Sentences with phrase «policy study commission»

An 11 - member Transportation Finance and Policy Study Commission was created in 2011 and directed to make legislative recommendations regarding the future of transportation finance.

Not exact matches

A panel about job loss will feature the French Digital Council, an advisory commissioned by the French government to study the future of jobs, which will discuss that country's growing momentum toward the policy.

Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty first commissioned his own study, authored by University of Calgary tax - policy expert Jack Mintz, then in March initiated a public consultation process, by which time talk of a government - run supplemental pension plan, whether regional or national, began to fade.

In Louisiana and California, for instance, studies commissioned by state regulators found that net metering policies resulted in higher costs for all ratepayers.

A study commissioned by the Broadbent Institute finds that the majority of Canadian families with children under 18 would get no benefit at all from the Conservatives» income splitting scheme — despite being the express target of the policy.

A recent study by comScore (commissioned by UPS) Online Shopping Customer Experience Study, 63 % of customers look for the company's policy on returns before making a purcstudy by comScore (commissioned by UPS) Online Shopping Customer Experience Study, 63 % of customers look for the company's policy on returns before making a purcStudy, 63 % of customers look for the company's policy on returns before making a purchase.

In the wake of America's 1907 financial panic, the Aldrich - Vreeland Act of 1908 created a «National Monetary Commission... to inquire into and report to Congress at the earliest date practicable, what changes are necessary or desirable in the monetary system of the United States or in the laws relating to banking and currency...» [1] The Commission's thirty - five monographs provided an exhaustive study of central banking structures and commercial banking policies, laying the groundwork for what in 1913 became the Federal Reserve Act.

Sponsor of #SB1146 is amending bill to keep exemptions in place,» tweeted Andrew Walker, director of policy studies at the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC).

From 1990 to 1993, this scribe served on the commission established by the White House and Congress to study American policy toward the UN, and it was a generally discouraging experience.

The study was commissioned by CIPFA (the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy) and conducted by the Gwilym Gibbon Centre for Public Policy at Nuffield College, University of Oxford.

If for some reason the new study finds a problem, PSC policy is to seek solutions that interfere as little as possible with the competitive market, according to the commission's 2005 Generation Retirement Order.

«People make jokes about commissions as a way of putting off dealing with important problems, but this one will serve both political and policy ends that are urgent, and will have a wide and attentive audience,» said Larry Levy, a political analyst who leads the National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University.

President of the Alumni Association of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Mr. Khaled Bolaji has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)-LSB-...]

He was a Commission Member to Brief the Next President of the United States Center for Strategic and International Studies and a participant in President Obama's 60 - day Cyber Policy Review.

Amendments would include requiring a witness to the self administration, restore the illegality of falsifying the death certificate require the posting of the poison applied in the medical record for the sake of good stewardship for future studies, register organ / tissue trafficking, reveal commissions and memorials paid to the corporate facilitators and keep all records for transparent public safety policy.

The policy changes were brought about when the ECIDA and the Amherst IDA commissioned the UB Regional Institute in 2011 to study the senior housing market in Erie County.

The Pataki Commission can only justify this giveaway by totally ignoring research by the State's tax policy experts who, in the Department of Taxation and Finance's recent report on the estate tax, concluded that «Migration studies regarding the impact of taxes such as the estate tax have shown that taxes generally are not a major factor in the decision of where to live or retire.»

President, National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies Alumni Association, Mr Khaled Bolaji (left) with Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu during the visit.

President of the Alumni Association of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Mr. Khaled Bolaji has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to take advantage of the wide range of professionals its fold for electoral activities.

The Commission conducts policy studies; analyzes current legislation, programs and trends impacting women; develops collaborative programs with local and regional organizations and public officials; provides educational awareness; and recommends measures to coordinate, consolidate or expand the resources and services available to women in Erie County.

A commission tasked with studying Wisconsin's transportation finance and policy issues finally has its members.

Also contributing to this article were Ron Deutsch, Executive Director of the Fiscal Policy Institute, and Dave Friedfel, Director of State Studies for the Citizens Budget Commission.

Known as Betty, her contributions to public health policy came during her tenure from 1992 to 1998 as president of the William T. Grant Foundation, a social science research nonprofit focused on inequality and improving the lives of young people, and through her earlier work in 1977 as the director of studies of the President's Commission on Mental Health during the administration of President Jimmy Carter.

