Sentences with phrase «public policy initiatives for»

What happens with those platforms can impact our public policy initiatives for years — for good or bad.»

Hon. STEPHEN BYERS, MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT — Researched public policy initiatives for legislative consideration in the British House of Commons.

This book attempts to get a handle on the obesity crisis in America and offers public policy initiatives for reversing the trend.

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It was another industrious year for the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade, with more than 120 successful events and a number of key public policy initiatives that moved our organization forward.

We accelerate business success through our advocacy and public policy initiatives, our four Signature Programs for professional development, and our 100 + events each year, which educate and connect our region's business community.

As we argued on numerous occasions, the budget needs to be much more explicit on the proposed policy initiatives; providing sufficient detail and background information for Parliamentary assessment and for a better understanding by the public at large.

The CMP is a six - year research and public engagement initiative jointly led by the University of Victoria, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives» BC and Saskatchewan Offices, and the Alberta - based Parkland Institute.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

FAO collaborates with the public sector, the private sector and civil society to develop and implement food loss and waste prevention and reduction solutions through: i) Advocacy and awareness raising; ii) Collaboration and coordination of world - wide initiatives on food loss and waste reduction; iii) Research to evidence for policy, strategy, legislation and standards development; iv) Support to investment programmes and projects.

We discussed the final regulations, and how the new standards differ from current requirements, with moderator Cindy Brooks, Chair of the School Nutrition Association Public Policy & Legislation Committee and guest speakers Sam Kass (White House Assistant Chef, Senior Policy Advisor for Healthy Food Initiatives), Dr. Janey Thornton, PhD, SNS (Deputy Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services at USDA), and Melissa Rothstein (Deputy Director, Child Nutrition Programs at USDA).

B Lab drives systemic change through three interrelated initiatives: 1) building a community of Certified B Corporations to make it easier for all of us to tell the difference between «good companies» and just good marketing; 2) accelerating the growth of the impact investing asset class through use of B Lab's GIIRS impact rating system by institutional investors; and 3) promoting supportive public policies, including creation of a new corporate form and tax, procurement, and investment incentives for sustainable business.

«Cooking up major policy initiatives completely in secret and then banging them through with virtually no opportunity for the public to weigh in.»

For one, the Rosia Montana initiative breaches the Lisbon precautionary principle, which states that policy can not harm the public or environment.

«He's always been an aggressive campaigner and he's making a tactical judgment,» said Gerald Benjamin, director of the Benjamin Center for Public Policy Initiatives at SUNY New Paltz.

««In addition to offering several other detailed policy initiatives, Steve Levy has called for caps on state spending and on local property taxes for months now, in person and in public,» said the (Levy) source.

Mr. de Blasio's announcement today follows a flurry of similar policy initiatives that Mr. Cuomo, after his skepticism of the State Legislature, rolled out unilaterally over the last year: first, a $ 15 - an - hour wage for fast food workers through a special wage board, then the same for state public employees last November, and most recently for SUNY employees Monday — complete with a call for the city to follow.

«Pork never really disappeared,» said E.J. McMahon of the Empire Center for Public Policy, noting that lawmakers — and Gov. Cuomo — use capital projects and economic development initiatives as thinly veiled pork - barrel spending.

The man who once declared that «I am the government» all but groveled for the WFP's nod, publicly endorsing a slew of so - called progressive policy initiatives — from public campaign financing to a minimum wage hike — that he had previously declined to put any political muscle behind.

Offering a history of broadband initiatives in Ulster County this past week, county Comptroller Elliott Auerbach noted a 2012 resolution supporting applications to the Connect NY Broadband Grant for broadband service to the towns of Denning, Wawarsing, Hardenburgh, and Rochester; a 2014 State of the County address request from County Executive Mike Hein to the Ulster County Legislature to set policy on «some important issues still facing Ulster County including Broadband expansion and improving internet access for county residents»; a request from the legislature later that same year «that the county executive develop a plan... and the plan should include a one year, two year and five year plus proposal for broadband expansion»; and resolutions and letters directed to the state Public Service Commission this year directing Verizon to provide high speed fiber optic internet across Ulster County.

