Sentences with phrase «more policy attention»
Commentary: More policy attention is needed for renewable heat Heat remains the sleeping giant of energy policy despite massive potential for energy savings and emissions reductions 25 January 2018
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Stop writing more and more policies, and start paying attention to people.
Despite that reversal, UPS maintains that its denial of Young's light duty request was lawful at the time and that its policy change is voluntary and not required by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act.The Chamber of Commerce filed an amicus brief supporting UPS, calling attention to companies that offer pregnant employees «more than what federal law compels them to provide.»
But even though Davis follows politics more closely than most entrepreneurs, he still works too many hours to pay much attention to Washington policy debates.
If the federal government really wants to take a leading role in fostering a more innovative national economy, then it should abandon its Ottawa - centric attitude and turn its attention to policies that have been shown, time and again and across multiple geographies, to encourage productivity.
Attentions this week turn to a busy macroeconomic calendar headlined by the Bank of England's policy announcement Thursday while the more immediate focus turns to Manufacturing PMI for direction through trade on Monday.
But developing country policy - makers face some big questions too, which are rightly getting more attention.
Powell has in the past expressed a view that Fed communication «should do more to emphasize the uncertainty that surrounds all economic forecasts, should downplay short - term tactical questions such as the timing of the next rate increase, and should focus the public's attention instead on the considerations that go into making policy across the range of plausible paths for the economy.»
Republican presidential candidates might be more trusted by more voters at every level of the income distribution if they focused more of their attention on policies directly impact the working and aspiring middle - classes.
It's less about implementing policy than it is drawing attention to life and death issues that can be more complicated than bills and bans may suggest, she said.
That makes sense, but what causes more negative attention: nonstop reports of players being suspended for violating the league's substance abuse policy, or quietly removing marijuana from the testing slate?
Attitude surveys, and more in - depth research, show that when attention turns to policies designed to support men and women in their sharing of breadwinning and childcare roles, this is in line with the aspirations of the vast majority of parents, who do not want to organise their household duties along gender lines.
«They banked on voters not paying attention as they blocked reforms in almost every area of policy: voting rights, reproductive rights, government reform and more.
One thing is clear: policy makers and practitioners seeking to increase the impact of parliamentary strengthening programmes don't need more exhortations to pay attention to context or facilitate local ownership.
Advocates appreciate Governor Cuomo's attention to the issue but say that a ban / fee policy is more effective than the Governor's ban only legislation
You always pay more attention when Brown uses the biblical rhetoric, because everything else he says is couched in policy wonk / managerial code.
Given the national attention to politics following the 2016 presidential election, however, Latimer said, voters this year will pay more attention to policy than to personality.
Mainly organized by 32BJ SEIU Hudson Valley, a union of property service workers with more than 163,000 members, the bilingual rally called attention to the possible anti-immigration and anti-labor policies by President Donald Trump's administration.
Such initiatives have also been interspersed with attention to moderate social reforms, including gun control and paid family leave, dappled with more progressive policies like protections for transgender residents and a rejection of fracking.
If councillors and MPs knew they would get votes by paying attention to what happens inside prisons, and most importantly what happens when people are released, they might be more likely to consider the effectiveness of this often neglected area of public policy.
In addition to any amendments to the Finance Bill that would reflect our general economic approach, I believe we should focus some attention on the possibility that the new Select Committee system will be able to comment more forcefully on government policies and programmes.
Having a committee chairmanship in Albany is no small thing: The job does come with more work, but it also comes with a higher profile, more attention from lobbyists and journalists and offers an opportunity to shape policy.
For more than two hours hours, Capital Region Democratic Rep. Paul Tonko took questions at a town hall meeting on, among other topics, environmental policies pushed by Trump, the manufacturing workforce, efforts to repeal of the Affordable Care Act and hate crimes that have gained considerable attention since the election.
Foreign policy in the limelight It was global affairs night in Bristol, bringing more media attention than at any time since Tony Benn lost his seat as an MP.
It may seem trivial to fight about whose budget resolution gets more attention, but in New York, the spending plans approved in late March often contain non-related policy items, like whether to treat 16 and 17 year - olds as juveniles, not adults, in the state prison system, known as «raise the age», and whether to allow ride hailing services like Uber and Lyft to operate outside of New York City.
