Sentences with phrase «policy enactment»

In this paper, we examine public PreK policy enactment through a study of New Jersey's highly regulated PreK program and Wisconsin's locally determined, mid-regulation 4K program.

Not exact matches

While the decision was always potentially regarded as a temporary measure during the enactment of wide - sweeping Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reforms to deregulate the market, the report's conclusions could indicate a setback to free trade.

Temperatures reached 107 degrees (F), and it's the first enactment of the policy since 2009.

Carol Raphael, President and CEO of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, the state's oldest and largest home care agency, said, «The Visiting Nurse Service of New York applauds Governor Cuomo's call for a thoughtful, collaborative approach to restructuring the State's Medicaid program; we are prepared to work with him and his Administration toward the enactment of policies that focus on coordinating care to the State's most vulnerable patients, who often suffer from multiple complex conditions.»

Even as policies like Mandatory Inclusionary Housing, which requires set percentages of rent - controlled units in new developments, move toward enactment in an administration - run rezoning process, some East Harlem stakeholders are making proactive attempts at steering their community's future.

«Enactment of this social - media policy is just one example of the numerous initiatives the Department of Social Services has implemented to strengthen CPS practice in the last several months,» said Department of Social Services Commissioner Carol Dankert - Maurer.

Commending the Nigerian Army for responsively keying into the federal government policy of research, innovation and ensuring a politically stable nation, he said the present administration has given priority to research development through enactment of realistic policies that will re-position the armed forces towards attaining excellence.

When the model was run assuming only enactment of the clean energy policies, it showed a gain 458,000 net new jobs in 2030, and a small, $ 37 billion addition to the gross domestic product that year.

A 2006 national survey by the Center on Education Policy, an independent advocacy organization in Washington, DC, found that in the five years after enactment of NCLB, 44 percent of districts had increased instruction time in elementary school English language arts and math while decreasing time spent on other subjects.

Given the various social, economic, and educational factors at work before and after NCLB was implemented, it is difficult to draw strong conclusions about the policy's impact from a simple comparison of achievement trends before and after enactment of the law.

When Jill Biden convened a gathering of researchers and university faculty to mark the five - year anniversary of Operation Educate the Educators last spring, they also celebrated significant policy gains, like the enactment of the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children, which smooths transitions by eliminating conflicting state educational requirements, and the «military - student identifier» provision in the Every Student Succeeds Act, which requires states — for the first time — to track outcomes for these students.

Goals Current status Motivations for policy Strategies for implementation and enactment Explanatory factors Collaboration Historical context.

State policy leadership for improved teaching and learning often predates, by a decade or more, the enactment of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act.

Managing in the middle: School leaders and the enactment of accountability policy.

Ideally, if there could, some policy changes or enactments in that time then you could have some pre and post types of analyses to see how those policies maybe have affected their behaviors and activities.

The Center for Education Policy released a report this week that analyzes the changes in curriculum and instruction time since the enactment of No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

These new policy instruments are commonly thought to include: new content standards or instructional frameworks; assessments that focus students» and teachers» work on intellectually authentic tasks that are «aligned» with new content standards; more ambitious curricula that are consistent with new standards and assessments; and changes in teacher education that would improve enactment of the new standards (Cohen, 1995).

APPS Analysis: Some charter managers and CEOs have fought against enactment of Policy 406, claiming that it would bring over-regulation to charter schools.

Based on policy documents, congressional debates, session minutes from government agencies, and in - depth interviews with education stakeholders, I examine the enactment of the Education Quality Assurance Law in response to student protests in 2006.

Many Arizona educators and administrators in small and rural school districts feel that in the enactment of educational policies their special concerns are overlooked.

As the anniversary of the law's enactment passed quietly Friday, an occasion Bush marked throughout his presidency as a domestic policy milestone, the regimen of standardized testing and school accountability remains intact.

If the federal government was the primary driver of education policy in the early 2000s, states reemerged as a dominant player in recent years leading up to the enactment of ESSA, driving the structure of the post-NCLB iteration of standards - based reform.

And although all but a handful of states operated under a waiver as of the 2015 --- 16 school year, the enactment of ESSA meant that all ESEA waivers expired in August 2016.50 Under waivers, states were empowered to make policy choices altering how accountability works for schools.

Enactments positively associated with principal efficacy include district requirements for improved goal setting; the establishment of detailed school - improvement plans; requirements that community people participate in formulating school - improvement plans; clear articulation of expectations for student outcomes, derived from state policy; support for collaboration between high schools and middle schools; support for teachers engaged in using new instructional programs.

-- The study required by subsection (a), along with recommendations by the Office of Technology Assessment, including any policy options for legislative action, shall be submitted to the President and Congress within 36 months after the date of the enactment of this Act.

Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of the Surface Transportation and Freight Policy Act of 2012, subject to subsection (b), the Secretary shall establish standards to ensure that the design of Federal surface transportation projects provides for the safe and adequate accommodation, in all phases of project planning, development, and operation, of all users of the transportation network, including motorized and nonmotorized users.

Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of the Surface Transportation and Freight Policy Act of 2012, the Secretary shall develop baselines for the goals and shall determine appropriate methods of data collection to measure the attainment of the goals.

Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of the Surface Transportation and Freight Policy Act of 2012, the Secretary of Transportation shall develop and implement a National Surface Transportation and Freight Performance Plan to achieve the policy, objectives, and goals set forth in sections 303 anPolicy Act of 2012, the Secretary of Transportation shall develop and implement a National Surface Transportation and Freight Performance Plan to achieve the policy, objectives, and goals set forth in sections 303 anpolicy, objectives, and goals set forth in sections 303 and 312.

A provision of the ACA designed to facilitate preventative care and which was put into effect immediately upon enactment of the law is its coverage of certain preventative care screenings — these procedures have been made available to all health insurance policy holders without charge, and without payment of normal co-pay fees or charges.

But even so, the EPA has limited authority: «It's not the Enactment Parliamentary Agency, nor even the Energy Policy Agency,» he told the judges.

The new policy brief examines the design, enactment, implementation, and performance of the SO2 allowance trading system, with an eye toward identifying lessons learned for future efforts to apply cap and trade to other environmental challenges, including global climate change.

In addition, Section 211, of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (P.L. 109 - 58) provides that the Secretary of the Interior should, within 10 years of enactment of the Act,»... seek to have approved non-hydropower renewable energy projects located on the public lands with a generation capacity of at least 10,000 megawatts of electricity».

-- Within 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy shall report to the President and the Congress on a proposal, prepared through the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, to establish and operate a National Climate Service.

ALEC and Heartland have shared numerous staff and «experts» over the years, including Sandy Liddy Bourne, who was ALEC's Director of the Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture Task Force for the from 1999 - 2004, before being promoted to Director of Legislation and Policy, where she oversaw all of ALEC's task forces and helped boost state enactment of ALEC's corporate bills from 11 percent to 20 percent.

-- Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this section, the Commission shall adopt, after notice and opportunity for comment, national electricity grid planning principles derived from the Federal policy established under subsection (a) to be applied in ongoing and future transmission planning that may implicate interstate transmission of electricity.

California's leaders and those in the Northeast may take great pride in their state and regional climate policies, but if they accomplish their frequently - stated goal — helping to bring about the enactment of a meaningful national climate policy — they will better serve their states and the country by declaring victory and getting out of the way.

During this time, the climate change disinformation campaign also successfully prevented enactment of meaningful US domestic climate change laws and policies.

Environmental racism describes this unfortunate situation and refers to «the enactment of any policy or regulation that negatively affects the living conditions of low - income or minority communities at a rate disproportionate from affluent communities» (Environmental Justice Group.

There, recent legislative enactments and policy changes have made the educational component of the bar incompatible with the regulatory side, yet the education side voted to stay with the bar anyway.

[60] I am therefore of the view, for all the foregoing reasons, that the legislative process, from its very inception where policy options are discussed and developed to the actual enactment of a bill following its adoption by both Houses and the granting of royal assent by the Governor... [more]

«In my view, engaging in activity which is prohibited by Parliament through the enactment of the Criminal Code of Canada falls squarely within the rubric of a public policy violation,» he added before rejecting arguments that voiding the gift would open the floodgates to frivolous estate litigation.

[68] The substantive elements of the termination that the Board found unreasonable included: the principal ordering Mr. Dorval to use codes given the evidence that policy (of RSCHS and Edmonton Public School Board) supported involvement of teachers» professional judgment and consultation; the order being simply announced with little or no consultation; questions or concerns being ignored; little or no communication to students and parents about the codes or their enactment; the failure of the principal and the appellant to respect the professional rights and duties of the teacher regarding assessment of his students; and the discriminatory singling out of Mr. Dorval for discipline when other teachers who also challenged and refused to follow the principal's order were not disciplined.

It is clear from the authorities, both in Canada and in England, that parties are not competent to contract themselves out of the provisions of such enactments and that contracts having such effect are void, as contrary to public policy.»

Thus the rule should exclude persons or groups whose interest in the issue is only policy - based: for example, an Environmental Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) speaking about a project in Town X not because it is particularly involved in what happens in Town X but because Town X has an environmental issue and the NGO is interested in environmental issues generally; or, similarly, a Business NGO speaking about the levying of a municipal tax in Town X when the Business NGO or its members would not pay the tax but it does not like the precedent the Town is setting for the Town is setting for the purpose of the possible future enactment of similar taxes in other municipalities.

If the «political branches» are to be the «final arbitrator» of compliance with the Charter of their «policy initiatives», it would seem the enactment of the Charter affords no real protection at all to the rights holders the Charter, according to its text, was intended to benefit.

This means for those organizations that initially drafted their privacy policy in 2001 following the enactment of The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, it is time for an update.

Nonetheless, there may be little time between the enactment of these changes and the July deadline, and obligated organizations should consider reviewing their accessible customer service policies and progress soon.

They attempted to excuse their conduct on the basis that they needed more time to develop policies, standards administrative structure and consultation processes, and acquire scientific expertise after the enactment of SARA.

The government may've enacted the law, but the enactment was just a policy decision.

The act should require that each accessibility standard be reviewed within five years of enactment, and every five years thereafter, by having the Council examine the accessibility objectives and the measures, policies, practices and other requirements in the standard.