Sentences with phrase «public impact recently»

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The National Association of Manufacturers and the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council (SBEC), in partnership with the International Franchise Association and Women Impacting Public Policy, recently launched a coalition and advocacy campaign called Rethink Red Tape.

«As Massachusetts and Vermont recently legalized recreational marijuana, as well as other states across the nation, the governor has directed DOH to undertake a study to understand the potential impacts on the criminal justice system, economy and public health,» Fashouer said in a statement.

Aside from its impact on sea levels, weather and the economy, researchers say climate change is also an urgent public health concern, a matter that has been largely left out of the global climate conversation until recently.

Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Hirokazu Yoshikawa recently was awarded a $ 1.2 million U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences grant to study the impact of prekindergarten on Boston Public School (BPS) students.

But, as Rick Hess (an executive editor of this journal) wrote on his blog recently, that film had little long - term impact on public opinion.

Addressing these challenges is the focus of three new white papers a Public Impact team led by Lucy Steiner recently produced with the support of the National Charter School Resource Center and the U.S. Department of Education's Charter Schools Program.

A paper I recently co-authored with Mike McShane, Director of Education Policy at the Show - Me Institute, estimated the fiscal impact of a broad - eligibility ESA program on Missouri taxpayers and public school districts.

And, given that the ratings are a snapshot of public presence in 2010, the results obviously advantage scholars who recently penned a successful book or big - impact study.

IMPACT, the controversial teacher - evaluation system recently introduced in the District of Columbia Public Schools, appears to have caused hundreds of teachers in the district to improve their performance markedly while also encouraging some low - performing teachers to voluntarily leave the district's classrooms, according to a new study from the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education and the Stanford Graduate School of Education.

Most recently, Emily helped launch the Opportunity Culture Initiative, Public Impact's effort to develop and refine school and staffing models for reaching more students with excellent teachers.

Aspire Public Schools, Lighthouse Community Charter, and KIPP Bay Area Schools (KIPP Bridge) were recently recognized for their significant impact by education experts on the Local Education 2012 Philanthropedia list.

Evers noted that parent and citizen groups had a huge impact on school funding in the recently enacted budget and applauded them for standing up for strong public schools.

More recently, Dr. Scripp has posted the Partnership in Arts Integration Research (PAIR) Report on ArtsEdSearch — a publication that details the expansive scope of arts learning research methods and findings in the Chicago Public Schools (see www.pairresults.org)-- and the Oakland Unified School District Principal Investigator's report, which demonstrates how a Music PLUS Music Integration Curriculum Intervention optimizes both music learning and its impact on academic performance when compared to conventional music control school programs.

The Milwaukee Common Council recently passed an ordinance that requires the city's Charter School Review Committee (CSRC) to produce an Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) financial impact statement for any new charter school they authorize for approval.

's most recent post (November 25, 2013) about the non-peer-reviewed National Bureau of Economic Research's DC IMPACT study, another recently published study albeit this time in the Journal of Labor Economics, a top - field peer - reviewed journal, found no impact of incentives in New York City's (NYC) public schools given its large - scale multimillion prIMPACT study, another recently published study albeit this time in the Journal of Labor Economics, a top - field peer - reviewed journal, found no impact of incentives in New York City's (NYC) public schools given its large - scale multimillion primpact of incentives in New York City's (NYC) public schools given its large - scale multimillion program.

After our recent post regarding the DC Public Schools» IMPACT Evaluation System, and Diane Ravitch's follow - up, a DC teacher wrote to Diane expressing his concerns about his DC IMPACT evaluation scores, attaching the scores he recently received after his supervising administrator and a master educator observed the same 30 - minute lesson he recently taught to the same class.

On behalf of our members, TCSA recently submitted public comments to Education Commissioner Mike Morath on matters impacting students at public charter schools: New Instructional Facility Allotment and separately, the Student Attendance Accounting Handbook.

Michelle Rhee who, as many of you know, is the founder and current CEO of StudentsFirst, as well as former Chancellor of Washington D.C.'s public schools who during her tenure there, enacted a strict, controversial teacher evaluation system (i.e., IMPACT) that has been at the source of different posts here and here, most recently following the «gross» errors in 44 D.C. public school teachers» evaluation scores.

Public Impact's Jeanette Cornier and Cassie Lutterloh, who wrote the report with Public Impact Co-Director Bryan C. Hassel, recently presented on this approach to Measuring Turnaround Success at a Center on School Turnaround webinar for state leaders.

Their Secure American Future Program, dedicated to raising public awareness of the threat posed by climate change and creating a movement for action, recently released Climate Security Index (5.3 MB download), a report that looks at the impacts of global climate disruption as a U.S. national security problem.

For all my talk of green lifestyle choices never saving us (which one commenter, not unfairly, recently described as public self - justification), I do believe that personal and local action can have a profound impact on our culture, and that impact can in turn create systemic change for our economy as a whole.

Their efforts to serve the public by providing an accessible, fair, efficient and innovative forum for justice also include several notable initiatives with direct public impact: In addition to hosting the second - ever Twitter Town Hall, the Court is also taking greater efforts to improve meaningful access to justice for self - represented litigants (SRLs), and has recently released Guidelines for Using a Support Person in Provincial Court.

For instance, the Association of International Certified Public Accountants recently identified several emerging issues that are impacting the work of accounting professionals today, and will continue.

Most recently Alexa has been working in the Collaboration for Evidence, Research and Impact in Public Health (CERIPH) at Curtin University as a consultant to the Aboriginal Maternity Services Support Unit.

That is why a public service announcement that centered on the impact of parental alienation was recently released.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development recently unveiled a new mobile app to help educate the public about hidden home hazards that can impact the health of their families.