Part of the above
policy decisions involves your specific vehicle.
Monetary
policy decisions involve setting the interest rate on overnight loans in the money market.
Going from a model to a public
policy decision involves understanding the needs of the stakeholders and the context, says Clemen.
Many, many federal
policy decisions involve increasingly intense scientific and technological overtones, aspects and features.
The effort is called the VIVA Project — Voices, Ideas, Vision, Action — which was created to give classroom teachers a chance to share ideas and take a role in making state and national
policy decisions involving public schools.
Not exact matches
He built an enormous staff for himself, ensured that he was
involved in every foreign
policy decision, lobbied the president constantly, and often won.
As you can see, starting a business
involves making quite a few initial
decisions and getting
policies and paperwork in place.
«Any such
decision is based on the activities and recommendations of all
involved personnel, and on the applicable human resources
policies and practices.
This new
policy was apparently the result of a 2008 Risk Management Assessment (available to the right)
involving stakeholders only from the shipping industry, though Transport Canada's methodology for Pilotage Risk Assessments defines stakeholders as «any individual, group, or organization able to affect, be affected by, or believe it might be affected by, a
decision or activity.»
They do all the legwork
involved with making tough insurance
decisions on behalf of their customers, and then help them with the application and purchasing process — explaining
policies and the entire process in plain English so you know what you're getting.
Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn A. Wilkins discusses key issues
involved in the Governing Council's deliberations about the
policy rate
decision and the MPR.
With both suffering deep economic consequences from US sanctions — and both prominently
involved in OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries)
decisions — the two countries share overlapping
policy areas for cooperation.
Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn Wilkins discusses key issues
involved in the Governing Council's deliberations about the
policy rate
decision and the MPR.
If interpreted expansively they can
involve huge areas of life and put numerous public
policy decisions in the hands of judges.
They
involve new laws and
policies, radical changes in mentalities and lifestyles, codes of conduct for businesses and institutions, changes in the content of curricula and textbooks, new norms and
decision - making methods in politics, health care and education systems, new strategic priorities for international cooperation, radically new approaches to development, fundamental transformation of democratic principles and mechanisms - a new social ethos imposed on all.
On every question about economic or political
decisions, from general influence on public
policy to specific influence on the minimum wage, between 75 percent and 85 percent of African - Americans said that religion should be
involved.
This is interesting: there's a tricky editorial
decision about whether it's better for the BBC to be perceived as failing to give enough coverage to an important Conservative
policy announcement, or to be perceived as ignoring a story which
involves major criticism of the BBC itself.
1.30 pm ToryDiary: «Today's vote certainly points to a welcome degree of pragmatism among many of the delegates (memorably, one of the rebel speakers actually criticised the idea that
policies should be pragmatic) but it is not final proof that the Lib Dems are willing to make all of the tough
decisions involved in being in government.»
The table also records the variety of governments
involved in squeezing (right or left, coalition, majority - party, minority), the delegation or otherwise of economic
policy functions or
decision advice relating to interest rate setting, consideration of spending economies, and financial / economic forecasting.
Fifteen hundred pages of emails from Rosen released by City Hall the night before Thanksgiving show that he was deeply
involved in city
policy, weighing in on
decisions regarding universal pre-K and consulting with one of the mayor's top aides, Emma Wolfe, on how to handle public relations issues.
Two town employees already perform public information duties, but Saladino said Nevin also will be a top
policy aide and
involved in day - to - day
decision - making on a range of issues, including trimming the town budget.
I know this is so Pollyanna, but I love the public getting
involved and these agencies listening, because what often happens in public
policy decision - making is what I call the «dad» approach of
decision making.
Questions included NYPD procedures governing officers entering burning buildings, whether clergy have been called in for the two officers, what community / police «healing» Mayor de Blasio believes is occurring, whether there is a need for a larger headcount in the Department, why one of the injured officers was transferred to a different hospital, Bratton's reaction to pictures of the accused arsonist smiling, whether a
decision has been made on the future of the building that the Police Academy is currently located in, whether the escaped prisoner in the 78th Precinct has been recaptured and whether the officers
involved will be disciplined and whether the Fire Department will be
involved in creating a Police Department
policy governing officers entering burning buildings.
Mr. Chairman, AAAS believes it is essential that those
involved in
policy decisions that will affect the future of government - supported science and technology have a solid understanding of the impact of their
decisions on the S&T enterprise.
Obama also promised that ideology will no longer be
involved in driving scientific
decision — an obvious jab at the
policies of the Bush administration.
Such efforts to take the public's pulse on geoengineering may be crucial for understanding how to
involve citizens in future
policy making, says David Goldston, director of government affairs for the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington, D.C. «This is something that is going to require a lot of public engagement before
decisions are made,» he says.