In a paper published in Marine Policy yesterday, Tom Polacheck, a senior researcher at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), the Australian national research agency in Hobart, presents a case study of how a paper from CSIRO submitted to a subgroup of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission had to be pulled owing to political concerns.

by stimulating, commissioning, overseeing, and disseminating studies and analyses of issues in science, engineering, and public policy; and

A 45 - meter buffer isn't enough, says Peter Thomas, international and policy program director at the Marine Mammal Commission in Bethesda, Maryland, who was not involved in the study.

You report the US Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues as concluding: «policies should protect individual privacy by...

One large study of America's ocean waters, published in May by the Pew Oceans Commission, noted that U.S. policies have for decades focused on developing ocean resources rather than emphasizing conservation.

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After 900 hours of hearings and 1100 interviews over a six - month period, the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission — chaired by Kiyoshi Kurokawa, an academic fellow at Tokyo's National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies — said that the accident was «a profoundly man - made disaster that could and should have been foreseen and prevented».

The studies, commissioned by The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, will be presented at a policy briefing in Washington, D.C. on January 7, 2000 cosponsored by the American Youth Policy policy briefing in Washington, D.C. on January 7, 2000 cosponsored by the American Youth Policy Policy Forum.

In fact, a 2016 study commissioned by IES concluded that «across all states, use of policies and practices promoted by RTT was... lowest for teacher and principal certification and evaluation.»

The legislature has formed a commission to study the matter, but neither Commissioner Doug Christensen nor the state has made any policy decision to test students statewide.

Arkansas's original study, conducted the same year, cost about the same initially but rose to over twice that amount ($ 800,000) when the authors accepted a commission to ascertain whether districts used their extra money in a way consistent with the consultants» evidence - based policies.

However, from the micro-level studies that were commissioned by the Department of Women & Child Development, it is evident that there is a need for re-framing policies for access to employment and quality of employment.

Previously, he served as chair of the state of Georgia's Charter Schools Commission, the education policy advisor to Gov. Sonny Perdue, on the staff of both of Gov. Roy Barnes» Education Reform Study Commissions, and as an expert witness for the state of Georgia in school funding litigation.

Findings from the study, commissioned by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, were released at a news conference here by Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna E. Shalala, Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley, and Lee P. Brown, the director of the office of National Drug Control Policy.

This report from the National Collaboration on Workforce and Disability (NCWD) summarizes the findings and recommendations of a five - year research study commissioned by the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP).

In 2007, KIPP commissioned independent research firm Mathematica Policy Research to conduct a multi-year study of our schools.

On the 25th of October 2011, Professor Aileen Moreton - Robinson, Director of the Indigenous Studies Research Network at QUT was commissioned by the Director of Indigenous Education Policy, Ms Angela Barney Leitch to conduct a desktop audit of all universities» pre-service teacher training and review the Australian and international literatures that were appropriate to this area of study.

An amendment from Senator Orrin Hatch (R - UT) passed unanimously, creating a commission that would study privacy issues and then offer policy recommendations to Congress.

The study, by the Education Commission of the States, details each state's dual - enrollment policies and examines them nationally through the prism of 20 characteristics.

-- Testing critic Bob Schaeffer of FairTest said the administration didn't go far enough: «Now, is the time for concrete steps to reverse counter-productive testing policies, not just more hollow rhetoric and creation of yet another study commission,» he said.

The U.S. Department of Education's Policy and Program Studies Service commissioned this systematic literature review, which focuses on two specific approaches: (1) preschool and K — 3 alignment, and (2) differentiated instruction in kindergarten and first grade.

The recently released school finance «adequacy study» commissioned by the Michigan Legislature is a credible and overdue effort to frame a critically important public policy discussion.

We partnered with Youth Together, Education Trust - West, SEIU Local 1021, Youth UpRising, Oakland Community Organizations (OCO), and Lawyers» Committee for Civil Rights to commission a study about effective teaching policy in Oakland.

NASBE uses study groups, task forces, commissions and networks to investigate the issues and make reports and policy recommendations which are published by NASBE.

Illinois principal preparation policy has been recognized in studies commissioned by the Wallace Foundation and University Council for Education Administration, and was recognized also with the Education Commission of the States Frank Newman Award for State Innovation.

The report is the third in a series from CTP under the leadership of Michael Knapp, Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, and commissioned by The Wallace Foundation, that investigates leadership in urban schools and districts.

Michael Crichton argued for independent verification of research used for public policy, and criticized the so - called «hockeystick» study, for reasons later confirmed by the Wegman Commission.