Sentences with phrase «policies like choice»

Policies like choice and accountability can help, but they can also hurt.

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«The (Fed policy - setting) committee needs to make policy choices that will lead to more great years like 2014,» Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota said in remarks prepared for delivery in Helena, Montana, citing the dramatic improvement in the U.S. labor market last year.

The assets that, until recently, made her look like the obvious choice to succeed Bernanke — being a Fed veteran, having intimate knowledge of QE and forward guidance, a well - known stance on monetary policy and a scholarly focus on unemployment — now seem like weapons to fight the battle of yesteryear.

Modelled on the Alternative Federal Budget, the NS Alternative Budget (NSAB) publications forefront how provincial budgets, like other policy documents, are about priorities and government choices.

«Call it pessimism if you like, but you better be prepared for how policy choices now being made will be harmful to what you are doing.»

Regulation champions «Open» as an explicit policy goal, with directives like PSD2 aiming to create growth via choice, transparency and competition.

In Fault Lines, Rajan demonstrates how unequal access to education and health care in the United States puts us all in deeper financial peril, even as the economic choices of countries like Germany, Japan, and China place an undue burden on America to get its policies right.

Westerners may feel like they are superior to other groups but rarely make it policy that they are better by nature of their choice.

Like the pastoral letters on economics produced by America's Roman Catholic bishops nearly two decades ago, such ecumenical social teaching would not prescribe specific policy choices, but it would insist that concern for the common good and the building up of community are requirements for any economic system.

I would like to see a policy of prayer or non prayer being a matter of individual choice, rather than some governmental policy about what is the day to pray on.

The college will deny health care to students and faculty because these people will have a choice whether to use elements of the policy that the school does not like..

Unassisted birthing was and is the best choice for me but it makes me angry that women are feeling like they have little choice but to go that route because of hospital policies (for instance, my local hospital has a No VBAC policy and I would have had to have a c - section despite the fact that I had 4 successful VBACS already... and yup, insurance would have definitely covered the c - section costs, no doubt!)

Like many birth choices, policy and practice can vary in each unit and even between individual health care providers.

Nixon went on to criticize inequality in the state, which she blamed on policy choices like tax cuts for corporations and wealthier New Yorkers, and called out corruption in state government.

John Denham, the Skills Secretary, will tell a rally tomorrow: «We have got into a terrible mess by counterposing ideals like individual aspiration, or choice in public services, with the virtues of social solidarity and collective strength... trying to tailor individual policies to different groups of voters is a political dead end.

They rightly talk about reconnecting with voters, but when they also talk about the need for party unity this sounds like continuity and an unwillingness to make hard policy choices.

But increasingly career choices take scientists not just away from academia but away from the bench altogether — into areas like science writing and editing, public relations, science policy, scientific program or grant management, science teaching, patent law, and venture capital.

To illustrate how substantive policy choices underlie technocratic - sounding budgetary decisions, consider, for example, a decision to cut back on NIH training grants, making them available only in fields with a shortage of researchers.433 This approach may seem like a neutral way to decide how to allocate a limited sum of money.

For example, your elected officials should be focused on things like equal access to essential public services, fair governmental priorities and policies, city hall policies, school district choices, and public health measures.

Reformers should focus on policies that generate their own constituents, like expanding school choice, rather than policies that only technocrats could love.

No matter how much energy and money we spend working on systemic issues — school choice, funding, assessments, accountability, and the like — not one of these policies educates children.

Preferred policy areas — like teacher quality, choice, chartering and merit pay — are agnostic to curricular content.

Some of these are the same people who have made once - esoteric educational questions — like school discipline, collegiate Title IX policies governing due process, school choice, teacher evaluation, and determination of testing subgroups — into hero's journeys defined by bitter battles between those fighting «for the kids» (their side) and the forces of malice (the other side).

Importantly, the successful provision of information related to college choice through initiatives like ECO-C is likely to magnify the return to existing federal and state aid policies, while the return to high - cost interventions such as expanding the Pell grant program is likely to be very limited unless students possess sufficient information about college alternatives.

Unfortunately, we lack a robust system of school choice and instead have to rely on democratic institutions, like school boards and state legislatures, to determine most school policies and practices.

