Sentences with word «decisionmaking»

To ensure the full and fair participation by all potentially affected communities in the transportation decisionmaking process.

The listening sessions are a critical part of Meloche's strategy to get the best out of his already high - flying suburban district by elevating the voices of its students in decisionmaking.

(Sec. 1310) Revises requirements for application of categorical exclusions for multimodal projects, including acceleration of decisionmaking in environmental reviews.

There were three interwoven strands to the problem: identifying which incidents of non-fatal self - harm by prisoners might call for independent investigation; working out the best procedure for decisionmaking about setting up an independent investigation; and determining the form of any independent investigation which was necessary.

The OneApp has reduced opportunities for schools to engage in these behaviors by transferring decisionmaking authority in admissions from schools to the centralized process.

The Project also has an explicit normative objective: to identify processes of democratic decisionmaking by which society can resolve culturally grounded differences in belief in a manner that is both congenial to persons of diverse cultural outlooks and consistent with sound public policymaking.

Engaging with the broader public is important to help improve any future decisionmaking about SRM because these decisions involve many different values and risk trade - offs,» she said.

Today, the R - word is not heard very often, but we believe two crucial aspects of restructuring — the tasks teachers do and the way they use time — are on the horizon if teachers proactively shape the data - based decisionmaking prompted by the state and federal push...

The Massachusetts Teachers Association, which will bring more educators into decisionmaking on the implementation of the common core, and will partner with Teach Plus and other organizations toward that end.

Instead, he recommended new state interventions in 98 districts that were failing to meet the standards of the federal No Child Left Behind law; waivers from state rules and regulations for high - performing districts; and an improved data system to guide state and local decisionmaking in the future.

The threshold becomes a major bargaining tool, quite divorced from the informed decisionmaking objective.

Fort Wayne Launches Broad Restructuring Plan: The Fort Wayne, Ind., school district has begun a wide - ranging reorganization plan that will trim its central - office staff and give schools greater decisionmaking power.

For the most part, the labs are not building the capacity of districts and state agencies to gather evidence and measure impacts but are launching research projects that are disconnected from decisionmaking.

Human resources specialists use decisionmaking skills when reviewing candidates» qualifications or when working to resolve disputes.

Even though the quantitative valuation of these effects will never be perfect, the outcome of attempts to assess value provides important information to help guide decisionmaking.

There were only four films nominated for the category DEMOCRACY for promoting increasing consciousness of the need for more political decisionmaking by the people rather than by elites (Bitter Harvest, The Post, Tickling Giants, A United Kingdom).

And for charter school operators and other school turnaround players, it means putting parents at the head of education decisionmaking and governance.

Indeed, one could make a strong argument that any outsized influence that teachers unions exercise in school board elections provides a nice enhancement of democratic decisionmaking on education policy because teachers, as much as any other group in society, can serve as powerful advocates for those Americans who can not vote: schoolchildren.

The 21st Century Education Commission in Rhode Island issued its final report last month, calling for an array of reforms ranging from shared decisionmaking at every school to creation of a series of professional - development schools to train teachers.

Where principals do not make data use a priority — mobilizing expertise to support data use and create conditions to facilitate data use in instructional decisionmaking — teachers are not doing it on their own.

Local control is valuable, said the Court, because it facilitates «the greatest participation by those most directly concerned» with school decisionmaking.

So many other funders working in areas from housing to immigration to historical preservation do not have the kind of data that could drive decisionmaking.

The latest book by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and legal writing guru Bryan Garner takes a skeptical look at judicial decisionmaking, criticizing judges who stray from the text in interpreting statutes and constitutional provisions.

Of course, after Rita, a district judge surely would have discretion, in the course of «exercising his own legal decisionmaking authority» to explain why he or she believes that, on the facts of a particular case, a defendant's sentence should be within or even above the current crack range.

Lauenstein - Denjongpa has changed the command structure at Taktse to give teachers more decisionmaking power.

DOT is committed to engaging low - income and minority populations in the transportation decisionmaking across all OAs, from the earliest stages of planning through project implementation.

We offer the first comprehensive look at how a district judge's experience affects decisionmaking in patent cases.

This paper argues that decentralizing decisionmaking authority to schools is a reform worthy of a new look, despite the perceived failure of earlier school - based management (SBM) efforts to improve student performance.

We believe the most promising approach is to move decisionmaking closer to the consumers of K — 12 public education by unleashing pent - up demand and empowering parents to choose schools for their children.

They charge the Board with decisionmaking without the proper information and failure to recognize that physical injuries (and resulting chronic pain) can lead to psychological problems that make it impossible for people to return to work.

A 0.01 - 0.05 RMB / kWh carbon tax adds 0.0015 - 0.006 c / kWh to the cost of coal generation, which simply does not change decisionmaking.

a. have a system of governance that designates rules, procedures, and the individual or group responsible for decisionmaking regarding data collection, use, access, sharing, and security, and use of online educational programs;

The continuing challenge, Warner said, is figuring out the answer to this question: «How do we get a shared vision with other agencies of government to develop an environment where we can use technology to improve decisionmaking?»

Education reformers in the United States have long debated whether school districts should centralize decisionmaking authority in the district office or decentralize it to let schools take the reins.

This research involves measurement of settings to provide data that can support decisionmaking.

Let them figure out how to best maximize their financial positions on their own; after all, it was their great decisionmaking skills that got them into this.

Failing to adequately educate our nation's youth by reducing the cost per class is not a blueprint for informed local resource decisionmaking.

The instructional - decisionmaking structure needs a better place for children who are gifted, teachers say.

understanding current and emerging phenomena to inform next generation transportation policy decisionmaking; and

In the Moment Strategies for Facilitators of Team Decisionmaking Meetings: When Domestic Violence Is Present or Suspected (PDF - 10396 KB) Annie E. Casey Foundation (2004) Aims to provide facilitators of team decision - making (TDM) meetings with targeted strategies, practical support, and tools for skill development to use before and during TDM meetings, as well as some suggestions for following up with caseworkers and supervisors.

«I've been really committed to empowering educators to influence decisionmaking in our district,» says Deklotz, who also infuses «student voice, student choice» as a recurring message in her conversations.

The work of High Scope Research Foundation in it's longitudinal study of preschool children and adult decisionmaking as well as the longitudinal work of the ABCDerian and Chicago Parent Child Centers which confirms High Scope's findings, are not well known by educational decision makers despite the high quality of the research and the repercussions of itheir findings.

«It represents a shift in responsibility for investment decisionmaking away from participants — many of whom may be inexperienced investors — to investment and advice programs that have been vetted by employers as part of their fiduciary obligations.»

CB - No more so than some of the less desirable aspects of appointments will influence such decisionmaking.

States can also distribute pre-K funds directly to local school districts, which establish their own decisionmaking processes and standards, often with little oversight.

Putting a «price» on natural assets — recognizing the environmental, economic, and social values of forest ecosystem services — is one way to promote conservation and more responsible decisionmaking.

Gov. Roy Romer of Colorado last week unveiled a new contract for Denver teachers that would abolish many traditional protections in exchange forgiving teachers unusually wide decisionmaking latitude in each of the city's schools.