Sentences with phrase «broad policy change»

Park and healthcare providers hope that this regional initiative can be a catalyst for broad policy change that advances the adoption of measureable recreational models to support the delivery of healthcare to improve the physical and mental health of our population.

While the International Mobility Program will certainly help a few American companies to «park» their foreign employees in Canada during this tumultuous time, it's the broader policy changes that will tangibly impact the tech community at home, as well as foreigners seeking a safe and stimulating place to innovate.

The joint hearings are reviewing statewide policies on water quality, and discussing any broad policy changes that could better protect the health of New Yorkers.

Open competition Reform also believes that there are broader policy changes that could help open up the commissioning process to more schools and sponsors.

As Reckhow and others have noted, the focus in grant making has been on pushing new approaches and broader policy changes that might indirectly foster improvement in high schools — through higher standards, stronger graduation requirements, and better teacher training.

ROBUST AGREEMENT IN FAVOR of exploring less - punitive disciplinary measures has not prevented the emergence of controversy, however, especially as elected officials and districts move to implement broad policy changes quickly.

Considering the two main channels through which the drought and food crisis affects welfare in Kenya, the document identifies four broad policy changes that can reduce Kenya's future vulnerability to such shocks: (i) investment in people in the arid and semiarid lands; (ii) reform of Kenya's maize policy; (iii) review of the East African Community grain trade policy; and (iv) formulation of a unified social protection system.

Nevertheless, we can recommend resolutions, not only to address individual grievances, but also to promote broad policy changes.

The Final Report contained 173 recommendations ranging from specific amendments to the ESA, the LRA and the Occupational Health and Safety Act, to broader policy changes and future discussions.

Not exact matches

«Ending DACA would place severe economic strain on businesses around the country, putting them into the impossible and extremely costly position of having to fire productive employees for no other reason than an arbitrary change in federal policy, potentially resulting in backlash from other employees, or their broader community,» the report reads.

«We have changed our view of the difficulties in bridging the gulf between the political parties over fiscal policy, which makes us pessimistic about the capacity of Congress and the Administration to be able to leverage their agreement this week into a broader fiscal consolidation plan that stabilizes the government's debt dynamics any time soon.»

«Changing dynamics in family structures in our workforce called for a broader family leave policy for all.»

«I am personally concerned with the overly broad scope, hasty implementation and unclear consequences of this policy change.

The scandal has led to broader questions about how Facebook and other social media networks manage data, and Facebook has been changing its privacy policies and tools in response.

She brings a wealth of experience in achieving broad and lasting change and in - depth knowledge of clean energy, conservation policy, toxic enforcement, and team building.

Even though the intellectual climate within the Reserve Bank and other economic policy agencies was already moving in favour of deregulation in the early 1970s, wider community acceptance of the case for change did not come until after the Government set up a broad - ranging inquiry, conducted by a group of independent experts.

To have its broader effect, monetary policy relies on changes in the cash rate affecting other interest rates.

Given that spreading ownership of capital and increasing employees» share in economic rewards has bipartisan appeal, 37 the only valid answer to the question by Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, or other time travelers is that, after four decades of neglecting policies to stimulate broad - based profit sharing and employee share ownership, we have changed course and are now placing them in the policy portfolio, if not at the center of economic policymaking that they occupied from the days of Washington to Lincoln.

In the George W. Bush administration, changes in accounting regulations and Federal policies made granting of broad - based stock options and restricted and other stock grants to employees in high technology and other companies less attractive, which led to a huge drop in employee share ownership among the middle class in those companies and industries.

However, policy hawks within the administration, namely Peter Navarro and Robert Lighthizer, are unlikely to be satisfied by these changes around the edges, and are likely to be pushing for a much broader and revolutionary change to the U.S. - China trade relationship.

At the event, which was hosted by the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law in New Haven, Powell highlighted three specific areas where blockchain technology is affecting change in regard to the Federal Reserve's «broad public policy objectives»: the creation of real - time payment systems, use of blockchain technology for clearing and settlement services, and the issuance of digital currencies by central banks.

Modernization theory views such processes of institutional change within American religion as the alleged differentiation of private piety from public policy, the growing differentiation of secular education from its religious roots, and the emergence of professional therapy as a distinct alternative to pastoral counseling as bellwether trends in advanced industrial societies generally and suggests that they may be in some way influenced by broader international patterns.

Crisis books usually follow a predictable pattern: first a searing depiction of the problem at hand, then some broad and sweeping assessments of how great changes in attitude might begin to address the issue, and then some piddling and timid policy proposals that clearly won't begin to meet the challenge.

Probably more people took notice of this when Moody changed its alcohol policy, but it's broader than that.

