Sentences with phrase «improved by public policy»

Not exact matches

While political and foreign policy wonks will understand that Trump isn't necessarily going to end the deal by sending the issue to Congress, broadly speaking it will be read by the American public and the international community as him trying to deliver on his promise to scrap or improve the pact.

Horgan committed to making things better for survivors of sexual violence and for those fleeing abusive homes by making sure crime prevention dollars go to deliver much - needed services that keep more women safe, improving public policy, directing more funding to provincial and community based programs that directly serve women and children, and increasing funding to violence prevention and intervention programs by $ 8 million a year.

Instead of committing to helping families and individuals improve their social and economic conditions (by pushing policy makers to strengthen access to affordable housing, health care, child care, public transportation, job training, etc.), we blame them.

«We are excited to see Chicago Public Schools continue to be a leader by using procurement dollars to improve the freshness, quality and nutrition in their meals for students while growing opportunities for local, sustainable and fair producers and processors,» stated Rodger Cooley, Executive Director of the Chicago Food Policy Action Council.

HUMAN Everywhere's mission is to leverage the power of social entrepreneurship to improve the nation's collective health by increasing access to nutrition education and healthful foods while advocating for public policy that contributes to these goals.

This is currently happening in Lagos, Nigeria, where the State governor, Babatunde Fashola, has embarked on an ambitious set of policies designed to improve public services provided by his government and infrastructure of one of the most populous cities on the continent.

«So many Western New Yorkers have been impacted by these diseases, and now I am looking forward to getting to work with my colleagues to develop policies and identify resources to educate the public and improve outcomes for families affected by these illnesses.»

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.

James» recommendation to improve family - friendly policies was praised by Gina Strickland, Vice President of public sector workers union Local 1180.

He said Cameron's policies are close to his own vision of using market forces to improve public services, ideas rejected by Brown, who led the Labour Party to defeat in May after forcing Blair out in 2007...»

Higher taxes on domestic flights and improved public transport are needed if Britain is to cut carbon emissions by 80 per cent before 2050, a Conservative policy group has said.

Tom Miers has written a pamphlet published today by Policy Exchange, The Devolution Distraction: How Scotland's constitutional obsession leads to bad government, which concludes that the not only has the Scottish Parliament not improved Scotland's economy or public services, but that further constitutional tinkering is a distraction from the real reform that is required north of the border.

«This is a clear call for deepened dialogue between researchers, government agencies, citizens, and policy makers, so that we can improve data sharing and find sustainable solutions to reduce the public health risks posed by these bacteria.»

By offering this Prize, Foresight hopes to encourage continued responsible coverage of nanotechnology as a means for engaging the public in dialogue leading to improved public policy on these important issues.

The researchers offer four steps for improving the review process: develop methodological standards for evaluating evidence used to back off - label drug recommendations; combine the findings into one «single, rigorously developed resource» rather than five inconsistent reference guides; assess whether those reviewing and determining off - label drug use policies have potential financial conflicts of interest; and make the compendia listings, which currently are only available by subscription, free to the public.

By 1951, water fluoridisation, the process of adding fluoride to water to improve the nation's dental health, was an official plank of US Public Health Service policy.

Our mission is to improve the lives of children in Virginia by advancing effective public policies.

Our mission is to improve the lives of children in Virginia by advancing effective public policies.

Unfortunately, the NRC's strongly worded conclusions are only weakly supported by scientific evidence, despite the fact that NRC's stated mission is «to improve government decision making and public policy, increase public understanding, and promote the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge.»

I met Lee Ju - Ho, the former Minister of Education, Science, and Technology and now a professor at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management, to understand his efforts to improve the Korean education system In the book The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley, Lee comes across as a forward - minded thinker about the challenges facing Korean education and the need to make changes to the status quo of how education is regulated, managed, and delivered.

Furthermore, «the state can not use general arguments of public policy, fiscal discipline or refer to other financial or economic gains, but instead must prove that other rights provided for under the Covenant have been improved by the measure».

After - school programs can improve participants» literacy by providing intensive lessons several times a week and establishing strong bonds between instructors and participants, concludes a two - year study by New York City - based Public / Private Ventures, a public - policy - research organizPublic / Private Ventures, a public - policy - research organizpublic - policy - research organization.

Nearly two decades later, I'm still chastened by the book's central lesson: A government policy developed by mostly benevolent leaders hoping to improve the lives of the disadvantaged — in this case, by razing old, low - income, ostensibly decaying neighborhoods in favor of gigantic public - housing skyscrapers — did incalculable harm to those it was designed to help.

A task force of Ohio foundations and other grantmaking organizations is calling on state leaders to improve public education by adopting five broad, ambitious policy priorities.

He ignores the wide body of research suggesting that school - choice policies improve public schools by forcing them to compete for students that they used to take for granted.

Thus, to the extent that public policies are designed to improve the environments experienced by black children, our initial estimates may slightly overstate the ground that would be gained by blacks.

A 2017 multi-state review of voucher programs by Carnoy with the Economic Policy Institute found that students in voucher programs scored significantly lower than traditional public school students on reading and math tests and found no significant effect of vouchers leading to improved public school performance.

2018 Halperin Lecture & Youth Public Service Award (Wednesday, March 21, 2018 from 9:15 - 10:30 am ET) The lecture and youth award, hosted by the American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) and Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL), serves as an ongoing tribute to our founder Sam Halperin, who dedicated his life and career to improving youth education, workforce, and policy outPolicy Forum (AYPF) and Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL), serves as an ongoing tribute to our founder Sam Halperin, who dedicated his life and career to improving youth education, workforce, and policy outpolicy outcomes.

