Sentences with phrase «over core issues»

Conservatives within each denomination have built alliances over core issues that outweigh denominational differences.

Not exact matches

To move that kind of big money, Harris began an organizational expansion of the foundation when she took over in 2010, building an outfit that has gone beyond Bloomberg's core interests of global public health and climate change to tackle new issues, like overfishing.

In recent issues of The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor I've covered the U.S. government's ongoing «War on Cash»... how our government is trying to take over the Internet with the latest push for «net neutrality»... the risks and advantages of digital currency like bitcoin... how U.S. banks are preparing for «bail - ins» during the next financial crisis... how the U.S. government is using Common Core to indoctrinate children so they'll submit to the coming socialist society... and much, much more.

Your position as the saver or spender will change issue to issue, but the point here is that each side is coming from a different foundation of financial values, and those core values feed the arguments over money rather than the money situation itself.

The first is that Christian denominations that have taken this form of liberalism most to heart are also those that seem to be experiencing a serious crisis of confidence, as evidenced by declining membership, intra-denominational splits over issues like homosexuality, and ¯ in some cases ¯ increasing discomfort with core Christian beliefs about Jesus Christ and the Trinity.

Yes it will pepper over the cracks, but not solve the core issue.

With that core conviction in mind, the American Society of Magazine Editors for over two decades has issued guidelines to make sure that the difference between advertising and editorial content is transparent to readers and that there is no advertiser influence or pressure on editorial independence.

Dems believe that there are fewer than three million true undecided voters in the battlegrounds who will decide the outcome; Dems think they are disproportionately made up of independent women and college educated men under 40 who are also independents — two groups that simply won't break towards Romney in overwhelming numbers, given the Dem campaign's emphasis on women's issues, and core differences between the two candidates over issues that matter to college educated voters.

At a press conference Wednesday, the governor explained to reporters that state budget talks had fallen apart over a few core issues.

«Our members are very knowledgable about education issues, and while there is great concern about the implementation of the Common Core and the over-reliance on testing, there are many other issues that are front - burner for NYSUT members,» he said, listing concerns over the property tax cap, equitable school funding, the teacher evaluation system and the statewide expansion of pre-kindergarten.

Over the course of an hour - long debate at the Woodstock Playhouse Monday, October 24, Congressional candidates Democrat Zephyr Teachout and Republican John Faso answered moderators» questions on trade, executive authority, the battle against ISIS and other issues, all while circling back to core campaign themes.

Ravitch, who has written about the issues and is the author of a very popular anti-Common Core blog, doesn't have anything good to say about the new, more rigorous curriculum that's taken over New York state classrooms.

The core issue remains how the county is run, over which there is room for lots and lots and lots of disagreement.

Many teachers and educators have had a fractious relationship with Gov. Andrew Cuomo during his four years in office over a number of issues, including school funding, the Common Core curriculum; and teacher evaluations.

Cuomo did not make a single mention of the education issue that has been most in the news this year — the furor over the rollout of the Common Core standards in New York.

Whether he will weigh in on the issue that is most on the minds of many teachers and parents — the controversy over the Common Core and other education reform policies — is an open question.

Over the last several months, discussions of the Common Core State Standards have been eclipsed by the public's reaction to major issues which have arisen in their implementation — issues such as declining student test scores, and the role of such test scores in teacher evaluations, evaluations mandated if a state was to receive its share of federal money from the «Race to the Top» funds.

Cleaning up the bigger piles of trash, which float in random clumps over long distances above and beneath the surface, is possible but may not solve the core issue.

The model — who's graced the covers of both Vogue and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue — would swing the hammer over her head and hit the tire as hard as she could to both target her core, and squeeze in some out - of - the - ordinary cardio.

Fran talks to singles and couples in personal consultations over the phone and in person for up to an hour to get to the core of their relationship issues.

Satire aside, this French vignette exposes the core of the issue; regardless of whether we gloss over the facts, we're still not quite OK with older women dating younger men.

(Again, look at how complicated things have gotten for the NEA and AFT over the whole Common Core issue.

A related issue is where to land on the «Common Core» standards, a set of expectations in reading and math developed by the nation's governors and state superintendents, but viewed by many conservatives as a federal plot to take over the schools.

Over the past year, the Common Core State Standards have risen from a topic of interest mainly to educators and school reformers to a top - tier issue in national politics.

