Sentences with phrase «about policies involving»

I'd like to think it's possible to have reasoned discussions about policies involving both science and values — discussions that recognize where the data end and personal choices begin.

Ask about their policy involving problems that should have been picked up on in the inspection.

Not exact matches

Bumble has received complaints about gun photos, but Ms. Herd said the new policy was not an attempt to «sweep up a mess» involving unhappy Bumble users.

David Dodge, the former Bank of Canada governor, told me earlier this year in an interview about housing policy that he would nationalize the mortgage insurance industry; not because he is a Communist, but because it always will be taxpayers who clean up the messes of bankers, especially when it involves houses.

ABC did not address Inc.'s inquiries about Shark Tank's policy for making deals with companies involved in litigation; or relay any answers from Greiner in response to Inc.'s questions.

I am not involved in daily policy development and had no communications with them about this policy, except for today's email mentioned above.

I remember meetings as far back as 2008, for example involving senior United States or European government officials looking to be debriefed on the Chinese economy, in which the foreign (and some Chinese) analysts present spoke jauntily about the great success of China's growth policies and the brilliant future ahead, while many of the Chinese economists present were much more cautious and even gloomy as they discussed the sheer intractability of China's economic distortions.

Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn A. Wilkins discusses key issues involved in the Governing Council's deliberations about the policy rate decision and the MPR.

I want to talk about some of the issues involved here from the perspective of a central banker — whose primary focus is, of course, monetary policy.

The combination of low levels of ES funds and the cash rate remaining close to its target suggests a couple of conclusions: first, the market players involved with RTGS have adapted well to operating in the new environment; and second, participants have reasonable confidence about the availability of cash near the interest rate announced by the Reserve Bank as its policy target.

This week Paypal users reported receiving an official - looking email from Paypal, warning users about «activity [involving] the trading or transfer of crypto currency [sic] which is prohibited under our Acceptable Use Policy,» asking the receiver to «cease any activity that results in the trading or transfer of crypto currency.»

Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn Wilkins discusses key issues involved in the Governing Council's deliberations about the policy rate decision and the MPR.

To clarify this issue the authors compare the involvements of rescuers with non-rescuers in relation to four situational variables: 1) information about Nazi policy toward Jews and comprehension of need; 2) the particular risks involved in providing help; 3) the material resources at their disposal; and 4) the presence of a precipitating event.

Christianity Today online editor Sarah Pulliam Bailey spoke with Rubio about his diverse faith background, how his faith influences his policy positions, and why Christians should be involved in the public square.

Likewise, the Presbyterian Church (USA)'s changes to its policy took place over a much longer time than Azumah names, involved persons holding many positions left undescribed, and came about not because the denomination chose to ignore the Scriptures but because over time, many of us became convinced that there are theologically and historically faithful ways of reading the Scriptures that find space for contemporary understandings of homosexuality.

On every question about economic or political decisions, from general influence on public policy to specific influence on the minimum wage, between 75 percent and 85 percent of African - Americans said that religion should be involved.

Today Arsenal were involved in a remarkable U-turn from recent policy and have been reported to have been negotiating new deals with the players who are just about still at the club.

is intended to help anyone involved in developing, implementing, and evaluating wellness policies by providing practical guidance and how - to information about the wellness policy process.

Wellness Policy Toolkit [external link] developed by the Action for Healthy Kids is intended to help anyone involved in developing, implementing, and evaluating wellness policies by providing practical guidance and how - to information about the wellness policy prPolicy Toolkit [external link] developed by the Action for Healthy Kids is intended to help anyone involved in developing, implementing, and evaluating wellness policies by providing practical guidance and how - to information about the wellness policy prpolicy process.

As more people recognize how food companies influence government policies about agricultural support, food safety, dietary advice, school foods, marketing to children, and food labeling, they are inspired to become involved in food movement action.

The policy is still relatively new, and so has yet to take a firm foothold in many workplaces yet alone families, but with modern dads wanting to be more involved than ever, we wanted to find out the specific reasons why more shared parental leave pay wouldn't necessarily mean more take - up, and why so few new parents were having those conversations about it in the first place.

This is interesting: there's a tricky editorial decision about whether it's better for the BBC to be perceived as failing to give enough coverage to an important Conservative policy announcement, or to be perceived as ignoring a story which involves major criticism of the BBC itself.

While those of us involved with the NBDC care deeply about government and policy on the county, state and federal levels, our guiding principle is that all politics are local, as said by the late, great United States House Speaker Tip O'Neill.

The intent of the meeting was to give participants an opportunity to share information about their national or organizational law and policy on PCASP, thereby allowing all involved to gain a more complete picture of the overlaps and gaps in legal regimes and policies from country to country.

The Vice President of policy think tank, IMANI Ghana, Bright Simons has explained that about five companies were involved in the procurement and installation and operation of the emergency power plant, Ameri Power.

