Sentences with phrase «national policies in place»

There's a third reason: They have long understood Climate Change as the threat it is and have had national policies in place for years.
... In contrast to China, some argue that the United States does not have a comprehensive national policy in place for promotion of renewable energy technologies..»
With a stable national policy in place, and critical power line infrastructure on the way, we're delivering on our promises to keep cutting costs.

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While that policy was a matter of necessity as much as principle, there were other places where Flaherty clearly let his convictions guide him: there was his elimination of income trusts; his ongoing fight to create a national securities regulator; and his efforts to rein in the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation.
Trump doesn't have a plan — or people — in place for key domestic and foreign policies, writes National Review's Kevin Williamson.
However, the Pan Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change lays out a number of policies that will compel more clean tech innovation in Canada, he said, including a price on pollution with a carbon price, to be in place across Canada by the start of next year, as well as a promised national clean fuels strategy, better energy efficiency standards and limits on greenhouse gases like methane.
As part of the changes to the budgetary process in 1994, four private sector forecasting organizations [2] develop detailed fiscal projections on a National Accounts basis, based on the average of the private sector economic forecasts and the tax and spending policies in place at the time of the last budget for the next five years.
Canada's coming national price on carbon adds further fuel to the debate, as some will be looking for Canadian industries affected by the carbon price to get protections, maybe even in the form of a carbon tax applied at the border on goods coming from places in the U.S. where there is no such policy.
Since there are those in high places in our administration who are both sincere Christians and sincere environmentalist, such a debate could affect national policy.
We should have a procedures policy in place for when we encounter a domestic abuse case and be aware of the local and national support available for victims.
The Organic Trade Association's Policy Conference takes place Thursday, May 24, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C..
Both Lambeth and Croydon have their own school food plans in place, which translate national policy into local action, and have identified specific Flagship schools to serve as champions for the programme.
A reminder to everyone: If your school participates in the National School Lunch Program, it's required by law to have a Wellness Policy in place.
This includes cancelling the National Breastfeeding Survey that was scheduled to take place in 2015, and would have shown the impact of past policy decisions.
The Legislative Action Conference will feature three full days of school nutrition experts and political insight brought together in one place to «shape and define national policy relating to school nutrition».
Jeffery Miller, Senior Vice President for Player Health and Safety Policy at the National Football League, testified in Washington that while «football has earned a vital place in the rhythm of American life,» helmets for players have not caught up to what is necessary to protect players.
At national level: ensuring that not only is appropriate policies and legislation in place but that these are implemented and enforced.
Speaking on the economy, Buhari, who was represented by the Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau said that the Federal Government was already putting policies in place to encourage and facilitate Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to promote made in Nigeria goods, adding that same was part of his administration's overall national economic policy.
Commenting on plans for local authorities to decide where new schools should open, Kevin Courtney, Deputy General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «This is a clear admission that the free school policy has not effectively addressed local need for new places and concedes the vital role of the local authority in funding for new school places and the right of the local authority to select the provider.
Obamacare is imploding in front of our eyes and the activist left is clinging to the failed policies that caused the healthcare mess in the first place,» said Jesse Hunt, National Republican Congressional Committee press secretary.
-LSB-...] «Before Trump, our identity ideas, national ideas, they had no place to go,» said Richard Spencer, president of the National Policy Institute, a white nationalist think tank based in Arlingtnational ideas, they had no place to go,» said Richard Spencer, president of the National Policy Institute, a white nationalist think tank based in ArlingtNational Policy Institute, a white nationalist think tank based in Arlington, Va..
A national policy forum report was placed before conference noting the contents of the manifesto and discussion in the policy commission before the general election.
EU - US negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), which are taking place in Brussels this week, would give corporations litigation rights over national parliaments, meaning any policy which loses them money will be severely punished in the arbitration tribunals.
When Labour came to power in 1997 they expressed a desire to move these issues onto the agenda, with a Human Rights Act, a PM opposed to ID cards, and such things as an «Ethical foreign policy» to express a belief that the rights of others could be placed above our national interest.
[161] Labour Party conferences now include more «keynote» addresses, guest speakers and question - and - answer sessions, while specific discussion of policy now takes place in the National Policy policy now takes place in the National Policy Policy Forum.
Terrorism: FG to Unveil New National Strategic Communications Approach The Federal Government has put machinery in place to unveil a new National Strategic Communications (NSSC) policy aimed at tackling the ideology and narrative of the Boko Haram terrorists and other insurgent groups in the country.
