Sentences with phrase «created model policy»

We have created model policy language, offering concrete illustrations of policy exemplars.

At times, the agency is specifically tasked by the Vermont State Board of Education or the Vermont Legislature to create model policies that address specific issues related to students and schools.

GLSEN has created these model policies based on our best thinking about how to make schools safer.

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Roper and other consumer advocates argue that conflicted advice is deeply engrained in the brokerage business model, echoing the concerns outlined in a recent leaked White House policy memo in which officials concluded that «the current regulatory environment creates perverse incentives that ultimately cost investors billions of dollars a year» in the form of unnecessary rollovers of 401 (k) plans into costly IRAs, and «excessive churning (repeated buying and selling) of retirement assets.»

Former NASA scientist Dr. Roy Spencer says that climate models used by government agencies to create policies «have failed miserably.»

Tedeschi used the Open Source Policy Center tax model that was created by the American Enterprise Institute, so the figures are going to be different than the TPC model.

By advocating for policy changes, the Council seeks to create an economic model in which what is good for business is good for the environment and society.

Additional Accountability Requirements: None Additional Content Requirements: None Guidance Materials: A collaborative between the Commissioner of Education and the state school boards association that created the Nutrition and Fitness Policy Guidelines (2004), a model school fitness and nutrition policy consistent with the 16 V.S.A. 216 (Policy Guidelines (2004), a model school fitness and nutrition policy consistent with the 16 V.S.A. 216 (policy consistent with the 16 V.S.A. 216 (2004).

Guidance Materials: The state Department of Education, in collaboration with the Dairy Council, created a comprehensive Model School Wellness Policy (2006).

The law also requires the state commissioner of education to collaborate in creating a model fitness and nutrition policy, which includes components that address Section 204 requirements.

Also, the Missouri School Boards» Association has created numerous guidance documents, including a Model Wellness Policy, Model Wellness Procedure, and Model Implementation Evaluation Form.

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Through grassroots organizing, leadership development, policy changes, and creating new models of direct democracy CVH is creating a truly equitable New York State.

Among his many initiatives, he created a model for correcting wrongful convictions, instituted a marijuana policy that would later be replicated citywide and started a summons forgiveness program that would also be instituted in several other jurisdictions.

Governor Cuomo's Regional Councils create a more efficient business model that empowers individual regions to determine what is best for their own communities and incentivizes thoughtful economic policies through competition.

Yet the model has come in for repeated criticism from government watchdogs, who say an economic policy that tries to create risky new industries virtually from scratch, and that spends millions in taxpayer dollars to create every new job, is folly.

«This translates into practical policies when Boris Johnson ridiculously announces that he will «unite» London against my policies «dividing» the city, when he is in fact attacking the policies that in 25 years in London have created among the best community relations in the world and which indeed may be taken as a model for many cities in the world,» he said.

Legislature Minority Leader Hector Rodriguez, the primary sponsor of the resolution, declined to characterize the measure as creating a sanctuary county, but the proposal — which Rodriguez said was crafted largely from a policy adopted by Tompkins County — mirrors the language offered by state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in a report outlining model sanctuary provisions.

Mr. Komanoff, 70, a policy analyst and a former president of Transportation Alternatives, is the one who made congestion pricing more than just an idea by creating a spreadsheet model to calculate the real - life impacts, including how much money would be raised, how much traffic would be reduced and how the costs would be spread across the region.

Resolution in Opposition to a Carbon Tax: Despite support for a carbon tax from ALEC members like ExxonMobil, ALEC is creating a model bill to weigh in on what will become the keystone policy battle for climate change science deniers, a battle that is already creating a rift among conservative groups, like the Koch - funded Heritage Foundation and the Heartland Institute against the R Street Institute.

Most recently, she's modeled for Spanish luxury brand Loewe (who have just updated their sustainability policy to be much more eco-friendly) and created a sexy haute lingerie line for British brand Agent Provacateur.

As a developmental psychologist trained in child development, prevention science, and social policy, Jones» research focuses on social and emotional learning (SEL) in childhood and adolescence and on creating and testing innovative intervention models and strategies designed to foster competencies that help children become successful.

The Model School Nutrition Policy, created by the state Department of Agriculture, sets a deadline of September 2007 for all K - 12 schools to stop selling all types of candies, as well as unhealthy snacks and drinks that list sugar in any form as the primary ingredient, before the end of the school day.

This is why ExcelinEd advocates for policies that incentivize and enable educators to create bold, innovative models that move away from our traditional time - and place - bound systems and toward personalized learning.

The white paper highlights the importance of creating policy environments that grant innovative educators autonomy, enabling them to design and implement models based on affordable quality and personalization.

In Smith's model, as it was refined over time, curriculum standards serve as the fulcrum for educational reform implemented based on state decisions; state policy elites aim to create excellence in the classroom using an array of policy levers and knobs — all aligned back to the standards — including testing, textbook adoption, teacher preparation, teacher certification and evaluation, teacher training, goals and timetables for school test score improvement, and state accountability based on those goals and timetables.

