Sentences with phrase «policy leaders program»

She holds a PhD from McGill University and is an alumna of the Government of Canada's Recruitment of Policy Leaders Program.

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On Monday, two powerful conservative leaders in the House declared the blueprint unacceptable because it relies on giving people refundable tax credits to purchase insurance — a policy mechanism that, in a very rough sense, resembles Obamacare's subsidies to buy mandated health coverage (and is therefore being slammed by conservatives as just another entitlement program).

Foreign Policy — Discover the actions of our government beyond our borders and the attitudes about foreign policy held by our political leaders, including the Trans - Pacific Partnership, foreign aid programs, military intervention andPolicy — Discover the actions of our government beyond our borders and the attitudes about foreign policy held by our political leaders, including the Trans - Pacific Partnership, foreign aid programs, military intervention andpolicy held by our political leaders, including the Trans - Pacific Partnership, foreign aid programs, military intervention and more.

Washington, D.C. — The Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), the nation's leader in women's business development, today announced the 16th Annual America's Top Corporations for Women's Business Enterprises (WBEs), the only national award honoring corporations and their leadership for choosing to integrate policies and programs to enable growth and reduce barriers for women - owned businesses.

This knowledge is equally vital to international, national and regional government leaders tasked with aligning economic policies and stimulus programs to their population's evolving needs and desires.

Add to the mix the need to establish a credible program of military engagement with China and to project some form of military presence in Asia, and policy planners and military leaders face real challenges and tough choices.

It shows that among our leaders there are those who, for the sake of implementing programs and policies to which they are deeply committed, are prepared to act in truly horrendous ways.

Arguing against the motion is Charles Benbrook, a research professor at the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources at Washington State University and program leader of Measure to Manage: Farm and Food Diagnostics for Sustainability and Health, and Margaret Mellon, a science policy consultant in the areas of antibiotics, genetic engineering and sustainable agriculture.

Today JBF continues in the same spirit by administering a number of diverse programs that include educational initiatives, food industry awards, scholarships for students of culinary arts and food policy, publications, chef advocacy training, and thought - leader convening.

Arguing against the motion was Charles Benbrook, a research professor at the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources at Washington State University and program leader of Measure to Manage: Farm and Food Diagnostics for Sustainability and Health, and Margaret Mellon, a science policy consultant in the areas of antibiotics, genetic engineering and sustainable agriculture.

«It gives us the opportunity to celebrate and share the successes of our California Sustainable Winegrowing Program and help consumers and policy leaders understand our commitment to the environment.»

With a target in hand and knowing data about where and how waste happens, leaders can develop the right kinds of policies and programs to reduce waste.

Abt Associates is a mission - driven, global leader in research and program implementation in the fields of health, social and environmental policy, and international development.

The working group includes researchers and key industry leaders who will serve two - year terms and will make recommendations concerning research, opportunities to promote industrial hemp, and policy and program changes.

Howard Zemsky, the leader of New York's economic development agency, maintained the Cuomo administration's no - comment policy with regards to questions surrounding a probe by federal prosecutors of the Buffalo Billion program — other than to say the agency is cooperating fully.

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Leaders of the State University of New York will look at the system's policies and programs in light of the bid - rigging charges brought against SUNY Polytechnic Institute president Alain Kaloyeros.

According to the bill, which is sponsored by Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and Education Committee Chairman Carl Marcellino, the education inspector would provide «oversight, guidance, and technical assistance related to the educational and fiscal policies, practices, programs, and decisions of the city district, city board, chancellor, and mayor.»

Mayor de Blasio and City Council leaders have taken policy positions that do just that: committing to non-cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), pioneering an IDNYC program, maintaining strong worker protections, and increasing funding for universal pre-kindergarten (UPK) and the Community Schools initiative.

Her career comes full circle on Monday when she becomes director of AAAS» Science & Technology Policy Fellowships Program, which, since 1973, has helped some 3,300 scientists and engineers ply their scientific knowledge and related skills in the policy arena, solving problems big and small facing leaders in Congress, executive agencies and judicial ofPolicy Fellowships Program, which, since 1973, has helped some 3,300 scientists and engineers ply their scientific knowledge and related skills in the policy arena, solving problems big and small facing leaders in Congress, executive agencies and judicial ofpolicy arena, solving problems big and small facing leaders in Congress, executive agencies and judicial offices.

This program offers a unique opportunity for outstanding, mid-career U.S. professionalsÑacademics, government officials, clinical leaders, decision makers in managed care and other private health care organizations, and journalistsÑto spend up to 10 months in Australia conducting research and working with Australian health policy experts on issues relevant to both countries.

The goal of this program is to train leaders in cancer prevention and control; it provides a great opportunity to synthesize my interests in research and policy.

Although Chinese leaders prepared for the promotion program with fiscal incentives and supportive policies, experts say, these blessings also developed into a curse.

The KC initiative arose in response to a request from senior policy - makers and national program leaders from several developing countries.

Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, in partnership with ORGANIZE — a non-for-profit organization based in New York which leverages health data to end the organ donor shortage by applying smarter technologies, utilizing social media, building more creative partnerships, and advocating for data - driven policies — The Bridgespan Group — a global nonprofit organization that collaborates with mission - driven leaders, organizations, and philanthropists to break cycles of poverty and dramatically improve the quality of life for those in need — and Gift of Life Donor Program — an OPO which serves the eastern half of Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware — evaluated the metrics and criteria used to measure OPOs across the country, and found significant discrepancies in how potential donors are evaluated and identified.

