Sentences with phrase «public institutions gives»

Having both private and public institutions gives a lot more freedom, too.
-- Private institutions gave average borrowers $ 31,710 in student debt, whereas public institutions gave average borrowers $ 26,872 in student debt.

Not exact matches

The move positions Goldman Sachs to become the first large Wall Street firm to make markets in cryptocurrencies, whose wild price swings and surging values have captured the public's imagination but given pause to established institutions.
Anything that gives the university an edge in one area, or highlights a unique quality, is not just pertinent, but vital to a vice-chancellor, as the public face of the institution.
A survey released Tuesday from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life found that among Catholics who have heard about the issue, 55 % support giving religious institutions that object to birth control an exemption from the federal contraceptive rule, while 39 % oppose exempting those institutions.
Tradition has not carried much weight in public debate for centuries: Why, many will ask, preserve an archaic institution that has long oppressed women, excluded gays, and given free rein to brutes?
According to the principles of American tradition and of basic fairness, such public institutions should not give the impression that some one religion is the established religion of the country, and therefore superior to all others...
Despite innumerable private testimonies of help and solidarity given — often at great risk — to persecuted Jews, despite innumerable touching signs of friendship and fidelity that dismissed Jewish professors received from their students, no public protest has been made by any educational body; and some new corporative institutions, among the liberal professions, are willingly admitting a kind of numerus clausus.
The church was not only the first true institution in American society, but it «gave the first lessons in participation in the public life.»
That is why the state has given public recognition and special protection to this institution.
It placed public instruction under the inspection of ecclesiastical authorities and gave financial support to some benevolent institutions of the Church.
But this is a far cry indeed from the public controversies that our current epidemic of so - called realist atheism has given rise to, such as whether it is permissible to pray or celebrate Christmas in schools and other public institutions, or to grant government support of one kind or another to private religious education.
In the final days before the Third Reading — of which a mere 10 days» notice had been given by the government — campaigners» efforts to mobilise met an astonishing response from charitable institutions, political and public figures and by lone parents themselves.
The CVA would extend the criminal statute of limitations to age 28, increase the civil statute of limitations to 50, remove the 90 - day time frame given to victims for public and private institutions, and offer the respective age increase, and create a one - year window to allow survivors over the age of 23 to seek retrospective legal action.
The budget squeeze isn't easy but it is forcing local government to innovate (which the Coalition has given it unprecendented freedoms to do so) and also merge functions with other councils or public sector institutions.
This by extension and in the opinion of CADA means that no private or state institution can directly or indirectly get involved in matters of elections without the express permission of EC and once the permission is given, EC must have oversight responsibility to ensure that activities, actions and inactions of any private, public institution or individual involved in elections do not impinge on the integrity of the electoral process.
Bring banks and finance institutions into genuine public ownership under democratic control, instead of giving huge handouts to the very capitalists who caused the crisis.
USAID established that «drug money skews political competition, giving advantage to capital and the narrow interests of drug traffickers over formal state institutions and the broader public».
The bill would give abuse victims more time to bring criminal and civil lawsuits and treat public and private institutions the same when it comes to child sex abuse.
Staten Island Assemblyman Ronald Castorina and Women's March organizer Linda Sarsour collided on social media this week over the latter's upcoming commencement address at the City University of New York's Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy — a speech that the Republican lawmaker argued the public institution should cancel, given Sarsour's political and religious Public Health and Health Policy — a speech that the Republican lawmaker argued the public institution should cancel, given Sarsour's political and religious public institution should cancel, given Sarsour's political and religious views.
Given the breadth of economic development work, our members are employed in a wide variety of settings including local, state, provincial and federal governments, public - private partnerships, chambers of commerce, universities and a variety of other institutions.
Giving further explanations on the party's request on Eyewitness News, Policy Adviser for PPP, Kofi Asamoah Siaw said: «over the years, the Electoral Commission and some other institutions have conducted public service in a manner in which they please and they have hurt this nation's progress and development, so we have taken issues with the Electoral Commission's function of being a regulator of the activities of political parties.»
The move gave total control of the lucrative Programme for Research in Third - Level Institutions run by the Higher Education Authority (HEA)-- one of two main public bodies funding science in Ireland — to Minister Lenihan's new department.
Preference is given to schools of public health, but other nonprofit public health institutions may apply.
One female mathematician, who was hired by a public university in the West in 1988, is bitter that it took so long for the institution to give her husband a tenure - track post in the hard sciences.
Another case — 1994's Waters v. Churchill — gave institutions an additional advantage by allowing them, as public employers, to limit speech that administrators deemed «disruptive» to a public school.
Given the pressing need to better understand this growing public health threat, our team in the Broad Fungal Genomics group (led by Christina Cuomo)-- in partnership with Anastasia Litvintseva at U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and institutions around the globe — have examined outbreak isolates using whole - genome sequencing.
While it's easy to see the Academy as simply «those people who give out the Oscars,» the institution performs an important function for both filmmakers and film historians, providing symposiums and information for industry professionals and the public alike, access to an extensive film library and archive to researchers and cinematheques, and a valuable reminder of the rich heritage of American cinema.
What is needed is a competitive certification process that establishes key criteria for entry into the teaching profession; gives public schools greater freedom to hire and fire teachers; and treats teachers like professionals and their schools like professional institutions by allowing them to tailor professional development to meet the needs of teachers.