The new rules largely summarize existing federal law and policies already in place at individual SUNY schools, strategies Cuomo borrowed from other national, state and local leaders.
Delivering a lecture to open the NDC's ideological school, the National Institute of Social Democracy, on Friday, John Mahama also said policies the NDC government put in place also pushed many lower class Ghanaians into the middle class.
The Welsh Liberal Democrats are also calling on the Welsh Government to publish the monitoring regime currently in place in respect of its grant management policy and for it to report annually to the National Assembly on its outcomes.
All 55 constituency places on the national policy forum are up for election, four members and a youth in each region.
U of I's Daniel Miller, who studies environmental politics and policy, was intrigued by a conservation intervention that took place from 2001 to 2008 in the W National Park region in Africa.
The National Institutes of Health has a smart and ethical stem cell policy in place, but that doesn't mean that the agency can't improve upon the policy once it is put into practice.
On the left, the National Education Association sees an opportunity to push back against a policy it never liked in the first place.
In addition, some of the substantive policy changes that Obama administration wants to put in place, through the conditional waivers, are in the area of a national curriculuIn addition, some of the substantive policy changes that Obama administration wants to put in place, through the conditional waivers, are in the area of a national curriculuin place, through the conditional waivers, are in the area of a national curriculuin the area of a national curriculum.
Given the greater focus being placed on LTLT competencies in national policy frameworks, curriculum, teachers and of course, at the international level, it seems this may be an area for further development across all ten countries.
From a quite different place on the political spectrum, the New York affiliate of the National Education Association has withdrawn its support for the Common Core as implemented in that state, and the American Federation of Teachers is calling for a moratorium on all consequences attached to student test results while the standards are being implemented, a policy that has been affirmed in California.
Strengthen Analytic Capacity: Place and support data strategists in partner organizations who will influence policy at the local, state, and national levels (Fellowship Program, Institute for Leadership in Analytics) 2.
Strengthen Analytic Capacity: Place and support data strategists in partner organizations who influence policy at the local, state, and national levels (Fellowship Program, Institute for Leadership in Analytics) 2.
In place of NCLB, the party is regressing to Republican education policy circa 1981, when Ronald Reagan called for instituting national school vouchers and abolishing the U.S. Department of Education.
Most school districts have comprehensive sexual education policies and curricula in place, according to two national surveys to be released this week, but sexuality education, and particularly the promotion of abstinence - only education, remain magnets for controversy.
The Arlington, Va. - based National Association of State Boards of Education argued for keeping its members» place at the table, since they «play an integral role in developing and implementing state education policies
Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence (CREDE) Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed At - Risk (CRESPAR) Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy (CTP) National Center for Early Development and Learning (NCEDL) National Center for Improving Student Learning and Achievement in Mathematics and Science National Center for Postsecondary Improvement (NCPI) National Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) National Research and Development Center on English Learning and Achievement (CELA) National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented (NRC / GT) Research Reports from the National Research and Development Centers
Prior to BAEO, Offiong served as an Analyst with Bellwether Education Partners, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the achievement of low - income students by cultivating, advising, and placing a robust community of innovative, effective change agents in public education reform and improving the policy climate for their work.
Labour and the National Association of Head Teachers also blame the coalition government's free - school policy, which has allowed some new schools to be opened in areas that already have surplus places.
Similarly, government and national policy makers are in a position to support effective professional development by providing opportunities for schools to share best practice nationally and to place value on innovation and development of practice.
While traditional foreign policy experts might not place education at the top of the agenda, the truth is that it's one of the greatest tools in our national security toolkit, and one that could use some sharpening.
«This move brings the total number of free school places created since 2010 to almost a quarter of a million, making this policy the most successful new schools programme in national history with schools being created more quickly than ever before.»
In fact, No Child Left Behind, with its emphasis on standards and hard data, has placed national policy in direct conflict with the prevailing approach of many colleges, where the John Dewey tradition of progressive education holds sway, marked by a deep antipathy toward testinIn fact, No Child Left Behind, with its emphasis on standards and hard data, has placed national policy in direct conflict with the prevailing approach of many colleges, where the John Dewey tradition of progressive education holds sway, marked by a deep antipathy toward testinin direct conflict with the prevailing approach of many colleges, where the John Dewey tradition of progressive education holds sway, marked by a deep antipathy toward testing.
According to a recent review of the research on the systemic correlation between education spending and school quality and student achievement, William Mathis and Kevin Welner, of the National Education Policy Center, find, «While specific results vary from place to place, in general, money does matter and it matters most for economically deprived children.
It placed education in a role of supporting and assisting national policy.
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