Sentences with phrase «advance policy goals»

As the Senior Director of Government Affairs at PetSmart, I know firsthand about the importance of building relationships with elected officials to advance policy goals.

We stand ready and look forward to working with the committee to recommend improvements to the bill that will advance its policy goals while furthering the promise of access and affordability central to the Higher Education Act.»

At a time when the White House has vowed to act more forcefully against North Korea, Iran and other threats, some officials see the Cuba problem as yet another lesson in the dangers of using intelligence selectively to advance policy goals.

Not exact matches

The stated goal was to advance policies to lower premiums, but the «skinny» bill would do the exact opposite, harming patients across the country.

In concrete fashion the document advances three values against which energy policies and technologies may be measured for their consistency with the goal of ecological justice: sustainability, equity and participation.

2014: CiC re-focused our work on policy reform with Doula Care in New York City: Advancing the Goals of Health Care Reform.

Learn how to leverage digital advocacy to engage your constituents and advance policy and organizational goals.

The «goal of this Symposium is to develop a network of advocates to advance policy, intergenerational relationships and opportunities for the next generation of women leaders» by bringing accomplished women and young women together.

The office manages AAAS's international institutional relationships, supports the internationalization of AAAS, and advances the AAAS goals of providing leadership in international science cooperation, science diplomacy, and science, technology and security policy.

-- The Secretary shall revise the goals established under subsection (a), from time to time as appropriate, to account for advances in technology and changes in energy policy.

-- After reviewing the report required by subsection (a), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, in concurrence with the Secretary of Agriculture, may, by regulation and after public notice and comment, modify the non-Federal lands portion of the definition of «renewable biomass» in section 610 of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 in order to advance the goals of increasing America's energy independence, protecting the environment, and reducing global warming pollution.

In other cases, it has involved turning elements of civil society and the private economy into arms of government policy — by requiring compliance with policy goals that are foreign to many civil - society institutions or consolidating key sectors of the economy and offering protection to large corporations willing to act as public utilities or to advance policymakers» priorities.

The consistency of patterns highlights a key tension facing education advocates seeking to use federal policy to advance their goals: Any benefits from federal involvement may come at the cost of heightened partisan polarization.

Our ultimate goal is to highlight the importance of ongoing adolescent language development for educators, researchers, and policy makers by revealing how teachers» and students» ways of using language support advances in students» text comprehension, academic writing, and school achievement.

They also must prepare students for a civic life in which they will have to work with fellow citizens of very different views to develop policies and institutions that can advance shared goals of peace, prosperity, and democratic deliberation.

With the goal of promoting sound policy development to advance student postsecondary success, this Pathways to College Network convening sought to map the array of college completion goals and initiatives and place student learning — particularly in regard to underserved students — at the center of the conversation.

The release of the 2015 — 2016 CRDC dataset will provide additional insight into whether this policy tool is in fact advancing the goal of equal access.»

Among its basic goals, DSBA is dedicated to advancing the quality of Delaware's public schools, promoting efficient and effective administration of those schools and strengthening the tradition of local citizen control through the establishment of education policy by elected and appointed school board members directly accountable to the communities they serve.

Reviewed 2013 Strategic Plan goals (Develop a committee structure that parallels AACTE and mobilized committees based on annually identified MACTE priorities; Developed and implemented an advocacy plan for educator preparation at the state level in matters of legislative policy, and regulatory matters related to initial and advanced educator preparation and licensure; Developed and disseminated position statements on issues of importance to educator preparation and licensure; Developed a statewide initiative showcasing excellence in educator preparation), established working committees and set priorities for 2014 - 15.

The late Ronald Thorpe, former President and CEO of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, introduced his 2014 New England Journal of Public Policy article on «Sustaining the Teaching Profession» with the notion that the culture of the teaching profession must expand and change in order to achieve the essential goal of advancing learning for all students.

The publications of the Initiative on Diversity, Equity, and Learning (IDEAL) provide policy makers, educators, the media, and the public with research and analysis related to equity and racial diversity with the goal of advancing opportunities and school success for all students.

Earlier this year, we shared with you our goals to advance great schools for all by championing common - sense policy change during the 2018 legislative session.

NIRN's goals are to advance the science of implementation across human service domains (e.g., health and education); to inform policies that promote implementation science and best practices in human services; and to ensure that the voices and experiences of diverse communities and consumers influence and guide implementation efforts.

Another 300 teachers joined the TLI in 2014.55 All participating teachers learn skills associated with three kinds of leadership: instructional leadership, or how teacher leaders can improve the systems that support teachers and students within schools and districts; policy leadership, or how teacher leaders can influence policymakers at local, state, and national levels; and association leadership, or how teacher leaders can advance the goals of their local and national unions.56 When they return to their districts, these teacher leaders work to address leadership challenges that they identified through their training.