Glover is also a public engagement fellow with the Leshner Leadership Institute, an initiative of the AAAS Center for Public Engagement that trains mid-career scientists to engage with public audiences, and served as a AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fpublic engagement fellow with the Leshner Leadership Institute, an initiative of the AAAS Center for Public Engagement that trains mid-career scientists to engage with public audiences, and served as a AAAS Science & Technology Policy FPublic Engagement that trains mid-career scientists to engage with public audiences, and served as a AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fpublic audiences, and served as a AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow.

These paths for further research would benefit public policies aimed at increasing the awareness of food waste, and would contribute to more effective nutritional education initiatives since messages could be framed based on insights tested in scientific studies.

As Chief of Staff and General Counsel, Mr. Perelman provides coordination and leadership for American Chemistry Council's senior staff team; direction for many of Council's public policy issues and initiatives; and strategic counsel and support to the Council's President and CEO.

The first national organization committed exclusively to championing economic empowerment, financial education, asset development and financial stability for all persons with disabilities, NDI affects change through public education, policy development, training, technical assistance and innovative initiatives.

«Food insecurity and the hunger crisis was much more widespread and posed a serious threat to national security and the economy,» says Matt Sharp, senior advocate for the California Food Policy Advocates, a public policy organization focused on antipoverty initiaPolicy Advocates, a public policy organization focused on antipoverty initiapolicy organization focused on antipoverty initiatives.

The journal offers a forum for the presentation of research and policy initiatives in education, social services, public policy, and welfare reform as they affect children, youths, and families in poverty.

The mission of the Education Policy and Management (EPM) Program is to produce graduates who not only understand the strengths and challenges of current public education policy, but are prepared to lead the organizations and initiatives that will create 21st - century systems of education that work for all stuPolicy and Management (EPM) Program is to produce graduates who not only understand the strengths and challenges of current public education policy, but are prepared to lead the organizations and initiatives that will create 21st - century systems of education that work for all stupolicy, but are prepared to lead the organizations and initiatives that will create 21st - century systems of education that work for all students.

For instance, a report from the Benjamin Center for Public Policy Initiatives estimated that New York State students spend about 2 percent of instructional time taking standardized tests, though that number has been criticized for being too lFor instance, a report from the Benjamin Center for Public Policy Initiatives estimated that New York State students spend about 2 percent of instructional time taking standardized tests, though that number has been criticized for being too lfor Public Policy Initiatives estimated that New York State students spend about 2 percent of instructional time taking standardized tests, though that number has been criticized for being too lfor being too low.

Of course, education is not the only public policy area in which initiatives are inadequately evaluated, thereby providing little opportunity for learning.

She knew it might be a long shot, but the work that was being done at the Cesar Chavez Public Charter Schools for Public Policy in Washington, D.C., where she serves as CEO, was already in line with the goals of the initiative: creating educational opportunities for children in distressed communities by offering «cradle - to - college» services.

Publicly funded school choice has increased considerably in recent years, helped by a variety of initiatives, including public charter schools, transfer options for students under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), inter-district enrollment programs, and a variety of policies to subsidize private - school tuition.

The Office of School Finance is responsible for the development and administration of fiscal standards and other initiatives to promote or achieve efficiency within public schools; the administration of the state aid system for schools in accordance with applicable statutes; the development and maintenance of fiscal policy for all public school districts; and the development and maintenance of procedures for safe and efficient student transportation services.

Previously, Courtney was the Senior Statistician for the New Mexico Public Education Department, where she worked with state and local leaders to evaluate policy initiatives and support data driven decision - making.

For more information on GLSEN's policy advocacy, student leadership initiatives, public education, research and educator training programs, please visit glsen.org.

And they might merit a public policy response, such as extra funding for schools with a large proportion of male students, or even affirmative action for boys at schools like Banneker (something that's being contemplated by Muriel Bowser and Kaya Henderson's Empowering Males of Color initiative).

