Sentences with phrase «of civic meetings»

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Going into the 2014 civic elections, the last until 2018, how open are local governments around southwestern British Columbia when it comes to the spending and meetings of their mayors?

A mash - up of postmillennial civic and lifestyle ideas, with an ethos of social entrepreneurism: Telluride meets the Mission District, perhaps.

A civic engagement «app queen,» the founder of a dance troupe that raises awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women and a teenage mental - health advocate who just met with the prime...

Additionally, participants will get the chance to meet with the Speakers of the Senate and House of Commons, observe Question Period and parliamentary debates, and receive resource materials to aid with teaching civics related subjects.

The issue is public prayer at her local town board meetings, another contentious case over the intersection of faith and the civic arena.

With stunning consistency, virtually every indicator of civic engagement currently available shows the same pattern of increase followed by stagnation and decline — newspaper reading; TV news watching; attending political meetings; petition signing; running for public office; attending public meetings; serving as an officer or committee member in any local clubs or organizations; writing letters to the editor; participating in local meetings of national organizations; attending religious services; socializing informally with friends, relatives or neighbors; attending club meetings; joining unions; entertaining friends at home; participating in picnics; eating the evening meal with the whole family; going out to bars, nightclubs, discos or taverns; playing cards; sending greeting cards; attending parties; playing sports; donating money as a percentage of income; working on community projects; giving blood.

«We wish to talk with specificity to Donald Trump about issues of faith and the role of faith in the civic arena,» Yates said of the meeting.

We will consider requests to support social, community, civic, educational and economic endeavors if these support corporate business goals and meet contribution guidelines and / or if the organization's staff is involved in the governance of the organization.

The Rainforest Alliance's talented, multilingual, and diverse staff works hand - in - hand around the world with farmers, foresters, businesses, researchers, civic organizations, and governments to meet our shared mission of conserving biodiversity and ensuring sustainable livelihoods.

Eighty - nine years ago today, 12 civic movers and shakers met in the office of Chicago's premier architectural firm, Graham, Anderson, Probst & White, on the 14th floor of the Railway Exchange Building (later the Santa Fe Building and today Motorola) on Michigan Avenue.

Meanwhile, who is providing community services and representing their interests at community and civic group meetings — and who is in charge of those people?

Through The Arena Summit, we've met thousands of first time civic leaders, activists, and candidates.

Virtually overnight, campaign signs peppered the neighborhood, bumper stickers were given out, and soon civic groups and political organizations met members of his campaign team.

Israel made further rounds at the FDR Democratic Club, and then with a plethora of civic groups and senior centers all the while meeting one on one with community leaders.

BY COLIN MIXSON Locals living in and around the Financial District are cordially invited to attend the Apr. 11 inaugural meeting of the New Downtown Democrats, a political club formed by area civic mavens to harness the relatively newfound voting power of New York's fastest - growing residential community, according to one founding member.

The congresswoman, who was fresh from a trip to Iraq where she met with Prime Minister Nouri al - Maliki, had the support of about 60 people, from electeds to civic activists to old friends at the dinner.

Talk of the Sound primarily covers news about New Rochelle, ranging from police and fire incidents, to sporting events, to obituaries, parades, announcements about civic events and official meeting announcements.

«I want to thank the thousands of Queens residents and civic and community leaders that I had the pleasure of meeting during the course of the campaign.

CIVIC CENTER — Amidst a barrage of public criticism and slights, Mayor Bill de Blasio is scheduled to sit down with the heads of the five police unions in a meeting closed to the public on Tuesday.

Mr. Stringer, who was an assemblyman in 1999 and voted against the repeal, will describe his plan in a speech on Tuesday at a meeting of a prominent civic group, the Association for a Better New York, a regular stop for the city's presumptive mayoral candidates as they try to define themselves amid a crowded field of left - leaning progressives.

We'll keep you up to date on local and county - wide issues and invite you to events where you will meet your fellow dynamic, civic - minded people of Delaware County, NY.

Next, the plan calls for the construction of new, more humanely designed jails in the civic center areas of each borough in order to make it easier for inmates to have visitation, meet their lawyers, and travel to court, a process that sometimes requires inmates to get up at 3 a.m. and miss meals, according to the report.

The Municipal Director of NCCE Mr. Samuel Kwasi Otchere said the GRA would meet its revenue collection target if the public became aware of their moral and civic responsibility in the system.

On Thursday, the Department of Housing Preservation and Development was expected to introduce a Yard Expansion Program, or YEP, at a civic meeting in Broad Channel.

The objectives of Aquehung are: to educate its members regarding government operations and civic concerns; to teach and promulgate the principles of Americanism; to support the election to office of qualified Democratic candidates; to provide a pool of volunteer talent to support each candidate; to inform its members of election procedures; to provide a two - way channel of communication between club members, candidates and elected party and public officials; and lastly, to provide monetary contributions to candidates who meet the criteria established by the club.

