Sentences with phrase «much national attention»

The topic of bullying is not new either, though it has been the focus of much national attention recently.

Turning around a failing school is one of the hardest jobs anywhere, and despite much national attention to the problem, few places have done it successfully.

I agree, that the recent tax bill the Republicans are trying to passed has an effect that is not getting as much national attention: the impact on K - 12 education.

It seems like Seeking Arrangement CEO Brandon Wade is always in the news for one thing or another, but this might be the first time he and his site have gotten so much national attention.

New school meal regulations that were put into place at the start of the 2012 - 2013 school year in an effort to add more whole grains and increase fruit and vegetable variety / intake received much national attention and critique.

Not exact matches

As the majority owner of the National Basketball Association's Cleveland Cavaliers, he received worldwide attention in 2010 for a scathing open letter (published in the much - maligned comic sans font) decrying superstar LeBron James» decision to leave the team to sign with the Miami Heat.

There is not as much public attention on small companies as I expected there to be,» says Todd McCracken, president of the National Small Business Association.

Over the last two years, the movement has brought national attention upon the issue of minimum wage, with a special focus on how much fast - food chains pay workers.

Dharius Daniels, a board member of the National Association of Evangelicals and pastor of the predominantly black Kingdom Church in Ewing, N.J., says the case was «a mirror that could show the country not just how much or how little we've progressed, but where — in terms of now, in terms of this point in history — our efforts and our focus and our attention needs to be.»

The sign earned national media attention and stirred so much controversy that it prompted the conservative Catholic League for Religious and Civil rights to respond with a pro-Christmas billboard at the New York end of the Lincoln Tunnel.

Some problems facing national, peace movements, I would argue, are unavoidable and thus not worth much attention.

The UCI World Tour is composed of 37 events, including the three three - week grand tours, but also 20 one - day races that are attended by the best riders and receive much greater attention in places like, say, Belgium and the Netherlands, where winning on the famed and treacherous Paris - Roubaix cobblestones can make you a national hero.

For all of the attention and notoriety brought to the program by the eye - popping numbers generated by senior quarterback Jake Browning, the 2014 NorCal Division I champion is much more than the state and national records its three - year passing phenom has accumulated.

Young has received so much attention from the national media that the main conversation around him now involves a lot of backlash.

Among other things, she addressed the complaints from grassroots reformers that they — not Jamie Oliver — should be getting attention and credit: «Those of us who are truly concerned about the welfare of America's children, health care system, and food supply should be grateful that long - awaited and much - needed attention to what has become at best a national embarrassment, and at worst a national crisis, has finally arrived.»

Their method is much more thorough and uses information from local by - elections to estimate the National Equivalent Vote and pays attention to the actual shares of the vote in the different county council divisions last time.

In particular, local media attention matters: it's often easier to get than national coverage, it lets you leverage your local activists and it can lead to much broader distribution of your story if it gets on a newswire (even local blogs can help, since they may be disproportionately read by elected officials and other opinion leaders and can also serve as a source for national blogs — see this article for details).

As the front - runner in a House race far from the national media spotlight, Stefanik can take a more conservative position without attracting too much attention.

An increased proportion of voters (45 % up from 35 % in November 2013) think Cuomo is focusing too much attention on national politics and not enough time on the issues facing New Yorkers.

He said the days when the senior national team the Black Stars was given much attention over other sporting disciplines were over.

Is Cuomo paying too much attention to national politics and not enough attention to the Empire State?

I was worried that a NY race might not garner as much national media attention therefore Mr. Cuomo's time at HUD, which directly contributed to the Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and sub-prime mortgage debacles, leading to the economic meltdown, might not be covered adequately however based on CNN's interest in Gov. Paterson and the NY Governor's seat I am sure CNN will spend ample time researching and explaining Cuomo's debacle.

Nearly six in ten New York State registered voters — 59 % — do not believe Cuomo is paying too much attention to national politics at the expense of New York State.

In fact, the national GOP has pretty much written this seat off and is paying no attention to it.

Although the frequency had been in the news on a few occasions, it did not appear that anyone paid much attention to it until the National Broadcasting Commission claimed to have successfully jammed its signals.

