Sentences with phrase «greater public control»

Ann Pettifor said that Labour needs to set the agenda and challenge the idea that public sector is to blame for the crisis and Michael Meacher MP urged Labour to advocate greater public control of banking.

Not exact matches

The pair's solutions to the alleged problems of CEO - speak are greater government control of markets, more bureaucracy in the private and public sectors, an end to CEOs» duty of care to shareholders and — get this — more snore - inducing courses on critical textual analysis in business schools so students can know exactly how many times a CEO says «our company» versus «the company.»

March 25 - Remington Outdoor Co Inc, one of the largest U.S. makers of firearms, filed for bankruptcy protection on Sunday to carry out a debt - cutting deal with creditors amid mounting public pressure for greater gun control.

TransLink, as the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority is known, has control over all public transit and roads in Vancouver and its surrounding cities.

And in the political sphere, finance has become the great defender of deregulating monopolies and «freeing» land rent and asset - price gains from taxation, translating its economic power and campaign contributions into the political power to capture control of public financial regulation.

If the central bank's communications suggest that it has greater knowledge or greater precision in its inflation control than it does in reality, then when this becomes apparent and the public's expectations are disappointed, the central bank's credibility may be damaged.

Since white theologians and preachers wrote most of the books in religion and theology, they had a great deal of power in controlling the public meaning of the gospel.

How much of it comes under public control will depend a great deal on public attitudes.

A deeper understanding of the relative risks associated with the various failures associated with the management and control of allergens will permit manufacturers to appropriately devote food safety resources where they can result in the greatest reduction in food allergen risk and recalls, and hence the largest improvement in public health.

He got great public fanfare from it, however there is that giant glaring hole that could be gamed because he controlled when the process would happen.

Public grants (USDA fruit and vegetables grant, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Great Trays grant, and USDA Rural Development Community Facilities Program).

But after Back - to - Sleep, the ORs shot up, probably because those babies already at greatest risk of SIDS were the ones that weren't getting the public health message, while prone sleep in the control population dropped dramatically.

On the other hand, there is «social mutualism» involving a particular approach to the organisation and delivery of public services, where both employees and those using public services can acquire greater control over their management and operation.

If a nation decided to control its public policy over web services other nations would have great incentive to hack that system to promote their agenda, let alone special interest groups.

But the most interesting developments in power and technology revolve around the way they grant the public greater control over geography and space.

Earlier, Corbyn set out his view that people's fears about immigration could be allayed by greater funding for public services in areas of high pressure, rather than controlling the numbers of new entries.

The move, agreed with leaders of the region's 10 councils, will give local politicians greater control over billions of pounds of public money,

The new coalition points to a number of potential changes to the constitution that they would like to see, including the creation of a public financing system for campaigns, election reforms like same - day registration, court reforms to make it easier to navigate the judicial system and the ability for local municipalities to exercise greater control over issues they traditionally need state authority to manage.

«The operational influence and control exercised by Andrew Pallotta and Carl Korn and the capacity in which he serves each entity strongly suggest the activities of the Fund for Great Public Schools constitute «coordination» under NYS election law,» Cox said in the complaint.

Because while controlled immigration can bring great benefits — filling skills shortages, delivering public services, making British businesses the world - beaters they often are — when the numbers get too high, public support for the system falters.

However, writes Andreas T. Schmidt (University of Groningen), within an environment where private companies frequently adopt nudge strategies, public policy nudges need not have greater implications for democracy and transparency than other forms of government intervention, and can be one tool in exerting democratic control over private sector nudge tactics.

Republicans who control Nassau's Off - Track Betting agency are continuing at least one contract from the former Democratic administration - with Zimmerman / Edelson Inc., the public relations / marketing firm run by National Democratic Committeeman Robert Zimmerman of Great Neck.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

His example suggests that while science's first and greatest triumph in this area was to develop vaccinations to control or eradicate many diseases, the challenge now — not yet achieved, and in some ways even more difficult — is to preserve public support for vaccine programs long after these scourges have largely vanished from our everyday lives.

«Cigarette smokers are at far greater risk than the general public for developing lung cancer, and helping smokers quit should be our top cancer prevention priority in these people,» said Jian - Min Yuan, M.D., Ph.D., associate director of the UPCI's Division of Cancer Control and Population Science and an epidemiologist with Pitt's Graduate School of Public Hpublic for developing lung cancer, and helping smokers quit should be our top cancer prevention priority in these people,» said Jian - Min Yuan, M.D., Ph.D., associate director of the UPCI's Division of Cancer Control and Population Science and an epidemiologist with Pitt's Graduate School of Public HPublic Health.

