Sentences with phrase «policy environment where»

Since little has been done concurrent with high stakes accountability to actually support and improve schools with resources and innovative services, the result has been a policy environment where the tests have consumed more and more of the curriculum.

In a politically charged policy environment where energy forecasts vary hugely, the new EPRI study is unlikely to be the Rosetta stone that unites the debate.

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What we've seen is the markets have re-adjusted to this new environment where the administration, very late in the business cycle has decided to expand fiscal policy.

Extend your no - gossip policy for events outside the office as well, such as happy hours, company outings or holiday parties, where relaxed environments and alcohol can loosen inhibitions.

As for Fed easings, I continue to doubt the effectiveness of easy monetary policy in an environment where problem debt levels are unusually high and capital spending is retrenching.

While reaching for yield has been successful in the past, we suggest increasing credit quality, increasing liquidity and reducing risk in an environment where the Fed's policy changes introduce a very different forward - looking outlook.

A note of caution: be mindful that the committee should not negotiate with management about company policy, operations, or wages; the job of an ESOP committee is to foster an environment where employees do not perform their duties just «for the paycheque.»

-- The BOJ may still ease policy, but it is unlikely to gain much by doing so in an environment where external geopolitical events are driving markets and expectations.

Here is a comprehensive guide to tax planning in an environment where policies could dramatically change under new leadership...

This may give you greater potential for growth compared to traditional universal life policies, where the interest rate is declared by the insurance company, particularly in a low - interest rate environment.

It might well be queried why these schemes continue to be promoted in pharmacies and schools.They are not cheap to run and, in an environment where resources are particularly scarce, there seem to be only two explanations: either policy makers are simply ignorant of the evidence or there is an ideological agenda at work.

This problem today is engendered and sustained by virtually every institution responsible for the creation of the built environment: the real estate development industry; the construction industry; federal, state and local regulatory agencies; the rule - of - thumb manuals of transportation engineers; the lending policies of banks; the professions of architecture and planning; the patrons of architecture; and above all the zoning ordinances that regulate where and how buildings get built.

As the largest public policy association for California wine, and the only group representing the industry at the state, federal and international levels, Wine Institute's Officers, Board of Directors and professional staff work to create an environment where the wine community can flourish and contribute in a positive fashion to our nation, state and local communities.

He has also worked for Bodegas Chivite, a Spanish wine group, as Director of Environment affairs and Innovation where was mainly responsible for the design and implementation of a long - term research policy in the wine group.

«In an environment where regulation may be moving to the use of a mandatory code, it will be important that policy makers ensure the regulatory settings are appropriate to ensure the right market outcomes in bulk wheat export, and that access to important bottleneck infrastructure continues to be effective.»

Stakeholders» input was integrated into development of A Healthy Start for Minnesota Children: Supporting Opportunities for Life - Long Health, a theory of change that depicts how public understanding, health in all policies, and community innovation lead to 1) safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments and 2) social and economic security, which in turn will help the state achieve its ultimate outcome — that every Minnesota child, prenatal to age three years, will thrive in their family and community and achieve their full potential regardless of their race, where they live, or their family's income.

A progressive capitalism can only be forged with an enabling state that understands the global environment in which today's business leaders operate: where survival depends on profitability, where the world is awash with investment opportunities beyond the UK, and where arbitrary interventions in markets and constant changes in government policy discourage the long term investment Britain needs.

The Lib Dem environment spokesman said that while the two parties had cooperated in backing plans for a new climate change bill, this partnership would be suspended until the Tories could put their policies where their rhetoric was.

The Ulster County Legislature appoints the five - member body to constitute the UCRRA Board and has both a Recycling Oversight Committee (where UCRRA Board member and Kingston resident Charlie Landi is appointed as liaison) and an Energy and Environment Committee that «set policy and review contracts pertaining to but not limited to the activities of the Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency».

Ben Caldecott, head of Policy Exchange's environment and energy unit, said: «We know what works from abroad, where schemes have cut littering rates by up to 80 per cent.»

She added: «It was only when I was reviewing the papers of the Stephen Lawrence case, the tribunal, and looking at what the description of institutional racism is, and as I've been reading and listening to all of the stories around Windrush, it occurred to me that the policies that this Prime Minister - and it lays only at the door of Theresa May - that her policies where she wanted to create a hostile environment, has actually created an environment that disproportionately affects and discriminates people of colour and therefore could be classified as institutionally racist.

But what is this hostile environment and where did this policy come from?

