Sentences with phrase «pressing policy challenge»

Our research and facilitation activities encourage elected officials and community leaders to find effective, data - driven solutions to pressing policy challenges and promote productively.

Our research and facilitation activities encourage elected officials and community leaders to find effective, data - driven solutions to pressing policy challenges and promote productively.

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Through nationwide polling and workshops with policy experts from across the political spectrum, we sought to identify America's most pressing challenges and develop policies that make sense, that our country can afford, and that the American people can support.

For instance, radical change in the way we understand and manage state assets could help tackle some pressing social and economic policy challenges.

«The Nature Conservancy in New York applauds Governor Cuomo for his continued leadership on combating climate change, the most pressing environmental challenge facing our world,» said Jessica Ottney Mahar, the group's policy director.

This might be a crude analysis - we'd certainly never counsel criticism for its own sake - but challenging policy in a constructive and meaningful way through the pages of the national press can often complement a public affairs strategy rather than hinder it.

«I support the city of Chicago's effort to challenge these regulations because cities and their police departments should determine what policies best keep their cities safe,» Miner said in a press release.

The two - day event, 3rd to 4th May, 2018, will bring together leading actors from the media, civil society, policy makers, representatives of the judiciary and academia, to discuss latest developments and pressing challenges related to press freedom and the safety of journalists.

They are our «insurance policy» against unforeseen disasters and, used sustainably, they also offer many of the best solutions to our most pressing challenges.»

The AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships (STPF) is the premier opportunity for outstanding scientists and engineers to learn first - hand about public policy while using their knowledge and analytical skills to address today's most pressing societal challPolicy Fellowships (STPF) is the premier opportunity for outstanding scientists and engineers to learn first - hand about public policy while using their knowledge and analytical skills to address today's most pressing societal challpolicy while using their knowledge and analytical skills to address today's most pressing societal challenges.

With yearlong placements in Washington, DC in the executive, judicial, and legislative branches of federal government, the Science & Technology Policy Fellowships fosters a network of STEM leaders who understand government and policymaking, and are prepared to develop and execute solutions to address today's pressing challenges.

«The knowledge and expertise of our members give the Academy a unique capacity — and responsibility — to provide practical policy solutions to the pressing challenges of the day.

Through annual giving, members of this group foster community engagement in some of the most pressing public policy challenges while interacting with world leaders, national decision - makers and leading researchers.

The Center for Energy Studies at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy and the Qatar Leadership Centre hosted a roundtable on February 15 - 16, 2017, in Doha, Qatar, to discuss some of the most pressing challenges facing market participants in the global energy landscape, with a focus on several issues of paramount interest to Qatar and the broader Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

THP forums bring together key policy makers, academic experts, and business leaders to discuss ways to address our nation's most pressing economic challenges.

By partnering with education and policy leaders to help address their most pressing challenges, the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University represents a new paradigm in education research and has become a focal point for education policy researchers across Harvard and around the United Spolicy leaders to help address their most pressing challenges, the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University represents a new paradigm in education research and has become a focal point for education policy researchers across Harvard and around the United SPolicy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University represents a new paradigm in education research and has become a focal point for education policy researchers across Harvard and around the United Spolicy researchers across Harvard and around the United States.

Housed within the George W. Bush Presidential Center, the George W. Bush Institute is an action - oriented, nonpartisan policy organization with the mission of cultivating leaders, advancing policy, and taking action to solve today's most pressing challenges.

Support Educators for Excellence through a tax - deductible donation and help teachers identify pressing issues that impact their profession, create solutions to shared challenges, and advocate for policies and programs that give all students an equal opportunity to receive a quality education.

Responding to this pressing challenge, policymakers at all levels are shifting resources, rethinking practices, and enacting policies to attract and keep qualified educators in our nation's classrooms.

Based in Washington, D.C., IHEP develops innovative policy - and practice - oriented research to guide policymakers and education leaders who develop high - impact policies that will address our nation's most pressing education challenges.

Aside from celebrating charter schools, the rally «will also call upon elected representatives in local and state government to support pro-charter policies, including the expansion of high - quality charters, better facilities for charter students, and an end to the politics and rhetoric challenging parents» right to choose the best public school for their children,» according to a press release from California Charter Schools Association Families.

