Sentences with phrase «political policy agenda»

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Pollsters and political strategists in both parties are predicting that Republicans will lose their majority in the US House this fall, jeopardizing President Donald Trump's policy agenda and putting him at a higher risk of impeachment.

Earlier this year, a company called Event Shares filed a prospectus for a Republican Policies and a Democratic Policies fund to invest in companies that will benefit from the respective parties» political agendas (neither has launched yet).

In the end, I have concluded that Johnson & Johnson has a responsibility to remain engaged, not as a way to support any specific political agenda, but as a way to represent the values of Our Credo as crucial public policy is discussed and developed.

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.»

Do you have the imagination, capacity, and the policy independence, to put together a policy agenda that is better both in policy and political terms, than simply rubber - stamping some misguided and out of date 2011 election promises?

In short the need for actions and policies on many fronts has never been so great — yet the political comprehension and agenda is bankrupt of the will deal with the most salient matters facing the human condition.

The quandary is how to effectively bring religious agendas and sensibilities into the arena of political policy, including humanitarian policy.

Doing so means making religious agenda (s) part of the political policy infrastructure, which brings a new set of problems.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

In working alongside partner organisations, our intentions are to place attachment onto the political agenda and contribute to fundamental policy and legislative changes.

The manual begins with an uncontentious definition: «Lobbying is the process of seeking to influence government and its institutions by informing the public policy agenda» or, rather more succinctly, «the art of political persuasion».

Of course, Obama and Trump are characterized by wholly different domestic agendas, political leadership styles and public rhetoric, but they are also both US presidents, who govern the leading economic and military global power, confronted by largely the same foreign policy problems and endowed with the same bureaucratic structures and military capabilities.

Conferences, like US conventions, offer parties the chance to dominate the media, shape policy agenda and capture the political imagination.

In the State of the State policy book released on Wednesday, Cuomo outlined an ethics and voting reform agenda nearly identical to last year's, with the addition of an election cyber security and reporting requirement for online political advertising.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has put his stamp on the committee, appointing a succession of four chairs in as many years (the last, David Paterson, resigned last year), using it to run advertisements in support of his government agenda and ensuring some of the more rabble - rousing elements couldn't use it as a platform to contradict his political and policy positions.

As the party prepares to sign off on key policy points at its spring conference this weekend, an attempt will be made to seize the political agenda and set the terms of debate.

With energy policy dominating the political agenda, it will be a breath of fresh air to hear from someone who knows what they're talking about.

«They need to make them feel comfortable with, even proud of, what the coalition is doing across a wider range of policy areas than just the civil liberties and the political reform agenda.»

The best way to combat illiberal government policy is not to blame the Remainers for it: most of us loathe such policies, and Remainers as a group are hardly in charge of the political agenda anyway.

And how Policy Exchange uses the front of academic responsibility to push a political agenda on dubious research grounds:

He noted that another crucial aspects of Ghana's foreign policy objectives was the pursuit of economic diplomacy; stating that «Ghana's international relations over the years in terms of bilateral engagement as they relate to our economic diplomacy agenda had been varied across political dispensations.

Buhari's policy of using his own ethnic people as heads of security (agencies) of Nigeria and not talking about it means that he has a political agenda.

«Frankly, in this day and age, when corporations and billionaires, trying to move an agenda of privatization and anti-worker and anti-immigrant policies, control politics via funneling massive sums of money into political fights,... it is likely to be a trap,» Deborah Axt, co-executive director of the immigration rights group Make the Road New York, told Patch in an interview.

It's a move seen by many political observers as designed to put Cuomo in the driver's» seat of the Democratic Party's agenda, and seize on a policy issue that resonated with voters during the 2016 presidential campaign.

As the political upheaval from several investigations into possible wrongdoing swirled around him, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio tried to focus on his policy agenda Monday.

It is policy making on the hoof - the agenda «political survival of the Labour party» In only takes two or three Unions to realise that Labour will be out of office for the next few years and that they may as well save the millions of pounds they spend supporting Labour and instead engage in positive dialogue with the Conservatives «for free».

