Sentences with phrase «major policy improvements»

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Major issues during the 2014 legislative session included improvements to the integration of environmental regulation, affordable healthcare, tourism funding, workforce training, a tax policy that would not increase taxes on businesses, and a labor policy to not increase costs to employers.

So people have a hard time connecting compelling current concerns — such as widespread corruption, or non-competitive elections, or a need for major improvements in such fundamental policy areas as education — with the possibility for reform through state constitutional change.

A few major areas I hope will receive attention during reauthorization are college / workplace readiness, including the promotion of more rigorous standards; greater accountability at the secondary level; more sophisticated policy and greater accountability for improving teacher effectiveness, particularly at the late elementary and secondary levels; a broadening of attention to math and science as well as to history; and refinements in AYP to focus greater attention and improvement on the persistently failing schools by offering real choices to parents of students stuck in such schools.

Despite education policies being a major part of party pledges, the majority of teachers do not expect any improvement to schools after the general election, a Tes survey has revealed.

ESSA creates a major policy shift in the world of school improvement and school turnaround.

Last year, a landmark study of school improvement («School Improvement by Design,» link: http://bit.ly/70J539) released by the Consortium for Policy Research in Education reported that the America's Choice programs performed significantly better than their major competitors in the field, and the study's researchers stated, «Students in America's Choice schools grew at a significantly faster rate than students in comparison schools and faster than students in all other schoimprovement («School Improvement by Design,» link: http://bit.ly/70J539) released by the Consortium for Policy Research in Education reported that the America's Choice programs performed significantly better than their major competitors in the field, and the study's researchers stated, «Students in America's Choice schools grew at a significantly faster rate than students in comparison schools and faster than students in all other schoImprovement by Design,» link: http://bit.ly/70J539) released by the Consortium for Policy Research in Education reported that the America's Choice programs performed significantly better than their major competitors in the field, and the study's researchers stated, «Students in America's Choice schools grew at a significantly faster rate than students in comparison schools and faster than students in all other schools.»

Dawn: Released by the World Bank, the report calls upon the government to make urban air quality improvement a priority in the country's policy agenda, noting that the issue has received little attention despite strong evidence indicating an urgent need to tackle pollution in major cities.

Main advances do not lie in major technological developments, but rather in their extended systemic application, partially as a result of advanced policies, as well as in improvements in the performance and reductions in the cost of several technologies.

Its key implementation tools are building intervention points that align and integrate building energy upgrade policies with the capital improvement and major renovation cycles of existing buildings, as well as zero net carbon building standards that apply to all buildings.

This concept is not too dissimilar to the only major recommendation from the original National Health and Hospitals Commission review report that sought to establish a National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Authority to provide oversight for policy development and resource implementation supporting the improvement of health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

The critical step required to achieve a significant improvement in the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples is that governments and service providers recognise, endorse, and treat us as substantive players and major stakeholders in the development, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of all policies, programs and legislation that impacts on us.

A review of national research on successful policies and programs, child development findings, and effective state and local systems suggests that major improvements can be achieved for youth.

A critical step necessary to achieve substantial improvement in the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples is for governments, at all levels, to recognise, include and treat us as substantive players and major stakeholders in the development, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of all policy and legislation that impacts us.

A critical step required to achieve a significant improvement in the lives of Indigenous peoples is for States to recognise, endorse and treat Indigenous people as substantive players and major stakeholders in the development, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of all policy and legislation that impacts on their health and wellbeing.

A critical step required to achieve a significant improvement in the lives of Indigenous peoples is for governments to recognise, endorse and treat Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as substantive players and major stakeholders in the development, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of all policy and legislation that impacts on us.