Sentences with phrase «policy climate»

The organization's efforts also have helped to create a favorable policy climate in Indianapolis to encourage more teachers to remain in the profession.

«I learned much more academically about arts education policy and it made me interested in what it takes to be a good music teacher in the current policy climate,» Bernard says.

Climate change policy Climate and environmental policy is a cornerstone of Germany's energy policy, clearly evident from its progress towards meeting its Kyoto Protocol target, its actions to increase renewable energy supplies and its efforts to make efficiency a priority at all levels of the government.

Commonwealth and State policies related to climate change and how Indigenous peoples» rights and other fundamental human rights will be affected by those policies

3 Quoted by Odile Blanchard and James Perhaus, «Does the Bush Administration's climate policy me an climate protection?»

In spite of a hazy policy climate in Canada — the Conservative government seems committed to a more restrictive policy on marijuana, not less — there is an ever more visible grey market in Canada catering to cannabis users.

Assessing educational reforms for their impact on democracy is particularly relevant in the current educational policy climate that favors practices potentially antithetical to civic education.

Seizing on the presumed failures of the education system, reform advocates have pushed hard for contentious policies - expansion of charter schools, for instance, or the use of value - added measures of teacher effectiveness - that might have less traction in a more positive policy climate.

In Texas» current education policy climate, we've gutted most of our state's stringent academic accountability measures.

The Bish posts about science and topical policy climate issues.

«We expect the fiscal policy climate to act as a drag on growth this year with possible implications on the direction of the economy in the long term.

Political scientists attribute the groups» state - level successes partly to a rearrangement of political coalitions around education in statehouses, and to a favorable policy climate created by the Obama administration.

And with new, more rigorous standards and assessments in the early years of implementation across most states, and facing political headwinds in many places, the current policy climate is marked by fluctuation and uncertainty.

If there is a silver lining to Minnesota's current business and policy climate, it's that some policymakers are beginning to hear the message from employers in the state.

Though the issue has seen little movement in the past and faces real opposition going forward, the policy climate appears likely to be favorable once the fiscal challenges now facing public school systems recede.

The current era is marked by unprecedented transparency, shifting roles for federal and state governments, and fluctuation in the policy climate.

Still, a vocal and sizeable minority of respondents say they are unsure that the policy climate will be favorable for such internet expansion.