They're two giant - personality, neighbor - state governors who might both end up crowding onto the national political stage, but few people have paid much attention to what goes on between Chris Christie and Andrew Cuomo.

The maps are the result of years of experience and recent polling that found most Americans living on vulnerable coastlines paid too much attention to hurricane wind strength and not enough to storm surge before deciding whether to evacuate ahead of a storm, Rhome said during an interview at this week's National Hurricane Conference in Orlando.

Amazingly, pretty soon the tea cart business was not only paying the bills, but getting so much attention that it eventually led to a national deal with a huge grocery store.

Much of the information regarding coconut oil's positive effects on Alzheimer's Disease (AD) gained national attention in 2008 with the publication of Dr. Mary Newport's case study on her husband, who was suffering from AD and saw a complete reversal after starting coconut oil.

Concern over cholesterol levels is a national preoccupation with much attention given to reducing cholesterol content in foods yet cholesterols are necessary components of sound diets.

Like its title, writer - director Macon Blair's I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore strains to draw attention to its topicality, unironically trading in the kind of histrionic us - versus - them mentality that characterizes much of our current national political discourse.

Cage plays Colin Pryce (making the film's tagline — «Power always comes at a price» — that much funnier), a Louisiana politician who comes to national attention after an impassioned speech to Congress about the devastating impact of the BP oil spill on local communities.

Few crime cases have attracted national attention with as much intensity or for as long as that of the Zodiac Killer.

Even with growing national attention on the issue, Ferguson described a much needed cultural shift.

Time Magazine, USA Today, The New York Times, and Canada's National Post (and others) all wrote about the 8 - second attention span without giving much thought to whether it made sense.

Yet the more recent findings from the National Assessment of Educational Progress have garnered much less attention and analysis than the 2003 results.

If we really want to prepare our students for their futures and «build a strong platform for healthy development and effective learning... then we must pay as much attention to children's emotional wellbeing and social capacities as we do to their cognitive abilities and academic skills» (National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, p. 7).

What started as a small project in our school, evolved into something that is much bigger than us... something that was getting national attention and had no intent of slowing down.

Clearly children's diets need attention, and there have been a number of initiatives to break the unhealthy eating habit, including: The National Healthy Schools Programme (1998 to 2009), which included healthy and nutritious foods being made available in school canteens and vending machines; The School Food Plan, (launched in 2015), which provided a new set of standards for all food served in schools, offering children more healthy, balanced diets, and withdrawing the provision of unhealthy snacks and drinks in school vending machines; and the much - publicised new sugar tax, which will be imposed on companies according to the sugar content of the energy and fizzy drinks they produce.

Earlier this month, Sahlberg stopped by the Dwight School in New York City to speak with educators and students, and his visit received national media attention and generated much discussion.

But since the national media has anointed de Blasio as one of the spokesmen for a resurgent Democratic Party progressivism, his moves attracted much broader attention.

And those decision makers are much more likely to pay attention to their own data than to national studies.

That's the message of a new report by Stanford education professor Martin Carnoy and two colleagues that calls on U.S. educators to stop paying so much attention to the many nations who rank above it on international tests and instead delve deeply into results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), often referred to as the nation's report card.

With so much of the nation's attention caught up in partisan and intra-partisan arguing and brinksmanship, it is rare these days to find widely shared agreement on any national issue.

And a lot of teachers may not pay much attention to national policy debates.

The National Alliance For Public Charter Schools Blog By Angel Gonzalez When public conversation turns to charter schools, much of the attention is focused on urban students.

While the national presidential election dominates much political discussion, I am writing this letter to call attention to the election within our union occurring this May.

This BBA blog highlights a comprehensive approach to early childhood education in the context of the national election, which in general is not paying much attention to public education issues.

I couldn't agree more, but I also have to point out that this issue has received much more attention than Goldstein lets on — e.g., she neglects to mention the important work of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.

Although much attention has been paid to the national graduation and dropout rates, those discussions obscure another population: students who obtain their high school diplomas but are not prepared to succeed in postsecondary education or the workforce.