Sentences with phrase «challenging policy environment»

In an excerpt from his new book, Letters to a Young Education Reformer, Frederick M. Hess describes how his own experiences as a student and a teacher, often in a challenging policy environment, inspired his commitment to opening up outdated education systems so that educators, entrepreneurs, parents, and communities can reinvent schooling to better serve every child.

Few chancellors have faced a more challenging policy environment than this one.

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This observation is important because it highlights the potential for an evolving global environment to complicate the challenge of crafting economic policy, and in particular, monetary policy.

Uncertainty around the policy path of President - elect Trump, coupled with a changing interest rate landscape and rising PBGC premiums create a challenging environment for plan sponsors.

Having a well - drafted Investment Policy Statement gives organizations the discipline to face the uncertainties of challenging investment environments.

The speech starts by setting out three key themes of the Bank's recent communication about Australia's transition from the resources sector boom to more normal economic conditions: that the sheer scale of the boom means that this transition is challenging, and that the broader global environment compounds the challenge; that a reasonably successful transition is possible given our economy's positive fundamentals and flexibility; and that monetary policy is doing what it can to help the transition, but that the chances of success would be boosted by a lift in productivity growth and an increase in the expected risk - adjusted rate of return on investment.

Now the challenge will fall to Ms. Notley, Environment Minister Shannon Phillips and Energy Minister Marg McCuaig - Boyd to win the policy war on climate change.

«Climate change is a problem with serious implications for the global environment, social, economic, distribution [systems] and policies and constitutes one of the main challenges for humanity.

Schneiderman has filed legal challenges to a variety of Trump administration regulatory changes and policies, ranging from the environment to immigration and telecommunications.

At 6 p.m., Sen. Liz Krueger will host a conversation with New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, discussing his work to challenge Trump Administration policies on a host of issues from immigration to the environment to civil and voting rights.

Mary Creagh MP, Labour's shadow environment secretary, said: «The white paper fails to set out a clear plan for major challenges such as reforestation or biodiversity loss; nor does it deal with concerns about planning policy.

Schneiderman's replacement will play a big role in challenges to Trump's policies ranging from protection of the environment to safeguarding rights of undocumented immigrants.

It recommended three policy options to strengthen the agriculture sector: improving the quality and effectiveness of public expenditure, the environment for agriculture businesses to promote value addition and fixing challenges in the cocoa sector given the large size of the cocoa economy.

As a coveted asset in the federal government, fellows gain hands - on policy experience in a challenging environment.

In a statement responding to Golden Spike's announcement, a NASA spokesperson said: «This type of private sector effort is further evidence of the timeliness and wisdom of the Obama administration's overall space policy — to create an environment where commercial space companies can build upon NASA's past successes, allowing the agency to focus on the new challenges of sending humans to an asteroid and eventually Mars.»

Speakers included Audun Rosland from the Norwegian Environment Agency who explained current climate policy and its challenges and constraints, and Peter Wehrheim from the European Commission who set out the options for including emissions from land use and forestry (LULUCF) in the EU 2030 climate and energy framework.

Our vision, mission and approach for this research takes into account the complexity of climate science and the need for key advances that will help decision makers as they face policy challenges related to the environment.

We are an international non-profit research and policy organization that tackles environment and development challenges.

Regrettably, through all the NCLB trashing, Winerip never described these issues so that lay readers, almost certainly unfamiliar with this context, could at least understand the current environment let alone learn about the complexity of the law and the challenges of designing policy for our decentralized system of schooling.

It highlights the great importance that the built environment has on everybody's lives, and the crucial role it plays in tackling some of the government's key policy areas and challenges.

The four - day leadership development program drew on the expertise and research of Harvard faculty and leading practitioners in framing the challenges faced by charter schools and their school communities while also addressing the larger state - level policy environment.

Where an earlier generation of donors had chalked up the challenges to problems of implementation or program design, the new philanthropists were much more receptive to the notion that the problem was the inhospitable cultures, systems, and policy environments in which those scale - ups were being attempted.

It is not only the regulatory environment that founders must directly challenge, but the entire sweep of policies, practices, and pedagogies, from federal law to local union contracts, from teacher preparation programs to the design of mainstream textbooks, that together define how most public schools today function.

