Sentences with phrase «public participation from»

Gene Rowe and Lynn Frewer distinguish public participation from public communication and public consultation by describing it as follows:

She has a certificate in public participation from the International Association of Public Participation, an area of focus for her graduate research.

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Most users have come from public school districts; high - school coaches use the service to stay connected with student athletes, and teachers employ it to elicit participation from shy students.

Missouri passed a law earlier this year that reduces residents» participation in SNAP from four to five years, and in Maine, Gov. Paul LePage has threatened to overhaul or completely cease administering the food - stamp program because he believes it is a waste of public money.

Workforce participation data from Current Population Survey Public - Use Micro Data Files (2016), Department of Defense (2016), National Center for Health Statistics (2014), and Bureau of Justice Statistics (2015).

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FWIW, here is an excerpt from Minnesota anti-SLAPP law, via the Public Participation Project website:

Question: Are families that choose private schools and home education for their children more likely than families involved in public schools to be socially isolated and withdrawn from participation in civic life?

From the time she denounced Britain's participation in World War II as a girl (because it was plain to her, just months out of her teens, that Britain would be carrying out deliberate attacks on civilians), through her widely publicized opposition as a young don to Oxford's awarding an honorary degree to Harry Truman (on the ground that «having a couple of massacres to his credit» disqualifies a man for public honors), to her recent arrests in her seventies for participation in pro-life actions parallel to those carried out by «Operation Rescue» in the United States (because she found the life of a conceived child as worthy of protection and respect as any other), her life recalls John Paul II's injunction: «Always seek the truth; venerate the truth discovered; obey the truth.

Increasingly large volumes of social activity are withdrawn from public accountability, from democratic control, and from the participation of citizens in decision making.

Writing in The Times, Kate Lampard, chairwoman of GambleAware said: «As a society, we should be concerned about the rising risk of harm from wider access and more regular participation in gambling on future generations, resulting in a possible public health crisis in gambling addiction.»

To discover that a local church's most intimate and intense activities do not at their base reflect a withdrawal from the world but rather a participation in public, mythic structures can be a liberating perception about the symbolic depth and breadth of church activity.

This release is intended to discharge the Bay Area Blast Volleyball Club, its agents, employees, and any other involved public entities or municipalities from and against any and all liability arising out of or connected in any way with my or my child's participation the Bay Area Blast Volleyball Club Summer Ball Program.

Nestle's Public Affairs Manager, Marie Chantal Messier in response to a letter from Mike Brady of Baby Milk Action said that Nestle's CSV council charter stipulated that «if so desired, Council members may receive compensation for time spent devoted to the Council at a rate of CHF 25,000 per annum, assuming participation in a minimum of one meeting per year».

Later that afternoon we attended «Increase Participation in Your Breakfast in the Classroom Program» with Lora Gilbert and Javier Vazquez from Orange County Public Schools.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

Politicians from the Conservatives, Greens, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru, SNP and UKIP all sang the praises of the Citizens» Assemblies and called for more public participation in politics.

Assembly to Implement Workgroup Recommendations to Strengthen Operations and Promote Transparency Speaker Carl Heastie announced today the Assembly will take immediate action to implement recommendations from the Workgroup on Legislative Process, Operations, and Public Participation to promote transparency and increase member effectiveness.

New York City's public financing program has opened the door «for meaningful participation from working - class communities,» resulting in a city council that is not only more racially and economically diverse, but that is also better positioned to represent the interests of ordinary New Yorkers.

They remove citizens from the public process and — worst of all — take away our faith in our government, disabling the essential system of civic participation which ensures the representation of the people, and not the self - interested.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 17, 2016 Assembly to Implement Workgroup Recommendations to Strengthen Operations and Promote Transparency Speaker Carl Heastie announced today the Assembly will take immediate action to implement recommendations from the Workgroup on Legislative Process, Operations, and Public Participation to promote transparency and increase member effectiveness.

From an eyewitness account of the Tuesday Town of Sanford Board meeting, we heard the following: «People speaking included those with land and with leases who had signed the petition asking for the resolution that was passed to be rescinded, for board members with conflicts of interest to recuse themselves from shale gas decisions, and for no resolutions on shale gas extraction to be passed without notifying the public a week in advance and allowing full participatFrom an eyewitness account of the Tuesday Town of Sanford Board meeting, we heard the following: «People speaking included those with land and with leases who had signed the petition asking for the resolution that was passed to be rescinded, for board members with conflicts of interest to recuse themselves from shale gas decisions, and for no resolutions on shale gas extraction to be passed without notifying the public a week in advance and allowing full participatfrom shale gas decisions, and for no resolutions on shale gas extraction to be passed without notifying the public a week in advance and allowing full participation.

«we must not get drawn into a narrow debate about foreign ownership, which is not the issue» Here Mandelson is right... The issues are 1) investor - ownership and corporate structures which are geared towards profit - maximisation rather than mere profit - making 2) the exclusion of the general public and workforces from participation in decision - making in the economy.

Applicants for CDBG funds are required to meet Citizen Participation requirements by issuing a public notice and holding a public hearing prior to submitting an application, and NYMS program applicants must provide a formal resolution in support of the application from the municipality in which the project is located.

The impact can affect everything from voter participation levels to dissuading some people from entering public service.

