Sentences with phrase «to have a seat at the table»

It's our mission to ensure educators have a seat at the table when education policies are made.

He will also continue his work to ensure that underserved communities have a seat at the table in determining the future of their streets and transportation systems.

Everyone has a seat at the table and has a voice in the process.

We're saying that parents should also have a seat at table.

Moreover, does new - age data analysis have a seat at the table when applied to topics other than baseball and politics?

Right now everyone in a Power 5 conference has a seat at the table, and I just don't think university presidents are going to risk blowing up the status quo.

The root cause behind these failures is politics: a political conversation dominated by adults, in which students don't even have a seat at the table.

It's not enough to be heard, or to just have a seat at the table.

Balance of Performance is a high stakes game of poker with every manufacturer having a seat at the table.

We need to have a seat at the table in the discussions.

In other words, marketing didn't have a seat at the table.

While this may be a blunt way of saying it, we'll have a seat at the table when things are being developed now.

Effective solutions require that everyone has a seat at the table.

At the end of the day, it's all about having a seat at the table, thinking outside the box, leveraging relationships and being able to reach out to your network.

The findings affirm our focus at the UFT on ensuring that teachers have a voice at their schools and that chapter leaders have a seat at the table with principals.

«If I am fortunate enough to be elected president, educators will have a partner in the White House, and you'll always have a seat at the table.»

A new version of ESEA legislation must include provisions that ensure educators have a seat at the table for all key decisions, including the development and implementation of school improvement plans.

In my work with QISA, I made a case that students should have a seat at the table where meaningful decisions are made.

Most Lieutenant Governors don't have a seat at the table during budget talks.

The pair also urged WFP members to consider what would best help drive their agenda, including the benefits of having a seat at the table over the next four years.

The U.S. isn't leaving the agreement until 2020, which means it still has a seat at the table of international climate talks.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people now have a seat at the table when discussions of land issues and development with government and business interests are taking place.

«Not that women are magic or perfect beings, but that they need to have a seat at the table because then I would think that things like this would have far less chance of happening.»

More substantially, Kaminsky had a seat at the table as an ethics package was negotiated last month.

But both had a different approach to minimum wage increases, with Doheny saying it should be left to the states and Stefanik open to the possibility at the national level if «small businesses have a seat at the table.»

Investigate whether or not the school has a parent organization or council and if so, investigate which parents have a seat at the table;

During the financial crisis of 2008, Bair insisted that she and her agency have a seat at the table, where she worked — and fought — with Henry Paulson, then the treasury secretary, and Timothy Geithner, the president of the New York Federal Reserve, as they tried to cobble together solutions that would keep the financial system from going over a cliff.

In my startup investing, inside portfolio companies at the highest leadership and board levels, I always want to make sure that a pessimist has a seat at the table.

It's great that the US has a seat at the table, but our country isn't leading the meeting.

«To have meaningful stakeholder engagement states must ensure that all communities have a seat at the table... [Decision making] really hasn't represented community leaders, parents, students, and families from historically underserved communities.

«Our representative should be representative of the city and its full diversity and I think with the election of Marisol, Latinas have a seat at the table.

REBNY had a seat at the table, luckily, or it would have been much more one - sided.»

«If I'm county executive, Rye has a seat at the table,» he said.

«We think everyone should have a seat at the table through their representatives, and that's not going to happen if there aren't specials called soon.»

For all the flak he gets as a congressman, at 65 he finally has a seat at the table and a vote that counts.

Klein had a seat at the table with Cuomo, Heastie and Flanagan in the recently concluded budget talks.

«I think that a woman having a seat at the table changes the dynamic and trajectory of important policy discussions.

The NDRC is committed to changing that and making sure Democrats have a seat at the table in the 2021 redistricting process.

(The U.S. still has a seat at the table until its Paris pullout takes effect in 2020.).

Meloche is always «making sure students have a seat at the table, whether it's at a board of education meeting, a conversation regarding curriculum,» or a meeting to set short - and long - term goals, said Chuck Cahn, the mayor of Cherry Hill.

Further, and unlike other schools, community schools and their partners share accountability for student and community outcomes — and, again, this requires that partners have a seat at the table when important decisions are made.

«When stakeholders have a seat at the table, feelings of satisfaction and pride increase exponentially,» said Filippi.

Buffalo's District Parent Coordinating Council Votes Unanimously to Include First - Ever Charter School Representatives Charter schools now have a seat at the table alongside parent reps from district schools

But the truth of the matter is that everyone loses out when production experts don't have a seat at the table early in the publishing process — not least of all the ebooks that come out of it.