Sentences with phrase «taken over public»

The augmented reality game Pokémon Go may have taken over the public consciousness but it is creating serious questions around the issues of privacy and property, says UK Tayside based solicitors and estate agents Miller Hendry.

Redemption of prize is based on availability of rooms and can not be taken over public holiday / long weekend periods.

It also raises big questions about the city's experiment with independent charter schools, which have largely taken over public education in Orleans Parish since Hurricane Katrina.

The first item on the reform list should be the collective bargaining system, which has taken over public education for the last fifty or so years.

Occupy Wall Street and its spin - offs haven't just taken over public squares across the world, they're also getting really creative online.

Screenshot of post-occupation Epolitics.com, transformed by OccupyTheURL.com Occupy Wall Street and its spin - offs haven't just taken over public squares across the world, they're also getting really creative online.

• The Untold Story of Napoleon Hill, the Greatest Self - Help Scammer of All Time (PaleoFuture) • How the Twinkie Made the Superrich Even Richer (Dealbook) • The Rockefeller Family Fund Takes on ExxonMobil (New York Review of Books) • Uber wants to take over public transit, one small town at a time (The Verge) see also Uber said it protects you from spying.

Today, under the title of «postmodernism,» it bids fair to take over the public square in its entirety.

The consciousness industry that owns television has «gotten us» by taking over the public spaces where the spoken word once flourished.

However, since this is such a wide product, fitting through doorways and hallways can be tricky, and it's easy to feel like you're taking over a public walking area.

«There is no ambiguity in the law here — the First Amendment protects speech — it does not protect the use of tents and sleeping bags to take over a public space.»

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, said today that he supported the state taking over the public defense system in NY to ensure adequate funding for legal representation for poor New Yorkers.

The military that earlier took over the public broadcaster ZBC is now in charge, with Finance Minster Ignatius Chombo said to have been arrested.

Herrick will take over a public defender's office that has been run of late by senior counsel Terry Kindlon, whom the judge has known for decades.

There were similar reports of NPP supporters arbitrarily taking over public installations across the country, reminiscent of scenes in the aftermath of the 2008 polls won by the NDC, which witnessed some of the triumphant party's supporters taking over the running of public toilets, toll booths, community centres, among other structures.

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, came to Buffalo today to lend his support to teachers and parents protesting the rushed action taken by the School Board to allow charter schools to take over their public schools facing closure.

There were similar reports of alleged NPP supporters arbitrarily taking over public installations across the country, reminiscent of scenes in the aftermath of the 2008 polls won by the NDC, which witnessed some of the triumphant party's supporters take over the running of public toilets, toll booths and community centres.

«Anybody that needs to march may do so, but they can not take over public facilities or disrupt social services and commercial activities in Kaduna State, and any march or procession can be undertaken only with the prior knowledge of, and protection of the police to prevent the breakdown of law and order «My government has learnt from security reports the facts that are known, as well as complaints and allegations that have been made.

We were starting to feel confident about proceeding because our students shared vision and excitement for the potential of having their images and ideas take over a public space.

In the middle of writing the application for the charter school they wanted to open, Arne Duncan asked them to take over a public school he was closing in the North Lawndale neighborhood.

Despite strong support for the Common Core from the state's business community, some conservative critics wildly claim the higher standards are a federal plot to take over public education.

Henry specifically cited the achievement school district (ASD) model that Tennessee is using, which allows private charter school operators to take over public schools, fire the teachers and principals, and use their own school management approaches to try to bring students» academic proficiency rates up into the top quartile of the state's public schools.

To rationalize their decision and cloud their relationship with the unions, the NAACP makes the absurd claim that public charter schools are taking over public education.

Create a plan to take over public schools and hand them over to privatizers in bulk.

Sen. Alberta Darling's and Rep. Dale Kooyenga's plan to take over public schools in Milwaukee does neither.