Institutional theories take a different view, arguing that schools (like other major social service sectors) are so constrained by public expectations that they have limited options for becoming very different.137 Public agencies that have limited autonomy, owing to extensive public oversight, find it difficult to develop their own policies and initiatives for change.138 This does not mean that successful leadership activity in schools is impossible, but it does not come epublic expectations that they have limited options for becoming very different.137 Public agencies that have limited autonomy, owing to extensive public oversight, find it difficult to develop their own policies and initiatives for change.138 This does not mean that successful leadership activity in schools is impossible, but it does not come ePublic agencies that have limited autonomy, owing to extensive public oversight, find it difficult to develop their own policies and initiatives for change.138 This does not mean that successful leadership activity in schools is impossible, but it does not come epublic oversight, find it difficult to develop their own policies and initiatives for change.138 This does not mean that successful leadership activity in schools is impossible, but it does not come easily.

Dave now serves as Senior Policy Analyst with the Cowen Institute for Public Education Initiatives at Tulane University, and is currently developing a broad engagement strategy that outlines communication and staffing needs to better connect with school board members at the local and state level.

WHEREAS, the so - called «reform» initiatives of Students First, rely on destructive anti-educator policies that do nothing for students but blame educators and their unions for the ills of society, make testing the goal of education, shatter communities by closing their public schools, and see public schools as potential profit centers and children as measureable commodities; and

Public education reform was the first policy initiative Walker called for in his State of the State address and the first issue the state Legislature took up after inauguration.

In these roles, he is charged with business recruitment and retention in Richardson, and public policy, legislation, and technology initiatives for the region.

When we examine the education priorities of Texas» political leadership as evidenced by the policy initiatives of the 79th Session of the Texas Legislature, we find a policy mix dominated by three priorities: property tax relief, fixing the broken «Robin Hood» system of school finance, and providing more money for public education.

Rebecca Dineen (MS, Health Policy and Management from the Harvard School of Public Health) is the Assistant Commissioner for the Bureau of Maternal and Child Health and leads the B'more for Healthy Babies and Youth Health and Wellness Initiatives at the Baltimore City Health Department where she has worked since 2008.

For information on GLSEN's research, educational resources, public policy advocacy, student organizing programs and educator training initiatives, visit www.glsen.org.

Previously, she served as Chief of Staff for the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics, informing the Administration's P - 20 policy and programmatic efforts on behalf of the nation's Latino students and families, including helping to secure over 150 private - and - public sector commitments with a collective investment of over $ 335 million to build on and accelerate federal, state, and local investments in high - quality education for the nation's Hispanic community, and launching the Federal Interagency Working Group to strengthen and align federal policy efforts with local initiatives.

In addition, Tedesco has been responsible for leading strategic organizational development initiatives and directing Foodlink's anti-hunger advocacy and public policy efforts both locally and nationally.

Prior to the nonprofit organization, Anissa was a project coordinator at the University of Texas System Institute for Public School Initiatives working specifically with low - performing schools around the state of Texas providing training, coaching, instructional supports, grant coordination, school reviews, and policy guidance.

At the same time Luke Bronin says that HE deserves a good chunk of the credit for Malloy's 2nd chance initiative because has Malloy's lawyer he was involved in the policy process in the Governor's Office, but none of the blame for Malloy's failure to properly fund public schools.

Influential Leadership — We will demonstrate influential leadership through unrelenting advocacy for our cause, perceived clout among education, legislative, government and community leaders, and achieved results of our public policy initiatives.

As evidenced during the recent public hearing held by the General Assembly's Education Committee, apologists for the Common Core and Governor Malloy's corporate education reform industry initiatives desperately defend the indefensible policies related to the Common Core, the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Test and the absurd teacher evaluation system.

The initiative is supported by a number of policy solutions and open data tools, including the Transportation and Health Tool, the Location Affordability Index, an updated guide to public involvement techniques for transportation decision - making, and more.

For the Canadian real estate market, 2016 was marked by a slew of new public policy initiatives at national, provincial and municipal levels.