The Louisiana Federation for Children seeks to improve our Louisiana's K - 12 education by advancing systemic and sustainable public policy that empowers parents, particularly those in low - income families, to choose the education they determine is best for their children.

SAN FRANCISCO, November 9, 2010 — California can significantly improve the way it funds public schools by making strategic changes now, according to a report released today by the Public Policy Institute of California (public schools by making strategic changes now, according to a report released today by the Public Policy Institute of California (Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC).

Prior to BAEO, Offiong served as an Analyst with Bellwether Education Partners, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the achievement of low - income students by cultivating, advising, and placing a robust community of innovative, effective change agents in public education reform and improving the policy climate for their work.

Sylvia Lazos, policy director at Educate Nevada Now — a program launched by The Rogers Foundation to advocate for improving public education — called Nevada's school choice law «the most radical voucher program in the country.»

When fourteen public school teachers came together as part of Educators 4 Excellence - New York Teacher Policy Team on how to improve the use of testing in schools, they were taken aback by the depth of research showing the harmful effects of exit exams, which twenty - six states have adopted in one form or another.

IHEP is committed to improving college access and success in higher education for all students — with a special focus on underserved populations — by providing timely research to inform public policy decisions.

In 1996, the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) began implementing a new school accountability policy designed to improve student performance by providing a combination of consequences and support to

If a public school does not improve after three years under Thiesfeldt's bill, a school board is required to authorize its superintendent to act unilaterally to improve the school «contrary to policies and procedures adopted by the school board.»

CHICAGO — Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) President Karen Lewis criticized the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) list of schools targeted for closures and other school actions by pointing out that not only does the policy do little to improve student achievement, but the District has a poor record of improving academic achievement among the city's most vulnerable students.

If a public school does not improve after three years, the bill requires a school board to authorize its superintendent to act unilaterally to improve the school «contrary to policies and procedures adopted by the school board.»

By codifying the provisions of Executive Order 39 and directing the Office of Policy and Management to facilitate the sharing of executive branch agency data between agencies and the public, along with operating and maintaining «an online repository for the publication of open data by executive branch agencies,» H.B. 5172 helps improve inter-agency communication, present a more holistic view of state data, and increase the effectiveness of data to governmental and non-governmental stakeholders by preventing agencies from being data «siloes.&raquBy codifying the provisions of Executive Order 39 and directing the Office of Policy and Management to facilitate the sharing of executive branch agency data between agencies and the public, along with operating and maintaining «an online repository for the publication of open data by executive branch agencies,» H.B. 5172 helps improve inter-agency communication, present a more holistic view of state data, and increase the effectiveness of data to governmental and non-governmental stakeholders by preventing agencies from being data «siloes.&raquby executive branch agencies,» H.B. 5172 helps improve inter-agency communication, present a more holistic view of state data, and increase the effectiveness of data to governmental and non-governmental stakeholders by preventing agencies from being data «siloes.&raquby preventing agencies from being data «siloes.»

Since 2013 she has served as the President / CEO of The Education Alliance which operates programs and advances policies to improve achievement by public school students in West Virginia.

Texas AFT actively works to better the profession of educators by promoting effective public education policy and laws to help improve the pay and working conditions of our teachers, nurses, counselors and other professionals.

The American Federation for Children and the Alliance for School Choice seek to improve our nation's K - 12 education by advancing systemic and sustainable public policy that empowers parents, particularly those in low - income families, to choose the education they determine is best for their children.

The Professor Emeritus and Research Professor has co-authored numerous articles centering around Maine's Proficiency - Based Diploma Systems, Implementing District - Level High School Graduation Policies, Challenges Faced by Maine School Districts in Providing High Quality Public Education, Pathways to College Readiness in Maine, The Impacts of Public Charter Schools on Students and Traditional Public Schools, Maine's Improving Schools, and more.

Some see the refusal to participate in SBAC testing as an act of courage and conviction; they see it as willful push - back against flawed education reform policies that since the passage of NCLB have failed to improve education in America's public schools and yet continue to be promoted by special interests who seek to profit at student, parent, and taxpayer expense.

2018 Halperin Lecture & Youth Public Service Award (Wednesday, March 21, 2018 from 9:15 - 10:30 am ET) The lecture and youth award, hosted by AYPF and the Institute for Educational Leadership, serves as an ongoing tribute to our founder Sam Halperin, who dedicated his life and career to improving youth education, workforce, and policy outcomes.

Rather than making a series of empty, unfilled promises, these policies would actually improve teachers» working conditions, students» learning conditions, and school funding; would protect public schools from inequities of funding caused by the proliferation of charter schools; and would «encourage» the decision makers who currently establish public education policy to play within the rules, or forfeit the thing they are really most concerned about: those sweet, sweet campaign contributions.

By adopting an approach that looks holistically at the current technology, policy, and cultural environments of the agency and actively soliciting and incorporating public feedback, DOT is creating a plan that will enable the agency to align Open Government initiatives with strategic objectives, mitigate the risks associated with transparency, and improve performance by embracing the use of emerging communications technologies to increase citizen involvemenBy adopting an approach that looks holistically at the current technology, policy, and cultural environments of the agency and actively soliciting and incorporating public feedback, DOT is creating a plan that will enable the agency to align Open Government initiatives with strategic objectives, mitigate the risks associated with transparency, and improve performance by embracing the use of emerging communications technologies to increase citizen involvemenby embracing the use of emerging communications technologies to increase citizen involvement.

There are different policies adopted by individual countries to improve public growth in terms of health.

A report authored earlier this year by Peter Spiro of the Mowat Centre, a public policy think - tank located at the University of Toronto, questioned whether a reduced capital gains tax rate really improves economic performance.

Our mission is to improve the lives of children in Virginia by advancing effective public policies.