Sentences with phrase «more public participation»

A key trend in eGovernment today is enabling more public participation in policy - and law - making.

Politicians from the Conservatives, Greens, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru, SNP and UKIP all sang the praises of the Citizens» Assemblies and called for more public participation in politics.

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And the public was ready to pounce: Just 24 hours after Fowler published her post, the Twitter hashtag #DeleteUber had generated almost 5 million more impressions than it did during the weekend of January 27, when masses of people started using it to protest the company's response to a New York taxi strike and CEO Travis Kalanick's (soon to be short - lived) participation in President Donald Trump's tech advisory committee.

Question: Are families that choose private schools and home education for their children more likely than families involved in public schools to be socially isolated and withdrawn from participation in civic life?

They are not open to public observation or communal participation, except in the more Pentecostal forms of Christian worship.

Writing in The Times, Kate Lampard, chairwoman of GambleAware said: «As a society, we should be concerned about the rising risk of harm from wider access and more regular participation in gambling on future generations, resulting in a possible public health crisis in gambling addiction.»

• increase public funding for after - school programs • serve suppers instead of (or in addition to) snacks • recruit more school districts to provide after - school suppers and snacks • support and expand year - round participation by integrating the Afterschool Supper Program with the Summer Food Service Program • streamline and simplify the Afterschool Supper Program • serve meals during weekends, holidays and unanticipated school closures; and • improve meal quality

These findings suggest that policies aiming to increase voluntary participation in public service provision are likely to be more successful in some areas than others.

How would you increase participation in politics?By having more public offi cials elected, and more contentious local issues settled by referendum.

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Only about 5 % of taxpayers choose the $ 3 check off for public campaign funding (which is about $ 23 million per year because there are about 150 million 1040 tax returns filed each year), but public television, radio, the NEA and the NEH might get closer to the 25 - 27 % percent participation that the check off got when it was started (bringing the take to perhaps $ 115 million a year), because their programming is probably more popular than campaign funding for politicians.

The committee was impressed by the work done by some local authorities to increase young people's participation rates, citing the «Total Place» pilots experimenting with ways public service providers can work more closely.

Reinvent Albany and the, um, civic technology groups we work use the term «civic technology» to describe Information Technology (usually Internet based) that promotes more open and transparent government, makes government digital information more findable and usable by the public, encourages public participation and collaboration -LSB-...]

New York City's public financing program has opened the door «for meaningful participation from working - class communities,» resulting in a city council that is not only more racially and economically diverse, but that is also better positioned to represent the interests of ordinary New Yorkers.

Many of us hope that the legacy of the independence debate is higher participation and more sophisticated debate among an enlightened and enthusiastic public.

Over the mayor's second two years, she more than quadrupled her participation in internal meetings and public events to 343.

It is important to realise that radical reform of the way Parliament operates is unlikely to happen, because incoming governments have too strong a vested interest in the status quo, unless there is a strong, persistent and well - informed demand from the public for action which gives them genuine participation in the parliamentary process, more direct transparency to overcome dependence on a highly distorting media, and the right to recall MPs for manifest breakdowns in integrity or competence.

He added, «it aims at cultivating in the youth of Ghana improved civic participation, knowledge and attitudes, and the practice of critical and objective analysis of public issues as well as the effective use of freedom of expression and association to build more peaceful, tolerant and open societies in Ghana especially towards the 2016 elections.»

The boycotts could cost Long Island's public schools more than $ 200 million in federal and state financial aid if Washington imposes penalties for low student test - participation rates, key superintendents in Nassau and Suffolk counties said in a January letter to acting U.S. Education Secretary John B. King Jr..

Participation as a 2016 - 17 AAAS Leshner Leadership Institute Public Engagement Fellow has inspired Dow to think creatively about ways to encourage faculty, graduate students, and government agency staff to participate in more proactive science and society engagement.

The results suggest that there should be: improvements to policy and management to champion biodiversity issues; a strengthening of environmental laws and enforcement; recognition of socio - economic issues especially among indigenous and local communities; increases in funding and resource allocation; knowledge, research and development to inform decision making; a greater understanding and protection of the rights of nature and cultural heritage; a more holistic public awareness and participation to bring about change to promote conservation.

As participation in sports continues to grow (1.5 million youngsters now play on football teams in the U.S.), more head injuries are inevitable, making pediatric concussions an emerging public health crisis.

Variables that measure student differences based on participation in government programs are problematic, however, especially when comparing different school sectors, since government - run public schools are much more likely to participate in such programs than are privately run schools, even if both types of schools have similar student populations.

We urge increased focus on public - citizen participation for more democratised actions on climate change.

It may be that SAT scores, as a very public measure of school performance, lead to agitation for charter laws, but that charters themselves are more likely to target students at risk of dropping out, and therefore participation is more closely associated with dropout rates.

More broadly, Harvard University professor Robert Putnam's research on civic participation provides reason to think that private schools should be better able to deliver civic education than are public schools.

