Sentences with phrase «public forums last»

Admin of course the site / blog / forum is yours, its your creation but its a public forum the last time I checked and people have a right to say what they feel so long its within the remit of your rules and regulations....

The Orange County executive held a public forum last night as part of the county's parallel review of the controversial annexation proposal from the Hasidic Jewish village of Kiryas Joel.

Negotiations between PSEG and Greenport Village over a proposed underwater cable project on Fifth Street haven't moved any further along since a public forum last month between the power company and village residents, said Greenport Village Mayor George Hubbard Jr..

At a public forum last December, the Chris Christie — appointed superintendent Cami Anderson announced that about a quarter of Newark's schools would be closed, repurposed, consolidated or otherwise transformed.

Laura Spencer, a Smithtown schoolteacher, expressed her opinion directly to the state's education commission at a public forum last month at Ward Melville High School in Suffolk.

Not exact matches

In his first public speech since becoming central bank chief last week, Yi Gang told the China Development Forum in Beijing that opening up leads to progress while closure points to backwardness.

Last year, the Public Policy Forum interviewed over 2,000 Canadian employers about how they are integrating immigrants into the workforce.

There was no question about the biggest draw at a one - day economic «growth summit» put on by the Public Policy Forum last month in Ottawa.

Nearly one in five Americans believe Obama is a Muslim, up from around one in 10 Americans who said he was Muslim last year, according to the survey, conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.

A survey last month by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found «little evidence to suggest that concerns about the candidates» respective faiths will have a meaningful impact in the fall elections.»

To commemorate the historic uprooting and protest action against golden rice last August 8, 2013, hundreds of farmers will gather to hold a public forum in Nueva Ecija in Central Luzon, the rice granary of the country where Philippine Rice Research Insitute (PhilRICE) Golden Rice experimental fields are located.

«I think the park district needs some new blood,» Lozaro said at last week's forum at the Northbrook Public Library.

'' Members of the Public will recall that members of the two bodies (NLC and NUT) and their hired collaborators last week disrupted the stakeholders» forum organized by the government on the proposed participatory management of some public secondary scPublic will recall that members of the two bodies (NLC and NUT) and their hired collaborators last week disrupted the stakeholders» forum organized by the government on the proposed participatory management of some public secondary scpublic secondary schools.

From the grieving students swarming Tallahassee to the public grilling of Sen. Marco Rubio at a CNN forum last night, Florida — long a proving ground for national gun policy — is again at the center of the storm in the wake of last week's mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in suburban Fort Lauderdale.

Last night, the Brooklyn Young Democrats hosted a candidate forum in the little - noticed race for New York City Public Advocate.

Last month Alfonso Davis attended a public forum along with the other mayoral candidates to discuss issues relevant to Syracuse.

Mr. de Blasio bristled at the idea of letting charter schools have rent - free space in public schools, declaring at a mayoral forum last year that «there was no way in hell Eva Moskowitz should get free rent.»

From the grieving students swarming Tallahassee Wednesday to the public grilling of Sen. Marco Rubio at a CNN forum Wednesday night, Florida — long a proving ground for national gun policy — is again at the center of the storm in the wake of last week's mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in suburban Fort Lauderdale.

We also spoke with CM Mark Weprin, a speaker contender and participant in last night's forum, about public involvement in the process.

BY CHERYL SLAVIN The bi-partisan state Senate Majority Coalition, seeking to identify and eliminate the most costly government regulations that inhibit business and job growth and drive up local taxes, hosted one of 10 public forums on regulatory reform at the Nanuet Public Library last Mpublic forums on regulatory reform at the Nanuet Public Library last MPublic Library last Monday.

«At the public safety forum last week, I expressed that the City must continue its laser - like focus on reducing crime; that the IG legislation is ill - conceived; we should invigorate stop, question and frisk and not limit it as a policing tactic,» he said in a statement.

At the last public forum in the race to become the next speaker of the City Council, seven of the eight men contending for the Council's top leadership spot took turns making their argument for why they would be the right person to continue Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito's legacy of protecting and promoting the cause of women, transgender, and gender non-conforming New Yorkers.

Lawmakers as well as advocacy and parent groups last week challenged King to resign after he canceled (and subsequently rescheduled) a series of public forums on the Common Core standards and related testing.

Last month the Town Board tabled the most recent rule change and will hold a new, less formal public forum on the topic at 7 p.m. at Town Hall.

Last week, officials from virtually every sector from across the Adirondack Park gathered in Long Lake for the Common Ground Alliance, the ninth installment of the forum designed to overlook philosophical differences and come together to try to move the needle forward on sustainable public policy.

