Sentences with phrase «on closing the gap policy»

The appointment of Ken Wyatt hopefully signifies a reinvigorated focus on Closing the Gap policy.

Not exact matches

While Bush's business - themed policy proposals will likely offer a mixture of traditionally Republican tax cuts and so - called trickle down economics, he's likely to define his views on how to support the middle class, lift up the lowest wage workers, and close the income gap, which would continue on the themes he started talking about earlier this year.

Analysts say Beijing is unlikely to cede any ground on policies meant to help close that gap.

(As an aside, that fiscal spend boost is probably not coming until Q2 2016 at the absolute earliest — though this is still within the BoC's 6 - 8 quarter projection horizon for getting inflation sustainably back on target / setting policy to close the output gap.)

In fact Stephen Beer claimed Labour needed to respond to the tough decisions it faced on the economy, outline an economic plan for the future rather than a retrospective attack on Coalition policy and most importantly close the economic credibility gap that was first conceived and then grew during Labour's last years in office.

Cuomo's office says it may be closing the gap on bail reform and other policy issues it has been pushing, including several women's rights issues, because he and other Democrats have moved closer to owning a majority of the state Senate.

Commenting on the Education Policy Institute's Closing the Gap report into the progress made by the Government to narrow the pupil attainment gap, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union, said: «The findings of this report are sadly unsurprisiGap report into the progress made by the Government to narrow the pupil attainment gap, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union, said: «The findings of this report are sadly unsurprisigap, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union, said: «The findings of this report are sadly unsurprising.

Federal economic stimulus aid helped close an estimated $ 162.5 billion in budget gaps among the 50 states in 2010, the report stated, citing a study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a Washington - based policy research Policy Priorities, a Washington - based policy research policy research group.

The report proposes a series of policy recommendations to close the wage gap, including launching statewide public education campaigns on the breadth of career opportunities, salary negotiation and financial literacy, expanding access to child care and family leave, increasing career mentoring for young women and improving data and transparency on job titles, pay and benefits.

WHEREAS, research shows that women are substantially less likely to self - select or be recruited for elective office, this gender gap in political ambition persists across generations and over time and that qualified female candidates who are equally or more qualified than men are often seen as less qualified or less viable than male candidates; and WHEREAS, research confirms that the presence of more women in a governing body leads to greater transparency and a focus on progressive policies such as closing the funding and achievement gaps in education, closing gaps or loopholes in contraception coverage and affordable health care, closing the wage gap, and removing obstacles that contribute to poverty of women & children; and

De Blasio has pledged to maintain Bloomberg's focus on closing the achievement gap, but his education agenda has revised the means: turnarounds instead of closures, heavy emphasis on addressing the «root causes» of K — 12 underperformance through pre-kindergarten education and social services, less antagonistic relations with the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), and more - relaxed school - discipline policies.

«The focus right up to what's been the national policy framework — namely Closing The Gap — is orientated on that.

She returns to Baltimore schools after serving for three years as vice president for K - 12 policy and practice at The Education Trust, a Washington, DC - based nonprofit focused on closing the achievement gap experienced disproportionately by African American, Latino, and Native students and students from low - income families.

If there were no fade - out of teacher effects, a policy of retaining only the top 75 percent of teachers at tenure time puts us on the path to closing the gap with the top - performing countries within ten years.

Without policy change that focuses on closing affordability gaps, the status quo of inequity will continue, denying students opportunities for economic mobility and personal and professional enrichment, and...

Prior to joining Pivot, Arun served as the Executive Director of the Education Trust - West, the leading education policy, research and advocacy organization focused on closing achievement and opportunity gaps for low - income students and students of color in California.

The summit was framed by teacher - led panels that delved deeply into discussions on closing the diversity gap through various policy ideas, from recruitment and induction to retention.

How about introducing social policies which raise children out of poverty rather than putting all the responsibility on schools to close the gap between disadvantaged pupils and advantaged ones?

In the fight over how to close the racial achievement gap in education, you rarely hear about the only policy that's ever worked on a national scale: desegregation.

What students want: great teachers every year What teachers want: career advancement while teaching, collaboration, on - the - job development and leadership, sustainably funded pay increases, and the chance to help more students succeed What both need: Policies to make a statewide Opportunity Culture possible Public Impact shows states the essential policies to reach far more students with gap - closing, Read more about Seizing Opportunity at the Top II -Policies to make a statewide Opportunity Culture possible Public Impact shows states the essential policies to reach far more students with gap - closing, Read more about Seizing Opportunity at the Top II -policies to reach far more students with gap - closing, Read more about Seizing Opportunity at the Top II -LSB-...]

For example, the brief describes how data — specifically, data that showed Highline Public Schools was making less progress than neighboring districts on closing equity gaps — ultimately created a sense of urgency that supported efforts by district leaders to change policy, practice and culture within the district.

Georgia State has done a lot of work to close gaps, and administrators seem to recognize it is incumbent on them to address services and supports, not change their admission policies.

REL Central focuses on building alliances with state - and district - level education leaders in Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming to explore key policies surrounding educator effectiveness, postsecondary education and workforce readiness, and closing the achievement gap.

Based on these conversations and what the research was showing, we knew that starting earlier with quality pre-K had to be an essential piece of our policy platform if we were serious about boosting student achievement and helping close the achievement gap.

This post originally appeared in Education Post For many years, education policy has focused on closing educational access and achievement gaps that exist between low - income, predominantly -LSB-...]

The study concludes that Arizona is on the wrong path for closing achievement gaps for its ELL students and that this is due, at least in part, to its highly restrictive language instruction policies.