While at the AAS, Bethany managed the public policy activities including, creating and managing a federal and local grassroots advocacy program designed to work with association members to effectively communicate with policy makers and successfully leading a coalition, working with Congressional leaders, and drafting legislation to secure millions of federal dollars appropriated for the restarting domestic production of Plutonium - 238 as a fuel source for planetary exploration.

Join an expected 1,500 leaders in HIV prevention research, programs, and policy at HIVR4P 2018, 21 - 25 October in Madrid.

It's put climate change leaders in a variety of key positions, made climate change a priority in initiatives in departments and agencies, revitalized the US Global Change Research Program and other interagency efforts, working with other major emitting countries, both industrialized and developing, to build technology cooperation and individual and joint climate policies consistent with avoiding the unmanageable, and is working with Congress — and this is the toughest part really — working with Congress to get comprehensive energy and climate legislation that will put us on a responsible emissions trajectory.

He is the founding director of the International Education Policy Master's Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, a program focused on the development of innovative leaders committed to expanding global educational opporProgram at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, a program focused on the development of innovative leaders committed to expanding global educational opporprogram focused on the development of innovative leaders committed to expanding global educational opportunity.

The International Education Policy program (IEP) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education provides these leaders with the skills, habits of mind and relationships to achieve their goals.

The inventive leaders who graduate from the International Education Policy program are working, in every corner of the planet, so that children and youth, women and men, from all social circumstances, can gain the capabilities that allow them to become architects of their lives and contributing members of the many communities of which they are a part.

Programs, both of which prepare leaders for critical roles in education policy and practice.

This past January, master's candidates in the International Education Policy (IEP) Program traveled to Sri Lanka to conduct field interviews with tea plantation workers, government ministers, and leaders of international nonprofits for a research capstone project.

The 13 master's programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education attract extraordinary students from every imaginable background: classroom teachers, district leaders, nonprofit workers, public policy researchers, social entrepreneurs, and software engineers.

As part of the «Strong Start, Bright Future» campaign, Waldo — deputy chief of staff for policy and programs for Duncan — accompanied the secretary on their 1,100 mile Back - to - School Bus Tour of the Southwest, visiting schools and community leaders in four different states in only five days.

Our doctoral programs draw emerging leaders in research, policy, and practice committed to improving educational opportunities in America and around the world.

HGSE doctoral programs draw emerging leaders in research, policy, and practice committed to improving educational opportunities in America and around the world.

Ravitch tracks how the anti-intellectualism of progressive educational leaders translated into policies and programs that restricted students» access to traditional academic subjects.

NCPI is committed to building a unified science of child development to explain the early roots of lifelong health, learning, and behavior in Brazil; translating and communicating science effectively to inform the public discourse around issues that affect children and families; and preparing leaders to leverage the science of healthy development in the design and implementation of innovative policies and programs that reduce preventable disparities and promote well - being for all Brazilian children.

Reflecting on this reality, High Tech High GSE's leaders have observed that the causes of the less - than - expected interest in their program seem to stem more from policy than from the value of their offering.

More than any single policy initiative or program, such a system would be a worthwhile legacy for any state leader.

Washington — Business leaders should push to raise local taxes to pay for early - childhood and other education efforts if money can not be found in other public programs, Paul H. O'Neill, chairman of the President's Education Policy Advisory Committee, told a group of business leaders here last week.

We envision that the institute will bring faith, education, policy, and advocacy leaders together to identify, understand, and elevate best practices for effective faith - based education programs.

The consensus appears to be that these higher levels of performance have less to do with policy than with everything else: the «ecosystem» of reform in a given place (usually a city) and its network of «human - capital providers,» expert charter - management organizations, leadership - development programs, school - incubator efforts, local funders and civic leaders, etc. — in other words, what conservatives like to call «civil society»: the space between the government and the individual (in this case, between government and individual schools).

Furthermore, recent events make it clear that party voters and leadership are not always in lockstep, and new policies can sometimes make it onto the agenda under new leaders (e.g., Donald Trump's support of paid maternal leave programs).

Indeed, the story of charter schooling, a national movement that grew from an early - 1990s Minnesotan pilot program, could serve as an inspiration for conservative policy leaders in the months and years ahead.

Based on the approaches and practices presented, the paper identifies program, support, resource and policy issues for charter school leaders, developers, and policymakers to consider when planning strategies to enhance EL family engagement.

This week: education leaders on the Kerner Commission at 50, including Learning Policy Institute president Linda Darling - Hammond, co-directors of UCLA's Civil Rights Project Gary Orfield and Patricia Gándara, The Education Trust president and former U.S. secretary of education John King, and Hewlett Foundation education program director Kent McGuire.

With the results, education leaders and program directors can better target improvements, guide policy and funding, and keep stakeholders informed.

Can those who argue for staying the course identify instances where a school district leader discontinued a program or policy because research had shown it to be ineffective, or adopted a new program or policy based on a report in the What Works Clearinghouse?

Menlo Park, Calif. — December 15, 2011 — As online learning programs become prevalent in U.S. schools, school and district leaders, teachers, and policy makers are looking for the best ways to use technology to enhance learning.