Sentences with phrase «policy debate around»

A number of issues arise as a result of the current policy debate around water allocation and the rights of Indigenous peoples to their lands and waters.

As the policy debate around western water and climate change intensifies, it'll be ever more important to discriminate spin from science in assessing factors shaping droughts, as Roger Pielke, Jr., of the University of Colorado has been trying to stress.

The public and policy debate around education has also changed dramatically — particularly around issues of teacher quality and charter schools — due in large part to the work of these individuals.

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Harper wants the debate about economic policy to revolve around balanced budgets.

The timing of Lane's remarks suggests that he too disliked the tenor of the debate around the role of fiscal policy in helping achieve faster economic growth.

His interest in Canadian policy debates was rekindled a few years ago, he says, around the time he was invited to participate in a 2010 «thinkers» conference put on by then - Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff in Montréal.

We at the Bank of Canada are grappling with this question, and it is being debated by economists and policy - makers around the world.

It was not that long ago (early to mid-September) when the market debate was centered around the strengthening US economy and the pace that we would see the Federal Reserve (Fed) start to shift gears and tighten monetary policy in response to a very strong economy.

At the Forum, about 300 eminent experts from around the world will review and debate the investment needs, technologies and policy measures needed to secure the world's food supplies on horizon 2050.

One group of fans was passing around a joint and debating the finer points of the NFL's drug policy.

«It's a way for us to engage the argument around drug policy for folks who might not necessarily think in those terms, or be familiar with the larger debate, which is our whole interest — taking the debate beyond the field, especially during a national opioid crisis.»

To contribute to and keep up with this and other debates around Government and Opposition policies on fathers and fatherhood, join the FI on Facebook and Twitter.

Trade policy today faces three issues that are often overlooked in current debate around post-Trump transatlantic and post-Brexit global trade policy: development, geopolitics, and the digital economy.

The three candidates battled it out in the final general election debate on Wednesday, with plenty of jabs over policy to go around.

When foreign policy was mentioned it was more often than not an often vociferous and partisan debate around the UK's membership of the EU or on narrow terms around immigration or Islamic extremism.

I undertook to write a policy discussion document that could ignite debate around...

Dramatic events around the world and the deployment of UK armed forces make this an important time for debate on defence policy.

Cuomo has worked well with the Republicans, and will have a much easier time threading a coming debate over state income tax policy if they are around to neutralize liberal, union - backed Democrats who dominate the state Assembly.

We will host a discussion around economic policy over on our new blog dedicated to social liberal economics, PlanC.socialliberal.net, and there will of course be a full an open debate on ownership, democracy and power, at the SLF Conference in Manchester on July 13th — here, we will focus on the wider politics of social liberalism.

With education policy set to play an important part in the May general election campaign, debates around the future direction of the school system will take place against the backdrop of fast - paced reforms made during the coalition's time in office.

A genuine and sustained debate among MPs about the details of the policy regime, much of it centred around the proposals in a paper from moderate backbench critics Alan Whitehead and Peter Bradley, has led to significant government concessions and a new focus on questions of increasing access to university from a broader social intake.

While much of the debate around energy is focussed on greenhouse gas emissions, our findings highlight the need to consider the full range of consequences of the world's demand for energy when designing energy and environmental policies.»

Nearly one in three children lives in rural America, «but if you listen to the education policy debate, particularly around the impacts of the new «No Child Left Behind» law, chances are you will still not...

The implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA); debates about a potential large - scale federal school - choice initiative; and deep disagreements about civil rights enforcement continue to captivate — and roil — all of us involved in education policy, in D.C. and around the nation.

As evidenced by recent politics around the federal budget, those in Washington, DC, are stuck in debates that involve math that is not well understood even by those who need to vote on policies based on it.

A template for pupils to fill in the definitions and debate around Balance of Payments position and policies.

The debate over the Common Core State Standards Initiative has rocketed to the forefront of education policy discussions around the country.

For all of this year's debate about the future of testing, accountability, and other policy issues around the No Child Left Behind Act, virtually no one has brought up the question of how best to give out billions of dollars a year under the law.