Donald Trump pledged during his campaign to eliminate the Common Core state standards, but many have noted that Common Core is not an issue President Trump will have any say over.

In that capacity, and over several years, she developed a core course of ideas, information, and issues, central to the arts in education.

His aggressive approach politicized nearly all that it touched, leaving in its wake unnecessarily divisive national debates over issues like Common Core and sexual harassment on college campuses.

It may be that the debate over national standards has been so energetic over the past year that the public now is more aware of the issue, whether or not the phrase «Common Core» is mentioned.

The Common Core controversy is masking a more serious issue — the over assessment of our children.

Jindal, who was once a proponent of the Common Core, has battled educators in his own state over the issue in recent weeks.

«Does he stand up for local control over education by stopping Common Core, as Jindal has done in Louisiana, or does Christie try to play both sides of the issue?»

Consequently, the education sector today is increasingly isolated, ignored in national and state policy talk, riven by internecine conflict over issues like charter schools and Common Core, and abandoned by historical allies like the business community and governors.

As in other areas of education, however we see divisiveness among educators and parents over some very fundamental questions concerning not only the Common Core, but also issues related to teacher creativity and parental choice.

Even as the party itself is divided over embracing Common Core standards, has a retrograde on education in the form of House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (who wants to eviscerate the strong accountability measures contained in the No Child Left Behind Act), and had a primary race for the presidential nod that had seen aspirants backtrack (of offer little information) on their respective school reform agendas, Republicans were able to paper over these issues thanks to strong calls by former Florida governor Jeb Bush, Texas teacher Sean Duffy, and onetime Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for expanding school choice, advancing Parent Power, and overhauling how teachers are recruited, trained, managed, and compensated.

Over recent weeks the focus of this blog has been on parental right and the importance of opting out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) test, but that issue is only one piece of the puzzle when it comes to the unprecedented activities of the Corporate Education Reform Industry and their supporters like Governor Dannel Malloy.

As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.

Despite the cacophony over the Common Core State Standards, new assessments, teacher evaluation, portfolio districts, and other hot - button issues, education leaders are bearing down ever harder on tried - and - true school reform strategies.

To compare it with the behavior of another dual - core tablet (with Tegra 2), I tested the same YoutTube HD trailer streaming over the same WiFi network on the Xoom tablet connected to the same HDTV via the same HDMI cable, and it ran in the same issue: it was constantly buffering.

This approach might seem appealing, but most of the time, it tends to pass over the core root of the behavioral issues, which is typically some type of anxiety or lack of leadership.

Just doing the two - player co-op missions (Which you can either tackle the Core Campaign missions together with your friend taking over your partner or special unlockable missions), my friend and I saw a great deal of lag and framerate issues in multiplayer.

Hardcore Pokemaniacs may debate me on this issue, saying tweaks to the metagame like the split of attacks into physical and special categories or the recent Mega-Evolutions changed the way how people play competitively but at its core, Pokémon's battle system has not changed in over 10 years and it needs a good revision to stay current.

- Over at Shoot The Core, Posty has heard about some unfortunate issues with Raiden 3, the PS2 shooter that's newly released in the States: «Japanese games swap the functions of the «x» and «o» buttons - so «o» is used to confirm a selection on a menu screen, and «x» is used to go back.

The community is likely to be divided over the issue of DLC if the DLC - only parts convey a clear competitive advantage to the purchasers, and given Armored Core V's multiplayer focus this is especially problematic.

Pokemon Black and White The core series gameplay is still as fun as it always has been, but there have always been a few nagging issues that get frustrating over multi-hour experiences.

But the core mechanics, such as the fighting system, still carry over the issues the original title had.

In terms of the games audio this may be an issue for core fans as there has been a complete modernization and make over of the character's voices and music tracks as well.

Although it has its issues (mostly along the lines of over sexualization), the gameplay, at its core, is what makes it one of the top PS4 games of 2016 so far.

Over the years, MAAF has built a core of program initiatives designed to address specific issues of regional, national and international arts support.

A General Agreement on Climate Change (GACC) would consist of core agreements on allowable national contributions to global warming over time and would enable a wide range of other agreements on technology transfer, funding mechanisms and other issues as needed to accommodate the interests of nations.

Andy also says the fight over Keystone XL is a «distraction from the core issues» of broader climate policy.