Sentences with phrase «policy paper calling»

The HLE blog releases a policy paper calling for action against sexual violence against men in conflict zones

Out of School and Unprepared: The Need to Improve Support for Students with Disabilities Transitioning to Adulthood In March 2011, the ARISE Coalition, a group of parents, educators, advocates and other supporters of students with disabilities coordinated by Advocates for Children of New York (AFC), released this policy paper calling on New York City and New York State to follow the law with respect to transition planning and to give post-secondary transition for students with special education needs the same high priority they are beginning to give college and career readiness for other students.

The FSB has launched a new policy paper calling on the Government to hold a national conference to help better prepare for bad weather following weeks of snow.

Not exact matches

A new policy paper from LARAC, released today (11 April), calls on the government to introduce direct charging for household waste collections and PRN reform to increase recycling and tackle the funding crisis crippling UK local authorities.

Stefanik, a member of the House Climate Solutions Caucus, said she disagrees with tying policy to calls for official resignations, and said she would continue to call for his walking papers.

Most of Cuomo's proposals are not novel — on paper, his agenda looks a lot like Spitzer's — and it would be a stretch to call «The New NY Agenda» a policy book.

Governor Ajimobi also called on the southwest regional leader to formulate policies and make a position on economic paper that would move the country forward.

The Employment Policies Institute has placed a full - page ad in today's New York Post, calling out Cuomo for his «uninformed views» on the $ 15 minimum wage, while the labor - backed «Fight for $ 15» campaign has pro-increase front - page ads in numerous papers across the state (including a commemorative Daily News wrap).

Perhaps it's only me, but isn't it remarkable that a widely read paper with a policy of not backing factions compares the president to a failing toilet attendant after the president calls a NY senator a whore?

Presenting the IEA's position paper, Dr. Ofori Mensah called for a second look at the policy on the sale of government vehicles to outgoing functionaries.

Cameron, on the other hand, had spent years wooing the Lib Dems — calling himself a Liberal Conservative; declaring that there was «not a cigarette paper» between many of their policies and praising Clegg for his campaign for Gurkha rights.

This policy paper from AAU was very important, as it was possible to cite it to the Berkeley faculty as a required call for reform, particularly in departments like my own — chemistry — and in some parts of the biological sciences in which a number of questionable practices were going on.

Security group calls U.S. unprepared for Arctic changes The analysis from the National Snow and Ice Data Center comes on the heels of several scientific and policy papers in the past week warning about the consequences of Arctic ice loss.

FP7 also includes a project called Open Access Infrastructure Research for Europe (OpenAIRE) to help implement the policy, mainly by publishing papers in a central database.

Since the 1940s, explains Nigel Purvis of Resources for the Future, in a paper on the relevance of the subject to climate policy, the United States has approved 90 % of its international deals — thousands of pacts — through so - called congressional - executive agreements.

A new study of China's one - child policy is roiling demography, sparking calls for the field's leading journal to withdraw the paper.

The paper grew out of their work on a National Academy of Education steering committee, chaired by Singer, that studied the purposes, methods, and policy uses of so - called international large - scale assessments, or ILSAs — tests like the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) or the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS).

In this forum, Sara Goldrick - Rab, professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin — Madison and co-author of a paper that helped shape the president's plan, calls for an even more expansive effort — one that includes funding for students» living and other expenses while they pursue an associate degree at any public institution.

In our 2015 policy paper, Climate Change: Creating Safe, Supportive Schools for All Students, E4E - New York members pointed out that there are more police officers than school counselors in New York City schools and called on the NYC Department of Education to turn this shameful number on its head by increasing the amount of school counselors.

Armed law enforcement officers are not educators, social workers, or counselors, and overwhelming evidence shows that when schools involve law enforcement in minor, non-violent behavioral infractions, students of color are disproportionately impacted.1 In our 2015 policy paper, Climate Change: Creating Safe, Supportive Schools for All Students, E4E - New York members pointed out that there are more police officers than school counselors in New York City schools and called on the NYC Department of Education to turn this shameful number on its head by increasing the amount of school counselors.