Last night, the Stuyvesant Town Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association hosted a combined mayoral and public advocate candidate forum.

A report produced late last year by the Empire Center for Public Policy and the American Action Forum said raising the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour would cost the state at least 200,000 jobs.

The Democratic race for Public Advocate came to a close Monday night as the two remaining candidates attended their last joint forum.

A public forum was held by the council in Watertown last night.

State Education Commissioner John King faced a huge public outcry when he tried to address Common Core at a parent forum in Poughkeepsie last fall.

Craig Lopez, chairman of the county legislature's Public Health and Social Services Committee, didn't make it to the executive's «ACA forum» at the county office building last month, but then neither did two - thirds of the legislature.

Last week more than 500 East Enders attended three public forums to voice their opposition to low flying helicopters buzzing overhead.

Just last year, the one and only Martha Stewart, then 71 years old, took her question to find love online into a very public forum.

The result, in the case of The Dark Knight Rises, is a movie so rich in lushly cinematic images — with lustrous colors and richly textured night scenes — that it should be displayed side by side with the likes of The Avengers and The Amazing Spider - Man in public forums devoted to educating the audience about what is being lost as the making and exhibiting of films on actual film becomes a museum art — the latest, but surely not the last, casualty of Hollywood's relentless focus on the bottom line.

During a public - safety forum last week in the Broward County school district that brought hundreds of participants, shaken students and enraged parents and educators appealed to school leaders to protect campuses from violence.

The Republican Party's election gains will make public schools even more of a battlefield over social issues such as student prayer, participants in a forum here last week about church - state separation predicted.

At a panel convened last week by the Public School Forum of N.C., a research and advocacy group in Raleigh, Tulbert was one of several principals at low - performing schools — many of them teeming with low - income children — who described how their children tend to arrive lagging behind their middle - class and upper - class peers.

Ford was a world history teacher at Garinger High, a predominantly minority school in Charlotte, but, last year, he accepted a position as program director for the N.C. Public Schools Forum, a public school research and advocacy group in RaPublic Schools Forum, a public school research and advocacy group in Rapublic school research and advocacy group in Raleigh.

Created through a $ 3 dues increase approved last summer by delegates to the union's Representative Assembly, the Great Public Schools Grant has disbursed some $ 2 million since September, NEA President Dennis Van Roekel said at a Jan. 23 forum in Washington.

Over the last week, 100 education advocates, families, educators, elected leaders, representatives from Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and the Illinois State Board of Education, gathered in locations across the city for problem - solving forums to discuss ways in which schools can support students impacted by violence, poverty, and trauma.

According to research released last year by the Public Policy Forum based on U.S. Department of Education data, enrollment in the state's teacher preparation programs fell by 28 percent between the 2008 - 09 school year and the 2013 - 14 school year.

The Public School Forum of N.C., a nonpartisan policy group in Raleigh, reported last month that House and Senate legislators differed on when they would renew conversations about class size, but Horn, who did not offer any specifics on a proposed deal, indicated this week that the two chambers may soon find some common ground.

A forum hosted last night for State Superintendent of Public Instruction candidates Larry Aceves and Tom Torlakson revealed that the major contrast between the two candidates can be found not through their policy positions but in their leadership styles.

Originally Published in the Public School Forum's Friday Report on 8/11/17 — A new principal pay plan enacted this year by the General Assembly drew pointed comments and concerns at last week's State Board of Education's (SBE) meeting.

At a candidates forum last week, Muldrow seemed to endorse the use of vouchers, although she said public dollars shouldn't go to religious schools.

Public School Forum President Keith Poston discusses the decline in public school support over the last five years, as legislative support has grown for vouchers and charter scPublic School Forum President Keith Poston discusses the decline in public school support over the last five years, as legislative support has grown for vouchers and charter scpublic school support over the last five years, as legislative support has grown for vouchers and charter schools.

«There are years for which we would not have been an A-rated district if we had removed some of the charter schools from that system,» Bowden told the Florida Consortium of Public Charter Schools» forum last week.

The Public School Forum highlighted the General Assembly's investments in teacher pay over the last few years and urged lawmakers to continue to build on those investments.

Last year the Public School Forum called for the creation of a new teacher scholarship program to replace the NC Teaching Fellows Program that was eliminated by the NC General Assembly in 2011 — and a promising new NC Teaching Fellows Program was launched in the fall.

My personal experience the last twelve years in digitizing several public domain books has helped me to see a number of problems which I've mentioned in various forums, including the PG forums, and The eBook Community.