Sentences with phrase «state policy changes do»

Larry: What Federal and / or state policy changes do you think would do the most to ensure continued progress in creating supportive school discipline and fostering equity in our schools?

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The FOMC's annoucement after their meeting on Wednesday affirmed the Fed's QE3 policy, offering no changes, while stating, «If the outlook for the labor market does not improve substantially, the Committee will continue its purchases of agency mortgage - backed securities, undertake additional asset purchases, and employ its other policy tools as appropriate until such improvement is achieved in a context of price stability.»

«I don't know if they've even spent half of it,» said Edward Richards, director of the Louisiana State University Climate Change Law and Policy Project.

«Before we even got behind a lot of policy changes, what we did was we went around the country and just visited prisons and visited state legislatures and visited with district attorneys and police officers and survivors of crime, all these folks who have a stake in the system right now, and we tried to listen and amplify voices that may not have been heard as much,» he explains.

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All districts had to do was include the change in their board - approved wellness policy, leaving the rules in place as a baseline for the rest of the state.

Other policies can be highly local, for example, health coverage could easily be done on a state or even county level without an easy way for the policies to be circumvented - sure, people can move to a different state / county but what counts as a policy in this case is the obligation residents have to pay in to the system and what their benefits are from it, so moving from state to state would not subvert the policies, it just changes the number of people subject to these policies.

The legislative session ended with a thud earlier this month, as lawmakers settled on a budget plan that didn't have the dramatic policy changes and spending reductions Paterson was looking for to put the state on a more sound fiscal footing after he leaves office — and presumably politics — at the end of this year.

However, this judgement does provide an option for the Secretary of State to change the Department of Health's policy and allow women to make the choice of where to complete a medical termination and we will work with the Department of Health to make this happen.»

When two state lawmakers suggested in a letter that Donovan follow Thompson's policy, he said he understood the reasoning behind the change but that doing so would violate his oath of office.

He was real glad that we got the health insurance for all of the children in the state, and he was very happy that we had the change in the reimbursement policy for heath - care institutions, a process known as rebasing, and he told me about that and, uh, he didn't say too much about what he was going to be doing and oh, what was that — it was a nice conversation — I also talked to Silda.

In New York, the governor does not directly control education, Cuomo has not ruled out trying to change the current structure, where an independent Board of Regents chosen by the legislature sets education policy and hires the state education commissioner.

As I see it, a crude identity politics such as Deborah Glick, Lisa Miller, and others espouse can do nothing but impoverish public discourse in this city — the most diverse in the United States — and distract us from the pursuit of progressive policy change.

Commonly used disinfectants do not kill human papillomavirus (HPV) which makes possible non-sexual transmission of the virus and creates a need for hospital policy changes, according to researchers from Penn State College of Medicine and Brigham Young University.

As important, the analysis does not consider any measures of state policies except for exit exams, implying that any other policy changes for the three decades between 1971 and 2004 are either irrelevant for student performance or are not correlated with the introduction and use of exit exams.

Q. Do you anticipate many more states following in Massachusetts footsteps and considering dramatic changes in education policy?

We can therefore estimate the impact of NCLB's accountability mandates by comparing test - score changes in states that did not have NCLB - style accountability policies in place when the law was implemented to test - score changes in those that did.

After collecting and synthesizing data from 17 states and the District of Columbia, we found that, despite state policy changes, many districts still don't factor student growth into teacher evaluation ratings in a meaningful way.

While informative, they do not conclusively show the effects of policies that alter the overall racial composition of a school through changes in attendance patterns, the policies that are of greatest concern to both the courts and to state and district policymakers.

State officials can subvert the law through interpretations that don't conform to its intent; school districts can change their policies without making genuine changes in curriculum; or teachers can ignore the mandates, closing their classroom doors and doing as they please.

Such policies also create incentives for schools that do accept voucher students to change their educational programs to match what the state tests.

Don't rush to action ESSA gives states flexibility to change their evaluation policies, but that doesn't mean they have to do so right nodo so right now.

Despite state policy changes, many districts still don't factor student growth into teacher evaluation ratings in a meaningful way.

In some cases, state policy initiatives are not taken seriously by local agencies.293 Even under current state accountability requirements, some local educators do not view the state as a powerful force for changing basic practices.

«The court does not set public policy... the court follows the law,» he wrote, adding that the Legislature could change the state law if it found disclosing teacher ratings proved destructive.

