Sentences with phrase «while policy choices»

While policy choices at first can appear daunting and costly, life insurance is often viewed as the primary requisite of any financial plan.

Landscape changes such as deforestation can trigger droughts, while policy choices exacerbate impacts.

Not exact matches

While models that attempt to forecast potential economic impacts provide useful insights regarding potential risks when exploring policy choices, the Commission is of the view that it must also consider the potential upsides of greater choice, including the retention of subscribers in the system, as well as the risks associated with maintaining the status quo in a context of increased demand for more choice.

An emerging focus for startups, established institutions, and policy makers is to facilitate access to new payments providers in a way that boosts competition while also creating greater choice and convenience for the end user.

Some organizations prefer a strictly mandated policy that deeply restricts traveler choices and punishes noncompliance, while others take a softer - handed approach, allowing travelers more latitude to make decisions that will benefit them and the organization.

Anyway, it'll be on policy choices that the Trudeau Government stands or falls with Canadian voters, regardless of the effort of the Conservatives to make couture an issue, and while there's plenty to criticize in the Liberal policy book, taken as a package Canadians don't yet seem that dissatisfied with what they're getting.

While analyzing OptionBit and deciding whether or not it's a suitable choice for trading, their bonus policy was one thing that impressed us the most.

They were also blind to the reality that, while people might have been unhappy about elements of Obama's foreign policy and would be willing to trade up to something better, most swing voters would, if faced with a constrained choice, prefer the mistakes of Obama to the mistakes of George W. Bush.

While formula and breast pumps give us the freedom of choice to work, cultural expectations and policy put women in a position of toughing it out.

The council say the HDP seeks to improve the quality, choice and affordability in the private rented sector, while providing a mixed tenure of homes: — 50 % private market rental — 35 % affordable rent and shared ownership in line with local planning policy — 15 % sold to the private market on completion.

«Health care in America must work better and become more affordable, relieving taxpayers of the financial burdens under this failed policy, and give patients more choices, while still continuing to cover Americans with pre-existing conditions and allowing children to stay on their parent's policy.

While the choice of Clovis is clearly a break from past administrations, the most important qualification may be a good understanding of agriculture and the workings of the federal land grant college system, where much of the publicly supported research is done, said Lee Van Wychen, science policy director for the Weed Science Society of America.

While the digital market is growing and the choice for e-commerce platforms and sellers is expanding, consumer policies have to ensure that the rules and regulations that apply to online shopping are up - to - date and effectively protect all customers.

While there has been a clear schism between reform's free market enthusiasts and its social justice wing, there can be little doubt that the movement's center of gravity has shifted sharply to the left, even though political progressives mostly regard the standard reform agenda — choice, charters, testing, anti-union policies — with contempt.

While Murphy continued work with a think tank called the Empire Foundation for Policy Research, helping to produce a report on education choice in 1993, Carroll and Brian Backstrom, another veteran of the budget office, and Jason Brooks, a fresh - faced triple major (history, religion, and political science) from Syracuse University, started FERA in 1998.

While new policies encouraging greater family choice of schooling vary greatly across the states, we believe that emerging lessons from Michigan are worth heeding.

Importantly, the successful provision of information related to college choice through initiatives like ECO-C is likely to magnify the return to existing federal and state aid policies, while the return to high - cost interventions such as expanding the Pell grant program is likely to be very limited unless students possess sufficient information about college alternatives.

While many public school choice options can be considered by states — including open enrollment policies and magnet schools — the most prominent public school choice policy is charter schools.

Legislators should strive to design educational choice policies that maximize parents» direct financial responsibility while still ensuring universal access to a quality education.

While the national discourse focuses on the merits of school choice initiatives in their own right and for their own sakes, as leaders of state and local education systems, as educators of diverse regional, political, and professional backgrounds, we believe that these policies are better thought of as means to critical ends, and that the goal of these and other education policies should be, above all else, the enhancement of skills for America's youngest generation and expanded opportunity for children to thrive as adults.

While federal policy from No Child Left Behind, to Race to the Top and the Every Student Succeeds Act defined multi-issue agendas that included elements of the accountability, choice, and equity agendas, within the advocacy sector, «education reform» has never been a unifying framework.

We further believe that while education systems should be attuned to the needs of all students, including high - performing students and students raised in middle - and upper - income homes, policy makers must be particularly sensitive to the needs of student groups whose choices have historically been limited by law or by circumstance, including students of color, students raised in low - income homes, students with English language needs, and students with disabilities.

She referred to her critics as «flat - earthers» and said that while the federal government would never force states to adopt choice - friendly policies, those who opt out are making a «terrible mistake.»

