Sentences with phrase «group public agenda»

A new report by the nonpartisan research and policy group Public Agenda addresses these questions by examining nine high - achieving, high - poverty public schools across Ohio.

For instance, a study by the group Public Agenda found that 85 percent of teachers and 73 percent of parents felt the «school experience of most students suffers at the expense of a few chronic offenders.»

Not exact matches

Political scientist Keith Brownsey of Mount Royal University argues the Liberals paid close attention to the many fumbles made by Harper's Tories on the energy file: failing to build solid relationships with First Nations, allowing environmental groups to seize the public - relations initiative, not asserting federal authority and handing provinces like B.C. and Quebec control of the political agenda, keeping Canada outside of the international consensus on climate change, and ignoring legitimate criticisms of the federal review process.

As such, the most effective approach to building public support is to craft a trade agenda that aligns with the economic interests of the general public and the long - term economic prosperity of Canada as a whole, rather than focusing on the narrow interests of some business groups.

Past Red Deer - North Liberal candidate Michael Dawe announced via email this week that he will «investigate what might be involved, and what might be possible, in creating cross partisan alliances in the next election, in order to ensure that the people who elect us come first, instead of a group of semi-anonymous backroom players, who are always trying to set the agenda, regardless of what the general public might feel.»

In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

Applied to militias that have not adopted an anti-Semitic posture, this policy would mean talking no public action against groups whose agendas may be unpopular or even bizarre.

While the early days of Cameron's leadership were all about reaching out to new groups and voters beyond the traditional Tory core, since taking power his agenda has been very much in line with that of Conservative leaders and governments since 1979, being characterised by cuts to social expenditure and the privatisation of public services.

David Cameron pressed ahead with his «big society» agenda today with a # 600 million fund for charities and community groups, despite claims it was failing to resonate with the public.

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.

IDC Leader Jeff Klein said he's «excited» by the prospect and said he also wants the rest of the Democrats to adopt his group's policy agenda, including transgender rights and public financing for campaigns, items supported by many mainstream Democrats.

Government reform groups are angry at Gov. Andrew Cuomo, saying he is giving up too soon on an anti-corruption agenda that includes public financing of campaigns and greater prosecution powers for the state's district attorneys.

MIDTOWN — A nonprofit founded by Mayor Bill de Blasio to advance his political agenda said Friday it will not comply with a subpoena from the New York State Joint Commission on Public Ethics, one of multiple federal and state agencies investigating whether the group broke the law.

Cuomo borrowed heavily from the panel's recommendations for his education agendas last year and this year, outlining the group's «final action plan» in his State of the State address last week, although he had not yet released the report to the public.

The release, explaining the decision was reached unanimously by the group's two component boards of directors, stated, «The Boards» decision comes on the heels of securing the Pride Agenda's top remaining policy priority ---- protecting transgender New Yorkers from discrimination in housing, employment, credit, education, and public accommodations ---- in the form of new regulations announced in partnership with Governor Andrew M. Cuomo at the organization's Fall Dinner on October 22, 2015.»

The Committee to Save New York, a monied collection of groups formed to back Gov. Andrew Cuomo's fiscal agenda, spent $ 2.3 million lobbying state government in May and June, its filing with the Commission on Public Integrity shows.

But he said his group, which has been under intense pressure from progressives to return to the fold since the election of President Trump, is «ready to move forward,» but only if any final agreement is based on a legislative agenda that includes passage of a bill to strengthen abortion laws, enact a state DREAM Act, create a public campaign finance system, and adopt a single - payer health care program.

The latest push comes from an unusual coalition of progressive labor interests, political (Democratic Party, that is) and environmental groups, health care interests and good government advocates who are urging Cuomo to enact a «voluntary» public campaign finance system early in the 2011 legislative session — one of the many camapign promises outlined in his «New New York Agenda» books.

In an attempt to get government to act on preserving water bodies across the country, the group said it will launch a public awareness march in the coming weeks to ensure the agenda on making Accra the cleanest city streamlined among the policies of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is realized.

In a news release Thursday, the group said the People's March for Education Justice will focus on the similarities between the Trump - DeVos agenda on public education and Governor Andrew Cuomo's.

Opponents have argued that any convention would simply be hijacked by well - funded special - interest groups and lobbyists who would push for an agenda that might not be in the interests of the public.

«The whole thing of creating an organization to promote the governor's agenda is unique,» said Blair Horner, a longtime state government watchdog for the New York Public Interest Research Group.

«We're going to do everything we can to support the governor in advancing a bold education reform agenda that improves the quality of traditional public schools and expands choice for families,» the group's executive director, Jenny Sedlis, said in an interview.

