Sentences with phrase «public policy priorities»

NAR President Thomas M. Stevens says the action marks a positive turn of events in the association's campaign to protect the separation of banking and commerce, one of its top public policy priorities.

In fact, new research released this week from the Texas - based Center for Public Policy Priorities shows:

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.

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.

Last week, CFRP faculty and staff attended the Center for Public Policy Priorities» (CPPP) release of the 2015 State of Texas Children report.

Outside of her graduate work, Kaeley has worked as a research assistant at the Yale Child Study Center and on the Texas KIDS COUNT project at the Center for Public Policy Priorities.

Outside of her graduate work, she has worked as a research assistant at the Yale Child Study Center and on the Texas KIDS COUNT project at the Center for Public Policy Priorities.

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Some of our other public policy priorities include:

The panelists included Chandra Villanueva with the Center for Public Policy Priorities; Dr. Charles Luke, Associate Director, Pastors for Texas Children; Andrew Kirk, Dallas ISD Teacher and Executive Board Member, Alliance / AFT and Stephanie Elizalde, Dallas ISD Chief of School Leadership.

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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».

«I urge this commission to really try to figure out what it takes to meet the outcomes that we desire and not to tie your hands prematurely and leave it up to the legislature to decide what's feasible, what kind of shifting of budget priorities need to be made and if tax increases are what we need to fund our schools,» said Chandra Villanueva, an analyst with the left - leaning Center for Public Policy Priorities.

Chandra Villanueva with the Center for Public Policy Priorities has pointed out that the state legislature hands down a lot of rules and regulations without the day - to - day responsibility of implementation or political will to increase funding.

To receive more information about ASCD's resources or public policy priorities, or to speak with any ASCD leaders or experts, please contact Ross Romano, ASCD publicist, at 1-703-575-5607 or [email protected].

Developed by ASCD members, the 2018 ASCD Legislative Agenda (PDF) outlines the association's public policy priorities.

ASCD's 2012 Legislative Agenda, which outlines the association's public policy priorities for the year, calls for whole child — based education reforms.

They outlined their national public policy priorities today.

Texas: the Center for Public Policy Priorities.

And to help ensure the quality of life in her area, Lafayette serves as the executive director of the Partnership for Housing Affordability, a nonprofit dedicated to ensuring that an adequate and diverse supply of affordable housing is a public policy priority in central Virginia.

Not exact matches

Our unique public policy committee structure balances the priorities of our grassroots Members with the strategic direction set out by our board of directors, policy council and management team.

How do you respond to church leaders who are afraid of making education a priority within their congregations because they fear the public policy issues related to education are too political?

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.

No Kid Hungry aims to build partnerships that enlist influential individuals to act as catalysts to advocate the policy changes needed to achieve its end goal of engaging the public to make ending child hunger a national priority.

World Breastfeeding Week 2009 is an opportunity to highlight the power of breastfeeding to policy - makers, donors and the public alike — and to ensure that it is a priority during emergency response.

The Center on Budget & Policy Priorities is a nonprofit research organization focused on the impact of public policy on low and moderate - income AmerPolicy Priorities is a nonprofit research organization focused on the impact of public policy on low and moderate - income Amerpolicy on low and moderate - income Americans.

So yesterday the SNA went to Capitol Hill for a «national day of action» to protest the block grant proposal, and it was joined by a number of prominent congressional Democrats, the Food Research & Action Center, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and other advocacy groups.

He claimed that his priorities were defending civil liberties; devolving the running of public services to parents, pupils and patients; and protecting the environment, [56] and that he wanted to forge a «liberal alternative to the discredited policies of big government».

He further asserted that the 2017 Budget will introduce policies that will help rationalise public expenditure, strengthen contract management and realign statutory funds for priority projects.

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.»

Sam Magavern, executive director of the Partnership for the Public Good, said their 264 partner organizations have made lead poisoning prevention their «top policy priorities for 2017».

When the new state budget for fiscal year 2019 passed early Saturday morning in Albany, Governor Andrew Cuomo had successfully implemented several of his top policy priorities on issues like workplace sexual harassment, taxes, gun control, and public housing in New York City.

In talks brokered by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, Cuomo promised, in exchange for the WFP's support, to back progressive policy priorities, including a higher minimum wage, the DREAM Act, decriminalization of marijuana, and the public financing of elections.

In Albany, where a number of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's policy priorities have succumbed to resistance from Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state Senate Republicans, documents suggest that de Blasio has turned to the real estate industry's chief lobbying group in New York as an intermediary to press politicians on a matter beyond its traditional scope: the city's public school system.

The Post thinks repeal of the «last - in, first - out» policy for public school teachers should be Bloomberg's top priority.

Public involvement in research is a key element of Government policy and is increasingly accepted to be an essential part of the research process - from identification of research priorities to dissemination of findings.

A party for those whose priorities include the Welfare State, workers» rights, trade unionism, the co-operative movement, consumer protection, strong communities, conservation rather than environmentalism, fair taxation, full employment, public ownership, proper local government, a powerful Parliament, the monarchy, the organic Constitution, national sovereignty, civil liberties, the Union, the Commonwealth, the countryside, grammar schools, traditional moral and social values, economic patriotism, balanced migration, a realist foreign policy, and a base of real property for every household to resist both over-mighty commercial interests and an over-mighty State.

Her policy priorities included enacting term limits for state legislators and changing the state's funding formula for public education.

Committees have solicited input from county residents, giving them the opportunity to help shape public policy and identify the new administration's priorities.

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.»

Martin Kettle in last week's Guardian warned the Lib Dem leader that pursuing an elected Lords would be (i) unlikely to succeed, (ii) would make passage of other Coalition policies more difficult and (iii) would risk the Lib Dems looking like a party remote from the public's bread and butter priorities.

«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.

In the spirit of Mad Men's Don Draper, we didn't like what was being said about Labour (that the party can't be trusted with public money), so we changed the conversation (by fronting up to enough cuts to create fiscal room for a set of policy priorities distinctly Labour and different from those of the Tory - led government).

... Ethics at the moment is more of a priority on the public relations side and less of a priority on the policy side, not just for the governor but for the Legislature as well.»

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.

The rise of antibiotic resistance is a «top national security and public health priority,» says John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Redfield does not have much experience in policy or public health, two areas typically considered essential for overseeing the CDC and promoting its priorities on Capitol Hill.

That what the public thinks about energy — what they want, think they want, or think they know — shapes the decisions politicians make about energy and environmental policy: Personal attitudes, concerns, and priorities are determined by more than just «the facts.»

«We want to establish the true burden of disease because that is what policy makers use to decide what is a public health priority,» says Barbara Kowalcyk, the center's co-founder.