Sentences with phrase «policy analysts who»

The efforts of our policy professionals are enhanced by 600 + attorneys, advisors and policy analysts who have served in key positions in a broad spectrum of federal and state - level agencies.

Specifically, there are a few economists and policy analysts who argue that conservatives should put aside their disdain for Al Gore and other environmentalists, and realize that a «carbon tax swap» deal would be a good supply - side boost to the economy.

Scientists, engineers, and policy analysts who are part of the nonprofit organization turned out in force Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, outside Washington.

I wrote today to a Liberal party policy analyst who confirmed the latter interpretation.

I was a healthcare policy analyst who became a homebirth midwife and an now (nearly) a CNM / WHNP who had my 1st in the hospital and decided to never do that again and instead had my 2nd at home.

Julia Koppich, a policy analyst who has studied unions and union - district relationships and has consulted with Teach Plus, agreed with Weingarten.

Chester Finn, an influential conservative policy analyst who worked in the Reagan Department of Education, put his finger on the educational pulse of our age when he wrote that «holding schools» — and teachers — «to account for their students» academic achievement» was the only educational policy [along with the choice movement] that made sense in a «post-Coleman» world.

«It's a really critical moment» for teachers unions, said Melissa Tooley, a senior policy analyst who specializes in education at New America Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank.

And Bryce McKibben, a former Association of Community College Trustees policy analyst who recently became a policy adviser to Democrats on the Senate education committee, has noted potential flaws.

A man named Chris Horner, general counsel of the Cooler Heads Coalition, joins us, as does, popping in and out, Marlo Lewis, a CEI policy analyst who works on climate change.

Spending on health services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island peoples has been slashed in the Federal Budget, according to a health policy analyst who writes under the pen name of «William Foggin».

Not exact matches

«The failure to deliver tax reform and the slower relative growth likely keep us on the path of gradual normalization in interest rate policy,» said the analysts, who see the S&P 500 falling to 2,550 from its Monday close of 2,572.83.

Analysts who follow the Fed complain that its framework has become confusing: low unemployment and inflation close to the 2 % target would not seem consistent with a policy rate more aligned to a recession.

Analysts say markets are worried that Summers, who has said little about monetary policy but has sounded a skeptical note in the past about the impact of some of the Fed's efforts, might hit the brakes faster.

Policy analyst Matthew La Corte cites a variety of national security experts who note that a strong refugee resettlement program is absolutely critical for promoting U.S. interests at home and abroad....

Being the center of political activity in the U.S. means that this city is shaped by people from all over the country who move here to work as congressional aides, lobbyists, policy analysts, reporters, elected officials, bureaucrats, organizers, etc..

Michael Fragoso is a policy analyst at the Family Research Council who studied classics and medieval studies at Princeton University.

Bill Hammond, a health policy analyst with the fiscal watchdog group the Empire Center, agreed that the tax would likely be passed on to patients who need the drugs, including terminally ill people and patients with chronic conditions, as well as addicts who are sometimes prescribed medicines that contain a form of opioid.

«People make jokes about commissions as a way of putting off dealing with important problems, but this one will serve both political and policy ends that are urgent, and will have a wide and attentive audience,» said Larry Levy, a political analyst who leads the National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University.

She impressed Krueger, the Upper East Side senator, who helped her land a job in 2009 as a housing policy analyst for Senate Democrats.

Bill Hammond, a health policy analyst with the fiscal watchdog group the Empire Center agrees that the tax would likely be passed on to patients who need the drugs, including terminally ill people and patients with chronic conditions, as well as addicts who are sometimes prescribed medicines that contain a form of an opioid.

Ken Girardin, an analyst with the Empire Center for Public Policy, an Albany think tank that advocates for lower taxes and restrained government spending, said, «These higher pay figures reflect bad decisions by both local officials, who signed off on costly deals with the PBA, and state officials, who refuse to fix the state's binding arbitration system that's rigged» to benefit unions.

The statement is signed by former Lopez aides Leah Hebert, Rita Pasarell and Tori Burhans Kelly; Kellner's former chief of staff, Eliyanna Kaiser, and his ex-administrative assistant, Danielle Bennett; and Erica Vladimer, who worked as an education policy analyst and counsel for the Independent Democratic Conference, which Klein leads.

Mr. Komanoff, 70, a policy analyst and a former president of Transportation Alternatives, is the one who made congestion pricing more than just an idea by creating a spreadsheet model to calculate the real - life impacts, including how much money would be raised, how much traffic would be reduced and how the costs would be spread across the region.

«If you tie in the Port Authority crossings, you can make policy to try and divert and spread traffic, during the peak, all the way up the Hudson River,» said Tim Gilchrist, a transportation analyst who rose to top state posts in a 33 - year career.

