Sentences with phrase «policy group said»

Over half of CPS teachers surveyed for a small - scale study by an education policy group said they do not regularly use strategies learned in professional development provided by the district.

With the testing industry struggling to keep up with the demand fueled by mandates for more student tests, the Bush administration needs to take dramatic steps to ensure that states have the ability to develop high - quality K - 12 assessments, the first report from a recently launched Washington policy group says.

Not exact matches

The Department of Transportation, which held discussions in 2016 with mental and physical disability rights groups about which animals should be allowed in airplane cabins, said it will monitor Delta's policy to make sure it is in line with the rights of passengers with disabilities who travel with service animals.

Founded only in 2008 but measured earlier this year as the third-most valuable venture capital - backed group in the world at over $ 25 billion, Airbnb also said it would help prevent its service from causing housing shortages by «ensuring hosts agree to a policy of listing only permanent homes on a short - term basis».

In an internal memo obtained by CNBC, IBM's Rometty condemned the «hate groups in Charlottesville» and said the policy forum «can no longer serve the purpose for which it was formed.»

Stacy ticks off a list: «Managing partner, chairperson, practice group leader, office head, compensation committee, policy committee, executive committee, equity partner — anything that has governance and leadership responsibilities associated with it has to hit the 30 % consideration threshold,» she says.

For example, if you have different business units, such as a manufacturing facility and a sales and research facility, you may want to have the core handbook be the same for each group of employees but you may want to include specific policies for specific business units, such as if one business unit has a union or hourly - paid employees, Cooper says.

«If the government set policies through the emotive lens of populist sentiments, it might make you feel better, but not necessarily fare better,» Li said in a 2014 interview with Chinese media group Caixin.

One common mistake entrepreneurs make in their business plans is to project that they will capture a certain percentage of the overall market for their product without fully explaining how they intend to do that, says Mark Steranka, director of planning and policy for Moss Adams» Consulting Group in Seattle.

Trump has not yet set out a clear policy on Syria but has indicated he could cut U.S. support for insurgent groups and has said he wants to mend ties with Russia, whose President Vladimir Putin is Assad's strongest international ally.

«Through a series of intragroup financial and commercial agreements, the majority shareholders group implemented a policy that resulted in draining, to its own benefit, the treasury and the wealth of the joint company,» Gecamines said in a statement.

Chris Krueger, an analyst at Cowen Washington Research Group, said a large package could be difficult since the parties have a slew of policy differences on infrastructure — such as how to pay for it.

A report by Asan Institute for Policy Studies in Seoul and C4ADS in Washington says it identified more than $ 500 million in trade from January 2011 to September 2015 between the North and the Liaoning Hongxiang Group, which states on its website that it trades heavily with the North.

«The NY Fed should go back to the drawing board and draw from the deep, diverse, and highly qualified list of candidates provided to it by the Fed Up coalition (as well as surveying the views of other public interest groups),» the Economic Policy Institute's Josh Bivens said in a recent statement.

Separately, CDP said French cosmetics giant L'Oreal and Anglo - Dutch consumer goods group Unilever (ul) were the top performers on the global ranking, scoring straight «A» s on a scorecard that rates corporate policies on preventing climate change, ensuring water security and protecting forests.

«The Montreal round has become make or break,» said Matt McAlvanah, principal at Monument Policy Group and former Assistant U.S Trade Representative.

Large companies «need to attract and retain employees and they'd be at a competitive disadvantage if they stopped offering health benefits,» said William Kramer, executive director for national health policy for the Pacific Business Group on Health.

Robert Palmer, policy advisor at advocacy group Global Witness, said the filings showed people might be able to hide behind shell companies despite the new system.

For their part, industry groups said they welcomed the addition and hoped Emanuel would soon lead the board to undo Obama - era policies, including allowing employees to organize in «micro-unions» and holding franchisors responsible for franchisees» violations of labor law.

All three companies have policies that say they don't do business with hate groups.

«With the right set of policies, this era of demographic change can be an engine of economic growth,» World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim said in a release.

The Federal Open Markets Committee said Wednesday that it will be «patient» in deciding when to adjust monetary policy, switching from its previous language that the group would maintain low rates for a «considerable time.»

Zuckerberg's letter was «a bit more ambitious and a bit more of the 30,000 - foot view than I see from most tech company CEOs,» Peter Micek, global policy and legal counsel at Access Now, an international digital rights group, said in a phone interview.

Asked in late June about the effect sanctuary - city policies have on efforts to combat transnational organized crime, Flordia Republican Sen. Marco Rubio said he didn't believe getting rid of them would solve the problem such groups posed.

Brad Herald, vice president Western Canada operations for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, said individual cases before tribunals or the courts will become the testing group for workplace - related cannabis policies, absent government leadership.

«What we thought and we had envisioned is the cost of the newly enrolled would end up approaching that of the [employer - insured] group market, but we're seeing in the data we have today it is actually about 20 percent higher than in the group market,» said Alissa Fox, senior vice president for policy and representation at BCBSA, in an interview with Morning Consult.

