Sentences with phrase «policy efforts aimed»

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The Dream Defenders have several policy objectives aimed at helping marginalized people, but one of its larger efforts revolves around gun violence and ending Florida's «stand your ground» law.

The Environmental Law and Policy Center gets up to $ 10,000 worth of Google ads provided free of charge each month to help promote its green efforts, including one aimed at reaching Iowa caucus voters.

Citing Airbnb and Bitcoin, the Teachout - Wu policy also says that state regulatory efforts «should aim to avoid panic and / or efforts primarily designed to protect threatened incumbents.»

Mr. Seabrook, the union leader who has been a proud obstacle to plenty of the reform efforts aimed at Rikers Island by Mr. de Blasio over the last several years — he filed court documents to try to stop a new use of force policy and has held City Hall press conferences decrying the mayor's policies and telling him to «shape up or ship out» — pointed to something that would probably be an even larger obstacle to closing down the city's controversial jail complex: resistance from residential neighborhoods who don't want inmates nearby.

Currently, Syracuse police don't have a policy or enforcement effort aimed at panhandlers, said Syracuse Police Capt. Richard Shoff.

The youth campaigners supporting the re-election of President John Dramani Mahama, hereby express our worry over the deliberate attempt by the African Center for Energy Policy (ACEP) to demonise efforts of government aimed at permanently ending Ghana's electricity shortfall.

Two people familiar with the Democratic Party's new efforts emphasized that even if its new message is aimed at federal policy, «no advocacy work will be focused beyond the borders of New York State.»

«Since her first child entered the City's public school system ten years ago, Ann Kittredge has immersed herself in learning about the many different facets of educational policy and has dedicated a great deal of her time and effort to volunteer projects aimed at improving the education experience of our children,» Borough President Katz said.

Adesina said the presidential address would highlight, among other key issues, Nigeria's commitment to implementing the Nationally Determined Contributions and policy actions aimed at tackling climate change through environmental sustainable efforts.

... We believe that a primary aim of new policy efforts should be to reinforce these pathways to lower CO2 emissions.»

The high court had just ruled that race is a legitimate factor in admissions policies aimed at fostering campus diversity (Science, 27 June, p. 2012), a stance that many took as a vote of confidence in their efforts, too.

Researchers say the findings have important implications for policies that limit tobacco advertising and other efforts aimed at curbing youth tobacco use.

More broadly, efforts should be focused on strengthening government institutions in vulnerable countries and helping them invest in «green growth» policies aimed at increasing economic growth while fostering resilience to climate shocks, he said.

A wide range of efforts aimed at getting high school dropouts back in school are outlined in a report by the Washington - based American Youth Policy Forum.

The papers, released in a joint effort by the conservative - leaning Thomas B. Fordham Foundation and the Progressive Policy Institute, the research arm of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council, are aimed at influencing the reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, planned for next year.

Adrianna Kezar, Ph.D. (University of Southern California) will engage in strategies aimed at change efforts in support of all faculty; explore policies and practices that better support contingent faculty; as well as offer ideas for reconfiguring today's adjunct and tenure - track roles into new faculty models.

Whatever the inadequacies of the engagement efforts, shouldn't we focus our criticism first and foremost on those elected officials, union leaders, and activists who were pursuing a strategy of deception and vitriol — who woke up every day seeking to thwart positive change for kids, seeking to prevent the expansion of schools that were getting outsized success for children, seeking to undermine policies designed to increase equitable access to the district's better schools, seeking to gum up efforts to empower parents with choice, and seeking to thwart all efforts aimed at fostering an honest conversation about which educators were truly superlative and which were badly underserving children?

Few literacy researchers have conducted research aimed directly at either state or national English language arts and, as we have noted previously, policy researchers interested in standards often analyze them in terms of larger reforms efforts, without specific regard for subject area.

He is also the faculty director of the Tennessee Education Research Alliance, a research partnership between Vanderbilt and the Tennessee Department of Education aimed at improving the state's school improvement efforts by connecting research to policy and practice.

The program is part of the district's effort to implement state policies aimed at preventing harassment and bullying in schools.

The author concludes that efforts to improve principal supply must move beyond policies aimed solely at increasing the number of certified candidates.

This new program aims to strengthen the role of state charter schools in efforts to achieve policy and advocacy wins, particularly around equitable funding and charter school growth (especially in the approval and funding of new schools).

When state policies are understood and supported by district teachers and administrators, they may be used to «sanction» grass - roots efforts that are aimed in the same directions.

When state policies are understood and supported by district teachers and administrators, they may be used to «sanction» grass - roots efforts aimed in the same direction.

We congratulate the Kunming activists for their success and we will continue our efforts to encourage greater awareness of animal welfare issues, support capacity building, assist in lobbying activities aimed at policy change, respond to distress calls and monitor developments as the Chinese animal protection movement grows.

Public policies and education programs aimed at reducing cat overpopulation should include provisions for neutering unowned free - roaming cats, and efforts should target the general public, not only pet owners, because not all households that feed unowned free - roaming cats own pets.

Since 1877, the historic American Humane Association has been at the forefront of virtually every major policy movement, legislative effort, and shift in cultural attitudes aimed at improving the lives of children, and protecting pets and farm animals from abuse and neglect.

By: Cara Condit, Director for Arctic Study and Policy, U.S. Coast Guard Academy The U.S. Coast Guard Center for Arctic Study and Policy (CASP) organized the recent «Governing Across the Waves Workshop: Global Insights for Transboundary Waterways Management in Sensitive and Congested Maritime Spaces,» which aimed to support the ongoing efforts by the U.S. and Russian governments to achieve the shared objectives in the Bering Strait region of safe, secure, and environmentally responsible maritime traffic.

This policy document aims to provide context for Rio +20 discussions through analysis of current challenges in ocean and coastal management around the world, assessment of how well the multiple goals and objectives of previous international efforts have been met, and building on recent dialogue and inputs including the meeting of the UN Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea (UNICPOLOS) and the Secretary General's report on Oceans and Law of the Sea.

Local and state governments in the Northeast have been leaders and incubators in utilizing legal and regulatory opportunities to foster climate change policies.103 The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) was the first market - based regulatory program in the U.S. aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions; it is a cooperative effort among nine northeastern states.104 Massachusetts became the first state to officially incorporate climate change impacts into its environmental review procedures by adopting legislation that directs agencies to «consider reasonably foreseeable climate change impacts, including additional greenhouse gas emissions, and effects, such as predicted sea level rise.»

If we agreed on points like this, we really don't need to spend so much time and effort focusing on regulation, carbon pricing, emission targets and time tables and high cost mitigation policies that have low probability of achieving their aims.

The Opening Doors for Europe's Children campaign aims to support national efforts to develop child protection systems that strengthen families and ensure high - quality family and community - based alternative care for children, by leveraging EU funding and policy and building capacity in civil society.

The aim of these briefs is to improve efforts to collect rigorous evidence for programmes and policies on adolescent health and well - being.