It amounts to a great deal of effort and energy and political capital expended on one policy matter, albeit an extremely important one affecting over 1 million students, their parents, teachers, and others, while the rest of the de Blasio Albany agenda sits somewhat neglected.

The acceptance of the policy by George Osborne and David Cameron is political in nature, but in failing to fight the argument they are allowing Labour to set the agenda in favour of higher marginal rates of tax in that people will assume that the Conservative leadership must have decided that it will raise money, otherwise they would oppose it

Rather than do what New York City now does, which is to set its educational policy by a political agenda, the commission could look at the research about what really works in schools»

When it comes to developing a policy agenda that delivers fairness and social justice, the Conservative party is leading the political world away from the target - driven, top down, statist approach that Miliband pioneered when he ran the Downing Street policy unit.

The administration named «unqualified persons» with political agendas or industry ties to key policy posts or advisory committees, and it opposed qualified experts if they appeared to be anti-industry.

Our three core aims are: To make the environment a central political issue; • To integrate the environment into public policy and decision making; • To stimulate new thinking and advance the environmental agenda into new areas.

While there has been a clear schism between reform's free market enthusiasts and its social justice wing, there can be little doubt that the movement's center of gravity has shifted sharply to the left, even though political progressives mostly regard the standard reform agenda — choice, charters, testing, anti-union policies — with contempt.

The issue is whether a federal statistical agency — intended to be immune to every sort of policy agenda and political interest — should outsource its data - gathering efforts to advocacy groups.

This, however, is a topic where the White House is far from neutral, and one must conclude that its political and policy agendas have trickled down into the Institute for Education Sciences and National Center for Education Statistics, which is precisely what isn't supposed to happen.

As recounted in a new book on NCLB by Drew University political science professor Patrick McGuinn (No Child Left Behind and the Transformation of Federal Education Policy, 1965 — 2005), GOP pollster David Winston attributes Bush's 2000 victory to his education agenda.

«For the first time, we have put dollar figures on what has always been known anecdotally: The unions exert a great deal of influence on domestic policy, due to the sheer amount of money they spend on political advocacy, and at times pushing political agendas that are at odds with those of their members.»

Thus, while the analyses upon which the report is based have some technical merits, the narrative seems more of an attempt to advance a political agenda opposed to the reform studied than to improve understanding of complex policy issues.

As much for political reasons as those related to policy, it made sense for Mr. Perry to proclaim that education's spot atop the state agenda would remain secure.

Advocates and policymakers should invest energy and resources to develop bold federal policies to combat the current administration's agenda and to serve as a road map once the political powers in Washington change.

Policy makers, civic leaders, and media outlets are encouraged to scrutinize this report with skepticism, recognizing it for what it is: an error - ridden document commissioned by a biased organization with a political agenda and conclusion in mind.

Corporate education «reformers»» self - interest, by contrast, means advocating for policies that help private corporations profit off of public schools, diverting public attention from an anti-poverty economic agenda, and busting unions that prevent total oligarchical control of America's political system.

Rather than requiring that any candidate seeking political support from teachers have a solid progressive record on public education and articulate clear - cut policies and positions that are diametrically opposed to the corporate education reform industry, there is a growing acceptance of candidates who have thrown their support behind the charter school industry and the broader education reform agenda.

Sensing the nation's changing mood, political leaders placed reading high on the policy agenda.

As reading has become a mainstay in the political agenda, this study — dealing with the perceived influence and beliefs of interest groups in the national reading policy arena — is both timely and significant.

As Anthony Cody and others have detailed, billionaires such as Bill Gates, Eli Broad, and the Walton family, set the education agenda, wrote the policy, worked political backchannels, and lined up the corporations who would profit.

During a time when crime prevention and a decrease in spending are high on the political agenda, investing in sound education policy simply makes sense.

Consumer Freedom analyzes animal rights organizations and criticizes their fundraising tactics, policies, and social and political agendas.

Through works motivated by the controversial policies and practices of our current president, the exhibition sheds light on the challenging issues of contemporary culture in the face of the presidential political agenda.

Through works inspired by the controversial policies and practices of our current president, the exhibition sheds light on the challenging issues of contemporary culture in the face of the current presidential political agenda,» says a press statement about the show.