Sentences with phrase «trigger public discussion»

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In particular, immigrant arrivals to Europe through Lampedusa, an Italian island and one of the closest points from the African mainland, triggered a range of public and political discussions.

Supporters rushed the standards» adoption, used whatever political channels were most convenient, eschewed public debate and discussion, and in doing so triggered a massive backlash that either caused states to reject the standards outright or led them to water down the initiative to such an extent that there's little left of the original vision, which called for the careful alignment of standards, tests, curricular resources, and teaching strategies, all to be shared across state borders.

The one good thing this film will do is bring discussions of parent trigger laws and the privatization of public schools into the mainstream.

Gloria Romero, the former state senator who authored the California Parent Trigger law is asking LA Unified board president Richard Vladovic to schedule a public discussion on the district's legal opinion that the law does not apply this year.

But it seems clear, based on the covert nature of the first parent trigger drive, that the omission of public meetings was to avoid a full and open public discussion of the pros and cons.

As beyondblue CEO Georgie Harman writes below, we need a wide public discussion to trigger behavioural change.

For beyondblue, putting the issue of everyday racial discrimination squarely in the public domain and asking everyone to stop and think about their actions is an effective way to create a public discussion to trigger behavioural change.