Sentences with phrase «debated policy involves»

One hotly debated policy involves the use of school vouchers — taxpayer - funded payments to families who want their children to attend private schools, mostly schools with religious affiliations.

Not exact matches

If we are giving significantly of our own money to combat hunger or poverty or injustice we are very likely to become interested enough in these efforts to invest some time and energy in them, to work with individuals and to become involved in policy debates and to confront the economic system.

Douglas is right that I was very much involved in the housing policy debate on our campus a few years ago.

The unipolarist ideology by whatever name, adds a fourth party to the foreign - policy debate, which has otherwise involved 1) liberal internationalists, who seek world peace and stability by securing collective agreements from nation states to comply with international law; 2) realists, who seek to ensure a balance of power among competing regimes; and 3) principled anti-interventionists, who renounce the use of military force for all reasons besides self - defense.

Throughout the campaign for the 7 May elections, Miliband insisted that David Cameron should debate him one on one as part of a televised election broadcast [104] in order to highlight differences in policies between the two major parties, but this was never to happen, with the pair instead being interviewed separately by Jeremy Paxman as part of the first major televised political broadcast of the election involving multiple parties.

Raju Mann, who has been involved in and closely following the debate as director for policy and planning for the Municipal Art Society of New York, offered a similar assessment.

«They need to be involved in the policy debate.»

«In a recent jointly authored article and book, Nelson has begun to re-articulate the debate over scientists as advocates, arguing that in fact, scientists have a special responsibility to become involved in policy debates.»

Faith leaders, says Scott, can organize their communities to write to legislators, get involved in policy debates, or invite policymakers to speak to them.

It involves a debate that by definition will have to also include Israel's broader policies towards the Palestinians at a time that popular anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian sentiment is running high.

The implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA); debates about a potential large - scale federal school - choice initiative; and deep disagreements about civil rights enforcement continue to captivate — and roil — all of us involved in education policy, in D.C. and around the nation.

There is also the need for citizens and consumers to be informed and engaged in everyday decisions that involve scientific arguments — from policy debates that will have consequences for their health and safety to the products they consume and lifestyle choices they make.

As evidenced by recent politics around the federal budget, those in Washington, DC, are stuck in debates that involve math that is not well understood even by those who need to vote on policies based on it.

To be useful, debates about the strengths and weaknesses of research, especially when it involves important policy questions, need to adhere to the facts.

He is also actively involved in policy debates, contributing to the Obama Administration's transition team on the measurement of school performance; advising the administration on college performance measures; and testifying in the U.S. Senate about the TRIO college access programs.

«A Time for Sight: The Debate over Color Blindness and Race - Consciousness in School Integration Policy,» Curriculum Connections In light of the 2007 Supreme Court decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education, ADL offers this comprehensive lesson that examines the debate over school integration within the broader context of the Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 and the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, AK inDebate over Color Blindness and Race - Consciousness in School Integration Policy,» Curriculum Connections In light of the 2007 Supreme Court decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education, ADL offers this comprehensive lesson that examines the debate over school integration within the broader context of the Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 and the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, AK indebate over school integration within the broader context of the Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 and the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, AK in 1957.

Clearly, the assumptions of all involved in this area of policy research come into play, here, akin to how they did in The Bell Curve and The Bell Curve Debate.

It doesn't even mean that every debate involves moral considerations; this is certainly true when it comes to discussions over what policies will be most - effective in expanding choice or improving teacher quality.

As a citizen I have a perfect right to debate this issue, since very important public policy decisions are involved.

But it seems to me that he's assuming that in America, at least, policy about this can simply be set a bit more like the Soviets would have set it, via authoritarian measures taken by the few, and a bit less like what seems to me to be the only option for progress: the hard slog of civic debate, inherently involving the citizenry, even in cases when most citizens already agree on the basic facts.

Although Gov. Jerry Brown isn't involved in decisions on the five proposed coal facilities, he could lend his influence to the debate as governor of the most economically powerful state in the country and the national leader on clean energy and climate policy.

Get Involved in th e Geoengineering Debate A lingering but critical policy question for DOD is what its role should be in discussions concerning geoengineering, i.e. the intentional manipulation of the climate, which is often discussed as a means to counter the effects of the climate change generated by human activity.

Provided with timely information on processes and content of EU level debates, as well as with expert analysis and argumentation that CAN Europe offers to its members we can get involved in advocacy work related to EU policies at national and EU level.

Mr. Graham said that any Senate debate on the highly charged subject of illegal immigration would make it impossible to deal with the difficult issues involved in national energy and global warming policy.

Southern California Edison (SCE) Director of Energy Policy Gary Stern sees the coming debate about NEM as involving that question.

PRI is based out of California, and has been involved in the water policy debate in that state.

I do understand that the scientists at realclimate state that they don't want to get involved in political or policy debates, just scientific debates — but by rushing to the defense of the whitelisted / blacklisted groups who refuse to accept the facts about global warming, they've just entered the political arena.

Instead, get involved in the policy debate.

Your secondary criticism seems to be that he has been involved in science policy debates, and that he had opponents in those debates.

Which brings me to the point that surely you can agree with Jennifer on: In general the public debate should involve a lot more looking at the actual data (cf. business & economics reporting) than the «meta - debate» we so often see currently, and specifically that «ultimately, good policy is going to require that a much larger percentage of Australians have a higher level of scientific literacy.»

And now that we've sort of moved to a new stage of the debate, a policy debate, they're not going to be involved in that either.

In Copenhagen I heard plenty of scientists express the idea that they didn't really want to get involved in the policy debate (at least not publicly).

I am of the opinion that the majority of the people involved in the AGW debate — both scientists as well as policy types — are well intentioned.

The debate among experts in the climate sciences — and those interested in the public policy implications of climate change — concerns the magnitude and speed of future warming, which requires understanding of the dynamics of the many factors involved — which are investigated by analysis of past and current climate data.

Major changes in immigration policy have historically been achieved through legislation and regulations, which would normally involve public consultation, task forces, discussion papers, committee hearings, and parliamentary debate, as well as consultation of regulations before approval by Cabinet.

In the same vein, Mr Tim Baldwin, the Northern Territory Minister for Aboriginal Development, stated in a debate on the issue of an apology in the Northern Territory Assembly, that «any call for an apology for the policies of past Commonwealth governments does not involve this government, given that those policies pre-dated self - government in the Territory».

2004 promises to be a challenging one for everyone involved in real estate across Canada, with the federal government's increasing emphasis on Competition Act compliance and the associated pressures on commission rates and MLS policies; the implications of the new Privacy Act; and the ongoing debate about Internet Data Exchanges (IDXs) and Virtual Office Websites (VOWs).