Sentences with phrase «about agency practices»

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Companies submit certain information about themselves to a certification agency, including a physical address, Dun & Bradstreet listing, what their e-mail practices are, or how they obtain their e-mail mailing lists.

At the same time, government agencies are increasing their scrutiny of employee misclassification due to a growing number of complaints about abusive labor practices by sharing economy companies.

The agency is looking at several payday lending practices, and Director Richard Cordray said at an advisory board meeting last month, «One of our priorities is to make sure consumers who are deciding whether or not to take out a payday loan are presented with clear information about the risks and costs associated with that loan.»

Polling and advertising agencies have been warning us about confusion around the practice of going green.

COAA member agencies meet monthly to share information on our practices, discuss legislation regarding adoptions, network, support, train, work to accurately portray adoption in the media, and community education about adoption.

For me, this meant choosing not to certify with any doula certifying agency because I would then be required to work under their ideals and scope of practice - often those conflict directly with offering women the truth about the type of care they might receive.

Members of the public, NGOs and donor agencies want to assist babies and giving them good information about infant and young child feeding in emergencies will help to prevent harmful practices and help to protect the most vulnerable to illness and death.

Each time we wondered about why the agency's practices operated a certain way, the answer always came back to what was best for the child, first and foremost, and also what would be most supportive of the birth parents.

Description Day One: This training is designed for the new and the experienced play therapist in agency, private practice, and school settings who is interested in learning more about play therapy interventions and techniques.

«This turns upside down the longstanding compensation practice of home care agencies with respect to live - in aides, and raises questions about how providers are supposed to compensate their aides going forward,» said Emina Poricanin, an attorney with Hodgson Russ LLP, the firm that represented the New York State Association of Health Care Providers.

«In this environment, anyone can ask about anything, but the fact is the longstanding practice of detailing staff from Agencies to work in the Executive Chamber dates back over 50 years to at least the Rockefeller administration and extends to the White House and the federal Department of Justice,» he said.

«In this environment, anyone can ask about anything, but the fact is the longstanding practice of detailing staff from agencies to work in the Executive Chamber dates back over 50 years to at least the Rockefeller administration and extends to the White House and the federal Department of Justice,» Azzopardi said in a statement.

The Urban League's preventive care contract with the county has been the subject of scrutiny since November 2014, when eight Urban League caseworkers wrote to the county comptroller to express «extreme concern» about the agency's practices, ranging from a culture of «creative billing» to a lack of training opportunities.

Questions continue about economic development practices by Governor Cuomo's Administration, including the proposed sale of valuable piece of land from one state agency to another state entity for a dollar.

Jameson Doig, author of a book about the agency's history, Empire on the Hudson, says that while the Authority has always been a backwater of patronage, Gov. Christie took the practice to new heights, appointing more than 70 people — primarily those who helped him out in the 2009 election — to jobs within the agency, both high and low level.

Farajidavar secured priceless advice about grant funding practices from his PI, who had served on review panels for several national agencies.

The business exposure is a benefit, he says: «My own university research has improved through what I've learned from industry practices about management, engagement with funding agencies, and identifying translational opportunities.»

Chemist Seth Snyder is a recipient of funding from ARPA - E, the new U.S. energy research agency, and he'll talk about the importance of risky research in practice.

The Food Standard Agency has announced a change to its advice about eating eggs — infants, children, pregnant women and elderly people can now safely eat raw or lightly cooked eggs that are produced under the British Lion Code of Practice.

Elliott's (1977) advice about improving practice is useful here: there is no structure proposed to be strictly adhered to, rather it is hoped that teachers use this information to gain insight and a sense of agency over their teaching.

So let's use it as an opportunity to share some power and control with students, helping them practice in ways that best meet their needs while also boosting their sense of agency and ownership about learning.

In tandem with a new website that offers important educational resources, including thinking routines to stimulate learning, the paper solidifies Agency by Design's efforts to shape a set of research - based, educator - tested practices and to invite the broad community of maker educators into a conversation about the ideas driving and shaping the movement.

On June 16, the left - leaning ProPublica published a leaked memo from the Department's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) explaining that the agency would no longer automatically turn individual complaints about sexual harassment into year - long investigations of the practices of an entire university or school district.

When we think about Signature Practice # 5, let's look at this as representing the positive thing of having students take more agency and ownership of their learning and being more self - directed.

Dr. Menzel is currently the editor of Perspectives: A Journal of Research and Practice About Educational Service Agencies.

TXCC assisted the Texas Education Agency (TEA) staff with coordination of the council's work to inform policymakers and stakeholders about high - quality development and implementation of expanded learning opportunities for public school children, applying knowledge of research and best practices in this area.

Another big take away from the course was the idea that maker - centered learning is about more than just a designated space or fancy equipment — and that the practices associated with the Agency by Design framework for maker - centered learning can be applied across content areas.

The meeting is collaboratively planned with national technical assistance partners to build capacity of state agency leaders and early childhood specialists to provide informed leadership about research - based practices that directly impact the development and learning of children, birth through grade three.

