Sentences with phrase «single largest public»

The system hosts the nation's single largest public - works program, a $ 27 billion effort to build more than 130 new schools and renovate countless others.

Not exact matches

Though no longer the authoritative text for the cultural at large, the Bible is still the most important single book in American public life.

Listen I keep seeing bumper stickers like «you can't be both Catholic and pro-choice» these are not reflective of my faith, theser are slogans made for propaganda, I have 2 beautiful children and I have never been on a position where abortion could even play a part, but it is a legal option to the public at large; this being said even the bible calls for us to be good citizens, and to obey the law, I believe that this is a matter that belongs with the family and not the state; no matter how we criminalize abortion, they will not stop, but people will go under - ground and more fatalities will occur, I rather see the government placing incentives on more conseling for these expectant mothers and more outreach done at church levels, to reduce the debate to a single slogan is dangerous and will not accomplish the ultimately goal of preventing abortions my two humble cents

«As of May 2011 the largest single holder of U.S. government debt was China, with 26 percent of all foreign - held U.S. Treasury securities (8 % of total US public debt).»

The growing private - public differences came to a head in 1979 when a committee selected the at - large teams to the 16 - team single - division CCS tournament.

In doing so, they are heeding Boris Johnson's calls for a «citizen's wealth fund»: last October, London's mayor proposed pooling some of the UK's 39,000 public pension funds into a single investment fund large enough to reduce the country's dependence on foreign investment and close its infrastructure financing deficit.

NCC is the largest, single - campus community college in New York's public university system.

«Former President Olusegun Obasanjo would serve public interest by making a voluntary disclosure of every single donation, particularly large donations, to his newly launched presidential library.

We also need to consider the scope for larger, single successful attacks reaping the benefits much quicker than the smaller, and often much harder, sells through the public,» he said.

«In a very small - turnout election you have the [state] teachers union, which is against me, you have the public employees that are against me... and the fracking people, probably the largest single issue for activist Democrats, who are upset that I won't ban it.»

This is a somewhat academic exercise since it treats the whole country as a single constituency, when in practice the transfers would take place seat by seat — but it does underline how closely matched the two largest parties are in public opinion.

As the Oct. 7 deadline fast approached, educators at almost 350 public schools across New York City prepared themselves and their school communities for the crushing loss of more than 700 school support staff — including school aides, parent coordinators, lunchroom workers, crossing guards and others — who were set to be let go by the city in the largest layoff at a single city agency since Mayor Michael Bloomberg took office in 2002.

Whites comprise the largest single group of Medicaid recipients by race at nearly half, a fact Poloncarz and Erie County Medicaid Inspector General Michael Szukala said is not broadly understood by the public.

«While it can not be denied that the Beijing Municipal Government has made, and continues to make, strenuous efforts to improve air quality through addressing emissions from the transport, energy and industrial sectors, air pollution is still the single largest environmental and public health issue affecting the city,» they say.

Though the researchers can't disclose the results for individual outlets for confidentiality reasons, they could show that removing larger outlets from the analysis didn't change the effect on public conversation much, suggesting that no single large news organization was responsible for the increase.

James Andrews, a vice president at a public relations and marketing agency, managed to alienate a good chunk of the employees of one of his largest clients with a single tweet.

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In fact, «Pope Francis — A Man of His Word» offers up just a single slice of archival video that shows him preaching to a large, public crowd about the need for brotherhood in the world.

An amendment to the No Child Left Behind Act authorizing the creation of single - sex public schools was sponsored by Republican senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson of Texas, but the measure passed in large part due to the support of Senator Hillary Clinton of New York, a Wellesley College graduate grateful for her opportunity to attend one of the country's premier women's colleges.

However, given the importance of public - welfare and health spending indicated by my findings, and the large increase in state spending on Medicaid (an increase of more than $ 1,000 per capita since 1987 based on figures from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services), it is safe to conclude that Medicaid has been the single biggest contributor to the decline in higher - education support at the state and local level.

Over 150 heads of state and government arrived at the conference venue on Monday to give their public support, the largest group of leaders ever to attend a UN event in a single day.

That county's school superintendent, Robert Avossa, said, «It's the single largest piece of legislation to dismantle public education that I've ever seen.»

The single largest form of public school «choice,» magnet schools are visionary, innovative and open to all students regardless of zip code.

Mass school closings occur when school districts decide to close large numbers of public schools in a community within a single year, citing a variety of reasons like «underutilization» or academic failure.

The fact that the foundation not only funded — directly and indirectly — such a large percentage of the development of the standards but also the validation and some implementation measures has raised concerns about the ethics and desirability of a single private entity being able to influence a public initiative of the Common Core's scope.

The network was recognized last year with the prestigious Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools, an annual award that singles out high - performing charter networks that serve large proportions of low - income students and students of color.