Why, then, do the majority of district, state, and federal education policies prioritize annual assessment results over equally important factors, such as challenging and engaging curricula; strong social - emotional and physical health supports; moral and ethical development; and safe, supportive learning environments?

Uncertainty around the policy path of President - elect Trump, coupled with a changing interest rate landscape and rising PBGC premiums create a challenging environment for plan sponsors.

A multi-purpose platform, GTEF not only brings together international government and industry leaders, experts, scholars and related industry partners to engage in discussions and debates about opportunities and challenges in the global tourism economy; it also provides the perfect environment for stakeholders in the tourism and related industries to explore the real opportunities that underlie China's international and regional integration policies, to network and to engage in business - matching and privately - scheduled meetings that are conducive to business leads and new partnerships.

«To succeed in this challenging environment, Capcom has been focusing resources on strategic and growing areas under a policy of selection and concentration in order to operate with speed and flexibility.

11/19/15 — One science watcher is seeing «fantastic news» in how some Republicans are viewing climate challenges, with separate groups of federal legislators declaring intentions to «protect our environment and climate while also bolstering clean energy innovation» and to be «good stewards of our environment... and base our policy decisions in science.»

There's a growing public awareness that energy policy is central to this challenge, and that by employing the right energy technologies, Americans can have a profound positive impact on their environment.

Across diverse projects, Meridian brings people together to address complex ocean policy challenges and find culturally and economically viable solutions that safeguard the longevity of our ocean environments and the communities that depend upon them.

We are an international non-profit research and policy organization that tackles environment and development challenges.

That's a challenge we need to address,» said Michel Tschirren, Policy Advisor Green Economy and Trade at the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment.

Looking ahead, the government agencies responsible for implementing India's climate policies will have a critical role to play in overcoming these challenges and providing an enabling environment to ensure policy success.

Vote in favour of reform at Environment Committee safeguards cornerstone of EU climate change policy but further challenges remain

On the challenging side, energy is delivered within a regulatory environment and mere humans are making a series of policy decisions; politicians and regulators are motivated by different political agendas.

Policy analysis and implementation will be extremely challenging given the nonconvexities in the human - environment system (109) that will be enhanced by tipping elements, as well as the need to handle intergenerational justice and interpersonal equity over long periods and under conditions of uncertainty (110).

Guided by such knowledge, with enough resources and efforts, and only if done in time, human ingenuity can harness advances in science, technology, engineering, and policy to develop effective solutions for addressing the challenges of environment and climate, population, and development.

Environment Northeast (ENE) is a non-profit organization that researches and advocates innovative policies that tackle our environmental challenges while promoting sustainable economies.

There has not been a significant human rights challenge to a random testing policy since Irving Pulp (which was not a human rights complaint), and it will be interesting to see whether the Supreme Court's dim view of random testing in a unionized workplace will influence the treatment of such policies in a non-union environment.

The challenge, which was dismissed on 23 October, (Friends of the Earth and Help the Aged v Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Aff airs [2008] EWHC 2518 (Admin)-RRB-, interestingly illuminates both the possibilities and the limitations of judicial review as a mechanism for holding the government to particular policy aims.

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This report presents findings on the development of policies and curricula, including the actors involved and challenges faced; how sexuality education is taught in classrooms; students» experiences and preferences; support for implementation, including teacher training and school environment factors; sources of SRH information outside of the classroom; and general opinions about such education among key stakeholders.

This report presents findings on the development of policies and curricula, including the actors involved and challenges faced; how sexuality education is taught in classrooms; students» experiences and preferences; support for implementation, including teacher training and school environment factors; sexuality education outside of the classroom; and general opinions about sexuality education among key stakeholders.

This chapter describes the policy and legal environment regarding sexuality education in Kenya, the actors involved in curriculum development, the structure and content of the sexuality education program, and challenges to program development and implementation, and offers commentary on program comprehensiveness.

Adolescence is characterized by major biological, psychological and social challenges and opportunities, where interaction between the individual and environment is intense, and developmental pathways are set in motion or become established.2 — 4 Furthermore, adolescent psychopathology can have important consequences for education, relationships and socioeconomic achievement in later life.5 — 7 These characteristics of adolescence do not only set high demands for cohort studies aiming to capture the most salient aspects of developmental pathways, they also ensure a great gain in empirical knowledge and an invaluable source of information for public health policy from such studies.