Sentences with phrase «recent issue of policy»

ASCD's most recent issue of Policy Points (PDF) explores how the $ 8.6 billion cut to SNAP over 10 years could affect the nation's students and make them even more reliant on school meal programs.

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But another recent ranking, published in the latest issue of Foreign Policy magazine, measured what it called «The Most Dynamic Cities of 2025.»

As the recent war on cellphone companies and agitation on airline and credit card issues attests to, the current government has seen the wisdom of adopting populist policies.

Facebook in recent months has sent representatives to Washington to address issues of foreign interference on Facebook, but this week's hearings will be the company's first opportunity to address privacy policies before lawmakers and Zuckerberg's first appearance before Congress.

Given these positive surprises, and because monetary policy must be forward - looking to achieve our inflation target, Governing Council's discussions focused on three main issues: first, the extent to which recent strength is signalling stronger economic momentum in Canada and globally; second, how heightened levels of uncertainty, particularly about US tax and trade policies, should be incorporated in our outlook; and third, how much excess capacity the economy currently has, and the growth rate of potential output going forward.

Her article, co-authored with Dr. Dave Yeske, CFP, «Policy - Based Financial Planning Provides Touchstone in a Turbulent World», was published in the July 2006 issue of the JFP, where their most recent collaboration, «Evidence - Based Financial Planning: To Learn... Like a CFP ®» also appeared in November, 2011.

His detailed responses to complex questions on issues of economy, foreign policy, etc., reflect his excellent ability to make sound policy that can help get this country back on track and fix some of the flawed policies and spending sprees of «normal» politics in recent years and decades.

Nearly half of leaders (46 %) associated with the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) selected «immigration / refugees» as the top public policy issue that evangelicals need to address in 2017, according to the NAE's recent monthly Evangelical Leaders Survey.

Perhaps best known for his text on the sociology of religion, The Sacred Canopy, Berger has also shown a keen interest in issues of development and public policy and in the nature of religious belief in the modern world, as evident in A Far Glory: The Question of Faith in an Age of Credulity (1992) and in his most recent book, Redeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension of Human Experience.

He addressed three broad issues: the ACCC's compliance and enforcement mix investment in the ACCC's criminal cartel unit merger enforcement He also made two key announcements: that the ACCC is commencing a new review of its cartel immunity and cooperation policy in light of recent experience with criminal cartel investigations; and that the ACCC will be taking...

Those issues and many of the recommendations have been recognised by the new Government and are reflected in recent decisions and the overall direction of policy.

In recent times, the policy spotlight has turned onto issues of online safety, arguably stemming from the Byron Review [5] which was the first UK government commissioned report on child online safety.

Susan Lerner, Executive Director of Common Cause / NY, noted that «Hydraulic fracturing has been one of the most polarizing issues in recent history, with no shortage of political money invested by pro-fracking interests to achieve a favorable outcome... New York State needs comprehensive campaign finance and lobbying reform to assure New Yorkers that public policy is based on their interest, not the special interests.»

Policy language included in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's $ 168 billion spending plan would tackle the transparency issues surrounding digital ads and requiring new disclosure for what has been the wild west of political spending in recent years.

Cuomo said that in recent years, priority policy issues are resolved as part of the state budget deal, and issues that don't make it into the budget usually fall out for a reason.

The remarks were unmistakably set in the context of recent tension over policing issues in New York City involving the Bill de Blasio administration, the police department, and the communities most affected by controversial policing policies.

Advocates for abortion rights, too, criticized Jung's stance on the issue, which in recent years come to the forefront of both Democratic electoral politics and policy in Albany after Gov. Andrew Cuomo pushed for a codification of the Roe v. Wade decision in state law.

MiSciNet: In a recent issue of Science (10 May 2002, p. 996), it was reported that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has adopted a policy by which it will no longer apply for visas to permit foreign scientists to work in its labs.

That philosophy has led Cecilia Muñoz to the role of point woman, as domestic policy council director, for President Obama's dramatic recent executive initiatives for immigration reform (among many other policy issues).

More than that, though, he and Cole have also manufactured the MCU's most explicitly political film, the pair's story talking about issues of race, protectionism, humanitarianism, police brutality, political fascism and immigration policy that comes alive as if it was pulled from today's most recent headlines.

Indeed, in the face of recent findings by Education Policy institute, which found that 20 of the largest multi-academy trusts (MATs)-- running more than 300 schools — fall «significantly below» the national average for improving pupils» attainment, the importance of self - assessment not just within each school but right across the trust, is perhaps more important than ever before; and goes to the heart of addressing the issues raised in the all - party parliamentary group's (APPG) 21 questions http://www.nga.org.uk/News/NGA-News/Pre-2016/21Q.aspx

Washington — The redefinition of transitional bilingual education, a key objective of Secretary of Education William J. Bennett's bilingual - education initiative, is prohibited under current law and may be unnecessary, the department's chief attorney told the Secretary in a memorandum three weeks before his recent policy address on the issue.

«On a day - to - day basis, I help ensure that he is briefed on a spectrum of policy issues, from political developments in various states to recent innovations in the education sector.»

Professor Gary Orfield is Professor of Education and Social Policy and founding Co-Director of the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University is the author of many books and articles on school desegregation and other civil rights issues and his work was cited by the Supreme Court in its recent decision on affirmative action.

