Sentences with phrase «policy agenda focused»

A public policy agenda focused on advocating for resources and informed practices within governmental and regulatory institutions to further the social and emotional well - being of young children and their families in RI.

Democrats launched on Monday a new policy agenda focused on the economy, which seeks to bridge gaps with voters amid polls showing most Americans don't know what the party stands for.

Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party of Canada have been preparing the ground for a policy agenda focused on the problems of the middle class.

«Our policy agenda focuses on state houses,» said Tim Melton, a former Democratic state legislator in Michigan who recently began working as StudentsFirst's national legislative director.

Not exact matches

The core focus of the president's domestic policy agenda has been to expand opportunity for all Americans because America is at its best when we are fielding a full team.

Harper's first winning campaign in 2006 focused on just five top priorities, and he thereafter kept his policy agenda tightly restrained.

By following this approach we would broaden innovation policy from a longstanding, almost singular, focus on R&D to a more challenging, but more rewarding, multi-faceted micro-economic agenda.

Now this doesn't mean that the Republicans should do NOTHING on immigration, but it does mean that their economic agenda should focus on issues that would help people in the two middle quartiles (and the last quartile) get what Reihan Salam called «the basics of a dignified middle - class life — affordable high - quality medical care, education, and housing» With that in mind, here is a partial (and I'm not sure totally compatible) list of policies that Republicans should be looking at:

Seeking to advance her family - focused agenda, Ivanka Trump made her first official sojourn to Capitol Hill today to talk tax policy with Republican lawmakers.

Could a more independent agenda be pursued, with coverage less tied to the party's campaigning and more focussed on policy issues?

He needs to focus on bread and butter issues like jobs and mortgages and public services and, above all, to develop a clear route map to growth, and stop fixating on the agenda of a liberal clique around him and barmy policies such as Lords reform and gay marriage, which people either don't like or don't care about.

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.

«Assemblywoman Meng will gladly debate Dan Halloran and his support for the radical, ultraconservative, republican agenda, including his plans to privatize Social Security, pass The Ryan budget and continue the failed economic policies focused on supporting the wealthiest 1 % of Americans,» said Meng spokesperson Austin Finan.

Richard Aborn is president of the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City — a non-partisan non-profit organization focused on criminal justice and public safety policies and practices — Richard Aborn draws on his wide experience in criminal prosecution and litigation — policy development — management and government affairs to promote the Crime Commission's agenda of making...

As the political upheaval from several investigations into possible wrongdoing swirled around him, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio tried to focus on his policy agenda Monday.

An aide to Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said the Democratic AG and Trump foil was unlikely to participate in any anti-Trump demonstrations, and has «been focusing on fight back against his policy agenda.»

Because the education - reform agenda has not focused on this type of policy to date, as Finn notes, there would not be a strong coalition in place to counter the opposition.

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.

Rose and Dede, who were part of a 15 - person team focused on developing a new National Educational Technology Plan to provide a vision for how information and communication technologies can help transform American education, shared how to make a government report, formulate policy, and how you get it on the national agenda.

The approaches pursued by these new networks vary, but include drawing road maps for improved STEM learning in and out of school, providing grants, launching STEM - focused schools, and advocating a policy agenda.

Previously, she worked as a Policy Analyst for StudentsFirstNY, where she executed advocacy strategies to support a student - focused policy agenda, including conducting quantitative and qualitative research, communicating to the press, and advising elected officials on education pPolicy Analyst for StudentsFirstNY, where she executed advocacy strategies to support a student - focused policy agenda, including conducting quantitative and qualitative research, communicating to the press, and advising elected officials on education ppolicy agenda, including conducting quantitative and qualitative research, communicating to the press, and advising elected officials on education policypolicy.

Her goal is to use her school nursing expertise and education in assisting with the national agenda and national policy to shift the juvenile justice process from a punitive reform to one that includes a focus on physical / behavioral health and family engagement.

