Sentences with phrase «more public process»

It grew out of a set of meetings last year that aimed at a more public process of assessment than most academy reports involve.

In response to the defeat, Board of Education Chairman Matt Poland called a special meeting of the Hartford Board of Education for tonight to re-vote the two proposed magnet schools and move forward with the idea of a more public process to help the SAND Elementary School or another neighborhood school become what is being called a «Lighthouse School» (whatever that is).

Dadey says there is precedent for a more public process.

«If they really stand behind the words that they put out on reform than they should have done something to demand this be a much more public process,» said Citizens Union Executive Director Dick Dadey.

Not exact matches

Despite becoming aware of the breach and having it reported to Yahoo's senior management and legal department, the company failed to properly investigate and did not disclose it to the public until more than two years later, when it was in the process of being acquired by Verizon Communication Inc, the regulator said.

The process of this deal wasn't dissimilar to the bailout programmes that have already passed — the other eurozone governments were a little less sympathetic, partly due to public pressure, and the Greek government was more radical than ever.

This strategy asks the customer to take an active role in the giving process, and requires a more aggressive public relations and advertising campaign.

While the Securities and Exchange Commission is attempting to ease the process of going public, recently widening the use of private draft - stage listings for example, long - term secular changes in the capital markets suggest that private funds are likely to remain equally, if not more, appealing to growing firms than public financing.

Amazon isn't so much interested in taking over what's called the «last mile» of the delivery trek as it is in making the process more efficient for the company and public entities that aid in delivery.

One reason for delays, says Holmes, is that public programs often customize loan documents, while banks have a more standardized process.

Bear in mind, the process leading up to financing is generally 30 to 60 days longer and potentially more complicated with public funding than with regular credit.

The Liberals have introduced changes as they try to fulfil their 2015 election promise to improve Parliament's financial processes by bringing more consistency and clarity when it comes to government accounting of how it spends public money.

Amazon has specifically asked cities to transition from what has been a very public process to a more secretive pitch.

Initial coin offerings, a cryptocurrency - based twist on the initial public offering fundraising process, have raised more than $ 3 billion by some estimates.

It's too hard and too costly to go public and stay public these days, so there are no small IPOs any more, which means a lot of small companies are capital constrained and can't grow into large companies (and employ a lot of people in the process).

BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER THE IPO Finance Track hosted by RBC Capital Markets Externally the initial public offering is seen as a milestone of success, but executives who have been through the process know that it's much more complicated.

In its recent launch of the preliminary public consultation process, the Government of Canada claimed that «today's modern, interconnected economy requires a more inclusive and progressive approach to international trade.»

You should know that the larger the firm, the more formalized the investment committee process will be and the higher the probability that public auctions will be used during the process.

And more recently, reports have emerged that amid the crisis, Venezuelans are increasingly capitalising on heavily subsidised electricity costs in the country to mine bitcoin — that is, the process of validating new transactions onto bitcoin's public ledger (the blockchain), which is then rewarded with the receipt of newly minted digital currency.

«A more thorough and considered process would have allowed for a robust public discussion among clearing member firms, exchanges and clearinghouses,» the FIA said in its letter, which was addressed to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and signed by FIA Chief Executive Officer Walt Lukken.

It has a properly confessional and hermeneutical stance before its ecclesial public, and it would be helpful if process theologians saw it more clearly as a distinctive endeavor, which is neither philosophical nor practical theology.

If you are a reader who cares more about communicating the message of the lesson, and you trust the process of preparation as outlined here, then you are on your way to becoming an effective public reader!

Actually, millennial Christians are more likely than any age group — notably, those generations of Christians that invested a ton of hope in the political process — to share their faith in public (43 percent say they talk to others about their faith at least once a week).

Our protest against «the naked public square» was then a distinctly minority position, whereas today there is a much more widespread recognition that church - state jurisprudence is a shambles, and that the democratic process requires the vigorous engagement of the religiously based moral convictions of the American people.

