Sentences with phrase «issue of public policy by»

The decision, however, highlights the paradox of our federal government responding to an important issue of public policy by adopting legislation (the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act) that mandates compliance with rules governing the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information, but at the same time not equipping the privacy commissioner with powers to enforce compliance or punish violators.

Not exact matches

Before you can oversee the implementation of public policy, you have to get your feet wet by getting hired into the field of public administration and working directly with policy issues.

In an era when Mark Zuckerberg can be called on the carpet by Senate investigators because of possible wrongdoing by Facebook over the Russian hacking scandal — and at a time when researchers are actively examining whether social media is psychologically, maybe even physically addictive — revenge porn as a public policy issue is on the ascent.

Angus responded by arguing that Chan's role as the company's leading public policy person in Canada means he's in charge of engaging with government on a wide range of business issues that affect Facebook, which has 23 million users in the country and more than two billion worldwide.

ARI is a national, not - for - profit, non-partisan public opinion research foundation established to advance education by commissioning, conducting and disseminating to the public accessible and impartial statistical data, research and policy analysis on economics, political science, philanthropy, public administration, domestic and international affairs and other socio - economic issues of importance to Canada and its world.

The NATO essay points again to the fact that, whether the issue under discussion is welfare policy or foreign policy, what we consistently find in the work of Irving Kristol is a consideration of public life and governing from the standpoint of the individual soul» and, by the same token, a consideration of the need to foster the right kinds of virtues in individual souls in order for the most desirable regimes to be successful.

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.

Details of the policy have been published in Jehovah's Witnesses» publications and press releases issued by their Office of Public Information.

The executive committee will then turn to the section when it needs to construct a policy on that specific issue; for example, the majority of information on infant feeding that gets filtered through to the public via the AAP website is written by the Section on Breastfeeding.

Cuomo highlighted the issue in his campaign policy book on government reform, wrting, «Like New York City, New York State needs a system of public campaign financing to set limits on campaign spending and to increase participation by qualified candidates who lack the means or the connections to raise significant campaign funds.»

Issue 1: Whether the acceptance of the Ford Expedition vehicle by the Respondent [President Mahama] contravened existing Gift Policy under the Code of Conduct for Public Officers

Susan Lerner, Executive Director of Common Cause / NY, noted that «Hydraulic fracturing has been one of the most polarizing issues in recent history, with no shortage of political money invested by pro-fracking interests to achieve a favorable outcome... New York State needs comprehensive campaign finance and lobbying reform to assure New Yorkers that public policy is based on their interest, not the special interests.»

Fifteen hundred pages of emails from Rosen released by City Hall the night before Thanksgiving show that he was deeply involved in city policy, weighing in on decisions regarding universal pre-K and consulting with one of the mayor's top aides, Emma Wolfe, on how to handle public relations issues.

A new report issued by the Public Policy and Education Fund of New York with the assistance of the Fiscal Policy Institute.

An 11 - page policy paper released by the New York Public Interest Research Group on Friday takes issue with the state Board of Elections to suspend the aggregate political contribution limits in the wake of the Supreme Court decision, McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission.

Among other criminal justice issues raised by Hawkins and the Green Party candidates were: establishment of a statewide Public Defenders Office; legalization of marijuana; Broken Windows policy; justice for Eric Garner; raising the age of adult criminal responsibility to 18; banning solitary confinement; educational opportunities for prisoners; assistance to help ex-offenders find employment and housing; and alternatives to incarceration.

ENDS Notes to Editors UK Alcohol duty context For a short video summary of the issues around alcohol pricing, please visit: https://vimeo.com/191959217 Following heavy lobbying from the alcohol industry, the last four Budgets have seen real terms cuts in alcohol duty Alcohol is 60 % more affordable than it was in 1980 — the alcohol duty escalator, introduced in 2008, which ensured that duty rose above inflation, helped mitigate this trend, but this progress has reversed since the duty escalator was scrapped in 2013 In real terms, spirits duty has halved, and wine duty fallen by a quarter since 1978 - 9 The Government estimates suggest that the duty cuts since 2013 will cost the Exchequer # 2.9 billion over four years The University of Sheffield estimated that an additional 6,500 people would be hospitalised each year as a result of the alcohol duty cuts in 2015 The report The report was peer reviewed by academic experts the fields of economics, public health and public policy prior to publication.

«Creating another layer of regulation through a state license issued by an agency [the state Labor Department] with no experience regulating the elevator industry is duplicative, serves only to confuse, and does not constitute sound public policy,» said the mayor's Albany legislative director, Sherif Soliman.

The public advocate continued by offering up plenty of her own policy ideas on how to address the city's diversity issues, in what sounded a bit like a preview of a Letitia James mayoralty might look like.

, he envisions a form of government that among other things includes the dissolution of the state, and indeed also a large number of citizen juries, selected by lot, that take decisions on public policy issues.

«Public finance is a policy - slash - political issue, so I wasn't overly surprised» about the divide, Cuomo said Tuesday after a news conference announcing a series of concerts by Billy Joel next year at Madison Square Garden.

The public sector unions have tangled with Cuomo over all sorts of policy issues — from creation of a teacher performance evalution system and Tier 6 to his refusal to reinstate the so - called millionaire's tax (later assuaged by an overhaul of the state's entire tax code).

«This is an example of public policy by press release,» said Nadeau, who said the underlying «complex issues» need to be more openly discussed.

The political landscape is wholly transformed by new dynamics of Brexit not only on issue of EU membership, but on immigration / race, welfare, education, policies of austerity, cuts and caps to public services..