Scholarship about the relationship between policy leadership and complex social change presents three main images.241 A technical policy perspective is found in most policy analysis texts; it is generally associated with rational choice models.242 Policy leaders should, according to this perspective, focus on rational choices to be made once a policy issue is on the apolicy leadership and complex social change presents three main images.241 A technical policy perspective is found in most policy analysis texts; it is generally associated with rational choice models.242 Policy leaders should, according to this perspective, focus on rational choices to be made once a policy issue is on the apolicy perspective is found in most policy analysis texts; it is generally associated with rational choice models.242 Policy leaders should, according to this perspective, focus on rational choices to be made once a policy issue is on the apolicy analysis texts; it is generally associated with rational choice models.242 Policy leaders should, according to this perspective, focus on rational choices to be made once a policy issue is on the aPolicy leaders should, according to this perspective, focus on rational choices to be made once a policy issue is on the apolicy issue is on the agenda.

Topics include: • The importance of quality policies and by - laws • Agendas that work • Building consensus and coalitions for action • Budgeting protocols that focus on student achievement • Building a high functioning team that dedicated to making decisions on behalf of students Presenter: Owens Saylor, KASA March 6, 2018 • 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. CT • Bowling Green • $ 179 (or register for all modules for $ 899)

Our agenda will feature local, state and national examples of promising practices, emerging case studies, and policies that focus on this joint work.

A progressive education policy agenda should focus on putting economic mobility and opportunity within reach for all.

Our agenda will feature local, state and national examples of promising practices and policies that focus on this joint work.

We need to start thinking in practical terms about how to get the technologies we need ready — as the authors say, «deep energy system decarbonization is likely to require an ambitious, focused agenda of rapid innovation and improvement in every critical technology area, even those commercially available today, as well as substantial «demand pull» efforts and policies to ensure early demonstration, industry maturation, scale - up, and «learning by doing.

While a Trump administration will focus on implementing its own ambitious energy policies, while likely diminishing President Obama's energy and climate agenda, the realities of political and global ideologies and the inevitability of political transitions should be accounted for in order to avoid an unsustainable shift in energy policy that is short - lived and introduces more uncertainty for the U.S. power sector.

Ultimately, energy policy that's market - driven and consumer focused — as the rise in natural gas use surely reflects — is better than government - driven, command - and - control policies that pay more attention to ideological agendas than what's best for the economy and consumers.

-- Contrarians» focus on these «issues» is really just cherrypicking through scientific evidence to support a pre-conceived agenda — Policy discussion should not be excluded.

Begging the Question begs to differ, arguing that cutting clerks would not lead justices to hear more cases or focus away from their own policy agendas.

«Eliminating the law clerks would force the justices to focus more on legal analysis and, we can hope, less on their own policy agendas.»

In other instances, however, they will be more focused on particular issues (rather than places) and will be seeking to advance a particular policy agenda in as many contexts as possible.

In sketching out an agenda for future research and potential reforms, this Article closes with a call to action for all policy - makers and academics concerned with sentencing systems to focus needed attention on defense counsel's role and impact on sentencing outcomes.

The changes are a part of the company's broader agenda to craft new policies focused on reducing the amount of abuse, hate speech, violence and harassment.

The Ministerial Taskforce Charter outlines the government's long term agenda for Indigenous policy while at the same time focusing on the strategies to be put in place urgently to improve outcomes.23 As the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs, stated «every dollar spent on Indigenous projects and services must contribute to improved outcomes».24 The Ministerial Taskforce Charter stresses the urgency of improving social and economic well being for Indigenous Australians focusing on housing, health, education, employment, family violence, increasing economic development, improving community safety, and law and justice.

This volume is organized around England's Every Child Matters Agenda (2005) for Foster Carers and Scotland's Getting It Right For Every Child (or Young Person) in Foster and Kinship Care Agenda (2007), thereby highlighting a comparative social policy dimension to this volume and it's focus on enhanced developmental outcomes for looked after children and young people.

We also offer recommendations for advancing a federal policy agenda that is specifically focused on enhancing the quality of early childhood experiences.

The forum provides an opportunity to educate legislators on current research in early childhood development; illuminate questions to be addressed in order to further policy developments; identify legislative action, develop and pass a multi-year data - driven and research - based policy agenda for children prenatal to age eight; and increase awareness of the importance of the early years to build momentum for an increased focus on early childhood policies.

The proposed model will provide the «meeting space» where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities, peak bodies and interest groups will be able to focus on the bigger picture and set a longer term agenda for policy making and program delivery.

REM: As much as you and your leadership team want to focus on determining the future of organized real estate, the Competition Bureau's constant focus on this industry continues to impact CREA's agenda — a case in point was CREA's recent request for intervener status in the bureau's action against the Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) and its Virtual Office Website (VOW) policies.