Sentences with phrase «of policy discussions»

There was one thing that almost everyone agreed on, however: They want to be part of the policy discussion about what should and should not be allowed.

Our estimates of the impact of vocational education on age - employment profiles indicate that much of the policy discussion about education programs is too narrow.

Putting energy access at the center of policy discussions would be a smart first step.

Therefore, an important part of this policy discussion is first understanding capacity, need, and service gaps for existing programs.

As long as Betsy DeVos is the secretary of education, school choice will remain at the forefront of policy discussions.

When contacted to discuss the company's ALEC membership and support, a Google spokesperson declined to comment specifically about ALEC, but did say that it is important for Google to be a part of policy discussions on technology.

«Trudy is a strong grassroots advocate and a leader in the retail industry who ensures that retail's voice is heard on a wide range of policy discussions,» NRF President and CEO Matthew Shay said.

Trump has said he has avoided mock debates in favor of policy discussions with a roundtable of his closest advisers, including former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

Much of the policy discussion focuses on the highly salient fact that these vouchers could be used in private schools, prompting many questions.

Unfortunately most of the policy discussions going on around climate change, energy, and environmental degradation, still tend to veer toward technology over urbanism and lifestyle.

That mandate is unlikely to change, says David Victor, one of the lead authors of the policy discussion in the April IPCC report and the head writer of one of the papers published Thursday in Science, called «Getting Serious About Categorizing Countries.»

For better or worse, the elaborate investigation of, for instance, the connections between St. Paul's teaching on justification and the criminal justice system will be totally inaccessible» and, if accessible, implausible» to anyone within hailing distance of policy discussions about crime and punishment.

The engagement of citizens in the early stages of policy discussion and formulation should become the new norm — possibly, by extending our concept of democracy beyond the trustee, and even beyond the delegate model, to a more direct form that makes innovative use of new technologies.

Upon de Blasio's taking office, city - based Democratic legislators said they had been shut out of policy discussions with the Bloomberg administration and felt de Blasio would be more welcoming to discussions.

The editor of The Liberal magazine, Ben Ramm, has just pointed out that the agenda for the coming Liberal Democrat conference in Liverpool runs to 25,000 words, going into the minute detail of policy discussion.

In America's public policy arena, Common Core debates box out practically every other type of policy discussion on K - 12 education.

I read Nate's post the day before we opened our annual Portfolio Network meeting, a meeting focused on all kinds of policy discussions that Nate might refuse to talk about: moving autonomy and funding to the school level, unifying enrollment systems to ensure equal access across district and charter schools, replacing or turning around low - performing schools.

As states across the country rethink school accountability under ESSA, most of the policy discussion revolves around how bureaucrats should calculate ratings that parents rarely see, based on standardized test scores that parents barely credit.

We should honor them not only by thanking them, but also by including them at every level of policy discussion from the principal's office to the school board, to the halls of legislatures to the Oval Office, from the publishing houses to the governors» mansions.

«By putting science in its rightful place as an ongoing part of the policy discussion of the nation, parents can become educated in the context in which they are used to taking in information — policy decisions that affect their lives.»

It began with four observations about the state of policy discussion at that time:

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With education at the forefront of policy discussions, the House and Senate Education Committees have made it a -LSB-...]

«Gary is a true grassroots advocate and as a leader in the retail industry, he ensures that retail's voice is heard in a wide range of policy discussions,» NRF President and CEO Matthew Shay said.

Yet much of the policy discussion is focused on implementing carbon taxes or cap and trade schemes, with an often - unstated expectation that the technologies exist to achieve decarbonisation, or will emerge more or less spontaneously.

Governance is brought to the center of policy discussion, while the limitations of governance regimes for improving classroom instruction are acknowledged.

My point here is not to endorse public options or not, but merely to note that historically they were a response to failed private markets and should be part of the policy discussion.

With education at the forefront of policy discussions, the House and Senate Education Committees have made it a priority to highlight some of the positive happenings in Arizona's schools.

As a teacher - led organization working to bring the issues of educators to the forefront of policy discussions, Educators 4 Excellence - Los Angeles would like to congratulate President - Elect Caputo - Pearl.

Staying loosely with the subject of evidence, experts have long been aware of the links between climate change and migration, even if they've struggled to bring this crucial topic to the forefront of policy discussions.

«The issue of methane leakage is getting a lot of attention, because much of the policy discussion is premised on the view that natural gas has roughly half of the greenhouse gas emissions relative to coal for power generation,» said Jason Bordoff, Director of Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy, at an event to discuss the study on Monday.