The bashing of school choice policies continued throughout that meeting, and DeVos continued to challenge teachers with statements like this:

As things stand now in non-right-to work states, all teachers are forced to financially support union policy concerning issues like school choice, tenure, seniority, etc..

Generally, my work concerns the underlying «code» of education which includes things like the legal structure upon which the system is built, the norms of everyday school policy implementation, the technological architecture of learning, and the growing marketplace for educational choices, particularly leadership preparation.

In response, Dr. Casey Cobb of the National Education Policy Center in Colorado wrote a critique of the study, which has been touted by opponents of school choice, like WEAC.

Over the past ten years, the policies undergirding the national education reform movement — offering more school choice, weakening teacher union power, and creating new accountability systems (with incentives like pay - for - performance and teacher evaluations based partly on student test scores)-- have taken hold in the nation's capital.

The idea of charter schools received another boost in November 1988, when the Citizens League, a community policy organization in Minnesota, issued an influential report Chartered Schools = Choices for Educators + Quality for All Students.26 Like Shanker, the committee that authored the report argued that charter schools should be guided by two central tenets: empowering teachers and promoting diversity.

Although New Hampshire's choice in policy may sound like a discouragement to many hopeful teachers - to - be, the unfortunate reality is that these alternative routes are just that: alternative.

The findings stand apart from previous research conducted by groups like the National Education Policy Center that found many school - choice programs result in «an unsettling degree of segregation.»

While the federal government has only a peripheral role in policy choices like this, it has played a significant role in encouraging, incentivizing, and funding the expansion of charter schools which can establish themselves in closed schools.

This is not a recipe for providing all parents with a rich array of choices that are all of high quality, and the results in districts like Detroit, where DeVos» favored policies have ruled for some time, speak loudly to that.

He noted that school choice policies like charters and vouchers are siphoning resources away from public schools and making it more difficult for them to adequately serve their students.

Give Oregon Kids the Power of Educational Choice, Like Kids in Florida — Cascade Policy Institute http://bit.ly/2CfTTCO

If voters get angry enough with federal education politics, national Democrats may start learning from their state - level colleagues who are starting to support effective policies like school choice.

Predatory price policies like those pursued by Amazon favor monopolies which are bad for consumers (less choices and eventually higher prices) and for the industry.

If you fail to disclose illnesses, medical conditions, or information about lifestyle choices like smoking and alcohol consumption, your policy can potentially be canceled.

Rather than your coverage ending like a typical term policy, Custom Choice UL simply lowers the death benefit over time but your premium remains the same.

Once you have decided that a critical illness insurance policy is right for you, or you would like to get more information, contact a local independent agent in the Trusted Choice network for guidance.

Like any insurance policy, however, your cheapest pet insurance option isn't going to necessarily be the best choice.

I'd like to think it's possible to have reasoned discussions about policies involving both science and values — discussions that recognize where the data end and personal choices begin.

A new National Research Council report finds that by the year 2050, the U.S. may be able to reduce petroleum consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent for light - duty vehicles — cars and small trucks — via a combination of more efficient vehicles; the use of alternative fuels like biofuels, electricity, and hydrogen; and strong government policies to overcome high costs and influence consumer choices.

[C3] Practical solutions like land use policy and landfill seem to be a better choice than hoping to control sea level rise via reducing greenhouse emissions.»

«We are encouraged to see SB 2814 pass without anti-consumer, anti-solar proposals like mandatory demand charges, and ending net metering,» Amy Heart, director of public policy for Sunrun and spokesperson for The Alliance for Solar Choice, said in a statement.

I also like strikes, marches, sine - waving generally, but I have given up on that model because it failed to move Obama and the dems to make bold choices about policy in 2009 and the elections since that time have been so reactionary and destructive of the «common good» that I don't want to waste my time in these activities now.

Mike said: I also like strikes, marches, sine - waving generally, but I have given up on that model because it failed to move Obama and the dems to make bold choices about policy in 2009 and the elections since that time have been so reactionary and destructive of the «common good» that I don't want to waste my time in these activities now.

It could be argued that as long as countries like Germany or France are not willing to consider the effects that their policy choices have on their neighbors, it would be deeply problematic to enforce a formalist equal treatment requirement that has the effect of shifting the burden on the small Member States.