Books could be written, and have been: But, in a single phrase, the notion that «education is too important to be left to chance» is so universally accepted, that the public at large is capable of overlooking universal failure.

The investments from that exchange are the single largest contributor to the current trust lands fund from which all public schools benefit.

A few years ago, the Walton family made the largest single donation in history to a public university.

Public Impact Co-Director Bryan Hassel says Opportunity Culture enables a principal to shift from single - handedly managing a large staff to working collaboratively with teacher leaders connected to students.

More than 100,000 children and teens use the Los Angeles Public Library, making it the largest single provider of free after - school activities in the city.

Students in the District's traditional public schools scored higher than ever on the city's math and reading tests this year, also posting the largest single - year gain since 2008, according to test results released Tuesday.

Its Title I section, the largest single source of federal funding for public schools (some $ 15 billion to $ 16 billion annually), provides for the newly named School Improvement Funds program, which (along with other parts of Title I) can be tapped for school leadership efforts.

The McAllen Public Library features 123,000 square feet and is currently the largest single floor library in the US.

Clients range from large, regional systems to smaller, single location libraries including Brooklyn Public Library, Calgary Public Library, Kent District Library, and Salem - South Lyon District Library.

Simon Property Group ($ SPG) is the single largest holding in all four ETFs, and HCP Inc ($ HCP), Public Storage ($ PSA), Vornado ($ VNO), and Equity Residential ($ EQR) feature prominently as well.

Each CIT is managed professionally on behalf of those plans (or a single large plan in some cases) and not open to the public.

I used to run one of the largest publicly traded single - family rental REITs called Starwood Waypoint (now part of Invitation Homes), which I took public in 2014.

And because housing was the largest single asset around 22 trillion or something like on about, you know, a household wealth of 50 or 60 trillion or something like that in the United States, such a huge asset, so understandable to the public.

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Edvard Munch, Gustav Vigeland and Henrik Ibsen all once called Oslo «home» and the city pays tribute to each of them: the Munch Museum houses the world's largest collection of Munch's paintings (including The Scream); Ibsen's home has been restored to its original furnishings and is now open to the public; and Vigeland's work is on display at the Vigeland Park, the world's largest sculpture park made by a single artist.

Orsinium, ESOTU's largest game pack to date, features a colossal new zone to explore, new quests and mysteries, a new single - player arena, new public dungeons, and much more!

LAND supports dynamic and unconventional artistic practices using a tripartite approach: Commissioning public projects of site - and situation - specific works with national and international contemporary artists Collaborating with a variety of institutions and organizations, such as universities, museums, and theaters as well as other types of spaces, industries, and entities Offering additional programs such as performances, workshops, residencies, discussions, and publications LAND is an ongoing endeavor with three primary types of annual programming: LAND 1.0 projects are large - scale, multi-artist, multi-site exhibitions and single - site group exhibitions, LAND 2.0 projects feature a new commission by a single mid-career or established artist, and LAND 3.0 projects feature new work by lesser known or emerging artists

Featuring 81 exhibitors selected from IFPDA's international membership, the Fair arguably presents the largest art - historical span of works in a single fair; from Old Master to contemporary, and rare masterpieces to new - to - market editions making their public debut.

Finch's talk at the New School will focus on the artist's various public and large - scale installations like A Certain Slant of Light (2014 - 15), a site - specific installation at the Morgan Library inspired by its collection of medieval Books of Hours; Trying to Remember the Color of the Sky on That September Morning (2014), a commission for the National September 11 Memorialand Museum composed of 2,983 individual watercolors representing the artist's recollection of the sky on September 11, 2001; Painting Air (2012), an installation of more than 100 panels of suspended glass inspired by the colors of Claude Monet's garden at Giverny; and The River That Flows Both Ways (2009), a permanent installation on New York's High Line featuring an existing series of windows which Finch transformed with 700 individual panes of glass representing the water conditions on the Hudson River over 700 minutes in a single day.

It is presented as a single installation featuring large scale photography, sculpture maquettes and installations of small - scale stones that often are the muse for Smyth's large scale public works.

Her work is in private and public collections all over the world with her largest work, Single Form, standing outside the United Nations in New York.

It is the first public exhibition of Goldin's drawings, and it includes five new large - scale «grids» of multiple photographs composed in a single frame.

In Australia, where the controversy is reaching new heights, a wind industry executive has been singling out Dr Sarah Laurie in a bid to make the public forget the many other health professionals who alert the public to the dangerous effects of wind turbines: «[T] he largest public relations issue for the industry at the moment is the theory of an ex-doctor that infrasound or low frequency noise from wind turbines is likely to make anyone within 10 km of a wind turbine sick» (2).

The 2006 Integrated Energy Policy Report Update stated that the single largest opportunity to help California meet its statewide energy and climate change goals resides with smart growth - development that revitalizes central cities and older suburbs, supports and enhances public transit, promotes walking and bicycling, and preserves open spaces and agricultural lands.