Sentences with phrase «public improvements like»

The Strategy Municipal bonds, also known as munis, are issued by states, cities, counties and other government entities below the federal level in order to raise money for public improvements like highways, bridges, schools, hospitals, sewer systems, water treatment plants and other such projects.

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And, who knows, it may even include things like improved labour laws, improvements to public health care and education that actually mean it about the public part, requiring the Workers Compensation Board to get serious about the compensation part of its mandate and, yeah, an effort to get off the energy price rollercoaster.

Berley said that two permanent public improvements will be possible with the proposed trade off: aligning the intersection and establishing a recreational campus - like setting, with City Hall, Wood Dale Bank, the Park District facility and the water park all within walking distance of one another.

Barber said that public housing residents are tired of living in decrepit conditions and are banding together to fight for improvements through efforts like the recent lawsuit filed by CCOP and At - Risk Community Services.

We continue to invest here and the dividends continue to be paid off to our community in economic development opportunities, infrastructure improvements and public safety initiatives just like this.»

For many of us, the job's biggest impact is in the district, helping the constituents who hire us.I have been proud to work with colleagues and community leaders to secure millions for public housing, new waterfront parks and flood resiliency after Hurricane Sandy; make local improvements, like bringing a pool to enliven Brooklyn Bridge Park and cherry trees to beautify Chinatown; and advocate for constituents in need — to save a home, pay for life - changing surgery or cut through bureaucratic red tape.

This «Flynn effect» is thought to be the result of improvements in social conditions like public health, nutrition and education, and has been seen in many countries, from the Netherlands to Japan.

Increased public - sector involvement in crop development — much of which has been ceded to companies over the past decades as seeds evolved into patentable commodities — will be needed to apply increasingly cheap biotech improvements to subsistence crops like cassava, for example, Baulcombe said.

Comprehensive school reform has been identified by both Democratic and Republican administrations and Congress as a key strategy in turning around the country's lowest performing schools, but this fact does not make NAS just like any other education group in D.C. Instead, it means that after a great deal of review, comprehensive school reform emerged as one of the country's best hopes for public school improvement on a grand scale.

Critiques like this do not deny that KIPP schools improve the achievement of the students who attend them, but rather argue that these improvements reflect advantageous enrollment patterns at KIPP that are not possible at traditional public schools.

If all teachers could be more like the best teachers, then we would have dramatic improvement in every school — public, private, or charter; rural, urban, or suburban; and large, medium, or small.

And yet, «results,» or rather, academic improvement, act more like a fig leaf, especially in light of numerous recent studies that show charter schools, taken on the whole, actually do a worse job of educating students than regular public schools.

Through the identification of low performance defined by a single «F» or «D» and the acceleration of the process to demonstrate improvement or closure - like options, Florida will witness a proliferation of failing schools whose children will need to be served in other educational settings outside of traditional public education.

Those who believe we can do it on the cheap — by doing things like making individual teachers» performance reports public — are underestimating the level of resources needed to spur real improvement.

Many families may not have the tools to assess which voucher options are improvements over public schools, versus those that are simply online schools with poor state oversight, like some of the poor - performing charter schools in Ohio.

Like New Haven's public schools, the Achievement First charter schools in New Haven failed to meet the state's required improvement goals.

Opponents, like those in Boston, say charter schools are threats to the very idea of public schooling — they weaken neighborhood schools by reducing enrollment, capturing their funding and prioritizing high - ability students instead of those most in need of educational improvements.

This new veterinary assembly line could include productivity improvements like wellness plans, pet health insurance, employer - paid pet care, high - volume limited - care models, telemedicine, veterinary nurse practitioners, private / public partnerships, pet care tax deductions, philanthropic subsidies and more.

Since pushing for welfare reforms often involves working directly with food and clothing industry companies, this work can give the public the impression that these companies treat their animals well when this is not the case, especially when animal advocates are incentivized to make the reforms seem like drastic improvements when animals still suffer substantially.213 Critics would also argue that, empirically, welfare reforms such as banning battery cages reduce only a very small portion of the harm of animal agriculture — if any — so they are not the most cost - effective use of time.214, 215, 216

Since pushing for welfare reforms often involves working directly with food industry companies, this work can give the public the impression that these companies treat their animals well when this is not the case, especially when animal advocates are incentivized to make the reforms seem like drastic improvements when animals still suffer substantially.192 Critics would also argue that, empirically, welfare reforms such as banning battery cages reduce only a very small portion of the harm of animal agriculture, if any, so they are not the most cost - effective use of time.193, 194, 195

By joining forces with like - minded women across Canada — women who are thought leaders in animal welfare and willing to invest in change — we are making much - needed improvements to animal cruelty laws, improving enforcement in Canada and elevating public thinking about the role of animals in society.

The Nova Scotia SPCA wants to hear from the community what changes and improvements they would like to see happen at the local SPCA Animal Shelter located at 298... Continue reading PRESS RELEASE: NS SPCA Holding Public Meeting in Yarmouth to Discuss Local Animal Shelter

There were some of the best specimans I have ever seen, including the German Sheppard, the Doberman, the Dachschund and the Rottweiler and she chose a dog the people could not even see its conformation.Such a let down especially for someone like Jimmy Moses, who had one of the best looking German Sheppards ever!I was there the year he won with Mannhatten, and I think this dog may have even beaten him.Very unhappy with this years show, maybe next year we the public could see a breed that has never one before, that would be an improvement!!!

Some of the work, like the extending and connecting of public transportation lines, has been undeniably an improvement.

Manufacturing in Asia can be dicey, but transparency — like Apple's clear supplier code of conduct — is the key to improvement, and a public regulated substances specification is a good step.

Apple rolls out under the hood fixes and improvements to iOS 11.2.5 After introducing some new features in iOS 11.2.5 Beta like the ability to play podcasts using Siri, Apple started squishing bugs and improving performance of the OS before the public release.

All of these improvements are exciting and represent positive changes in policy and behavior of Nebraska's children and adults like decreased smoking and improved nutrition, access to physical and mental health care, the gradual reduction of poverty in recent years, and public health insurance programs.

I don't teach in a low income school, but I would imagine that programs like Head Start and other public programs like that see much improvement in their children when they find something like this that works, they support it and fund it through and see it through until the end.