Sentences with phrase «policy research group»

We said at the time that we had discontinued contributions to several public policy research groups whose position on climate change could divert attention from the important discussion about how the world will secure the energy required for economic growth in an environmentally responsible manner.

Federal economic stimulus aid helped close an estimated $ 162.5 billion in budget gaps among the 50 states in 2010, the report stated, citing a study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a Washington - based policy research group.

- Margaret E. Raymond is the director of CREDO, an education policy research group at the Hoover Institution.

Mark A. Kastel is co-founder of The Cornucopia Institute, a progressive farm policy research group based in Wisconsin and director of its Organic Integrity Project.

Michael J. Petrilli, president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative education policy research group, said the United States has a tradition of local control over education, «and as long as that's the case there's going to be disparities.»

«We have discontinued contributions to several public policy research groups whose position on climate change diverted attention from the important discussion on how the world will secure the energy required for economic growth in an environmentally responsible manner.»

The release yesterday came at the request of state Delegate Robert G. Marshall and the American Tradition Institute (ATI), a market - oriented environmental policy research group with offices in Washington, D.C., and Denver, Colorado.

Bitumen production from the Canadian oil sands provides a point of reference that could be used to observe and better manage the land and water impacts of a rapid transition to unconventional fuels, suggests Dr. Sarah Jordaan of the Energy Technology Innovation Policy Research Group, Department of Earth and Planetary... Read more →

Gagnon is a Research Fellow with the WHO Collaborating Centre for Governance, Transparency and Accountability in the Pharmaceutical Sector, as well as with the Rational Therapeutics and Medications Policy Research Group.

Mark A. Kastel is cofounder of The Cornucopia Institute, a Wisconsin - based farm and food policy research group that acts as an organic industry watchdog.

He has provided advice for government departments and has been an invited speaker at many conferences on energy use and is an Associate of the Cambridge Electricity Policy Research Group (EPRG).

If it does not honour this promise, its interests could be damaged, says Julian Perry Robinson of the Science Policy Research Group at the University of Sussex.

In 2013, for example, The Mathematica Policy Research group published a multiyear study [3] of the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP), a network of charter schools with forty - one thousand students in twenty states.

«I believe [teachers» unions] are using the bill as an end run around the judge's ruling,» said Arun Ramanathan of Education Trust West, an Oakland - based educational policy research group.

«The trains are noisy and will let off a lot of coal dust,» said Eric de Place, senior researcher with the Sightline Institute, a public policy research group headquartered in Seattle.

The CPRU works in collaboration with the energy and regulatory policy research groups of the Florence School of Regulation and Loyola de Palacio Chair and with the Global Governance Programme at the EUI.

(NaturalHealth365) In one of the largest investigations of fraud in the organic food industry's history, a formal complaint has been filed by farm policy research group, The Cornucopia Institute.

This recent proposal from three policy research groups with a range of philosophies aims to renew the country's focus on priming the innovation pipeline with a fresh burst of basic inquiry.

Former Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy Research Group / Enviroment and Natural Resources Program, 2007 — 2008

In 2007, Exxon pledged in its corporate responsibility report that it would no longer contribute «to several public policy research groups whose position on climate change could divert attention from the important discussion on how the world will secure the energy required for economic growth in an environmentally responsible manner.»

On the plus side, a study by MDRC, an education policy research group, looked at students who enrolled in 102 of the 123 «academically nonselective» high schools created after 2002, and found that graduation rates averaged 72 percent, compared with 62 percent for students who had applied to the small schools but were randomly assigned to large ones.

One hundred thousand students in the New York City public schools were homeless during the 2015 - 16 school year, reports a new study by the Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness, a New York City - based policy research group.

A study by the Tax Foundation, an independent tax - policy research group, shows...

The apparently neutral stance effectively states that «the benefits don't outweigh the risks,» comments Dennis McBride, academic president of the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, a nonprofit public policy research group.

The estimates by the Fordham Institute, a general supporter of Common Core, come in below those in a February study by the Pioneer Institute, a public policy research group that has expressed opposition to the nationalized standards.

He is also Director of Research and Managing Director of Directions, Evidence and Policy Research Group.

Issued by The Cornucopia Institute, a non-profit food / farm policy research group, the report found that more than 70 percent of canned pet foods contain carrageenan, a non-nutritive food stabilizer extracted from red seaweed.

Since last month, researchers at the Alliance for Securing Democracy, a bipartisan initiative of the German Marshall Fund, a public policy research group in Washington, have been publicly tracking 600 Twitter accounts — human users and suspected bots alike — they have linked to Russian influence operations.

Dr. Cynthia Osborne and her team at her policy research group, the Child and Family Research Partnership (CFRP) at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, are currently working with the state of Texas to develop a comprehensive approach to supporting fathers and their children.