By describing Kundra as «responsible for setting technology
policy across the government,» the president also implied that OSTP would play a complementary role in
decisions by his administration
involving support for various technologies.
It urges scientists not only to integrate their efforts with those of colleagues from other disciplines and fields, but to work iteratively with
decision - makers,
policy shapers, practitioners and other societal stakeholders in open, networked knowledge arenas,
involving collaborative learning and problem - solving.
Decision Analysis Meets Environmental
Policy S. A. Webb, 30 June 2006 Environmental
decisions often
involve a baffling mix of cost, benefit, and uncertainty.
To overcome this disparity in how employees chose to work, researchers recommend that employers give individuals control over their working patterns and actively
involve them in any
decisions or
policies about technology use so employees can reap the benefits of modern technologies without being enslaved by them.
That support contributed to adoption by the AMA House of Delegates of
policy calling for «an established
decision mechanism that
involves qualified public health physicians to determine which vaccines will be mandatory for admission to schools and other public venues.
Smith's letter announcing his
decision notes that he has «been able to shape
policy involving ethics, immigration, crime, intellectual property, space, energy, the environment, the budget, and high tech» as chairman of the ethics, judiciary, and science committees.»
While the economic impacts might appear obvious in a qualitative sense,
policy decisions require an interplay of expertise
involving physical science and economic science (or «science»!)
I think it is right that women be
involved on my behalf in the
policies and
decision - making of my country.
One parallel story in «Race»
involves the U.S. Olympic Committee's
decision whether or not to boycott the ’36 Games because of the oppressive anti-Jewish and anti-Black
policies of Hitler regime.
There is also the need for citizens and consumers to be informed and engaged in everyday
decisions that
involve scientific arguments — from
policy debates that will have consequences for their health and safety to the products they consume and lifestyle choices they make.
Looking beyond the traditional notion of the PTA bake sale, Warren wants to see parent and community groups become
involved in leadership positions and
decision - making within schools and in district
policy.
Policies and programmes need to provide opportunities for staff, students and parents to be
involved in making
decisions, being heard and making a contribution to the community (Bernard, 1996).
Urban schools reinforce the student perception that teachers bear final responsibility for what they learn.By allowing passive witnesses, the schools support these student perceptions that all relationships are (indeed rewarding) students for being essentially authoritarian rather than mutual.As youth see the world, they are compelled to go to school while teachers are paid to be there.Therefore, it is the job of the teacher to make them learn.Every school
policy and instructional
decision which is made without
involving students — and this is almost all of them — spreads the virus that principals and teachers rather than students must be the constituency held accountable for learning.In a very real sense students are being logical.In an authoritarian, top - down system with no voice for those at the bottom, why should those «being done to» be held accountable?
«A Time for Sight: The Debate over Color Blindness and Race - Consciousness in School Integration
Policy,» Curriculum Connections In light of the 2007 Supreme Court
decision in Parents
Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education, ADL offers this comprehensive lesson that examines the debate over school integration within the broader context of the Court's Brown v. Board of Education
decision in 1954 and the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, AK in 1957.
After the 2007 U.S. Supreme Court
decision in Parents
Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, which limited the voluntary use of race in school assignment plans, 33 the number of schools and districts using socioeconomic integration
policies grew rapidly.
The political argument for
involving parents and other community members more substantially carries along with it an explicit challenge to the traditional, hierarchical leadership and power structures in schools.156 According to Leithwood and Prestine (2002), the
policies and reforms that call for decentralized
decision making rest on certain important assumptions about the role of the principal and other school leaders.
First, district
policy — e.g., setting expectations for who should be
involved in making
decisions — does influence the range of people who participate in school
decisions.
NYSABE
involves parents of ELL / bilingual learners in the process of schooling and in public
policy decisions that affect them and their children.
Students should learn about the politics and personalities
involved, the bureaucratic structures and
policy constraints of the education system, and the reasons why students (and other groups) have been excluded from
decisions.
In other words, stress the legitimate kid - beneficial aspects of your proffered
policy, but sprinkle in occasional allusions to meaningful dividends for the
decision makers
involved.
The data also suggest that school leaders who
involve their teachers in student conduct
policy decisions has a greater impact on student academic achievement than many other measures.
In most schools, teachers and parents traditionally have not been
involved in critical
decisions about budget, personnel, and other
policy issues.
Recent weeks have seen a steady flow of stories which illustrate the experimental nature of this
policy, and how it can
involve questionable spending
decisions, at both a strategic and at a more local level.
Teachers are not being provided with basic information on pay matters and the concept of schools having an individual pay
policy, locally determined and setting out how
decisions involving the use of discretion will be taken, is still very far from being established and recognised (let alone accepted) among teachers.