ICSEI 2015 builds on its previous 27 international conferences, most recently in Chile and Indonesia offering an opportunity for researchers, policy makers and practitioners to gather in centrally located Cincinnati to address today's pressing educational challenges.

This publication is part of a briefing kit that highlights our state's most pressing long - term policy challenges in 11 key areas:

Successfully initiating, implementing, and sustaining the transformation of the lowest - performing public schools is a pressing challenge for policy leaders and practitioners nationwide.

As conveners and facilitators, we train and support public educators to understand the stakeholders in education systems and to vet solutions to the pressing challenges in policy design and implementation.

Successfully initiating and sustaining meaningful improvements in the lowest - performing public schools is a pressing challenge for policy leaders and practitioners nationwide.

The George W. Bush Institute is an action - oriented, nonpartisan policy organization with the mission of engaging communities in the United States and around the world by cultivating leaders and advancing policies to solve today's most pressing challenges.

Megan Whittemore, Cantor's press secretary, said that although the congressman believes education decisions are best left to local officials, he has no qualms about challenging New York City policies if he thinks they threaten school choice.

They have not become any less complex or any less pressing, and as much as some policy makers would like to discover a single solution that can help all students, or address the myriad of challenges teachers have to manage in classrooms across the country, such «silver bullets» remain elusive.

During a panel discussion with senior global leaders at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs Symposium «Advancing Food and Nutrition Security at the G8 Summit» in Washington, Jeff Simmons urged leaders to take action now to address the challenge of developing more efficient food production systems and pressed for policy alternatives that provide long - term, sustainable solutions to hunger, food inflation and food availability.

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.

With a confounding mix of uncertainty and urgency (because of the penalty for delay), a tougher challenge is shaping policies to blunt the human force pressing on the climate by cutting heat - trapping emissions.

A few days ago I was interviewed about the challenges and opportunities in reporting on complicated, but consequential, science (climate change being a prime example) for the Journalist's Resource project of Harvard's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.

I was glad to see Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, even amid so many other pressing foreign - policy challenges, committing the United States to doing more to cut the illicit trade in wildlife and related products.

This Article, excerpted from Michael B. Gerrard & John C. Dernbach, eds., Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States (forthcoming in 2018 from ELI Press), examines how these challenges can be overcome with targeted legal and policy reforms.

This post identifies twenty questions that the US press has failed to ask opponents of proposed US climate change policies that should be asked if climate change raises civilization challenging ethical issues.

And so if climate change raises civilization challenging ethical questions which imply duties, responsibilities, and obligations what questions should the press ask opponents of climate change policies when they make economic and scientific arguments against climate change policies?

After we determine the most pressing issues according to reader input, we will ask economists and academics to propose policy solutions that best address these challenges while enabling America's prosperity to continue and expand.

In fact there is no evidence that the US press understands the policy significance for the US if climate change is understood as a civilization challenging global distributive justice problem.

A combination of weak / speculative science, issuing the press release prior to peer review or at least public availability of the paper, a direct challenge to establishment assessment reports, policy advocacy, and use of a professional publicity / marketing / lobbying group to handle the publicity seems to have contributed to the backfire.

In the press release, he said the Israeli government denied them entry «apparently because it feared letting in people who might challenge its policies.

As search engines are the primary source of information for every single one of us in Canada today, the questions of how we deal with private information online will continue to be a pressing challenge for policy makers, legislatures, and courts in the years to come.

The panel will be Jonathan Karl and Cokie Roberts of ABC; former Romney - Ryan 2012 Campaign policy director Lanhee Chen, Julie Pace of The Associated Press; and Univison anchor Jorge Ramos, author of «Stranger: The Challenge of a Latino Immigrant in the Trump Era.»

He pointed to the recent changes reflected in Regulation A + as a result of the 2012 Jumpstart Our Business Startup (JOBS) Act as a unique policy decision that can enable entrepreneurs to develop innovative solutions to address some of today's most pressing needs, concerns, or challenges.

There is a lot at stake — and yet Indigenous Australians are often sidelined when it comes to the important work of developing policies and plans to respond to these pressing challenges.