Sentences with phrase «national attention when»

Youth Arts Education — MACLA's approach to youth arts education received national attention when we were chosen to develop the San Jose Peapod Adobe Youth Voices Academy (PAYVA), launched in August 2011.

In June 1995, she received national attention when her work was highlighted in Art in America magazine.

Teachers in Washington State garnered national attention when they decided they would not issue the standardized tests set forward by the state.

The school board earned national attention when the members in 2014 said the Advanced Placement U.S. History course was not patriotic enough and needed to be changed.

His involvement drew national attention when his foundation's plan for charter school expansion in Los Angeles was leaked to the Los Angeles Times.

Scott Walker, the Wisconsin governor and possible presidential candidate, stoked national attention when he stripped collective - bargaining rights from most public - sector unions, including teachers.

In February, teachers at Garfield High School in Seattle garnered national attention when they refused to administer the flawed MAP test.

The elections generated national attention when the Christian Coalition, a conservative group led by the Rev. Pat Robertson, and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese...

Mr. Blumenthal captured national attention when he announced in early April that Connecticut would become the first state to sue the U.S. Department of Education over its implementation of the NCLB law.

A screenwriter and filmmaker, Joe won a small degree of national attention when his first cinematic offering, a spoof of The Wizard of Oz and The Blair Witch Project entitled The Wicked Witch Project, was featured on television and in newspapers from coast to coast.

Last year this trend drew national attention when the New York Times and This American Life reported on the 2015 shooting of Alan Pean.

Gibson's resolution gained national attention when he introduced it in September on the eve of a U.S. visit by Pope Francis, who has warned that climate change will have a greater impact on the poor and vulnerable.

This is the most interest Cuomo has taken in any local election since he took office back in January — more even than in the NY - 26 special election that drew national attention when Democrat Kathy Hochul won an upset in the long - held GOP district against Assemblywoman Jane Corwin.

Rooney catapulted to national attention when he scored his first Premier League goal — a last - minute winner against Arsenal — five days before his 17th birthday.

The special election to fill Attorney General Jeff Sessions's vacated senate seat first drew national attention when Moore won the Republican primary over President Trump's preferred candidate, Luther Strange.

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The issue of mandatory arbitration for harassment cases gained national attention last year when former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson sued network president Roger Ailes over alleged sexual misconduct.

The glitch gained widespread attention yesterday when Rachael Bale, a National Geographic journalist, tweeted that Google had «frozen» her document while she was writing a story about wildlife crime.

When Pennsylvania State University's employees refused to fill out a wellness questionnaire and penalties set in, the uproar got national attention.

Vice has documented migrant worker abuses in Dubai, won acclaim for a documentary while embedded with Islamic State and garnered widespread attention when it took former National Basketball Association star Dennis Rodman to North Korea.

He gained attention through his report on foreign ownership, tabled in 1972 when he was minister of national revenue.

In the mid 1960s, when the decline and neglect of Bedford - Stuyvesant had drawn national attention, New York Senator Robert Kennedy realized that something had to be done about it — and something bold.

Similarly, when the National Coalition for the Homeless speaks to the issue of the «bag lady» doll, it draws attention to the contradiction that allows institutions, whether commercial or academic, to profit in the name of the poor.

Admittedly I have drawn attention to large - scale suffering, but the question is just as difficult to answer when we come to the hatred, lust, malice, greed, pride and selfishness which mar the national, social and family life of our own country.

Eighty years after the Scopes Monkey Trial made a spectacle of Christian fundamentalism and brought national attention to her hometown, Rachel Held Evans faced a trial of her own when she began to have doubts about her faith.

Sells's book received national attention and became the focus of controversy in 2002 when it was a summer reading selection for incoming students at the University of North Carolina — Chapel Hill.

For better or worse, we find ourselves at a moment when considerable national attention is being given to the morality of capital punishment, and readers of First Things in recent months have also been invited to reflect upon the issue in an essay by Avery Cardinal Dulles (April) and in a later exchange between Dulles and his critics (August / September).

The fortunes of the Protestant church - owned presses oscillated until the 1940s, when the work of American theologians began to command international attention and sales of theological works mushroomed, reaching a broad national and international audience.

