Sentences with phrase «national urban agenda»

«Rather than curse the darkness and say, well, there hasn't been an effective national urban agenda for years, we're going to light the single candle and say, let it be us who start it,» Mr. de Blasio declared this summer, standing beside a cadre of like - minded mayors he'd assembled at Gracie Mansion.

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There are some wonderful speakers on the agenda including Wayne Sutton (@socialwayne) and Marc Morial, President and CEO of the National Urban league.

Diana leads Urban Strategies» national health strategy development, program implementation and evaluation of the organization's broad health equity agenda.

Bringing the successful, articulated «urban'together with quests for national articulation and self - determination thus produces powerful allies and agendas.

First there is the importance of a «national» agenda as cohesive glue and thus justification of a campaign for statehood in the conventional sense of territorial cohesiveness, along with a differentiation between urban and non-urban variations of that agenda, with the leading cities developing a dual identity, strategy.

Plans to overhaul the city's sex education curriculum, offer more birth control to women and join a national group of city legislators to promote a unified urban agenda are also likely to figure prominently in her last year as Speaker.

I was seized by the passion of education tracts by Jonathan Kozol and others; Kennedy was dead (a stunningly emotional time on the Harvard campus); and Johnson had placed education front and center on the national agenda, insisting that it was the surest and most direct way to end poverty, combat urban blight, and equalize opportunity in America.

To argue that she has been even moderately successful with her approach, we would have to ignore the legitimate concerns of local and national charter reformers who know the city well, and ignore the possibility that Detroit charters are taking advantage of loose oversight by cherry - picking students, and ignore the very low test score growth in Detroit compared with other cities on the urban NAEP, and ignore the policy alternatives that seem to work better (for example, closing low - performing charter schools), and ignore the very low scores to which Detroit charters are being compared, and ignore the negative effects of virtual schools, and ignore the negative effects of the only statewide voucher programs that provide the best comparisons with DeVos's national agenda.

Supporting National Park Service Efforts Currently, the Institute is working closely with NPS's Stewardship Institute to roll out their Urban Agenda.

In this area, the key objectives of the UN System are: to promote active climate change collaboration of local governments and their associations in global, regional and national networks; to enhance policy dialogue so that the urban dimension of climate change is firmly established on the agenda; and to foster the implementation of awareness, education, and capacity building strategies.

During the second Mayoral Session, discussions focused on how local governments can contribute to the global agreements, particularly the Paris Agreement and the New Urban Agenda, and define specific requests to national governments in this regard to ensure enabling frameworks are in place to support local climate action.

Going forward, to achieve the goals set out in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, it is critical that nations take a holistic approach to sustainable development, interlocking national sustainable development and urban policy, and setting up frameworks that support local development.