Sentences with phrase «serve public purposes»

For all the popular assertions that private schooling can not serve public purposes, the data suggest that public and private educators value similar things and seek to accomplish similar aims.

If their funding serves a public purpose, a bill to that effect should go before the legislature where the merits can be argued.

«Nevertheless, no city official raised any objection or took any step to ensure that Rivington continue to serve a public purpose to benefit the community.»

It is our opinion that since secular education serves a public purpose, it may be supported by tax money if sufficient safeguards are provided to prevent more than incidental and indirect benefit to a religious sect or denomination.

«The public purpose doctrine is still an issue — sending taxpayer funds to unaccountable schools doesn't serve the public purpose.

Bradley Campbell and Deanna Moran of the Conservation Law Foundation write, «Much of this land belongs to the public, on «loan» or licensed to private developers so long as they are serving public purposes.

By virtue of their punitive, educative, and preventive effects, retributive damages serve a public purpose in effectuating the CCR's values described earlier in Part II.

SC04 - 947 Advisory Opinion to the Attorney Re: Fairness Initiative Requiring Legislative Determination That Sales Tax Exemptions and Exclusions Serve a Public Purpose

Organized to serve the public purpose of advocating the healthy development of children, it is the mission of CRC to minimize the emotional, physical and economic abuse, neglect and distress of children and the development of at - risk behaviors following relationship breakups between parents involved in highly conflicted marital disputes.

Not exact matches

The federal government should also consider policies where funds can be distributed relatively quickly and serve a useful public policy purpose beyond stimulus.

Society is demanding that companies, both public and private, serve a social purpose.

Some assets, however, may no longer serve a public policy purpose and are of particular interest to, for example, Ontario's large pension plans as good long - term investments.

It raises fundamental issues about the extent to which the sharing economy is largely an effort to evade regulations, many of which serve important public purposes.»

In his annual investor letter, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink stated that «society is demanding that companies, both public and private, serve a social purpose.

A charitable organization serves broad public purposes in educational, religious, scientific and artistic fields, among others, as well as the relief of poverty and other public benefit activities.

Those government acknowledgments of religion serve, in the only ways reasonably possible in our culture, the legitimate secular purposes of solemnizing public occasions, expressing confidence in the future, and encouraging the recognition of what is worthy of appreciation in society.

Clarity will be served by repeating that the maximal happiness principle is translated into the maximal public principle only for purposes of ethical deliberation.

It redefines virtue to serve its own purposes, both private and public.

As C.T. Kurien has written, the State has to discipline capital both domestic and international if capital is not to discipline the state to serve its purposes; and for it the State needs not only political power but also some economic power derived from public corporations.

Idiotic precautions that serve no purpose other than making the public feel better about themselves are the reason we still have tto take our shoes off at security.

Members also uphold a commitment to ensure that pack size is representative to serving size, and that serving sizes for all packaging is deemed appropriate to be a single serve for the purpose of public consumption.

Its purpose is to sponsor health and medical research for yogurt with live and active cultures, and serve as an information source to the trade and the general public.

A good public transit system will help to alleviate many of these potential problems, but this too must be well maintained to keep from falling into disarray and subsequently failing to serve its purpose.

Public Relations Committee Coordinator: Matt Patzke Purpose: The main focus of this committee is to serve as the external voice of the WATA.

Companies have been delisted for failing to provide Communications on Progress, but as these are posted to the Global Compact website even if proven to be misleading, as in the case of Nestlé, they only serve a public relations purpose, says Baby Milk Action.

The purpose was to identify how Australian maternity services are portrayed and what purpose is served by this representation to the general public.

Acoba serves little useful purpose either as a watchdog or as a source of public information.

We all know that taxes serve a vital purpose — funding essential public services and infrastructure.

Taking aim at two - term Democratic Gov. Cuomo, Molinaro, 42, criticized «leaders who squander the public's trust by putting the personal politics of ambition and greed above government's true purpose» of serving the people.

Other purposes the amount will serve include compensation of the victims, and the reconstruction of public buildings in some parts of the states affected by the war.

«The basic purpose of this commission, according to the governor's charge, was to «comprehensively review and assess New York State's education system, including its structure, operation and processes...» In failing to deal at all with such major issues as funding, special education, the lack of appropriate supports for English language learners, as well as ignoring major current controversies such as implementation of [teacher evaluations] and common core systems, the commission has ill - served students, parents, and the public at large.»

The governor has maintained that the commission served its purpose — «to educate the public [and] to spur the Legislature to pass ethics laws, which they did,» he said in 2015 — and that it was entirely within his purview to shut it down.

that the commission served its purpose — «to educate the public [and] to spur the Legislature to pass ethics laws, which they did,»

«No public purpose is served by failing to adhere to the rules in order to satisfy an artificial deadline,» Marston, a lobbyist and former lawmaker said.

Optimism also serves a purpose in terms of changing his party's image in the eyes of the public.

But his public reluctance to immediately embrace the Clinton candidacy serves another purpose too.

Phelan describes how after speaking with local businesses about his technology, he invited an industry representative to serve on a department board, which helped bolster the department's profile for fundraising and public relations purposes, and generally paved the way for more interactions between university and industrial scientists.

We should not forget that apple juice is a useful source of vitamin C, and no good public purpose whatever is served by creating quite unnecessary public alarm and confusion.»

Better than the performances themselves, though, is their broader purpose: all proceeds from Miscast help to fund MCC in its continual efforts to produce some of New York's most ambitious and original works of theater, as well as support its MCC Youth Company and in - school partnerships that serve public schools across New York City.

XBLA serves two purposes very well: it's a platform for getting quirky, risky, or otherwise disenfranchised indie games into the public eye, and it breathes new life into the arcade classics of our youth.

Here, a YouTube page can serve the purpose of a flashback: The film opens on grainy, amateur video of a high - school girl, Laura Barns, committing suicide in a public place — a startling opening that evokes Benny's Video (1992).

All American public schools ought to serve such a purpose, as they once did.

From where I sit, this interregnum would serve no higher purpose for the children of my state, and would be damaging to the current cohort of public school students, especially those entering the upper grades.

The students» efforts serve the dual purpose of protecting both nature and the public.

As charter pioneer Ted Kolderie wrote, this horse trade would ``... introduce the dynamics of choice, competition, and innovation into American's public school system, while at the same time ensuring that new schools serve broad public purposes.»

Kolderie was its author, and he summarized it this way: «The proposal outlined in this report is designed to introduce the dynamics of choice, competition and innovation into America's public school system, while at the same time ensuring that new schools serve broad public purposes.»

Our public documents, speeches, legal cases, and landmark reports are shot through with the opposite belief: education serves a common purpose.

If anything, the lack of space made Leach and his staff reevaluate the purpose of the institution, how to serve the public in a variety of ways, and the different ways that education plays a role in the museum.

«Democracy Prep provides a test case of whether charter schools can successfully serve the foundational purpose of public education — preparation for citizenship — even while operating outside the direct control of elected officials,» the Mathematica report concludes.

One of the central features of By All Means is a set of convenings which serve two purposes: 1) to bring together teams from the six or seven cities in which we'll be establishing learning labs for our design work; 2) to bring together a national audience of thought leaders to consider some controversial subjects relating to the future of public education and that system's work with economically disadvantaged students.