In recent years, an intense focus on closing racial and economic achievement gaps has resulted in policies and practices that can sometimes come at the expense of families that work hard and play by the rules.

I also deeply appreciate the organization's balanced approach, focusing both on policies that support educators and schools in closing the achievement gap and on ending policies that enable neglect of the students most in need of a quality education.

To make substantial progress on closing overall achievement gaps, policies to address disparities in outcomes within school districts are still needed.

And civil rights groups are worried dropping the «adequate yearly progress» (AYP) yardstick represents the government giving up on a signature policy piece designed to close the gap between the worst - performing and best - performing students.

I have focused on closing opportunity and achievement gaps as a teacher, teacher trainer, researcher, policy maker, manager, and executive in local, state, national, and international contexts in both the public and private sectors.

But as the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) points out in its media release (see full statement below), the report puts a spotlight on current government policies and / or gaps in policies that put Indigenous health and wellbeing at risk, including the proposed $ 7 GP copayment, threat by the Western Australian Government to close down remote Indigenous communities and failure to re-commit to National Partnership Agreements.

In recognition of the high prevalence rates and impacts on vulnerable groups and the specialist needs of specific sub-populations, funders including governments at all levels in policy and service funding would be well placed to set key targets and outcomes to «close these gaps».

... I think morally other Aboriginal people would now be able to argue that if these sorts of rights are being provided to Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory, they should be extended elsewhere... And given that the overarching aim of government policy is to close the gap between Indigenous and other Australians, a number of commentators including myself have said that this can only happen if you also provide Indigenous people with the commercially valuable property rights that they have historically missed out on in Australia.

National Congress of Australia's First Peoples 2013 Justice Policy called for justice targets to be included in Closing the Gap on Indigenous Disadvantage Framework.

«As a health professional it beggars belief that COAG can meet on this, yet the Referendum Council work and Uluru outcome «Voice Treaty Truth» is not raised... It highlights that politicians and policy makers do not understand Closing the Gap is inextricably linked to Voice Treaty Truth... Structural reform is the missing ingredient in addressing disadvantage and the fact that no one at COAG acknowledged that shows they have no idea what they are doing.»

These included policy constructed by non-Indigenous people who lack on - the - ground knowledge, resulting in poor Closing the Gap outcomes and continued systemic inequity.

The closing the gaps policy provides the Government with further impetus to focus its attention on its own departments, strategies and systems, to produce positive results for M ori.

This reporting mechanism establishes benchmarks against which to measure progress towards closing the social and economic gaps; to «assist government and mainstream agencies to maintain a focus on the status of Maori in their work and decision - making»; [16] and to assist in setting priorities for policy development.

This is particularly important as there is insufficient attention to Indigenous nutrition as a contributor to chronic disease in recent policy initiatives, particularly the NPA on Closing the Gap on Indigenous Health Outcomes.

If the government is serious about closing the gaps in Indigenous outcomes then it must start making policy decisions based on actual evidence not ideology.

«The compounded effect of these policies has contributed to the failure to deliver on the targets in the areas of health, education and employment in the Closing the Gap strategy and has contributed to aggravating the escalating incarceration and child removal rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.»

In February 2016, the Close the Gap Campaign (the Campaign) welcomed the Prime Minister's words at his first Closing the Gap report to Parliament where he said «we have to stay the course on key policy priorities» and that it is time for governments to «do things with Aboriginal people, not do things to» Aboriginal people.

In August 2013, the Campaign Steering Committee released a position paper, Building on the Close the Gap Platform, Commitments for an Incoming Government, which called for policy continuity from the new Australian Government, irrespective of which party was elected to power.

This term of government will be critical to achieving the 2030 goal and we call on the new Australian Government to not only ensure policy continuity in critical areas of the national effort to close the gap, but to take further steps in building on and strengthening the existing platform.

The truth is: a business as usual approach towards Indigenous Australians is not working... We need a new beginning — a new beginning which contains real measures of policy success or policy failure; a new beginning, a new partnership, on closing the gap with sufficient flexibility not to insist on a one - size - fits - all approach for each of the hundreds of remote and regional Indigenous communities across the country but instead allowing flexible, tailored, local approaches to achieve commonly - agreed national objectives that lie at the core of our proposed new partnership; a new beginning that draws intelligently on the experiences of new policy settings across the nation...

The Close the Gap Campaign Steering Committee (Campaign Steering Committee) calls on the new Australian Government to ensure policy continuity in critical areas of the national effort to close the gap, and to also take further steps in building on and strengthening the existing platClose the Gap Campaign Steering Committee (Campaign Steering Committee) calls on the new Australian Government to ensure policy continuity in critical areas of the national effort to close the gap, and to also take further steps in building on and strengthening the existing platfoGap Campaign Steering Committee (Campaign Steering Committee) calls on the new Australian Government to ensure policy continuity in critical areas of the national effort to close the gap, and to also take further steps in building on and strengthening the existing platclose the gap, and to also take further steps in building on and strengthening the existing platfogap, and to also take further steps in building on and strengthening the existing platform.

COAG is committed to working in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to achieve the Closing the Gap reforms... Australia - wide consultations have been undertaken on the establishment of a national representative body to provide Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with a voice in national affairs... It is anticipated that it will be the primary mechanism for engaging on national Indigenous policy issues.

Ms Tauli - Corpuz said the «compounded effect» of government policy has «contributed to the failure to deliver on the targets in the areas of health, education and employment in the Closing the Gap strategy and has contributed to aggravating the escalating incarceration and child removal rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders».