Sentences with phrase «longstanding policy of»

I'm also deeply concerned about the way these articles — again, implicitly or explicitly — chip away at our nation's longstanding policy of encouraging home buying through incentives such as the mortgage interest deduction.

Attorney Richard Emery of the law firm Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady announced our petition seeking to preserve the longstanding policy of free tuition in light of the Trustees» decision to impose tuition starting in 2014.

«Random House is continuing its current and longstanding policy of making all of our eBooks available in all of the main commercially available formats.»

To add some bigger - picture perspective, Macmillan and Simon & Schuster have yet to offer libraries their books in the ebook format at all, and other publishers are continuing the longstanding policy of allowing libraries to purchase ebooks in perpetuity.

California's longstanding policy of separating undergraduate work from post-graduate teacher preparation programs;

There they agreed to abandon Labour's longstanding policy of restricting cross media ownership, in return for Murdoch's Labour baiting tabloid, the Sun, supporting the party in the 1997 General Election.

The Boy Scouts of America ended its longstanding policy of forbidding openly gay youths to participate in its activities, a step its chief executive called «compassionate, caring and kind.»

The longstanding policy of the Alberta New Democratic Party which supports the abolition of the Canadian Senate likely means the Act will be allowed to expire, into the dust of legislative history.

The company, which has a longstanding policy of paying out 70 - 80 % of its cash flow per share as dividends, returns over $ 5 billion to shareholders each year in the form of dividends.

Maimane criticized the South African government for its longstanding policy of «quiet diplomacy» with its neighbor, pointing a finger at Zuma's predecessor, Thabo Mbeki, for allowing Mugabe to remain in office after he lost a 2008 election.

TED Media has had a longstanding policy of restricting their events to ages 16 +.

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«We need a pro-growth policy environment from the government that provides a degree of certainty around longstanding issues that have proved frustratingly elusive to solve,» Dimon wrote in the new letter.

Sen. Richard Burr, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, subsequently turned the floor over to the attorney general, who went on to say that he had consulted with senior Justice Department staff prior to his testimony about what he called a «longstanding policy» regarding communications with the president.

Still, Dimon also took aim at several of Trump's policies and promises, warning of the dangers of scrapping longstanding trade agreements and of cracking down on immigration, although he did so without explicitly criticizing the President.

For some stakeholders in Canada, the Super Bowl ads are the tip of the iceberg, signalling the first step in the unravelling a longstanding policy that has been important economically to the broadcast and creative sector in Canada.

Meanwhile, central banks» longstanding general concern for safeguarding financial stability has taken on more of an edge and is now less easily dissociated from monetary policy.

The Boy Scouts of America has been considering a change in its longstanding policy against allowing openly gay members.

Christians of all races can learn how longstanding policies and practices around housing, education, and criminal justice disproportionately harm some of their neighbors.

Another, unrelated takeaway from the AAP policy statement is that the organization continues to stand by its longstanding acceptance of flavored milk, noting that:

Our longstanding dedication to working with industry and investors is reinforced by the creation and continual advancement of infrastructure, technologies and policies that fully support basic and clinical research — and its translation into commercially viable products and services in health care.

Bishop Richard J. Malone is reconsidering a longstanding Catholic Diocese of Buffalo policy that withholds the names of priests who have been accused of sexual abuse, reversing a tradition that's been in place for more than 15 years.

The British Humanist Association (BHA) has welcomed the news as representing a significant step towards achieving one of its longstanding policy goals.

«We are disappointed the Senate and Assembly majorities, both with new leadership, have expressed no willingness to reform longstanding inequities in New York's Freedom of Information laws, or adopt uniform email and document retention policies,» said Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi.

@Rekesoft, nope, Iran is hostile to Israel as a matter of longstanding state policy, and their support for hamas and hezbollah can't be separated from Israel stance.

ALBANY — A number of left - leaning groups fear that Andrew Cuomo is siding with conservatives on tax policy, and undermining their longstanding push to close corporate tax loopholes.

A longstanding critic of Israeli policy regarding the Palestinians, his comments about Adolf Hitler and Zionism resulted in his suspension from the Labour Party in 2016.

Most of the European policy commitments in this manifesto echo longstanding themes, including scrapping of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, cutting funding for the Common Agricultural Policy and increasing the power of national parliaments to scrutinise EU decision mpolicy commitments in this manifesto echo longstanding themes, including scrapping of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, cutting funding for the Common Agricultural Policy and increasing the power of national parliaments to scrutinise EU decision mPolicy and increasing the power of national parliaments to scrutinise EU decision making.

