Sentences with phrase «systems change committee»

For the past year ZERO TO THREE has been working with Maternal Mental Health NOW and the Maternal Mental Health Policy and Systems Change Committee in Los Angeles County, California, on recommendations to improve the maternal health system in Los Angeles County.

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In prepared testimony expected to be delivered to the Senate committee by Mr. Cook and other Apple executives on Tuesday, the company said it «welcomes an objective examination of the U.S. corporate tax system, which has not kept pace with the advent of the digital age and the rapidly changing global economy.»

This feature article draws on recent work by the Committee on the Global Financial System (CGFS) to investigate trends in market - making and what they mean for the financial system (CGFS (2014)-RRB-.2 We use a simple conceptual framework to assess how supply and demand for liquidity have changed in fixed income markets, particularly in markets for sovereign and corporate System (CGFS) to investigate trends in market - making and what they mean for the financial system (CGFS (2014)-RRB-.2 We use a simple conceptual framework to assess how supply and demand for liquidity have changed in fixed income markets, particularly in markets for sovereign and corporate system (CGFS (2014)-RRB-.2 We use a simple conceptual framework to assess how supply and demand for liquidity have changed in fixed income markets, particularly in markets for sovereign and corporate bonds.

The second key change followed another financial system inquiry undertaken by the Wallis Committee.

«Previous consumer research indicates that people are using the HSR system to choose healthier options within product categories, and this behaviour change is lasting,» said the Committee.

«It would cost $ 300 million per annum to introduce such a change,» he told the committee, referring to costs linked with updating menus, reconfiguring back - end systems and maintaining compliance.

And after policy change, the hard work of implementation, with committees, parent networks and systems for ensuring changes in practice are sustained and there isn't drift back to old ways.

In addition, Rice agreed to serve on a committee formed by Franklin County DA Derek Champagne to monitor the impact of the changes to the law on the criminal justice system.

The system has changed to get permanent secretaries to appear at select committees.

At present not every party is represented on every committee, when there may be only 12 members, and this would not change whether DPR Voting or any other electoral system is used to elect the lower House.

[52] Becoming active in the politics of the London Borough of Camden, Livingstone was elected Chair of Camden's Housing Committee; putting forward radical reforms, he democratised council housing meetings by welcoming local people, froze rents for a year, reformed the rate collection system, changed rent arrears procedures and implemented further compulsory purchase orders to increase council housing.

He has his own education committee studying potential changes to the evaluation system, which is expected to release a separate set of proposals to be voted on this legislative session.

However, the plans still do not address concerns raised by the constitutional affairs select committee last summer that any fundamental reform of the coroners system must include a change in the way deaths are certified.

Moreover, the quality of decision making would be improved if the abolition of the Lords was accompanied by appropriate reforms to the House of Commons (such as changing the voting system to PR and greatly strengthening select committees to scrutinise legislation and temporarily appoint outside expert advisers, etc).

We helped shape the new «soft opt - out» system of organ donation in Wales when it was introduced, giving oral evidence to the Welsh Assembly Government Committee Inquiry that led to the change.

In June 2016, the House of Commons of Canada Special Committee on Electoral Reform was formed to examine potential changes to the voting system with MMP being one of the options examined.

The election of Sarah Wollaston as Chair of the health committee illustrates the changing nature of the committee system

The Institute for Government's Hannah White asks what her election as the new Chair of the health select committee tells us about the way the system is changing.

Sarah Wollaston's election as Chair of House of Commons» health select committee shows how that system is changing http://t.co/tpmx7oXdxf

Sarah Wollaston as Chair of the health committee shows changing nature of the committee system: Democratic Audit http://t.co/lRFHLBBvdG

We helped shape the system in Wales when it was introduced, giving oral evidence to the Welsh Assembly Government Committee Inquiry that led to the change.

The election of Sarah Wollaston as Chair of the health committee illustrates changing nature of the committee system http://t.co/C8O03tGMPX

The House committee on Capitol Hill tasked with changing the nation's tax system is aiming to have a final bill by the end of this week.

A report by MPs in the Commons Political and Constitutional Reform committee, have discussed «modest» rule changes to the House of Lords, but at present, suggests «there may be no compelling reason to alter an historic system of inheritance», due to the fact that «aristocratic titles no longer confer any particular rights, duties or privileges».

Consequently the government's decision to forgo the temptation of making unnecessary machinery of government changes to mark the start of the new parliament — showing the sort of restraint that the IfG has argued for — means that the select committee system will also stay broadly the same.

