Sentences with phrase «other policy agenda»

Any cost - saving efforts he discussed are a burden on local governments, all while he proposed additional costly mandates through his other policy agenda points.

Let's listen openly and refrain from derailing these dialogues by centering other policy agendas.

Not exact matches

The two conservative senators this week expressed deep concern that MacManus was too close to Clinton during her tenure, doesn't share Trump's «America First» agenda and other conservative foreign - policy goals, and, as one of Clinton's closest advisers, was deeply involved in the State Department's initial response to the Benghazi attack.

While parts of Trump's agenda could benefit Under Armour, other policies from his platform could outweigh the positives.

December 2002 (769 kb PDF file): Research summaries on IMF conditionality and country ownership of reforms and on public policies and the Millennium Development Goals; country / area study: Hong Kong SAR; summaries of conferences on challenges to central banking from globalized financial systems and on globalization in historical perspective; agenda of Third Annual IMF Research Conference; summary of September 2002 World Economic Outlook; visiting scholars at the IMF; contents of latest issue of IMF Staff Papers, other IMF research publications.

Still, she does appear to be doing what others have done before her: Take data from other countries and use them as a basis for a Canadian policy agenda.

On the other, it offers corporations the chance to sponsor events and even sections of the newspaper, which has thrown up links with corporations such as Danone and organisations pushing a corporate agenda into health policy, such as GAIN and the Gates Foundation.

Moreover, EVEL does not engage with on - going reforms in the other nations of the UK nor within England, appearing designed to operate in parallel, rather than in tandem, with other policies such as devolution to England's cities and regions and the wider Northern Powerhouse agenda.

Presuming that Clinton is the nominee, will she ask her ambassadors and other supporters to back her up as she fights for her policy agenda?

Other UKIP policies are also suggestive of an ultra-conservative agenda rather than a liberal one, including the promotion of grammar schools and tougher sentences for prisoners.

«This platform will have a policy unit which will draw on the best ideas and practical solutions, building partnerships with other organisations, in the public policy and private spheres, so that those in the frontline of politics have a bigger and better policy agenda to reflect upon; and a networking capability to join like - minded people up.

If a nation decided to control its public policy over web services other nations would have great incentive to hack that system to promote their agenda, let alone special interest groups.

Notwithstanding efforts to paint Miliband's policy as pursuing a «marxist» agenda, the public's view of this and other key cost - of - living issues are then strikingly non-ideological.

Investigators want to know if real estate developers and other donors received preferential treatment from the city in exchange for contributions to the group, which was created to promote the mayor's policy agenda.

Under her leadership, numerous reforms agenda of the Federal Government had been undertaken such as the Voluntary Assets and Income Declaration Scheme (VAIDS), implementation of Treasury Single Account, implementation of Whistleblower Policy, establishment of an Efficiency Unit, establishment of Development Bank of Nigeria, launch of Asset Tracking and Management Project, and introduction Fiscal Sustainability Plans for States, among others.

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.

ALBANY — State Senate Independent Democratic Conference leader Jeff Klein has signed on to a framework to reunify that chamber's Democrats proffered by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's team, just hours after telling POLITICO and other news outlets that he had concerns about a policy agenda.

Last night, Mr Brown's allies admitted that the need to respond to the economic crisis had diverted attention from other issues, but insisted that the Prime Minister accepted the need to develop a wider policy agenda in order to win a fourth term in office.

Over the past week, Cuomo has announced or confirmed several other pieces of the agenda, including an upstate economic development competition, tax breaks for small businesses, a new affirmative consent policy for college campuses, and a trade mission to Cuba.

He believes the Prime Minister's focus on the economy has left a dangerous void on other domestic policy issues, and he predicts that Labour will lose the general election expected next year unless it develops a wide - ranging, forward - looking agenda.

Mayor de Blasio's work to push forward national policies through the U.S. Conference of Mayors and other partnerships is vital to our efforts to secure key federal funding for priorities like infrastructure and homeland security, and move forward an agenda that will lift up New Yorkers around the five boroughs,» Spitalnick said in an emailed statement.

Findings also showed it as an empirically and conceptually innovative, diverse, vibrant discipline that in many areas sets the intellectual agenda The UK publishes more than its share of major disciplinary journals; bibliometric indicators reveal international primacy both in volume and citation impact; and a large number of the seminal publications (books as well as articles) continue to have a UK origin UK human geography is radically interdisciplinary and with the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences has become an exporter of ideas and faculty to other disciplines There was confidence that research in human geography had substantial impact on policy and practice and would successfully meet the challenges of the current impact agenda

Actually, I was talking about the US; multiple articles are ignored for the purposes of torturing terrorism suspects (remember, this is about a countries principles, not how it acts domestically); Article 18 conflicts with the Pledge of Allegiance; other UN policies such as Agenda 21 are seen by some as a conspiracy to limit liberty.

The Committee to Save New York has made public, under state lobbying disclosure rules, that they've spent over $ 12 million dollars on advertising and other promotions of Governor Cuomo's policy agenda, including a property tax cap and budget cuts.

