Sentences with phrase «based policy research»

She is the former President of the Reason Foundation, a Los Angeles — based policy research organization.

One hundred thousand students in the New York City public schools were homeless during the 2015 - 16 school year, reports a new study by the Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness, a New York City - based policy research group.

Federal economic stimulus aid helped close an estimated $ 162.5 billion in budget gaps among the 50 states in 2010, the report stated, citing a study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a Washington - based policy research group.

The Kukah Centre (TKC) is a Nigeria - based policy research institute, founded by Most Rev. Matthew Hassan Kukah, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto.

We cite a 2012 study in the Economics of Education Review by David Stuit of Basis Policy Research and Thomas Smith of Vanderbilt, using data from 2004, which found that teacher turnover in charters was double that found in traditional public schools (24 % vs. 12 %) and seeks to explain why that is the case.

Authors Dr. Anna Nicotera and Dr. David Stuit, respectively senior associate and co-founder of Basis Policy Research, coded charter applications for easy - to - spot indicators and used them to predict the schools» academic performance in their first years of operation.

To conduct that investigation, we turned once again to Dr. David Stuit of Basis Policy Research who had previously done a fine piece of work for us (Are Bad Schools Immortal?

Basis Policy Research provides data analytics, program evaluation, and other research services to government agencies, foundations, private institutions, and nonprofits that are tackling important education issues.

Basis Policy Research and ATI have built a partnership supporting the fair evaluation of educator effectiveness by implementing mathematical models that include multiple measures of student growth and which evaluate educator effectiveness using techniques that take into account a variety of factors that may impact student learning but over which the teacher has no influence.

The report authors were David Stuit of Basis Policy Research and Mindee O'Cummings, Heather Norbury, Jessica Heppen, Sonica Dhillon, Jim Lindsay, and Bo Zhu of American Institutes for Research.

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«That's a rounding error in Texas» budget,» said economist Frederick Floss, executive director of the Fiscal Policy Institute, a New York - based think tank that has researched the issue of immigration and state economics.

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

«Pulling out of NAFTA would be a horrendous mistake,» said former USDA chief economist Joseph Glauber, a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute, an agriculture think tank based in Wasresearch fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute, an agriculture think tank based in WasResearch Institute, an agriculture think tank based in Washington.

And many of the companies without policies said they choose to make appointments based on merit, not gender — despite mounting research that demonstrates a strong business case for more women on boards.

Ryan Schoen, senior financial services policy analyst at research firm Washington Analysis, said he thought six months ago that a bitcoin futures - based ETF would likely launch in the first quarter of 2018.

«The emphasis on sports is part of Kim Jong Un's strategy to construct and highlight more of what makes life fun, such as culture and entertainment,» explained Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein, associate scholar at the Philadelphia - based Foreign Policy Research Institute.

With more retirees around the world responsible for their own financial security, the countries that ranked the best had policies in place to ensure access to individual or work - based savings programs, according to David Goodsell, who directs investor research for Natixis.

History plays a large role, says Algernon Austin, senior research fellow at Washington, D.C. - based think tank Center for Global Policy Solutions.

As a Director of Economic and Energy Affairs for an Abu Dhabi based Authority, Abdulla leads a team that conducts targeted research and provides strategic economic policy advice to the senior leadership of two distinctive authoritative bodies within the capital.

The CVA will support startups and established enterprises through policy recommendations, implementing research projects, and organizing conferences, hackathons, and other blockchain - based events.

He is a former director of BMC Software, Inc., a non-public software corporation based in Houston, Texas, and serves on the board of the following not - for - profit organizations: School of Public Policy, University of Calgary (Executive Fellow), National Research Council of Canada, Ontario Global 100 Network (Chair), C.D. Howe Institute, and Canadian Council of Chief Executives.

Over the last six months, Coin Center — the independent, non-profit, public policy research and advocacy center based in Washington, DC — has been busy addressing blockchain's national security implications with the congressional Terrorism and Illicit Finance Subcommittee, spearheading the Blockchain Caucus on Capitol Hill, and moderating recent panels on legal strategy and regulatory developments and how they affect the crypto - space.

A useful piece on the «new» Danish Economy and why it works by Jonathan Cohn, a senior editor at the (American) New Republic and a senior fellow at Demos, a US - based national, non-partisan public policy, research and advocacy organization.

About one - third of tax filers currently itemize, according to the Tax Policy Center, a nonpartisan research group based in Washington.

As Ron Hira, an Economic Policy Institute research associate and an associate professor of public policy at Howard University outlines in this blog for the Economic Policy Institute: «These two India - based IT firms specialize in outsourcing and offshoring, are major publicly traded companies with a combined market value of about $ 115 billion, and are the top two H - 1B employers in the United SPolicy Institute research associate and an associate professor of public policy at Howard University outlines in this blog for the Economic Policy Institute: «These two India - based IT firms specialize in outsourcing and offshoring, are major publicly traded companies with a combined market value of about $ 115 billion, and are the top two H - 1B employers in the United Spolicy at Howard University outlines in this blog for the Economic Policy Institute: «These two India - based IT firms specialize in outsourcing and offshoring, are major publicly traded companies with a combined market value of about $ 115 billion, and are the top two H - 1B employers in the United SPolicy Institute: «These two India - based IT firms specialize in outsourcing and offshoring, are major publicly traded companies with a combined market value of about $ 115 billion, and are the top two H - 1B employers in the United States.

