Sentences with phrase «issue about the inequity»

Still, he said the governor had raised an important issue about the inequity in existing bridge tolls — something he has long believed needed to be addressed.

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So today I'm thrilled to share a conversation with Nicole Baker Fulgham about Christians and the important issue of education inequity.

Count me among the skeptics about that claim, both a skeptic about whether such inequalities reflect real inequities and a skeptic about whether the vast majority of women anguish over this issue.

Clearly then, we need to think about how we might address this issue of inequity: to develop the role of Deputy Prime Minister so that it can be more fulfilling, raising public awareness and recognition of the social utility of what they do, promoting the holder's sense of self - worth, and harnessing their full creative potential...

Asked about the traditionally poor turnout of voters in the heavily - minority Fillmore District, Mascia says voters are turned off by nothing being done and says he will run a get - out - the vote campaign for his issues on race, class and economic inequities.

It is vital in sustainability education to give space for learners to develop their own visions for a sustainable future whilst reminding participants about the issues underpinning the need for change — climate change, peak oil, global inequity and the financial cost of fossil fuels.

EW: A few weeks ago, a New York judge issued a ruling about the inequity of the education - funding system.

Team members essentially collaborate around equity issues, potential equity issues, or proactive ways to engage stakeholders about future challenges arising from inequities.

We believe a meaningful life is one in which people engage in critical reflection about issues of societal importance, especially those related to combatting intolerance, inequity, and injustice in all their forms.

Most of my work in school finance is actually not about issues of measuring funding inequities within districts or across districts or states.

As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.

So the movement we're talking about, the unnamed movement of environmental social justice and indigenous organizations, are forming and collecting to address the salient issues of our time: in poverty and water and climate and the enormous inequities that exist economically in the world, the continuous and rapid degradation of our resource bases, the injustice of pollution itself, in terms of what it does to people's health and their children.