Sentences with phrase «social policy agendas»

Our Aboriginalities have been pathologised by the State and is evidenced in an array of Indigenous social policy agendas from the Northern Territory Emergency Response to the various Close the Gap initiatives that are visited upon us every day.

In addition to mortgage insurance, it also issues mortgage - backed securities and pursues a variety of social policy agendas at the behest of Ottawa, such as disseminating information on regional housing markets, improving access to affordable housing and encouraging energy efficiency in new homes.

As we enter the run - up to the 2018 midterm elections, Trumpism is weakening under its own self - inflicted wounds, the ambivalent legitimacy of Trump's election by a popular minority due to the eccentricities of the Electoral College, and a spreading realization that behind the economic populism of his campaign rhetoric is the most reactionary Republican economic and social policy agenda since the late nineteenth - century era of Social Darwinism and Jim Crow.

The Department of Social Services (DSS) offers a challenging and meaningful career working at the centre of the Australian Government's social policy agenda.

Encouraging and strengthening marriage continues to move up the U.S. social policy agenda.

Not exact matches

In 2005, he used the first policy convention of the then - new Conservative Party to take potentially divisive social - conservative issues like abortion off the party's agenda.

The experts have such prestige that Washington can hardly imagine inaugurating any social policy that does not reflect their agenda.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

That «coalition» approach is underpinned by the 97 - 01 policy agenda of new deal on jobs and windfall tax, minimum wage, devolution and FoI, public services, social chapter and pro-EU, feminisation of the PLP through shortlists, alongside macroecon stability, aversion to tax rises spoke to a party coalition; the post-01 agenda was arguably rather narrower, with new labour seeming to be about a particular method of public service reform.

It says: «We want to add a fourth pillar to what we do... This is the creation of a platform designed to build a new policy agenda for the centre ground together with the networks which link people up, and allow a reasonable and evidence based discussion of the future which avoids the plague of social media - led exchanges of abuse.

A reform of capitalism agenda would also include changes to CEO pay, more prudent mortgage tests, a real end of too - big - to - fail, counter-cyclical monetary policy, more dynamic patenting laws, a rethink of trade agreements and the introduction of a wholly new set of social and economic indicators (to capture phenomena like differential inflation rates and the uneven benefits of GDP growth).

Governor Cuomo's 2018 agenda builds on the promise of progressive government, advancing critical social & economic policies to improve the lives of NY'ers.

«Assemblywoman Meng will gladly debate Dan Halloran and his support for the radical, ultraconservative, republican agenda, including his plans to privatize Social Security, pass The Ryan budget and continue the failed economic policies focused on supporting the wealthiest 1 % of Americans,» said Meng spokesperson Austin Finan.

Findings also showed it as an empirically and conceptually innovative, diverse, vibrant discipline that in many areas sets the intellectual agenda The UK publishes more than its share of major disciplinary journals; bibliometric indicators reveal international primacy both in volume and citation impact; and a large number of the seminal publications (books as well as articles) continue to have a UK origin UK human geography is radically interdisciplinary and with the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences has become an exporter of ideas and faculty to other disciplines There was confidence that research in human geography had substantial impact on policy and practice and would successfully meet the challenges of the current impact agenda

IDS, through his work at the Centre for Social Justice, would be the ideal champion of the compassion agenda across government but clear anti-poverty policies are certain to be in the Tory manifesto.

The Tory core voters are the AB social classes, who were alienated by William Hague in 2001 and then again by Michael Howard in 2005, due to the fact that both were pursuing explicitly racist policy agendas.

For years, the Republican «Long Island Nine» in the State Senate stayed out of the way when Cuomo looked to pass liberal social policies like gay marriage and gun control, and supported his fiscally conservative agenda on taxes, education, public sector unions and regulation.

When it comes to developing a policy agenda that delivers fairness and social justice, the Conservative party is leading the political world away from the target - driven, top down, statist approach that Miliband pioneered when he ran the Downing Street policy unit.

While there has been a clear schism between reform's free market enthusiasts and its social justice wing, there can be little doubt that the movement's center of gravity has shifted sharply to the left, even though political progressives mostly regard the standard reform agenda — choice, charters, testing, anti-union policies — with contempt.

De Blasio has pledged to maintain Bloomberg's focus on closing the achievement gap, but his education agenda has revised the means: turnarounds instead of closures, heavy emphasis on addressing the «root causes» of K — 12 underperformance through pre-kindergarten education and social services, less antagonistic relations with the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), and more - relaxed school - discipline policies.

«The government needs to co-ordinate the social justice agenda from the centre and should give a Minister in the Cabinet Office specific responsibility to lead on this work and to ensure that the policies deliver in improving opportunities for all.»

Scholarship about the relationship between policy leadership and complex social change presents three main images.241 A technical policy perspective is found in most policy analysis texts; it is generally associated with rational choice models.242 Policy leaders should, according to this perspective, focus on rational choices to be made once a policy issue is on the apolicy leadership and complex social change presents three main images.241 A technical policy perspective is found in most policy analysis texts; it is generally associated with rational choice models.242 Policy leaders should, according to this perspective, focus on rational choices to be made once a policy issue is on the apolicy perspective is found in most policy analysis texts; it is generally associated with rational choice models.242 Policy leaders should, according to this perspective, focus on rational choices to be made once a policy issue is on the apolicy analysis texts; it is generally associated with rational choice models.242 Policy leaders should, according to this perspective, focus on rational choices to be made once a policy issue is on the aPolicy leaders should, according to this perspective, focus on rational choices to be made once a policy issue is on the apolicy issue is on the agenda.

