Sentences with phrase «changes implemented under»

The proposed revisions will remove options related to Recommended and Distinguished Achievement Programs to reflect changes implemented under HB 5.
The Jamaican gave an in - depth interview about his career and plans to retire in 2017, and also had his say on how his beloved Red Devils have performed this season with the changes implemented under van Gaal.

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The real question is whether we have the guts, the resolve and the strength to implement the necessary changes before we doom another generation of kids to lifetime under - employment, second - class citizenship or worse.
Several of those groups, including the National Restaurant Association, the Retail Industry Leaders Association and the Food Marketing Institute, had been fighting hard for what they referred to as «transition relief,» extra time for companies that must provide health insurance to their workers under the new law to implement the changes without having to fear financial penalties for not doing so properly.
Respondents were asked about their views on climate change, support for specific policies under consideration in the federal / provincial / territorial climate action negotiations underway in Fall 2016, and the federal government's role in implementing a national climate plan.
These states would need to think hard about how to implement the change in a way that ensures those families still get the benefits they receive under the current income tax regime.
Rt Revd Peter Forster also said the government has gone about implementing the changes the wrong way, particularly given the amount of stress medics are under.
Given Palace's previous style of play under the likes of Sam Allardyce it seemed like a huge change to implement.
Only 40 percent of the rules required under the financial reform act have been implemented, the financial inudstry has started to modify some practcies in anticipation of the changes.
What is more worrying is that government is engaging in this environmentally unfriendly action at a time Ghana's development partners and the international community are sympathizing with the Ghanaian people on the increasing impacts of climate change on livelihoods and supporting the country with huge resources to implement a number of climate adaptation projects to help the people especially rural communities to improve livelihoods under severe climate change impacts through effective adaptation interventions.
«But I am also very cognizant on a daily basis of the kind of pressures our schools, our students, our teachers are under because of Common Core and these other tremendous sea changes that are being implemented in our schools,» she said.
-- The Secretary shall require each cooperating State and cooperating State agency to implement effective control measures and to effectively oversee the operation and administration of the climate change adjustment assistance program under this part, including by means of monitoring the operation of control measures to improve the accuracy and timeliness of the data being collected and reported.
(6) Under Article 4 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, developed country parties, including the United States, committed to «take all practicable steps to promote, facilitate, and finance, as appropriate, the transfer of, or access to, environmentally sound technologies and know - how to other parties, particularly developing country parties, to enable them to implement the provisions of the Convention».
The program, which got under way in 10 schools last week, is aimed at improving student achievement by enabling schools to assess their own needs and priorities and implement changes of their own design, officials said.
If a state chooses to implement this policy change on a school - by - school basis, teachers who choose the current traditional contract might be offered a transfer or be grandfathered, that is, allowed to continue under their current contract.
«The Children's Court has now implemented changes to make it a condition of bail that parents are involved in the planning for education and clinical decisions before that child returns to school and under what conditions.»
If these moves result in resegregation of schools, then the district is under no obligation to change the attendance boundaries or to implement any other policy that would integrate the schools.
Under her leadership, Utica Community Schools has been at the forefront of implementing educational changes that move the district from serving a manufacturing mind - set to providing students a depth of knowledge for college and career readiness.
Under COACHE, more than 250 colleges, universities, and state systems have strengthened their capacity to identify the drivers of faculty success and implement informed changes.
The entire waiver process was sloppily administered in the first place, with Duncan granting waivers to states (and allowing them to ignore whole sections of No Child) even thought they have not yet implemented or enacted all the proposals within their applications, and the administration ignoring concerns raised by its own peer review panels about such matters as how states have ignored the need to gain consultation on proposed changes from American Indian tribes as required under the U.S. Constitution (as well as from black and Latino communities equally affected by the evisceration of accountability).
State Board members would be required to consult with the commission as they implement changes, under this law.
A well - designed study that considers changes in graduation rates across states whose standards were more or less similar to those now being implemented under the Common Core, taking into account states» varied accountability systems, could be informative.
The District has made a good faith effort to implement the 2007 law that placed public schools under mayoral control, but there is no evidence that the change in governance has been a factor in improved standardized test scores, according to the first major independent study of D.C. school reform.
Although the agenda can always be used to advocate on behalf of students, schools, and the profession at the local, state, and federal levels, the 2016 agenda is particularly applicable at the state level as states begin implementing changes required under the Every Student Succeeds Act.
The changes often begin with better awareness of self and others (consciousness), followed by improved understanding and empathy (compassion), and skills to implement compassion even under difficult circumstances (courage).
Author - to - Author Reviews Amazon has implemented a policy change that disallows author - to - author reviews with the reasoning that reviews by one author of another author's book falls under the ethical aegis of financial interest and competing products.
Perhaps this is naive, but wouldn't the government implement changes like your example with a grandfather clause (only new money would fall under new rules)?
Don't include a copy of the actual notice (that's their problem to sort out), just tell them exactly what part of the proposed changes to your account that you do not agree with under any circumstances, and if you do subsequently receive a bill which implements the changes, it will be considered unlawful, outside the scope of the actual cardmember agreement, and subject to billing dispute and / or other legal action.
The temporary regulations implement recent law changes that expand the tax return preparer due diligence penalty under section 6695 (g) so that it applies to the child tax credit (CTC), additional child tax credit (ACTC), and the American Opportunity Tax Credit (AOTC), in addition to the earned income credit (EIC).
Ocarina of Time increased the feeling of being inside a living, breathing world by implementing a daytime and nighttime system, under which characters and entire towns would change their behavior accordingly.
Unless large scale change is implemented under specific and short term timelines, likely future scenarios are best expressed in science fiction movies.
