Sentences with phrase «policy barriers create»

We learned that policy barriers create real challenges, even when charter schools manage to overcome them.

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Federal Policy Changes to Increase Food Recovery FLPC has identified several key areas, in addition to misleading expiration date labels, where current laws create barriers to reducing food waste.

And this obsession leads us to notice that the policies that allow for a vast concentration of wealth at the top often also create barriers that prevent people overcoming poverty at the bottom.

Also at 11 a.m., a new report from the National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder, will be released showing that community schools need at least five years or more to create lasting school improvement and reduce barriers to achievement in a measurable way, Annenberg Institute for School Reform, 233 Broadway, Suite 720, Manhattan.

«Any further encumbrance on qualifying offsets projects based on additionality would create confusion and be a barrier to GHG reductions, avoidances and sequestration from a policy standpoint,» the group wrote.

«High out - of pocket costs limit access to lifesaving specialty drugs: Current cost - sharing policies create a barrier to treatment of chronic, life - threatening illnesses.»

Some things we might do if we got desperate enough: scrub greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere technologically, geo - engineering to create cooling effects to offset greenhouse heating, [SLIDE 42] lots of adaptation policies, cropping patterns, heat drought and salt - resistant crops, strengthen public health and environmental engineering defenses against tropical disease, new water projects for flood control and drought management, dyke storm surge barriers, avoiding further development on flood plains in near sea level.

Over the course of the past two decades, a series of court cases — including a 2007 Supreme Court decision that struck down voluntary integration policies in Seattle and Louisville, Ky. — have created tough barriers for public schools attempting to pursue integration.

When it comes to education, however, policymakers create unique policy and funding barriers that apply to for - profit entities.

The main barrier to the spread of digital learning in the United States, iNACOL's Patrick noted, are «policies that were created 30 to 40 years ago for a different world.

The author's statement that «the government should not throw its weight behind OER unless and until it knows that such resources are truly the wave of the future» fails to recognize just how government can help popularize and create policies and conditions that make it possible to do this work and to overcome the necessary barriers to do so.

ACT research presented to the House of Lords Committee on Citizenship and Civic engagement on Wednesday 18 October, will show that current policy is creating significant barriers to those who want to train as citizenship specialist teachers, and for existing teachers who want to progress their careers.

Research conducted by ACT, which is set to be presented to the House of Lords Committee on Citizenship and Civic engagement tomorrow, 18 October, is expected to show that current policy is creating «significant barriers» to those who want to train as citizenship specialist teachers, and for existing teachers who want to progress their careers.

We found that state policy creates substantial barriers to charter schools that are interested in offering pre-k.

Leaders should critically examine financial aid policies to ensure they are not unintentionally creating barriers for poor students.

The external or institutional barriers, such as connectivity issues, policies on software application acquisition, and professional development, are a few examples of external barriers that create a hindrance for teachers.

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.

Asbury also mentioned that one policy that can create a barrier for instructional leaders is contending with teachers» union contracts, which can make it difficult to dismiss poorly performing teachers from the district.

Eliminate barriers to personalized learning: Many existing policies — from school funding formulas, to class size limits, to graduation requirements — create barriers to new personalized learning models that use time, resources, and human capital in new ways.

HKC helps schools and community programs problem - solve barriers and create plans for policies, practices and nutrition education.

Healthy Kids Challenge ® (HKC) is a nationally recognized program that was designed to help schools and community programs problem - solve barriers and create plans for policies, practices, and nutrition education.

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

Inform policy so states can address barriers and create opportunities for charter schools to enroll and provide effective instructional programs and individualized support to students with disabilities;

Linda Parker, director of the Association for Language Learning, said: «This year's survey highlights once again the enormous efforts being made by teachers of languages to encourage and support language learning in our schools, at times in the face of policies and practices in state schools which create barriers to take - up and success.»

«It is not about building a barrier and stopping people coming into the protected area but addressing the drivers of deforestation by working with communities to create alternative livelihoods,» says Toby Janson - Smith, Senior Director for Climate and Land Use: Markets and Policy at Conservation International's Center for Environmental Leadership in Business.

The policy of providing support through temporary agreements through open child protection files creates barriers for families to access those much needed services — they also undermine MCFD's legal obligations.

The LCO's Framework for the Law as It Affects Persons with Disabilities, created in conjunction with the LCO Report on Disabilities, is specifically intended to assist those that create, review and implement laws, policies and initiatives in addressing barriers to access to justice experienced by persons with disabilities.

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

«This ordinance would have done nothing to improve the health and safety of women in St. Joseph County — instead, it would have created barriers for local women seeking safe, legal abortions,» said PPINK Vice President for Public Policy Patti Stauffer.

Fragmented policies and inadequate resources present significant barriers to creating a high - quality early childhood system.

Racism and discriminatory public policy have created systemic barriers that result in women of color disproportionately relying on Medicaid.

A program's policies and procedures can not require families to provide documents that confirm a child's age, if doing so creates a barrier for the family to enroll the child.

The citizen's group could not afford an expensive insurance policy and sued on the grounds that requiring such insurance created an unlawful barrier against expressive activity.