Sentences with phrase «lasting impacts on public»

Cutting back the state will have damaging, lasting impacts on public services, the very fabric of our society.

But although the controversy helped bring conversations about abortion back into the cultural spotlight, it appears that much of the outrage failed to make a real or lasting impact on public opinion.

Not exact matches

His last public statement (on Facebook, of course) was a mixture of regret and defense, reading, in part, «I am deeply sorry that my actions are negatively impacting the perception of Oculus and its partners.

Recent estimates by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) indicate sizeable and long - lasting impacts of public infrastructure spending on private investment and output.

A survey last month by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found «little evidence to suggest that concerns about the candidates» respective faiths will have a meaningful impact in the fall elections.»

«My daughter goes to public school and I can see the impact breakfast — or lack thereof — has on children in starting their day right,» she told us last year.

Over the last few months, the public debate in Italy has put great emphasis on the possible impacts of TTIP on agriculture and food.

The latest Construction Trade Survey published today, shows that the cuts to public spending, announced by the government last autumn, have finally started to impact on construction activity, confirming the fears the industry has warned about for some time.

In May last year, we were at significant risk of a downgrading in our international credit rating, with a catastrophic impact on public services, business and consumer confidence, a long period of stagflation, and a contraction in the economy.

Public Sector Cuts Finally Start to Bite The latest Construction Trade Survey published today, shows that the cuts to public spending, announced by the government last autumn, have finally started to impact on construction activity, confirming the fears the industry has warned about for somePublic Sector Cuts Finally Start to Bite The latest Construction Trade Survey published today, shows that the cuts to public spending, announced by the government last autumn, have finally started to impact on construction activity, confirming the fears the industry has warned about for somepublic spending, announced by the government last autumn, have finally started to impact on construction activity, confirming the fears the industry has warned about for some time.

In 2009, DEC's first draft of an impact statement on hydrofracking generated 14,000 public comments, which took about 20 months for DEC to review before it released its revised approach last fall.

This was a huge landmark reform of the last Parliament that [INAUDIBLE] has the potential to make a real impact on reoffending and public safety.

The Keene town board adopted a resolution of the board last Monday evening calling on the U.S. Department of Transportation, the US Environmental Protection Agency, the NY DOT and the NY DEC to impose a moratorium on transport of Bakken Crude Oil by rail from Montreal to Albany, until a comprehensive study determines the public health, safety, economic and environmental impacts of a derailment.

When the coverage lasts longer, there are more news items and a bigger impact on the public awareness of the epidemic, resulting in further behavior changes and fewer new infections.

Luckily, the longest lasting effects of this close planetary shave (the most destructive since the Tunguska impact of 1908) may just be a renewed public focus on dangerous space rocks.

Smokefree laws have had one of the biggest impacts on public health over the last decade.

«WE DO N'T benefit from ignorance,» Barack Obama said last week after ending a de facto freeze on US government research into the public - health impact of guns.

Since it was established by CASW in 2000, this prize has sought to honor not a single story but a body of work published by a single journalist that has made a lasting contribution to the public's understanding of critical advances in medical science and their impact on human health.

On Tuesday, Caprice Young was inducted into the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools» Charter School Hall of Fame, which recognizes the movement's pioneers and leaders whose contributions have made a sizeable, lasting, or innovative impact.

National Poll Finds Waning Support for Charter Schools (The Atlanta Journal Constitution) Charter Schools Take a Hit in Nationwide Poll (EdSource) Public Support for Charter Schools Plummets, Poll Finds (Education Week) Enthusiasm for Charter School Formation Takes Hit, New Poll Finds (The Christian Science Monitor) New Poll Shows Sharp Decline in Support for Public Charter Schools Over Past Year (The 74) National Support for Charter Schools Has Dropped Sharply in Last Year (Chalkbeat) People Think Teachers Are Underpaid — Until You Tell Them How Much Teachers Earn (Time) Marty West co-authors the annual EducationNext survey of American public opinion on timely education issues such charter schools, higher education, and the impact of the current administration, among oPublic Support for Charter Schools Plummets, Poll Finds (Education Week) Enthusiasm for Charter School Formation Takes Hit, New Poll Finds (The Christian Science Monitor) New Poll Shows Sharp Decline in Support for Public Charter Schools Over Past Year (The 74) National Support for Charter Schools Has Dropped Sharply in Last Year (Chalkbeat) People Think Teachers Are Underpaid — Until You Tell Them How Much Teachers Earn (Time) Marty West co-authors the annual EducationNext survey of American public opinion on timely education issues such charter schools, higher education, and the impact of the current administration, among oPublic Charter Schools Over Past Year (The 74) National Support for Charter Schools Has Dropped Sharply in Last Year (Chalkbeat) People Think Teachers Are Underpaid — Until You Tell Them How Much Teachers Earn (Time) Marty West co-authors the annual EducationNext survey of American public opinion on timely education issues such charter schools, higher education, and the impact of the current administration, among opublic opinion on timely education issues such charter schools, higher education, and the impact of the current administration, among others.

The rubric reflects both a scholar's larger body of work and their impact on the public discourse last year.

