Sentences with phrase «policy priorities»

Maintaining maximum affordability and choice should be a top policy priority for regulators an legislators.

That means you should evaluate the document as a signal of political strategy, not simply a statement of policy priorities.

These public policy priorities have been identified through dialogue with elected officials, business leaders, educators, nonprofit leaders, and parents.

State plans show widespread inclusion of early learning in state priorities, while a few states even integrated early learning as a top policy priority throughout the state's plans.

Start with the environmental bills we've identified as policy priorities, and learn about our positions on critical issues.

This includes identifying key policy priorities for development and interpreting their impact for business.

The roadmap outlines policy priorities and regulatory recommendations, discusses investment stimulating mechanisms and describes technical challenges with regard to research, development and demonstration.

Through this grant, the state is directing substantial resources to support several early childhood policy priorities.

My guess is that winning a larger share of younger voters will have to involve major changes in conservative policy priorities, rhetoric, and media strategy.

All of this has sent those who believe carbon pricing should be the highest climate policy priority scrambling.

Such information is vital for setting policy priorities to promote inclusive, equitable and sustainable development for urban and rural areas alike.

Active travel for school children is recommended as the most urgent policy priority to improve physical activity rates and health.

Small organic producers to major growers, family - run organic operations to nationwide companies, researchers and policy advocates to distributors and retailers will all come together to advance organic policy priorities.

The focal point that can align federal, state, and local policy priorities is expanding student access to excellent teaching.

The new report critically reviews recent research to understand the internet use, and emerging policy priorities, regarding children from birth to eight years old.

Getting students out of those schools should be a top policy priority.

Through this grant, the state directed substantial resources to support several early childhood policy priorities.

There will be a huge price to pay and, as a consequence, the foreign policy priorities of this country for the past 40 years has gone down the plughole in a single night.

For instance, a recent analysis of state - published data by the Center for Public Policy Priorities in Austin found that, by 2016, 26 % Texas women who the state reported as enrolled in the program had in fact never received health care services from a participating provider, up from only 10 % in 2011, pointedly showing how access to care has declined drastically.

Lastly, ASCD's latest issue of Policy Priorities examines charter schools, asserting that, 25 years after their inception, they can no longer be considered an experiment or pilot reform and should now be evaluated on their long - term effectiveness in improving educational opportunities and outcomes.

The TeachStrong campaign is a movement to change the national education policy conversation and make modernizing and elevating the teaching profession the most pressing and significant education policy priority for our nation.

FACT: A recent analysis from the Center for Public Policy Priorities found that the Affiliate Ban Rule has led nearly 100 health care providers, including Planned Parenthood health centers, to be excluded from or no longer participate in the Women's Health Program.

Further, a majority of Americans support a range of energy policy priorities including protecting the environment from the effects of energy development and use (72 %) and increasing reliance on renewable energy sources (71 %), as well as reducing dependence on foreign energy sources (69 %) and keeping consumer energy costs low (66 %).

Some of our other public policy priorities include:

The possibility of meeting any concentration goal therefore depends not just on the available technologies and current emissions and concentrations, but also on the capacity of human societies to bear the associated economic implications, accept the associated rapid and large ‐ scale deployment of technologies, develop the necessary institutions to manage the transformation, and reconcile the transformation with other policy priorities such as sustainable development.

This issue of Policy Priorities explores how education leaders should rethink the use and rules of social media in schools to harness their potential to enhance access, engagement, communication, and learning in a way that benefits students, educators, and families, while giving students and teachers opportunities to understand and practice responsible, ethical uses of social media.»

For example, some states prohibited districts from spending Title I on school climate supports, counselors, science, or other costs other than reading and math, even though that wasn't required by federal law and didn't reflect state policy priorities.

«In many ways, my job is to figure out how to wed U.S. foreign policy priorities with educational needs in a country,» she explains.

Public education, its plight, and what to do about it have been at or near the top of every list of public policy priorities at least since the 1983 publication of «A Nation At Risk».

Read Policy Priorities for more insights about why proper training of incoming teachers provides a logical first step in helping students reap the benefits of the new standards; how the standards could affect teacher evaluations; the federal government's plans to improve the effectiveness of teacher preparation programs; and how some states, such as New Jersey, have effectively engaged all stakeholders in moving teacher preparation programs and the standards forward.

Treasury secretary pick Steve Mnuchin discusses his economic policy priorities including promoting growth and tax reform.

Such objections could be pre-empted if the NPPF provided clear criteria for the siting of development, taking account of the full range of Government policy priorities affected, the letter suggests.

And it's only working together that we're going to continue to make family engagement and education one of the nation's top federal policy priorities as we lean forward to benefit all of our children across this country.

But their efforts have not been robust enough to bridge what the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimates to be a $ 125 billion dollar gap between states» revenue and spending in fiscal 2012.

ASCD's newest Policy Priorities examines this complex issue, including factors leading to the shift and the successful approaches that some schools are taking to bridge the education and employment gap.

Everyone will be waiting to hear what the governor has to say, and he'll be traveling around the state in advance of his speech to play up some of the highlights — making sure his top policy priorities get covered by the media and aren't lost in the shuffle.

The Four Policy Priorities to Make Data Work for Students are a set of recommendations to ensure data is used to support learning.

ASCD's latest Policy Priorities examines efforts to ensure that teachers enter the classroom prepared to succeed with the new standards.

Staff works closely with elected officials in Washington to advocate public policy established in the annual Public Policy Priorities agenda, which is informed by members of NAR whose voices are heard across the country.

Sharing the brief with the ELAC was a first step toward embedding infant - toddler priorities in the ELAC's work, including efforts to add infant - toddler indicators to the ELAC's data dashboard and to incorporate a greater focus on infant - toddler policy priorities in the ELAC's subcommittees.

All of which leaves a nagging concern that a Corbyn government would primarily view local government as a platform to deliver its big national policy priorities.

Also see the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities annual report, State... (read more)