From the implementation of the Common Core, to the recent debate surrounding teacher tenure, nearly every issue in public education today can be seen as a facet of a single, fundamental policy question: how should we use standardized assessments and the student achievement data these tests produce?

That finding, published in the fall issue of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, a journal of the American Educational Research Association, should add weight to the recent push to encourage all students to take the course, one of the researchers said.

We provide the first recent, comprehensive look at Arizona's charter schools in a new paper released last week, which will be published in a forthcoming issue of the peer - reviewed journal Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.

In order to circumvent the issue of selection bias in the case of mandatory retention policies like the one proposed for Michigan, recent studies have utilized a statistical approach that compares children who fall just above and just below the cutoff used to determine retention.

This page features all of Advocates for Children of New York's most recent policy reports on education issues in New York.

Rejection of harsh accountability policies was an important factor in New York's recent election of Mayor Bill de Blasio after the mayoralty of Michael Bloomberg and, next door in Connecticut, State Superintendent Stefan Pryor just called it quits over similar issues to free Democrat Daniel Malloy from that yoke.

Earlier this week, the LA Weekly honed in on the outsized influence California's largest teachers union is perceived to have on education policy issues, including recent efforts to speed the removal of sexual predators from the classroom.

In recent years, there has been increased emphasis on the need for policies and programs to address the issue of discipline in schools.

AEI's Rick Hess and Brendan Bell recently slammed mainstream media outlets for biased coverage of the Higher Education Act provisions in the recent tax bill: «If professional journalists can't manage to [cover serious policy debates] when it comes to education, it's hard to imagine how they can do it on the most important and polarizing issues of the day.»

Within recent years various Protestant denominations have issued policy statements in support of the reform of abortion statutes.

In this issue, we address the economic costs of deflation, the evolution of investment after the financial crisis, the role of debt in the recent drop in oil prices, how financial inclusion affects central bank policy, and market liquidity.

The power of the NFCC brand, which you have all worked so hard to enhance in recent years, also has helped us attract respected partners and build coalitions on important policy issues.

The most recent issue of Florida Veterinarian magazine interviewed our own Dr. Cynda Crawford about how the Maddie's Shelter Medicine Program provided testing and biosecurity policies to keep the UF College of Veterinary Medicine and its patients, as well as dogs in animal shelters, safe during last year's canine influenza outbreak.

I got this card well before I decided to switch my business over to American Airlines, and I've never made a habit of flying Delta Air Lines, so recent changes to their lounge access policies that take effect on March 22 and May 1, respectively, aren't serious issues in my mind.

Most recently, we've seen the proliferation of «foodie» snaps on social media — a phenomenon that prompted the Houston Center for Photography to organize a recent exhibition called See Food, which was dedicated to food photography and the socio - political issues surrounding food and food policy.

While it's tempting for us TreeHuggers to give all the credit to recent innovations in green technology, victories on the environmental policy front and a growing divestment movement — all of which are no doubt contributing to the industry's woes — Stevens says the issues that BP, Exxon and the like face are more fundamental, and a lot more deeply seated than these relatively new challenges.

This peace is a reflection on climate change policy in the United States after the recent climate change national assessment of climate change impacts on the United States was issued in May.

In his four decades at RFF, he conducted research on energy resources and policy, with a more recent focus on issues of energy security, renewable and unconventional fuels, and climate change.

He described in views on the role of science in policy decisions in a recent issue of Regulation.

With a new preface addressing recent developments Wagner and Weitzman demonstrate that climate change can and should be dealt with — and what could happen if we don't do so — tackling the defining environmental and public policy issue of our time.

These and other issues are discussed in the Managing Director's Statement on the Role of the Fund in Addressing Climate Change, a recent Staff Discussion Note and IMF books Fiscal Policy to Mitigate Climate Change: A Guide for Policymakers and Implementing a US Carbon Tax: Challenges and Debates.

In the first entry in this series we concluded that although the recent IPCC AR 5 Working Group III report is laudable improvement over prior IPCC reports in regard to identifying ethical and equity issues that should be considered in developing climate change policy, some criticisms are also warranted of how IPCC has articulated the significance and implications of the ethical, justice, and equity principles that should guide nations in developing climate change policies.

With Governor Brown's recent Executive Order instructing all of California's state agencies to take climate change issues into account when making public policy decisions, doing infrastructure planning, and making regulatory decisions, a golden opportunity is arising in the Golden State for advocates of the renewables to force California to adopt a renewables - only approach to building new or replacement power generation capacity.

It's just one of many recent cases in which courts have clarified how the agency should work climate issues into National Environmental Policy Act reviews.»

«The recent dramatic cooling of the average heat content of the upper oceans, and thus a significant negative radiative imbalance of the climate system for at least a two year period, that was mentioned in the Climate Science weblog posting of July 27, 2006, should be a wake - up call to the climate community that the focus on predictive modeling as the framework to communicate to policymakers on climate policy has serious issues as to its ability to accurately predict the behavior of the climate system.

This fossil - fuel funded think tank recently offered $ 10,000 to any scientist willing to criticize the recent landmark 2007 Summary of Policy Makers (PDF File) climate change report issued by the United Nations sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).