Echoing Democratic sentiments of merit - based, un-incentivized business competition, Barnes said his group would «absolutely» join hands with Democrats to push its policy goals forward.

The cost of the credits to the federal government makes them controversial, however, says Joseph Rosenberg, senior research associate at the Tax Policy Center, a non-partisan tax group run by the Urban Institute and Brookings.

In a statement from the strategy and policy forum, the group said it was breaking up amid the controversy.

«Some of the recent policy measures taken by China's authorities in the markets have been quite puzzling and it hasn't really increased confidence among foreign investors,» said Karine Hirn, Hong Kong - based partner of Swedish group East Capital, a $ US3.5 billion fund management firm.

Of course, that doesn't make the most expensive cities the «best» cities to live in, at least not for everyone, says Jennie Allison of the Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness, a nonprofit research and policy group.

When announcing the creation of his political advocacy group, Zuckerberg wrote a Washington Post op - ed, saying that technology leaders must band together to «advocate a bipartisan policy agenda to build the knowledge economy the United States needs to ensure more jobs, innovation and investment.»

The boss of Steadfast Group says Australia's largest insurance companies are getting antsy about the success of its inhouse broker trading platform, which forces them to bid for policies against competitors.

«The more likely someone is to use Uber and Lyft, the more likely they are to take public transportation, and for our industry that is very heartening,» said Darnell Grisby, the group's director of policy development and research.

«Beijing will not sit idly by,» said Paul Triolo, who leads global technology policy analysis at Eurasia Group, a geopolitical risk consultancy.

Baltimore, meanwhile, offers more affordable real estate, a shovel - ready site at Port Covington, and an urban feel that suburban Prince George's County lacks, said Anirban Basu an economist and and CEO of Sage Policy Group in Baltimore.

«It's not clear what Facebook is doing with that information,» said Chris Calabrese, vice president for policy at the Center for Democracy & Technology, a Washington advocacy group.

At Zillow Group we have worked hard toward a more equitable workplace for all, which is why I am extremely proud to say that we have been selected to the inaugural 2018 Bloomberg Gender - Equality Index (GEI), an index that measures gender equality across internal company statistics, employee policies, and external community support and engagement, among -LSB-...]

Stephen Schwarzman, the founder of Blackstone who chaired one of the groups - the Strategy & Policy Forum - crafted a statement saying the group would be disbanded.

«You get the sense Larry thinks very deeply that our system can not survive if we have large levels of inequality and large groups of the population that do not have access to jobs,» said Pascal Noel, a former senior policy adviser to Summers in the White House.

The liberal media monitoring group Media Matters said Mr. Lehrer had «lost the debate» by missing «repeated opportunities to press Mitt Romney into offering specifics on his policy proposals.»

The Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies will examine the technical and policy issues that arise from rapid advances in global telecommunications, the White House said in a statement.

«That is an explicit acknowledgment that this payment was about the election and was about hiding information from voters immediately before the presidential election,» said Paul S. Ryan, vice president of policy and litigation at watchdog group Common Cause, which filed a legal claim over the payment.

«It is our job to ensure effective co-ordination of all pillars, and that a balance of non-overlapping responsibilities is maintained,» he said in prepared remarks for a group of international fiscal policy experts last night in Vancouver.

Importantly, none of these groups could point to federal government dysfunction on climate policy to defend their own inaction, he said, because the wild rhetoric of government dissidents like Craig Kelly does not reflect mainstream government policy for the nation to meet its Paris commitments for a 26 - 28 per cent reduction in carbon emissions by 2030.

«Among the characteristics needed to join the elite group are stable macroeconomic policies,» says Kate Phylaktis, director of the Emerging Markets Group at Cass Business School, City University of London, adding «prudent fiscal policy, low inflation and a stable currency, political stability, good - quality institutions, good infrastructure (especially transport) and above all, education.&rgroup are stable macroeconomic policies,» says Kate Phylaktis, director of the Emerging Markets Group at Cass Business School, City University of London, adding «prudent fiscal policy, low inflation and a stable currency, political stability, good - quality institutions, good infrastructure (especially transport) and above all, education.&rGroup at Cass Business School, City University of London, adding «prudent fiscal policy, low inflation and a stable currency, political stability, good - quality institutions, good infrastructure (especially transport) and above all, education.»

«In no way does WMC or any other chamber, regional or local economic development group direct WEDC's policies or decisions,» Michels said.

However the gaming group said it had changed its dividend policy and will now pay 60 cents a year, subject to its financial performance.

«We are pleased to see the Obama administration will not cause harm to citizens and states by shutting these businesses down, and hope this will lead to an expansion of sensible policies related to marijuana, such as allowing these businesses access to banking, and taxing them at a fair rate,» said Aaron Smith, executive director of the National Cannabis Industry Association, a Washington, D.C. - based trade group that represents what it says are the thousands of firms involved in marijuana production and sales.

The study, by the Sage Policy Group, also said the Amazon project would generate $ 483 million in state taxes each year.