Sentences with phrase «meaningful policy change»

The majority of our funds are re-granted to NGOs and think tanks engaged in bringing about meaningful policy change.

Their thoughts need to be about meaningful policy changes that could prevent another murder, another death, another heartbreaking act of violence.

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.

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But top - down policies won't bring about meaningful change, warns Yost, founder and president of the Work + Life Fit Inc. consulting firm based in Madison, N.J. Instead, she recommends that companies adopt a «partnership» approach, encouraging employees to suggest arrangements that fit their own needs while still ensuring that work gets done — and gets done well.

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.

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Therefore, we will evaluate our market targets thoughtfully to reflect the effects of the most meaningful fiscal policy change in more than 30 years.

«The US dairy industry sees real value in the TPP negotiations if we are able to open new markets, like Japan and Canada, use the TPP process to strengthen global trading rules and secure meaningful competition policy changes in New Zealand's dairy sector,» said Suber.

Nevertheless, as the authors point out, a national food policy would shine a brighter spotlight on these conflicts and would also likely raise public awareness about and support for meaningful improvements to our food system — a much needed first step toward change.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

The U.K. IBFAN group, Baby Milk Action, acts as the secretariat for INBC, which has a standing agreement to meet with Nestlé collectively to discuss ending the boycott, when the company has anything meaningful to put forward to demonstrate a change in its policy and practices.

Gibson offered a brief outline of his platform, stating, «I believe our state can rally around four points: growing the economy through meaningful tax cuts and policy changes, achieving excellence in education by returning power to parents, students and teachers, cleaning up corruption and restoring our faith in our ability to be self - governing and protecting our freedoms while improving on the safety and security of all New Yorkers.»

«Everyone nationwide should accept nothing less than meaningful, life - saving policy changes from their politicians,» Romano added.

«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.»

Our core strengths in green chemistry and engineering research, combined with our role as a trusted third - party facilitator of stakeholder collaborations drives meaningful change toward solutions that 1) preserve natural capital, 2) are safe and sustainable across the product life cycle, 3) align and leverage different types of policy instruments, and 4) actively engage stakeholders to ensure equity.

After collecting and synthesizing data from 17 states and the District of Columbia, we found that, despite state policy changes, many districts still don't factor student growth into teacher evaluation ratings in a meaningful way.

Our ultimate goal is meaningful change in policy and practice that produces substantially larger impacts than current best practices on the learning capacity, health, and future economic and social mobility of vulnerable young children.

At The New Teacher Project (TNTP), we believe it is possible for organizations to implement ground - level reforms on a meaningful scale even while advocating for more fundamental policy changes.

«As a full - time classroom teacher, I have spent the better part of fifteen years wrestling with failed policies, frustrated by the suggestion that practitioners are to blame for everything that is wrong with American schools and paralyzed waiting for meaningful change that never seems to come.

It was written for students, parents, educators, administrators, and policy makers because it will require effort from all these individuals to create meaningful change in the education system.

Despite state policy changes, many districts still don't factor student growth into teacher evaluation ratings in a meaningful way.

It was written for students, parents, educators, administrators, and policy makers because it will require effort from all the individuals to create meaningful change in the education system.

Another project highlighted the way meaningful student involvement actually transformed U.K. schools by tracking the changes in policy and practice that reflected students» comments.

Without such policies, there can not be any meaningful comparison of schools, districts or states when changes are tracked over time.

However, rolling out systemwide ESSA policy changes within the Department of Education's timeframe, and with meaningful stakeholder input, is a challenge for SEAs across the U.S. as well as for TEA.

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.

We call on President Obama and other Democrats to reject these policies and join parents and education experts in support of a more positive set of changes that includes small classes, a well - rounded curriculum, more meaningful parent involvement and greater investment in teachers and families.

If the major programs and approaches to improving student achievement are not in policy, a new superintendent can easily change things without meaningful and public dialogue and potential damage to student achievement gains.

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

The Humane Society is one of the nation's largest animal protection organizations and works to create meaningful social change for animals by investigating cruelty, educating the public, advocating for public policies that benefit animals, and directly caring for thousands of animals at shelters and rescues across the country.

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.

It's unfortunate that this loss or delay of valuable information that would support solid policy shift on mitigating climate change and reducing impacts including saving human lives, is not given more meaningful coverage in mainstream press.

The most important element of meaningful change will come from policy makers.

However, as the Agreement's key policies are yet to be realized, member states have both an exceptional opportunity and a moral impetus to use these results to address climate change equity in a meaningful manner.

House Democrats pressing for action on climate policy are having to resort to various work - arounds, in a situation where it is difficult even to get a meaningful climate change hearing, and for now impossible to move significant legislation.

A particularly hot autumn and winter could add to the pressure on policy makers to reach a meaningful deal at December's climate - change negotiations in Copenhagen.

Drawing on case studies of past environmental debates such as those over acid rain and ozone depletion, science policy experts Roger Pielke Jr. and Daniel Sarewitz argue that once next generation technologies are available that make meaningful action on climate change lower - cost, then much of the argument politically over scientific uncertainty is likely to diminish.26 Similarly, research by Yale University's Dan Kahan and colleagues suggest that building political consensus on climate change will depend heavily on advocates for action calling attention to a diverse mix of options, with some actions such as tax incentives for nuclear energy, government support for clean energy research, or actions to protect cities and communities against climate risks, more likely to gain support from both Democrats and Republicans.

During this time, the climate change disinformation campaign also successfully prevented enactment of meaningful US domestic climate change laws and policies.

These questions are organized according to the most frequent arguments made against climate change policies which are claims that climate change policies: (a) will impose unacceptable costs on a national economy or specific industries or prevent nations from pursuing other national priorities, (b) should not be adopted because of scientific uncertainty about climate change impacts, or (c) are both unfair and ineffective as long as high emitting nations such as China or India do not adopt meaningful ghg emissions reduction policies.

There is a meaningful issue issue, IMO, where there is crossover / confusion / conflation between discussion of the science of climate change and positions on the policy implications of the science.

In general, there are sound reasons to seek to compensate consumers for the energy price increases that will be brought about by a cap - and - trade system, or any meaningful climate change policy.

«Billions are being wasted on climate change policies which will have no meaningful impact on the climate and the science supporting alarmist climate theories is also crumbling.

These two articles perfectly encapsulate two of the problems that have plagued our approach to climate change over the last 8 years: Delay any meaningful action on reducing emissions and, instead of adopting sound, far - reaching policies, take shortsighted, politically convenient half - steps.

While there may indeed be changes going on in the characteristics of storms themselves, this does not mean that those changes are at all meaningful from a policy perspective.

The study's author, Robert Brulle, refers to these organizations as the climate change counter-movement, and concludes that their outsized influence «has not only played a major role in confounding public understanding of climate science, but also successfully delayed meaningful government policy actions to address the issue.»

As things stand, we will likely not see a meaningful change in national policy until the next president takes office, as both Kennedy and the editorial alluded to; that doesn't meant, however, that we should just sit on our hands and wait.

«The importance of experiential learning creates several challenges to a public consensus needed to implement meaningful climate change policy,» the researchers write.

In my view, the best path forward, from a cyber policy perspective, is to require regulatory notification of meaningful breach events combined with the developing of a standard of care that is capable of evolving with changing technological means.

Both the new terms and the new data policy just dropped, so we'll need to spend more time sorting through them to see what kinds of meaningful changes are in there.