Sentences with phrase «meaningful policies»

During the all - day summit, teacher and advocate - led sessions inspired educators to continue their transformative work as teachers and to go beyond their classrooms to advocate for meaningful policy change.
This could cause further delay of meaningful policy adoption.
Their thoughts need to be about meaningful policy changes that could prevent another murder, another death, another heartbreaking act of violence.
And when it comes to education policy, which does a particularly good job of stirring people's passions, opportunities for advancing meaningful policy reform would appear entirely fleeting.
Indeed, our results suggest the possibility of advancing meaningful policy reform.
Through our analyses we seek to provide leadership to the Canadian academic and business communities to channel their resources into meaningful policy improvements.
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?
For this reason, efforts to create clear and meaningful policies around relationship violence and paternity establishment are a critical first step toward ensuring the safety of unmarried mothers and their children.
That, coupled with the increased urgency which will (or might) arise if climate becomes more obviously destructive, should, in my view, eventually open the eyes of enough of the power brokers of the world so that meaningful policy actions will begin to be implemented.
Today, Mitt Romney squandered an opportunity to participate in a meaningful discussion of real education reform by attempting to disguise attacks on teachers and public education as meaningful policy proposals.
[9] To create meaningful policies that address the risks and problems sex workers face in their day - to - day work, sex workers have to be invited to take part in policy development.
(This is hardly irrelevant, given how they're the only ones able to actually implement meaningful policy change.)
«The tragic death of Eric Garner is a clear call for meaningful policy changes at several levels within our city,» Staten Island Councilwoman Debi Rose said in a statement.
The Working Families Party is a grassroots political organization that fights for economic and racial justice, wins meaningful policy changes to improve the lives of everyday Americans, and recruits, trains and elects the next generation of progressive leaders to office.
Without the landscape conservation cooperatives (LCCs), which the Fish and Wildlife Service oversees, an effective avenue for engaging stakeholders and affecting meaningful policy has been lost, he added.
Since it was founded in 1996, the Clinical Research Forum has enabled the sharing of best practices in clinical research, informed meaningful policy dialogues and increasingly played a national advocacy role in support of clinical research.
The Texas Legislature is now in full swing and, of course, the Texas Institute for Education Reform (TIER) is at every table on every significant public education issue at stake, hopefully providing meaningful policy advocacy leadership.
The time is right and the context is set for states to move forward to enact meaningful policies — and remove barriers where needed — to achieve the vision of not just effective, but excellent teachers and principals for every student.
We seek positive change for animals through meaningful policy change, which may help officers better enforce existing laws, or — when needed — we cooperate with district leaders across the country to strengthen or add new reforms at both a national and state level.
Although we believe that even an end year of 2150 is still too far in the future to base meaningful policy, we compared such estimates to the baseline SCC estimates.
We should welcome a multi-sided discussion among people who are seeking meaningful policy approaches to climate change and paths forward in the current very difficult circumstances.
Droughts and heat waves are a harbinger of our future, carbon cuts are needed now more than ever, and yet meaningful policies have not been enacted.
We all have to contribute and vote if we want to see real, meaningful policy put into place.»
Basic Message Template This template is an outline of a message frame for communicating about the role of budgets and taxes as an integral part of meaningful policy developments for early childhood development.
In an area that does not fit the prototype of a seismic hotbed, efforts to implement meaningful policy changes have stalled, leaving the area vulnerable to tremendous damage.
Instead, ideological debates have ensued and stalled the consideration of meaningful policies that would save thousands of lives.»
«The tragic death of Eric Garner is a clear call for meaningful policy changes at several levels within our city,» said Councilwoman Debi Rose, the Staten Island Democrat representing the neighborhood where Garner died.
«We must ensure we continue to work towards significant and meaningful policy changes to end racial profiling and create law enforcement accountability, stop the militarization of our local law - enforcement agencies and demand the government invest in our communities,» said March2Justice Co-Chair Tamika Mallory.
Instead, she sees forcing a change in personnel — which, she notes, the Federal Reserve has the power to do to Wells Fargo should it so choose — as itself a meaningful policy action, one that would help reform the bank's culture and could deter bad actors throughout the industry.
«I think their political strategy is wrong and I think more importantly, and this is what concerns me, the ability to advocate for meaningful policy and meaningful action, is just not there,» Klein said.
The real problem, healthcare aside, is that few people can think of positive reasons to get out and vote Conservative — they just aren't offering anyone any meaningful policies to improve their daily lives.
Many analysts have not been able to discern any meaningful policies towards on - shore industry in the UK — the opposite of what is witnessed in countries like the US, Australia and France.
And we are also aware that George, bereft of any meaningful policies on how to bring development to the Awutu Senya West constituency, is resorting to personal attacks against the hardworking Hannah Tetteh all with an aim to court public disaffection for her.
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.
And no meaningful policy can come until Congress acknowledges everyday firearms violence — not only mass tragedies — as a problem.
Taking the time to create a meaningful policy now will mean less time (and money) defending it later.
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