But «once people start knowing people who have been in them and lived to tell the tale, so to speak, I think it will change quickly,» says David Groves, a policy analyst at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, Calif..

Greater emphasis is also being put on transferable skills that serve not only academic scholars but also professionals who «may have research careers in other parts of society,» says David Crosier, education system analyst at Eurydice, the E.U. organization that provides information on European education systems and policies.

«This kind of precautionary approach achieves a balance of economic interests and conservation benefits,» said Sarah Reiter, a co-author and former early career law and policy fellow at the Center for Ocean Solutions who now works as an ocean policy analyst at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

«There has been a widespread pattern of discrimination against educators who would challenge evolution in the classroom,» Casey Luskin, a policy analyst for the pro-intelligent design Discovery Institute, in Seattle, Washington, told ScienceInsider.

That idea has drawn criticism from some environmentalists and policy analysts, who are worried about encouraging environmental problems or reducing energy security.

All the same, said William Lanouette, science policy journalist and former senior analyst at the U.S Government Accountability Office (GAO), the increasing size and complexity of machines like particle accelerators and spacecraft require intense management and funding and their price increases the competition for them among scientists, no matter who pays for them.

Richard Klein, climate policy analyst at the Stockholm Environment Institute, wrote: «Irrespective of credentials, a scientist who lets his personal convictions blur his professional judgment is a bad scientist.»

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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.

Rather than just look at the percentage of teachers who belong to a union — the proxy most analysts have used for union strength for pretty much forever — we also examined measures like the dollars spent on campaign advertising, the degree to which unions have won major policy battles in recent years, and the lock the unions have on a given state capital.

«There's definitely a hope that the post-hurricane experience in New Orleans will show that public charter schools can work at scale, particularly for those students who have struggled historically,» says Todd Ziebarth, a policy analyst at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, in a Christian Science Monitor article.

Finally, we wish to acknowledge Samantha Batel, a Policy Analyst at the Center, who collected and analyzed school finance data for this paper.

The authors would like to thank Annette Konoske - Graf, former policy analyst at the Center for American Progress, who contributed to the research and writing of this report.

That's according to a recently released report from New America Foundation policy analyst Anne Hyslop, who compared accountability under NCLB to state - led efforts the next school year.

Some advocates and policy analysts said that Mr. Klein was a transformative force, turning the city's public education system into something that people who had given up on it could believe in again.

Andrew Biggs, American Enterprise Institute researcher and scholar, and Jason Richwine, a senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation, who released a study in 2011 in which they found that

Let's start with Andrew Biggs, American Enterprise Institute researcher and scholar, and Jason Richwine, a senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation, who released a study in 2011 in which they found that teachers are actually overpaid.

A deep, insightful, balanced appraisal from an extraordinary array of «school reformers» - scholars, practitioners, and policy analysts - who have stayed the course for 20 + years.

As a policy analyst, I have often criticized those who dismiss the powerful influence of poverty on academic achievement and the belief that better teachers can systematically overcome that influence.

«Donors are giving less priority to education,» says Manos Antoninis, a senior policy analyst at UNESCO who co-authored the report.

«There are two issues,» said Ryan Anderson, a fiscal and policy analyst at the Legislative Analyst Office who focuses on education budget manalyst at the Legislative Analyst Office who focuses on education budget mAnalyst Office who focuses on education budget matters.

Patrick Gibson (Data & Policy Analyst) is a former employee of CCER, who, the site claims, «worked in close collaboration with Education Resource Strategies and three Connecticut public school districts to improve student learning outcomes and better align allocated resources with district strategy through an understanding of people, time, and money utilization»

High school rigor and good advice: Setting up students to succeed In fact, a study under the guidance of Jim Hull, senior policy analyst at the Center for Public Education found that low achieving students and students from a low socioeconomic background who took an AP or IB course were 17 percent more likely to persist in four year colleges and 30 percent more likely to persist in two year colleges.

For three decades, researchers and policy analysts have advocated for and demonstrated value of various ways to improve teacher preparation that reflect the necessary balance of theory, pedagogy, practice, and contact with skilled veterans who inform preparation through their own teaching.

The team consisted of Cesar Conda, an adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney and now a political consultant; Andrew Lundquist, the White House energy policy director, who is now an energy lobbyist; Kyle E. McSlarrow, the chairman of Dan Quayle's 2000 presidential campaign and now deputy secretary of energy; Robert C. McNally Jr., an energy and economic analyst who is now an investment banker; Karen Knutson, a deputy on energy policy and a former Republican Senate aide; and Marcus Peacock, an analyst on science and energy issues from the Office of Management and Budget.