Sentences with phrase «bigger policy efforts»

Only after you connect with people this way, at the personal and local level, can you then get people participating in a dialogue about bigger policy efforts.

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«You don't ever really see him, when there's a financial interest or there's a big lobbying effort, where he abandons his principles,» said Edward Mills, a financial policy research analyst with FBR Capital Markets & Co..

Ridiculing Obama's efforts to engage the international community, Huckabee said, «There was once a time when our foreign policy was, «Walk softly and carry a big stick»... Our new policy is, walk softly and carry a great big olive branch, or maybe even a bag of Stay Puft marshmallows so that when we build around the campfire we can sing «Kumbaya» and have a lovely time holding arms and talking about how well we're getting on.»

Without descending into the detail of policy appraisal or the delivery of operational targets — both things that my environmental audit committee will scrutinise — the best snapshot of effort will come from the big policy packages that define the government's agenda, and which have the greatest environmental impact.

The nine - person board has a voice on policy matters, can nix or approve big contracts and budgets, and generally helps steer the direction of Hartford's long - running education reform efforts.

Appearing today before the Senate commerce committee as the nominee for associate director for science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Wieman was asked if NASA should play a bigger role in the federal effort to raise student achievement and produce a better - trained workforce.

Through the Data Driven Instruction Initiative (DDII), Big Shoulders Fund supports schools in their efforts to use data to inform instruction, drive policy and investment decisions, and measure progress.

Even Netflix's CEO, Reed Hastings, is betting big on privatized education — he's led and financed efforts to pass pro-charter state policy and wants at least 90 % of California's students to attend charter schools.

In an effort to do this, the Teacher Salary Project has increased public awareness, pushed to influence policy, provided thought leadership, and shared stories and research, including The New York Times bestselling Teachers Have it Easy; the Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America's Teachers and the nationally acclaimed feature length film, American Teacher.

The waiver application state officials submitted in November reads both like a primer on Indiana's efforts to overhaul education, and like a game plan for big changes to state education policy that are still to come, including a more aggressive timeline for state intervention in failing schools.

The document reads both like a primer on Indiana's efforts to overhaul education in recent years, and like a game plan for big changes to the state's education policy that are still to come — including a more aggressive timeline for state intervention in failing schools.

«With the release of the Big 6's Statement of Principles and Policy Recommendations, the coalition expects elected officials to keep education improvement efforts a priority during Legislative Session.

The proposed agreement, echoing the architecture of the Framework Convention and Kyoto Protocol, has a few main themes: finding ways that rich countries can help poor ones adapt to impending climate change; strengthening efforts to curb emissions of heat - trapping greenhouse gases from rich countries and the biggest poor ones; and committing rich countries to helping poor ones deploy energy technologies or forest policies that limit their emissions even as they try to prosper.

Led by China and America, support for green tech is rapidly becoming one of the biggest industrial - policy efforts ever.

Steve: it is an editorial policy of this site that readers refrain from efforts to prove or disprove «big picture» points in a few paragraphs.

Since the organization needs the cooperation of bigger nations in making climate policies work, it's a big boost to the U.N. effort that China, the worst emission offender in the world, has already set a goal to stick to a ceiling limit on emissions by 2030.

The way they approach your renters insurance policy and offer suggestions along the way will make a big difference in how you respond to their El Centro renters insurance advertising efforts.

Those changes were spurred on by HSUS» effort to engage with some of the world's biggest food companies and retailers, such as Walmart and McDonald's, which have since adopted policies saying they'll only buy cage - free eggs.