Part of the answer to that involves stripping out all the excuses about a «fabricated» antisemitism issue, media smears, ignorant voters and Blairites etc before looking at what's left — the party's policies, presentation, public image and leadership.

Speaking to a late afternoon news conference, Poloncarz said he learned of a complaint about the commissioner's behavior involving a subordinate during a conference in Albany December 5 and 6 and that the incident violated a number of unspecified county policies.

«I was always involved in politics locally,» and she was interested in learning about how policy was made on the federal level, she said.

Her interviews with those involved in the slaughter, now published, reveal that killing the elephants was as much about rebelling against this state of affairs as protecting crops and livelihoods (Land Use Policy, doi.org/xz8).

She hadn't thought about communicating with policy makers before getting involved with the pairing scheme, but she now considers that «it would be a really interesting area to work in,» providing the opportunity «to have some small impact on issues [that] you really care about.»

To overcome this disparity in how employees chose to work, researchers recommend that employers give individuals control over their working patterns and actively involve them in any decisions or policies about technology use so employees can reap the benefits of modern technologies without being enslaved by them.

Our approach to confronting these challenges is to center the workshop on research findings emerging from the SciSIP awards; provide for independent, collegial commentary on these presentations by individuals whose work has spanned, or crossed over, implementing and writing about science policy (and who have not applied for SciSIP awards); and then to carefully roll out a distillation of findings from SciSIP awards to federal agencies and other organizations more directly involved in the formulation or implementation of science policy.

Cambridge, MA About Blog Kerry McDonald has been deeply involved in education policy and practice for two decades.

Cambridge, MA About Blog Kerry McDonald has been deeply involved in education policy and practice for two decades.

Personally, I'd rather worry about Nick than the cops breathing down my neck the rest of my life, although there is a subplot involving a life insurance policy that neither party claims to know anything about, further confusing the motives.

90, talking during an EdCast about how so many people involved in education policy and reform are uniformly passionate and committed, which can be good, but it can also be problematic: You've got all of these people, he says, «screaming that they know what's going to work for kids.»

The implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA); debates about a potential large - scale federal school - choice initiative; and deep disagreements about civil rights enforcement continue to captivate — and roil — all of us involved in education policy, in D.C. and around the nation.

To be useful, debates about the strengths and weaknesses of research, especially when it involves important policy questions, need to adhere to the facts.

Education policy makers had, for some time, spoken about the need to involve those who lead schools in raising standards to develop a self - improving system.

In most schools we visit, e-safety is excellent, with staff, pupils and other partners involved in the development and adoption of e-safety policies and practice, and children confident and knowledgeable about how to stay safe and what to do if something on - line concerned / worried / shocked them.

He is also actively involved in policy debates, contributing to the Obama Administration's transition team on the measurement of school performance; advising the administration on college performance measures; and testifying in the U.S. Senate about the TRIO college access programs.

Because, at least when it comes to education policy, just about everything he wants the federal government to do involves things that can't be done successfully from Washington but that well - led states can and should do: raise academic standards, evaluate teachers, give kids choices, and more.

In addition to examining the intersection of race and educational policy, Diamond also has written about «distributed leadership» — a way of understanding how multiple actors are involved in leadership and how leaders have an impact on instructional practice.

These talking points, which are largely false, typically involve spouting nonsense about charters being corporate (they are, repeat after me, slowly and with feeling, public schools), funded by billionaires, or adhere to strict disciplinary policies.

The political argument for involving parents and other community members more substantially carries along with it an explicit challenge to the traditional, hierarchical leadership and power structures in schools.156 According to Leithwood and Prestine (2002), the policies and reforms that call for decentralized decision making rest on certain important assumptions about the role of the principal and other school leaders.

The researchers found that six key policies had been implemented by all five states: adopting academic standards for teaching students about the history and culture of America's indigenous peoples, involving Native Americans on advisory boards, promoting Native American languages through teacher certification, allowing students to learn their native language as part of their education program, and providing tuition assistance for college - bound Native American students.

Daniel also interviewed colleagues and found that there was no consistent pattern or policy about how or when to include students in the alternative testing process (which involves setting up a portfolio of student work demonstrating certain competencies).

Students should learn about the politics and personalities involved, the bureaucratic structures and policy constraints of the education system, and the reasons why students (and other groups) have been excluded from decisions.

This work involves (1) hearing about the strategies BMTN teachers are testing and refining, and having teachers the leaders are working with test out the strategies in their classrooms; (2) sharing resources and strategies that BMTN teachers might use in their improvement projects, (3) providing insights into policies that might affect the instructional work of the network; and (4) helping recruit additional teachers and instructional leaders to the network.

Summary: The goal of the Tennessee Educators of Color Alliance (TECA) is to provide a platform for teachers of color to advocate for themselves and their communities, increase the number of people of color involved in conversations about education policy, and equip educators with advocacy training and tools.