Sentences with phrase «policy environments does»

The CREDO study asks how well a typical charter school student across the sixteen separate state policy environments does compared to the counterfactual of attending a traditional public school.

Not exact matches

«A range of policy choices skewed the market in favor of diesel, whereas in the rest of the world this didn't happen,» says Greg Archer, who heads the Clean Vehicles arm of Transport & Environment, a nongovernmental organization based in Brussels.

In an interview with Rolling Stone, Canada's leader disclosed that while he disagrees with Trump on subjects like the environment and foreign policy, he also does not plan to «go out of [his] way» to prove him wrong.

But while the systematic patterns of public policy don't always matter in the development of the Internet, Guillà © n and Suà ¡ rez discover that conditions for entrepreneurship, such as the ability to raise capital and whether or not the environment is risk - free, do have a consistent effect.

The author had a right to express their views on those topics — we encourage an environment in which people can do this and it remains our policy to not take action against anyone for prompting these discussions.

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 speech starts by setting out three key themes of the Bank's recent communication about Australia's transition from the resources sector boom to more normal economic conditions: that the sheer scale of the boom means that this transition is challenging, and that the broader global environment compounds the challenge; that a reasonably successful transition is possible given our economy's positive fundamentals and flexibility; and that monetary policy is doing what it can to help the transition, but that the chances of success would be boosted by a lift in productivity growth and an increase in the expected risk - adjusted rate of return on investment.

-- 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.

Fiscal policy can be talked about, we can debate about it, and we can proclaim its benefits, but I don't see them in the current environment just as I didn't see them in 2009.

After a long stretch characterized by ultra-low interest rates, slow growth, minimal inflation, cheap oil, and little policy progress due to a conflicted Congress, we are now doing a dramatic 180 degree turn to a lower tax, less regulation, pro-growth environment, with higher rates and higher inflation — a normalization of sorts.

Augmenting human capital does not assure the acceleration of material advance — that will depend on many other things, including the environment of governmental policies in which human talents are set to work.

And, just as we have accepted the importance of monitoring and reporting on the impact of certain policies and activities on the balance of nature, we should try to do the same for endangered or fragile social environments.

Policies that might be both better for the environment and more profitable in the long run are often rejected because they do not have the desired immediate effects.

The difficulty of the paradigm, of course, is that it lifts media policy out of a mere bureaucratic administration into a broader dimension of cultural debate: what sort of symbolic environment do we have, what sort of symbolic environment do we want, and what is the role of the media in our collective effort to deal with our human potential for violence?

I don't really have the time either to go through all the policy and laws passed by the administration that I believe are perpetuating those things and destorying the environment all in the name of corporate profits.

We encourage any good causes looking to corporate sponsorship to put ethical policies in place so they do not become tainted by association with companies that abuse human rights and the environment.»

«A lot of people have over-simplified the environment issues in attempting to reduce them to one - sentence do «s and do n`ts, «says John Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis in Dallas.

Another study done by the Environment California Research and Policy Center tested 5 popular baby bottles: Avent, Dr. Brown's Evenflo, Gerber, and Playtex.

While it is quite true that some of the shackles on growth are outside of the control of domestic economic policy, such as the continuing eurozone crisis and imported inflation, government does have a role to create the best possible environment for businesses to thrive and grow.

But the «hostile environment» policy remains, as does the political ambition that motivated it.

If that doesn't sound rushed, consider this: In her comments at a hearing in Port Jefferson last August, Citizens Campaign for the Environment executive director Adrienne Esposito said, «The Dredged Material Management Plan took over 10 years and $ 7 million to create, yet stakeholders were given seven days before being asked to attend public hearings and comment on a plan that will drive policy for the next 30 years.»

In a letter to the chairman of LAG, environment secretary Liz Truss MP said the report «did not show that the impacts of lead ammunition were significant enough to justify changing current policy».

«It has become imperative that we've this new policy framework because what we really wanted to do is to capture some of the emerging issues that have come since then as regards environment.

She does not understand the policy that my party has on the environment.»

