Sentences with phrase «national debate after»

Don't miss your chance to go behind the scenes of the defense of Steven Avery, whose conviction for the murder of Teresa Halbach became the subject of national debate after the release of the Netflix documentary «Making a Murderer.»

This issue seems to have disappeared from the national debate after the Parents Involved Supreme Court decision in 2007, but I think the lack of diversity in schools today is a powerful driver of the achievement gap and carries adverse future implications for our society and citizenry.

Not exact matches

«After years in which Republicans were more confident than Democrats in debating gun - control questions, the issue now energizes each side's coalition,» political analyst Ron Brownstein wrote in the National Journal in January.

Wayne LaPierre, CEO of the National Rifle Association, made no attempt to moderate his message a day after survivors of the Parkland shooting faced down lawmakers in a CNN debate and the President at the White House.

Its intention to file for bankruptcy has been known at least since February, but sources told The Wall Street Journal that the filing was delayed after the school shooting in Parkland Florida on February 14 that re-awakened the national debate on gun regulations.

ATHENS, Greece (AP)-- Greece's left - wing government launched an auction Tuesday for four private national television licenses, reducing the number from seven after a heated public debate on corruption in the financially troubled country.

Don't expect Adidas to walk away from West after just one week of bad press about a key «creator» whose cultural cachet sparks national debate.

After all thirteen pre-Iowa debates, the two top finishers were Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney who were probably the two best national candidates of the bunch.

In a similar case, Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, a born - again Christian, was jailed briefly last year after she refused to allow her office to issue marriage licenses, igniting a national debate over religious freedom and civil rights.

It is interesting to note that National Statistics, reported by The Daily Telegraph, not long after the debate indicated that homosexual persons make up 1.5 \ % of the United Kingdom population; a figure consistent with Academic research over twenty five years.

After 20 schoolchildren and six adults were shot and killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday, the national debate over gun control has resumed with a fervor.

In the midst of this debate, there is at least one victory Benedict can already look to: the Cuban authorities have granted his request to have Good Friday declared a national holiday (just as Christmas was finally permitted after Blessed John Paul II's 1998 visit).

The measures were the subject of intense debate in the state and gained national attention after Sen. Wendy Davis staged a day - long filibuster in an attempt to block the vote.

The Washington Post: «Chick fil - A Appreciation Day» announced by Mike Huckabee amidst gay marriage debate After Chick - fil - A President Dan Cathy's comments on marriage launched a national «Eat Mor Chikin» backlash, another cultural bigwig, former Arkansas governor and Baptist preacher Mike Huckabee, announced Sunday that he was coordinating a campaign in support of the «company run by Christian principles.»

The former Sheffield United forward's proposed move back into football after he was convicted and served two and a half years behind bars for rape has been a particularly divisive and controversial one with an almost national debate questioning whether anyone who has committed such an abhorrent sex crime should be allowed to return to a lucrative and privileged position in football.

Interestingly enough, the hero of Kansas» 2008 national title, Mario Chalmers, did not publicly debate a decision of whether or not to leave KU after his sophomore year.

The announcement from Mr. Koku Anyidoho comes a week after NDC National Organizer, Kofi Adams accused the IEA of failing to consult the party before deciding on the plan and date for the debate.

After his blistering «Alice in Wonderland» onslaught» during the second reading debate, the Tories» Brexit rebel - in - chief joined the revolt in the committee stage on EU nationals living in the UK and fairly consistently voted against the Government throughout the committee stage.

Speaker after speaker in the House of Commons debates on Article 50 declared that, although he or she voted Remain and believed Brexit was not in the national interest, the referendum vote represents the ultimate expression of democracy and therefore the «will of the people» must be obeyed.

After today, it is up to Parliament to hear and respect the voice of that overwhelming majority — a majority unequalled in almost any other major national debate.

Commenting after the debate on Motion 40 The Government, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers union said: «We are very obviously not all in this together.»

State lawmakers returned Tuesday to Albany after a week - long break and a renewed national debate over gun control following a massacre at a Florida high school that killed 17 people.

Duke University removed a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee early Saturday, days after it was vandalized amid a national debate about monuments to the Confederacy.

Without recourse to any serious debate, the Ohene Djan Stadium was changed after agitations by a group of activists of the National Democratic Congress and the Ga lobby.