At the heart of the problem of consciousness, in other words, is the problem of qualia: to show how «brain processes, which are publicly observable, objective phenomena, could cause anything as peculiar as inner qualitative states of awareness or sentience, states which are in some sense «private» to the possessor of the state (MC 60).6 Searle thus prompts an even more basic question: whether it is possible to distinguish clearly and distinctly between private and public aspects of perception.

Nord devotes more pages to the process of public school secularization than his neutrality thesis requires and fewer than would be necessary for a thorough cultural history of religion and education.

Coles is instead arguing for a more transparent system by making the methodology and process for allocating shelf space public.

Being involved in this beautiful project maintains our public support for initiatives that champion creativity and, more specifically, how integral paper is to artistic processes.

Developers of public health guidelines have been adopting systematic review methods and more structured methods for grading recommendations; assessing bias in the reviews is a critical step in the process [7, 38, 39].

We recently sat down with Erin to discuss the SNF scholarship application process, and to find out more about how her Master's degree in Management — with a concentration in Public Administration — is helping her achieve personal and professional goals.

Some women prefer to drape a small blanket or shawl over their shoulder and their breast to make the public process a little more private.

I only wish that more freshly made soups and stews were served in public schools, where the kids get a steady diet of processed convenience foods.

The Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has hinted on the readiness of the World Bank to release more information on the spending of recovered loot by late General Sani Abacha as «it has referred portion of appeal by its Archives Unit for processing for public access.

For example, the Commission could help facilitate local deliberative bodies or citizen assemblies, support local authorities conduct effective participatory budgeting exercises, and experiment with new means for the public to engage in political decision - making processes in more direct and sustained ways.

The manual begins with an uncontentious definition: «Lobbying is the process of seeking to influence government and its institutions by informing the public policy agenda» or, rather more succinctly, «the art of political persuasion».

The public accounts committee urged the government to employ a more «rigorous» and «transparent» comparison process between PFI and alternative funding methods.

What we actually need is a more democratic model of impact where it is conceived of as impact upon the public debate; inspiring gradual, long term change — and in which academic communication is part of a mutual, democratic learning process.

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The quality of government — an elusive concept but measured here by various measures of public satisfaction — has not shown the dramatic decline that some expected, but neither has it improved significantly as expected by advocates of more responsive and transparent government processes.

Opponents formed a new group called Citizens for a Better Plan to push the county to slow down the process and hold more public hearings.

«This kind of behaviour is unacceptable in any office, but in a public service where they should have been processing long overdue payments for thousands of farmers it raises even more questions about managerial competence within the RPA,» Mr Paice said.

President John Dramani Mahama also opined that government is working to amend the constitution to make the process of assets declaration by public officers more transparent.

In his resolution, Holmquist says the salary discussion should have been a part of the budget process and deserved more public input and review.

Furno was appointed to the position on Jan. 20, 2004, and during his tenure, the Public Defender - Civil Office saw its processed applications increase from approximately 1,500 per year to more than 3,000 per year.

Worryingly, and in sharp contrast to the more inclusive processes that existed in the run - up to devolution in the 1990s, this expedited legislative timetable also leaves little to no scope for public consultation.

Ms Arthur made the claim a day after member of the Public Accounts Committee and Member of Parliament for Nhyiaeso accused the former administration of not using due process in transferring the monies worth more than two million Ghana cedis meant for the construction of some CHPS compounds.

The NYC Board of Elections approved a new process of reporting election - night vote totals that it said would provide the public with faster and more accurate results.

That process was changed under the law that effectively ended collective bargaining rights for most public workers and required them to pay more for their health insurance and pension benefits.

Through the convention process, voters can introduce term limits for lawmakers, require public campaign financing, enable early voting and increase access to absentee ballots — all proposals that will encourage more competitive elections.

Cuomo has said he intends to launch a new effort for campaign finance reform, and Samuels says he could hold public hearings and create an open process to develop legislation, as well as setting a good example on his own, by saying he won't accept any more corporate donations.