Cuomo will also likely be pushing for an increase in the state's minimum wage and the decriminalizing of the public possession of small amounts of marijuana, in response to issues raised by New York City's Stop and Frisk policy.

, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, questioned whether CEQ has the legal authority to issue such a policy directive, since the acting head of CEQ, Christy Goldfuss, has not been confirmed by the Senate.

by stimulating, commissioning, overseeing, and disseminating studies and analyses of issues in science, engineering, and public policy; and

A 2015 national poll commissioned by ScienceDebate.org and Research!America revealed that a large majority of Americans (87 %) say it is important that candidates for President and Congress have a basic understanding of the science informing public policy issues.

The statement, drafted by the Social Issues Committee of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) and the Public and Professional Policy Committee of the European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG), was published online March 18 in the European Journal of Human Genetics.

Gregg Gonsalves, an audience member who had been part of the ACT UP movement in the 1980s and 1990s and is now co-director of Yale's Global Health Justice Partnership, earned a round of applause when he argued that the safety of medical products was a public policy issue that should not be dominated by lobbying from the pharmaceutical industry.

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.

Starting in 2010, for example, dozens of college professors (including at Harvard) assigned students to write Wikipedia entries for credit about public policy issues as part of a project launched by Wikimedia.

On four issues — Common Core, charter schools, tax credits, and merit pay for teachers — the poll examines whether President Trump's endorsement of a policy has a polarizing effect on public opinion by telling half of the sample the president's position while not supplying this information to the other.

All this is reported in the 4th annual survey of public opinion on educational issues by Harvard's Program on Educational Policy and Governance and Education Next, which I, with William Howell and Martin West, help to direct.

The fifth annual survey conducted by Harvard's Program on Education Policy and Governance and Education Next magazine on a wide range of education policy issues uncovered growing divisions between teachers and the general pPolicy and Governance and Education Next magazine on a wide range of education policy issues uncovered growing divisions between teachers and the general ppolicy issues uncovered growing divisions between teachers and the general public.

National Survey also reveals increased support for virtual schooling, support for charter schools rises sharply in minority communities CAMBRIDGE, MA - The fourth annual survey conducted by Harvard's Program on Education Policy and Governance (PEPG) and Education Next on a wide range of education issues released today reveals that the broader public and teachers are markedly divided in their support for merit pay, teacher tenure, and Race to the Top (RttT).

-- Anatomy of a Project: «Give Me Shelter» — Juniors at Casco Bay High School, in Portland, Maine, explore homelessness by working in teams to make audio slide - show portraits in a semester - long project about housing issues and public policy.

These strategies involve 1) accurately informing the general public and the policy community regarding the condition of schools, that is, their financing, their achievement, and the relationship between the two; 2) conducting empirical research aimed at understanding issues of productivity in education; 3) informing policymakers and school managers regarding means by which budget cuts can be made without eviscerating instructional effectiveness; and 4) solving challenges to wider adoption of instructional technologies.

CAMBRIDGE, MA - The fourth annual survey conducted by Harvard's Program on Education Policy and Governance (PEPG) and Education Next on a wide range of education issues released today reveals that the broader public and teachers are markedly divided in their support for merit pay, teacher tenure, and Race to the Top (RttT).

The Mayor's article, which was included in the inaugural issue of a public - policy journal published by the conservative Wisconsin Policy Research institute, was front - page news Jan. 2 in the Milwaukee Senpolicy journal published by the conservative Wisconsin Policy Research institute, was front - page news Jan. 2 in the Milwaukee SenPolicy Research institute, was front - page news Jan. 2 in the Milwaukee Sentinel.

Washington — The Reagan Administration's education policies are «out of step» with the beliefs of the American public, according to a survey on «prominent issues in the 1984 elections» commissioned by the Project on Equal Education Rights of the now Legal Defense and Education Fund.

The poll, a survey of education issues conducted every year by the Public Policy Institute of California, found 55 percent of public school parents said they knew nothing about the new Common Core tePublic Policy Institute of California, found 55 percent of public school parents said they knew nothing about the new Common Core tepublic school parents said they knew nothing about the new Common Core testing.

UCEA offers a number of in - depth peer - reviewed analyses of specific public policy issues written by Independent UCEA Researchers.

Keith Poston of the Public School Forum discusses North Carolina's Top Education issues on NC Policy Watch's «News and Views» hosted by Rob Schofield.

The study issued by the National Education Policy Center strongly doubts the ability of full - time virtual to provide a high - quality, equitable public education.

The national group, Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools, issued a statement explaining: «As public schools are increasingly threatened by a view of education that supports privatization, zero - tolerance discipline policies, less funding, and high - stakes standardized tests, AROS is fighting back with a broad vision of American public education that prioritizes racial justice, equity and well - resourced, world - class, public community schools.»

The Foundation may support organizations engaged in public policy by either providing general operating support or by funding educational advocacy such as nonpartisan research, technical assistance, or examinations of broad social issues.

This issue of Making Policy Public was created by CUP, Teachers Unite, and designer Silas Munro who worked together to create a fold - out poster that lays out the different levels of decision makers who govern NYC's schools.

Grieving in public by pushing for changes in policy and laws, the Stoneman Douglas survivors ripped a collective scab off a host of issues — school violence, gun control and safety, arming teachers, mental health, the power of protest, race, privilege, technology and internet trolling — and thrust them into the local, state, and national spotlights.

This team works on a wide range of issues related to: ensuring that planned transportation projects meet community needs, including by ensuring effective public involvement; developing and reviewing transportation legislation and regulations related to transportation planning and investment; and coordinating national transportation policy initiatives, including by working with other federal, State and local agencies.