Summary: This article comments on the work the Aspen Institute's National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development and the involvement of of current and former leaders from the worlds of education, policy, government, and business, The commission has an ambitious agenda to try to define commonalities in the emerging and overlapping fields of social - emotional learning, deeper learning, mindsets, and student engagSocial, Emotional, and Academic Development and the involvement of of current and former leaders from the worlds of education, policy, government, and business, The commission has an ambitious agenda to try to define commonalities in the emerging and overlapping fields of social - emotional learning, deeper learning, mindsets, and student engagsocial - emotional learning, deeper learning, mindsets, and student engagement.

The ASCD Global Policy Agenda (PDF) will be introduced at the upcoming Integrating Health & Social Programs Within Education Systems: A Global Dialogue forum in Paris, France, June 1 — 3.

Consumer Freedom analyzes animal rights organizations and criticizes their fundraising tactics, policies, and social and political agendas.

Though the unrest roiling Turkey began as an environmental protest, the police brutality in response and the prime minister's imperious reaction have brought hundreds of thousands out into the streets to protest the government's social policies, urban - planning agenda, assaults on press freedom, and heavy - handed approach to its critics — to name just a few of the grievances.

There's lots of literature about how climate change has developed into a far more complex «social problem / issue», as it's moved from scientific journals onto the policy agenda.

The one significant book on the subject I've come across (and I haven't looked exhaustively, so please enlighten me if there is more out there) The Social Construction of Climate Change: Power Knowledge Norms Discourses, ME Pettenger really deals only with the question of how climate change advocacy fails to capture the policy agenda.

Anyone who still wants to talk about a «social cost of carbon» after the fake warming was exposed is either completely stupid or, more likely, criminal, with an agenda to bend our government to its irrational policies.

This analytical document outlines the practical necessity of identifying and examining policy options for pursuing a transformational agenda that is aimed at reconciling economic growth with ecological limits and social equity.

Well, Malthusianism is a specifically biological kind of reductionism, one that buttresses right - wing pessimism and policy conclusions, and one that not at all incidentally pushes social justice off the political agenda.

Think about climate change as it applies to many decisions, and link climate policy to a larger agenda of advancing social justice and economic development.

If you drill down on that site and it's links, the agenda of the New Age, Gaia Worshipping, neo-marxist social democratic Western intellectual utopians becomes quite clear: * Wilful policy to crash world population down to the sub 1 Billion arena * Legalization of Eugenics * An attempt to create a global version of the utopian state depicted in the 1970s book «Ecotopia.»

In recent years, judicial decisions, social trends, policy agendas and economic upheaval have all contributed to the evolution of key principles of professional negligence law and the emergence of new themes and trends, which have been the subject of stimulating analysis and dispute.

Bywaters, P. (2013) «Inequalities in child welfare: towards a new policy, research and action agenda», British Journal of Social Work, online advanced access.

Tell us a little about the Center for the Study of Social Policy and how foster care adoption fits into its reform agenda.

The Ministerial Taskforce Charter outlines the government's long term agenda for Indigenous policy while at the same time focusing on the strategies to be put in place urgently to improve outcomes.23 As the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs, stated «every dollar spent on Indigenous projects and services must contribute to improved outcomes».24 The Ministerial Taskforce Charter stresses the urgency of improving social and economic well being for Indigenous Australians focusing on housing, health, education, employment, family violence, increasing economic development, improving community safety, and law and justice.

This volume is organized around England's Every Child Matters Agenda (2005) for Foster Carers and Scotland's Getting It Right For Every Child (or Young Person) in Foster and Kinship Care Agenda (2007), thereby highlighting a comparative social policy dimension to this volume and it's focus on enhanced developmental outcomes for looked after children and young people.

Summary: This article comments on the work the Aspen Institute's National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development and the involvement of of current and former leaders from the worlds of education, policy, government, and business, The commission has an ambitious agenda to try to define commonalities in the emerging and overlapping fields of social - emotional learning, deeper learning, mindsets, and student engagSocial, Emotional, and Academic Development and the involvement of of current and former leaders from the worlds of education, policy, government, and business, The commission has an ambitious agenda to try to define commonalities in the emerging and overlapping fields of social - emotional learning, deeper learning, mindsets, and student engagsocial - emotional learning, deeper learning, mindsets, and student engagement.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Dr William Jonas outlined an agenda for change to Indigenous policy in the Social Justice Report 2003.

The authors conclude that there is a need to broaden the research and policy agenda: A balanced agenda will address the social and ecological determinants of resilience, along with intrinsic factors.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Dr William Jonas outlined an agenda for change to Indigenous policy in the Native Title Report 2003.

In 2009 the Australian Government launched the Social Inclusion Agenda, which is a whole - of - government policy.

A public policy agenda focused on advocating for resources and informed practices within governmental and regulatory institutions to further the social and emotional well - being of young children and their families in RI.