Sentences with phrase «often serve the public»

In addition, these cases often serve the public interest, as they often have significant implications for the public at large.

Positions often serve the public, which can be a highly rewarding experience.

Not exact matches

«It has the power to influence public debate, mobilize communities, and — most importantly — offer creative solutions to help people receive better care, no matter where they live or who they are,» write Richards and Karp, who believe that the tech industry owes its success to both of its employees as well as the communities it serves, whose health needs are often partially met by Planned Parenthood itself.

Serving as the aggregate component of your company identity, your brand is often responsible for formulating first impressions, building familiarity in the public, growing your reputation, and ultimately, securing the long - term loyalty of your customers.

Many of these hired guns act as public relations lobbies for global financial interests, often by joining think tanks that serve as advertising agencies to promote these interests.

He and I have discussed privately in emails how hard it can be for any school food provider, whether a private catering service like Choicelunch or public schools participating in the National School Lunch Program, to serve many masters, i.e., parents and administrators with countless — and often competing — agendas.

Many of you have already seen on TLT's Facebook page today's New York Times blog account of a New York City fourth - grader named Zachary who secretly filmed the lunches at his public school cafeteria, often revealing a startling disparity between the school menu's glowing description of the meal and the dismal food actually served.

David was also the producer of «An Inconvenient Truth,» and just as that film served as a wake - up call for climate change, «Fed Up» hopes to similarly educate the public about the serious flaws in our food system and how the food and beverage industries have a vested interest in maintaining a status quo that puts profits over our collective health — and often with the assistance of the federal government.

This has served to exclude and disengage the public, as the agenda is often seen and perceived as something remote from our daily lives.

The FT disapprovingly quotes our manifesto «The conservatives often talk about economic and social crises as if they are unavoidable, a law of nature... Conservatives have pursued a policy of blind faith in the market - serving the interests of the few rather than the general public...».

A far more pertinent issue raised by Kristof's piece is buried in his subsequent blog post: «When I was a kid, the Kennedy Administration had its «brain trust» of Harvard faculty members, and university professors were often vital public intellectuals who served off and on in government.»

The union is highlighting the role played by private security officers (10 of the 24 32BJ members who perished held that job), who the ad says serve as the public's «eyes and ears» because they're often first on the scene of emergencies.

Though he has since tempered his rhetoric, Mr. de Blasio was often hostile toward charter school expansion and Ms. Moskowitz when he served as public advocate and ran for mayor.

74 % of the public, and 86 % of police officers, believed «offenders often commit further crimes while serving community sentences».

He suggested the public were often misled by stories about «cash - strapped» councils but said there was much more local authorities could do to «reduce costs, cut council tax and better serve their local residents».

«And that is the divide between those who want to truly accomplish things, and those who put positioning, rhetoric, and too often, personal power, above serving the public.

In June, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, the wage board's chairman and a longtime Cuomo ally, said he and his fellow members clearly believed «a substantial» increase was needed to bring fast food workers up the economic ladder — despite persistent opposition from the business community, which often found itself drowned out at public hearings that served more or less as labor rallies.

AAAS developed the questionnaire because serving society is part of the mandate for many professional societies and funding programs, and its importance is often cited in public statements and international conventions — but few agree on what those social responsibilities are or ought to be, said Mark Frankel, director of the AAAS Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law program, which conducted the study along with the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition.

Shopping malls and stores are also very often used by adults for the first dates as they serve as safe public places for the first encounters.

To be sure, there are often good reasons to place children out of district at public expense — no district can serve all students equally well — but neither are there always clear and obvious distinctions to be made between who can be educated in a regular school, those who need alternative settings and those like Adrian who run afoul of the rules so frequently, or who are penalized so often and systematically, that they simply give up and leave.

Nevertheless, critics of private education often implicitly extend the limited definition of «public» to mean the population served by the school.

American Indian and Alaska Native communities are often remotely located throughout the U.S. with the largest populations of K — 12 students — as a percent of total K — 12 student population in the state — being served in public schools in Oklahoma, Arizona, and Alaska.

Washington plays a role here, too, since the focus of the No Child Left Behind Act on low achievers and troubled schools, coupled with state and federal funding streams for special education, means that schools serving high achievers don't receive money that other public schools often do.