«Unfortunately, greater depression and anxiety are associated with higher BMI and greater waist circumference, both indicators of obesity, as well as engaging in less physical activity and having less favorable indicators of glycemic control,» said Darla Kendzor, Ph.D., principal investigator and assistant professor at the UTHealth School of Public Health Dallas Regional Campus.

The identification of diagnostic tests or biomarkers that predict progression to active TB disease would greatly enhance TB control efforts in the United States and globally and allow physicians and public health officials to focus efforts on treatment of latent TB infection of those at greatest risk of progression to active, transmissible and potentially fatal disease.

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), high blood pressure is «the second greatest public health threat» in the US, and about half of all with hypertension have uncontrolled high blood pressure.1

In the last twenty years, public desire for greater control in the health care process and a growing dissatisfaction with high tech solutions to health problems has renewed interest in the natural methods of preventive health care.

Her 1974 book The Great School Wars describes how New York City has played educational three - card monte over its long public school history by moving apparent control over decisions up and down the system, between the central chancellor's office and the local superintendents, but never yielding any fraction of control to the schools.

Moynihan, believing that the «pathologies» troubling black families were deep, interrelated, and complicated, privately favored a range of solutions, including greater access to birth control, generous family allowances such as those available in Western European democracies, and (mainly for males) substantial public - works programs.

«A central part of [the school department's] function is to bring in great schools and to make sure that existing schools are, themselves, great,» says Cerf, who also faces the daunting task of beginning Newark Public Schools» transition back to local control.

By giving these schools true control over their programs, staff, and curricula, and by opening them to all families, authors of the charter school law resurrected the true American vision of public schooling: equal access to great instruction and accountability for results.

This theme — that greater state control over funding will lead to greater state power with respect to local educational programs and policies — is a recurrent one in the literature on financing public education.

In 2004, teachers and parents at five of seven public schools voted (by margins greater than 70 percent) to convert to charter schools so we'd have more control locally.Since that time, we have made great strides.

Charter schools are publicly funded schools that operate outside the direct control of local school districts, under a publicly issued charter that gives them greater autonomy than other public schools have over curriculum, instruction, and operations.

Each such educational firm, or edfirm for short, functions like an independent contractor within the school district (with some requirements, to ensure much greater equity than is typical in public schools today) and is not controlled by the district office.

Public education advocates will have many opportunities in the coming months to fight for greater funding for our children's schools and against state takeovers that hand our democratically controlled school boards over to private third party operators.

[The politics of rationing education is a reason why districts and other traditionalists also oppose the expansion of public charter schools and other forms of school choice that are helping Black and Latino children attain high quality education; charters fall outside of the control of districts and therefore, open the doors of opportunity for those historically denied great teachers and college - preparatory curricula.]

Some critics of public schools urge greater competition among schools as a way of returning control from bureaucrats to parents and teachers.

The new federal education law is supposed to return to the states greater control over their public schools.

Such electorate neglect and subsequent special - interest control is what led New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to move his state's school board elections from the more obscure April to the general election in November, hoping to inspire greater public involvement.

Public schools in Colorado that have greater control over hiring teachers, setting the school calendar and budgeting show slightly higher levels of student academic growth and high levels of teacher empowerment, according to a CU Denver report...

With 90 % of funds remaining at the discretion of our local school board, our school is afforded greater flexibility and control of our resources, in comparison to traditional public schools where school - based budgets are set at the district level.

According to the Miami Herald: But the Zuluetas» greatest financial success is largely unseen: Through more than two dozen other companies, the Zuluetas control more than $ 115 million in South Florida real estate — all exempt from property taxes as public schools — and act as landlords for many of Academica's signature schools, records show.

In the hysterically titled «GOP War On Learning Continues In Senate Tax Plan, State Funding Cuts,» he writes, «As the Republican - controlled Congress continues to advance tax plans that slash funding from public education, a new report reveals how state and local government officials, especially where GOP leadership dominates, have continued a decade - long campaign to keep school funding below levels that preceded the Great Recession.»

Charter public schools still face underfunding challenges within the new Local Control Funding Formula, where at risk students stand to lose out on their share of concentration funding if their charter school has a greater percentage of at risk students than the local district.

Maria Morelli - Wolfe, a lawyer with Greater Hartford Legal Aid Inc., which last year filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights on behalf of children with disabilities at the public charter school, said that very often those students spend too many hours out of the classroom — suspended in school or out of school — because of behaviors they weren't necessarily able to control.

Low - performing public schools have become a critical battleground between corporate - backed initiatives that remove local control of schools and favor the privatization of public education, and proponents of community schools who assert that parents, teachers and students — in short, the public — are the greatest asset in restoring strong educational outcomes.