As Congress considers the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA, aka No Child Left Behind), Parents Across America, a national network of public school parents, will be calling on our U. S. Senators and Congressmen this week to share our concerns about the direction of federal education policy, and offer our proposals in a new position paper (attached).

«These results call into question the fixed and formulaic approach to teacher evaluation that's being promoted in a lot of states right now,» said Morgan Polikoff, one of the study's authors, in a video that explains his paper, «Instructional Alignment as a Measure of Teaching Quality,» published online in Education Evaluation and Policy Analysis on May 13, 2014.

Sixty - one additional organizations signed onto the «call for action» policy paper.

The SBAC «policy paper» setting the absurd scoring system doesn't even call for additional efforts to address those key factors nor does it even mention how inappropriate and unfair it is to evaluate public school teachers on these flawed test scores.

Ownership of a cash value life insurance policy is titled (similarly held and conveyed) by a piece of paper that functions much like a deed but is called a «policy».

The best recent representation of Sachs's views is the paper he and others co-authored with James E. Hansen, the longtime NASA climate scientist who now has a climate policy position at Columbia, in which they build on Hansen's longstanding call for a rising price on carbon.

In 1972, a policy group called the Club of Rome released an infamous and influential paper predicting all sorts of environmental doom.

So I wrote to the editor of JASA [The Journal of the American Statistical Association], described what had happened at other journals, and asked if the paper might be reconsidered... [H] e pointed to a new journal that he and some colleagues had recently founded, called Statistics, Politics and Policy, which is dedicated to bringing rigorous statistical analysis to bear on important issues with policy implicaPolicy, which is dedicated to bringing rigorous statistical analysis to bear on important issues with policy implicapolicy implications.

Earlier this year, in preparation for a pre-Copenhagen NGO policy summit, we prepared a framing and background paper called Principle - based Annex 1 Differentiation in the Copenhagen Accord.

The European Commission has published its «Reflection paper on the future of EU finances» on 28 June, the last of five policy papers within the so called «White paper process on the future of Europe».

The paper calls for «human dignity» to serve as a necessary guiding principle of climate policy and outlines three central objectives consistent with this guiding principle: (1) ensuring energy access for all, (2) developing clean and scalable energy technologies that are ultimately cost competitive with fossil fuels absent subsidy, and (3) building resilience to climate change.

This paper evaluates Japan's so - called «Mamizu» climate policies proposed in mid-2009 in terms of the implied rates of decarbonization of the Japanese economy for short - term and long - term targets.

In a paper last year, Professor Robert Pindyck from the Massachusetts Institute Technology concluded the so - called integrated assessment models used to combine climate science with economics have «crucial flaws that make them close to useless as tools for policy analysis».

The interesting, central finding of the theory paper is that when a «fortune» (available resources) fall below a certain critical level (determined by the cost per unit time of surviving, and the stochastic return investments available to the investor), the optimal policy becomes what economists call a «risk - seeking» one, where the investor should place relatively large bets on relatively high payoff, low probability of payoff gambles.

His latest offering is an «original paper» produced for the non-peer reviewed, and mysteriously funded front group called the «Science and Public Policy Institute».

Former Secretary of State George Shultz and former CIA director R. James Woolsey, co-chairs of a dire - sounding organization called The Committee on the Present Danger, wrote in a policy paper last year: «A plug - in hybrid averaging 125 mpg, if its fuel tank contains 85 per cent cellulosic ethanol, would be obtaining about 500 mpg [of gasoline].

Then, recently, a think tank called MAPS (Mitigation Action Plans and Scenarios) published this policy paper, which gives their interpretation of the ERF, and we fell into a depression for it seemed our dreams of true climate justice were about to be dashed.

