Sentences with phrase «public efforts toward»

In fact, she said, she'd had a similar experience at Google, despite its very public efforts toward racial diversity and gender equity.

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These words are more than a lyrical garland tossed toward Saul's adherents in an effort to win them (although we do not suppose for a moment that David was unaware of the positive political implications of his public and phenomenally articulate grief).

Especially important in supplying such information are books, magazines, newspapers, radio, and television, through which the public can best be kept continually abreast of developments and possibilities both in weapons technology and in efforts toward armament reduction and control, and can be made aware of the nature and scope of the peril in which the world stands so long as war remains the ultimate resort in the settlement of international differences.

Not only does it pick up our actual memories of public testimony, election, and governance by law, but it draws us toward the perfection of our governance, helping us judge our present efforts.

The White House denied that Trump misled the public when he suggested that a massive U.S. aircraft carrier was being deployed toward the Korean Peninsula as part of an effort to deter North Korea from launching additional missiles.

«New York proudly leads the fight against this public health crisis and this campaign will further our efforts to provide support, aid recovery, and take one more step toward a stronger, healthier Empire State.»

The administration said it has invested $ 1 billion worth of public money toward this effort, which has, in turn, leveraged $ 2.8 billion in private investment and created 12,000 jobs.

Cuomo made little public effort to move the multi-faceted reform agenda he proposed in January and instead appeared to move the goalposts for reform toward the end of session when he announced he wanted to tackle independent expenditure campaigns, something Senate Republicans found much more appealing than restricting legislators» outside income or closing the LLC loophole.

Much of that spending went toward consultants and public relations firms, which were attempting to boost the mayor's efforts to secure funding for a universal pre-kindergarten program in Albany in 2014, and toward the mayor's effort to set up a new nonprofit geared toward advancing his national political platform.

Brooklyn State Senator Martin Golden declared last night that public sympathies have turned toward police officers and away from the headline - dominating protest movement — and told the Observer that he supported an effort in Albany to extend hate crime protections to cops.

Cuomo says this campaign is another effort to fight substance abuse and inform the public that there is help toward recovery.

In explaining the increasingly important role that the science community will play in determining the progress of international efforts toward sustainable development and climate stability, Lovász pointed out that the majestically ornate Hungarian Academy of Sciences neo-Renaissance palace in which the WSF was held was built entirely with public donations 150 years ago, «which illustrates the trust that Hungarian society from the nobility to poor farmworkers had in science at that time.»

The committee supports the efforts to deal with these important problems in several ways: better community relations and public information on the pollution problems; negotiations with violators on a case - by - case basis; and increased research oriented toward making radio telescopes less susceptible to interference (e.g., adaptive cancellation, filter technology, and high - spectral - efficiency modulation techniques).

In addition to the zoom lens Mastcam effort, MSSS is currently completing Junocam, a color camera system for education and public outreach use onboard Juno, a NASA spacecraft launching toward Jupiter in August 2011.

To increase access to quality healthcare and forward the field of Naturopathic Medicine in the areas of public education, accessibility, and efforts toward licensing naturopathic doctors in Rhode Island.

About the Achievement Gap Initiative (AGI) at Harvard University The Achievement Gap Initiative (AGI) is a university - wide effort initiated by the Harvard Graduate School of Education to focus academic research, public education, and innovative outreach activities toward eliminating achievement gaps.

The vast funds necessary for addressing such problems once they become entrenched greatly exceed the resources directed toward preventive efforts whose short - and long - term benefits could improve lives and avoid large public and personal costs.

The Achievement Gap Initiative (AGI) is a university - wide, multidisciplinary effort to focus academic research, public education, and innovative outreach activities toward eliminating...

The Achievement Gap Initiative (AGI) is a university - wide, multidisciplinary effort to focus academic research, public education, and innovative outreach activities toward eliminating achievement gaps in education.

The federal government has a critical investment role to play in 1) supporting the replication and scale - up of the best providers through its grant programs; 2) improving access to low - cost public facilities for charter schools through its own funds and by leveraging existing public - school space; 3) pushing states and local districts toward more equitable funding systems for all public school students, including those in charter schools; and 4) supporting efforts to create early - stage, innovative, and scalable models that incorporate greater uses of learning technology.

The product of a collaboration involving the local school system, a federal agency, a professional association, and private foundations and universities, the pilot effort is designed to both encourage young people to stay in school and gently nudge them toward careers in public service.