Alwaleed had said in November that all of his stakes in public companies, including Citigroup Incorporated, were potentially for sale, reversing a longstanding policy that some of his most - prized shareholdings were «forever.»

«We are disappointed the Senate and Assembly majorities, both with new leadership, have expressed no willingness to reform longstanding inequities in New York's Freedom of Information laws, or adopt uniform email and document retention policies.

De Blasio called the new protocols «a deepening of the policy,» outlining a specific process to authenticate an ICE warrant — and an extension of New York's longstanding «sanctuary city» policies, which provide haven to nonviolent undocumented immigrants.

Labour's official party policy remains in favour of Trident renewal, despite Jeremy Corbyn's longstanding opposition.

The existing party policy remains in favour of renewing Trident as a review set up by Mr Corbyn, a longstanding unilateralist, is yet to report.

A dozen independent owners of medallions not affiliated with a taxicab fleet and an advocacy group which supports these owners slapped the city and top Taxi & Limousine Commission honchos on Wednesday with a Manhattan federal court lawsuit seeking to overturn the longstanding policy.

Mr Gove insisted that the Home Secretary had been «rapid, gracious and determined» in her handling of the both the targets row and wider concerns about the treatment of the Windrush generation, longstanding British citizens who have been swept up in the Government's «hostile environment» immigration policy.

Features that feed resistance to change within the legacy sectors, according to the two, include pricing structures that favor existing technology, powerful vested interests, financing structures that do not easily accommodate the long - term investment requirements of competitor technologies and longstanding regulatory and policy impediments to change.

Impetus for SciSIP however stems from a larger federal interest in the interactive development and application of this new knowledge to a longstanding yet continuously evolving set of public policy issues, typically summarized under the headings of «policy for science» and «science in policy.»

But a senior ARS official tells ScienceInsider that it was a poorly worded effort by career officials — not anyone appointed by Trump — to remind employees of a longstanding U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) policy on clearing statements that have policy relevance with senior officials before releasing them.

But through generations of kings, Wakanda has always been about Wakanda first, second, and last, a longstanding policy that runs into direct conflict with an exiled half - Wakanda, Erik Killmonger (Michael B. Jordon).

Meanwhile in Israel, the government grapples with the wrenching issue of whether to bargain for the hostages» release, breaking longstanding Israeli policy of never negotiating with terrorists.

In a clear reversal of a longstanding policy, the head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has said that flying a teacher on the space shuttle is a low priority for the agency and that it is unlikely to happen in the foreseeable future.

Despite their longstanding place at the heart of education policy, standards - based reforms have only a modest record of success.

The rapid accumulation of student achievement data represents an untapped national resource, one that holds the promise of breaking longstanding stalemates in the education policy debate.

«Teach For America deserves a ton of credit for its longstanding commitment to continuous improvement,» said Michael Petrilli, president of the Fordham Institute, an education policy think tank.

Despite PURE's outstanding OCR complaint against the Policy, and our longstanding documented interest in the Policy, we were never notified about nor invited to any of the focus groups.

The inclusion of language in ESSA to assess educational progress via multiple measures of success, a longstanding ASCD priority, might incentivize SEL policies and practices at a quicker pace, notes David Griffith, ASCD senior director of government relations.

Reason number two has to deal with modern conservatism's longstanding problem in dealing with the racialism that is America's Original Sin, which still perpetuates itself in American public education through policies and practices such as zoned schooling and overuse of suspensions and expulsions.

But given the union's longstanding support of policies and practices that have harmed kids, especially those from poor and minority backgrounds attending traditional district schools the union's locals have long dominated, neither it nor Weingarten can claim to be working to reclaim a promise it never made.

While President Trump isn't likely to fulfill a longstanding conservative dream and abolish the Department of Education outright, his policies will likely turn it into a significantly weaker agency.

We are at a crossroads where the standards movement that has dominated education policy since the 80's intersects with the almost forgotten educational history of the 60's and 70's that saw the natural progress of effective schools take root because the influential in education policy THEN understood poverty and saw a way that education law could remedy a longstanding injustice — unequal access to quality education.

Deborah Meier is responding to a writing prompt in Richard Elmore's new book: I Used to Think... And Now I Think... 1 In this book, 20 leading educators, researchers, and policy analysts individually reexamine their longstanding views on such school reform topics as community schools, inclusion, the role of unions, the effectiveness of turnaround strategies, and even their faith that any single public policy can make a difference in improving schools.