Sentences with phrase «majority of the public»

The vast majority of public school teachers, however, are in «defined benefit plans,» which provide an essentially risk free payment at retirement for the life of the teacher.

It is also where the vast majority of public school teachers will work for the foreseeable future.

Given that a large majority of public school students attend schools that are determined by their neighborhood location, information about sorting across neighborhoods is warranted.

Quite the contrary: a series of recent polls shows that a commanding majority of the public continues to support clean energy and climate legislation.

But it's interesting that a clear majority of the public believe in the science, and also want more done by governments, but the public are ignored by governments.

It's a shame because the film met with great reviews from critics, and the vast majority of the public who went and saw it loved it.

And this unhealthy obsession with constantly picking fights on issues that the vast majority of the public do not believe are a priority is taking its toll on the party machine.

Each year a strong majority of the public has expressed support for federal efforts to hold schools accountable by requiring that students be tested in reading and math.

Yet states are the entities through which the vast majority of public education funds flow.

The vast majority of public high schools offer access to hands - on college experience with almost all (98 percent) offering career preparation.

But while the reforms a decade ago kept a solid majority of public schools under traditional district management, the current blueprint has the potential to impact every school.

The potential consequences are much more severe, and the time we have left to successfully address it is much shorter, than the vast majority of the public realizes.

Now he is completely inactive except when bringing shame on the country for acting like a fucking idiot abroad and the vast majority of the public appear to be of the same opinion.

However, American economists say the decline is understandable what with rising mortgage rates and the grand majority of the public being fully employed.

A large majority of the public are against the use of electric shock collars and would support the government in banning these cruel devices.

The vast majority of the public consistently indicate on polls that publicly funded private schools should be as transparent and accountable as public schools.

Despite the big majority of public bettors on UNC, the line did not move until very early Saturday morning.

Baltimore opened as a -136 favorite at Pinnacle and is receiving the overwhelming majority of public bets placed on this game.

«Health officials in both Mississippi and West Virginia report that overwhelming majorities of the public support their policies and that opposition comes from a very small number of the population.

However, the slight majority of public action has been on the Longhorns.

If the vast majority of the public want tougher controls on immigration - which they very much do (see the polls)- then why do the liberal media insist on accusing the the Tories of chasing their «core vote»?

The vast majority of the public thinks we spend amounts that can only be described as minuscule, and almost 96 percent of the public underestimate either per - pupil spending in their districts or teacher salaries in their states.

Research by ICM for the Guardian newspaper saw both the Tories and Liberal Democrats suffer as an outright majority of public opinion turned against the government's controversial changes to the health service.

Toronto opened as a -133 favorite at Pinnacle and is receiving the overwhelming majority of public bets.

A slight majority of public bettors were willing to take the Celtics (closed +10.5) back on November 3.

New Orleans allocates the vast majority of public funding directly to schools, and resources from philanthropy and competitive federal grants have complemented these core dollars.

The vast majority of public employees still have no choice but to sign up for a standard DB public pension.

«Most hookah smokers in the U.S. are not daily users, whereas many cigarette smokers smoke multiple times a day, so it may seem that the vast majority of public health and policy - related interventions should be directed at cigarette smoking,» said study author Dr. Brian Primack.

I think the vast majority of the public understands that there are good reasons to consider emissions reductions, but also realises that the word «catastrophic» can have a very wide range of meanings and that we are not talking about a 100 % chance of humanity going extinct by 2050 unless we get emissions down by 20 % from 1990 levels by 2020.

Parents also doubt the ability of elected officials and district leaders to make the right intervention and policy decisions; in fact, Public Agenda found that a strong majority of the public trusts the judgment of parents and teachers far more.

They do this apparently more for nationalistic pride than any market, though a substantial majority of the public there is apparently in support of the consumption of whale meat, all of which is apparently illegally poached.

The great majority of the public admires their public schools and their teachers and wants them to be better, more equitably funded, not eliminated.

In another section of the decision, Judge Cote acknowledges that the vast majority of public comments in response to the settlement were negative.

According to a ComRes poll, for example, a clear majority of public supports raising the minimum wage and increasing the top rate of tax to 50p from 45p — two key Labour pledges.

FINRA has an enhanced majority of public governors.

The vast majority of public companies in the cannabis industry trade on over-the-counter markets, as penny stocks, where they have less stringent requirements than the Securities and Exchange Commission requires of firms traded on the national market systems, like the New York Stock Exchange.

Opinion polls show that a significant majority of the public do not want to see Trident replaced, so cancelling plans for new nuclear weapons would be a vote - winner.

Furthermore, the vast majority of public union political activity seeks to aid the left side of the political spectrum, as the unions are closely aligned with the Democratic and Working Families parties.

In a release announcing the signing of the legislation, Cuomo said the «overwhelming majority of public assistance sanctions do not stand up to scrutiny,» adding that the state's Office of Temporary Disability Assistance found that out of 21,474 cases brought to a hearing after a public assistance recipient received a sanction, only 242 of the sanctions were upheld.

Embattled U.K. biomedical researchers are drawing some comfort from a new survey showing that a sizable majority of the public continues to support the use of animals in research.

While large majorities of the public call for sensible new restrictions on guns, the organized gun lobby may offer their «thoughts and prayers,» but insist there is no legislation that possibly could have made a difference in preventing — or even limiting the scale of — the most recent carnage.

In response to a separate question, a slim majority of public school parents (54 %) say that if they had a choice to send their child to a private or religious school using public funds, they would still send their child to a public school.

That left the parcels in rural and southern Utah that nobody wanted or cared about, much like the vast majority of our public lands.

The vast majority of the public charging stations that I encountered were located inside private lots and garages, which required that I pay for parking on top of paying for charging.

However, an overwhelming majority of the public reaction was in support of Ashley's parents.