Sentences with phrase «about policy alternatives»

And what to make of a court opinion that awards a partial victory to these groups — relying not on a finding of environmental injustice but rather on a determination that the state of California failed to engage in a crucial economic debate about policy alternatives?

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Some of the lawmakers who won't attend will instead host an alternative State of the Union — a meeting «to talk about our opposition to these racist policies that are being put out of the White House and to make sure we put out our own aggressive vision of what our America looks like as we take it back,» according to Jayapal.

Modelled on the Alternative Federal Budget, the NS Alternative Budget (NSAB) publications forefront how provincial budgets, like other policy documents, are about priorities and government choices.

This is the same criticism made in Stephen Gordon's comments about attributing all job growth over the past eight years to the Conservative government: Much of this growth would have happened under most alternative policy scenarios.

«People were thinking about alternatives to circumvent the reserve requirement to bet on yuan depreciation after yesterday's policy was out.

Alternative Money University will help 30 qualified students to develop such an understanding by participating in an intensive academic workshop about monetary history, the theory and practice of monetary policy, and the workings of unconventional monetary arrangements.

In the Student Review, an alternative and unofficial school paper, Brooks poked fun at university policies, interviewed polygamists, wrote about gay issues and simply didn't shy away from matters most people were afraid to talk about.

After a mostly unexpected boost over the past few years, these ministries are unsure how Trump will go about repealing and replacing Obamacare — particularly how his policies might impact the demand for insurance alternatives.

Or the reader might have rightly expected to see argument about the effectiveness of, and alternative suggestions for, the policy proposals themselves.

In this compelling video, Ronnie Draper talks about the alternative to austerity, how to unite the resistance to George Osborne's policies.

«We are not at all opposed to having a public policy discussion or debate about creating another alternative but what we don't want to do is simply sit on the sidelines and have that discussion for another year, or two years or three years,» he said.

«We always knew we'd be the underdog in this race and once New Yorkers learn more about BIll's radical policies they will be looking for a practical alternative,» said Lhota spokeswoman Jessica Proud.

«I think this distracts our society from more realistic and rational alternatives, such as policies to better educate consumers about the caloric contents of foods [and] to limit the advertising of unhealthy foods to children.»

There is good reason to think that dismissing more low - performing teachers would improve student outcomes, but the Chetty study is not designed to tell us much about that, or about any of the various policy alternatives.

«This book was designed to show what new evidence exists about integrated education and its relationship to equality of educational opportunity; what the political prospects are; what we know about new policy alternatives, including using socioeconomic status; and what the federal role could be in encouraging such options,» write Frankenberg and Debray.

If the new information surprises respondents by indicating the district is doing less well than previously thought, the public, upon learning the truth of the matter, is likely to 1) lower its evaluation of local schools; 2) become more supportive of educational alternatives for families; 3) alter thinking about current policies affecting teacher compensation and retention; and 4) reassess its thinking about school and student accountability policies.

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.

Finally, we can not interpret the voucher evidence without thinking about the alternative policy options.

Sun, October 23 — Teach - In 11:00 am — 2:00 pm 417 N. Lexington Street, Durant Students, parents, elected and public officials, and child - servicing agencies in Holmes County will learn about the experiences of Black girls and their increasing rate of incarceration, dropout, and alternative school placement because of zero - tolerance policies that disproportionately push them out of school.

The profound lack of knowledge about public education, as reflected in comments about public schools being «flush with cash» and badly underserving the nation's children, coupled with policy proposals based on these «alternative facts», pose a threat to a high - quality education for more than 50 million students.

Policy analyst Andrew Rotherham of Bellwether Education Partners in Washington, D.C., said that while he's seen strong school - based restorative justice programs in action, he has concerns about the sudden popularity of — and political pressure for — alternative programs.

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).

But Chad Alderman, a policy analyst at the consulting firm Bellwether Education Partners, argued the federal government was always clear about the possibility of getting a higher education board to sign off on alternative standards — even if that took no more than a letter of support without much in the way of policy justification.

However, given the unprecedented authority and flexibility states now have under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to develop systems that are responsive to student needs, policy leaders can use this opportunity to think more strategically about questions that better reflect the student populations served in alternative settings.

For information about alternative compensation for teachers, see the following: Teaching Commission and USC California Policy Institute, «Understanding Alternative Teacher Compensation,» USC California Policy Institute, 2005; J. Azordegan, P. Byrnett, K. Campbell, J. Greenman, and T. Coulter, «Diversifying Teacher Compensation», The Teaching Commission and Education Commission of the States,» ECS, December 2005; Minnesota Department of Education, «Q Comp: Quality Compensation for Teachers», Febalternative compensation for teachers, see the following: Teaching Commission and USC California Policy Institute, «Understanding Alternative Teacher Compensation,» USC California Policy Institute, 2005; J. Azordegan, P. Byrnett, K. Campbell, J. Greenman, and T. Coulter, «Diversifying Teacher Compensation», The Teaching Commission and Education Commission of the States,» ECS, December 2005; Minnesota Department of Education, «Q Comp: Quality Compensation for Teachers», FebAlternative Teacher Compensation,» USC California Policy Institute, 2005; J. Azordegan, P. Byrnett, K. Campbell, J. Greenman, and T. Coulter, «Diversifying Teacher Compensation», The Teaching Commission and Education Commission of the States,» ECS, December 2005; Minnesota Department of Education, «Q Comp: Quality Compensation for Teachers», February 2009.