As the executive director and the board chairman of the District of Columbia's independent chartering body, we are often asked whether we favor a «New Orleans» future for D.C., where charter schools eventually serve virtually all public - school students.

By analyzing the discourse employed by politicians, lobbyists, think tanks, and special interest groups, the authors uncover the hidden assumptions that often underlie popular statements about school reform, and demonstrate how misinformation or half - truths have been used to reshape public education in ways that serve the interests of private enterprise.

School unions, for example, have been cautious in their support, often seeing charters as drawing funds away from resource - starved public school districts and diverting the discussion from how to fix public schools, which continue to serve the vast majority of American students.

Two new national reports paint a grim picture of unfair and inequitable funding of public education across states, with schools serving the highest proportion of impoverished students most often on the losing end.

We're often accused of being hostile to the regular public - school system, but our real gripe is with its near - monopoly — which leaves it free to keep on serving the interests of its «stakeholders» rather than the students.

Charter schools serve a small but growing proportion of U.S. public school students, but they are an increasingly signficant — and often innovative — part of the national education landscape.

Traditional public schools that serve all comers have to find a middle ground, as best they can, which often pleases no one.

They often find themselves in a situation where the public schools don't serve their student well, but the private schools won't serve them at all.

• Policymakers often defend public schools as more democratic and diverse than private schools, but in the past public schools served as a restrictive mode of socialization — for instance, when they were advocated as a bulwark against private Catholic schooling.

Often, the founding committee is not prepared to serve as a public school board.

Too often charter schools, like other public schools, lack the specialized knowledge to know how to serve students with disabilities, especially severe disabilities, and to meet their needs directly, rather than serving them through a private placement outside of the school.

Often seen as «piloting» new ideas for the public school system at large, would charter schools ever grow to serve every child in a city?

What the CT SDE and charter school lobbyists are not explicitly telling you in these claims is that charter schools often serve a relatively more advantaged group of Black and Latinx children compared to the local public schools where they are located and these children are likely to do relatively better on standardized tests because standardized tests favor more advantaged groups of people.

Under federal law, students with disabilities can be sent to private schools when the public system can not adequately serve them, which has often been the case in the District's long - troubled special - education system.

Public funding cuts also push students to for - profit colleges that sometimes serve them well but very often create outsize debts.

During the 84th Legislative Session in 2015, the legislature passed a law with the unintended consequence of reducing the funding for public charter schools with unique programs, often serving vulnerable student populations.

Internal candidates often have inside track Even with the process cloaked from public view, the best candidates, particularly those already serving as superintendents elsewhere, may not apply if they think an internal candidate has the inside track.

By teaching civics in tandem with experiential learning, YES Prep teachers, more often than traditional public or private school teachers, were «very confident» that their students learned «[t] o be tolerant of people and groups who are different from themselves,» «[t] o understand concepts such as federalism, separation of powers, and checks and balances,» and «[t] o develop habits of community service such as volunteering and raising money for causes,» according to 2010 American Enterprise Institute Program on American Citizenship survey.30 As a charter network serving low - income students, its service - centered mission serves both the students and their communities.

They are often designed to serve low - income and / or at - risk students who are falling through the cracks of the traditional public school system.

Detractors, however, often assert that charters siphon resources from traditional public schools without equal compensation and that they don't serve specific populations, such as special - education students, in proportion with their existence.

Critics of public pensions often complain that these pension plans have long vesting periods and reward the longest serving employees.

I served as superintendent of the Chicago Public Schools for seven years — and saw firsthand that the system often served the interests of adults better than it did its students.

All too often their works are ignored by the corporate publishers who are more interested in serving up their chain store consumables for a public lost in our mass produced fast - food induced art world.

Community programs often serve community members of all ages, ranging from children to adults, at public libraries or community resource centers.

These institutions often serve student - made meals to the public in restaurant settings.

Our team is made up of enthusiastic volunteers who work passionately to serve the underrepresented and often misunderstood niche of pocket pets in the overall rescue community and general public.

Bring your own snorkel gear, water and snacks, as there's no gear rental stand or public restaurant / bar (the attractive, often - empty, private beach club / restaurant at the far side of the bay is for nearby residents and doesn't serve the public, even if you're happy to pay).