Sentences with phrase «about policy direction»

It wasn't a sweeping statement about policy direction.

On the day Justin Welby is officially confirmed as the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England, the British Humanist Association has expressed its deep concerns about the policy direction he will set for the church of England in relation to public services.

For most administrations, their first few months are a time to hire staff and begin to think about policy directions; ESSA will force them to move much faster.

Thus, we have an evaluation with significant issues in internal and external validity that can not be used confidently as the basis for conclusions about the policy directions this country should take in child care.

There is a lot of discussion this week about a new paper in PNAS (Anderegg et al, 2010) that tries to assess the credibility of scientists who have made public declarations about policy directions.

Not exact matches

In working in these three directions, the U.S. policy community would be employing the best sense of Ronald Reagan's «trust but verify» strategy regarding new information about the nuclear deal.

The Congress is more about ideology than policy, but it still charts the future direction for China and offers a glimpse into its opaque politics.

With some reports speculating about how potential Trump policies might affect Apple, Cook did try to assuage any worries about the company's direction.

«There have been transitions before where the department headed off in new directions, but there is traditionally a period of new people coming in and studying and learning about issues before taking bold and dramatic new policy directions,» said William Yeomans, who spent nearly 30 years at the department.

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall did not agree to the new climate framework, and said the likely direction of U.S. climate and energy policy under president - elect Donald Trump means we need to be very cautious about adopting climate policies in Canada.

The decision to label Cohn a «globalist» on his way out the door is, at a minimum, a suggestion that he lost not a specific policy argument about steel but a much larger argument about the overall direction of the Republican Party.

What does this tell us about the direction that Malaysian immigration policy is heading, and does it speak to already existing tensions around immigration?

The U.S. dollar nosedived after a recent speech by Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen gave no indication about the direction of monetary policy.

If we do need to move in the direction of giving asset price and debt developments more weight in the conduct of monetary policy than hitherto, we need to educate our respective communities about these issues.

In such situations, you can not give views about the direction of policy — you can not say more than you honestly believe — and that will often disappoint people looking for a clear guide to future action.

An omnibus appropriations package, steel tariffs, regulatory work on the new tax law and general uncertainty about the nation's direction on policy and governing fueled K Street business during the first three months of this year.

The U.S. Dollar is trading on both sides ofthe market as traders remain non-committal about its direction ahead of theFed's policy statement.

But school discipline policies are moving in the opposite direction: out - of - school suspensions have increased about 10 percent since 2000.

Equity market volatility has increased from the very low levels of last year, partly because of concerns about the direction of international trade policy in the United States.

The heavens will not fall, the republic will not totter if that is the direction of public policy, but I am not enthusiastic about such a result.

However, there is emerging a consensus about some necessary conditions for new policy directions.

For more than 14 years API has expressed its concerns about the direction of research related to basic infant sleep safety information and data collection, the media's response, and resulting guidelines and policy.

Caldwell said she first became worried about SNA's new direction in March, when she attended the group's legislative conference and was handed a policy paper asking for significant changes to the school meal regulations, including eliminating the requirement that students take a fruit or a vegetable and rescinding strict sodium limits set to begin in 2017.

He continued: «Direction is about policy.

«Democrats divide about whether they want a nominee who will continue the policies of President Obama or move in a different direction although strong Democrats still want a nominee who will follow in Obama's footsteps,» says Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

The vote — an abrupt about - face in policies pushed by Cuomo and the Regents in recent years — was the latest in a series of state responses to rising public opposition against Albany's direction on school curricula, testing and educator evaluations.

(CNN)- There is a power struggle going on about the direction of the Republican party, over everything from foreign policy, to the role of national security, to defunding Obamacare — and Texas freshman Sen. Ted Cruz is right in the thick of it.

The question is more interesting in the light of the Conservatives» relatively small opinion poll lead and their internal debate, increasingly intense, about the direction of policy.

«Health experts, schools and even David Cameron's own MPs are raising the alarm bells about the direction this government has taken the country on public health, because David Cameron and Andrew Lansley have got drinks companies writing government policy for them.

Three points stand out: the parliamentary process which led to the defeat, the influence of the Iraq War, and the debate this now creates about the direction of British policy.

Abbott has a star quality that puts her in the traditions of Barbara Castle, Shirley Williams and Gwen Dunwoody, but her policy positions make her, in essence, the Conscience candidate, whose role is to shriek warnings to the Captain of the ship about the direction in which the vessel is travelling.

The government's flagship Free Schools are under greater scrutiny than most because their very existence is part of a huge political debate about the direction of education policy.

But a repatriation of Ukip voters to the Tories (especially if it turns out that ex-Labour voters actually proved more loyal to Farage) will provoke a very difficult conversation about future directions in policy on Europe and immigration.

Nonetheless, like former education secretary Justine Greening, and Cabinet Office minister Damian Green before her, she joins the growing ranks of senior Tory backbenchers with only thinly - disguised misgivings about the direction of official Brexit policy.

But he and his supporters do also now need to do more to ensure that they frame and shape debates about the direction which the leader wants the policy review to take.

«Personable, politically savvy, strong management skills, and a quick study on policy, this has to quash any outstanding fears or queasiness among Republicans about the direction the new governor might go,» added Higdon, who is now a vice president at Cornerstone Government Affairs.

Leadership elections are about many things — vision, values, direction, leadership style, and of course policy.

The 41 - year - old was co-author of the Orange Book, a 2004 collection of essays by Lib Dem rising stars about the party's future policy direction.

Instead, when she learned about the AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowships, she realized her background in cancer research could be put to use in another direction.

According to Mote, DOD and its contractors account for about 2 % of the nation's STEM workers — a lot, but not enough to swing national education or hiring policy in any particular direction.

The paper is clever, and fine as far as it goes, but leaves me concerned about the direction of teacher evaluation policy.

Emma Knights, chief executive of the NGA, said: «Those governing our schools are generally unhappy with the direction of government education policy: with more than six times the number of respondents negative about the government's policies than positive.

Much of what's good about today's policy regimen of common standards but independently - operated schools of choice is the enhanced capability of school innovators to strike out in potentially promising directions that may work well for different kids.

And substantial percentages remain undecided about charter schools and other reform initiatives, suggesting that the current national debate over school policy has the potential to sway public opinion in one direction or another.

As Congress considers the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA, aka No Child Left Behind), Parents Across America, a national network of public school parents, will be calling on our U. S. Senators and Congressmen this week to share our concerns about the direction of federal education policy, and offer our proposals in a new position paper (attached).

«Although this litigation is brought under the ADA, with the DOJ driving it, when we are talking broadly about educating children with disabilities, the disability - rights community is incredibly concerned about Secretary [Betsy] DeVos and her views and policy directions,» Barkoff said.

Although the results reveal some ambivalence about education leaders and the direction of education policy in the United States, Americans hold the teaching profession in high regard.

To put this year's gains into context, the ISTEP + pass rate only increased about one percent between 2011 and 2012 — at the time, education policy analysts told StateImpact small gains were still a step in the right direction for Indiana students.

One example: Indiana's debate over the Common Core, which has exposed divisions within the state's Republican ranks about the direction of education policy.

What is needed instead is a fundamental shift in direction in federal education policy, and ESSA is not it; therefore every family that can afford it should opt out of state schooling whenever possible until No Child Left Behind's failed strategy for social improvement via annual testing and publishing the results is abandoned entirely, and until Sacramento gets serious about subsidiary devolution, which implies that assessing and reporting on the results of local schools should be left to the local districts, whose citizens may have different priorities and values that the state and federal governments should learn to respect.