Sentences with phrase «policy director»

In that role, he supervised all legal operations for the governor's office, and as policy director, he developed the governor's policy and legislative agenda and implemented the legislative strategy.
Government: This effort is comprised of city and county staff from throughout the region (fleet managers, transportation policy directors, etc).
Secondary school's published performance measures will this year be «very flawed and quite dangerous» due to a series of anomalies, a union policy director has claimed.
Jim Bartholomew is education policy director for the Minnesota Business Partnership, which supported the new law, and until recently was a member of the teaching board.
«This new policy is further testament that consumers and companies are aligned in shifting the egg and pork industries away from confining animals in cages,» said Josh Balk, senior food policy director of the Humane Society of the United States, who has partnered with Dunkin' Donuts (DNKN) on the initiative.
McLaughlin, the former U.S. deputy chief technology officer and former public policy director for Google, said that platforms like Facebook have a single interest: They want to do whatever will maximize their market value.
That tracks with what Terry Spradlin, the education policy director at Indiana University's Center for Education and Evaluation Policy, told us last week — even if states leave, they may eventually come back later.
Commenting on today's government consultation paper on «Strengthening Tax Avoidance Sanctions and Deterrents», John Cullinane, Tax Policy Director of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, said: «This is the latest in a series of measures cracking down on those who profit from tax avoidance schemes.
«It's only the first week here, so I feel like things are just getting going, but in the coming days we will help business leaders meet with lawmakers to help bolster the U.S. position, and to make sure the official U.S. delegation is bold,» says Anne Kelly, senior policy director at Ceres, a business and sustainability nonprofit.
Matt Prescott, food policy director for farm animal protection for The HSUS, said: «We applaud Tim Hortons for addressing one of the most critical animal welfare issues in food production today.
NRDC expressed frustration with the deal: «That was a signal of weakening,» said Jake Schmidt, international climate policy director of the National Resources Defense Council.
James Frayne is former policy director at Policy Exchange and founding partner of the public affairs agency Public First.
Michael Brickman is the national policy director for the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, where he is a commentator on education - reform issues and a regular contributor to the Flypaper blog and other publications.
«The US will have much more credibility and influence in the next international climate negotiations if it shows, by 2014 and 2015, that it is making good on the president's pledge,» says David Doniger, climate policy director with the NRDC.
Bill Hammond, health policy director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, wrote in a post on the Albany think tank's web site that the conflicting abortion policies could block or restrict New Yorkers from claiming tax credits under the GOP replacement plan.
Amazon's expansion in organic products through Whole Foods bodes well for the sector, said Nate Lewis, farm policy director at OTA.
Join Jeff Mao, the learning technology policy director from the Maine Department of Education, as he outlines the research, planning, and implementation that went into the large - scale, 1 - to - 1 computing program in his state.
More work is also needed in consulting with polluters under the system, according to Alvin Lin, climate and energy policy director for China at the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental organization based in New York.
But Sarah Archibald, education policy director in Olsen's office, was skeptical of the claim that there's virtually no support for voucher school choice in Green Bay.
Commenting on the launch of three parliamentary reviews into the tax system, CIOT Tax Policy Director John Cullinane said: «We welcome these three inquiries into aspects of Britain's tax system.
Katja Hall, chief policy director of the CBI, comments on Department for Education figures which show that 1.16 million 16 - to 24 - year - olds were not in education, employment or training in the third quarter of 2011:
Michele wanted to get both sides of the global warming debate represented in the discussion, so her first guest was Jay Drake - Hamilton, science policy director for Fresh -LSB-...]
Prior to joining Committee for Children, Jordan was Deputy Policy Director at the University of Washington's Center on Reinventing Public Education, Director of Legislative Analysis at StudentsFirst, Legislative Counsel to the California Judges Association, and a New York City public school teacher.
Added Josh Gold, policy director from Uber: «We want to...
Facebook UK policy director Simon Milner told Wired Magazine that «Once the piece of content has been seen, assessed and deemed OK, (Facebook) will ignore further reports about it.»
«We applaud ConAgra Foods tackling one of the most serious farm animal welfare problems,» stated Josh Balk, corporate policy director of farm animal protection for The HSUS.
«This one sector is impacting the quality of our air, water and soil, it is changing our climate and impacting public health,» said Greenpeace EU agriculture policy director Marco Contiero referring to the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
ASCD Express: Two election - focused columns by ASCD Public Policy Director David Griffith examine the differences between the Democratic and Republican education platforms and explore Obama's and Romney's policy approaches related to accountability, student success, teacher effectiveness, and higher education.
In response, Janet Redman, U.S. Policy Director with Oil Change International, released the following statement:
Yesterday its UK policy director Simon Milner wrote to a parliamentary committee that's been conducting a wide - ranging enquiry into fake news — and whose chair has been witheringly critical of Facebook and Twitter for failing to co-operate with requests for information and assistance on the topic of Brexit and Russia — saying it will widen its investigation, per the committee's request.
On a conference call last month, I asked Obama campaign policy director James Kvaal whether the president believes it's appropriate to restrict collective bargaining as part of education reform.
NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has hired a new policy director and deputy advocate: Madhuri Kommareddi, who has considerable connections to the Obama administration.
«The new school meal standards are one of the most important advances in nutrition in decades,» said Margo Wootan, nutrition policy director at the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
Sanders campaign policy director Warren Gunnels defended the vote: «This bill was signed into law by President Obama and had the support of 27 Democrats.
When we asked the Sanders campaign about the claim, policy director Warren Gunnels said, «The reality is that none of the Republicans have introduced a plan to solve climate change in a way that would transform our energy system.
Also pictured (at left) is CEA Policy Director Donald Williams.
«For some time, black service users have been telling us of the difference in their treatment,» said policy director Sophie Corlett.
At 2 p.m., Hochul speaks at National Drug Control Policy Director Michael Botticelli's press conference to address the heroin and opioid epidemic, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, 106 Scotland Ave., Albany.
This article was co-written by Clean Energy Canada policy director Dan Woynillowicz and originally appeared in the Vancouver Sun.
This article was co-authored by policy director Dan Woynillowicz and originally appeared in iPolitics.
She served as the early childhood policy director for the Nebraska Children and Families Foundation, and played an instrumental role in the development and successful passage of early childhood legislation in 2006 that established a $ 60 million early childhood endowment, funded through a public and private partnership.
«AB 753 flew in the face of the Superior Court ruling in Vergara and defied all logic by seeking to expand the very system the court found to be unconstitutional and harmful to California's students and teachers,» Students Matter Policy Director Ben Austin said in a statement.
The release of the document in concurrence with the contract award, said Citizen Action policy director (and head of the legal and policy committee for SHARE) Bob Cohen, «certainly would make it harder for citizens to review.»
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