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AFCC went on record encouraging then California Governor Ronald Reagan to continue the Blue Ribbon Commission on the Family and «to begin a concerted assault on the high incidence of divorce in our society and its tragic consequences.»

These findings will inform a report developed later this year by the state's Blue Ribbon Commission on Financing High - Quality, Affordable Child Care.

Instead, the administration appointed the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future to address, once again, the country's efforts to store and dispose of high - level radioactive wastes.

Senator Ron Wyden (D, OR) has sponsored S1240, the Nuclear Waste Administration Act of 2013, which implements key recommendations of the President's Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future.

The mayor's Green Ribbon Commission On Climate Protection is looking at whether plug - in hybrids make sense for the city.

The MTA Blue Ribbon Commission on Sustainability and Climate Change, which I chaired, issued a report in 2009 recommending a wide range of actions that the MTA take to prepare itself for the future.

Wisconsin lawmakers make up over half of the panel assembled for the state's Blue Ribbon Commission on School Funding.

The Blue Ribbon Commission on School Funding assembled in December.

The Legislature's Blue Ribbon Commission on School Funding has released its full schedule of public hearings.

The Blue Ribbon Commission on School Funding hearings, happening across Wisconsin, feature invited speakers, followed by public testimony limited to five minutes each.

The Blue Ribbon Commission on School Funding met for the first time yesterday (Dec. 14), holding an informational public hearing that featured presentations from the staff of the non-partisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau (LFB) as well as the Department of Public Instruction (DPI).

The Blue Ribbon Commission on School Funding has announced that the first of its statewide public hearings will be held on Friday, Feb. 2, 2018 at the James Madison Academic Campus, 8135 W. Florist Ave, Milwaukee.

Dr. Hill - Clarke is President of the Indiana Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (IACTE); is a Lead Faculty Fellow with the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education Leadership Academy; and serves on the Indiana Blue Ribbon Commission on the Recruitment and Retention of Excellent Educators, the Indiana AdvancED Steering Council, the Superintendent's Cabinet for Vigo County Schools, and the Vigo County Education Foundation Board of Directors.

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The Blue Ribbon Commission on School Funding has released the details of its public hearing for Monday, May 7 in Tomahawk.

The next meeting of the Blue Ribbon Commission on School Funding is tentatively being set for Friday February 2, 2018 in Milwaukee.

The Blue Ribbon Commission on School Funding has released the details of its public hearing set for Monday, May 21 in Turtle Lake.

The Blue Ribbon Commission on School Funding has scheduled its next public hearing for Monday, March 5, 2018 in La Crosse at North Woods International School.

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The Co-Chairs of the Blue Ribbon Commission on School Funding, Rep. Joel Kitchens (R - Sturgeon Bay) and Sen. Luther Olsen (R - Ripon), have announced the dates and cities of all the future public hearings of the commission tasked with taking a comprehensive review of Wisconsin's school funding system.

I will be in Turtle Lake Monday at 1 pm for the next Blue Ribbon Commission on School Funding public hearing.

During last week's State Education Convention, state Rep. Joel Kitchens (R - Sturgeon Bay), who co-chairs the Blue Ribbon Commission on School Funding, shared information about the Commission's mission and schedule, including a memo outlining the scope of the Commission's directive.

The Blue Ribbon Commission on School Funding has released the details of its public hearing for Monday, April 23 in Oshkosh.

The Blue Ribbon Commission on School Funding has released the details of its public hearing for Monday, April 9 in Fennimore.

The Blue Ribbon Commission on School Funding meeting originally scheduled for March 5 in La Crosse but cancelled due to bad weather has been rescheduled for Monday, March 19.

A year ago, North Carolina's Blue Ribbon Commission on Testing and Accountability issued a report recommending a sharp reduction in the number of tests that the state required.

Over the years, Ms. Eisenhower has served as a member of three blue ribbon commissions for the Department of Energy for three different secretaries: The Baker - Cutler Commission on U.S. Funded Non-Proliferation Programs in Russia; The Sununu - Meserve Commission on Nuclear Energy; and the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future, which released its findings on a comprehensive program for the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle in the winter of 2012.

The Obama administration established the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future on January 29, 2010 to conduct a comprehensive review of spent fuel and high - level waste policies and recommend a new plan.

In response to the Obama Administration's «Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future,» SRIC submitted various reports, participated in three meetings, and has provided information about WIPP and nuclear waste storage and disposal policies to the public, policymakers, and the media.

As President Obama's Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future continues to ponder what role nuclear power might play in the U.S. electricity supply, a group of scientists, engineers and other experts assembled by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) released a report on the nuclear fuel cycle paid for by the nuclear industry.

The draft bill includes many of the suggestions made by the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future.

