Sentences with phrase «of the public supports allowing»

The survey found 32 percent of the public supports allowing public school teachers to earn tenure, and half opposed.

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Offering free transportation to public transit hot spots not only shortens commutes and supports environmentally friendly modes of transportation; it also allows businesses to set up their headquarters in more locations.

The Supreme Court's Citizens United decision in 2010 allowed for unlimited political spending by corporations, but Justice Anthony Kennedy expressed his strong support for public disclosure of the money spent.

The White House has failed to find traction on a middle ground that would allow meaningful reform to thrive while protecting the constitutional right to bear arms — a compromise that would enjoy broad public support and still represent a practical way of regulating the firearms industry.

Gina Tsai, Airbnb's Head of Public Policy in Hong Kong and Taiwan, noted that the Japanese Diet has passed a new bill that supports short - term rentals nationwide and the new bill is expected to unlock huge opportunity for Japan's tourism industry, allowing more international tourists to experience the country authentically.

Thus, while it initially appeared that the bill was designed to foster entrepreneurial development of decentralized systems, such as the Ethereum network, to allow individuals to reclaim some power from large companies, the bill does not accomplish that aim as it treats public and private blockchains (and possibly even legacy payment systems) equally.By opening this loophole in the definition of blockchain, Nevada does not appear to be showing any more support for the blockchain upstart community than it shows for multinational financial institutions and banks at large.

Specific policies include a Canada Employment Credit and Tax Fairness Plan to reduce taxes for working families and seniors; tax credits for public transit, kid's sports, textbooks, tools, and apprentices; increased support to the provinces and territories to create new child care spaces; increasing the Senior Age Credit amount by an additional $ 1,000; and allowing income splitting for caregivers of family members with disabilities.

Though the English allowed the Dutch Reformed Church to receive public support by taxation, they sought the official establishment of Anglicanism as the religion of the colony.

Referring to the new website, he said: «I do hope this will also allow us to help support and encourage new musicians, as they form ensembles, and bring together family, friends and the wider public to enjoy the creativity and celebration of God - given musical talent.

Government supports the interests of the broadcasting industry, and the broadcasters are allowed to mislead the public.

If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we will have to allow those public funds to be used for any type of private school.

Robert Bellah has shown that American culture from its early beginnings has held two views in tension: on the one hand, the biblical understanding of community based on the notion of charity for all members, a community supported by public and private virtue; and, on the other hand, the utilitarian understanding that community is a neutral state which allows individuals to pursue the maximization of their self - interest.16.

In the late»70s 55 percent of Americans would allow books by homosexual authors in public libraries, 62 percent supported gays» right to lecture in the community and 49 percent supported their right to teach in a college.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

The MEP cited foreign secretary Margaret Beckett's U-turn on allowing public scrutiny of the council of ministers, something Tony Blair had previously backed, and Labour's failure to support an end to the EU parliament's expensive monthly moves to Strasbourg.

Polling showing 81 % of public support assisted dying: http://humanism.org.uk/2012/09/07/news-1108/ Previous BHA news article — «L' waives right to anonymity in assisted dying court case: http://humanism.org.uk/2013/04/18/paul-lamb-l-waives-right-to-anonymity-in-assisted-dying-court-case/ Previous BHA news article — Court of Appeal allows «L' to join Tony Nicklinson Claim: http://humanism.org.uk/2013/03/20/court-of-appeal-allows-l-to-join-tony-nicklinson-claim/ Previous BHA news article — New case to test rules on assisted dying in UK: http://humanism.org.uk/2011/08/19/news-873/ The BHA's campaign on Assisted Dying: http://humanism.org.uk/campaigns/public-ethical-issues/assisted-dying/

Reproductive rights groups are ramping up their own attacks on Senate Republican incumbents who oppose the WEA, claiming the conference's refusal to allow the legislation on the chamber floor for a vote flies in the face of public support for legal abortion.

WASHINGTON — A majority of the Supreme Court appears poised to overrule a 1977 case allowing public sector union «agency fees» — a ruling that would end the fees, which are paid by non-members to support public sector unions» collective bargaining work.

The New York Public Transit Association sent a letter to the governor Thursday in support of allowing Transportation Network Companies, a.k.a. ride - hailing services like Uber and Lyft, to operate in Upstate New York.

Cuomo is backing the creation of a chief procurement officer and is supporting legislation that would allow the comptroller, attorney general and the procurement officer «to collaborate on a student and make recommendations regarding initiatives to better enable the public to track state contracts and audits.»

To keep a close liaison and coordination with state security elements for the activities — the use of armed escort as much as possible and maintaining strong security training and awareness for the personnel; careful selection of all election related sites and the maintenance of security for polling staff, electoral materials and equipment and situational awareness through a well - developed public information strategy to support election operation and ensure timely distribution of security information / advisories; identify hotspots (fragile security locations) in coordination with the Security Agencies and the most likely threats in each constituency and provide a clear order of priority for concerted efforts to be made to mitigate and manage these concerns and to allow resources to be targeted for maximum effect.

Quinn asked for specific provisions to the new rules including the automatic renewal of licenses for gardening groups that are fully compliant with Parks Department rules, the translation of relevant public notices into all languages necessary for the communities supporting them, and a mechanism that would allow GreenThumb — a Parks Department group charged with overseeing community gardens — a 180 - day grace period to find and license new patrons for gardens abandoned by the groups operating them.

The State of the State allows the executive a unique opportunity to command public attention and to mobilize support for his proposals, as well as to kick off the legislative session.

She told the committee she supports different contracting reforms, including the creation of a «Database of Deals» that would allow the public to see the total value of all subsidies awarded to different businesses.

