Sentences with phrase «policy focus»

The transportation sector, as one of the largest and fastest growing sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, is becoming a major policy focus for addressing climate change.

I joined A + in 2011 and promote state education policies focused on ensuring all students graduate from high school ready for college and careers.

Public policy focus area that advocates for comprehensive and systemic educational improvement, responsive to current and emerging educational needs.

One last important note: in choosing our top ten best term life insurance policies we focused on a younger demographic (35 year old male).

It prevents manipulation of interest rates for political ends, and keeps monetary policy focused on its long - term goals.

It then considers alternative school reform policies focused on improvements in teacher quality, identifying how much change is required.

Most environmental policies focus on prices, consumption and subsidies to solar and wind power, which are not at the cutting edge.

Its investment policy focuses on European high - quality businesses run by one - in - a-kind type of managers with a strong track record for compounding a company's worth over time.

Domestic policies focusing on education, employment and health were introduced by the administration.

In the 1980s and before, however, education research and policy focused almost exclusively on pedagogy while ignoring the content of instruction.

These findings have important implications for intervention and prevention policies focusing on delinquency.

While current energy policy focuses on preventing greenhouse gas emissions, the results show that freshwater impacts also need to be considered when deciding future national and international energy policies.

When child - welfare policies focus solely on removing a child from an unsafe environment, they miss the opportunity to restore the relationships and build the capacities necessary for resilience.

The current direction in educational practice and policy focuses overwhelmingly on academic achievement.

The past 15 years have seen some good progress, with a steady expansion of mandatory policies focused on improving energy efficiency.

Alongside mitigation, then, we also need policies focused on adaptation, on making sensible adjustments to the unavoidable changes that we now face.

The earlier insurance policy focused only on the insurance sector not over any investment.

Some annual policies focus on providing one single benefit to the traveler.

Personal injury protection in car policies focuses on getting covered drivers medical care after an accident regardless of fault, and not making them wait for a liability judgment.

The changes are a part of the company's broader agenda to craft new policies focused on reducing the amount of abuse, hate speech, violence and harassment.

Much of the discussion concerning American education policy focuses on the achievement gap between high - and low - performing students.

With increased policy focus on teacher diversity, equal attention must also be directed towards the lack of diversity within school leadership.

«Assemblywoman Meng will gladly debate Dan Halloran and his support for the radical, ultraconservative, republican agenda, including his plans to privatize Social Security, pass The Ryan budget and continue the failed economic policies focused on supporting the wealthiest 1 % of Americans,» said Meng spokesperson Austin Finan.

Duncan Selbie, CEO of Public Health England, discusses the change of policy focus for 2018, from sugar reduction to overall calorie reduction.

Uncertainty shock = lower US GDP estimates; markets will price in EU fragmentation; Fed likely passes Dec; but ultimate global growth impact of Trump will depend on whether protectionism or Keynesianism triumphs; either way inflation / stagflation = destination as policies focus on ending wage deflation via immigration controls, trade protectionism, fiscal spending.

The issue is not just that it is an economically harmful path to take, but that it hoovers up enormous amounts of time, money, staff and policy focus from areas which actually require urgent attention.

Maintain current policy focus on: universal newborn screening; medical homes; universal developmental, autism, and lead screenings; BrightStars Quality Rating and Improvement System; RI Early Learning and Development Standards; health and safety promotion programs

SAISD will be piloting restorative practices as a major policy focus next year, and addressing the role of police in behavior management in our schools is a logical and important next step.

Late in October, California Governor Jerry Brown threatened to sue the administration of President Donald Trump for implementation of environmental policies focused more on real pollutants (e.g., heavy metals) and less on contrived ones (e.g., carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion.

A better policy focus on those areas has a better chance to dramatically alter poverty than the new math being peddled as scientific fact.

As regards access to tertiary education, they are treated as if they are international students who are required by immigration policy to be self reliant and economically independent.9 South African social justice policies focus primarily on advancing the historically disadvantaged and such focus has an implication of excluding refugees from benefiting from socio - economic scheme.

If this hypothesis is correct, our findings suggest that Promise - style policies, and other policies focused on making higher education more affordable, may be usefully supplemented by helping students better understand how their behavior affects their future.

It is time to reconsider that assumption, to embrace true educational pluralism, and to support policies focused on increasing high - quality educational options across all educational sectors — public, private, and charter.

Edited by Senior Fellow Ron Haskins and W. Steven Barnett of Rutgers University, Investing in Young Children: New Directions in Federal Preschool and Early Childhood Policy focuses on Early Head Start, Head Start, and home visiting programs.

Indeed, the Google decision seems harsh to American lawyers in part because, unlike U.S. antitrust law, European competition policy focuses on harm to companies as well as to consumers.

Our infrastructure needs to be updated to include forums where commercialization of Canadian ideas are given strategic and integrated policy focus.

It's depressing that the normal policy response to these tragic events has been to stage mass shooting drills at public schools, instead of developing policies focused on making the world less violent.

ARI polling during the 2015 federal election found international trade to be Canadians» preferred foreign policy focus:

The Vatican called the document, one of the most politically and policy focused documents it has ever issued and is «unprecedented in its forensic look at what governments should be seeking in the global compacts».

Readers may be surprised to learn, as I was, that the AAP really has no formal policy focused on the feeding of flavored milk to children, other than brief mentions in its policy addressing sugar - sweetened beverages in schools, where flavored milk — along with plain milk, fruit and vegetable juices and water — is cited as a «healthful alternative» to sodas, and in the academy's statement on increasing children's bone density and calcium intake.