Implementing higher standards and alternative assessment and grading policies in high schools: What do educators need to know about what parents think?

Looking for quick information about the problems with zero - tolerance discipline policies, and effective alternatives?

Part III addresses concerns that charter school leaders won't respond to growing knowledge about the harm caused by harsh discipline policies or to evidence of the effectiveness of non-punitive alternatives.

Attendees will learn about SWPBIS and the LAUSD Foundation Policy, developing a Progress Monitoring Action plan and developing appropriate and strategic alternatives to suspensions that fit the culture of your charter.

This report, entitled «Assessing Treasury's Strategy: Six Months of TARP,» provides information about expenditures and commitments to date of TARP funds, evaluates the Treasury Department's strategy for improving the condition and functioning of financial institutions and markets, and discusses potential policy alternatives.

Not only that, but your efforts to share knowledge about cat scratching alternatives and the downside of declawing may change your new landlord's policies and save other cats from the damaging surgery.

The revised policy describes onychectomy (declawing) as an «amputation» and stresses the importance of client education about normal feline scratching behaviors, what the procedure involves, and alternatives to declawing.

But in thinking about those policies, we must always remember one thing: geoengineering is not now and never will be an alternative to dramatic reductions in our greenhouse gas emissions.

Congress (to the extent it did assess policy alternatives to cap and trade), as well as the broader community of analysts and observers in the late 2000s, raised a number of substantive questions about the merits of this policy instrument as a means for responding to a major environmental policy challenge of the sort posed by climate change:

How about an alternative question, such as «Mr. Candidate, how will your administration assess the existing scientific basis for policy actions based on the AGW hypothesis?»

As arguments about climate change rage, it's becoming increasingly common for policy makers to tout «clean» nuclear energy as the only viable alternative to fossil fuels.

The United Nations needs to revise the way it manages its assessments of climate change, with the scientists involved more open to alternative views, more transparent about possible conflicts of interest and more careful to avoid making policy prescriptions, an independent review panel said Monday.

I will discuss the wide range of alternative sustainable development pathways that will be activated by such technology - neutral policies in the next article, so let's defer discussion about that for the time being.

In an article on «the perils of confirmation bias,» published for the Global Warming Policy Foundation (a group firmly opposed to policies that counteract climate change), Ridley suggested that «governments should fund groups that intend to explore alternative hypotheses about the likely future of climate as well as those that explore the dangerous man - made climate change prediction.»

To better understand the potential of emissions policies, studies are needed that assess possible future health impacts under alternative assumptions about future emissions and climate across multiple spatial scales.

The question «when and why did policy - making become mainly about risk management» makes no sense to the positivist because any alternative understanding of politics as such can not be quantified under the framework of their understanding.

«It is not about building a barrier and stopping people coming into the protected area but addressing the drivers of deforestation by working with communities to create alternative livelihoods,» says Toby Janson - Smith, Senior Director for Climate and Land Use: Markets and Policy at Conservation International's Center for Environmental Leadership in Business.

Recent AEOs have also included alternative cases examining the impact of proposed policy changes, variation in the rate of technology improvement, and different assumptions about the size of the energy resource.

Aside from asking about savings, drivers of alternative vehicles should treat their insurance policy the same as ever — with one exception: your vehicle's value.

The poll by the Catholic University of America and Institute for Policy Research and Catholic Studies showed that Catholics who frequently attend Mass were more likely to support U.S. government actions to combat climate change after reading about the pope's encyclical (59 percent) than after receiving the message from an alternative source (50 percent).

See Jukier, supra n. 23, at 172 — 173 (noting concerns about time constraints as a theme of the AALS 2006 meeting devoted to integration of transnational perspectives into the 1L curriculum); Legomsky, supra n. 1, at 485 — 487 (cataloguing list of components that ideally should be included into each course, including statutory interpretation, understanding of the administrative process, role - playing, alternative dispute resolution, ethics, social policy, historical context, jurisprudence, and more).

There are blended policies that combine aspects of whole life and term life policies to maintain the benefits while minimizing costs - ask your insurance agent about this alternative.

I emailed him with questions about alternatives to renewing the term policy.

Another advantage that can often get overlooked when looking at many guaranteed issue life insurance policies is that because these types of graded death benefit policies aren't going to ask about tobacco use, if one does use tobacco, a guaranteed life insurance policy may be a less expensive alternative to an insurance policy that would penalize them for their tobacco use.

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