Sentences with phrase «making meaningful policy»

Do other appointed or non — freely elected state actors interfere with or prevent freely elected representatives from adopting and implementing legislation and making meaningful policy decisions?

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And hope not for enduring recovery until policy - makers here and abroad make meaningful progress in treating underlying diseases.

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Even so, it is worth knowing that monetary policy can still make a meaningful contribution in such extreme conditions, alongside fiscal and structural policies, in restoring growth and achieving our inflation targets.

The Company also provided an update on senior executive appointments, meaningful progress it is making on its Strategic Renewal Plan (the «Plan») to drive long - term shareholder value creation, and corporate governance policies.

This means there is no opportunity for the reader to make any meaningful comparisons about effectiveness of recent policy agendas to build the nation's food production and processing capacity and profitability.

«We have successfully incorporated masses into all our policies and programmes as many of our projects are designed to banish poverty, hunger, unemployment and as well make life more meaningful and abundant for the citizenry», he added.

Odogwu made this assertion while appraising effort made by the Okowa led administration in Delta State to make life meaningful for the people, which he highlighted some key economic programmes for the grassroots people, which he stated that these policies were capable of tackling the challenges the people currently contends with.

New Federal Education Law Gives State Policymakers Chance to Improve Opportunity for All Students — But Risks Retreat from High Standards and Meaningful AccountabilityNew York, NY — A dozen major civil rights, education, parent, and business organizations from across New York State released a policy brief today that makes...

``... there was an elephant in the room: the fact that if Labour party conference was restored to a meaningful part in the policy making process, then we probably wouldn't be having this debate at all».

But for several weeks there was an elephant in the room: the fact that if Labour party conference was restored to a meaningful part in the policy making process, then we probably wouldn't be having this debate at all.

Ron Campbell, Chief Policy and Research Analyst for National Energy Action said: «The original UK Fuel Poverty Strategy was described as «representing the start of the road to the end of fuel poverty in the United Kingdom», there is a consensus that in order to make meaningful progress in the right direction we are in urgent need of a «road map».

«While there's still more to do this session on charters and the education investment tax credit, and more to ensure every child has access to great schools, Governor Cuomo fought hard to make meaningful reforms to tenure, arbitration policies and teacher evaluation criteria and his vision and hard work paid off.»

However, our commitment to meaningful progressive policy makes it impossible for us to support the current Democratic nominee for governor.»

Since 1971, the D.I.D. has been committed to making the NY Democratic Party a vehicle for meaningful, progressive policy and empowering our communities.

This shift can not only shape what research happens, but how research happens, making our science more relevant to policy outcomes and more meaningful to communities... Community engagement is not only outreach — it has the power to transform and improve our science,» said Kirsten Schwarz, associate professor of biological sciences and director of the Ecological Stewardship Institute at Northern Kentucky University.

My wish for the holiday season is that my university's administration will stop opposing postdocs» efforts to unionize so that we can work together to make meaningful progress on policies related to workplace discrimination, parental leave, child care subsidies, livable salaries, affordable health care, and more.

U.S. scientists and policy makers have grappled ad nauseam with America's next great otherworldly destination for decades, without making much meaningful progress.

In Fact and Fiction in Global Energy Policy, Sovacool, Brown, and Valentine make clever use of the Hegelian dialectic to take on 15 core energy questions (e.g., «Do conventional energy resources have a meaningful «peak»?»)

For policy makers, food insecurity represents an easily identified risk factor for cost - related medication underuse, making it simpler to find programs and strategies to address this endangered group in a meaningful way.

«Programs or policies that help reduce the cost and difficulty of making long - term changes or that bring in whole communities to make long - term changes together can help support people to take big steps that have a meaningful impact on the climate.»

Unions operate these money - losing operations in right - to - work states to make sure that there is no meaningful policy variation on their key issues.

This fall, as school districts scattered around the country are considering «no homework» policies, teacher educator Curtis Chandler looks at research on whether and how homework can support learning and suggests teaching apps to help make it short, meaningful, and accessible.

Peter Smyth, a retired educator and administrator, and also a co-founder of Community Voice, says, «After a career in education and research into educational reform, I have come to these conclusions: while South Carolina Superintendent Zais has applied for a waiver to No Child Left Behind, his proposals reflect those of Secretary Duncan and the current and previous administrations, policies which have not achieved their goals and have made raising test scores and graduation rates, rather than meaningful learning, the default goals of American education.

