Sentences with phrase «policy mandates effective»

Decades of research confirms that positive parental involvement is critical for students» success in school, and federal policy mandates effective programs at all school levels; however, parent involvement often remains on the back burner of school improvement initiatives.

Decades of research confirms that positive parental involvement is critical for students» success in school, and federal policy mandates effective programs at all school levels; however, parent involvement often...

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This webinar will explore the recent outcomes of USDA's unpaid meal policy mandate and share resources for implementing an effective policy that does not harm or shame students.

She noted that the realignment has expanded the Ministry's mandate to provide a firm and stable policy environment for the effective mainstreaming of the Ghanaian culture into all aspects of national rife and to ensure the emergence of a vibrant and creative economy to improve and advance the tourism industry.

Informally, given their electoral mandate, mayors can also lobby national politicians on policy matters that relate to their area — a role that both previous London mayors were effective in during their terms in office.

The metro mayor should use their direct mandate to enact the most effective, long - term sustainable and economically and socially beneficial policy — a Clean Air Charge (similar to London's Toxicity Charge) on more polluting vehicles entering the most congested and polluted parts of the city region.

By staying in the county Legislature, he said, he can «better work to deliver unfunded mandate relief and help to make Dutchess County financially stronger with policies that will lead to a more efficient, effective county government.»

If our major policy focus is to improve student achievement by improving teacher effectiveness — accounting for 30 per cent of the variance in student achievement — we must attract higher - quality applicants to the teaching profession, improve our teacher education institutions and courses, esteem and grow those teachers who demonstrate expert potential, and mandate teacher development programs for less effective teachers.

Similarly, policy changes at the state or national level, such as the efforts to reduce class sizes or mandate higher - quality teachers, if effective, would likely lead one to overestimate the impact of Chicago's policies.

Some studies in both Massachusetts and New York City have found that a «No Excuses» educational approach — characterized by mandated intensive tutoring, longer instruction times, frequent teacher feedback, strict disciplinary policies, and high expectations for students — is a common feature among charter schools with the biggest positive effects (however, the most effective of these schools are located in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods, making it difficult to disentangle whether this is due to the No Excuses approach or sub-par public school alternatives).

But Gerken and Wozniak continue to make policies that make running an effective shelter impossible — by MANDATING that dogs be euthanized and even puppies to be warehoused and then euthanized vs being given a chance at life.

Some instances are dramatic mandates, such as building code requirements in Brussels Belgium; others are incentives, such as San Francisco's option for an expedited planning process for Passive House buildings; while others are simply recognizing it as a catalyzing tool to organize effective action, such as in New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's trailblazing policy One City: Built to Last or the official resolution in support of Passive House by Manhattan's Community Board 1.

Creating such a pathway to bio-CCS should be feasible through regulations that increase carbon prices and / or biomass co-firing mandates slowly over time, and could help unite renewable energy and CCS proponents to develop policies that enable the development of cost - effective CCS technology.

«ExxonMobil believes a revenue - neutral carbon tax would be a more effective policy option than cap - and - trade schemes, regulations, mandates, or standards.

«We believe that the risks of climate change warrant action... ExxonMobil believes a revenue - neutral carbon tax would be a more effective policy option than cap - and - trade schemes, regulations, mandates, or standards.

As per the recent Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) mandate, no insurance company can claim that there has been a non-disclosure of facts after two years of the policy becoming effective.

Effective Sept. 14, 2015, the HUD / FHA Single Family Policy Handbook includes a mandate that instructs mortgagees to inform mortgage applicants, at first contact, to get a home inspection.