While climate change scepticism is not official party policy, the words «environment» and «climate change» do not appear in the DUP's 2017 general election manifesto.

Mary Creagh MP, Labour's shadow environment secretary, said: «The white paper fails to set out a clear plan for major challenges such as reforestation or biodiversity loss; nor does it deal with concerns about planning policy.

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

«But if we both fundamentally agree that polluting our environment is not good policy, why don't we just say, OK, let's agree on that?

Over the next year, campaigners, non-governmental groups and the media need to establish equally hard - edged thresholds of what the Conservatives need to do to be taken seriously on the environment, democracy and social justice before Cameron's policy commissions make their recommendations.

The Home Secretary also said she does not like the phrase «hostile environment» - Mrs May's flagship policy while Home Secretary.

«We've always known that human capital is important for economic growth and we are also learning that counties that have good amenities and quality of life factors — mountain views, lakes, shores, and clean environment, for example — are doing quite well, but we haven't looked at having both of these together in a county at the same time and what the policy implications might be,» said Goetz.

Policy - makers don't make the environment and climate change real for people, mattering to their everyday lives and their everyday experience.

To prosper in such an environment, a scientist must recognize that science alone does not influence policy, such as availability of a vaccine.

The study does a «very nice job» of using different approaches to show that climate change is a dominant force, says Thomas Lovejoy, president of the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment in Washington, D.C. «I think the single most important public policy [issue] here is agreeing on what the limit should be on greenhouse gas concentration,» he says.

«Stemming the Tide of Plastic Marine Litter: A Global Action Agenda,» the Emmett Center's most recent Pritzker Environmental Law and Policy Brief, documents the devastating effects of plastic marine litter, detailing how plastic forms a large portion of our waste stream and typically does not biodegrade in marine environments.

But in a world which does not place a cost on environmental degradation, but sees the environment as a free resource, it is not surprising that a market - led energy policy lets industry dump sulphur dioxide, carbon dioxide and other pollutants indiscriminately into the atmosphere unless prevented by legal regulation.

The automatic - attitudes test indicated that the students tended to prefer the politician who did not want to raise taxes to fund environment - friendly policy initiatives.

«Environments that explicitly or implicitly encourage people to conceal their sexual orientation — even when employers adopt a «Don't Ask» policy — may significantly harm workers,» says Critcher, «Establishing a workplace climate that supports diversity may be one of the easiest ways to enhance workplace productivity.»

If Singapore adopts less progressive policies at further cost to our environment, it becomes complicit to forming the kind of norms that give permissions to other countries in the region to do the same.»

EU sources say they do not expect publication of the Commission's impact assessment until after a major chunk of environment and energy policy set to be announced in January.

The new research is presented in the Carsey Institute policy brief «Do You Trust Scientists about the Environment?»

«The city doesn't get to its climate goals without cutting how many miles we're driving on our roads and then electrifying the difference,» said Chris Bast, climate and transportation policy adviser in Seattle's Office of Sustainability and Environment.

China's industry, environment and science ministries, which devise most new energy vehicle policies, did not respond to requests for comment.

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.

Scientists do their best work in a respectful environment that «encourages the free expression and exchange of scientific ideas» — to quote the AAS Anti-Harassment Policy, which is codified in our Bylaws.

That said, does the policy encourage an unhealthy working environment?

Did the group bonus program operating in this policy environment have an impact on student achievement?

Similarly, Osborne's swift critique of policies allowing multiple charter authorizers to operate in one area doesn't engage with the legitimate concern that a single - authorizer environment can constrain school supply, homogenize offerings, and concentrate too much power in one government body.

But if you want to address the real - world scenario, one in which millions of underserved youth don't meet those descriptions and don't have a high - quality school available, it's time for school choice advocates to dispense with ideology, engage regulators, and get serious about a policy environment that promotes measurable quality, scale, and access.

Why, then, do the majority of district, state, and federal education policies prioritize annual assessment results over equally important factors, such as challenging and engaging curricula; strong social - emotional and physical health supports; moral and ethical development; and safe, supportive learning environments?