The mission of ECA is to support Utah's Early College High Schools and the unique characteristics of each high school by cultivating conditions and advocating for sportive policies that advance the Early College High School goals.

The Mission of the Early College Alliance (ECA) is to support Utah's Early College High Schools and the unique characteristics of each high school by cultivating conditions and advocating for supportive policies that advance the Early College High School goals.

Participants had time to engage with national experts, learn from colleagues in other states, and meet in state teams to plan next steps in their ongoing efforts to advance the ADP policy goals.

The goal of the annual meeting was to give states a significant opportunity to address key challenges and opportunities associated with advancing and sustaining the college - and career - ready policy agenda.

Teddy was a conservationist not a preservationist... He adopted Pinchot's philosophy that all resources should be used efficiently, even natural resources; this discounted other values and goals that we now consider in the «public interest»... While he did much to advance environmental policy... He also set up the contention in regulatory agencies that today plague our ability as citizens to obtain objective and independent information.

While ALEC purports to spend zero dollars on lobbying, Exxon has deliberately used ALEC for the past two decades to advance its legislative goals concerning cap - and - trade policies, fracking, the Keystone Pipeline and the Obama Administration's Clean Power Plan.

Tillerson underscored the need for policies and actions to sustain and grow the U.S. energy revolution, for creating broader access in the world to energy's benefits and noted the energy sector's leadership in advancing climate goals.

Instead of seizing America's energy opportunity — one that has the United States succeeding in advancing climate goals — the administration is pursuing policies that will cause a retreat from the gains of the past few years.

-- Based on the scientific review, the agencies may, by rule, modify the definition of «renewable biomass» from Federal lands in sections 211 (o)(1)(I) and 700 of the Clean Air Act and section 610 of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 as appropriate to advance the goals of increasing America's energy independence, protecting the environment, and reducing global warming pollution.

-- After reviewing the report required by subsection (a), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, in concurrence with the Secretary of Agriculture, may, by regulation and after public notice and comment, modify the non-Federal lands portion of the definition of «renewable biomass» in section 610 of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 in order to advance the goals of increasing America's energy independence, protecting the environment, and reducing global warming pollution.

On the positive side, regulators in India and Australia advanced solar policy by identifying solar installation plans and goals.

«By proposing to open up nearly the entire [outer continental shelf] for potential oil and gas exploration, the United States can advance the goal of moving from aspiring for energy independence to attaining energy dominance,» said Interior Counselor for Energy Policy Vincent DeVito, in a press release.

(1/9/15) Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is potentially important for advancing California's energy future and climate goals, but deploying the technique depends in part on resolving regulatory uncertainties, according to the latest paper in CCST's California's Energy Future - Policy series.

«By proposing to open up nearly the entire OCS [Outer Continental Shelf] for potential oil and gas exploration, the United States can advance the goal of moving from aspiring for energy independence to attaining energy dominance,» explained Vincent DeVito, the Interior Department's Counselor for Energy Policy.

As China's domestic energy policy has transformed over the last several years to incorporate climate - friendly goals — increased energy efficiency and a greater contribution of non-fossil fuels to its energy mix — this opportunity is already becoming a reality, especially as the United States advances comprehensive climate policy.

We look forward to our continued work with the Administration and Congress on policies that advance our nation's economic and environmental goals.»

Current policy design options can provide real opportunities to advance climate goals effectively — if states can learn new strategies and engage in coalition building.

The slow pace of progress cries out for an alternative international policy framework under which governments could collaborate on goals that advance sustainability.

Both technical and policy issues need to be addressed to take best advantage of advanced technologies and to ensure that their arrival supports environmental and economic goals.

The Working Group was created as an initial step in advancing the scientific, management and policy goals of the Blue Carbon Initiative.

This policy brief examines how education for sustainable development policies may be advanced to support the implementation and achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, and ultimately help empower a learning society for sustainability.

Through facilitated conversation, workshops, presentations and networking opportunities, participants will play a role in advancing environmental performance at Washington and Oregon State institutions of higher education, support regional policy goals and initiatives, and drive the development of a generation of professionals for whom sustainability is a core tenant of their work and life philosophy.

The goal of the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, which was established in 2007, is to help identify and advance scientifically sound, economically sensible, and politically pragmatic public policy options for addressing global climate change.

Our attorneys understand government, some have worked within government, and we know the policies and decision - makers that can advance our clients» goals.

That Joint Policy Statement sought to advance two key goals.

The Attorney General's office filed an amicus brief in support of MTPC's position arguing that the common law rule ensuring strict compliance with public construction contracts advances critical public policy goals.