Sentences with phrase «process of changing public»

Academy officials plan to hold a series of meetings around the country to drum up support for the report, the first step in what Lane sees as a long process of changing public attitudes.

Not exact matches

Political scientist Keith Brownsey of Mount Royal University argues the Liberals paid close attention to the many fumbles made by Harper's Tories on the energy file: failing to build solid relationships with First Nations, allowing environmental groups to seize the public - relations initiative, not asserting federal authority and handing provinces like B.C. and Quebec control of the political agenda, keeping Canada outside of the international consensus on climate change, and ignoring legitimate criticisms of the federal review process.

While the Securities and Exchange Commission is attempting to ease the process of going public, recently widening the use of private draft - stage listings for example, long - term secular changes in the capital markets suggest that private funds are likely to remain equally, if not more, appealing to growing firms than public financing.

The Liberals have introduced changes as they try to fulfil their 2015 election promise to improve Parliament's financial processes by bringing more consistency and clarity when it comes to government accounting of how it spends public money.

Public policy can help in the adjustment process by promoting flexibility in the economy and by reducing some of the costs of change for individuals and communities.

The chairman of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, James Doty, said Wednesday that board member Jeanette Franzel will meet with representatives of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and eight companies on Thursday to discuss concerns about the unintended consequences of the PCAOB inspection process and changes to internal controls reviews.

As of now, nearly three years later, the Security and Exchange commission (SEC) isstill in the process of reviewing the most debatable (and a game - changing) provision of the JOBS Act — Title III, which when in effect in an unclear future, will enable businesses to sell up to $ 1 million in securities to the public in a one year period.

The nature of religious television in America can be seen to be a function of the interaction of four main players; changes over the past decades have come about because of changes in the relative power and relationships of the four following players: (1) the regulatory agencies of the federal government, which, through the legislative process, provide the structure within which interaction inside the television industry takes place; (2) the television industry, primarily network and local station managements, which control the airwaves within the legislated structure; (3) the viewing public, which selects what it is that will be watched; and (4) the religious broadcasters who provide the material for broadcasts.

Modernization theory views such processes of institutional change within American religion as the alleged differentiation of private piety from public policy, the growing differentiation of secular education from its religious roots, and the emergence of professional therapy as a distinct alternative to pastoral counseling as bellwether trends in advanced industrial societies generally and suggests that they may be in some way influenced by broader international patterns.

AIC has requested that CDFA publicize and invite public comment on the proposed regulatory changes as soon as possible, and the Department has indicated that it will expediently move forward with the process of considering the Committee's proposal.

Changes to competition laws (milk wars discussion and recommendations relating to MMP (introduce effects test), predatory pricing (recommend Minister direct ACCC to investigate Coles for breach of s 46 relating to predatory pricing), unconscionable conduct (suggest it be defined), statutory duty of good faith, unfair contract terms (seeks «recognition of the competitive disadvantage faced by farmers» and extension of unfair contract terms protection to small business), collective bargaining (seeks relaxation of public interest test for boycott approvals in agriculture markets, increase «ability for peak bodies to commence and progress collective bargaining and boycott applications» on behalf of members - and further dairy specific recommendations, ACCC divestiture power (wants ACCC to have similar divestiture powers to Comp Commission in UK - «simpler process of divestiture», ACCC monitoring powers (wants Minister to direct ACCC to use price monitoring powers to «monitor prices, costs and profits relating to the supply of drinking milk») and mandatory code of conduct (wants mandatory code and «Ombudsman with teeth to ensure compliance»)-RRB-.

Her longtime interest in the political process and public policy came to a head in January of 2011, when the new USDA proposed rules came out and Sandi realized how many changes school nutrition professionals would be facing.

He added further changes to the law would be introduced next year which would require the public sector to involve disabled people at every step of their policy - making processes.

What we actually need is a more democratic model of impact where it is conceived of as impact upon the public debate; inspiring gradual, long term change — and in which academic communication is part of a mutual, democratic learning process.

«If society wishes to change this system, then public campaign finance should be the topic of conversation rather than to throw mud at the present lawful process.»