The conference opened with a policy forum which included influential speeches from the most significant representatives of the conference; the second day passed around the theme «Participation for Protection», using panels and round tables as a way to share knowledge and to engage in constructive debates.

It now charges the national debate, around all policy, with a third - rail - like electricity on both sides of the aisle.

It's not like it is difficult to find startling hypocrisy in what passes for public policy debates these days, but the battle over public education seems especially rife with maddening examples, most of them around the notion of accountability, that teachers and schools should be held to high standards and measurable results for the public dollars they use.

And that's because a relatively small number of charter networks — KIPP, Success Academy, and YES Prep to name a few — dominate the sector in ways that over the last decade or so have shaped the national debates and policy agendas around charters.

Throughout the campaign, Clinton's ideas around public education have been much debated, with self - proclaimed reformers worried she would be hostile to their policies, while many rank - and - file teachers remained skeptical that Clinton would stand up for unions and fight efforts to privatize public schools.

Meanwhile policy debates center around who can prepare teachers best — the colleges and universities, the districts themselves, or the educational entrepreneurs who have received enormous amounts of money to replace the current system instead of improving it.

A topic of major contention between liberals and conservatives education policy debates today revolves around the idea of teacher tenure and whether it is helping or hindering education reform.

In the first weeks of this 10th anniversary year of the September 11th attacks and the subsequent invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, with global economic and political policies fueling conflict and prompting revolt, there have been numerous programs, talks, and debates around the city about walls: metaphorical walls created by censorship, physical walls dividing Israeli and Palestinian territories or Mexican borders, but also boundaries that some artists insist are essential to maintaining the integrity of cultural expression and identity.

Part of the reason that elements of the climate change debate take on religious proportions — by the activists for and against policy — is that folks have so dug in around almost every aspect of the debate that it is hard to raise a question about some uncritically accepted element of the religious canon without folks first attacking you as an untrained heathen.

One can tell by how climate change policies are being debated around much of the world that few people, including many very educated people, understand the scale and urgency of the problem now [continue reading...]

Debates on policy issues around climate and energy often feature opposing sides talking past each other.

Debate revolved around, inter alia: reference years used; whether to discuss these two concepts in a single bullet point, which, some said, would lead to confusion among policy makers; placement of text on temperature change; and use of the term «pre-industrial.»

However, a debate remains around how best to accomplish that goal and whether carbon pricing policy must also be tasked with addressing broader social and environmental challenges (like other pollution problems, worker displacement, economic inequality, etc.).

To accomplish this, researchers around the world should be requested to report on and document how ethics and equity issues are being considered in public policy debates about national policy within each country.

We've listened to scientists who know their way around the debate within the atmospheric science and climatological communities and they're concerned that publicity about global warming is driving energy and environmental policy instead of good science.

It's confining the debate to what is politically possible, rallying around what can be done rather than reminding the fence - sitting public what ought to be done, which is setting us up for ecological failure, not a respected scientist speaking his mind and conscience on policy.

This blawg «is a forum for scholars, students, lawyers, policy - makers, and interested citizens to examine, discuss, and debate the effect of situational forces — that is, nonsalient factors around and within us — on law, policy, politics, policy theory, and our social, political and economic institutions.»

The «scandal» making its way around the blogosphere over FindLaw's allegedly selling text links in violation of Google's policies is certainly worth discussing and debating.

The privacy versus security debate raging around WhatsApp's message content retention, storage and disclosure policy is simply a contemporary iteration.

While over half of allocators said the debate around Trump's policy agenda will have little impact on their...

DESCRIPTION: A simple insight — the policy debates in Canada over the last two years around net neutrality, Canadian content online, copyright reform, the digital TV transition, the future of local TV and anti-spam legislation are all reflections of a single technological and business transformation: the convergence of everything to the open internet.

While over half of allocators said the debate around Trump's policy agenda will have little impact on their investment decisions, European allocators feel the increasing pressures of the European regulatory environment, the implications of Brexit and the nationalist movement are impacting asset allocation decisions in 2017.