Sentences with phrase «other policy barriers»

The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) seeks public comment regarding current or potential regulatory or other policy barriers to the development, demonstration, deployment, and evaluation of automated transit buses and related technologies for Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) automation levels 3 through 5.

Not exact matches

Canadian governments can do better — notably by removing barriers that turn away innovators, even as we seek to entice them with other policies.

Other economic policies include reducing the regulatory burden for small businesses and northern development; a new $ 75 million venture capital fund to help businesses commercialize new technology developments; a $ 900 million Strategic Aerospace and Defence Initiative and a $ 250 million Automotive Innovation Fund to support these industrial sectors; a $ 1 billion Community Development Trust to support communities and workers in struggling industries; a commitment to reduce inter-provincial trade barriers by 2010; pursuing new trade agreements with emerging markets; as well as a reorganization of federal regional development strategies.

Members of a common market work to eliminate tariffs and other trade barriers among themselves and to follow a uniform trade policy with nonmember countries.

Other policies related to federalism include working to remove inter-provincial trade barriers, establishing an Alberta police force to end provincial reliance on the federal Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP); reforming the Canadian Senate after the Triple - E model; and recognizing that all Canadians have equal status under the Canadian Constitution.

A growing Catholic sense of security and a desire to erase some of the barriers that separated Catholics from other Americans spurred the NCWC to issue policy statements and position papers directed to the nation as a whole.

Yet few policy makers are taking stock of the significant barriers to entry that coastal climate refugees, like other refugees, will encounter when they migrate to higher ground.»

«It's really about [scientists and policy - makers] recognizing the existence of the other group of people, recognizing those populations are there, and that you can talk to them — that the language barriers aren't insurmountable,» she says.

To this end, our current work plan is focused on three core objectives: (1) To build a dynamic «Frontiers of Innovation» community composed of scientists, scholars, policymakers, policy analysts, practitioners, and other creative individuals who are motivated to engage in the kind of transformational thinking that is needed to break down disciplinary barriers and catalyze significant change in early childhood policy and practice.

Districts must advocate for changes in state policies, both those affecting evaluation and others, that act as barriers to scaling up these kind of roles across districts.

Then again, in many other schools, school - level leaders report that district personnel, as well as district policies and procedures, place limitations on their authority, pose unintended barriers, or create inefficiencies.

As Chief of Policy & Public Affairs, Richard leads the KIPP Foundation's public policy, advocacy, marketing, and communications efforts to grow the KIPP network and advocate for policies that make it easier for students to afford college and overcome other barriers to suPolicy & Public Affairs, Richard leads the KIPP Foundation's public policy, advocacy, marketing, and communications efforts to grow the KIPP network and advocate for policies that make it easier for students to afford college and overcome other barriers to supolicy, advocacy, marketing, and communications efforts to grow the KIPP network and advocate for policies that make it easier for students to afford college and overcome other barriers to success.

KIPP Chief Executive Richard Barth told the Wall Street Journalthat Buery «will be responsible for advocating for federal and state policies that make it easier for low - income students to afford college and overcome other barriers to success.»

The policy solution that has garnered the most momentum to improve civics in recent years is a standard that requires high school students to pass the U.S. citizenship exam before graduation.6 According to this analysis, 17 states have taken this path.7 Yet, critics of a mandatory civics exam argue that the citizenship test does nothing to measure comprehension of the material8 and creates an additional barrier to high school graduation.9 Other states have adopted civics as a requirement for high school graduation, provided teachers with detailed civics curricula, offered community service as a graduation requirement, and increased the availability of Advance Placement (AP) U.S. government classes.10

individuals with disabilities continually encounter various forms of discrimination, including outright intentional exclusion, the discriminatory effects of architectural, transportation, and communication barriers, overprotective rules and policies, failure to make modifications to existing facilities and practices, exclusionary qualification standards and criteria, segregation, and relegation to lesser services, programs, activities, benefits, jobs, or other opportunities;

The President will direct federal agencies to identify and remove barriers to making climate - resilient investments; identify and remove counterproductive policies that increase vulnerabilities; and encourage and support smarter, more resilient investments, including through agency grants, technical assistance, and other programs, in sectors from transportation and water management to conservation and disaster relief.

These other factors include the economy, confusion over colder weather and other perceptual biases, general distrust of government, climate policies such as cap and trade that are not easily sold as effective or in line with public values, the absence of White House leadership on the issue, institutional barriers in Congress and at the international level, and the continued communication and policy missteps of some scientists and environmental advocates.

There are other important questions about the path forward, related to how to handle reasoned minority views on particular science and policy questions, how to deal speedily with errors and how to break down barriers among the three main «working groups» — on the basic science pointing to warming, the range of impacts and possible responses.

Agencies will identify and remove any barriers to resilience - focused actions and investments — for example, policies that encourage communities to rebuild to past standards after disasters instead of to stronger standards — including through agency grants, technical assistance, and other programs in sectors from transportation and water management to conservation and disaster relief.

Rather than engage the climate policy proposals I and others have put forward — like substituting prizes for subsidies, reducing regulatory barriers for alternative energies, increasing industry's carbon efficiency, and promoting efficiency gains in developing nations where such investments are most cost effective — they attack a straw man of «conservative orthodoxy that global warming can be overcome by private companies operating in free markets with little or no help from the government.»

Financial incentives also complement other efficiency policies such as appliance standards and energy codes, overcoming market barriers for cost - effective technologies.

Investment Provisions: Will the Trans - Pacific Partnership FTA include so - called «investor - state» provisions that allow individual corporations to challenge environmental, consumer and other public interest policies as barriers to trade?

Funding and personnel have been the top policy priorities, yet other barriers to success remain.

As a statewide organization whose staff, Board and clients are diverse in background, experience, culture and other qualities, NJP is also committed to a policy of equal opportunity and fosters a mutually respectful environment free of barriers and discriminatory practices in all its activities.

With the Act, our nation's healthcare policy aims to protect, promote and restore the physical and mental well - being of residents of Canada and to facilitate reasonable access to health services without financial or other barriers.

Prior to joining the Faculty, she was a senior policy analyst with the Canadian HIV / AIDS Legal Network, where she worked on HIV / AIDS and immigration, legal and other barriers to harm - reduction programs for people who use illegal drugs, and law reform to promote the rights of women and girls in the context of HIV / AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa.

Standards should set out measures, policies, practices, or other requirements for identifying and removing barriers, and preventing barriers from being established.

The other barrier to the beginning life insurance industry was the legal restrictions that barred women from entering into contracts, including insurance policies, or even legally inheriting an estate.

The report highlights the importance of promoting the baccalaureate degree as the standard credential for early childhood educators and examines the research, policies, workforce conditions, and other factors that serve as barriers to and reality checks and supports for advancing this goal.

all relevant government departments must undertake a needs assessment to: examine legislation, policy, programs, funding and other support available; identify what mechanisms exist; and where the gaps lie that create barriers to achieving the aspirations of Indigenous communities