Sentences with phrase «current policy design»

Current policy design options can provide real opportunities to advance climate goals effectively — if states can learn new strategies and engage in coalition building.

Investigate previous and current policies designed to help close the achievement gap.

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The «profamily» policies of the current administration are designed to take away public support from those who are most in need of social and medical services.

-- Pat Robertson, after the city of Dover, Pennsylvania voted to boot the current school board, which inst.i.tuted an intelligent design policy that led to a federal trial

I worked directly with then - Sheriff James Kralik, with the current Sheriff Lou Falco, as well as the chiefs of police of all county police departments, members of the State Police and the FBI and many other leading law enforcement personnel to put together a comprehensive and ground - breaking report that lead to new policies and public awareness designed to improve safety in the county.

Professor Osinbajo said though things may appear difficult at the moment, but will not be long before Nigerians start deriving the full benefits of the current policies of government which are designed to reposition the country and improve on the prevailing economic situation.

But the first Reliable Replacement Warhead — and Complex 2030 behind it — is not designed with that goal in mind and, in the absence of policy statements from the current administration, it remains unclear what the role for nuclear weapons — old or new — in the U.S. might be.

The current study was designed to examine whether and how these policies have affected data sharing and withholding among academic life science researchers.

Regrettably, through all the NCLB trashing, Winerip never described these issues so that lay readers, almost certainly unfamiliar with this context, could at least understand the current environment let alone learn about the complexity of the law and the challenges of designing policy for our decentralized system of schooling.

Without systems redesigned to support them, new schools «either have to exist outside the system to survive, or they get derailed... because the current structures and policies are inappropriate or ineffective in sustaining the new designs,» said the Annenberg Institute for School Reform's Warren Simmons in Education Week.

Many programs designed by educational entrepreneurs are rendered ineffective by complications with current public policy, suggests a report published by the National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

The Council's eighteen members from academia, industry, and policy assessed current practices in early education and elementary school teaching and have designed a professional development «blueprint» to advance the use of effective digital media in teaching and learning, with a special emphasis on instruction for underserved students.

Members of that original group included the late Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers, Sy Fliefel, director of alternative education for NYC's Community School District 4, Ted Kolderie, Center for Policy Design and Education Evolving, Elaine Salinas, current President & CPO MIGIZI Communications, Joe Nathan, Director Center for School Change, and Ember Reichgott Junge, former Minnesota State Senator, and author of Minnesota's 1991 first - in - the nation charter school law and the memoir Zero Chance of Passage.

In the public education debate, HECSE shares critical information policy makers need regarding current preparation challenges, effective preparation and support for highly - qualified personnel, new knowledge about children and youth with disabilities, and effective ways to design appropriate programs, deliver effective content, and monitor student growth.

While not explicitly designed to lessen underprivileged students» opportunities, current funding policies do just that.

«The winding down of the current program and the governor's call for change presents an opportunity to rethink the administrative and programmatic structure of the state's facilities program, and to better align the program design with the state's policy objectives,» said committee chair Sen. Carol Liu, D - La Canada Flintridge, the bond bill's author.

Current benchmarks were designed to help states build programs, focusing on resources and policies related to the structural aspects of public preschool — elements needed for a high - quality program but not fully defining one.

This site serves as a resource to that end, with current state - by - state OBF policy and funding information and a report outlining an OBF policy classification system as well as design and implementation principles to help states improve their policies.

Teams will assess current equity policies and practices using NYCLA's Equity Diagnostic tool and together will design a prototype solution.

This paper considers targeted incentive policies designed to retain experienced high - need teachers, of retirement age, as instruments to extend current teachers» careers.

Comprehensive and balanced assessment systems are the subject of current technical and policy conversations, but designing effective and efficient systems can be fraught with major obstacles.

Most auto insurance policies are designed to only cover the vehicle's current cash value, not the loan balance, when a total vehicle loss occurs.

An umbrella insurance policy is designed to protect you from the financial dangers of liability beyond what is covered in your current policies, such as your homeowners, boaters, or car insurance.

Using this design, the low - expense whole life policy has death benefits and cash values, based on the current 6 % dividend rate, as illustrated in Table 1.

Hence, the policy and design issue of how most retired households can get orderly lifetime distributions from their current or potential future accounts must be faced soon and squarely.

This utterly divine branding project by Foreign Policy, a design agency based in Singapore, takes the very best elements of current creative trends while helping tell a story for its client, One Night Only.

These damages can be significantly reduced with well - designed policies, but poorly designed ones, like the current Kyoto Protocol, are unlikely to make a dent in the damages, will have substantial costs, and may cool enthusiasms for more efficient approaches.

Will McCain's efforts to demonstrate his green credentials by supporting policies designed to limit carbon emissions cause the Republican Party to re-evaluate its current stance toward global warming?

Informed by the deep experience several Lab experts have with U.S. and international climate policy, this framework bridges cutting - edge econometrics and the current practice of regulatory policy design.

Green Roof Safari offers special access to the European greenroof industry with custom designed tours with multi-lingual guides specializing in highlighting current and historical trends in policy, research and design for the areas visited.

This project: 1) investigates, explains, and tracks public understanding of the causes, consequences, and solutions to climate change, support for climate policies, and the current barriers to action, and 2) designs and tests new strategies to engage the public in climate science and solutions.

Assuming a 3 % discount rate the cost of the policy for 87 years is not $ 20 trillion anymore, nor $ 8 trillion, but $ 5.6 trillion in todays dollar, that is 1/3 of EU's current GDP: not that bad for a policy planned for a century and designed to save the planet!

♦ «The paradox is that the same market design and renewables policies that led to current success become increasingly less successful in the future as the share of renewables in the energy mix grows.

His current work ranges from carbon market design to the integration of national energy and climate policies.

This is particularly significant in the face of the climate change denial policy stance of the current administration which is not based on science and is merely a tool designed to financially benefit fossil fuel industries.

This blawg is designed to provide a forum for the discussion of current laws, policies and decisions that affect the use of land.

The Task Force's current thinking is that the Law Society might design some model policies so that firms that were not in a position to design their own processes from scratch could access the model policy and tailor it to suit their circumstances.

Current IGS research focuses include institutional policy and design, political reform, term limits, campaign finance, redistricting, direct democracy, presidential and gubernatorial politics, representative government, the politics of race and ethnicity, immigration, and globalization.

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An insurance specialist with Gaudette Insurance Agency, Inc. will review your current life insurance situation and help you design a policy to plan for the future.

If you'd like a little help with designing a policy, or advice on changing your current policy, get in touch with an agent from one of our partner carriers, who can design a policy to fit your specific needs.

Universal Life The universal life policy is actually more than interest sensitive as it is designed to reflect the insurer's current mortality and expense as well as interest earnings rather than historic rates.

MediPlus is a top - up health insurance policy that is designed to enhance effectiveness of current insurance with the aid of a higher coverage at considerably affordable premium.

They are liability and replacement products designed to cover the policy holder at levels equal to the current market value of his boat.

Life insurance policies are considered to be «valued policies» because they are purchased in finite amounts, rather than designed to pay damages or the then - current value such as property insurance does.

An insurance specialist with The Gantt Insurance Agency Inc. will review your current life insurance situation and help you design a policy to plan for the future.

A life insurance policy is designed to allow your loved ones continue their current standard of living after you are gone.

This is their description of the product, «The product design is based on current assumption interest rates, with a No - Lapse Guarantee available for the first five policy years if certain conditions are met».

Where clients have the need for death benefit protection, FIUL products may be appropriate for current economic conditions because they offer features and flexibility, so policies can be designed to meet a variety of consumer needs.