Sentences with phrase «stake in ensuring»

Ireland has particular vulnerabilities to climate change and has a very strong stake in ensuring that global action on reducing carbon emissions is effective, according to Laura Burke (pictured), director general of the EPA.

Responsible pet owners have a stake in ensuring our state is unfriendly to puppy mills and cockfighting.

So the state has a stake in ensuring that 95 percent of all students and all subgroups are tested beyond simply ensuring the validity of the test results.

But at a time when economies are linked and gross inequality anywhere is a threat to security and prosperity everywhere, we all have a stake in ensuring that marginalized children across the world receive a high - quality education.

All of us involved — producers of scientific knowledge as well as funders, publishers and researchers — have a stake in ensuring the continued integrity of global scientific exchange.»

Every single person in Britain therefore has a stake in ensuring the Tories do not get that endorsement.

Not exact matches

When Sean Parker became president of Facebook in 2004, he was careful to ensure that the young Zuckerberg retained a sizable equity stake in the company.

The government said it would take a «special share» in all future nuclear new construction projects to ensure that significant stakes can not be sold without its consent.

And Caisse snapped up a piece of Cirque du Soleil when Guy Laliberté sold his stake — no doubt to ensure Cirque remains in Quebec.

Ensure everyone has a stake in the process.

«Perhaps Vivendi in the past underestimated some of Italy's uniqueness,» the group said in the document, adding that it recognized the «important stake» of Italian authorities in ensuring that the phone company is well run.

Our people operations folks also hold regular meetings with our team leads to constantly stay up to date as the company evolves and to ensure the entire company has stake in what our culture looks like today and as we grow.

Enlisting the help of qualified professionals who have no stake in the final decisions is the best way to ensure that the plan is crafted and put in place without bias or emotions.

Cainiao, in which Alibaba Group has a 48 percent stake, has established a global network of warehouses, transport and distribution points and will work with logistics partners all over the world to ensure quick customs clearance and delivery of 11.11 goods.

But he underscored it isn't enough simply «to keep your finger on the pulse about what is happening in the Farm Bill and to be active as individuals, companies also must invest,» and one way to do that is to visit representatives in Washington, DC, with the Organic Trade Association this spring to ensure politicians understand what is at stake and who it impacts.

Eliminating the three - tiered model (free, reduced, and paid) and making all school meals free to ensure that everyone has a stake in school meal programs.

In this instance, companies are owned as mutuals in order to give employees a greater stake, ensuring that workers are able to share in the fruits of profitability and growtIn this instance, companies are owned as mutuals in order to give employees a greater stake, ensuring that workers are able to share in the fruits of profitability and growtin order to give employees a greater stake, ensuring that workers are able to share in the fruits of profitability and growtin the fruits of profitability and growth.

Following Andrew Rawnsley's resignation today from PoliticsHome, we also feel that the decision to sell a majority stake in PoliticsHome to Michael Ashcroft, the deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, will not ensure the continuing political independence of the website.

The letter indicated, «Where the Board of Trustees of SSNIT agrees with the directive to take up the stake, it would be advisable to conduct legal and financial due diligence on the proponent company in order to ensure that the public interest in the investment by SSNIT is protected.»

«Some companies may find that these models work best for them — but there are other routes that use existing Board structures, complemented or supplemented by advisory councils or panels, to ensure all those with a stake in the company are properly represented.

In conditions of fear — or when our own survival is at stake — the pursuit of actions that ensure our survival will reign supreme.

«The Common Core Parental Refusal Act protects the rights of parents to have their children refuse to take these high stakes tests and it ensures that students, teachers and schools are not penalized or rewarded for participation — or lack thereof — in the exams.

«It's irrelevant whether the press does or doesn't trust Governor Cuomo to follow through — everyone's credibility is at stake, and everyone will push each other to ensure that a Democrat - Working Families majority in the state Senate is a reality.»

... Nonetheless, given the amount at stake, I have no choice but to do all I can to ensure that this provision is not enacted, and so I must veto the bill in its entirety.»

She stated that the Region has become the home for GNPC's highly tech - based activities and thus need to invest in the development of local capacity to ensure that the indigenes also earn a legitimate stake in Ghana's oil and gas extractive business.

We will retain the public's stake in Royal Mail, alongside securing the universal service obligation after its expiry in 2021, ensuring that Royal Mail services continue to be available through the Post Office network and that all postal service operators are subject to high performance and service quality standards.

«Although there were concerns raised about last week's announcement, after a comprehensive review of the issues at stake, I have determined that a Special Election on Primary Day is the most cost - effective, expeditious way to ensure that the people of the 38th District are appropriately represented in the Assembly.

