Sentences with phrase «implements public policy changes»

A program of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy in partnership with the National Park Service, the Institute fosters new ideas, shares best practices, encourages leadership, and supports and implements public policy changes that will benefit people and the planet.

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The analyses found that the policy change would help support immigrant families by expanding job opportunities, while modestly lowering insurance premiums for all state drivers and improving public safety on roadways, with the fiscal costs of implementing the proposal more than offset by added revenues.

Governments around the world have adopted «nudge» strategies to change public behaviours and so implement policy goals.

A series of public policies are implemented in different areas of life, in order to ensure equal access of Roma people to education and employment, but very little is done in order to change the negative attitudes of the majority population towards Roma.

Project Citizen provides resources to help students (and teachers) work through the challenge of identifying a problem, gathering information, examining solutions, developing a public policy, and implementing an action plan to effect change.

Now that DeVos is several months into her tenure as the 11th secretary of education, both her supporters and detractors are paying close attention to the policies she is beginning to implement and how they will change the nation's public schools.

Changing governance arrangements clearly can make a difference in the way urban public school systems function, but such a strategy requires the right combination of ingredients - committed and skilled leadership by the mayor, willingness to use scarce resources, a stable coalition of supporters, appropriate education policies, and a cadre of competent, committed professionals to implement the reforms.

This month, Barnes» group asked federal officials to block state leaders from implementing their policy change, which will be phased into 97 percent of local public school systems and a portion of charters by the end of the 2016 - 2017 school year.

The campaign comes as Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) move to implement a resolution agreement from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights to change their policies after an investigation revealed racial disparities in discipline.

Only then will the public demand that our policymakers take action to address climate change, and only then will those policymakers implement serious climate change mitigation policies.

We already have most, if not all, of the necessary technology and economic policy options, but we lack sufficient public and political will to implement them — as well as helpful climate change adaptation policies — fast enough.

This case forced NASA and the U.S. Office of Governmental Ethics to change its policy on release of public documents as well as how NASA and others implement their ethics responsibilities.

«The importance of experiential learning creates several challenges to a public consensus needed to implement meaningful climate change policy,» the researchers write.

In addition, an aspect of various child welfare system reform initiatives is supporting the system's infrastructure to be able to implement fairly global policy changes (e.g. Family to Family program, Families for Kids program, public - private partnerships).

«The public sector is making significant and radical changes in the way it develops and implements government policy and these new processes and concepts are being tested in the Indigenous policy arena.

The public sector is making significant and radical changes in the way it develops and implements government policy through a «whole of government» approach, and these new processes and concepts are being tested in the Indigenous policy arena.

Highlights the findings and lessons learned that pertain to two broad arenas: how to better plan and implement effective intervention strategies in the first 5 years of life and how understanding changing and diverse developmental trajectories can contribute to more effective early childhood programs and the public policies that shape them.