Similarly, Charles Dunlap, Jr. has warned that over — involvement of the military in cyber security matters that should rightly be the job of law enforcement or civilian regulatory bodies risks exacerbating an already — growing, «generalized distrust of government» that could «
undermine the public support» for the military.
The ads were targeted at key ridings in the battleground province of Ontario and were designed to
undermine public support for the then Liberal government's climate change policies, according to various Friends of Science statements.
Although this would be a perfect opportunity for him to declare his own allegiance to both the environment and personal liberty, he instead implies that the only people who worry about «threats to civil liberty» are militant conservatives who want to «
undermine public support for serious action to address America's oil dependency» yadda, yadda.
In fact, misperceptions of the scientific consensus can be highly consequential, as even a small amount of perceived scientific dissent can
undermine public support [17].
These local governments argue fossil fuel companies, including Exxon and Chevron, knew greenhouse gases from its products would cause the world to warm but «concealed the dangers, sought to
undermine public support for greenhouse gas regulation, and engaged in massive campaigns» to promote their products.
(See, for example, Ethical Issues Entailed By Economic Arguments Against Climate Change Policies, The original organizations that sought to
undermine public support on climate policies by exaggerating scientific uncertainty have expanded to include ideological think tanks, front groups, Astroturf groups (i.e., groups organized by industry that pretend to be a legitimate grassroots organization), and PR firm led campaigns.
We know that austerity, incessant testing regimes to rate and rank schools and state takeovers of schools and districts are intentional strategies to
undermine public support for public schools, to facilitate the transfer of tax dollars to privatized schools, and to disenfranchise parents, educators and communities.
Such inequities will
undermine public support for the next round of education reform and must be addressed in the next legislative session.
Test scores do not rocket, but neither do charter schools cream off the most advantaged students or dramatically
undermine public support for public schools.
The case has prompted concern among scientists that the activities of unregulated operators could
undermine public support for genuine stem cell research.
Whilst Jonathan Harmsworth — who lives in a «modest» # 40million Mock - Georgian home — publishes articles that talk of «socialism» being the key word for the next Labour government, perhaps ground is indeed now being prepared, to
undermine any public support a next Labour government might have.
In spite of all the attention paid to fraud throughout the EU's existence, there is still an impression of malpractice that
undermines public support for the EU.
Despite much anti-fraud work within the EU, successive scandals have surfaced that have led to an impression among the public that there is an unwillingness or inability to take action against malpractice, which
undermines public support for the EU.
Second, in moving Labour on to the centre ground, the New Labour project has seemingly
undermined public support for traditional Labour values — such as a more equal society.
Now that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are no longer around to run the Executive Branch as a wholly - owned subsidiary of ExxonMobil, Chevron, et al, and the Obama administration and the Congress are moving to take action — however inadequate — to reduce emissions, the fossil fuel industry's campaign of denial and deceit will kick into overdrive, with the goal of
undermining public support for the necessary action.
Communities feel increasingly powerless in the face of speculative applications from big, well - funded developers, and this risks
undermining public support for the measures needed to tackle climate change.»
This undermines public support for the First Amendment and makes it easier both for police, legislators, and the courts to ignore or work around it when adhering to it would be less palatable.
Not exact matches
Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built
support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and
undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's
public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.
Every gender and cultural studies course should feature at least one class of live
public breastfeeding, and a discussion about how our country
supports — and
undermines — mothers trying to juggle work and family.
I think tuition fees are one of those stealth charges which most
undermine support for universal
public services.
You still have the problem that funding higher education through flat rate contributions rather than proportionately through the tax system
undermines some of our wider goals around
public support for universal provision of
public services.
She embarrassed the administration during a
public fight over charter school space in the spring of 2014 by enlisting the
support of Governor Andrew Cuomo, and she
undermined the mayor on his frustrating bid to extend mayoral control over city schools in the latest legislative session.
We also commit to
supporting members of the global sustainability research community in nations where
public access to reliable information is at risk and where scientists are being
undermined or gagged on politically contentious issues.
In many places, this led to a rushed adoption and ensured that many policies were executed poorly,
undermining public confidence and
support.
Nonchargeable activities: lobbying and ballot initiatives; external
public relations; litigation, «unless specifically related to collective bargaining, contract administration or organizational maintenance»; get - out - the - vote activities; contributing to charitable, religious, or ideological causes;
supporting political organizations or candidates for
public office; organizing or recruiting new members and «defending against challenges to exclusive bargaining representative status»; and «monitoring and opposing activities of groups and individuals whose purpose is to
undermine public education.»
Indeed, the reality of the matter is that both of California's teachers» organizations
support Gavin Newsom because he has pledged to work with them rather than join the billionaire boys club behind corporate education reform efforts and the unregulated spread of charter schools that will continue to drain funding from other
public schools and, if left unchecked, ultimately
undermine public education itself.