In 2000, under then - Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, Germany's first center - left coalition of Social Democrats (SDP) and the Green Party implemented a nuclear phase - out with the passage of Atomausstieg, a controversial policy change that stymied nuclear generators» unlimited lifetime licenses and strong legal guarantees.
The agreement reached under the UNFCCC will, for example, influence whether post-2015 development will be implemented in a two, three, four (or more) degree world, and the SDGs will influence not only how resilient and well adapted to the effects of climate change poor and vulnerable communities will be, but also the pace and carbon intensity of development in all countries.
In this regard, ROAM will also enable countries to define and implement national or subnational contributions to the Bonn Challenge and concurrently allow nations to meet existing international commitments under the Convention on Biological Diversity, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and the United Nations Framework to Combat Climate Change.
(1) complete an adaptation plan for that department or agency, respectively, implementing the Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Strategy under section 476 and consistent with the Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Policy under section 472, detailing the department's or agency's current and projected efforts to address the potential impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on natural resources within the department's or agency's jurisdiction and necessary additional actions, including a timeline for implementation of those acChange Adaptation Strategy under section 476 and consistent with the Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Policy under section 472, detailing the department's or agency's current and projected efforts to address the potential impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on natural resources within the department's or agency's jurisdiction and necessary additional actions, including a timeline for implementation of those acChange Adaptation Policy under section 472, detailing the department's or agency's current and projected efforts to address the potential impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on natural resources within the department's or agency's jurisdiction and necessary additional actions, including a timeline for implementation of those acchange and ocean acidification on natural resources within the department's or agency's jurisdiction and necessary additional actions, including a timeline for implementation of those actions;
(6) Under Article 4 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, developed country parties, including the United States, committed to «take all practicable steps to promote, facilitate, and finance, as appropriate, the transfer of, or access to, environmentally sound technologies and know - how to other parties, particularly developing country parties, to enable them to implement the provisions of the Convention».
According to one former member of the White House Climate Change Task Force under President Clinton, President Obama may have plans to implement a carbon tax as soon as the fiscal cliff negotiations are settled.
Some state governments are concerned that certain line departments are duplicating work on climate change by directly responding to central ministry requests to implement specific national missions under the National Action Plan for Climate Change (NAPCC), bypassing nodal agencies that have prepared the climate change by directly responding to central ministry requests to implement specific national missions under the National Action Plan for Climate Change (NAPCC), bypassing nodal agencies that have prepared the climate Change (NAPCC), bypassing nodal agencies that have prepared the climate plans.
Under 15 U.S.C. § 2934, the President, as Chairman of the Council, shall develop and implement through CENR a U.S. Global Change Research Program.
This CICERO working paper focuses on policy issues associated with carbon sinks and provides a good overview of the potential and costs involved in implementing the land use, land use change and forestry options under the Kyoto Protocol.
Starting in 2023, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will implement reviews, called «stocktakes,» every five years to assess how countries are progressing toward meeting their pledges under the climate deal.
In this work, we implemented a relatively simple model applicable to large areas, which can be used to assess the sensitivity of linear changes in different components of the risk formula, to the overall flood risk under selected climatic scenarios.
«Because President Obama implemented many climate change policies through executive action, Trump will have the power to water down President Obama's climate change regulations and ignore the United States» commitments under last year's Paris climate agreement.
Once carbon pricing gets implemented, it will be under the control of bureaucrats and politicians like in the EU and US EPA and Australia's Climate Change Authority http://climatechangeauthority.gov.au/ It will become a huge boondogle and extremely difficult to unwind, as we are finding in Australia.
Activities Implemented Jointly: Review of Progress under the Pilot Phase (Decision 5 / CP.1), Second Synthesis Report on Activities Implemented, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), FCCC / CP / 1998 / 2, Bonn.
Under her leadership, the EPA has taken sensible and important steps to protect the air we breathe and the water we drink, including implementing the first national standard for harmful mercury pollution, taking important action to combat climate change under the Clean Air Act, and playing a key role in establishing historic fuel economy standards that will save the average American family thousands of dollars at the pump, while also slashing carbon polluUnder her leadership, the EPA has taken sensible and important steps to protect the air we breathe and the water we drink, including implementing the first national standard for harmful mercury pollution, taking important action to combat climate change under the Clean Air Act, and playing a key role in establishing historic fuel economy standards that will save the average American family thousands of dollars at the pump, while also slashing carbon polluunder the Clean Air Act, and playing a key role in establishing historic fuel economy standards that will save the average American family thousands of dollars at the pump, while also slashing carbon pollution.
LIVELIHOOD ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE IN DROUGHT - PRONE AREAS: DEVELOPING INSTITUTIONS AND OPTIONS, BANGLADESH (FAO AND THE ASIAN DISASTER PREPAREDNESS CENTRE (ADPC)-RRB-: The project, implemented under the Comprehensive Disaster Risk Management Programme and in close collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE), specifically looks at: characterization of livelihood systems; profiling of vulnerable groups; assessment of past and current climate impacts; and understanding of local perceptions of climate impacts, local coping capacities, and existing adaptation strategies.
Shell, BP, Total UK and Centrica are just a few of the 15 oil and gas companies courted by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to help implement the Wood Review recommendation to maximise the economic recovery of UK petroleum (MER UK)-- a policy which is now law under the Infrastructure Act.
There's no single solution, but at an international level change has to come from nations fully accepting and implementing their responsibilities under international treaties to protect and fulfil human rights.
It is to be hoped that the rethink will (assuming it is implemented) bring the provisions which tax non-domiciled UK residents who receive benefits from offshore trusts (contained in Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 (TCGA 1992), s 87) more closely into line with the proposed changes to the rules which charge settlors who are able to benefit under their settlements.
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