Alyson Klein reports for Education Week that while school choice may be «having a big moment in K - 12 policy,» you would «never know it from reading» state ESSA plans.

While some states such as Minnesota, Wisconsin and California began embracing the expansion of choice through the passage of charter school laws as well as the launch of voucher programs, it was the move by the Clinton administration during the 1990s to make charters a key part of federal education policy that helped spur states to expand choice in their own states.

While most of the action on education reform broadly, and school choice specifically, is at the state level, the items in the President's budget and these additional policy ideas would be a tremendous help in facilitating greater educational opportunity for America's K - 12 children.»

And while the laws and policies vary between the states, supporters of school choice share one common belief.

While more than half (55 percent) of all Americans think it is important that students of different races or ethnicities attend school together, many oppose policies that would limit parental choice.

While determining what's «speeding up» and «slowing down» is, of course, a matter of perspective and word choice, not even every member of Huston's party is as keen on another year as active as 2011 in education policy.

While the state's rightly have control over education, and education policy, the president - elect can expand education choice through a number of areas:

While education policies are generally left to the state's there is work the president can do in promoting and encouraging the advancement of school choice throughout the country.

And while her supporters say she has deep knowledge when it comes to vouchers, charter schools, and other forms of choice, she appeared confused during her confirmation hearing about other areas of education policy, including special education.

While it is possible that the under - enrollment of ELL students in choice schools may not be the root of the problem, the remediation of this enrollment disparity may have the potential to turn around the achievement gap for English language learners in the state of Connecticut, and both policy changes and the creation of new, dual - language magnet schools are two, very promising solutions.

While DeVos acknowledged that not every state will choose to implement programs that give parents the most choices, she noted that the federal government will encourage such programs, and she emphasized the value of federalism, regardless of what states choose to do in the realm of education policy.

While the federal government has only a peripheral role in policy choices like this, it has played a significant role in encouraging, incentivizing, and funding the expansion of charter schools which can establish themselves in closed schools.

While this study provides one useful data point for policy makers who are considering introducing or expanding educational choice in their states, policy makers should also consider information generated by studies that have already measured the impact of educational choice on segregation.

While choice policies have significantly grown in recent years, the vast majority of districts continue to assign students to a public school based on where they live.

Parent activist Megan Wolf, who testified about the bill during the Oct. 3 hearing at the State House, said the filing of the new enrollment policy took many by surprise and occurs while the public remains largely in the dark on details such as how the proposed unified enrollment process would work — including its impact on school choice, equitable access and the BPS budget.

Click here for a PDF of our paper The Problem with School Vouchers Policy Brief The «school choice» movement in Pennsylvania has been gaining steam over the past several months, and while past attempts to implement a voucher program in Pennsylvania have been unsuccessful, the idea has been reintroduced in the form on Senate Bill 1.

While states» policies differ, charter schools are broadly defined as nonsectarian public schools of choice that can operate outside traditional school regulations.

While a large number of insurers offer simplified issue life insurance policies, Sagicor is a great choice as they offer competitive rates and some of the highest death benefits.

While Life Choice UL is the better policy for those that know they want over $ 100,000 of universal life coverage, Life Step UL charges a bit more to come with greater flexibility.

Sagicor's Fixed Indexed Universal Life (FIUL) is a flexible - premium, universal life insurance policy that may be the perfect choice for protecting your dreams while it helps you to achieve your long term financial goals.

Term policies are fairly simple; the policy pays out to your beneficiary or beneficiaries of choice if you die while your policy is inforce.

Some people swear by term insurance, while others tout permanent policies as the best choice.

While most home insurance policies won't give you a choice, some providers have limits or conditions that enable a homeowner to take cash - value for their destroyed home, rather than spend the proceeds on rebuilding.

But while it's a solid choice, owners of large - breed dogs should be wary of a specific policy rule regarding hip dysplasia.

While one would think that prohibiting players from having the option to digitally purchase a game on day one is not much of a «choice,» Bhardwaj remained adamant in the success of Microsoft's policy.

Moreover, while again, almost as at its first opening more than hundred years ago, the Stedelijk Museum drew controversies for its artistic choice, its policy and its financial decisions, the new museum is yet again interesting and fun to visit.

Over all, Obama's choices reflect his longstanding pattern of charting a pragmatic path reflecting the need for strong regulation, including of greenhouse gases (embodied in McCarthy), and the simultaneous need to advance responsible use of cleaner fossil fuels while also using policies and investments to advance non-polluting energy technologies for the long haul.