Sentences with phrase «by urban policies»

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This fundamental shift will reshape urban transportation, and is being driven by changes in the regulation, pricing, and workforce policies of ride - hailing services.

«These would be LGFVs deemed most financially stretched by the authorities, and consist mostly of lower - tier (non-provincial) LGFVs, particularly those that mix commercial with policy activities, such as property with urban development,» said Fitch.

The cost of the credits to the federal government makes them controversial, however, says Joseph Rosenberg, senior research associate at the Tax Policy Center, a non-partisan tax group run by the Urban Institute and Brookings.

If Congress had not enacted the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, 10 million taxpayers would owe the AMT in 2007, according to estimates by the Urban Institute - Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center; reducing the number of affected taxpayers to several million, as the House - passed AMT «patch» bill would do, would have cost less than $ 15 billion.

The Canadian Global Cities Council, a coalition of Canada's eight largest urban regional chambers of commerce, is calling for airport policy reform to align Canada with global best practices, and for our international airports to be factored into transit infrastructure planning by all levels of government.

The FHA percent share by dollar volume shot up in 2008 and 2009, according to the Office of Policy Development and Research at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development:

«The belief that corruption is the important issue in the country is shared only by the minority living in urban areas and towns who have been beneficiaries of economic liberalization policies mandated by western countries.

Governments in most Third World countries, supported by development policies in First and Second World countries, have been concerned about supplying sophisticated forms of energy for industrialization and urban life.

There must also be a reversal of the trend, dictated by urban growth and economic policies, to turn much of the best farmland into industrial and residential sites.

A 2013 study by Mathematica Policy Research revealed that students at five urban EL middle schools advanced ahead of matched peers at comparison schools by an average of ten months in math and seven months in reading over the course of three years.

Two days ago, the Los Angeles Times ran an opinion piece by Robert Gottlieb, director of the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College, with an update on school food in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Uribe's hawkish policy weakened the FARC considerably, including by killing some of the group's leadership figures, and it made urban areas safer.

Also, major global policy initiatives now hang in the equilibrium as a result of the recent uproar: for example, the EU - Canada (CETA) and EU - US trade deals (TTIP may soon fall victim to extensive campaigning by transnational anti-globalization movements, which has resulted in mass urban demonstrations in numerous countries participating in the deal.

The Democratic governor, who is positioning himself for a possible 2020 presidential run, would pay an estimated $ 31,830 in taxes under the provisions of the new tax bill, according to online calculators run by the Tax Foundation and Tax Policy Center, a joint project of the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution.

«Pure Marxist theology» by «a load of Communist clerics» — Thatcher's government didn't think much of a landmark Church of England report on urban decay which slammed its housing, benefits, tax and policing policies.

New York University urban policy Professor Mitchell Moss, a former Bloomberg advisor, said he's not surprised by the fact.

Whilst showering praise on the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government for scrapping the «nuisance levy» imposed by the previous government on head porters (kayayei) and for its determination to stem the tide of rural - urban migration through the one - district - one - factory and one - village - one - dam policies, the organisation also called for a probe into the running of the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA).

Gainesville Republican Ted Yolo, joined by 22 other House Republicans, co-signed a letter calling Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson to reverse the «Housing First» emphasis in policies during the Obama administration.

These disparate voting patterns in cities across the country point to the distinct concerns and outlook of different urban areas, driven by divergent economic fortunes — and therefore the need for greater variation in policy - making to address the needs of different places.

Under Theresa May's leadership, the Conservative party has turned its back on urban and suburban areas by pursuing policies and public spending decisions that discriminate against our cities and towns.

Research for the Centre for Policy Studies by Conservative MP Philip Dunne has revealed how Gordon Brown has used his control of the nation's purse strings to tilt the growth of funding towards urban Britain - much of it Labour's heartlands.

The winning regions will be picked by a panel of five people: Secretary of State Cesar Perales; RoAnn Destito, commissioner of the state's Office of General Services; Bruce Katz, who directs Brookings» metropolitan policy program; Urban League president Marc Morial and Susan Christopherson, the chair of Cornell's department of City & Regional Planning.

The Governor's Airport Advisory Panel is charged with producing recommendations on redesigns and modernization for our region's airports, and is comprised of the following appointees by the Governor: Amanda Burden, former commissioner of the New York City Department of City Planning; Tony Collins, co-chair of the North Country Regional Economic Development Council; Jose Gomez - Ibanez, Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government and Harvard's Graduate School of Design; Queens Borough President Melinda Katz; DanTishman, CEO of Tishman Construction Corporation; Jacqueline Snyder, former head of the New York City Public Design Commission; John Zuccotti, co-chair of Brookfield Office Properties.

At the time, Foley was asked by a reporter if the report's recommendations would become his urban policy platform.

The complaint, filed last week with the State Elections Enforcement Commission, follows revelations that Foley included passages in his urban policy plan that were identical in wording to phrases previously published in a report by the Connecticut Policy Instpolicy plan that were identical in wording to phrases previously published in a report by the Connecticut Policy InstPolicy Institute.

As New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg prepares to leave office, a commentary by a leading bioethicist analyzes his controversial public health policies and concludes that he is an urban innovator who created a new paradigm of public health, «reaching beyond infectious diseases to upstream risk factors in everyday life and the human habitat.»

