Sentences with phrase «larger national debate»

More broadly, the Renewal effort's fate will have implications for the larger national debate over urban school reform.

Such discussions over school lunches and healthy eating echo a larger national debate about the role government should play in individual food choices.

Not exact matches

Back in 2000, when more than a 100 people died in Ford Explorers, many of them equipped with Firestone tires, there was a national debate over large sport - utility vehicles and whether they were prone to rollover.

Now he's stepping down as CEO of the fast casual restaurant company — in large part to focus on a problem that extends beyond the restaurant realm: what Shaich says is short - term thinking in capital markets and the national debate.

Mirroring a larger internal NDP debate on the national level, Mr. Eggen has released a statement calling for peace between Israel and the Palestinians living in Gaza.

The national security is a wrinkle in a larger debate over manufacturing in America: whether the government should intervene to shelter a place like Hawesville from the winds of global trade.

«It's a way for us to engage the argument around drug policy for folks who might not necessarily think in those terms, or be familiar with the larger debate, which is our whole interest — taking the debate beyond the field, especially during a national opioid crisis.»

But for the larger group of casual fans with an outside curiosity about the national championship or the sport in general, the constant hammering over the head with terms like «native sandy areas» (and attendant rules parsing, delay, and debate) will sound like the stuff of a niche sport, and is a turnoff.

His silent protests have sparked national conversation and debate, but they have also inspired widespread condemnation from a large segment of the population.

As I explained in that post, students of color are the largest demographic served by the National School Lunch Program, yet their voices often go unheard in Congressional debates about how the program is funded or should operate.

The raging public debate, largely ill - informed, is not premised on what is in Ghana's national interest, but what will give the largest boost to the political fortunes of the NDC & NPP in the run up to November's Presidential and Parliamentary elections.

Commenting after the debate on Motion 40 The Government, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers union said: «We are very obviously not all in this together.»

If this happens in a national crisis (say a nuclear warhead took out a large portion of the chain of command quickly) and has not been resolved previously, this debate might not matter and the ex-president will likely take over quickly but temporarily.

Commenting after the debate on Motion 48, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «While there has been over 40 years of advancements in equality between the sexes, in recent years there has been something of a step back.

The presence of the civil rights leader who has led national marches against police brutality for decades and is seen by critics as reflexively anti-police rekindled a debate about his track record on public safety at a time when his ally, Mayor Bill de Blasio, is seeking to burnish his bonds with police officers, large numbers of whom turned their backs on him at two police funerals last December.

Commenting after the debate on motion 41 on the economy, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers?

Commenting on the Opposition Debate on Michael Gove's examination reform, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «Stephen Twigg is right to raise the spectre of an «upstairs downstairs mentality» if Michael Gove's plans for the English Baccalaureate Certificate (EBC) goes ahead.

The debate comes as the presidential campaign and the national debate writ large are convulsing over questions of race and gender in the United States.

«As the national debate on immigration has grown stronger, including immigrants» use of many social services, some have argued that the reason for the high child poverty rate has mostly been due to the large number of children in low - skilled, poor immigrant families,» Joo said.

If we have an open and vigorous debate about whether it is desirable for our large, diverse country to have a uniform national set of standards, curriculum, and assessments, I am confident that they would lose.

Commenting after the debate on Motion 35, Kevin Courtney, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «The impact of the Government's education policies is turning our schools into exam factories.

Commenting after the debate on Motion 34, Kevin Courtney, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «Government funding policy is putting our tremendously successful sixth form colleges sector at risk.

Commenting after the debate on Motion 46, Kevin Courtney, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said:

Commenting after the debate on Motion 36, Kevin Courtney, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «School funding per pupil is falling at its fastest rate since the 1970s.

Alexandria, Va. (July 15, 2015)- As the U.S. Senate approaches the end of debate on the nation's largest education law, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) continues to actively engage with our nation's lawmakers in support of a comprehensive, strategic modernization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).

When his body was found in a ravine in the Angeles National Forest, and the coroner ruled it a suicide, Mr. Ruelas's death became a flash point, drawing the city's largest newspaper into the middle of the debate over reforming the nation's second - largest school district.

«Given that billions of dollars are being disbursed,» says Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association, the country's largest teachers union, «it is reasonable that people are starting to raise concerns about how this flow of money is shaping our political debate about education reform and to ask if a handful of individuals are having undue influence in one of our nation's most important institutions.»

Sackler, who helped Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, create Achievement First Inc., the large charter school management company that owns at least 20 schools in Connecticut and New York, also played a pivotal role in forming Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now Inc. (ConnCAN), Connecticut Coalition for Education Advocacy (ConnAD) and 50 - CAN, the national organization that has inserted ConnCAN - like organizations into the education reform debate in Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.

Although the national debate over public education has become polarized during the past several years, with bitter divisions inside and between political parties, the PDK / Gallup poll showed a surprising level of agreement in the public at large.

As a national debate continues to simmer over the best methods for protecting students from gun violence, a state senator from Southern California points out that a large number of school districts are failing to develop or update school safety plans — as required by law.

I am hopeful that the financial pain that has been caused by this mistake had now grown large enough that we are going to be able to get some responsible people involved in the effort to start a national debate on the realities of stock investing.

You and you alone can «re-center» our national debate on issues like the unsustainability of increasing conspicuous per - human over-consumption of limited resources; the unsustainability of skyrocketing absolute global human population numbers; and the soon to become patently unsustainable, seemingly endless growth of large - scale industrial / corporate activities, now threatening to engulf the surface of the planetary home God has blessed us to inhabit and, I suppose, not to overwhelm.

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