Sentences with phrase «when civic groups»

Participatory budgeting began in Brazil in 1989, when civic groups demanded transparency and a more direct saying in city government.

Not exact matches

«Its proposed new government structure would dilute and disenfranchise people of color and other underrepresented groups at a time when greater participation in our civic process must be encouraged rather than diminished,» she said.

The answer: When the Legislature dangles easy money, pols, businesses and civic groups whip out their wish lists.

Its proposed new government structure would dilute and disenfranchise people of color and other underrepresented groups at a time when greater participation in our civic process must be encouraged rather than diminished.

Pushing through such a plan would no doubt be hard — as former mayor Michael Bloomberg discovered when his own congestion pricing proposal, despite broad support from civic groups, crashed and burned in Albany in 2008.

In a statement, a coalition of good government groups and civic groups including Reinvent Albany, the Sunlight Foundation, and New York Lawyers for the Public Interest praised the website, which they said could save taxpayers $ 12 million a year in reduced FOIL processing fees when fully implemented by all city agencies.

Salem Station became a target in the late 1990s, when environmental, health and civic groups launched a campaign to force Massachusetts to clean up what they called the «Filthy Five» — a group of coal - and oil - fired power plants built before 1977 and grandfathered under the Clean Air Act from meeting new air pollution standards.

Though Bersin's undergraduate degree at Harvard was in government, and he spent years as a corporate lawyer and federal prosecutor, he made a career shift to education in 1998 when a group of San Diego civic leaders asked him to consider becoming the school superintendent in that city.

Our plan is grounded in the following two premises: 1) When purposefully synchronized with one another across multiple forms of media («cross-media»), children's and adolescents» exposure to high quality youth - oriented social and ethical story content, i.e. stories of substance specifically about character development, compassion, and courage (CCC), is a powerful way to promote youth academic achievement and ethical values; 2) Especially if these stories, told and «read» across media, in their various genres (human interest, biography, history and historical fiction, civic engagement, coming of age, social change, spiritual awakening, moral issues, etc.), are «taught» by «educators» (broadly defined) using an «evidence - based» pedagogy that A) makes use of peer to peer, and adult facilitated group discussion and debate as a primary form of instruction, and B) takes advantage of access to the texts of the story that are made available cross-media (narratives, scripts, videos, etc.) to foster students» critical thinking and ethical reflection skills.

A pioneer in civic education, the Citizenship Education Clearing House (CECH - pronounced «check») has been conducting programs in citizenship education since the late 1960s, when Teresa M. Fischer and a small group of associates launched CECH as an independent non-profit corporation.

Or, when educators report that they believe social, emotional, and civic education is a vital part of student learning but students and parents do not, school leaders may need to promote dialogue among the groups to reach agreement about the school's mission and goals.

As a service to the community and in accordance with law, the Board of Education may allow community groups to use district facilities for educational, recreational, social, civic, philanthropic and other similar purposes when the facilities are not being used by the district or district - sponsored groups.

«I rarely say no when I'm asked to serve [in civic groups].