A group of risk experts is proposing a new framework and research agenda that they believe will support the most effective public warnings when a hurricane, wildfire, toxic chemical spill or any other environmental hazard threatens safety.

«There's a certain beat that is given by the political agenda,» Vetier says, and it is that beat that the decision - makers, the scientists, the industry, the public interest groups, all try to follow.

The agenda of this group was to discredit government safety regulations and reports on such things as genetically - engineered bovine growth hormone, pesticides, public smoking, and global warming.

Right now, the «playbook» at the boundary of science, society and public policy is being re-written, by multiple groups with multiple mandates and agendas.

In «The Uniform Salary Schedule» (Forum, Winter 2005), Brad Jupp cites Public Agenda research and identifies us as a «pro-teacher group.»

Since then, other important pro-teacher groups, like the Progressive Policy Institute, Public Agenda, and the Teaching Commission, have taken even stronger positions.

This weakness is now of great import because we're up against a group of ideologically driven, right - wing public school critics with an agenda for changing, perhaps eliminating, American public schools.

The report, released Nov. 16 by the New York City - based Public Agenda research group, found that low - income parents and those who are members of racial and ethnic minorities are more interested in an academic focus than are wealthier and white parents.

This is the question that leaps out of Public Agenda's latest work on school leadership, a series of focus groups with principals in high - needs public schools conducted for the Wallace FoundPublic Agenda's latest work on school leadership, a series of focus groups with principals in high - needs public schools conducted for the Wallace Foundpublic schools conducted for the Wallace Foundation.

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Public Agenda and the Public Education Network, a Washington - based group of nonprofit local education funds, plan to use the findings to engage Americans in...

The backers of this lawsuit include a «who's who» of the billionaire boys club and their front groups whose real agendas have nothing to do with protecting students, but are really about privatizing public schools.

This whole notion of lumping together everyone who is fighting for change and equality in the system as one cohesive «education reform» group with one agenda (to destroy public education!).

We began by conducting interviews and focus group discussions, guided in part by the work of the Public Agenda Foundation (Johnson and Immerwahl 1994).

A 1999 survey by Public Agenda, a nonpartisan research group, found that 68 percent of blacks favor vouchers.

For example, conservative groups sponsored an anti-Common Core conference in September 2013 at the University of Notre Dame, while the liberal Network for Public Education held its own conference in March 2014 at the University of Texas - Austin to protest the privatization of education (the Common Core was not the sole topic, but it was a prominent portion of the agenda).

The Federal Commission on School Safety has not yet had a public meeting, has not yet publicly shared any draft agendas or meeting materials, and has no members that directly represent parents, teachers, schools, states, and / or civil rights groups.

Since Malloy introduced his «Education Reform» agenda, the charter school industry and the corporate funded «education reform» advocacy groups have hired dozens of lobbyists and spent nearly $ 7 million, or more, to «persuade» Connecticut officials to adopt policies that are diametrically opposed to what is in the best interests of Connecticut students, parents, teachers and public school system.

It's a city where every group has it's own agenda in regards to public transportation, growth, taxes, public school system, etc..

If academic and professional institutions with lots of expertise on scientific issues of great import shy away from the public arena, they leave that space to other groups that may put some background agenda ahead of accuracy.

This means we're putting a man who has written an entire book calling climate change a hoax, who has used scripture to refute climate science, who truly seems to believe that environmental groups are a «political machine» dedicated to «misleading the American public regarding their purely politically partisan agenda under the guise of environmental protection» and who has insisted, with a straight face, that CO2 is not a «real pollutant,» in charge of solving climate change.

If environmental groups refuse to engage in this emerging public debate,» he asks, «how will they respond when geoengineering suddenly appears at the top of the agenda?»

«But its critics claim that InsideClimate News is essentially a mouthpiece run by a public - relations consultancy that gets its funding almost exclusively from groups with an environmental agenda... The little that is known about InsideClimate News raises questions about conflicts of interest as well as about the publication's ability, and proclivity, to report fairly and without bias.»

The report goes on to list groups such as the American Lung Association and the Union of Concerned Scientists as «agenda - driven far - left elites» obsessed with using «secretive backroom deals and transfers» to hide their agenda from the public.

The public is coming to think of scientists as just another political pressure group with a particular agenda that scientists push with all the intellectual honesty of any other pressure group — which is to say very little.

The agenda of this group was to discredit government safety regulations and reports on such things as genetically - engineered bovine growth hormone, pesticides, public smoking, and global warming.

Although both types of groups appeal to the public to help further the cause of children, it doesn't take long for most Father's Rights advocates to get to their true agenda» abolishing abuse prevention legislation and child support laws.