Sentences with phrase «releases policy guidance»
As the USDA releases policy guidance updates on child nutrition programs, SNA tracks these updates in order to keep our members informed.
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As the USDA releases policy guidance updates on child nutrition programs, SNA tracks these updates in order to keep our members informed.
FHA will be releasing policy guidance shortly.»
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«The legal guidance and model policies my office released today give local governments the tools they need to protect immigrant communities from any over-reach by federal agencies.
(LA JOLLA, CA)-- October 29, 2015 — The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) policy group today released a new report titled, «DNA Synthesis and Biosecurity: Lessons Learned and Options for the Future,» which reviews how well the Department of Health and Human Services guidance for synthetic biology providers has worked since it was issued in 2010.
Two years ago, when Arizona launched its statewide literacy initiative Read On Arizona, state leaders looked for guidance in a series of policy and practice memos developed by Professor Nonie Lesaux.The one - page memos, released in 2012 as part of Lesaux's Lead for Literacy initiative, are...
In a «Dear Colleague» letter released last year, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Education (ED) issued guidance for schools on avoiding discrimination against students on the basis of race when administering school disciplinary policies, and warned that if minority students are subject to disciplinary actions at a higher rate than other students, schools could be faulted for civil - rights violations.
The Justice and Education departments still have not determined how to address existing desegregation cases — and whether or where to bring new ones — and have received little guidance from the White House in crafting civil - rights policy, the Citizens» Commission on Civil Rights, a bipartisan panel of former federal civil - rights officials and other advocates, says in a report released last week.
In light of the department's release of expanded learning time guidance to states, we detail below the three reasons why including expanded learning time as an option in the 21st CCLC program is a good policy.
The organization is urging the State Board of Education to adopt a policy that would require schools to select the option that only releases test results to students and their guidance counselors, not military recruiters.
Earlier this year, the U.S. attorney general and the secretary of education jointly released guidance to help schools ensure that their discipline policies and practices are nondiscriminatory.
On Tuesday, March 3, Engaging Schools Executive Director Larry Dieringer played a key role in «From the Police Precinct to the Principal's Office: The Challenges Facing School Districts One Year After the Release of Federal School Discipline Guidance,» a Congressional briefing that explored changes underway and challenges remaining more than a year after the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice released guidance to help school districts develop discipline policies that keep students in school, eliminate racial disparities, and increase positive behavioral supports.
Familiarize yourself with the newly released Title IX guidance and state and district policies regarding transgender students and consult your school or district attorney should you have any questions or concerns.
In conjunction with the guidance, the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education released a document providing examples of policies and emerging practices for supporting transgender students.
Under Section 1442 of the FAST Act and congressional guidance on Nonmotorized User Safety accompanying the proposed FY 2017 Appropriations bill, DOT released a Safety for All Users report that identifies eight multimodal policy and program areas that can be implemented to help improve safety for pedestrians, bicyclists, and other users.
The DOT high - value data inventory has been scored in accordance with our Interim Identification & Prioritization Process and Guidelines (v1.0), which will serve as the Department's guidance for identifying high - value data sets until a formal data transparency policy is released during Fall 2010.
[1] For example, the Security and Exchange Commission, which is utterly unrelated to climate policies, released guidance in 2010 requiring some companies to disclose climate impacts.
This has involved providing the evidence - base to support policy formulation (undertaking assessments, drafting guidance frameworks and policy briefs), facilitating the policy process (convening and participating in policy dialogues / workshops), building capacity (developing and implementing needs - based training), liaising with a wide range of stakeholders (public meetings, discussion forums, on - line questionnaires) and communicating the result of his work to ensure it has maximum impact (writing press releases, opinion editorials and blogs).
The OHRC regularly releases policies providing guidance on interpreting the Code, and set guidelines and best practices on how employees and employers should comply with it.
Earlier this week, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada released a joint guidance with the respective privacy commissioners in Alberta and B.C. on direct to consumer genetic testing, as well as a policy statement on the collection, use, and disclosure of genetic information.
The first, a joint policy statement issued by the U.S. departments of Education and Health and Human Services, focused on reducing suspensions and expulsions in early childhood settings.13 The second, a guidance package released by the departments of Education and Justice, addressed discrimination in school disciplinary practices.14 Unlike laws or regulations, these guidance documents are not legally binding.