Sentences with phrase «equitable way for»

Random assignment is a fair and equitable way for programs to determine whom to serve when there are more applicants than slots to serve them.

Not exact matches

Coleman, the former diversity chief for the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign who joined Uber in January, acknowledges Uber has a long way to go before it's known as, or even is, a fair and equitable place to work.

While corporations have benefited greatly from free trade in recent decades, the Auto Pact illustrates that there are ways to enable freer trade while also building a more fair and equitable system for those without corporate lobbyists or shareholder requirements.

But that was a different country; as McCarty, Rosenthal and Poole put it, «If income and wealth are distributed in a fairly equitable way, little is to be gained for politicians to organize politics around nonexistent conflicts.»

Along with trying to think of ways to make clothes more durable and more recyclable, one of the projects goals is to also create «innovative business models that are sustainable and equitable» for workers around the world...

The ecosystem approach is a strategy for the integrated management of land, water and living resources that promotes conservation and sustainabe use in an equitable way.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

They work directly with farms that produce quality beans in a environmentally - sustainable way, and pay prices above those established for equitable trade.

«Reallocating a few pence from existing fuel duty might prove an equitable way of turning the tide, as could previous calls for Vehicle Excise Duty to be redirected to local roads from 2021.»

I thank Mayor de Blasio for focusing on this issue and for working to make our city more equitable in so many ways,» said Assembly Member Brian Kavanagh.

«This initiative will provide a powerful assist to the state's cities to enable them to build their capacity to address blight and problem properties, not only to do so more effectively, but to do so in ways that will foster healthier and more equitable communities,» Alan Mallach, a senior fellow at the Center for Community Progress, said in the release.

Shouldn't we finally start using the fairest, most equitable way of paying for that service?

Looking for a more equitable way to assign damages, Oswald and Nattavudh Powdthavee of the University of London reviewed data collected from 10,000 Britons tracked by the British Household Panel Survey, begun in 1991, which records major life events and includes questions designed to gauge overall mental health.

Finding ways to reduce teacher stress in these situations is a vital part of ensuring better outcomes for individual children — and more equitable school experiences for all.

When teachers call on students in equitable ways — elevating historically marginalized voices, waiting for a usually quiet person to speak, and making sure everyone is heard — they augment students» learning, boost their confidence, and reinforce values like tolerance and humility.

Despite an increased push from the federal government for higher performances by both teachers and students, many districts continue to struggle with how best to manage financial resources in equitable ways that will lead to improved outcomes.

Because the current backloaded system provides greater retirement compensation for older teachers by decreasing the retirement compensation of younger teachers, paying a large premium for experience may not be the most equitable way to compensate teachers.

«Making sure we do it the right way is one of our best hopes for a more just and equitable future,» the elementary school teacher says.

All persons to be ensured conditions for prevention of disease and maintenance of good health, in ways that are ecologically sustainable and equitable (currently partly in MDG 6).

Urban charter schools in Massachusetts are delivering for minority, economically disadvantaged, special education and ELL students in a way that is historically unprecedented in the long struggle for equitable education in the United States.

Tennessee's supreme court ordered the state last week to find a more equitable way to pay teachers, creating a quandary for lawmakers and the next governor that may cost the cash - strapped state hundreds of millions of dollars.

State leaders must find a way to distribute what education funding we do have based on student need, rather than the type of public school, so that every Connecticut child receives equitable support for their public education.»

Across the country, the number of community schools continues to grow, as local educators, community leaders, and others look for equitable, efficient, and effective ways to provide the broad range of supports and services that allow young people to become truly well - prepared to enter college or a career.

And unfortunately, those misunderstandings threaten to distract from the real issue at stake: families need a better way to find and enroll in public schools — one that is equitable, transparent and accessible for all Oakland families.

States created and led the way on these and many other innovations before the Every Student Succeeds Act was passed, and they will continue to lead to create a more equitable education system for all students in the future.

I believe that if implemented and enforced the way Congress intended, ESSA will improve access to high - quality, equitable education for all students and will uphold the civil rights legacy of the law.

