Sentences with phrase «of breaking up public»

Here are a few of the things we should focus on instead of breaking up public schools.

Not exact matches

«We've totally screwed up,» said VW America boss Michael Horn, while the group's chief executive at the time, Martin Winterkorn, said his company had «broken the trust of our customers and the public».

«I started Facebook, and at the end of the day I'm responsible for what happens on our platform» Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted after days of the public and government officials waiting for him to speak up about the Cambridge Analytica scandal since it broke Friday.

The effect of corporate tax cuts will end up being a bookkeeping entry: the public will give tax breaks to the super-wealthy, so the super-wealthy can lend it back to the public.

Continuous rigging charges could lead to growing public demands and newspaper editorials to break up these serially - charged behemoths at a time when members of Congress — who depend on the largess of Wall Street to run their political campaigns — don't want to anger their major donors by endorsing legislation to break up the banks.

The public has been fascinated by these breaks with traditional Western science and has responded enthusiastically to the writings of those scientists who have come up with new views.

In a new twist on the «drag your wife out to your public confession of adultery» meme, televangelist Marcus Lamb has his wife confess his adultery for him: The confession was apparently prompted to preempt extortionists who were threatening to break the news unless Lamb coughed up $ 7.5....

I don't know if there is a way they could of made their relationship any more public than they already have for the last five years, of course the break up will be publicly discussed too.

Conversely, the public's 3 - 1 record in 2011 NFL chase games has pushed the record up from 50 % to the break - even mark of 52.4 %.

With this in mind, we've fired up the portfolio of betting tools available at The Action Network to break down three games attracting heavy public money.

Until the leadership of the House of Representatives drops the bill and strives to improve public trust in the National Assembly, their oft - repeated commitment to stand up for the country and the citizens will continue to echo a broken promise.

Labour lost because they: a) broke manifold electoral promises b) lied shamelessly to the people and parliament c) engaged in industrial - scale corruption and lame cover - up d) wilfully enraged their newest supporters e) eschewed democracy at every opportunity f) treated the electorate like idiots g) alienated a vast constituency of voters with strong personal interest in the well - being of our servicemen h) inherited the most benign of economies and recklessly maxed out the public debt i) devoted inordinate time and effort to policies based on immature class war antics j) engaged in open internal dissent while being too cowardly to take any definitive action k) offered a wholly negative electoral campaign Unless confidence is restored in these areas, Labour will continue to be despised.

«I am running to build a real Democratic State Senate majority that finally fully funds our public schools, protects tenants from being thrown out of their homes and strengthens our loophole ridden rent laws, passes badly needed ethics reforms, election reforms and real criminal justice reforms and makes Andrea Stewart - Cousins the first woman Senate Majority Leader, breaking up the so - called «three men in a room.»

Other proposals include: measures to support families; a change in employment law; reform to public pensions; break - up of the banks; and a proposal to remove the UK from any liability for future EU bailouts.

Just as she has to enthuse the believers at conference with the prospect of a second - and this time victorious - pro-independence campaign, she has to reassure the wider Scottish public that a vote for the SNP at Holyrood is not necessarily a vote for the break - up of the UK.

Now the 2015 election is just over a year away, we know the political context in which it can be deployed: the «good society» breaks the economic deadlock by opening up a way to spend money better, and fits in with Miliband's broader «One Nation» dialogue about helping the little people deal with the faceless monolithic institutions of the private — and now, the public — sectors.

If Labour need to make a break from New Labour then get rid of Blair because it stinks of his control within Labour at the moment, saying immigration is a Tory problem would make the public laugh out loud, saying we did make some mistakes, to try and get UKIP voters back, will not work, you tried to change the voting pattern by bringing in poor immigrants who did not end up voting.

Liberal Democrat insiders point to the fact that Kennedy and his supporters emerged from the SDP, the old Social Democratic breakaway party, but that in seeking to «break the mould» of British politics and merging with the Liberal to become the Liberal Democrats in the 1980s, never in their wildest dreams expected to end up supporting a minority Conservative Government intent on the most swingeing cuts in public spending since the Second World War.

Issues mentioned in the flyer included the Senators failure to: Stand up to the Governor when he shut down hundreds of construction jobs; Stand up to the Governor when he violated public employees contracts; Reform our broken economic development system; Enact a farm workers bill of rights; Increase the state's unemployment benefit.

Whether it's been attacking public employee pensions, refusing to help New York's unemployed workers, or failing to stand up to the Governor when he shut down hundreds of construction jobs, there is a long line of broken promises and actions in the Senate that have targeted the labor movement.

Unlike the Liberal Democrats» broken pledge to oppose hikes in tuition fees, which has severely dented the standing of the party on the national stage and clobbered Clegg's own personal ratings, the Conservatives had a clear mandate to proceed with reforming Britain's hospitals, schools and other vital public services to drive up the quality in a more cost effective way.

«The half a million attending the TUC's March for the Alternative in London a few months ago demonstrated the breadth and depth of support for an alternative to cuts, job losses and the break up of our public services.