After all, the point is to encourage universities to pay more attention to the stuff of scholarly participation in the public square.

The effectiveness of public schools in developing engaged citizens has rarely been examined empirically,» notes a new Mathematica report on the impact on civic participation of Democracy Prep, a network of charter schools that educates more than 5,000 students, mostly in New York City.

Older students learn more advanced group skills such as collaborating with others on projects, class participation, and public speaking.

Having more public charter schools in a school boundary increases participation in public charter schools even when we exclude the Wilson HS boundary schools (see Appendix Table 15).

To help support the growth of schools, grants will fund the identification and development of new charter school facilities, efforts to recruit and prepare public school teachers and provide support and coaching to public school leaders, and efforts to deepen conversations between educators and families to create more collaboration and public participation in creating more high - quality public schools.

While a formal civics course is not offered until high school, kindergarten students learn to «identify personal traits, such as courage, honesty, and responsibility» and third - graders learn to «explain how local government officials are chosen, e.g., election, appointment,» according to the Idaho State Department of Education's social studies standards.22 By the time students reach 12th grade, they are more prepared to learn civics - related topics, such as the electoral process and role of political parties; the methods of public participation; and the rights and responsibilities of citizenship, than students with no prior exposure to a civics curriculum.

More than half (or 54 %) of students who qualify for free or reduced lunch in Massachusetts public schools do not eat school breakfast on a given school day, ranking Massachusetts as the 43rd state in low income student school breakfast participation.

In part, the perception of increasing funder participation in policy discussions is due to the very public personas of founders of major foundations like Bill Gates and Eli Broad.7 And the advocacy efforts of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Broad Foundation have increased dramatically with a shift from local funding efforts to more direct support for national - level policy advocacy on issues such as the Common Core State Standards.8

For a more detailed discussion of the impact of this type of public engagement on rulemaking, please see a law review article authored by Cornell staff entitled Rulemaking in 140 Characters or Less: Social Networking and Public Participation in Rulempublic engagement on rulemaking, please see a law review article authored by Cornell staff entitled Rulemaking in 140 Characters or Less: Social Networking and Public Participation in RulemPublic Participation in Rulemaking.

The five schools were selected from a pool of more than 1,000, and were examined in depth, regarding the following characteristics: organization; collection; participation in committees; principal support; technology access, use, and integration; collaboration and teaching; impact; usage; promotion; collaboration with the public library; and strengths.

So, let's see if more of good businesses make themselves avaialble for public participation on the exchanges.

More recently, the GAO issued a comprehensive report on servicing failures, including low levels of participation of eligible borrowers in the income driven and public service loan forgiveness programs.

Public participation in the stock market skyrocketed, with nearly 25 % more consumers directly or indirectly owning stocks within the first five years alone.

The phenomenal global participation has inspired more than a few amusing headlines and warnings from public safety officials.

The general public knows that if they simply want a great looking, healthy pet that a person's participation in shows doesn't somehow make their dogs better pets, and in some cases more beautiful to that person.

«We found that the participation of artists in the public discussion of climate change — and in general in the public examination of all social issues — expanded the conversation and made it more accessible,» said Hamilton Fish, President of PCF and co-founder of Marfa Dialogues.

In a city that is becoming more and more dense and utilized, the Berlin - based artist collective Club Real aims to explore the above questions and some of the city's projects in order to widen the perspective on the possibilities and limitations of participation in art and art interventions in public urban spaces, using the concept of «disturbances of every day life» and presentations as a form of intervention.

By creating a project that is contingent on public participation, we are promoting the mingling of Vancouver's arts community with the more established communities in the area, thus allowing both parties to benefit from the exchange of dialogue and ideas.

«The blank pages, available for the taking, involve more than just audience participation, these works were critical of the difference between outdoor works of art and true public sculpture,» said Bob Linder, exhibition curator.

Both policies would bolster prices and reduce variations in allowance values, but a price floor could prove to be a more efficient fix for the European Union's current ETS surplus problems because it will lead to more predictable and cost - effective outcomes — and greater public understanding, acceptance, participation, and support.

Jane has written on matters of public participation and public engagement, equity concerns as they relate to research, and on responsible research and innovation more broadly.

To date, participants in the TCPs have examined more than 1 900 energy - related topics, involving over 6 000 experts worldwide who represent nearly 300 public and private organisations located in 51 countries, including a large participation by IEA partner countries, such as China, India Mexico and Brazil.

The outcome of a workshop requested by Parties to the Paris Agreement, ranged from suggestions to place climate issues in school curricula, to bridging environment and other ministries with education ministries, to suggestions for building education and public participation concerns more solidly into the planning and reporting requirements of governments cooperating in the international response to climate change.

I argue that if we take a different approach, like working at the local and regional level and try to facilitate public participation directly in the discussion, then people are more likely to come together, start talking about climate change, plan, connect, and find common ground.