Reducing the impact of the Bloomberg administration's stop - and - frisk policy has been a top priority of lawmakers from minority neighborhoods, who have urged Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, to pay more attention to the needs of their communities.
I have always been more interested in policy, politics and economics than my peers and contemporaries, so I paid very close attention to events.
And the scientists also feel much more confident about bringing issues of concern to the attention of policy makers as a result of their experience.
Industry also pays more attention to what Clemmons calls «window dressing» policies — policies that affect their public image but may not run very deep — than academia, because any negative publicity may hurt a business's bottom line.
As statisticians studying the methods and policy uses of ILSAs (1), we believe the obsession with rankings — and the inevitable attempts to mimic specific features of the top performing systems — not only misleads, it diverts attention from more constructive uses of ILSA data.
For handbags, I'd be a bit more cautious, and definitely pay attention to the return policy for sellers.
What seems more likely is that a Trump administration will be weak on many policy issues, especially those such as education that it paid little attention to during the campaign.
In a column in U.S. News that deserved more attention than it got, Andy Rotherham recently observed how far removed the world of teaching and learning has become to those of us who spend our time flapping our jowls on panels, blogging, drafting policy briefs, and beating each other bloody on social media as if the fate of the republic depended on our next Tweet.
A vast amount of contemporary education policy attention and education reform energy has been lavished on the task of defining and gauging «college readiness» and then taking steps to align K — 12 outcomes more closely with it.
A few major areas I hope will receive attention during reauthorization are college / workplace readiness, including the promotion of more rigorous standards; greater accountability at the secondary level; more sophisticated policy and greater accountability for improving teacher effectiveness, particularly at the late elementary and secondary levels; a broadening of attention to math and science as well as to history; and refinements in AYP to focus greater attention and improvement on the persistently failing schools by offering real choices to parents of students stuck in such schools.
But they can take pride in the fact that their efforts in highly specialized media will attract all the more attention from policy makers, simply because no one else is saying much.
We believe the latter results are more relevant for policy because a scaled - up version of the ECO-C Intervention would likely attract more attention from students and their families if it came from a widely known organization such as the College Board or ACT.
The need for students to eat more healthful foods and get more exercise is getting a lot of attention in schools these days, but some school leaders are going a step further, developing wellness policies and health alliances with their communities.
His main ambition in this book is to persuade us that, as a matter of normative political theory and public - policy analysis, we should pay more attention to the goal of fostering good citizenship than we have seen in many recent education discussions.
What if those running for political office, as well as those who already hold a policy - making position, and the media gave more time and attention to the wisdom they have to offer?
As more attention turns to the ways in which school leaders are prepared and certified, particularly in light of the impact school leaders have on student learning, states are evaluating and developing policies to strengthen and improve the quality of school leaders.
Nevertheless, these problems are occurring in many places — unintended effects of policies that have aimed to provide more useful information to educators, families, students, and policymakers and to ensure attention to the learning progress of low - income and minority students, English learners, students with disabilities, and members of other groups that have been traditionally underserved,» the statement read.
Nevertheless, these problems are occurring in many places — unintended effects of policies that have aimed to provide more useful information to educators, families, students, and policymakers and to ensure attention to the learning progress of low - income and minority students, English learners, students with disabilities, and members of other groups that have been traditionally underserved.
The study, released by a group that advocates for environmentally - sound buildings, is meant to draw attention to the condition of buildings that on weekdays house some 56 million students and teachers — more than one - sixth of the U.S. population — but that nevertheless attract little attention in the national debate over education policy and reform.
Underwhelmed by the first phase of changes, advocates turned attention to the mayor's Leadership Team on School Climate and Discipline, tasked with crafting recommendations that would form the basis for more substantive policy.
Teacher attrition has attracted considerable attention as federal, state and local policies - intended to improve student outcomes, increasingly focus on recruiting and retaining more qualified and effective teachers.
We do need to do more to bolster a number of these policies but I doubt much will improve if all of the attention for school improvement is at the state capitol, the state department of education or with our next Governor.
It didn't get much media attention, but I believe the kind of debate that I describe below is more illustrative of how education policy is shaping up these days in the Tar Heel state.
«No Child Left Untested» was such bad policy that it got people's attention, and it was the law for more than a decade.
The primary schools that such children often attend, however, have many other problems to solve, and all their current policy incentives point toward getting more kids up to a low «proficient» bar — not paying attention to those who have already cleared it.