Erie Community College — one of the last public colleges or universities in the state to be approved for designation as a Start - Up NY campus — appears to be closing in on a deal that could bring a subsidiary of a large international money management firm to Amherst in exchange for generous tax breaks under the state program.

All those broken promises and the public's clear disdain for coalition government mean only the robust core of Lib Dems have bothered to show up in Glasgow.

Our new approach will see the best of the public, private and voluntary sector working together to break the depressing cycle of crime too many are caught up in.

The plan to decriminalize the offenses — which also include littering, breaking park rules, making excessive noise and failing to appear in court — and lessen penalties for scofflaws are included in eight bills, collectively dubbed «The Criminal Justice Reform Act of 2016,» that are up for a public hearing Monday.

«The NHS break - up and cuts, defence cuts, pay cuts and now the threat to regional pay are all part of this government's war on the nation's public services,» it stated.

Many teachers are particularly outraged at Cuomo's support of charter schools instead of existing district schools — he even recently said he wants to break up the monopoly that is public education.

In a little - observed statement in the House of Commons on Monday this week, the Chancellor George Osborne — in responding to a question by Tory backbencher and Chair of the House of Commons Public Administration Select Committee, Bernard Jenkin MP, over the «orderly break - up of the euro» — stated in his reply, ``... as I say, it would not be sensible to advocate to our European colleagues the break - up of the euro.

News of Ravitch's potential candidacy is coming to light as talks on a major W.F.P. priority — public campaign finance — have broken down, and as the governor continues to line up labor leaders allied with the third - party to try and convince its state committee to support him.

The Green Party also called for seizing the assets of the «too big to fail» banks, breaking them up, and turning them into state and community owned banks oriented towards developing the economy for the public good.

His first election in partisan politics wound up as a tie against an 18 - year incumbent...»... who was the majority leader of the county legislature and the committeemen - even though it takes place in a very public forum it's actually a party election, and so the committeemen broke the tie, gave it to the incumbent, and I wound up being elected in a write - in election with over 3,000 votes cast, just on a county legislative district, so, you can beat city hall.»

Stewart - Cousins also sidestepped a question about Gov. Cuomo's criticism of the teachers union and whether she would support him in his plans — first revealed to the Daily News Editorial Board — to push for a new round of teacher evaluations and break up «one of the only remaining public monopolies.»

Instead, Bernier has headed up a series of award - winning projects that bring together average citizens with scientists and policymakers to reach joint recommendations on vaccines, holding public dialogues across the country to break down boundaries between the experts and everybody else, literally putting multiple perspectives around a table.

David Ellis, who runs Dupont's program to develop new ways to clean up toxic chemicals, says that he doesn't think the general public is aware of this bacterium and its potential to break down chlorinated solvents.

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After playing for about a week non-stop, I decided to take a break (well, leave my game open and hope some of the villagers ask for new public works) to write up a review.

At the moment, consideration of embodied carbon hasn't entered the mainstream for public procurement, this means that placing a requirement on the supply chain to reduce embodied carbon levels will encourage consultants and suppliers to step up to innovate and deliver a project that breaks new ground.

While the AIR study gives a glimpse of these practices, I've come up with six rules teachers can help students break, adapted from my book, Deeper Learning: How Eight Innovative Public Schools Are Transforming Education in the 21st Century:

There is no tax break, no welfare reform, no marriage education program, no public service campaign... that can reduce out - of - wedlock birth rates and divorce rates to what they were as recently as when the Everly Brothers beseeched «Little Suzy» to wake up lest their reputations get shot.

Most public high school parents and their children's teachers say breaking up large high schools into smaller ones would help educators identify troubled students and make the schools more welcoming places, according to the results of a survey released last week.

Competition, whether it comes from vouchers, independent private schools, public charter schools, or the breaking up of oversize districts, is the tonic to which Hoxby's work most clearly points.

Done wrong, «they will end up in the overflowing dustbin of abandoned reforms, with people throwing up their hands,» believing that public schools are too broken to save.

Before becoming education secretary in 2009, Arne Duncan was chief executive of the Chicago Public Schools, which received $ 20 million from Gates to break up several large high schools and create smaller versions, a move aimed at stemming the dropout rate.

That means, quite simply, disbanding the system we know and starting fresh: Take the locus of power from a metastasized system no one can control, break it up into millions of pieces, and give that power to the people for whom public education exists in the first place.

For example, a study of New York City's experiment to break up large high public schools into small ones found that the students were enrolling and staying in college longer.

Look Up to the Star's much - acclaimed astronomy Star Tours 2013 & 2014 have been sweeping the nation from coast to coast, involving a strong collaborative network of public libraries, schools and civic organizations and garnering record - breaking attendance.

Charter school enrollment in the District, which made up a scant 5 percent of the total public school population in 1998, has broken the 40 percent mark, according to preliminary figures released Monday.

Such extreme changes to break up the structure of public education creates serious gaps in what students learn.

The Test Day is broken up into a pair of four - hour sessions around the 8.5 - mile Circuit de la Sarthe, which is a mix of permanent race track and public roads.