«But through a bipartisan effort, rules changes were adopted that strengthened the committee process, increased transparency and disclosure to give the public greater insight into legislative proceedings, and placed term limits on the length of time legislative leaders and committee chairs can serve, among other reform initiatives.»

Albany lawmakers have begun the process of changing the constitution to allow public officials convicted of a crime to be stripped of their pensions.

Commenting on the topic of the symposium, Comrade Sunmonu noted that the NLC chose the topic - «the change Nigeria needs and the role of workers in the process of change» to educate and enlighten the public on the role of government to effect positive change they voted for.

But the plan would allow the governor to make changes through his own branch of government to the budget after it's approved, without input from the Legislature — worrying other officials that an already opaque process will be further hidden from public view.

The letter, signed by the Bishops of Winchester, Durham, Guilford and Worcester, stated that the changes could likely result in «increasing risk to our nation's public and political life of the inhumane and imperfectly processed decisions».

Topics in the Q&A included the source of money for the City's planned pre-K advertising campaign, the City's target number of pre-K applicants, whether Speaker Silver thinks the proposed income tax surcharge should be pursued next year, how the pre-K selection process will work, how the City will cover the approximately $ 40 million annual gap between the estimated cost of pre-K and the amount provided in the state budget, when parents will learn whether their pre-K application has been accepted, how the City will collect data and measure success of the pre-K program, whether the existing pre-K application process will be changed, how the City will use money from the anticipated school bond issue, the mayor's reaction to a 2nd Circuit ruling that City may bar religious groups from renting after - hours space in public schools, the status on a proposed restaurant in Union Square, a tax break included in the state budget that provides millions of dollars to a Bronx condominium project, the «shop & frisk» meeting today between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bratton and a pending HPD case against a Brooklyn landlord.

Another change would no longer allow for gun registrations to be made public and give counties and the state Division of Criminal Justice Services more oversight of the license recertification process, not State Police.

It will be part of a third round of public hearings on the district changes, which are made by a 15 - member panel every decade to account for population shifts identified by the U.S. Census, after the process was thrown into reverse earlier this year.

A divided state Board of Regents on Sept. 16 proposed three changes to the state evaluation system aimed at making the process fairer: an appeals process to address aberrations in growth scores, ensuring that privacy protections to bar the release to the public of individual teachers» growth scores will remain in force and the creation of a hardship waiver for school districts who find it difficult to hire outside evaluators.

These included changing the format of Panel for Educational Policy meetings to allow for more public comment, revising the city's school closing and co-location processes to make it more difficult for the city to close or co-locate schools, adding parent training centers so that parents in groups like the Community Education Councils can participate knowledgeably in the structures of governance, and restoring a degree of authority to district superintendents vis - à - vis principals.

«This is significant and reflects NYU's willingness to engage in the public process and accept change,» said City Councilwoman Margaret Chin, who helped negotiate the final plan and said she hoped it would forge a new era of cooperation between the neighborhood and the school.

But instead, setting a pattern for the fate of his reform promises, Cuomo cut a deal: keep this set of lines — which will remain in place for ten years, boosting the G.O.P.'s chance to hold the Senate — in exchange for reducing pensions for new public employees, authorizing casino gambling and this constitutional amendment, which will change the process for 2022.

«At this time, when prescription opioid use and opioid overdoses are both major threats to our public health, it is important to identify new treatment targets, such as epigenetic processes, that help to change the way that we do business in treating opioid use disorders,» said professor John Krystal, Editor of Biological Psychiatry.

«Pending reaction from the public and the results of the evaluation, N.I.H. will consider» changes to the process, such as raising the $ 250,000 limit, he said.

Agriculture, ecosystems and ocean levels are all inextricably linked to the atmosphere — and understanding these processes is obviously critical to studies of climate change and the formation of public policies that are shaped by those studies.

But that may soon change, as California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill in September that will begin the process of bringing these alerts to the public across the Golden State.

The U.S. Global Change Research Program, which coordinates the National Climate Assessment report process, also released draft versions of two other reports for public comment: the Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report and the Fourth National Climate Assessment.