California's ban on affirmative action programs in public education and government agencies has had little impact on school districts since its passage last November in a statewide vote.

Florida's voucher program for students in the lowest - rated public schools is unconstitutional, the state supreme court ruled last week in a 5 - 2 decision that friends and foes of private school choice are scrutinizing for its potential impact on voucher debates nationwide.

This is the case in Boston, where researchers» careful tracking of six charter high schools over the last decade has shown that those charters have a large and positive impacts on MCAS scores as compared to the city's conventional public high schools.

While the public will is strong and the experience to date is encouraging, there is a need for firmer evidence on the most cost - effective ways to produce lasting impacts for children, especially when programs operate on a large scale.

The bill, first introduced last week by Rep. Jim Banks (R., Ind.), would set up education savings accounts for parents in the armed forces who could divert a portion of funds that would have been sent to a public school on their child's behalf under the federal Impact Aid program to different schooling options.

Atlanta, GA — An unanticipated gift to the Georgia Charter Schools Association (GCSA), from the Sheth Family Foundation will have lasting and positive impact on public education in Georgia by increasing access to high quality public charter schools for thousands of students.

The Chamberlin Family Foundation «has focused on public education as its investment priority, hoping to create a lasting impact for students in targeted communities,» according to its website.

Decisions PA legislators make in the upcoming weeks will have a lasting impact on PA's public school students.

Though the magnitude of total resources that these two entities collectively bring to bear yields an outsized impact on the field, it exemplifies a trend among some of the major funders of public education - related efforts of the last decade.

The crisis was the subject of heated parliamentary debate last week, with Teresa May's government struggling on multiple fronts to defend the idea of public services contracting, launch a convincing investigation of what happened, take credible steps to deal with what is widely seen as compensation - gouging by the company's directors, the perception of sweetheart contracts extended to a struggling company, continuing doubtsabout official and company conflicts of interest, and about the impact of still - undetermined huge taxpayer losses — not least over underfunded pensions that have now come onto its books.

In addition to these four state - based studies of voucher program impacts on test scores, some recent studies do show positive effects on graduation rates, parent satisfaction, community college enrollment, and other nonachievement - based outcomes, but it is unclear if these outcomes are lasting and valid.23 For example, research shows that nationally, graduation rates for students in public schools and peers participating in voucher programs equalize after adjusting for extended graduation rates.24 Some critics suggest that private schools may graduate students who have not successfully completed the full program.25 Also, in regard to parent satisfaction, while some studies do show greater satisfaction among parents whose children participate in voucher programs, the most recent evaluation of the D.C. voucher program shows that any increase in parent or student school satisfaction is not statistically significant.26

Last fall, the executive board of the NAACP adopted a resolution proposed at their national convention, calling for a moratorium on the expansion of charter schools, and citing concerns about their impact on public school districts, racial disparities and other issues.

Hartt's work raises questions about the commingling of the personal and the public, and highlights the narratives and ideologies that underlie the Johnson firm while assessing their lasting impact on today's society.

From these three country experiences, we find that fostering public support to implement lasting reform may depend on four measures: (1) forming a public engagement plan and a comprehensive reform policy that are then clearly communicated to the public in advance of price increases; (2) phasing in price adjustments over a period of time to ease absorption; (3) providing a targeted compensatory cash transfer to alleviate financial impacts on low - to middle - income households; and (4) capitalizing on favorable global macroeconomic conditions.

Adrienne Esposito, Executive Director of Citizens Campaign for the Environment, said, «Over the century, the oil and gas industry has amassed an injurious track record of oil spills and other environmental disasters, which have had significant, lasting impacts on our environment and public health.

So [Skeptical Science activists] Jim Powell, Dana [Nucitelli] and I have been working on something over the last few months that we hope will have a game changing impact on the public perception of consensus.

Ram - roding alleged AGW theory and «facts» down the public's throat won't be as easy as EPA thinks, particularly in this case with huge, long lasting economic impact on the general public.

Throughout his career, Akihisa has advised on cases involving corporate crises with a lasting public policy impact.

These tests are all the more important in the area of public safety, as the use of surveillance powers by authorities can have deep and lasting impact on peoples» lives.

That is unlikely to happen any time soon as regulators are clearly waiting to see the effect fintech has before introducing new rules or revising old ones just as the U.S. Department of the Treasury did last year when it submitted a public request for information to understand the impact of online marketplace lending on small business, consumers and the broader economy.

TfL's spokesman has clearly become accustomed to being grilled by journalists on this topic, and points to comments made by UK information commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, last month who, when asked about the trial at a local government oversight meeting, described it as «a really good example of a public body coming forward with a plan, a new initiative, consulting us deeply and doing a proper privacy impact assessment».

Birmingham City Council is shedding 2,000 jobs this year and with the purge on public sector spending and the impact on supporting businesses, redundant senior managers or those at risk, have got something to cheer about at last.

While the public will is strong and the experience to date is encouraging, there is a need for firmer evidence on the most cost - effective ways to produce lasting impacts for children, especially when programs operate on a large scale.