«Our civic's board just had a meeting where we discussed how we would open the line of communication with the next councilman's office, but as far as issues we didn't come up with any,» she said.

Despite a recent uproar over the validity of civic - minded groups such as co-op and condominium organizations being allowed to meet in public schools, the city Department of Education assured them that the doors would remain open.

CIVIC CENTER — Mayor Bill de Blasio could potentially use space in New York Public Library branches and New York City Housing Authority buildings to meet his goal of providing full - day universal pre-K to all city students by fall 2015, the mayor's office said Monday as de Blasio headed to Albany to make the case for his plan.

Brought to London by the «Blue Labour» community guru Maurice Glasman, on his first meeting with Ed Miliband in 2011 Graf urged him to appoint someone he trusted to tour Britain talking to civic leaders, headteachers, unions, churches and voluntary organisations and thus assess the mood of the grassroots.

Salem Station became a target in the late 1990s, when environmental, health and civic groups launched a campaign to force Massachusetts to clean up what they called the «Filthy Five» — a group of coal - and oil - fired power plants built before 1977 and grandfathered under the Clean Air Act from meeting new air pollution standards.

In this episode meet a would - be utopia in Spain where civic life is managed on Twitter; a teacher who becomes the target of a digital lynch mob; and the father of a school shooting victim who must prove to the internet that his son existed.

With the United States entering its fourth largest wave of immigration, educators are met with the challenge of not only teaching the English language, but also civics, and motivating immigrants to get involved politically in the country.

As current trends in contemporary society demand new educational responses, and traditional systems of learning are substantially challenged and reshaped, consensus is building around the importance of developing learners well prepared to meet the demands that current and future global trends make on individuals and societies, particularly in the area of civic and social participation, and ethical behavior in a world increasingly marked by difference.

I was able to travel across the U.S. and Canada meeting with school boards leaders, community organizations, foundations, and governments to collaborate on initiatives that fostered civic education, and was grateful to see the collective passion that educators across the country held for the success of students.

The Portfolio Network meeting is an annual gathering of innovative district, charter school, community, and civic leaders from across the country who are figuring out how to run and oversee autonomous schools of choice in ways that ensure all families have good options and the system operates fairly.

CPAG is the host organisation for the Campaign to End Child Poverty coalition, which has members from across civil society including children's charities, faith groups, unions and other civic sector organisations, united in their campaigning for public and political commitment to ensure the goal of ending child poverty by 2020 is met.

The SAC met four times over the course of the 2016 - 2017 school year and selected seven key topics that the SAC feels can be changed or improved in the DC education system.The proposals submitted by the SAC focused on graduation requirements, security, access to humanities and civic engagement courses, hall sweeps, food and nutrition, grading systems, and student socialization.

Our goal was to create a school that would meet the individual needs of Providence's diverse students through a maritime - themed curriculum that would promote social and civic skill - building as well as outstanding academic learning.

Urban school boards partner with religious organizations, charities, civic groups, and local government agencies to rally community resources to meet the needs of students and their families.

Although many schools and districts have exemplary programs that meet these criteria, the academic rigor and degree of civic involvement of service learning projects vary from district to district, say experts.

It means enriching early childhood programming that increases the likelihood that poor children will arrive to kindergarten with the foundations for meeting the expectations we have for them in the areas of literacy, numeracy, civic engagement, and emotional intelligence.

To facilitate this consideration of how findings from this study meet the goals of civic education as elucidated by the Civic Mission of Schools, the Framework for 21st Century Learning, and ISTE NETS - S (2007), I organized the work of these organizations around five aspects of digital citizenship.

In the relationship between education and democracy, we often think of schools as the cradle of democratic values: the common meeting ground where social responsibility, civic - mindedness, and tolerance are instilled in the next generation.

The candidates for the Orleans Parish School Board will meet tonight (Tuesday, Oct. 2) at a forum moderated by Tulane University President Scott Cowen and hosted by a number of local civic groups.

Some were friendly faces of teachers I have met through various community events and my work in civic engagement.

The Long Beach Seamless Education Partnership grew from a broad consortium of civic, business, and education leaders who met in 1994 to discuss drivers for economic growth.

Jump - start your communications with the basic, trusted forms of district messaging: school board meetings; letters to the editor; routine district newsletters; e-newsletters; face - to - face meetings with opinion leaders and key stakeholders; presentations at civic meetings, etc..

The issue of literacy goes to the heart of what NASBE and state boards consider their essential work — instituting standards - based reforms that ensure students are well - prepared to meet the demands of employment, advanced training, and civic participation.

Board of Education's Excellence in Civics Education Seal — Awarded to students who meet each of the following four criteria:

«California requires high quality materials that meet the needs of our diverse learners — materials that challenge our most proficient learners and ensure that every student attains college, career, and civic readiness.