Widely considered to be Canada's most influential think tank, the Institute is a trusted source of essential policy intelligence, distinguished by research that is nonpartisan, evidence - based and subject to definitive expert review.

Congress or the President creating an Office of Broad - based Employee Share Ownership and Profit Sharing in the White House to coordinate policies across the government to assure that there is sufficient data, research, and analysis to encourage responsible policies and avoid unintended consequences as the many policy disasters of the past noted above.

One forum for this type of discussion is the April 2013 Pacific Energy Summit, co-sponsored by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) and the U.S. - based National Bureau of Asian Research, that will bring together private sector, government and policy leaders from a number of Asian countries, as well as the United States and Canada, to discuss how to forge trans - Pacific co-operation for this new energy era.

«Essentially, the market is giving full credit for tax benefit pass - through in consensus numbers, but based on a thorough review of company guidance, we think this may be inappropriate,» says Todd Castagno, Accounting & Tax Policy Analyst for Morgan Stanley Research.

«The tax plan is just the latest in a long line of really bad economic policies that are based on an idea of how corporations work that has nothing to do with how corporations actually work today,» Nell Abernathy, vice president of research and policy at the liberal - leaning think tank the Roosevelt Institute, told me.

That policy not only cut the number of guns in circulation but, based on the research, may have cut the firearm homicide and suicide rates too.

It argues that during the 2016 presidential election, the FBI used the so - called Steele dossier, a largely unconfirmed opposition research document alleging collusion between Trump and Russia, as the basis for a warrant to surveil former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page.

To establish a national, broad based, community of Angel investors, incubators, and accelerators in Canada and connect them to their peers and the greater early - stage funding ecosystem so they can support the growth and development of innovative Canadian entrepreneurs and companies, and to support the ongoing evolution of that community through research, education and public policy.

Bethesda, Md. — based Calvert Investments introduced its fund in response to demand from advisors and investors, said Bennett Freeman, senior vice president for sustainability research and policy.

This finding has important implications not just for the home bias literature, but also more broadly for the growing research and policy interest on Internet - based crowd funding, especially as a new channel for entrepreneurial financing.

«It's an endless cat - and - mouse game,» said Matthew Gardner, senior fellow at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a research group based in Washington.

Out of 120 votes in the provincial legislature since the NDP took office, the two parties voted together 90 per cent of the time, says the report by John Whittaker, a policy analyst with the Calgary - based research centre.

«From a political perspective, the goal of the start - up visas is to demonstrate they're bringing in the sexiest, highest - value people,» said Madeleine Sumption, assistant director for research at the Washington - based Migration Policy Institute, who has studied start - up visa programs worldwide.

The CMP is a six - year research and public engagement initiative jointly led by the University of Victoria, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives» BC and Saskatchewan Offices, and the Alberta - based Parkland Institute.

At the same time as an ever more bloated scientific bureaucracy churns out masses of research results, the majority of which are likely outright false, scientists themselves are lauded as heroes and science is upheld as the only legitimate basis for policy - making.

Austin Ruse is president of the New York and Washington DC «based C - FAM (Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute), a research institute on international social policy.

It all started a few years back when, as the senior editor of a Jerusalem - based journal of public thought, I ran into trouble on a 10,000 - word, brilliantly researched essay about Israeli social policy composed by the sweetest man on earth who, unfortunately wasn't a stellar writer.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

Looking primarily to models based on quantitative research methodologies to provide a clear direction for policy in regulating media and violence can also distract policy makers from coming to grips with other difficult but more important value questions that impinge on the issue of media and violence, such as the purpose of broadcasting, issues of ownership and control of media, the international context of Australian media, the dominant economic nature of most of Australia's social communications, the distinctive ways in which the media reproduce and reconstruct myths and symbols of violence from within the culture, and how audiences use and respond to media myths and symbols.

Listen to people with first - hand experience of hunger and use their experiences, as well as informed research, as the basis for policy.

Richard L. Rubenstein is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of Religion at Florida State University and President of the Washington Institute for Values in Public Policy, a Washington - based research institution.

US - based International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has said that India and China could become net importers of grains and meat while Russia, Canada and the US could be big exporters by 2050.

«We take the research and make sure it's accessible to individuals and make policy recommendations based on the research.»

Mark A. Kastel is cofounder of The Cornucopia Institute, a Wisconsin - based farm and food policy research group that acts as an organic industry watchdog.

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) conducts research to provide innovative, evidence - based policy solutions to enhance food security and fight poPolicy Research Institute (IFPRI) conducts research to provide innovative, evidence - based policy solutions to enhance food security and fight Research Institute (IFPRI) conducts research to provide innovative, evidence - based policy solutions to enhance food security and fight research to provide innovative, evidence - based policy solutions to enhance food security and fight popolicy solutions to enhance food security and fight poverty.