Sentences with phrase «important bully pulpits»

He holds two important bully pulpits: chair of the Canadian Centre for Architecture, and chair of Waterfront Toronto's Design Review Committee.

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«The most important thing a supervisor has is the bully pulpit,» Yevoli said.

Smalley, who teaches at Rice University in Houston, is using his Nobel Prize as a bully pulpit to discuss energy, an issue he calls the most important problem facing humanity.

And via adroit use of competitive grants and — at least as important — the presidential bully pulpit, Uncle Sam may be able to give a modest boost to the movement to put families, rather than bureaucracies, in control of their children's education.

That stipulation seemed unnecessary for a job that was to me about setting a vision for the district, managing high - level employees, dealing with board politics, handling relationships with the press, the community, and the unions, and most important, using the bully pulpit to fight for kids.

Her visible position as the head of the Department of Education provides her with an important platform (aka bully pulpit) to advance her agenda of privatization, but even if she can convince Congress, she will still need to make her case with the states.

Nina Reese, president and executive director of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools recently wrote in a US News and World Report column, «As a former official at the U.S. Department of Education, I applaud the administration for leveraging the power of its bully pulpit to attract the ingredient most important in a child's success: a high quality teacher.»