The winning concepts included a school on a barge in the wetlands of New Orleans, where students will learn about coastal restoration and urban planning; a school located in the Grand Rapids (Michigan) Public Museum; another focusing on homeless and foster children that will include physical sites, online learning, and mobile resource units that travel to the students; and a lab school in Brooklyn that will aim to give students career experience through partnerships with nonprofits, cultural institutions, businesses, and universities.
The program gave World War II veterans scholarships redeemable at any accredited institution, public or private.
Activists pressure schools to redefine «civic education» in terms of influencing public policy and engaging in political activity - while giving short shrift to being a good parent, dependable neighbor, and conscientious member of the nongovernmental institutions that compose civil society.
This raises the question: Is it better to subsidize education on the supply side (by funding public institutions out of tax revenues) or on the demand side (by giving financial aid to students directly)?
Before asking people their preferences for their children's higher education, we gave a subset of the respondents information about both the earnings information mentioned above and the average cost of tuition, board, and fees at two - year colleges ($ 7,620 per year) and four - year public institutions ($ 14,210 annually).
As governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007, Mr. Huckabee supported a proposal that would have given undocumented children who had lived in Arkansas for a certain amount of time and graduated from a public high school in the state the same chance at an academic scholarship to state institutions as other students.
While giving students vouchers to attend private schools may benefit individual students, it will slowly kill our public schools, and leave the vast majority of Americans without an institution that is essential to turning young kids into good citizens.
In the case of any public institution (charter schools have argued in court that they are private corporations), any land transaction will generate revenue that is given back to the public.
«And it's the vehicle that gives parents confidence in our public schools and our public institutions
The Court held the state constitution requires «public schools provide their students with an education suitable to give them the opportunity to be responsible citizens able to participate fully in democratic institutions, such as jury service and voting, and to prepare them to progress to institutions of higher education, or to attain productive employment and otherwise to contribute to the state's economy.»
It will take more than lip service to reform these institutions, but if the voters reject giving more money to the public school system in their state, they should at least demand a re-evaluation of policies that are systematically disadvantaging key demographics of students.
Conservative and libertarian «reformers» love ed reform liberals because they give cover to a project that fits entirely with their principles but entirely against those of Matt Yglesias: destroying public institutions, smashing unions, and attacking liberal Democratic constituencies like public school teachers.
Prior to the Department of Labor, Secretary Chao was President and Chief Executive Officer of United Way of America, where she restored public trust and confidence in one of America's premier institutions of private charitable giving, after it had been tarnished by financial mismanagement and abuse.
(2) signed by an individual, or his parent, to the effect that he has been denied admission to or not permitted to continue in attendance at a public college by reason of race, color, religion, or national origin, and the Attorney General believes the complaint is meritorious and certifies that the signer or signers of such complaint are unable, in his judgment, to initiate and maintain appropriate legal proceedings for relief and that the institution of an action will materially further the orderly achievement of desegregation in public education, the Attorney General is authorized, after giving notice of such complaint to the appropriate school board or college authority and after certifying that he is satisfied that such board or authority has had a reasonable time to adjust the conditions alleged in such complaint, to institute for or in the name of the United States a civil action in any appropriate district court of the United States against such parties and for such relief as may be appropriate, and such court shall have and shall exercise jurisdiction of proceedings instituted pursuant to this section, provided that nothing herein shall empower any official or court of the United States to issue any order seeking to achieve a racial balance in any school by requiring the transportation of pupils or students from one school to another or one school district to another in order to achieve such racial balance, or otherwise enlarge the existing power of the court to insure compliance with constitutional standards.
In selecting communities to participate in the program, the statute requires DOT to give priority to those communities where (a) average air fares are higher than the air fares for all communities; (b) a portion of the cost of the activity contemplated by the community is provided from local, non-airport-revenue sources; (c) a public - private partnership has been or will be established to facilitate air carrier service to the public; (d) improved service will bring the material benefits of scheduled air transportation to a broad section of the traveling public, including businesses, educational institutions, and other enterprises whose access to the National air transportation system is limited (e) the assistance will be used in a timely fashion; and, (f) multiple communities cooperate to submit a regional or multistate application to consolidate air service into one regional airport.
I also served in a middle - management position, not just at CPL and SPL, but also at several middle - sized public libraries, which gave me the opportunity to observe library board meetings on a regular basis, and interact with the boards of trustees at some of those institutions.
Additionally, private colleges and universities were giving student borrowers more debt upon graduation when compared to public institutions.
MA: With the painting Conjestina Achieng, I wanted to have elements of the painting that suggested that Conjestina, the central figure of the painting, had been given the role of village idiot by the local media (under the guise of public interest, she was repeatedly filmed and interviewed in an institution and at home while going through episodes of paranoid schizophrenia).
She gave us the best booth and we were thrilled to place the work with great public and private institutions.
The Queens Museum has a had a longstanding and vested interest in social practice - based, publicly engaging projects given that it's a public institution situated within a public park.
Abigail Lapin was a Studio Museum summer fellow and she did amazing research helping us figure out where works were, which ones were in different public institutions, and giving us lists — helping us get a bigger picture of what was where.
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