«Scientists, who are better positioned than most to appreciate what is at stake in these political decisions, surely have no less a right and responsibility than any other group to ensure their voices are heard in the political process,» he said.

The idea is that responsibility for these functions should reside in a multistakeholder community rather than the U.S. Government, but it is not at all clear how such a community can be organized or how to ensure that everyone with a «stake» in the Internet is represented fairly.

Furthermore, a great site would eliminate non — genuine users in the initial stages of profile approval and would ensure user safety isn't at stake.

The stakes are high and the bullets are real, as Dominika must find a way to outwit everyone on the board in order to ensure not only her survival, but that of her mother.

«We have to help parents understand what their stake is in the game,» says Gulati, cofounder and full - time COO of Meraki, a nonprofit based in the Delhi area that aims to ensure that parents have a voice in their children's education, providing them with the tools necessary to...

It means giving teachers and students a focus to their school mission and a personal stake in the school, and creating a system that ensures accountability for results.

Everyone has a stake in getting assessment right by ensuring that there are enough teachers to maintain high - quality marking.

Further, little is being done to ensure that the tests being devised for the new Common Core State Standards do not introduce a break in the continuous stream of accountability information essential for the evaluation of school and teacher performance (see this issue's forum, «Examining High - Stakes Testing»).

It was with those students in mind, with their future at stake, and in the interest of the Commonwealth's economic vitality, that the governor engaged more than 200 citizens to develop an action plan, a series of recommendations spanning 10 years with an immediate focus on turning around low - performing schools and ensuring that students are receiving the support they need outside of school to take full advantage of improved teaching and learning inside of school.

When teachers are part of a team, they all have an equal stake — and share equally in the risks — when it comes to ensuring the success of their team and their students, added McNeely, who is principal at Hayden Lawrence Middle School in Deville, Louisiana.

Who We Are DQC strives to ensure that everyone with a stake in education — especially families and educators — can access and use quality student data to raise achievement for all students.

Common Core advocates continue to insist that Common Core does not usurp local control of curriculum, but in practice high - stakes tests keyed to the Common Core standards ensure that curriculum will follow.

You can count on Scitent to deliver adaptive learning plans and spaced practice to ensure your learners are attaining maximum retention — in preparation for high - stakes examinations or board certifications.

The Achieve3000 platform is powered by built - in blended learning, actionable data, and proven efficacy, ensuring equity of access to core instruction while accelerating student learning, improving performance on high - stakes assessments, and preparing all students for college and career success.

You would think that given the enormity of this responsibility and the stakes involved, that as an education community, we would do everything in our power to recruit and prepare the very best people to advance this agenda, that we would establish structures and supports to ensure that these teachers succeed in advancing this agenda.

Movers and shakers with a stake in Wisconsin education met this week in Madison, ostensibly to begin creating a method to ensure state students are college - or career - ready when they graduate from high school.

In the absence of strong central direction for accountability plans, it will also mean engaging all groups that have a stake in the success of English learners to ensure robust monitoring of how these students are faring academicallIn the absence of strong central direction for accountability plans, it will also mean engaging all groups that have a stake in the success of English learners to ensure robust monitoring of how these students are faring academicallin the success of English learners to ensure robust monitoring of how these students are faring academically.

Through a comprehensive High School Strategy, she is raising both the bar and the stakes for these crucial academic years, working to ensure that every student in Chicago has a quality high school option within three miles of their home.

When using tests, and especially subjective indicators to measure «teacher performance,» one must exercise caution to ensure that those being measured do not engage in manipulation and inflation techniques known to effectively increase the scores derived and valued, particularly within such high - stakes accountability systems.

Proponents of the act have succeeded in ensuring that students with special needs are given the same accommodations in high - stakes testing situations as they get in the classroom.

With recent changes towards a high - stakes testing environment and an increase in curriculum content it is vital for teachers to ensure pupils demonstrate good resilience and recall under examination conditions.

In the era of high - stakes national, state and local accountability, and with the advent of common core standards and NCLB, teachers across the nation face the daunting task of ensuring mastery of increasingly rigorous learning standards in increasingly diverse classroomIn the era of high - stakes national, state and local accountability, and with the advent of common core standards and NCLB, teachers across the nation face the daunting task of ensuring mastery of increasingly rigorous learning standards in increasingly diverse classroomin increasingly diverse classrooms.

Policymakers need more research to determine how best to measure this area and to ensure indicators are valid, reliable, and not corruptible in a high - stakes environment.