But it wouldn't take much to make broad changes (these aren't big $ $ items) if a few key employers took it under the mantle of family friendly policy.

As for more broad - base electoral policy change, there is just a lack of will to alter a policy of familiarity.

The federal government can make broad regulatory changes but can't make individual policy for handling patients.

Tomorrow, Mr Blair will deliver a major speech on foreign policy on how «global values» such as democracy and the rule of law are applied, looking at everything from interventions in Kosovo to a broader policy towards Africa and climate change.

He's been discussing the need for broad changes to the public education system — including giving the governor more control over setting policy — since before the November elections.

«Isolated changes should not be made outside of the context of broader discussions about higher education policy.

«Our party has always been a broad church, and despite my principled differences with Jeremy over many issues of defence, foreign policy and national security, I agreed to serve on his front bench because of the mandate he was given, his assurances that honesty and difference were welcomed, and due to the many areas we agreed wholeheartedly on such as fighting the vicious Tory trade union bill - which I was proud to lead our work on - cuts to tax credits and tackling climate change.

The approach was developed by Pacific Center Director Paul Glassman, a professor of dentistry at University of the Pacific, who collaborated with a broad range of stakeholders to leverage advances in dentistry and telehealth, create training programs for dentists and hygienists, and win policy and other changes needed to pilot and evaluate the system.

David Wessel, director of Brookings» Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy, said the linking of monetary policy with broader social and economic concerns, such as climate change, is an emerging and critically important task for governments to taPolicy, said the linking of monetary policy with broader social and economic concerns, such as climate change, is an emerging and critically important task for governments to tapolicy with broader social and economic concerns, such as climate change, is an emerging and critically important task for governments to take on.

We hope that our work will help scholars and policymakers understand these past trends and their effects on a broad range of social issues, as well as inform future efforts to change policy.»

Part of this is a result of ongoing frustration with broader policy measures, particularly at the national level, when it comes to confronting climate change.

This view holds that true school reform must be part of a broader social justice campaign led by people of color, which calls for progressive changes to health care, housing, immigration, and economic policies, as well as education.

Our findings reveal more stability than change in public opinion over the five years since the Education Next — PEPG survey began, suggesting that the momentous policy developments of the past year were not caused by — nor have they yet produced — broad changes in popular views.

First, the programs can be broad, aiming to incentivize policy changes in multiple areas in one fell swoop, or narrowly focused on a specific challenge facing most school systems.

American School Board Journal chronicles change, interprets issues, and offers readers — some 50,000 school board members and school administrators — practical advice on a broad range of topics pertinent to school governance and management, policy making, student achievement, and the art of school leadership.

The indeterminate nature of leadership in the course of policy making, and the slippage that occurs as policy refinements accrue during implementation, help to explain how policies succeed or fail.243 Particular instruments used to reformulate policy are less important, according to this perspective, than understanding how a particular policy issue got the governor «s or the legislative committee «s attention in the first place.244 A third image, the practitioner perspective, emerges from studies of publicsector administrators; it examines the tendency of administrators to seek flexibility and autonomy in interpreting policies, and ways in which this tendency affects the broader process of change.

This only serves to keep us from achieving the broader vision, as well as keeps us from the resources and policy changes needed at the the local, state, and federal levels to help us get there.

They examine the startlingly broad range of education policy changes enacted in Florida during Bush's first term, including moves toward privatization with a voucher system, more government control of public education institutions with centralized accountability mechanisms, and a «superboard» for all public education.

Last week I described two broad research strategies that might help us analyze our complex education system so that we could predict how education policy changes ought to affect student outcomes, and thereby select optimal policy changes.

In his role at the National Board, Lee focuses on the broadest levels of education policy, but as a former teacher and principal, he's well aware that it can take a long time for policy changes to reach classroom, if they do at all.

This change means «it is likely that there will continue to be a mix of academies and maintained schools for the foreseeable future», but stressed that the DfE still has not formally set out its current policy for converting schools to academies or explored the broader implications for the school system.

A former Hope Street teaching fellow and Woodford County teacher, Clark, too, knows personally the importance not only of building the capacity of individual teachers to lead, but also of building a broad, national network of teacher leaders to address education policy and effect lasting change.

Bringing new or existing models to a broader scale will require not only technological and educational innovation, but also public policy change.

We've stood by as the concentration of wealth have made it possible for small groups of extremely wealthy people to wield power far disproportionate to their number, leading to inaction on issues as broad - ranging as climate change to gun policy.

On a broader level, state officials point to policy changes — such as mandatory teacher evaluations — for which they say the colleges of education aren't preparing graduates well.

In addition to using his foundation to effect change to American public education, Eli Broad has made personal campaign contributions to candidates who are favorably disposed to his preferred policies, even down to the local school board level.