Sentences with phrase «most persistent public»

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions» wide - ranging new crackdown on drug offenders could exacerbate one of America's most persistent public health tragedies: the heroin and opioid addiction epidemic that's been ravaging the country and killed nearly 35,000 Americans in 2015 alone.

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One of the tech world's most persistent rumours made solid, Facebook's official filing of its forthcoming initial public offering generated the predictable torrent of scrutiny and discussion.

«However imprisonment should continue to be used to protect the public from the most serious offenders - those who are violent, dangerous or seriously persistent.»

The coverage of the resulting Scopes «monkey trial» in 1925 turned the American public against religious fundamentalism for a generation, and the persistent campaigns against evolution drove most scientists into the Republican Party.

Nearly 15 percent of voucher students also return to a public school within one or two years, so our longer - term estimates represent the most persistent students.

Over the course of the 20th century, some of the most persistent challenges in public education — from the dropout problem in the 1950s, to educational disadvantage in the 1960s, to school discipline in recent years — have been reframed in psychological terms.

Unsurprisingly, the prevalence of isolated, segregated, low - performing public schools is the most powerful driver of the persistent educational opportunity gap.

Given the charter landscape here, leaders are able to quickly plan and test solutions to some of our nation's most persistent challenges in public education.