Sentences with phrase «viewed as a national leader»

Her defiance was striking in a district that has long been viewed as a national leader in test - based accountability.

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The building of the Church as a community with complex organizational structure, with manifold functions and leaders, with various responsibilities to the society around it, can easily degenerate into the building of religious clubs, of sororities and fraternities and of national associations for the promotion of good causes, if the understanding of the Church's purpose, of its responsibility to God, of the nature and action of God, of man and his history, of the meaning of the Church's work in all the complex of human activity and of the interrelation of the various aspects of its work are lost to view.

Some business leaders have criticized the payroll tax idea, including Mike Durant, the state director for the National Federation of Independent Business, who said his members view the proposal as «a solution in search of a problem.»

The settled view is that he's out of touch, not statesmanlike enough — and frankly a bit odd, with his credibility as a potential national leader seemingly in line with his ability to eat in public.

If something of this magnitude is not offered I think the conference season will end with the replacement of three party leaders who are unable to address the ongoing muddle of national policies viewed as social and constitutional experiments with no obvious net benefit.

«Rather than trying to assess the probability of an extreme event occurring, a group of researchers suggest viewing the event as a given and assessing to which degree changes in the thermodynamic state (which we know has been influenced by climate change) altered the severity of the impact of the event,» notes Dorit Hammerling, section leader for statistics and data science at the Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences, National Center for Atmospheric Research.

Some national charter - school leaders fear that school districts may view charter conversion as an easy way to remove low - performing schools from their books without taking the responsibility to actually improve them.

The state has long been viewed as a leader in education reform across the nation, sitting atop National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) test scores in Reading and Math for a number of years.

In recounting the history of charters, the report reveals how a cause originally supported by education reform advocates, including the leader of a national teachers» union, was hijacked by libertarian ideology, advocates for big business, and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who view the public education system as a playground for exerting their influence and ideas.

Furthermore, teachers from these schools who were surveyed were, on average, significantly more likely than teachers in a national sample to view their school leaders as encouraging professional collaboration, facilitating professional development for teachers, and encouraging staff to use evaluation results in planning curriculum and instruction.

«My position as a public figure and national education leader limits the expression of my personal views,» Moskowitz said in the letter.

Carlson gives us a journalist's - eye - view of what brought Nikita Khrushchev to the United States in the first place, depicting Vice President Richard Nixon as an awkward emissary who visited Moscow to further his own political career and made a spectacle at the American National Exhibition by debating the merits of kitchen appliances with the leader of the Soviet Union.

«As a long - standing national leader on shared renewables, IREC views the formation of the Coalition for Community Solar Access as an important step to continued and enhanced market maturitAs a long - standing national leader on shared renewables, IREC views the formation of the Coalition for Community Solar Access as an important step to continued and enhanced market maturitas an important step to continued and enhanced market maturity.

There have been distinct patterns of debate since the launch of Bringing Them Home, such as whether individuals and our national leader should apologise; whether there should be a national Sorry Day; the understanding of words such as «guilt» and «shame»; the Inquiry's finding of genocide; the issue of compensation and reparation; the intersections with debates about native title and reconciliation; and the reassessment of Australian history and identity for which the Inquiry was viewed as a catalyst.

Early childhood education has long been on the back burner of economic priorities, but the proposed legislation, combined with the shifting national dialogue is showing that political leaders across the aisle are quickly viewing early learning as one of our nation's most promising tools for economic growth,» said Kris Perry, head of the national First Five Years Fund.

Since that time, Century 21 Canada and other national real estate companies associated with us and represented as the Industry Leaders Group have, in my mind, patiently followed a course of trying to convince organized real estate of our point of view.