McCoy previously has been critical of Colin Kaepernick, who sparked the protests in the NFL when he took a knee during the national anthem to bring attention to systematic discrimination against black Americans by the police.

National attention was drawn to the issue recently when the Mail on Sunday, showing its customary delicacy, ran a purported exposé.

Maura eventually garnered enough attention to earn a scholarship to a private school on the island, which led to an invite to a youth national team camp when he was in high school.

«It's easier to give one - on - one attention and be responsive when there are fewer kids in a room,» says Stephanie Glowacki, director of accreditation programs at the National Association for the Education of Young Children, a benchmark of quality.

In a chat with a national newspaper, Kanu recalled he was resting when one of his relatives drew his attention to heavy presence of soldiers at the main entrance to his family home.

... Beaird attracted national attention in 1956, when he gave a seconding speech for the renomination of President Dwight D. Eisenhower at the Republican National Convention at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, Californianational attention in 1956, when he gave a seconding speech for the renomination of President Dwight D. Eisenhower at the Republican National Convention at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, CaliforniaNational Convention at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, California.»

The moderate Republican gained national attention this year when he became the only GOP member of Congress to publicly say he would vote for Hillary Clinton for president over Donald Trump.

The district received national attention this year when Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders endorsed Teachout in the Democratic primary during his run for president.

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

«When you're an experienced candidate and people know you can raise money and people know you can get national attention, they're going to come after you.

The race drew national attention in March, when Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee operative Tim Persico met with a local Democratic leader to ask if he thought Susan Wild or Greg Edwards, two other candidates in the race, would be willing to drop out and run for state Senate, a proposition they both rejected.

He attracted most attention on the national scene when the parliamentary expenses scandal broke and he was revealed to have claimed the maximum on claims for his second home in London between 2004 and 2008.

For example, Hanna is pro-choice, and he raised some eyebrows — and received national attention — when he attended a rally for the Equal Rights Amendment back in March and urged women to contribute their political cash to the Democrats.

The last time I can recall Palin involving herself here in the Empire State was when she backed Conservative / Tea Party darling Doug Hoffman in last year's NY - 23 special election, which gained national attention.

• The report also states that «Some within the Methodist Church have argued to end our involvement with faith - based schools on the grounds that they generate a privileged elite within the national system and take a disproportionate amount of the Church's attention when it should be focusing on the needs of the poorest community schools... we find it hard to understand how promoting Christianity within all schools will be assisted by removing» the privilege» of greater contact with Methodism and therefore with Christianity in 79 schools.»

The Dubliner and its Syracuse connection will receive some national attention Friday morning when MSNBC TV's «Morning Joe» show will broadcast live from the restaurant prior to the inauguration.

E-mail policies of public official's are drawing national attention with the controversy over Hillary Clinton's using a personal email account for government business when she was Secretary of State.

Carson's comment comes as Republicans try to avoid the kinds of incendiary comments on cultural issues that cost the party two Senate races — when Missouri's Todd Akin and Indiana's Richard Mourdock drew national attention for their remarks on rape — and hurt Mitt Romney in 2012.

Hanna, who was elected in 2010, drew national attention this year — along with ire from Republicans — when he said during a radio interview that a House committee's investigation into the 2012 attacks on the American compound in Benghazi, Libya, might have been more about targeting Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton rather than genuine interest in the attacks.

«Apart from the killings at Nsukka and Awgu (Enugu State), the people of Benue, in general, have been severally and severely killed in tens and hundreds without the Commander - in - Chief of the Armed Forces, making a national broadcast or giving a specific instruction on the matter even when the treasury of Nigeria was depleted to give him adequate medical attention to save his own life.»

Mr. Parker ignited a firestorm that received national attention --- and proved an embarrassment for his party --- when he tried to explain why he had erupted at a Republican colleague during a Senate Finance Committee meeting.

«I was impressed with what Stephon's brother Stevante said that how proud he was of Sacramento, of his city, how people turned out and made this case a national one and brought attention because I think too often, our elected leaders, they will talk about things when it's a lot of children in a school, but when it's young black men of color who are being shot by the police unarmed... I think if we're gonna say black lives matter, we have to mean it, and we have to implement change,» she continued.

The outbreak, known as sudden oak death, drew little national attention until this year, when it was found to threaten Douglas firs and California's vaunted redwoods.