Sentences with phrase «affect city policy»

The city's Youth Commission — a group of high school students appointed by the city council — has the power to affect city policy in matters related to them.

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He supervises CUNY's Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility project, which aims to meet the legal needs of New York City Muslims affected by counterterrorism policies.

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Also at 6:30 p.m., Democratic Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Nydia Velazquez hold a joint town hall to discuss the latest federal policies affecting New York City, P.S. 20 Anna Silver School, 166 Essex St., Manhattan.

In a forthcoming report from New York University's Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management by Eric Kober entitled «Uses and Abuses of Value Capture for Transit,» Kober writes that the first, similar iteration of the proposal «diverts New York City's largest and most stable tax source in a manner that could affect the City's fiscal stability.»

Mr. Felder's bill would apply to all cities in the state, potentially affecting a handful of towns and counties that have considered policies designed to limit plastic bag use.

The remarks were unmistakably set in the context of recent tension over policing issues in New York City involving the Bill de Blasio administration, the police department, and the communities most affected by controversial policing policies.

Rural voters may or may not vote based on their economic interest, but economics in cities have generally deteriorated under Democrat policies, but it hasn't had a noticeable affect on voting preferences.

«The networks don't seem to affect academic performance,» said study co-author Norm Fruchter, who serves on the city Panel for Educational Policy, in addition to his academic work.

«Given that 50 percent of the world's population currently lives in cities, and that percentage is projected to increase to 70 percent by year 2050, there is a pressing need to understand how cities and landscapes are affected by heat waves,» said Lei Zhao, a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton's Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP), which is based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

The next step is to see how those factors play out at the level of the city, county and town, where many of the policy decisions that most directly affect people's health are often made.

Because atmospheric conditions such as wind and temperature can greatly affect particulate - matter measurements, researchers from EPIC - India and the Evidence for Policy Design initiative at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, gathered data from air - quality monitors in New Delhi and placed monitors in three adjacent cities as a control.

«We find evidence that environmental policy significantly reduces the per - capita pollution emissions in American cities without adversely affecting GDP per capita.»

Since the state department of education not only designs tests but constructs numerous other policies that affect operations both in New York City and elsewhere in the state, it is of interest to learn whether New York City students do as well or better than students across the rest of the State of New York.

And it makes sense that such effects would show up, if they show up anywhere, for low - income whites in the inner city — for these are the whites who are most directly affected by policies of diversity.

While discipline policies vary across schools, districts, and states — and as the nation's largest school district the New York City public schools are likely more bureaucratized and formalized in matters of school discipline than smaller districts — the scale, scope, and level of complexity of the legal regulations affecting day - to - day school practices appear quite formidable.

But that affects the validity of my analysis only if the NAEP test accommodation policy for New York City changed over the course of the time period we are discussing.

The Advisory Council's decision making has led to a variety of policy changes affecting schools across the city.

The city's plan is to diversify the New York school population by bringing in students who have been affected by the city's school choice policies.

She questioned how potential changes in state policy may soon affect city schools funding.

Advocates for Children of New York (AFC) has our finger on the pulse of important education issues and education policy trends that affect children in New York City and New York State.

This edition focuses on urban areas and the environment, exploring how cities and climate change are affecting the way we live and how good public policies can improve prospects for future generations.

Beginning with a single division devoted to domestic energy policy (Energy Probe), it has grown into a hydra - like body that, among other things, addresses foreign aid and investment (Probe International), government policies relating to Canadian natural resources (Environment Probe), and regulatory matters that affect cities (the Urban Renaissance Institute).

«One of the things that preceded the failure of the nation - state of Syria and the rise of ISIS was the effect of climate change and the mega-drought that affected that region, wiped out farmers, drove people to cities, created a humanitarian crisis that created the symptoms — or rather the conditions of extreme poverty — that has now led to the rise of ISIL and this extreme violence,» the former Maryland governor said, fielding a question about foreign policy from Bloomberg.

Given the socio - economic importance of Mozambique's coastal cities and their susceptibility to regular climate hazards, the country's ICT policy framework is evaluated by analyzing the efficacy of the aforementioned ICT tools along a dimension that disproportionately affects the poor more, namely vulnerability to flooding - a reality worsening each year due to the effects of climate change.

It focuses on three broad issues: how cities contribute to and are affected by climate change; how policy makers can use cities to change human behavior and improve technology related to climate change; how cities should use climate change as an opportunity to raise their profile, reinforce sensible policies, and move toward a more sustainable community and planet.

If the policies are escalated to cities and regions around the world, the health benefits will affect tens of thousands of people.

You will likely be asked what city and state you live in, because the crime rates and normal insurance rates in Indiana will be affecting your policy.

It may also affect you when you try to renew your policy and you find that you are in a higher West Valley City car insurance price bracket.

This data note assesses how the Mexico City Policy affects the provision of legal abortion services in U.S. assisted countries.

We fight for these policies on both a city and state level, as well as federal legislative efforts that affect our communities.

Holding information sessions in capital cities and only three major centres with extremely short notice means that those Indigenous people whose lives will be the most affected by the policies decided as a result of consultation on the paper, are least able to attend the information sessions.