ENN submits testimony on SB 390, in support of the expansion of the successful ZOOM school program as a way to ensure an equitable education for our most vulnerable students - those in low - income neighborhoods and in one - and two - star schools.

Kentucky's overhaul was so sweeping that when the General Assembly created a new educational system, it included a more equitable way of paying for school construction.

This week's newsletter focuses on how states are using data and implementing policies to ensure data is used in smart, safe ways to make education equitable for all students.

This society - wide phenomenon shows that our education establishment allows traditional public schools to «get students they want» in ways that have prevented literally millions of families from having more equitable opportunity for generations.

Admissions arrangements are extremely complex, for example different schools have different ways of defining what counts as being a resident in the catchment area: unless requirements are clarified, school place allocation will not be fair or equitable.

Such tools can be easily adapted in ways that make assessments as fair and equitable as possible for all students.

KnowledgeWorks staff works collaboratively to create policy briefs, engage with legislators and help decision makers develop policy solutions that are more equitable and flexible, paving the way for personalized learning in the classroom.

Specifically, students will explore and evaluate dominant views of mathematics, recognize non-dominant ways to engage in mathematics, identify and study equitable strategies for teaching mathematics.

She addresses policy suggestions on the ways post-secondary institutions can create a more equitable environment for underserved students and their families.

Education and Democracy: This issue looks at civic engagement to understand the ways that educators, students, and communities that support schools involve themselves in politics and policy creation to create and sustain personalized, equitable, and academically challenging schools for all students.

Recent research out of the Madison - based Wisconsin Policy Forum shows Wisconsin ranks high nationally for providing adequate funding in an equitable way to K - 12 schools — although researchers acknowledge the state's school finance system has its challenges, after «years of layering new programs and funding methods on top of one another.»

Miller said the Education Department should find a way to enforce equitable distribution for all states — not just those with No Child Left Behind waivers.

We must find a way to make the MNPS educational experience more equitable for all.

More importantly these arms are essential when the game's boss battles occur, giving way to showdowns that are an equitable return for your investment in time.

My work addresses the roll of art as a community enriching tool, and how it can be used in a way to create equitable environments for low - income peoples.

Using humor, satire, and perturbation to comment on serious problems that effect the art world at large, Andrea Fraser has helped create a dialogue around systemic issues, paving the way for groups like W.A.G.E. (established in 2008) that advocates for a more equitable distribution of the art world's economy (i.e. fair wages for artists), and Occupy Museums, an activist group that sprung from the Occupy Wall Street Movement and that made an instillation about artist's debt at the 2017 Whitney Biennial.

SEI focuses on effective, equitable ways to mitigate and adapt to climate change for a safer climate for all.

If done right, a strong community solar program can be a transformational tool to help expand solar access in an intentionally equitable way to communities that have long been underserved,» said Luis Torres, Senior Legislative Representative for Earthjustice.

For example, if the world wants to respond to the current Syria situation in such a way as to bring about a more just, peaceful and equitable world, what would that response look like?

In a nutshell, our claim in that du Pont and his colleagues reach counter-intuitive conclusions (for example that the EU has made a more «equitable» pledge than either China or India) by way of a cascading series of decisions that, taken together, skew their approach towards various kinds of grandfathering, while, at the same time, appearing to be derived from a balanced and comprehensive set of high - level equity principles.

, ranks the largest publicly listed companies by the carbon intensity of their coal, oil, and gas reserves; the Clean200 ranks the largest publicly listed companies by their total clean energy revenues, with a few additional screens to help ensure the companies are indeed building the infrastructure and services needed for what Lester Brown and many others have called «The Great Energy Transition» in a just and equitable way.

At the same time, liberals have increasingly turned away from technology, which, as opposed to science, might actually be the best way to advance our aspirations for a more equitable society.

Nevertheless, women found innovative ways to circumvent existing rules while advocating for more equitable ones.

While the rationale has been described in some quarters as «equitable subrogation,» analogous to an excess insurer's claim against a primary insurer for improvident failure to settle, that principle historically emerged from cases involving underinsured defendants and not the other way around.