Sentences with phrase «other broad policy»

The petitioners» list of possible debate topics includes climate change, energy policy and other broad policy areas.

There are two other broad policy goals May must focus on.

«The governor is focused on property and income tax relief and not necessarily other broad policy decisions at this point,» Webster said.

Not exact matches

«Ending DACA would place severe economic strain on businesses around the country, putting them into the impossible and extremely costly position of having to fire productive employees for no other reason than an arbitrary change in federal policy, potentially resulting in backlash from other employees, or their broader community,» the report reads.

«The language in the ruling is quite broad and if there's some other public policy objective that a provincial government has in mind and restricting trade is really just an incidental outcome, then it's OK,» he said.

The scandal has led to broader questions about how Facebook and other social media networks manage data, and Facebook has been changing its privacy policies and tools in response.

These developments carry broad implications for the work of central bankers and other policy officials.

Even though the intellectual climate within the Reserve Bank and other economic policy agencies was already moving in favour of deregulation in the early 1970s, wider community acceptance of the case for change did not come until after the Government set up a broad - ranging inquiry, conducted by a group of independent experts.

To have its broader effect, monetary policy relies on changes in the cash rate affecting other interest rates.

It is time for political leaders and their advisors to consider these and develop other practical policies to deal with inequality and our economic problems in a way consonant with America's broad - based ownership tradition.

In The Citizens» Share, and in other articles and venues, we lay out the areas in which there is evidence or logic for in - depth development of, and experimentation with, several broad policy directions, with the details to be worked out by members of Congress based on their deliberations.

Given that spreading ownership of capital and increasing employees» share in economic rewards has bipartisan appeal, 37 the only valid answer to the question by Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, or other time travelers is that, after four decades of neglecting policies to stimulate broad - based profit sharing and employee share ownership, we have changed course and are now placing them in the policy portfolio, if not at the center of economic policymaking that they occupied from the days of Washington to Lincoln.

In the George W. Bush administration, changes in accounting regulations and Federal policies made granting of broad - based stock options and restricted and other stock grants to employees in high technology and other companies less attractive, which led to a huge drop in employee share ownership among the middle class in those companies and industries.

However, China is also aware that the U.S. Section 301 case targeting IP violations, cyber-hacking, and the spillover effects of China's modern industrial policy, enjoys broad support from industry in the U.S. and in fact from other countries that have also felt victimized.

Others simply feared that the final policy would be expressed in such broad general terms that no forceful position would be taken.

The Advocacy department has offices at Broad Meadow Brook in Worcester, where our Shaping the Future of Your Community program is based, and at Mass Audubon's headquarters in Lincoln, where we focus on sustainable development and other statewide policy issues.

Q: Why doesn't our policy statement include broader support for all the other issues good Democrats should care about, ie, Constitutional right to choice, Constitutional right to marriage equality, Constitutional ban on guns everywhere, Constitutional right to free college, etc?

Mr. Mahama, also criticized government for implementing a broad Free Senior High School (SHS) policy in a haste which has resulted in the programme taking all government resources and stifling other developmental projects.

(rare earth export restrictions, a broad range of import restrictions and other controversial protectionist policies)

His involvement as a top policy aide in the development of state budgets and other legislation has provided Mike with a broad understanding of state issues and the implications of policy initiatives.

The surveys found some challenges to implementation, calling for policies and infrastructure that would make energy usage data easily accessible for students» learning as well as for broader sharing with other schools.

While other cities have since come on board, and Richmond's lofty ambitions have been toned down some over time, the plan is still one of the nation's most broad - reaching efforts to make environmental justice a part of city policy.

The broad pattern is that climate and energy issues are highly politicized, whereas issues tied to biomedical science, food safety and space policy often are strongly tied to other, nonpolitical, factors.

The approach was developed by Pacific Center Director Paul Glassman, a professor of dentistry at University of the Pacific, who collaborated with a broad range of stakeholders to leverage advances in dentistry and telehealth, create training programs for dentists and hygienists, and win policy and other changes needed to pilot and evaluate the system.

The reform plan is part of the 2025 - Vision for Science choices for the future, a broad policy document issued by the Dutch Cabinet on 25 November that won plaudits for several other proposals.

A call to action issued today by AAAS and a broad coalition of CEOs and other organizations urges Congress to enact policies and make investments that ensure the United States remains the global innovation leader.

