Sentences with phrase «first policy paper»

The first policy paper — to be launched on March 17 — will focus on parliamentary strengthening.

Kolderie met PPI's president in 1990, and was invited to write one of its first policy papers about school choice.

Not exact matches

The surprise release of China's first - ever Arctic policy white paper last week made international headlines.

Authored by incoming federal trade commissioner Rohit Chopra as he awaited Senate confirmation for his new post, the paper marks the first comprehensive attempt to rethink federal anti-corruption policy in years — maybe since the Watergate era.

He stated that, although digital currency as a 21st century analog to paper currency is a «fascinating idea,» there are a number of policy issues that need to be analyzed first.

This paper and the responses by Daniel J. Mahoney and Paul J. Griffiths were given at a First Things symposium titled «After Liberalism» and were prepared and published with the support of the Simon / Hertog Fund for Policy Analysis and of Fieldstead and Company.

Caldwell said she first became worried about SNA's new direction in March, when she attended the group's legislative conference and was handed a policy paper asking for significant changes to the school meal regulations, including eliminating the requirement that students take a fruit or a vegetable and rescinding strict sodium limits set to begin in 2017.

Governor Cuomo announced that green policies at state agencies saved New York taxpayers $ 19.6 million in the first five years, while also reducing paper use and waste and increasing recycling.

Patrick Harvie, Green policy convener said: «Given the lack of a majority, the challenge for the first minister is to produce a white paper which will provoke real debate across the traditional dividing lines.

«The administration uses email, it uses PINS, it uses telephones, it uses paper and we have the first policy of any administration this early on exactly what should be retained and exactly how for what archives,» Cuomo said.

Later national policy forum Chair Angela Eagle urged everyone to promote the Your Britain website, particularly the first set of challenge papers.

Coupled with the ban on claiming welfare entitlements for the first two years of residence, there is, as Jack Straw said more than ten years ago, barely a cigarette paper separating Labour and Tory policy on immigration.

A customs partnership - first suggested in a British policy paper last year - is seen by some as a way of breaking the Irish border stalemate while preserving the ability to strike new trade deals.

Their paper, the first to provide a global synthesis of the science and policy of small hydropower, appears this month in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

«With a better grip on supplies, the coalition would not have to use demand - side policies that invite leakage in the first place,» Harstad argues in the paper.

This is one of the first papers examining the integration of behavioral and medical care at community health centers, and this paper is the first to address policy barriers including same - day billing restrictions.

In a paper published in The Lancet on July 27, first author Sallis and colleagues found that since the 2012 Olympics more countries have been monitoring activity levels and have drafted national policies to combat the problem, but the plans are operational in only 56 percent of countries.

This is not the first time that Wintemute has attacked papers he perceives to be weak, even if they point toward policies he would like to see adopted.

«The underlying causes need to be investigated to help to identify practices and strategies to increase women's influence on and contributions to the evidence that will determine future healthcare policies and standards of clinical practice,» Giovanni Filardo, PhD, MPH, and his co-authors wrote in the paper, titled «Trends and comparison of female first authorship in high impact medical journals: observational study (1994 - 2014).»

The policy will be implemented in two phases: The first will affect paper products Disney sources directly from suppliers.

Matt Chingos of Brookings and Guido Schwerdt of the University of Konstanz are out today with a new Program on Education Policy and Governance working paper that provides, to my knowledge, the first credible evidence on the effects of online courses on student achievement in K - 12 schools.

She was one of the first people in ed - reform to understand that we weren't going to beat the teachers unions with op - eds and policy papers (as much as it pains me, a think - tank guy, to say that).

Today CREDO, Mathematica Policy Research, and CRPE released three papers as part of the first comprehensive rigorous national study of online charter schools.

We provide the first recent, comprehensive look at Arizona's charter schools in a new paper released last week, which will be published in a forthcoming issue of the peer - reviewed journal Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.

This paper is the first in a series of policy briefs published by the Rural Opportunities Consortium of Idaho (ROCI), an initiative of the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Foundation.

Last week we released the first in a series of papers looking at important progress afoot in the state of New Hampshire: «From policy to practice: How competency - based education is evolving in New Hampshire.»

The paper is the first work product of the recently rebranded National Network of State Teachers of the Year, which is putting itself forward as a group of expert teachers who can provide teachers» insights into shaping policies for them.

Since the first Attendance Paper was issued, several districts have revised policies to include chronic absence, Blumenthal says.

Schleifer praised the plan as a «critical first step» and said it included much of what Educators 4 Excellence recommended in a recent policy paper.

A new book, edited by California Collaborative Institute Fellow Jennifer O'Day, documents New York City's Children First initiative through a set of eleven evidence - based papers on various aspects of the reform's rationale, policies, implementation, and results.

One of the first papers to ever estimate teacher effects at the secondary school level, this groundbreaking work presents evidence that teacher credentials affect secondary school student success in systematic ways and to a significant, policy - relevant extent.

This paper examines the effects of policies that increase the number of students who take the first course in algebra in 8th grade, rather than waiting until 9th grade.

According to our policy, every student has a chance to buy a first - class paper.

If you get premiums that are wildly different than what you're quoted, there's not much you can do except for not sign the policy papers if you still want the coverage (and you probably do, which is why you applied in the first place).

Wade Pfau, an Associate Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo, wrote a comment to an earlier blog entry this morning that describes a research paper he has written (the paper is still in its first draft) about the New School Safe Withdrawal Rate concept that I developed with John Walter Russell (and with the help of hundreds of our fellow community members in the Retire Early and Indexing discussion - board communities).

Indeed, in one of my first posts, I referred to an L.A. Times piece in which Steve Holmer, senior policy advisor for the American Bird Conservancy, told the paper (one assumes, with a straight face) that there are 160 million feral cats in the U.S. (based, he claimed, on «the latest estimates,» which, as it turned out, originated with former Smithsonian researcher Nico Dauphine).

I sent a host of climate and energy specialists my post on the «America's Climate Choices» reports from the National Academies and the first response comes from Mike Hulme, a professor of climate studies at the University of East Anglia and author of «Why We Disagree About Climate Change» and the recent «Hartwell Paper» on climate policy.

The aim of the paper is twofold: first, it documents the range of risks that climate change poses to human health associated with humanitarian emergencies, and secondly, it proposes policy directions to manage the health and humanitarian impact of climate change for consideration by the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UNFCCC, the health sector and by the humanitarian community.

First, my solar policy paper, Getting out of the Shade: Solar Energy as National Security Energy, which we summarized before in a previous post, has now been published in three parts on China Dialogue.

After the first IPCC report, if you had published a paper that can be used by the environmental groups as proof that their energy policy is the correct one, then your paper and School will be put in press releases that the media then circulate to the public.

First of all, it looks and reads not like a policy paper for adults, but like a high school textbook.

The first mention came in June when the paper issued a rousing endorsement of carbon taxes as «one of the best policies available» to fight climate change.

The paper marks the very first time a critical analysis of the actual performance and impact of «green job» policies have been made.

It all started with the involvement in the Industry and Energy Subgroup during the First Assessment Report, followed by being a Lead Author on the Policy Paper on Technologies, policies and measures for mitigating climate change (1996).

Can anybody explain to me the editorial policy of the International Journal of Geosciences The first two papers of the current issue are particularly bizarre.

First, you write, «Whatever flaws or ambiguities exist in the paper, the use of the letters as source materials for any comparison can not purely be a test of agreement with the IPCC (as we stated above — you could agree with every word in the IPCC report and still not want to do anything about emissions), but must be a test of someone's opinion about what to do about it... Thus the only way in my mind to interpret a comparison of signers is a categorization by policy direction, not understanding or agreement on the science.

This paper presents a roadmap of eight priority federal policy opportunities that build on the recommendations from the 2015 Rising Tides Summit, a first - of - its - kind bipartisan gathering of nearly 40 U.S. mayors and local elected officials from 18 of the 23 coastal U.S. states.

Section 35 (1) of the Constitution Act, 1982, the Duty to Consult, and the Government of Alberta's First Nations Consultation Policy This paper argues that Alberta's approach to First Nation consultation falls short of fulfilling the province's constitutional obligation in this regard, but the development and management of public lands and resources appears to operate smoothly and efficiently, without any serious legal challenges or significant delays in this process.

In his posts, he sides against creating new laws and policies that might protect some but chip away at the First Amendment for all; calls out questionable ethical moves by fellow lawyers and judges in Texas; and shares random tidbits about little things he does to boost his advocacy — like taking improv classes and filing pleadings on quality paper stock.

A new journal, Policy and Internet, has issued calls for papers for its first volume.