Sentences with phrase «includes widespread support»

This includes widespread support in the business community, which views a high - quality pre-K-12 education as critical to Michigan's ongoing economic comeback.

Other features in the 2017 survey include a widespread support for science education, a low percentage of respondents seeking a job, and the dominance of a pharmaceutical company recognized for volunteerism.

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A survey of more than 5,500 business leaders from all over the world from the 2016 Global Opportunity Report revealed widespread support of the UN's new Sustainable Development Goals, including the ones relating directly to climate change (SDG 7, 11 and 13).

Polls have consistently shown widespread support for dreamers, including a CBS News survey that pegged the number of Americans who favor keeping DACA recipients in the U.S. at 87 percent.

«In the UK these barriers include the difficulty some women encounter when breastfeeding in public, widespread misleading marketing that formula is equivalent to breastfeeding, a lack of high quality services to prevent and treat any problems if they arise, a lack of community support, a lack of education about breastfeeding for young children, and lack of support for women to breastfeed in the workplace.

Breastfeeding is an unequalled way of providing ideal food for the healthy growth and development of infants1, providing protection from morbidity and mortality due to infectious diseases2 and chronic diseases later in life.3 Exclusive breastfeeding is recommended, starting within one hour of birth and for the first 6 months of life, with continued breastfeeding to 2 years of age and beyond.4 However, rates of initiation, exclusive breastfeeding and breastfeeding duration have fallen since the widespread introduction and promotion of breast - milk substitutes.5 Successful breastfeeding depends on a number of factors, including a re-normalisation of breastfeeding as the infant feeding method of choice through antenatal counselling and education and breastfeeding support to prevent and resolve breastfeeding difficulties.

More importantly, as Le Billon so well documented in French Kids Eat Everything, almost every aspect of French food culture, including widespread nutrition education and early «taste training,» supports better school meals, both their provision by schools and their acceptance by children.

Owes has had widespread community support, including from Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel and members of the church, dozens of whom have repeatedly turned out at court to support her.

The move to ban discarding has gained widespread public support through the campaigning efforts of supermarkets, pressure groups, chefs including Hugh Fearnley - Whittingstall, and other celebrities such as the band Coldplay and the comedian Ricky Gervais.

Survey responses from 19,000 people in 18 European countries, including the UK, showed that «the notion that big welfare states are associated with widespread cultures of dependency, or other adverse consequences of poor short term incentives to work, receives little support.»

The plan, to be carried out by national malaria - control agencies in Cambodia and Thailand with support from various research institutes, includes rapid and widespread treatment with ACTs, improved mosquito control, the distribution of long - lasting insecticide - impregnated bed nets, a ban on monotherapies in Cambodia (they are already rare in Thailand), and an information campaign.

Areas of widespread agreement included the importance of energy levels and nutritional goals; support for greater emphasis on whole grains, unsaturated fats, and nutrient - dense choices, especially from groups that are currently under - consumed; and the use of standard household measures.

'' The Exorcist» is probably the «purest» horror movie to receive widespread Academy Awards acclaim, racking up 10 nominations including Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actor and Actress.

With widespread bipartisan support from such ideological opponents as U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, as well as the business community, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, in 2010 the standards sailed remarkably fast through adoption in 40 states and the District of Columbia.

Denver's merit pay system, known as the Professional Compensation System (ProComp), is currently touted as the model system for merit pay because it had widespread support, including from teachers and parents when it passed about five years ago.

Sustaining our democratic values and improving our education system call for a host of more coordinated and widespread education, economic, and housing policies — including policies to raise curricular standards, tackle insufficient funding for schools with a large share of low - income students, promote access to education resources from early childhood to college, improve dual language programs, provide economic support for families, and create more integrated schools and neighborhoods.

So proponents claiming the mantle of «education reform» have been quick to jump on the one - sided election results as proof - positive of widespread voter support for their ideas, which include competitive charter schools, vouchers to transfer public education money into private hands, and harsh accountability measures to punish schools and teachers for the circumstances they have very little control over.

,» examines current trends in special education that are likely to influence next steps for IDEA, including widespread use of tiered systems of support, the shift from regulatory compliance to results - driven accountability, and an increased focus on postschool transition planning.

A number of industries and reading sectors, including the hospitality industry and public and academic libraries, have already turned to widespread digital access to support their customers, and this partnership can serve as a model for bridging local, state, national, and international coverage for digital readers.

One commenter supported the Department's plan to release more information about the PLUS loan program, including default rate information, but felt that default rates alone do not provide a complete picture of how widespread financial distress might be.

Projects supported by Center grants include Funeral for a Home, which celebrated the life of an individual row home before it was razed, as a response to years of widespread demolition in sections of Philadelphia; and reFORM, an immersive installation by Pew Fellow Pepón Osorio that responded to the closing of dozens of Philadelphia public schools.

EPA's draft report contains quantitative scientific data (including over 950 sources of information, published papers, numerous technical reports, information from stakeholders and peer - reviewed EPA scientific reports) that support existing language saying that there is no widespread, systemic impact on the quality of drinking water.

Hernandez was instrumental in securing widespread support for the campaign, including the support of the Catholic Church, which commands enormous respect and authority in a country where Catholicism is the dominant faith.

Coincident with the abrupt cooling and hydrological changes of ~ 5,200 yr BP, archaeological studies support a general pattern of abandoned Neolithic human settlements in several areas, including the Andes and the entire Eastern Mediterranean, indicating a widespread climatic crisis that marks the transition from the Chalcolithic to the early Bronze Age (Weninger et al., 2009).

Driven mostly by this new understanding, Prop 1 has received widespread bipartisan support in California, including from Gov. Jerry Brown, Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, and both the California Democratic and Republican Parties.

Lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights have filed a complaint on behalf of SNAP, a survivor support group, at the International Criminal Court (ICC) alleging that senior Vatican officials — including the current Pope — have committed crimes against humanity on the basis that «Vatican officials tolerate and enable the systematic and widespread concealing of rape and child sex crimes throughout the world.»

As a result the trial record in this proceeding is incomplete and unbalanced on crucial issues including: (1) the widespread suicidal ideation initially experienced by persons with disabilities responding to their disabilities; [8](2) relevant exploitation and abuse to which people with disabilities and the elderly are subjected; [9](3) prejudice faced by persons with disabilities in society at large and in the medical community; [10](4) the impact the lack of palliative care and support services has on suicidal ideation; [11](5) the impaired agency of persons with disabilities in dependent circumstances; [12](6) evidence of clinicians about the impact resulting from a state sanctioned paradigm shift legalizing assisted suicide and euthanasia («AS / E»); [13] and (7) the impact on the judgment of doctors of functioning in an environment of increasing health costs and budget constraints.

Despite widespread bipartisan support, interim short - term budget resolutions failed to include home visiting.