However, writes Andreas T. Schmidt (University of Groningen), within an environment where private companies frequently adopt nudge strategies, public policy nudges need not have greater implications for democracy and transparency than other forms of government intervention, and can be one tool in exerting democratic control over private sector nudge tactics.

In a statement responding to Golden Spike's announcement, a NASA spokesperson said: «This type of private sector effort is further evidence of the timeliness and wisdom of the Obama administration's overall space policy — to create an environment where commercial space companies can build upon NASA's past successes, allowing the agency to focus on the new challenges of sending humans to an asteroid and eventually Mars.»

While the long - term effects of cannabis cultivation on the environment are unknown, the researchers concluded that land management and agricultural policy informed by further research may reduce these threats in California and in other states and countries where cannabis production can be regulated.

And he has done so at the particular intersection of science with public policy environment and the human condition where public and policy - maker confusion about the realities is more dangerous for the future of society than on any other science - and - policy question excepting, possibly, the dangers from weapons of mass destruction.

Where an earlier generation of donors had chalked up the challenges to problems of implementation or program design, the new philanthropists were much more receptive to the notion that the problem was the inhospitable cultures, systems, and policy environments in which those scale - ups were being attempted.

«We formed the union to ensure that we are able to facilitate learning in an environment where the policies implemented are impartial and are beneficial to student progress.»

It is vital that we develop policies to ensure students, especially those from low - income and minority families, attend schools where high - quality teachers and principals work together to create strong learning environments.

Greg has deep connections with the Center, previously serving as CEO from 2010 - 2015 where he led advocacy efforts to create a more favorable policy environment for Tennessee's charters.

The Departments are committed to promoting effective and appropriate school discipline policies and practices that create a safe and inclusive environment where all students can learn and succeed.

Additionally, fair and equitable discipline policies are an important component of creating an environment where all students feel safe and welcome.

That is to say that a student becoming angry and choosing to say nothing because school policy will punish any other reaction will only illicit that response to anger in the future in the school environment where the negative reinforcement exists without fundamentally teaching the student how to handle anger in other contexts (Lewkowicz, 2007, pp. 10 - 11).

Dr. Muhammad's theory is that none of these well - intentioned policies or strategies will have a fighting chance in an environment where the educators possess a Superiority or Victim mindset.

Here is a comprehensive guide to tax planning in an environment where policies could dramatically change under new leadership...

And in a broader environment where central banks globally continue to face the temptations of a race to debase, currency hedging offers a way to limit the impact of macro-economic policy missteps, too.

Coupled with the policies is an inflationary environment where the prices of basic goods are going higher: namely gasoline, food, etc..

While reaching for yield has been successful in the past, we suggest increasing credit quality, increasing liquidity and reducing risk in an environment where the Fed's policy changes introduce a very different forward - looking outlook.

Part of the premium paid in a par policy is invested by the insurance company in a conservative portfolio, where dividends earned are credited to the policy and can grow in a tax - sheltered environment, similar to an RRSP.

People are going to borrow more in this Goldilocks interest rate environment (where abnormal rates no longer reflect risk) and are forced to for RE when the effects of both Government policies and Central Bank monetary policies combine to cause real estate to «demand inflate».

It is designed to assist governments, the pet industry, and their partners in establishing programs and policies that prevent the release or escape of pets into the natural environment, where they can become invasive species.

Pet Pathway Toolkit assists governments, the pet industry, and their partners in establishing programs and policies that prevent the release or escape of pets into the natural environment, where they can become invasive species.

Thus, I applaud efforts at being careful regarding release of data, and of complete scientific datasets, especially in an environment where transparency is being enforced by policy.

At the science - policy interface where the science is highly uncertain, understanding of the postnormal environment for science can help avoid situations of overconfidence in the science and keep the focus on understanding and characterizing the uncertainty.

He was also a research intern at the John Locke Foundation, which was launched by Pope during the 1990s and has received money from the Koch brothers, where he worked on «policy alternatives» on issues that included the environment.

, where he worked on «policy alternatives» on issues that included the environment.

Environmental policy is about making the right tradeoffs it isn't about prohibitions it is about measuring what will benefit society the most without the most harm to the environment, and hopefully get to a point where we are doing good enough to allow the earth catchup to what we cause.

They are responsible for ensuring a safe work environment where workers adhere to strict site safety policies.

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.

UN Environment is supporting close to fifty countries and cities around the world to make this positive change, and will support where we can in order to push policy change.