Katko's rejection of the replacement bill comes after the White House and Republican Study Committee agreed Friday to changes, including using block grants to pay for Medicaid, rather than a cap system.

Some of the technology - focused changes the Assembly pledged to implement include making the functionality of the legislature's bill - tracking system available to the public; creating a web portal that includes all information related to bills, including committee actions and evaluations by outside groups; the creation of a C - Span like legislative television channel; making the content of the legislative library searchable online and modernizing the Assembly's phone system to include digital voicemail boxes.

Sir Christopher's committee on standards in public life carried out a six - month inquiry in the wake of the scandal about MPs» expenses and made a series of recommendations earlier this month to change the system.

Although policy implementation often moves at a glacial pace, moving through committee after committee, I am optimistic about positive change within the UC system in the near future.

But Ronald Geller, director of extramural affairs at the N.I.H.'s Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the chairman of a committee that drafted the proposal, said that researchers would have the chance to assess the system — and recommend changes in it, if necessary — once it is in place.

Prompted by advances such as this, the committee did, however, identify a key change that would be possible with current technology: moving to a sequence - based classification system for the regulation of dangerous pathogens.

«Despite important progress on CERP implementation, there has been insufficient attention on refining long - term systemwide goals and objectives and on the need to adapt CERP to radically changing system and planning constraints,» said David B. Ashley, professor of engineering practice at the University of Southern California and chair of the committee that conducted the study and wrote the report.

«It's similar to using personal finance software at home where you have to gather income and expenditure data, «run the numbers» and then use the results to make smart process changes — savings, cutbacks, streamlining, etc. — that will optimize your monthly budget,» said NIST systems engineer Kevin Lyons, who chaired the ASTM committee that developed the manufacturing sustainability standard.

To better anticipate the next sudden change, the committee recommends the creation of an early warning system and research to better understand the possibilities.

The Knowledge Economy and Postsecondary Education, The Committee on the Impact of the Changing Economy on the Postsecondary Education System (Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2002).

However, Schools Minister Nick Gibb told the Commons Education Select Committee last week that the changes to the initial teacher training system had been «successful» and resulted in higher numbers and speedier applications.

The House education committee met Wednesday to discuss substituted changes to HB 5223 and HB 5224 designed to implement a new teacher evaluation system that for the first time would include student growth in rating a teacher's performance.

But Republicans are concerned the system has changed from what a bipartisan committee agreed to earlier this year, said Sarah Archibald, an aide to Sen. Luther Olsen, R - Ripon, chairman of the Senate Education Ccommittee agreed to earlier this year, said Sarah Archibald, an aide to Sen. Luther Olsen, R - Ripon, chairman of the Senate Education CommitteeCommittee.

A committee of state lawmakers approved changes to two bills that would create Michigan's first statewide teacher evaluation system and delayed a final vote on it until next week.

MPs on the parliamentary education committee are currently holding an inquiry into support for children with SEND, including examining the impact of the «wide - reaching changes» to the SEND system and the replacement statements of SEND with education and health care plans.

Changes to the exam system have been anticipated by a series of newspaper leaks - an issue raised by the education select committee in questions to Mr Gove.

In my opinion — and that of the Education Select Committee — one of the biggest challenges for developing appropriate oversight of changing education provision is ensuring transparency so that the system can be understood by everyone from politicians right through to parents.

The Joint Finance Committee last week also approved budget language that changes the way the voucher system is funded.

The committee's probe will examine the impact of «wide - reaching changes» to the SEND system introduced by the government in 2014.

Sen. Luther Olsen, R - Ripon, chairman of the Senate Education Committee, agreed that the formula is flawed, but previous efforts to make changes have failed to yield a better system.

The unions were part of a statewide committee that recommended changes to the teacher evaluation process, including linking evaluations to student progress, but union officials told legislators that teachers fear that the process could lead to abuses and that the system needs fine - tuning.

The report issued by Illinois Education Funding Advisory Committee reviewed the state's existing pre-kindergarten to 12th grade education funding system and proposed changes to the state's education funding system.

The Connecticut School Finance Project has repeatedly criticized this plan (and the governor's proposed changes to the state's school finance system) in both testimony before the Appropriations and Education Committees and in a Connecticut Mirror op - ed.

«We went ahead, implementing this incredibly expensive and elaborate strategy for changing the education system without creating enough ways to test whether what we are doing is useful or not,» said Dan Ariely, a professor of behavioral economics at Duke University and member of the committee that produced the report.

However, according to committee spokesman Michael Woeste, the changes made in the PROSPER Act are necessary to help students and ``... fix a system that has not been serving their needs.»