Into the Eye of the Storm: Assessing the Evidence on Science and Engineering Education, Quality, and Workforce Demand, released in October by the Urban Institute (UI), a policy - research organization in Washington, D.C., retains the U.S. National Academy of Sciences» report's meteorological metaphor but rejects its analysis and conclusions.

Even when allowed two children, couples prefer one child, with my research showing that this attitude has been reinforced by the urban conditions that families are forced to adjust to and policies that are not family - friendly.

If the world's cities focused their investments on expanding public transportation, walking and cycling, they could save more than $ 100 trillion in public and private capital and urban transportation operating costs between now and 2050, according to a report released today by the University of California, Davis, and the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP).

These challenges will require new policies and approaches to urban planning, and building designs driven by appropriately derived guidelines to achieve the required sustainable pathway trajectory.

U.S. Private Schools Increasingly Serve Affluent Families (Vox CEPR's Policy Portal) Richard Murnane discusses how fewer middle - class children are now enrolled in private schools and that an increase in residential segregation by income in the US means that urban public and urban private schools have less socioeconomic diversity than they had decades ago.

Coleman's findings created immediate reverberations in the world of education policy.At the Ed School, a University - wide faculty seminar launched by Professor of Education and Urban Politics Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Harvard social psychologist Thomas Pettigrew sought to analyze the report with an eye to how the information could be used to shape future policy.

While class - size reduction has helped achievement in most of California's large urban school districts, not all of those have enjoyed such results, says a study by the Public Policy Institute of California.

A sharp divide among Democrats was in full view at the party's national convention in Denver, where urban mayors and educators, gathered at a forum sponsored by Democrats for Education Reform (DFER), challenged the dominant role of teachers unions in shaping policy.

If the connective tissue between the urban poor and downwardly mobile working - class whites is lost on pundits and policy makers, the same isn't true of Vance, who describes being deeply struck by William Julius Wilson's book The Truly Disadvantaged.

As the traditional urban school district is slowly replaced by a system marked by an array of nongovernmental school providers, new policies (undergirded by a new understanding of the government's role in public schooling) are needed.

According to a 2002 study of children in Dane County, Wisconsin, by urban - policy consultant David Rusk, low - income children at schools with a middle - class majority scored 20 - 32 percent higher on standardized tests compared with what their scores would be at schools with a lower percentage of middle - class students.

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Funded by: Smith Richardson Foundation via subcontract w / Brown University Amount: $ 10,843 Dates: 1/1/17 — 7/1/20 Summary: In collaboration with researchers from Brown University Dr. Jones will examine the effects of Boston Public School's autonomous hiring policy reform on student, teacher, and school outcomes, with the broader goal of examining the nature and challenges of the teacher hiring and match process in large urban school districts.

By allowing Catholic schools to receive government funding, a religious - charter policy could honor the traditions of both Catholic education and the chartering movement, allow these schools to carry on their service to the most at - risk urban students, and adhere to state standards, assessments, and accountability frameworks.

This article by researchers at Stanford's Center for Education Policy Analysis finds that principal turnover in one large urban school district is detrimental to student performance and teacher retention.

Changing governance arrangements clearly can make a difference in the way urban public school systems function, but such a strategy requires the right combination of ingredients - committed and skilled leadership by the mayor, willingness to use scarce resources, a stable coalition of supporters, appropriate education policies, and a cadre of competent, committed professionals to implement the reforms.

To argue that she has been even moderately successful with her approach, we would have to ignore the legitimate concerns of local and national charter reformers who know the city well, and ignore the possibility that Detroit charters are taking advantage of loose oversight by cherry - picking students, and ignore the very low test score growth in Detroit compared with other cities on the urban NAEP, and ignore the policy alternatives that seem to work better (for example, closing low - performing charter schools), and ignore the very low scores to which Detroit charters are being compared, and ignore the negative effects of virtual schools, and ignore the negative effects of the only statewide voucher programs that provide the best comparisons with DeVos's national agenda.

Even public policy — notoriously glacial — responded to the decades of urban - district failure by creating chartering, recovery school districts, mayoral takeovers, and much more.

I guess the monopolists at NEA aren't comfortable with equity, because using that term leaves them open to blame for keeping poor and minority kids in urban failure factories by waging war on policies that would help them escape.

Although the series is now over a decade old, many of the recommendations made by the task forces are still relevant today, such as providing effective professional development for teachers and principals, professionalizing teaching, political and policy challenges like bipartisanship, and dispelling myths about the challenges of leading urban districts.

The courses can be used by career teachers to advance their current knowledge or, if enrolled at U-M, can shave a semester off of the typical four - semester master's programs in Educational Leadership and Policy, Teaching and Learning, New Media and Literacy, and Urban Pedagogy.

This course also helps them situate this particular work within the larger context of challenges and innovations in urban education by introducing participants to literature on the achievement gap, the impact of racial identity on school achievement, charter school policy and critiques, and the advent and development of charter schools serving low income students that are based on high support and high expectations.

Teach Plus helps to retain great teachers in urban schools by training them to become education - policy advocates.

PURE has played a major role in changing the discussion about charter schools by exposing the dehumanizing and pricey discipline policies used by the Noble Charter Network, the misleading «100 % college - going» claim of Urban Prep charter schools, and the questionable financial practices of the UNO charter network.