Sustainable Developments: The Need for Open Process (p 39) The Obama administration has missed key opportunities to both shape public policy and to convey the importance of these changes in a clear form.

He said he believes such journalism is important because it holds tech companies up to high standards, who in the process of believing, and often genuinely implementing, positive change in the world, can be blinded to the fact that some of their practices are disagreeable to the public.

Climate change seemed to have slipped out of the public awareness a little bit, and it wasn't helped at all during the election process, because nobody was talking about it much then, either.»

5) Procedural Due Process is the principle that students with disabilities and their parents have the right to be informed of changes to their educational plan, to participate in the decisionmaking process surrounding the design and updating of those plans, and to protest any decisions that are adverse to their right to a free, appropriate public education by going to an administrative hearing and then to appeal to a court any adverse juProcess is the principle that students with disabilities and their parents have the right to be informed of changes to their educational plan, to participate in the decisionmaking process surrounding the design and updating of those plans, and to protest any decisions that are adverse to their right to a free, appropriate public education by going to an administrative hearing and then to appeal to a court any adverse juprocess surrounding the design and updating of those plans, and to protest any decisions that are adverse to their right to a free, appropriate public education by going to an administrative hearing and then to appeal to a court any adverse judgment.

It may have taken longer than many would like to integrate the military, expand the roles of women in the armed forces, and end «don't ask, don't tell,» but we were able to achieve all of those through an open, public process of changing laws and regulations.

The idea is to tie public engagement to other public processes to enact change, said Amy Malik, director of communication for Everyday - Democracy: Ideas & Tools for Community Change (formerly the Study Circles Resource Cechange, said Amy Malik, director of communication for Everyday - Democracy: Ideas & Tools for Community Change (formerly the Study Circles Resource CeChange (formerly the Study Circles Resource Center).

Over the past year Tennessee's Board added in expectations to the ELA writing standards, Florida went through a statewide public process to get feedback on the standards and ended up making dozens of changes to the Common Core standards, which the department now refers to as «Florida Standards.»

Two things, we believe, will start to bring the system back into a sustainable orbit: a dramatic expansion in the range of education options available to parents and a fundamental change in public access to the collective bargaining process.

The Public Education Fund Network this month will begin the process of upgrading its member funds» programming from «feel good» philanthropy projects to more politically charged efforts aimed at systemic change.

The Interdistrict School for Arts and Communications (ISAAC) in New London is one of eight public charter schools in Connecticut celebrating its 20th school year of serving children and changing lives in the process.

For example, in a highly publicized case involving the co-location of Girls Preparatory Charter School with a public school serving students with autism, we established the right of parents in schools for students with disabilities to participate fully in the public process required for proposed co-locations or other significant changes in school utilization that may affect their schools.

Tran spoke at Wednesday's public meeting on behalf of Children Now, a nonprofit advocacy organization that was part of a coalition that had sent a letter to the state board before the meeting asking for «greater transparency» in the process of changing the dashboard.

Public schools have to «make do» all over, but the rapid pace of technological change underscores how quickly educational institutions can fall behind in process, as well as in geeky tools.

The process, and persistent charter claims of being short - changed, has spurred court battles, acrimonious policy debates in the state legislature and even suggestions of a massive, class - action lawsuit against traditional public schools.

If «Republican's» make inroads into the cities under the guise of» opportunity and social mobility» Changes will occur exponentially, starving public school budgets, «jury - rigging» political processes etc..

The public school construction planning and submission process applies only to school building renovations or alterations that go beyond cosmetic changes and are subject to state and local building codes and reviews, and require that the construction documents bear the seal of a licensed engineer or architect.

Even before Hurricane Katrina changed just about everything in New Orleans, the state of Louisiana had started the process of reshaping the city's public schools, creating an entity known as the New Orleans Recovery School District.

Absent Senate action, DeVos would have to initiate a whole new rule - making process, during which proposed changes would be blasted daily by the same organizations and media outlets that have labeled her an enemy of public education.