The 2012 presidential Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future recommended more research, and the U.S. Department of Energy is now developing an R&D plan.

The Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future wasn't specifically asked to decide the viability of a permanent nuclear waste repository in remote Yucca Mountain, Nev..

Exxon board member Bill George led a National Association of Corporate Directors Blue Ribbon Commission on «Executive Compensation and the Role of the Compensation Committee,» which included recommendations such as not offering contracts to executives (giving the board more flexibility in how it deals with the CEO's pay and tenure), which is reflected in the pay practices at ExxonMobil.

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One of the most hopeful examples of using independent commissions to get around political roadblocks, the Kerrey Commission on entitlements, was loaded with blue - ribbon experts — Senators, bankers, philanthropists, college presidents.

A recent report from a blue - ribbon panel, the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons, suggests sweeping changes to reduce violence behind bars and improve health care so that when prisoners are released — 600,000 each year — they will be better citizens.

They can just look at the reports from the ten or twenty PREVIOUS «blue ribbon» panels or commissions on mandate relief — including the 2008 Suozzi report.

He has tried valiantly, if occasionally, to remain relevant in recent years, serving on blue - ribbon commissions and sharing his views on Twitter.

On September 26, 2015 as part of the 6th Annual Break the Cycle Bike - A-Thon and walk, Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz was joined at Isle View Park in Tonawanda by members of the Erie County Commission on the Status of Women, Chairman of the Buffalo and Erie County Greenway Fund Standing Committee Alan J. Bozer, members of the Erie County Department of Parks, Recreation and Forestry, WNY domestic violence agencies and community partners, victims of domestic violence and their families, and community members committed to ending domestic violence to cut the ribbon and officially open Erie County's new Tribute Garden honoring domestic violence victims and survivorOn September 26, 2015 as part of the 6th Annual Break the Cycle Bike - A-Thon and walk, Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz was joined at Isle View Park in Tonawanda by members of the Erie County Commission on the Status of Women, Chairman of the Buffalo and Erie County Greenway Fund Standing Committee Alan J. Bozer, members of the Erie County Department of Parks, Recreation and Forestry, WNY domestic violence agencies and community partners, victims of domestic violence and their families, and community members committed to ending domestic violence to cut the ribbon and officially open Erie County's new Tribute Garden honoring domestic violence victims and survivoron the Status of Women, Chairman of the Buffalo and Erie County Greenway Fund Standing Committee Alan J. Bozer, members of the Erie County Department of Parks, Recreation and Forestry, WNY domestic violence agencies and community partners, victims of domestic violence and their families, and community members committed to ending domestic violence to cut the ribbon and officially open Erie County's new Tribute Garden honoring domestic violence victims and survivors.

Nearly 100 civic and community groups on Wednesday called for Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara to create a blue - ribbon panel akin to the shuttered Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption and clean up the «pay - to - play» culture they said rules real - estate development in the city.

We were spurred into action when the Augustine commission, a blue - ribbon panel that President Barack Obama set up earlier that year to review the space shuttle and its intended successor, reported that «the U.S. human spaceflight program appears to be on an unsustainable trajectory.»

Decades of studies, reports, and blue - ribbon commissions have criticized ed schools for low entrance requirements, mediocre standards, an emphasis on theory over practice, and outdated curricula.

She has been a Commissioner for the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF); served on the TeachNY Advisory Council formed by the Chancellor of SUNY (State University of New York System) and the NCATE Blue Ribbon Panel focused on the Future of Teacher Preparation.

She was a member of the NEA's Commission on Effective Teachers and Teaching and NCATE's Blue Ribbon Panel on Clinical Preparation and Partnerships for Improved Student Learning.

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Howle, who addressed the board in person and praised the effort of the past 16 months, was no sooner out of the room than the commission began looking at its next big agenda - implementing some 80 recommendations from a blue ribbon panel on improving teacher quality.

Eighteen months in the making and written by the blue - ribbon members of the National Commission on Excellence in Education at the behest of Secretary of Education Terrel Bell, the report examined the quality of education in the United States — and the findings were anything but stellar.

According to the Blue Ribbon Panel on Clinical Preparation and Partnerships for Improved Student Learning commissioned by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, clinically based teacher preparation should follow 10 design principles: 35

Important in Falkenstein's career were her public art commissions, which include the gates of the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice, Italy, and numerous projects throughout California including the UCLA Sculpture Garden, the San Diego Museum, the Long Beach Museum, the Saint Basil Church on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, and Sun Ribbon, a wind screen adjacent to the Noguchi Gardens in Costa Mesa.

His winning commission of a bronze sculpture of a horse's skeleton, [12] titled Gift Horse, comes with an electronic ribbon tied to its front leg that displays a live ticker of prices on the London Stock Exchange.