Sentences with phrase «element of the public policy»

To conclude, it appears that more effective regulation of television food advertising would constitute an important element of the public policy response to child obesity.

Email: [email protected] Date: 6 November 2013 Venues: McDonald Rooms Conference Centre, Hanover Housing, 95 McDonald Road, Edinburgh, EH7 4NS Audience: Specific interest More Information: Community Resilience under Public Service Reform event website The support of community empowerment and resilience is a core element of public policy reform in Scotland.

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An important and useful element of the thinking at the time was the replacement of the earlier «control theory» approach to policy (i.e. the belief that the central point was to find an appropriate spot on the Phillips curve and to stay there), towards a «game theoretic» view, in which the critical issues related to behaviour — the interaction between the monetary authorities and the public.

It relies on either or both of two elements that are lately supposed to be qualifications for tax exemption: public benefit and public policy.

These issues call for wisdom on the part of policy - makers, but my chief concern is to counteract pressures upon the Government by vociferous elements in the public.

the view that public education and other matters of civil policy should be conducted without the introduction of a religious element.

Meanwhile, the US foreign policy machine formulates a comprehensive package of sanctions which puts together all the elements of the equation, i.e. Iran - Syria - Hezbollah, projecting the conflict onto an explicitly regional dimension, where references to cross-border forces, as said, Hezbollah, Pasdaran and PKK in Syria and Iraq (in anti-Turkey dimension), or CIA, Mossad (in pro-rebel fashion) are part of the public strategic schema of the conflict.

Public involvement in research is a key element of Government policy and is increasingly accepted to be an essential part of the research process - from identification of research priorities to dissemination of findings.

The Regents believe that knowledge of how public policy is formed and implemented is an important element of readiness for college, work and citizenship.»

The filing takes aim at one element of the department's controversial stop - and - frisk policy and comes after a failed bid by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to decriminalize the public possession of small amounts of marijuana, which would have eliminated the distinction between having a small amount in a pocket and holding it in your hand.

The practice of science, which includes the packaging of findings from science for use in the public - policy arena, is governed by an unwritten code of conduct that includes such elements as mastering the relevant fundamental concepts before venturing into print in the professional or public arena, learning and observing proper practices for presenting ranges of respectable opinion and uncertainty, avoiding the selection of data to fit pre-conceived conclusions, reading the references one cites and representing their content accurately and fairly, and acknowledging and correcting the errors that have crept into ones work (some of which are, of course, inevitable) after they are discovered by oneself or by others.

These two documents, addressed to researchers as well as to employers and funders in both the public and private sectors, are key elements in the European Union's policy to make research an attractive career, which is a vital feature of its strategy to stimulate economic and employment growth.

The improved scores were impressive enough to lead several states and other major school districts, including New York, to adopt elements of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) policy — making student progress toward the next grade dependent on demonstrated achievement on standardized tests.

In other cases, it has involved turning elements of civil society and the private economy into arms of government policy — by requiring compliance with policy goals that are foreign to many civil - society institutions or consolidating key sectors of the economy and offering protection to large corporations willing to act as public utilities or to advance policymakers» priorities.

The tenacity of these elements in definitions of LD has grounded our public policies and pedagogy in outdated science and flawed understandings of the nature of these disabilities.

It added that the Louisville School Board had «treated the ideal of an integrated system as much more than a legal obligation — they consider it a positive, desirable policy and an essential element of any well - rounded public school education.»

The foundation is also working much more aggressively to change public policy concerning key elements of the portfolio approach: transparency in school finance, multiple independent school providers, and performance - based accountability.

Many articles in this issue cite the overwhelming consensus among researchers, policy - makers, educators, and members of the public that good teachers are the single-most important element of quality education.

First Line Schools (5 schools) Foundation for Science & Mathematics Education Greater New Orleans Collaborative of Charter Schools Greater New Orleans STEM Initiative dba Core Element Hoffman Learning Center InspireNOLA Charter Schools (4 schools) International High School of New Orleans International School of Louisiana Jefferson Chamber Foundation Academy Kenner Discovery Health Sciences Academy KID smART KIPP New Orleans Schools (11 schools) LA Children's Research Center for Dev & Learn CDL Lake Forest Elementary Charter School Leading Educators, Greater New Orleans Live Oak Wilderness Camp Louisiana Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools Louisiana Policy Institute for Children McMillian's First Steps Academy New Orleans Center for Creative Arts Institute New Orleans College Preparatory Academics (4 schools) New Orleans Military and Maritime Academy New Schools for New Orleans NORD Foundation — Taylor Park Booster Club Posse Foundation Raphael Academy ReNew Charter Schools (6 schools) Roots of Music Inc..

The Promise of High - Quality Career and Technical Education: Improving Outcomes for Students, Firms, and the Economy The College Board, Georgetown Center on Poverty, Inequality, and Public Policy, and The Business Roundtable This paper describes the benefits of high - quality Career and Technical Education (CTE), elements that are essential for such benefits to occur and suggests federal and state policies that would support the expansion of high - quality CTE.

Current benchmarks were designed to help states build programs, focusing on resources and policies related to the structural aspects of public preschool — elements needed for a high - quality program but not fully defining one.

«Unfortunately, like the existing education funding policy, there are elements of the Local Control Funding Formula that perpetuate school funding inequities, and we will continue our work to achieve funding equity for all public school students.

A critical element in the sustainability of any public policy is the fair treatment of «similar» individuals.

Pinpointing an important human element, she also features «seed warriors,» who work in science, public policy, and activism, as well as public library seed programs, all of which add to the mix of rich and intellectually delicious nutritional information here.

I have attempted to identify elements that could be added to current discussion to brake the current (and for most of us unanticipated) free fall regarding climate change as a public policy concern.

Elements of this Plan may be argued as important for associated energy policy reasons, economics, and / or public health and safety.

The video argues that ethics is the crucial missing element in the climate change debate and if an ethical framing of most climate change policy issues were taken seriously it would transform how the public debate on climate change takes place.

The aspect of this that I think points to a dysfunctional scientific community is the obvious elements of political and personal choice involved in public policy.

While cheering for their faction of scientists, laypeople often lose sight of the big picture — the key elements for making public policy about this important issue.

There is a strong case for arbitral institutions to recognise and reflect on the public policy issues that lay behind the exclusion of all funding elements from costs awards in civil litigation.

The High Court has already distinguished YL and held that many registered social landlords, in receipt of a large element of public subsidy and used as a means of achieving governmental policy in relation to affordable housing, are, in allocating and managing social housing, exercising public functions.

[68] The substantive elements of the termination that the Board found unreasonable included: the principal ordering Mr. Dorval to use codes given the evidence that policy (of RSCHS and Edmonton Public School Board) supported involvement of teachers» professional judgment and consultation; the order being simply announced with little or no consultation; questions or concerns being ignored; little or no communication to students and parents about the codes or their enactment; the failure of the principal and the appellant to respect the professional rights and duties of the teacher regarding assessment of his students; and the discriminatory singling out of Mr. Dorval for discipline when other teachers who also challenged and refused to follow the principal's order were not disciplined.

The Association of Early Childhood Educators Ontario, Canadian Union of Public Employees (Ontario), Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care, Childcare Resource and Research Unit and Advocates for Progressive Child Care Policy are calling on the leaders of Ontario's three main political parties to respond to concerns about the state of early childhood education and child care by committing, if elected, to six key elements toward a strategy that will begin to fix early childhood education and child care in Ontario.

The essential elements of health impact assessment and healthy public policy: a qualitative study of practitioner perspectives

Mental health promotion is now a national priority and support for parents is recognised as an important element of public health policy.