«Instead of spreading misinformation and staying wedded to the policies of the past, these groups should work to create an education model that provides equal opportunity for high - quality education options for every child.»

During closing remarks, Mr. Goldhaber made mention of and commended the efforts by DC Public Schools (DCPS) on being an exemplary model for other states to follow when creating policy that are clearly rooted in empirical evidence.

Brian has been involved with creating policies, models, and criteria for promoting validity, reliability, and credibility in both assessments and accountability systems through work with groups such as the U.S. Department of Education (co-author of Accountability Peer Review guidance; Growth Model Pilot guidance), Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)(author of documents on the design of accountability systems and balanced assessment systems), National Center for Educational Outcomes (NCEO)(author of research reports on standardization and reliability for assessment systems for students with disabilities), and several state Technical Advisory Committees.

The Role of Teacher Preparation, Licensure, and Retention in Creating High - Performing Middle Schools, C. Kenneth McEwin, Thomas S. Dickinson, and Tracy W. Smith Lessons Learned from Comprehensive School Reform Models, Nancy Ames State - Level Policy Development, David A. Payton Creating Common Middle - Level Knowledge: A New York Story, Jeannette Stern and Sandra L. Stacki A New Vision for Professional Learning, Stephanie Hirsh.

While the field of teacher preparation has made significant advances in recent decades — creating stronger clinical partnerships, developing better performance assessments, making better use of newly available data sources, meeting more demanding state approval and national accreditation standards, and developing new models and patterns of preparation — not all of these advances have been universally adopted at the program level.3 To consolidate the gains and to overcome challenges to implementing universal high standards for admission and academic rigor in teacher preparation, states, school districts, and teacher preparation programs must work together to enact key policy changes.

Since joining JFF in 2002, Dr. Vargas has designed and implemented a research and state policy agenda for implementing early college designs; created policy frameworks, tools, and model legislation; written and edited white papers, research, and national publications; provided technical assistance to state task forces and policy working groups; served on a number of national advisory groups; and organized and presented at national policy conferences.

The Toolbox «is a repository of successful strategies and practical resources that schools, districts, and networks can draw on to create effective human capital policies, with the aim of creating sustained, scalable models for effective instruction.»

[2] Despite the risks that accompany these localized policies, the huge changes and successes under the competency model were made possible by the freedom, flexibility, and choice granted to schools to create programs to help students in very different communities and situations as opposed to more stifling national mandates.

Kane doesn't give many details about his model, but if we look at Mathematica Policy Research, which creates the value - added for Washington, D.C., they write «for teachers with the lowest possible IMPACT score in math — the bottom 3.6 percent of DCPS teachers — one can say with at least 99.9 percent confidence that these teachers were below average in 2010.»

Eliminate barriers to personalized learning: Many existing policies — from school funding formulas, to class size limits, to graduation requirements — create barriers to new personalized learning models that use time, resources, and human capital in new ways.

Melendez introduced the Campus Free Speech Act, based on model legislation created by Stanley Kurtz of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and researchers at the Goldwater Institute.

As the discussion above suggests, creating high - quality principal development models that survive over the long term will require more systematic policy supports.

Because our designs are sensitive to the relationship between classroom practice, policy, and targeted learning outcomes, we can successfully scale up our learning model - based research to create innovative assessment, learning, and evaluation systems for every age and type of program.

Unlike that traditional model, where a large publishing house generally has to apply an infallible, top - down policy over, say, whether or not to use full stops to punctuate abbreviations, I can create the style DNA of a book as more of a consultation, informed by the author's preferences.

This would help comply with the DRM policies for the book, which would offer publishers and distributers the necessary data for creating different pricing models.

We've created efficiencies in the business model that allow us to offer inexpensive renters insurance with the same quality of service and the same positive experience you'd get for an auto or homeowners policy.

The goal of the action plan is to ensure that residents of the Lower East Side and Chinatown will have a role guiding decisions about bike - related policies and initiatives for their streets, and to create a model for community - based bike plans in other neighborhoods.

If the agenda is really public policy (e.g. «global governance», «climate justice») then it doesn't matter if the models have any basis in reality; they have been created to support the agenda with a specious «scientific» legitimacy.

In recent years, Harvard faculty members have made many vital contributions in this area, such as creating an artificial leaf that mimics photosynthesis, designing new chemical processes to reduce fossil fuel dependence, developing new battery technologies, envisioning the future of green buildings and cities, proposing carbon pricing models, and helping to shape progress on international climate agreements, US energy policy, and strategies to reduce emissions in China.

Commentary: Changing utility business models and electricity investment in Europe Technology, market and policy changes are transforming European utilities and new creating strategic opportunities 15 December 2017

Mr. Komanoff, 70, a policy analyst and a former president of Transportation Alternatives, is the one who made congestion pricing more than just an idea by creating a spreadsheet model to calculate the real - life impacts, including how much money would be raised, how much traffic would be reduced and how the costs would be spread across the region.

We create transformative model projects and advance new policies that build sustainable and resilient communities and affordable housing.

ALEC's new model bill calls for updates to net metering policies to create a fixed grid charge designed to «recover grid costs from [Distributed Generation] systems.»

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