County Sheriff Louis Falco was present to support the resolutions, emphasizing that the map was both a public safety and law enforcement concern because the information allows home invaders to pinpoint vulnerable households and placed law enforcement officers, many of whom have weapons in their homes, at risk.

The State of the State allows the executive a unique opportunity to command public attention and to mobilize support for his proposals.

But three - quarters of New Yorkers say they will support a constitutional amendment in November that would allow judges to reduce or strip the pensions of public officials who are convicted of crimes related to their office.

And he sat impassively at an open cabinet meeting as two of his appointees — acting health commissioner Howard Zucker and Department of Environmental Conservation commissioner Joe Martens — recommended that the state not allow natural gas hydrofracking, citing public health «red flags» and a lack of scientific data supporting its safety.

Gianaris questioned the position of Republican senators who oppose a public campaign financing system, but support allowing politicians to seek state reimbursement for criminal defense fees.

The State Senate — particularly the Democratic faction, who resent the public and financial support Mayor Bloomberg has given Republican candidates in the past — willfully allowed the deadline to renew mayoral control of the city's schools to pass on Tuesday without a vote or even a mention.

Cenedella has mostly avoided specific policy prescriptions in his public comments and blog posts, but he currently sits on the leadership council of the Club for Growth, a conservative group that supports a variety of «pro-growth» fiscal policies, pushing to make the Bush tax cuts permanent, repeal the death tax, and overhaul Social Security to allow for personal retirement accounts for younger workers.

Public financing allows candidates who show some threshold amount of public support to receive sufficient funding for their campPublic financing allows candidates who show some threshold amount of public support to receive sufficient funding for their camppublic support to receive sufficient funding for their campaigns.

Cuomo proposes to extend a system of public campaign finance to all statewide offices and legislative races, ban the use of campaign funds for personal expenses, require the disclosure of outside income and the clients who supported it and change the state Constitution to allow prosecutors to claw back the pensions of officials convicted of public corruption.

That was based on a portion of the law that allowed waivers from disclosure rules if donors might suffer «harm, threats, harassment or reprisals» from public knowledge of their support to specific entities.

From the beginning of this mayoral campaign, the public advocate has been using the issue of paid sick leave, and Quinn's increasingly awkward three - year - long - and - counting refusal to allow it to come up for a vote on the Council, as a means of distinguishing himself from her, and of highlighting her sometimes - awkward attempts to placate her party's liberal base without alienating Michael Bloomberg and the business establishment whose support she has courted for years.

Senate Republicans, while opposing the DREAM Act, which would allow taxpayer - funded state tuition assistance programs to be used on the colege kids of illegal immigrants, support the education tax credit that would provide a benefit for those who donate to private and public schools.

The governor's proposal also calls for federal support to keep Brooklyn's ailing hospitals open, changing the controversial Common Core school curriculum, ending standardized testing for grades K - 2, begin construction of four new casinos in the fall, allow public funding of political campaigns and reforming the state's ethics policy.

While 52 percent of those surveyed for the annual PDK / Gallup poll said they oppose allowing students to attend private school at «public expense,» support for the notion has jumped 12 percentage points since the...

When asked about support for a proposal «that would allow low - and moderate - income four - year - old children to be given the opportunity to attend a preschool program, with the government paying the tuition,» no less than 60 percent of the public responded favorably, with just 27 percent voicing opposition.

Gladwell's call to innovation and experimentation in our schools got me thinking about the idea of educational entrepreneurship and how supporting a spirit of adventure and risk within the boundaries of our public school system may allow us to realize more of the gains that we were hoping for rather than more of the same like the past two decades of tight control and, as Gladwell suggests, regimentation.

We sought to cast some light on this heated topic with the following survey question, posed in 2008 and again in 2017: «Do you support or oppose allowing a group of Muslim students to organize an afterschool club at your local public school?»

Communication, for health, is «the social, educational and political process which increases and promotes public awareness of health, promotes healthy lifestyles and community action supporting health, providing opportunities and allowing people to be able to exercise their rights and responsibilities to develop environments, systems and policies beneficial to health and well - being.»

But Wednesday morning, the U.S. Department of Education took an executive action that I support strongly, issuing new guidance for the Public Charter Schools Program that will allow charters to use «weighted lotteries» without forfeiting their chance to receive federal start - up funds.

In a dramatic turnaround from its previous strong support for charter schools, the Buffalo, N.Y., school board voted last week to impose a one - year moratorium on allowing more of the independently operated public schools.

Vouchers have come to include the use of private funding as partial tuition support for low - income students to attend private schools (as in Washington, D.C., San Antonio, and New York); the use of public funds to allow a small number of low - income students to attend private schools (as in Milwaukee and Cleveland); or, as in the case of Florida, the provision of public funds for students to attend a private school or another public school if their current public school has a poor aca - demic record.

Provide technical assistance to support the development of organizational capacity in collaborating project teams to allow for scaling (e.g., development of a business plan, legal assistance with intellectual property issues and incorporation as a non-profit or for - profit entity, as indicated) and help resolving issues such as costing, packaging of programs to fit system needs, and identification of sustainable public or private sources of funding.

7) Both parents and the public as a whole remain supportive of testing and opposed to policies that would allow parents to withhold their children from state test - taking, but support for parental opt - out has gained ground among teachers.

She was aware of micropatronage sites like Kiva and Donors Choose, which allow the public to financially support complete strangers by making donations online.

When first explaining that a «school voucher system allows parents the option of sending their child to the school of their choice, whether that school is public or private, including both religious and non-religious schools» using «tax dollars currently allocated to a school district,» support increased to 63 percent and opposition increased to 33 percent.

Consistency may be the hobgoblin of small minds; yet the contrast between allowing taxpayer support of private schools, which are neither accountable nor transparent to the public, and imposing the most stringent reporting and accountability standards on all public schools should alarm the fair - minded.