The purpose of CEELO's National RoundTAble is to provide early childhood specialists and their colleagues in State Education Agencies with research and best practice to improve states» knowledge about and use of early childhood comprehensive assessment systems and teacher evaluation in the early years of the learning continuum.

He is currently the editor of Perspectives: A Journal of Research and Practice About Educational Service Agencies.

«At Inspired Teaching, we think about student agency all the time: what it means, what it looks like, how to cultivate it, and how to encourage teachers to embrace it in their classroom practice.»

You will hear from the Agency by Design research team at Project Zero about the promises, practices and pedagogies of maker - centered learning.

The Roundtable is collaboratively planned by NAECS - SDE and CEELO with national technical assistance partners to build capacity of state agency early childhood specialists to provide informed leadership about research - based practices that directly impact the development and learning of children, birth through grade three.

NACEP's national network of 450 colleges and universities, 70 high schools and school districts and 30 state agencies and system offices actively share the latest knowledge about best practices, research and advocacy.

For this reason, we have compiled a list of resources — mostly from Federal agencies — that can help you learn about substance abuse and finding treatment; proper disposal of unwanted, unneeded or expired medication; workplace and prevention programs, facts about alcohol and drugs, and data and research on prevention practices.

Information about her agency and law practice is online at http://dananewman.com.

While Alexander seemed to feel that this process was not exactly benign, likening it to the practices of music industry or film industry agents instead of literary agents, one agent stated that it was entirely ethical as long as the author knew about it when signing with the agency and had agreed to it.

In his write, HBG Moves to Agency Lite with Amazon and Others, Michael Cader at Publishers Lunch (which requires a very worthwhile subscription) joins Owen in clarifying a couple of things about the publisher's sales practices on its new DoJ - settlement - mandated status:

Their website provides comprehensive information about the whole Debt Restructuring Process, the way their debt analysts help you settle debt for less than the full amount owed and how FDCPA safeguards you against the unfair practices of collection agencies, banks and creditors.

FDCPA expert witnesses are often asked to opine about the practices of a 3rd party debt collector and the potential impact of the collection agency account on a consumer's credit reports and credit scores.

A credit repair business and its salespersons, agents, and representatives, and independent contractors who sell or attempt to sell the services of a credit repair business, shall not do any of the following: (1) Charge or receive any money or other valuable consideration prior to full and complete performance of the services that the credit repair business has agreed to perform for or on behalf of the consumer; (2) Charge or receive any money or other valuable consideration solely for referral of the consumer to a retail seller or to any other credit grantor who will or may extend credit to the consumer, if the credit that is or will be extended to the consumer is upon substantially the same terms as those available to the general public; (3) Represent that it can directly or indirectly arrange for the removal of derogatory credit information from the consumer's credit report or otherwise improve the consumer's credit report or credit standing, provided, this shall not prevent truthful, unexaggerated statements about the consumer's rights under existing law regarding his credit history or regarding access to his credit file; (4) Make, or counsel or advise any consumer to make, any statement that is untrue or misleading and which is known or which by the exercise of reasonable care should be known, to be untrue or misleading, to a consumer reporting agency or to any person who has extended credit to a consumer or to whom a consumer is applying for an extension of credit, with respect to a consumer's creditworthiness, credit standing, or credit capacity; or (5) Make or use any untrue or misleading representations in the offer or sale of the services of a credit repair business or engage, directly or indirectly, in any act, practice, or course of business which operates or would operate as a fraud or deception upon any person in connection with the offer or sale of the services of a credit repair business.

The ACCC (ACCC) and the state government agencies listed above can help with complaints about prices, competition, unfair market practices, product safety, franchises and advertising.

Although it's not a common practice, lenders of title loans can turn your case over to a collection agency if you default on payments, so read on to find out about what debt collectors can not do:

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The CFPB complaint database allowed Americans with student debt to submit complaints about poor treatment and bad business practices regarding lenders, loan servicers, and debt collection agencies directly involved in the student loan industry.

The Humane Education and Advocacy Program serves to educate children and adults about responsible animal stewardship through (1) creating and providing humane education programs; (2) providing informational services to supporters and the general public; (3) networking with other humane organizations; (4) creating and distributing humane education materials; (5) creating, maintaining, and disseminating relevant information via the NHES website, social networking sites, and email newsletters; and (6) advocating for animals by encouraging private companies, law enforcement, regulatory agencies, lawmakers, and other groups nationally and internationally to adopt policies and practices that support the humane treatment of animals.

Agencies may vary, so please ask them about their adoption practices and their policies surrounding the surrender of owned pets.

However, many animal control agencies employ exemplary policies and practices that responsibly increase pet adoptions and provide community education about responsible pet ownership.

If you do encounter what you believe is sub-standard care or practices, it is best to speak with your local animal control agency about the situation.

The agency said it received a complaint about the practice at the facility, and sent its own field agents to Baltimore to see what was going on.