High stakes tests are not diagnostic: they are tools for profit and managing the teaching workforce, made possible by alignment with the Common Core and a climate of rigid enforcement that is taking over our public schools.

Washington Post is predicting school accountability debates will quickly take over the public education debates in all 50 states as the ESEA rewrite shifts responsibilities to the states.

So all a corporation would have to do to take over public schools is find a cash starved school district (or which there are many in Washington state) and make them an offer they can't refuse.

«What Happens When Oligarchs and Vigilantes Take Over Public Safety in a Big City.»

«I kind of still have a hard time wrapping my head around how these are public entities and an individual like [Matthew] can apply to take over a public entity,» she said.

Not only has Jumoke / FUSE taken more than $ 53 million in public funds for their charter school but they were given control and the associated public funding to take over public schools in Hartford and Bridgeport and approved for another charter school in New Haven before the Hartford Courant reported on the criminal background of the company's CEO and the FBI raised the company's offices.

The hundreds of thunderous rallies, the flood of phone calls, and the deluge of millions of emails in opposition to the DeVos» nomination deny the Trump administration a mandate to take over our public schools.

Southern Democrats were just then getting rid of Reconstruction along with Yankee control of their public schools and they didn't want education federalized over some presumed Catholic threat to take over public schools in northern big cities.

Implementing a parent trigger law in that context would likely produce petitions to bring in antiunion charter companies to take over public schools.

They blog, post on Facebook, and organize protests against the efforts of Governor Haslam and Commissioner Kevin Huffman to take over their public schools and demoralize their children's teachers.

Because this is the good old USA I don't believe the charter school companies are taking over public schools in the cities just because they want to help «black and brown children.»

While voucher advocates like to use words like «choice,» «freedom» and «opportunity,» AB1 is really nothing more than a measure to take over public schools and accelerate the privatization of public education — «charting a course for the end of our neighborhood public schools as we know them,» says Betsy Kippers, a physical education teacher for students with special needs who is serving as president of the Wisconsin Education Association Council.

Andrea Noble returns to Bayou Blue from the big city to take over the public health center.

Throughout the fall, the Los Angeles Nomadic Division presents a series of five site - specific commissions which will sprawl out across Washington D.C. taking over public spaces.

For his project with Mercer Union, Frelin took over public bathrooms, using duct - tape to redirect the natural flow of water from running sinks to urinals and toilets.

Not exact matches

Bain concluded, «PE's continued ability to outpace public market gains over the long term can no longer be taken for granted.»

The government did pledge $ 47 billion to infrastructure spending over the next 10 years and extended the accelerated capital cost allowance for manufactures — a tax relief program for investments in new machinery and equipment — by two years, which means stock holders could get a boost if public companies are able to take advantage of this spending and savings.

A lot of times companies or brands are taken over or go public and they're suddenly under pressure to make it new and fresh to placate investors.

The Chinese public had something else in mind, and went straight for the jugular with thousands of ordinary citizens taking Modi to task over territorial claims.

Khosrowshahi took over in August from Uber co-founder Kalanick, assuming the daunting task of mending the company's public image, repairing frayed investor relations and rebuilding employee morale after a string of crises.

One year ago ExactTarget, an interactive marketing software company, went public with a market cap of over $ 1 billion (and I wrote about the mental journey from start - up to IPO taken by the company's founders.)

The University of Calgary's School of Public Policy recently pointed out that Canadian corporations actually do more taking over than getting swallowed.

Jill Hazelbaker — a former Google employee and Whetstone's deputy at Uber — is slated to take over as senior vice president of Global Public Policy and Communications.

Over the past several years, he had contemplated selling his company or taking it public, but ultimately decided that partnering with a global player and remaining private would give the company the best opportunity to grow.

BOSTON, March 28 - A member of a Harvard University oversight board made a rare public call for the school to divest itself from fossil fuel stocks, a move that shows continuing divisions on the issue as a new president takes over at the institution and its leading $ 37.1 billion endowment.