Sentences with phrase «policy priority»

Iowa presented a report on SAELP and education leadership to the state's board of education to make leadership a top policy priority in 2003.

In the wake of the 2016 election, Education Week Commentary asked five education policy experts their thoughts on the following question: What should be the K - 12 policy priority for the Trump administration?

This forum highlighted policy priority issues informed by best practices at the local level related to the value of intermediary organizations, quality and accountability, and school and community partnerships as these three areas are critical for influencing expanded learning and driving school change and youth outcomes.

The centerpiece federal law for K — 12 education, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), set teacher quality as a major policy priority when it was reauthorized as No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in 2001.

During his campaign, President - elect Trump's primary K - 12 education policy priority was a new $ 20 billion initiative that would provide funds for school choice vouchers.

Unsurprisingly I am fully behind the conclusion — «how we govern our schools should be an education policy priority, not an afterthought».

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

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.

Abby works across a number of Data Quality Campaign's policy priority areas, conducting project specific research, writing, and policy analysis.

[xi] Early reading proficiency is an important policy priority, and state legislators are right to focus attention in this area.

A growing policy priority seeks to curb declining teacher preparation enrollment by nurturing early interest in teaching — among high school students.

In the growing policy priority area of teacher leadership, a broad and colorful range of strategies emerged in nine of the first 17 state plans.

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

Evidence shows that those in lower socio - economic groups are more likely to be obese, overweight and physically inactive so that's where the policy priority should be, we believe.

Brazil ranks 69th, they add, suggesting that a concerted focus on sustainability as a policy priority will pay dividends — and that the level and pace of development is just one of many factors affecting environmental performance.

The former Conservative Party chairman has told the Mail on Sunday that talking about increasing income tax risks alienating Tory voters - and that the policy priority should be to cut public spending.

He said «renewing a millionaires» tax this year» is a policy priority that has a much stronger chance without Republicans holding one of the state's levers of power.

Even on his top policy priority of campaign finance reform, he wrestled with his words and had to be pulled back twice by debate moderator Errol Louis of NY1 when he strayed to attack de Blasio in the middle of explaining his proposal.

Washington (CNN)- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Tuesday delayed action for a few weeks on a bill to increase the minimum wage, a top political and policy priority of the White House and congressional Democrats this election year.

Queens is pleased that the Mayor is placing this as a top policy priority for his administration and has included emerging neighborhoods like Long Island City and Flushing West.

«The Boards» decision comes on the heels of securing the Pride Agenda's top remaining policy priority ---- protecting transgender New Yorkers from discrimination in housing, employment, credit, education, and public accommodations ---- in the form of new regulations announced in partnership with Governor Andrew M. Cuomo,» ESPA's release stated.

Few activists were mollified by ESPA's statement that a new directive from Governor Andrew Cuomo — interpreting existing state human rights law's sex discrimination and disability discrimination protections to cover transgender New Yorkers — amounted to «securing the Pride Agenda's top remaining policy priority, protecting transgender New Yorkers from discrimination in housing, employment, credit, education, and public accommodations.»

David Cameron, the self same Prime Minister who told us in May 2010 that Afghanistan would be his number one foreign policy priority, has now not made a single speech on Afghanistan to the House of Commons in 14 months.

Cuomo also got his second top policy priority: Paid Family Leave, for which New Yorkers will be eligible starting in 2018 after working for six months at a job.

«There were wide - ranging, intensive and productive discussions during the extended session on this, the government's top foreign policy priority,» a Downing Street spokesperson said.

The report, «Britain and Palestine: A Parliamentary Focus 2010 - 2015», highlights how issues facing Palestinians, including conflict, occupation and displacement, have continued to a foreign policy priority for the UK Parliament.

The release, explaining the decision was reached unanimously by the group's two component boards of directors, stated, «The Boards» decision comes on the heels of securing the Pride Agenda's top remaining policy priority ---- protecting transgender New Yorkers from discrimination in housing, employment, credit, education, and public accommodations ---- in the form of new regulations announced in partnership with Governor Andrew M. Cuomo at the organization's Fall Dinner on October 22, 2015.»

Yet the prime minister has now made clear that he does in fact have a policy priority towards the Lords.

New York League of Conservation Voters Endorses Brian Kavanagh for New York State Senate District 26 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 CONTACT: Jordan Levine (NYLCV)- 917-392-8965 / [email protected] The New York League of Conservation Voters, which works to make environmental sustainability a top political and policy priority in New York State, has announced its endorsement of Brian Kavanagh, who is running for New York State Senate in District 26.

The issue has been identified as a policy priority by a number of EU institutions, most notably in the European Commission's Clean Energy for All Europeans legislative package.

CIHT welcomes the 2013 Budget's acknowledgement that infrastructure is a key economic policy priority.

But it's no secret that the biggest sticking point of all was the minimum wage increase, which the governor made clear for weeks leading up to the April 1 deadline was his top policy priority.

Today's Budget's acknowledged that infrastructure is a key economic policy priority.

Education, with a focus on outward perspectives which don't forsake Arab values, is consistently a prominent policy priority in the Gulf states» job - creation strategies.

The move has been seen as a diplomatic coup for the prime minister, who has made Sudan a foreign policy priority since assuming office.

This is mainly achieved through transformation of service practice, such that being inclusive of fathers becomes a policy priority; whole team training and development take place; settings, services and practice are reviewed for father - friendliness; targets for male involvement are set; and so on (Fagan and Palm, 2004).

Concerned about the future of Obamacare, both white evangelicals and Americans overall ranked heath care as the No. 1 policy priority in last year's election.

Health care was the No. 1 policy priority for white evangelical voters (and the American public as a whole) in the recent election, the Pew Research Center found.

It could have decided that its top foreign - policy priority was good relations with the former captive nations.

She called religious freedom «a cherished constitutional value, a strategic national interest, and a foreign policy priority,» adding that it was an «essential element of human dignity and of secure, thriving societies, statistically linked with economic development and democratic stability.»

Secretary Clinton asserted: «For the United States... religious freedom is a cherished constitutional value, a strategic national interest, and a foreign policy priority.»

The most important policy priority with respect to the Fed is protecting it from stone age monetary ideas like a return to the gold standard, or turning policymaking over to a formula, or removing the dual mandate commanding the Fed to worry about unemployment as well as inflation.

White House officials on Wednesday describe North Korea as an «urgent» threat to national security and a «top foreign policy priority.»

This study addresses the Atlantic Gateway initiative, and how it relates to Canada's global trading position as a national policy priority.

In 2017, that was 22 states, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, including at least 10 that voted for President Trump in the 2016 election.

American Institute Fellow, James Pethokoukis and Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Senior Fellow Jared Bernstein discuss the short and long term consequences of the GOP tax bill.

The term «G - Zero world,» coined by Bremmer and political scientist David F. Gordon, refers to a power - vacuum world in which «major powers set aside aspirations for global leadership — alone, coordinated, or otherwise — and look primarily inward for their policy priorities.»

According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonpartisan research group that focuses on reducing poverty, 20 million children in the United States (nearly 1 in 4) will have received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits — better known as food stamps — in 2016.

Separately, some Republican senators were questioning the repeal of a 40 percent inheritance tax levied on estates worth more than $ 5.5 million, or $ 11 million for married couples — a tax paid only by the wealthiest American taxpayers, or about 0.2 percent of Americans, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a research and policy institute.

Washington, DC: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.