Speaking on the public television show «Off the Record,» MEA President Steven Cook said the MEA paid $ 25,000 toward a recall effort against House Education Committee Chairman Paul Scott, R - Grand Blanc, because polling showed voters in Scott's district are upset over the elimination of a pension tax deduction and public school funding levels, the Lansing State Journal reported.

The movement toward neo-vouchers — mechanisms of school privatization efforts, such as tuition tax credits and opportunity tax scholarships, that transfer public education dollars to private schools — have had mixed results, at best, and have been empirically shown to harm targeted students, at worst.

The effort, according to education reporter Billy Ball, is «geared toward rebranding for - profit virtual charters and private school recipients of taxpayer - backed vouchers as public schools.»

Looming over everything else has been a constant effort to get more money into the state's public schools (either through new state spending and / or through a growing number of local levy requests) and there is movement toward revamping the state's dated system of school financing.

Resources developed by two entities that dedicate their programmatic and research efforts toward talent development in schools: the Urban Schools Human Capital Academy (2017) and the New Mexico Public Education Department (n.d.).

It is also probably reasonable to conclude that the leader of the opt - out crusade has been New York State, where animosity toward the Core has been high since the state first rushed implementation and state officials, in an effort to calm things, actually inflamed them with a condescending approach to public engagement that launched weeks of recriminations.

With these efforts, we aim to expand our reach, shift toward systemic engagement, and increase awareness and understanding of California's new funding formula to support equity in public education.

E3 Rochester seeks to bring together and support Rochester (NY) charter schools in collaborative efforts aimed toward increasing the number of high - quality public school seats available for our community's children.

Currently, however, public reporting efforts in most states are geared toward compliance with state and federal laws, rather than being intentionally designed to meet people's needs.

Stand Washington supported eight legislative candidates, a candidate for the Washington State Supreme Court, and a candidate for Superintendent of public instruction, all with an eye toward bolstering our efforts during the 2017 legislative session.

The winner of The Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools will receive $ 250,000 to apply toward college - readiness efforts for low - income students, such as scholarships, speaker series or campus visits.

AASA is pleased to join some of the leading public education organizations today in this effort toward reauthorization in order to strengthen public schools.

If you do have a public record, it's important to make payments toward them regularly and make every effort to pay them off as quickly as possible.

In an effort to keep daily limits low (along with their auto insurance premium) companies allow policyholders to put money toward public transportation instead of a rental car.

A campaign is a sustained effort toward a specific outcome, like getting a city to ban fossil fuel development or a public institution to commit to a just switch to renewable energy that communities have more control over.

Through new legal efforts, mounting grassroots pressure, and aggressive media and public outreach, we can take the next step toward success.

The AB 1632 Report also recommended additional studies that Pacific Gas and Electric Company and Southern California Edison should undertake as part of their license renewal feasibility studies for the California Public Utilities Commission and directed the utilities to provide a status report on their efforts toward implementing the recommendations in the AB 1632 Report in the 2009 Integrated Energy Policy Report.

Public Works Committee chair Jaye Robinson agrees that better efforts toward education are needed.

Germany has a tradition of coordinating transportation and land use efforts toward policy goals that stretch across levels of government, such as reducing sprawl, cutting emissions, and promoting public transit.

They discuss their initiative to conduct an all - day legal research event, putting their learning of the legislative research process toward a public interest effort.

Students are taught to be «legal technicians,» with very little emphasis, at least during the first year, on the social and ethical ideals of the profession in its public role: «the first - year experience as a whole, without conscious and systematic efforts at counterbalance, tips the scales... away from cultivating the humanity of the student and toward the student's re-engineering into a «legal machine.

Much of the present efforts toward justice reform is focused on improving public legal education, redesigning justice processes and integrating social services within justice processes.

This study emphasizes the public support for this effort, and it should energize all of us working toward this mission.

Furthermore, the official went on to reveal ongoing efforts toward regulating cryptocurrency exchanges that will see cryptocurrencies like bitcoin under a singular legislation of retail payment services alongside public cautions of risks in cryptocurrency investments.

The vast funds necessary for addressing such problems once they become entrenched greatly exceed the resources directed toward preventive efforts whose short - and long - term benefits could improve lives and avoid large public and personal costs.

A focus of his research has been toward understanding the public costs associated with behavior disorders, which has included authoring several publications on the potential economic value of effective efforts to improve developmental outcomes in children and youth.