We wish to invite Nana Addo to give serious consideration to the other eight items on our ten (10) point agenda since the PPP has become a new source of inspiration for the NPP's policy direction.

To win the support of progressives, she said, Cuomo must move to the left on economic issues while offering a clearer agenda on infrastructure improvements, housing development and foreign policy, among other issues.

He stood to put the left's policies on the agenda, serve as a brake on the other candidates marching off to the right and to build up a grassroots movement.

Cuomo has also revealed new pieces of his $ 15 minimum wage campaign and criminal justice reform policies, among others, as he sets his agenda for 2016 and frames budget negotiations in Albany.

It amounts to a great deal of effort and energy and political capital expended on one policy matter, albeit an extremely important one affecting over 1 million students, their parents, teachers, and others, while the rest of the de Blasio Albany agenda sits somewhat neglected.

The party's executive has put down a policy screed of their own (in such a last - minute fashion that it didn't make it into the conference agendas handed out to delegates) which takes precedence over the others.

Governor Andrew Cuomo unveiled his full policy agenda for the 2018 legislative session on Wednesday, returning to his traditional State of the State format: a single address at the Empire State Convention Center, chock full of slideshow - aided proposals and lofty rhetoric, with legislative leaders of all five conferences and other statewide elected officials accompanying him on stage.

However in other countries, such as Italy — where the Catholic Church is openly against ART and heavily influences the policy agenda — ART is not widely used or available.

Holgate and others gathered on 25 September for a conference addressing the role of non-governmental organizations in the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA), which was held at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University and co-sponsored by AAAS, the Nuclear Threat Initiative, CORDS: Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance, the UPMC Center for Health Security, the Elizabeth R. Griffin Research Foundation and the CSIS Global Health Policy Center.

Activists hope Jokowi will go beyond a recent announcement to control peat fires and reform land use policies, although there is some skepticism that other topics will overtake the agenda.

Since then, other important pro-teacher groups, like the Progressive Policy Institute, Public Agenda, and the Teaching Commission, have taken even stronger positions.

Other highly visible education schools such as Harvard, Stanford, and University of Washington have forfeited much of their research agenda to other parts of their universities, e.g., econ departments, public policy schools, or university - based think tOther highly visible education schools such as Harvard, Stanford, and University of Washington have forfeited much of their research agenda to other parts of their universities, e.g., econ departments, public policy schools, or university - based think tother parts of their universities, e.g., econ departments, public policy schools, or university - based think tanks.

In other words, the idea that we're finally going to get clarity on Trump's policy agenda is a pipe - dream.

To arrive at this conclusion, she excludes the value of medical programs and other government services, the very items that later become part of her policy agenda.

It should be noted that Pence's education policy agenda has not veered wildly away from others in his party.

To argue that she has been even moderately successful with her approach, we would have to ignore the legitimate concerns of local and national charter reformers who know the city well, and ignore the possibility that Detroit charters are taking advantage of loose oversight by cherry - picking students, and ignore the very low test score growth in Detroit compared with other cities on the urban NAEP, and ignore the policy alternatives that seem to work better (for example, closing low - performing charter schools), and ignore the very low scores to which Detroit charters are being compared, and ignore the negative effects of virtual schools, and ignore the negative effects of the only statewide voucher programs that provide the best comparisons with DeVos's national agenda.

To learn more about how school districts pass policies, how you can get on a school board meeting agenda to speak, or other information to be a strong advocate before your school district, check out the ACLU's Parents» Guide to School Board Advocacy in California available in English and Spanish.

While FFF works to expand Jeb Bush's school reform agenda in Florida and other states, JMI issues positions and talking points to legislators and represents Florida as a member of the State Policy Network.

The agenda, which was unveiled at ASCD's 2009 Annual Conference, is designed to help the Association, its members, and other educators influence policy discussions and decisions regarding federal education legislation as well as reforms at the state and local levels.

Agenda items can include school policies, budgets, legislation, goal - setting, student outcomes and other important topics.

Policy makers must listen to young people by following the Youth Power Agenda and other proposals like it that can pave a new national model for school safety, centered on support like guidance counselors, support services, and restorative justice, rather than criminalization.

A key element of bargaining for the common good is challenging the corporate and financial actors who are driving an austerity agenda and profiting off privatization and other policies that threaten our communities.

On the other hand, added Schuster — citing a thesis being circulated at the time by Chester Finn, then a faculty member at Vanderbilt — it might be possible for education advocates to rally around a new agenda, one powerful enough to attract widespread support and perhaps even bring federal policy makers back into the fold.

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.

The report identifies several managers and their spouses who are tied to the charter network, several of whom presumably champion school choice and other conservative education policies on the Trump administration's policy agenda (Hedge Clippers, 2015).

The likelihood of serious sea level rise under «business as usual», and impacts on water resources may not have the acute drama associated with polar bear population decline or the possibility of massive methane clathrate releases, but they are much more likely to figure on policy makers agendas — just as other long term chronic issues (such as pensions) do.