2) International PB Conference: During this two - day conference organized by The Participatory Budgeting Project, Pratt Institute, and the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, CVH leaders and staff, along with over 200 elected officials, community leaders, and activists from across the world, will discuss key topics and trends for this model of grassroots democracy, including PB in Public Housing, PB in Community Organizations, Online Participation, and the PBNYC Briefing (see below).

It is important to realise that radical reform of the way Parliament operates is unlikely to happen, because incoming governments have too strong a vested interest in the status quo, unless there is a strong, persistent and well - informed demand from the public for action which gives them genuine participation in the parliamentary process, more direct transparency to overcome dependence on a highly distorting media, and the right to recall MPs for manifest breakdowns in integrity or competence.

Mr. Merced did state that he will answer questions from the event via Youtube video, and thus will have a delayed participation but a public response.

From 2002 - 2007, SHRP conducted a special project, Science and Intellectual Property in the Public Interest (SIPPI), that emphasized public interest approaches to ensure greater equity in access to scientific information and greater public participation in deliberating intellectual property pPublic Interest (SIPPI), that emphasized public interest approaches to ensure greater equity in access to scientific information and greater public participation in deliberating intellectual property ppublic interest approaches to ensure greater equity in access to scientific information and greater public participation in deliberating intellectual property ppublic participation in deliberating intellectual property policy.

Stephanie Anzman - Frasca, Ph.D., of ChildObesity180, Tufts University, Boston, and co-authors used data from 446 public elementary schools in a large, urban school district in the United States to look at the impact of BIC on participation in the School Breakfast Program (SBP), school attendance and academic achievement.

The program supports advances in research on STEM learning and education by fostering efforts to explore all aspects of education research from foundational knowledge to improvements in STEM learning and learning contexts, both formal and informal, from childhood through adulthood, for all groups, and from the earliest developmental stages of life through participation in the workforce, resulting in increased public understanding of science and engineering.

Participation from members of the public and Indigenous groups is a crucial part of the Environmental Assessment Process.

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One of the cornerstones of this research work is the analysis of the capacity of women's agency, key to development as freedom, exercised from their individual and collective participation in public spaces, weaving associative links and politicizing its role as mothers.

On a recent Saturday in May, 36 students from the Boston Public Schools (BPS) and their families came to the Ed School to be recognized for their participation in BPS» 10 Boys Initiative, a program aimed at «providing boys of color with the encouragement and support they need to achieve personal and academic success.»

Home schoolers have challenged and are increasingly overturning laws barring them from participation in high school sports and other extracurricular activities offered by public schools.

Strike back against any attempt to silence the voices of change coming from the streets — to the contrary, do everything that it is in your power to ensure a democratic environment that allow a wide public participation in the political decisions of Brazil.

Important to our family engagement work is active participation from our partners: By joining the conversation and contributing insight and lessons learned, our partners will enable us to document promising transition processes, establish a public dialogue, and develop capacity building tools.

But the factors suppressing participation in Portland — which appears to have made a good - faith effort to implement the program — suggest that there may be a natural limit to how many parents will move their children from one conventional public school to another.

The researchers analyzed data from the «1992 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts.»

As a young girl from Queens, Natasha Daniella Rivera participation in programs run by Prep for Prep — a leadership development organization for gifted students of color in New York City public schools — opened doors to many opportunities including a scholarship to an elite private school and paid internships.

Following participation in the First World War Centenary Battlefield Tours Programme, three students from Chatsmore, Abby Smith, Joe Angioni, and Alicia Dutton, were inspired to create a collaborative public sculpture in memory of three Sussex battalions who fought at the Battle of Boar's Head, on 30th June 1916.

As a young girl from Queens, Natasha Rivera participation in programs run by Prep for Prep — a leadership development organization for gifted students of color in New York City public schools — opened doors to many opportunities including a scholarship to an elite private school and paid internships.

Parent participation and transition of children into Head Start and from Head Start to public school

Timesha Cohen, a member of our learning community and teacher from Propel McKeesport Public Charter School, has talked about the impact of her participation as positively affecting herself and her students: «My students are able to make connections between what they know and what they need to know, as well as draw conclusions based on patterns they may notice in both math and science.

«Changing the Conversation,» a new case study brief from Education Northwest, looks at Highline Public Schools» participation in the Road Map Project (a cradle - to -...

Some, like the teachers unions, contend that choice programs exist in isolation from mainstream public school reforms and point to limited participation rates.

They will sponsor a public forum on the topic on November 21, 2013, with guest speaker Leonie Haimson, a parent leader from New York City who has been leading parent opposition to New York state's participation in data sharing with inBloom.

How do public charter school participation rates vary across the city, and which public charter schools enroll many students from the surrounding area?

Public charter schools, transit access, and violent crime rates Elementary school neighborhoods with the highest public charter school participation rates are statistically different in all categories aside from home ownership and population change, which is aligned with differences in characteristics for neighborhoods with high and low boundary participPublic charter schools, transit access, and violent crime rates Elementary school neighborhoods with the highest public charter school participation rates are statistically different in all categories aside from home ownership and population change, which is aligned with differences in characteristics for neighborhoods with high and low boundary particippublic charter school participation rates are statistically different in all categories aside from home ownership and population change, which is aligned with differences in characteristics for neighborhoods with high and low boundary participation.