The deaths were all but certain to re-ignite the national debate over gun regulations, coming just three months after the Parkland, Florida, attack that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Since returning to parliament Galloway has faced criticism for the scarcity of his appearances in the Commons, been banned by the National Union of Students for comments about the Julian Assange rape case and stormed out of a debate after discovering his opponent was an Israeli.

Commenting after the debate on Motion 48, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «While there has been over 40 years of advancements in equality between the sexes, in recent years there has been something of a step back.

There won't be a final decision on Britain's long - term aviation strategy until after the 2015 general election - but a national debate is already underway.

Speaking the day after talking with victims of crime in Bristol, the prime minister called for a «national debate» about how the criminal justice system could be reformed which required a reassessment of where its priorities should be.

If none of those events were taking place, we'd likely see a lot more after - the - fact analysis on the Colorado recall results in the national landscape, given the implications for the broader debate over guns.

The latest such incident at a U.S. school underscored a national debate over gun control and gun rights that has intensified after an assailant killed 17 students and staff on Feb. 14 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

State lawmakers returned to Albany after a week - long break and a renewed national debate over gun control.

Former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg says he will match donations to Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun control advocacy group he founded, after the national debate over gun laws was reignited by the Las Vegas shooting.

The ratings from the National Federation of Independent Business especially hit the Republican - led Senate, where the GOP conference out of solidarity approved a budget bill containing the minimum wage increase after a contentious internal debate.

After the debate finished, nearly every national and international newspaper website I looked at had his «won't say if he'll accept it» statement as the front - and - center headline.

Commenting after the debate on motion 41 on the economy, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers?

By Monday, her original statement had nearly 200 comments, reflecting the rhetoric pervading the nuclear - level national discourse which has only amplified after Sunday's combative presidential debate.

A Mail on Sunday petition calling for a Commons debate on Britain's commitment to spend 0.7 per of national income on foreign aid has got a staggering 150,000 plus signatures, only a week after its launch.

After years of debate, the National Marine Fisheries Service gave its approval this summer to the U.S. Navy's use of a new low - frequency active - sonar system for locating enemy submarines.

Starting from the same kernel of scientific truth as did The Day After Tomorrow — that global warming could disrupt ocean currents in the North Atlantic — a study commissioned by the Pentagon, of all organizations, concluded that the «risk of abrupt climate change... should be elevated beyond a scientific debate to a U.S. national security concern.»

The «cancer pill» sparked a national debate last year after Brazilian media carried testimonials of patients claiming that it relieved symptoms or even cured their cancer.

After more than four years of debate, the French National Assembly has voted overwhelmingly in favour of a wide - ranging bioethics bill.

After countless iterations and debates, Jerry Nelson — who would become the principal designer of the Keck Observatory telescopes — convinced the University of California (UC), which was thinking of building a 7 - meter telescope, to allow him and Terry Mast of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) to develop a 36 - segment design that would increase humankind's ability to collect light by a factor of four.

Clint Eastwood dominated the pop culture conversation last month after debating with an empty chair at the Republican National Convention.

Two weeks after the New York City Board of Education adopted a controversial plan to distribute condoms in all of the district's high schools, local and national debate about the plan's merits, and its possible influence on other districts, continues unabated.

The three judicial laws recently passed by the National Assembly, after seven minutes of debate, will compromise the independence of the judiciary by providing the executive branch of government, via the Ministry of Justice, with control over the courts» finances, personnel and general administration.

After the report appeared, stimulating a variety of reform efforts, public evaluations of their local schools climbed steadily to an all - time high of 51 % in 2000, just prior to the national debate over the passage of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, which held schools accountable for low performance.

After a protracted debate, delegates to the National Education Association have voted to take a position of «no confidence» in the U.S. Department of Education's Race to the Top guidelines and in the use of competitive grants as a basis for the reauthorization of ESEA.

Nearly four years after a front - page story in The New York Times sparked a fierce debate by suggesting that charter school students nationally were lagging academically behind their peers in regular public schools, the national testing program that informed the controversy has generated far more data for researchers and advocates to scrutinize.

However, while I was clearing my credential, working with mentor teachers to reflect on my practice, and finding out how real students differed from theoretical ones, I also spent long hours after school with the speech and debate team reading philosophy and theory and talking about innovative alternatives for national defense, natural resource allocation, and, of course, education.