CCER's political agenda includes more taxpayer funds for charter schools and
support for the incredibly unfair «teacher evaluation» system that is designed to denigrate and
undermine Connecticut's
public school teachers and the teaching profession.
Either we
support public schools or we
undermine them, the children that attend them and the nation.
Finch, who as mayor of Bridgeport
undermined Bridgeport's
public schools,
supported and defended education reformer extraordinaire Paul Vallas, handed tens of millions of dollars in
public funds to the charter school industry and used his power for personal gain, has landed nicely on his feet, after getting thrown out of office by Bridgeport voters.
ENN was instrumental in
supporting plaintiff - parents of
public schools students who, in Lopez v. Schwartz, viewed the voucher program as
undermining and shortchanging
public schools.
Betsy DeVos» confirmation has stoked fears about
undermining public schools, in large part because of the Secretary of Education's full - throated
support for school vouchers.
Heaven forbid that we one day have a Secretary of Education who actually believes in
supporting and strengthening our existing
public schools rather than
undermining them and destroying them.
Even the NAACP was divided in 1997 about whether
supporting charter schools
undermined their long - held demand for a better and fairer
public education for all children.
As we embark on this new era of state responsibility and reform, it is important to step back and evaluate the extent to which each state is already
supporting (or
undermining) its
public schools.
We have the Connecticut Association of
Public School Superintendents (CAPSS) supporting proposals that not only undermine local school boards but destroy some of the most important tenets of public education — this from the people who are supposed to be the head cheerleaders for teachers, public schools and public educ
Public School Superintendents (CAPSS)
supporting proposals that not only
undermine local school boards but destroy some of the most important tenets of
public education — this from the people who are supposed to be the head cheerleaders for teachers, public schools and public educ
public education — this from the people who are supposed to be the head cheerleaders for teachers,
public schools and public educ
public schools and
public educ
public education.
While her nomination gave exposure to an honest and passionate debate about charter schools as an alternative to traditional
public schools, her hardline opposition to any real accountability for these publicly funded, privately run schools
undermined their founding principle as well as her
support.
«Betsy DeVos has consistently worked against these values, and her efforts over the years have done more to
undermine public education than
support students.
They act as if there were no underlying cause for the often - unsound educational practices, or frequently uneven teaching capacity that exist within our schools They confuse these symptoms of the problem with the problem itself, which is that our
public schools have been persistently under - resourced, under -
supported, and
undermined for decades, including by many of the same people that now purport to «fix» them.»
Daniel A. Domenech, executive director of AASA, The School Superintendents Association stated, «The impact these changes would have on state and local governments to adequately and appropriately invest in and
support critical infrastructure investments, including
public schools, are unacceptable and put our nation on a path that
undermines progress in student learning, graduation rates, college completion rates and career readiness.»
The goal of charter advocates, Castrejon said, is not to
undermine traditional
public education but to
support a range of successful schools.
Whether it is addressing the causes of school violence or working to overcome the impact of poverty on our students, we are rising up together to pass legislation that
supports educators,
public schools and students and to defeat efforts to
undermine public education.
She embarrassed the administration during a
public fight over charter school space in the spring of 2014 by enlisting the
support of Governor Andrew Cuomo, and she
undermined the mayor on his frustrating bid to extend mayoral control over city schools in the latest legislative session.
We will not rest until Connecticut has leaders who will join us in the fight to properly fund
public schools and
support our children and their future rather than the present lot who seek to
undermine and destroy our schools and our parental rights.
In addition to being one of Malloy's largest sources of campaign cash during his 2014 re-election campaign, the owners and operators of Connecticut's charter schools, along with the corporate elite who
support Malloy's «education reform» initiatives have dumped more than $ 9 million into the lobbying effort to
support Malloy's agenda to
undermine public education in Connecticut.
On the other hand, recognizing that their membership is getting angrier and angrier and that the Malloy / Wyman agenda is
undermining public education,
public services and is translating into
public employee layoffs, some of these same unions have taken to running television advertisements urging citizens to stand up for the
public servants who educate our children, provide critically important
support for those in need and ensure that government programs are available to the people of Connecticut.
«His
support for the Common Core and its absurd, unfair and costly Common Core testing program is
undermining our
public education system and wasting scarce
public dollars,»
DFER, the group's Political Action Committee has spent millions to
undermine public education and
support pro-corporate education reform candidates and initiatives.
Vouchers
undermine the protections and rights students with disabilities attending
public schools are entitled to under IDEA, enacted by Congress in 1975 to provide funding and other
support for students with special needs.
While recognizing that
public education continues to face major challenges and problems that must be addressed, Representative Ziobron has become an advocate for parents who wish to opt their children out of the Common Core tests and for policies that
support, not
undermine, the role of parents, teachers, and local citizens in how their local schools should be run.
Caputo - Pearl and other teacher union leaders, local and national, have fought against the rise of charter schools, asserting that they
undermine public education by draining financial
support from
public education systems and creating an educational caste system that favors some demographic groups over others.