By collaborating with Californians Together she's had the opportunity to make meaningful connections between the policy worlds of early childhood and elementary and secondary education.

PAA believes that too much of the current education policy making happens without any meaningful parent input, and often in complete opposition to parents» priorities and concerns.

To support these efforts, Partners for Each and Every Child (Partners for) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) developed Meaningful Local Engagement Under ESSA — a guide for local education agencies (LEAs) and school leaders as they engage with stakeholders on ESSA and other policy and decision - making opportunities.

Documenting policies and procedures that supporting Meaningful Student Involvement, and making those documents know to students and available to them in order to assure accountability to students and adults throughout the education system and beyond.

When the democratic levers of policy - making aren't effective at representing broad constituencies» interests, Meaningful Student Involvement can embrace diverse opinions.

The Declaration makes recommendations in seven areas including better assessments, effective discipline, and meaningful engagement of parents and others in setting school policy.

We need wide - ranging policies that attract the best and brightest into the classroom, encourage educators to be data - driven and responsive to students» diverse learning needs, offer personalized professional development and support, and reward teachers for making a meaningful impact on student achievement.

Where culture reflects the intangible, yet observable components of Meaningful Student Involvement, the structure of schools is made of the named activities, policies, strategies, processes, allocation, coordination, and supervision of people throughout an education system.

For these policies, and others included in the report, to have meaningful value, leaders must first get the measurement and accountability pieces right, and then make smart investments to encourage the best and brightest to teach in our toughest schools.

What's more, most of their work is making sure that schools are complying with district, state or federal policies, bureaucratic accounting that leaves little time for meaningful interaction with principals, she said.

A Manhattan Institute for Policy Research report in 2012 found that Florida students who were held back for extra help made «large academic gains relative to their socially promoted peers — gains that are meaningful and sustained at least through middle school.»

Senior leadership can make meaningful comparisons between departments or even schools within a network, and clearly understand the success of their policies and make changes accordingly.

Through the development of mission and vision statements, we can create a new image of what learning goals we aspire to achieve and what practices, policies, and structures will make that work most meaningful for our learners.

Here are 7 Strategies, provided by the Learning Policy Institute, to make professional learning effective and meaningful.

The guidance documents written to interpret and support the No Child Left Behind Act make clear the value of parents as partners in all aspects of schools and school policies: «Meaningful parental involvement is one of the cornerstones of the reform initiatives contained in the No Child Left Behind Act.

Throughout that time Malloy has not made any real or meaningful changes to his policies.

The insurance experts at Effective Coverage can break it down into meaningful pieces to help you understand your coverage and to make good decisions about your policy.

HSUS works to reduce suffering and to create meaningful social change for animals by advocating for sensible public policies, investigating cruelty and working to enforce existing laws, educating the public about animal issues, joining with corporations on behalf of animal - friendly policies, and conducting hands - on programs that make ours a more humane world.

HSUS is the nation's largest animal protection organization that works to reduce animal suffering and create meaningful social change through progressive legislation; making sure existing laws are enforced; public awareness campaigns and investigations; assisting large corporations in reforming their animal welfare policies, and providing direct care, rescue, and services for animals in crisis.

In tracking the climate challenge (science and policy) since the 1980s I see scant evidence that our politics and public attitudes will make it possible to build a carbon price «pull» sufficient to shape energy investments and choices on a meaningful timescale....

If you people want a lasting legacy, something meaningful; get on with the people's business and do something that will make this country the envy of the world, create a sound energy policy / plan.

But any such critique has to propose not only the need for alternative policies, but a way to make them happen at a scale and pace that are meaningful to the climate question.

This framework must also include the fair treatment and meaningful community involvement of all people with respect to the development, implementation and enforcement of any impacts related to transportation planning and policy to ensure everyone enjoys the same degree of protection from environmental and health hazards and equal access to the decision - making process to have a healthy environment in which to live, learn and work.

With the same broad coalition that stood up against this pipeline and took to the streets during the People's Climate March, we're better positioned than ever before to make real climate policy a top priority for the U.S. government and achieve meaningful progress in this year's climate talks.

There is a good case for lifting the cap in its entirety: This policy denies access to basic electricity for the world's most vulnerable while making no meaningful dent in global emissions.

The program is a result of the implementation of the Sustainable Management System, built to make the Hotels and Resorts operations as efficient as possible, emphasizing the company's meaningful and long - lasting commitment to «our clients, our employees, our community, and our environment, a commitment to the highest levels of the organization and outlined on our sustainability policy.»