That finding suggests these policies are having a broad chilling effect on the ability of health centers to reach out and provide help to the uninsured and others in the community.

As Reckhow and others have noted, the focus in grant making has been on pushing new approaches and broader policy changes that might indirectly foster improvement in high schools — through higher standards, stronger graduation requirements, and better teacher training.

Over the course of this grant, FOI: (1) is producing professional development materials to help staff representing multiple state agencies better understand the basic science of child development generally and the promotion of executive function and self - regulation skills more specifically; (2) is supporting the creation of small learning communities, building on existing relationships at the site and policy level and connecting to other learning communities across North America; (3) is supporting the Washington cross-agency working group to sustain its current gains and momentum during the upcoming executive branch transition in January and to share lessons learned with the broader national FOI community of states and Canadian provinces; and (4) is beginning conversations with stakeholders at the community level to explore mutual interests and is beginning to chart a path toward enhanced collaboration within the state.

But in the broader policy context, we need to ask how its costs and benefits compare to each other, and to those of alternate approaches.

Independent Thinking founder Ian Gilbert's increasing frustration with educational policies that favour «no excuses» and «compliance», and that ignore the broader issues of poverty and inequality, is shared by many others across the sphere of education — and this widespread disaffection has led to the assembly of a diverse cast of teachers, school leaders, academics and poets who unite in this book to challenge the status quo.

My point is not that other policies are therefore unimportant, but rather that the policies mentioned here have broad support, have moderate to strong research evidence of positive effects (except for the case of nonurban charters, which have strong evidence of neutral to negative effects), and could therefore be a prime target for ongoing bipartisan policy efforts.

Certainly there are other effective policies where there is probably broad agreement but where there simply is little public opinion evidence (examples that come to mind: intensive tutoring; services to improve or streamline college application; and matching, wraparound services).

A task force of Ohio foundations and other grantmaking organizations is calling on state leaders to improve public education by adopting five broad, ambitious policy priorities.

Rechkow and Tompkins - Stange add that «the notion of a «twinkle» — rather than claiming credit more openly — highlights one of the more problematic aspects of the concentrated influence of Gates, Broad, and other foundations in the policy realm.»

They understand the implications of child safety, health and wellbeing, human resource management, financial management and accountability, and other legislative and policy requirements in relation to serving their community and broader society.

I don't think that choice is the only K - 12 policy reform that has the potential to develop broad support, but it is an equation that few other policies have solved.

It's an experiment that — while proven successful in at least two other states — has its origins in a Democratic President's administration and comes fresh off of lawmakers» brush with Common Core state standards, a broad - reaching education policy that blew up into a toxic political football among conservatives because it de-emphasized local control.

This laser focus on broader districtwide goals means Boston has avoided the pitfalls of similar family - related offices in many other districts, where schools become caught up in what experts call «random acts of family engagement,» says Karen L. Mapp, a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the director of its education policy and management program.

It also discusses system supports (planning, communication, program and funding stability, data systems, and relationship to other human resource policies) and broader contextual factors (e.g., stakeholder satisfaction) that impede or enhance implementation of performance pay systems.

Such policies are longstanding in France and have broad support among parents and other taxpayers.

Dana Goldstein: Gates, Broad, and other philanthropists have a huge influence on both federal and local policies.

The role is a paid position in which Fellows, in turn, share what they've learned with other teachers in their professional networks, contributing to a larger understanding of federal initiatives and gaining broader input into policy and programs designed to improve education at all levels.

As a result, policies that increase the stakes of standardized assessments necessitate schools increase the amount of time spent on basic skills — reading and math, primarily — to the exclusion of a broad range of other skills, experiences, and competencies.

And will Gates, Broad, and other big foundations continue to have an outsized influence on education policy?

As Anthony Cody and others have detailed, billionaires such as Bill Gates, Eli Broad, and the Walton family, set the education agenda, wrote the policy, worked political backchannels, and lined up the corporations who would profit.

In turn, Fellows share what they've learned with other teachers in their professional networks, contributing to a larger understanding of federal initiatives and encouraging broader input into policy and programs designed to improve education at all levels of government.

The new policy — which Amazon says is «coming soon» — is far more broad and expands to other types of media.

On the other hand, if you prefer even more broad coverage, you can get what's called «open perils» endorsed onto your policy.

In other words, the exclusions on an open perils renters insurance policy mostly fall under the broad category of «If you suffer that kind of loss, you've many more grave concerns than insurance coverage.»