Sentences with phrase «at conservative think tank»

Chester E. Finn Jr., who served as an assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Education under President Reagan and is now a scholar at the conservative think tank, has also taken the helm of a little - known foundation he says will focus almost exclusively on K - 12 reform issues.

Jason Delisle is a resident fellow at conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute and an advocate for changes to the PSLF program.

I read anti-AGW websites at conservative think tanks that are funded by big business.

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«It is the first time the Libertarian ticket will have more government experience than the Republican ticket, and that is astonishing,» says Stan Veuger, a resident scholar and economist at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C.

«We get millions of reports every week of potential violations,» Monika Bickert, Facebook's vice president of global policy management, said during a discussion at The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, in Washington on Tuesday.

He is a senior scholar at the school's conservative Mercatus Center, and has ties to the Goldwater Institute, a libertarian think tank, and the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which is «dedicated to advancing the principles of limited government, free enterprise, and individual liberty.»

Richards is a senior fellow at the conservative think - tank the Discovery Institute and author of «Money, Greed and God: Why Capitalism is the Solution and Not the Problem.»

Conservative think tank is an oxymoron at this point and time in this country.

«Based on 2014 spending numbers, New York is one of about a dozen states, almost all in the Northeast, whose caps would be lowered as a result of this provision — potentially losing billions in aid,» said Bill Hammond, a health care analyst at the conservative - leaning Empire Center, an Albany think tank.

Ken Girardin, an analyst at the Empire Center for Public Policy, a fiscally conservative think tank, also sharply criticized the arrangement.

«This problem with pension costs is not just going to go away when the economy recovers,» said Andrew Biggs, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C. «You've lost so much money; it's going to take a long time to catch up.»

While the executive proposal includes $ 200 million in funding to address the opioid crisis, it does not prevent the state from using the existing funds designated for these programs to plug other holes in the budget, according to Bill Hammond, health policy analyst at the Empire Center for Fiscal Policy, a conservative - leaning think tank.

«The largest direct cash benefit in a typical low - income worker's public - assistance package is the Earned Income Tax Credit — pioneered in New York state by the late former Gov. Mario Cuomo,» noted McMahon, whose conservative - oriented think tank has at times praised the current governor.

At roughly the same time, several dozen demonstrators from the advocacy group Picture the Homeless rallied outside the Vanderbilt Avenue headquarters of the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, in protest against the Staten Island grand jury's decision not to indict Mr. Pantaleo in the Garner homicide, and against broken windows policing.

«I think the Public Authorities Control Board would be completely within reason to hit «pause» and demand further disclosure and oversight,» said Ken Girardin, communications and marketing manager at the Empire Center, a fiscally conservative think tank.

Looking at the most recent federal data, the fiscally conservative think tank found that New York spent 114 percent above the national average on instructional salaries and benefits in 2014 - 15.

A member of the free market think tank Reform, Browne has been associated with the more right wing and free - market orientated wing of the Liberal Democrats, and occassionally suggested as a target for seduction by a Conservative party looking to lure Liberal Democrat defections (more information at They work for you)

Jones declined to estimate Silver's pension, but analysts at the Empire Center, a fiscally conservative think tank, said it could be $ 98,010 a year.

Former State Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, who is now a fellow at the Demos think tank and NYU's Wagner School, calls it «the case of the dueling commissions», and he says it's all about the governor's 2014 re-election campaign, where Cuomo is seeking a fiscally conservative platform.

Prof Appleby, chief economist at The King's Fund think - tank who has analysed the latest figures, wrote in a paper published online by the BMJ: «The NHS must have been doing something right to earn this extra satisfaction — something even Conservative supporters have noticed, and something probably not unadjacent to the large rise in funding since 2000.

In a Daily Politics film, Giles Dilnot puts on a thinking cap to look at what they do with Nick Pearce, from the Institute for Public Policy Research, and Conservative MP Charlotte Leslie, who was at the Policy Exchange think tank.

Dean Cheng, a research fellow on Chinese political and security affairs at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative public policy think tank, sees Chang» e 2's orbital gymnastics as part national pride, part scientific curiosity, and part political move: doing things at a First World level.

Joseph Bast, president of the Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank, canceled his talk at the Conservative Political Action Conference last month to help block some of Soon'sconservative think tank, canceled his talk at the Conservative Political Action Conference last month to help block some of Soon'sConservative Political Action Conference last month to help block some of Soon's detractors.

Several Democratic senators cited media reports that staffers on the Trump transition team are pushing a proposal by the conservative Heritage Foundation, a Washington, D.C. — based think tank, to make deep cuts at DOE.

He is now a distinguished senior fellow at the Cato Institute, a Washington, D.C. - based conservative think tank.

Based on Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway's nonfiction report of the same name, Robert Kenner's documentary looks at the scientists hired by corporations and conservative think - tanks to appear on news programs, touting skewed data about public health issues and climate change.

The report by the Educational Policy Studies Laboratory at Arizona State University is the lab's second critique of work by oft - quoted conservative think tanks.

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«When a Democratic secretary of education goes to the NEA and mentions merit pay explicitly as something that has to happen, the ground has shifted,» said Frederick Hess, director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C.

That's the deal, says Michael Petrilli, executive vice president at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative education think tank and former official with the U.S. Department of Education during the George W. Bush administration.

Experts like Frederick Hess, an education policy expert at the conservative American Enterprise Institute think tank, have argued that merit pay systems that reward almost everyone are almost guaranteed to be disappointing.

«Reasonable people can disagree about solutions,» said Katharine Stevens, research fellow and early education expert at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank.

In «Miracle in East Harlem,» Seymour Fliegel, a former New York City school administrator now at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, makes the point that when educators create their own school, they have a sense of ownership that energizes a whole building.

* Mike Petrilli, author and president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative think tank, who is also a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and one of five executive editors of the publication Education Next.

Multiple exams may jeopardize that goal, says Kathleen Porter - Magee, an education policy fellow at the Fordham Institute, a conservative education think tank.

«As an adult reader you can look at items on the fifth - and sixth - grade tests and be challenged yourself,» said Robert Pondiscio, senior fellow and vice president for External Affairs at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative think tank.

«At the highest level, early childhood is really moving into the spotlight,» said Katharine Stevens, a resident scholar and early childhood policy expert at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tanAt the highest level, early childhood is really moving into the spotlight,» said Katharine Stevens, a resident scholar and early childhood policy expert at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tanat the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank.

Chester Finn, Jr., President Emeritus at the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, a conservative think tank, and a former Assistant Secretary of Education in the Reagan Administration, understands why many districts stick with the testing model but thinks policies need to be flexible.

This coming week, the Charles Koch Institute is sponsoring a forum, «featuring a panel talk with representatives of charter schools and conservative think tanks» at the Renaissance Nashville Hotel.

«In addition to giving grants to right - leaning think tanks like the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, the Walton foundation hired an education program officer who had worked at the American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative business - backed group.»

Chester E. Finn, Jr., the vice president of Maryland's school board and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Fordham Institute, a conservative education think tank, called the passage of the Protect Our Schools Act «painful.»

Patrick Murphy, a political scientist at the University of San Francisco who recently completed a study on the cost of implementing the Common Core, funded by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative think tank, estimates that the cost of transitioning to the Common Core could be as low as $ 3 billion nationally if districts forgo traditional options and instead choose digital textbooks (that can more easily be updated), tailored teacher - training videos and free curricula available online.

«Some are calling it «No Consultant Left Behind,»» says Frederick M. Hess, director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C.

«Tim Phillips, The Man Behind The «Americans For Prosperity» Corporate Front Group Factory «The rate at which the Koch Industries funded Americans for Prosperity (AFP) churns out front groups to promote its right - wing corporate agenda sets the organization out among similar conservative «think tanks.»

These «think tanks» offered the Plutocrats an opportunity to influence conservative ideology at its very source.

And at the heart of the denial industry is the George C. Marshall Institute, a conservative think - tank in Washington.

Speaking at the Greener Britain Hustings, hosted by environmental think tank the Green Alliance, Davey called the potential for a Conservative government after the election a «nightmare scenario» that would distract from «the most important climate negotiations ever».

The Heartland Institute, a libertarian think tank skeptical of climate change science, has joined with the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council to write model legislation aimed at reversing state renewable energy mandates across the country.

At the time, conservative and libertarian think tanks were just starting to take aim at climate sciencAt the time, conservative and libertarian think tanks were just starting to take aim at climate sciencat climate science.

Corbyn is also a global warming skeptic and was a speaker at the International Conference on Climate Change (2009) hosted by the conservative Chicago - based think tank, the Heartland Institute.