Someone would do an almost as useful service by beginning to compile a list of the academic papers that call into question the merits of the emission reduction policies now being promoted — the endless list of regulations, subsidies, taxes, product mandates, and government - imposed «information programs» that all seek to alter energy supply and demand decisions.

That mandate is unlikely to change, says David Victor, one of the lead authors of the policy discussion in the April IPCC report and the head writer of one of the papers published Thursday in Science, called «Getting Serious About Categorizing Countries.»

Earlier this year, in preparation for a pre-Copenhagen NGO policy summit, we prepared a framing and background paper called Principal - based Annex 1 Differentiation in the Copenhagen Accord.

The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) at the University of Ottawa released a white paper yesterday that calls on the federal government to enact a data security breach notification law.

Paper addresses the legislative history of Bill 187 with its original stated intent (to eliminate deeming); expansion of deeming in the subsequent draft policies by introducing the concept of «under - employment»; recommendations for a policy that complies with past practice, founding principles and current wording of the Act; call for Board research on employment outcomes after retraining.

In his posts, he sides against creating new laws and policies that might protect some but chip away at the First Amendment for all; calls out questionable ethical moves by fellow lawyers and judges in Texas; and shares random tidbits about little things he does to boost his advocacy — like taking improv classes and filing pleadings on quality paper stock.

A new journal, Policy and Internet, has issued calls for papers for its first volume.

The Trudeau government's 1969 White Paper, which called for the removal of any special status for Aboriginal peoples, paired with increased oil and gas exploration in traditional ancestral lands by extractive industries, provided ample reason for Indigenous peoples to organize into formal policy organizations to protect their livelihoods, lifeways and traditional homelands.

You won't get a million phone calls, you'll just get a quality policy on highly rated paper that gives you the protection you deserve.

You can call or go online, either way you get the same broad policy on the same highly rated paper, and it takes about the same five minutes either way.

Responsibilities for this Administrative Assistant job include: • Responsible for scheduling appointments, giving information to callers, making travel arrangements and otherwise relieving officials of clerical work and minor administrative and business detail Set up and maintain paper and electronic filing systems for records, correspondence, and other material • Answer office telephone and give information to callers, take messages, or transfer calls to appropriate individuals • Locate and attach appropriate files to incoming correspondence requiring replies • Greet office visitors and handle their inquiries or direct them to the appropriate person based on their needs • Open, read, route, and distribute incoming mail or other materials and answer routine letters • Complete forms in accordance with company procedures • Review work done by others to check for correct spelling and grammar, ensure that company format policies are followed, and recommend revisions as needed • Compose, type, and distribute meeting notes, routine correspondence, and reports Qualifications: • Must have Associate's Degree or 2 - 3 years work experience in the field or in a related area • Proficiency in Microsoft Office, with demonstrated expertise in Word, Excel and PowerPoint • Strong attention to detail and follow - up skills Pay for this position is $ 15.00 / hr plus overtime as needed.

Waitrose, Carson, IA May 2012 — Present Supermarket Assistant • Welcome customers as they arrive at the supermarket / department and inquire into their purpose of visit • Provide customers with information on where their choice of products are located • Assist customers in locating items and provide them with information on prices and expiry dates • Demonstrate product features and provide warrantee information • Lead customers through payment procedures by processing cash and credit card payments • Pack purchases in paper bags and assist customers in carrying them to their vehicles • Arrange for purchases to be delivered to customers» offices and homes • Provide aftersales services by calling up customers and asking them if their purchases are working properly • Take and service requests for exchanges and returns by strictly following company policies • Handle stocking and restocking activities, keeping the 4Ps of marketing in mind • Ascertain that the department and assigned shelf areas are kept cleaned and maintained at all times

In August 2013, the Campaign Steering Committee released a position paper, Building on the Close the Gap Platform, Commitments for an Incoming Government, which called for policy continuity from the new Australian Government, irrespective of which party was elected to power.