Ground, a charter school with a most public mission, wins awards for being «green» while also galvanizing impressive levels of academic achievement.

That galvanized LAUSD to do its own analysis — which it is now refusing to make public...

APP prepares the type of public school leaders who are needed most — those who are committed to social justice and have the skills to galvanize communities to address issues of educational equity.»

However, news that the state's per - pupil expenditures on public schools had actually declined, dropping from a lowly 42nd last year to 43rd in 2017 - 2018, seemed to galvanize education advocates as Senate budget wrangling began in earnest.

The work (above) though abstract, seems certainly to refer to Till's mutilated corpse; his mother explicitly chose a public, open casket funeral, a decision that galvanized attention to the brutality of her son's death and of the Jim Crow south at the time.

«Her work incorporates diverse influences and artistic traditions that make her a pioneering figure in American art, and we are thrilled to galvanize renewed interest in her work and life to introduce her unique vision to a broad public.»

«What we're most excited about is how galvanized the resident faculty has been — we haven't seen such a public testament to that as we have in the last few weeks,» said Farmiga.

Across the park, sales were also swift, and conversations inspiring, at our first hanging of Sam Gilliam's historic Drape paintings, which further galvanized overdue recognition, from new collectors, institutions, and an increasingly curious public, for this most seminal postwar artist.