As we learned from the 1990 - 2005 era of systemic state standards - based reform, when academic standards change, so do policies related to student assessment and school accountability.

How We Do It: To achieve these outcomes, E4E works to change education policy at the district, state and federal levels.

The Hassels» op - ed, «N.C. must be bold on increasing teacher pay,» calls for «audacious, achievable goals»: Noting the Opportunity Culture work being done in Charlotte - Mecklenburg Schools to improve teachers» jobs and pay them more, the Hassels call on North Carolina's leaders to transform the state by extending that work and focusing on needed priority and policy changes that would create a surge in student learning, grow the state's economy, and increase teachers» career earnings.

But on Friday, state education officials also unveiled several changes to the proposal — which doesn't require a General Assembly vote to become official policy — that dial back a few of REPA II's most controversial points.

But in doing so, Duncan largely bypassed Congress to mandate that states adopt landmark changes — policies such as closing achievement gaps, and implementing teacher evaluations and college and career ready academic standards.

Georgia State has done a lot of work to close gaps, and administrators seem to recognize it is incumbent on them to address services and supports, not change their admission policies.

They then recommend that state and district leaders focus on two critical policy changes: (1) creating political will by developing the capacity to take charge of failing schools when districts don't act and (2) fueling the pipeline of K - 12 turnaround leaders.

Other locations he's watching include Maryland, where extensive changes to the state's discipline policies are underway, and Denver, whose leading role in the elimination of exclusionary discipline makes it a key guidepost for other districts striving to do away with zero - tolerance tactics.

Roadmap for Systems Change This two - page summary includes key considerations on what federal, state, and local policy leaders can do to seize benefits of personalized learning for students with disabilities (developed through the support of NCLD's national convening on meeting the needs of students with disabilities in personalized learning systems).

Today, changes to federal accountability policy and the state plans that have been submitted for compliance purposes herald a national shift toward the work the CORE districts have been doing since their waiver was granted.

These legislative changes have left many North Carolina teachers to conclude that the state's policy leadership «just doesn't care that much about (them)» (WJAL, 2016).

There may be policy changes that could reduce the amount of transferring within DCPS, but it's not clear officials can do anything about the movement across state, and even international, lines.

It's a sad state of affairs when the people charged with implementing this far - reaching change in education policy — both administration and teachers — don't know what they need to know.

NEW YORK — State lawmakers from Illinois to Tennessee are considering laws that could change what it means to be a teacher, as labor policy has become the heart of a pitched education debate — one in which each side claims that the other doesn't put students» interests first.

Though arguably the paper will not come close to changing public policy on retirement plans, it did raise some arguments in favor of the United States adopting a mandatory savings plan.

The «Open Skies» policy between the EU and United States has allowed airlines to fly and land anywhere with American and European Union territories — Brexit has caused no immediate change in this arrangement, but could possibly do so in the near future.

The Under2 Policy Action Map is an interactive tool to inspire states and regions to learn from the great work being done across the globe to act on climate change.

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A variation of this argument is that the United States should not adopt policies on climate change until other nations such as China take steps to reduce their emissions because if the United States acts and other nations don't reciprocate this will harm the US economy.

«What climate change is doing is basically devaluing all the real estate south of the United States and making the whole planet less productive,» said study co-author Solomon Hsiang, an economist and public policy professor at the University of California Berkeley.

While these resolutions and platform planks do not have the force of law, they can be used to change executive and administrative policy, as well as in testimony to show support for bills on the state and national levels.

In the Alaska speech, President Obama did not discuss the forces in the United States that have successfully undermined proposals for serious US climate change policies, matters which have been extensively discussed here under the category of «climate change disinformation campaign.»

Figueres: I do think that the benefits of global climate change policy are unthinkable without the United States for two main reasons.

Given that in ratifying the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) the United States in 1992 agreed under Article 3 of that treaty to not use scientific uncertainty as an excuse for postponing climate change policies, do you believe the United States is now free to ignore this promise by refusing to take action on climate change on the basis of scientific uncertChange (UNFCCC) the United States in 1992 agreed under Article 3 of that treaty to not use scientific uncertainty as an excuse for postponing climate change policies, do you believe the United States is now free to ignore this promise by refusing to take action on climate change on the basis of scientific uncertchange policies, do you believe the United States is now free to ignore this promise by refusing to take action on climate change on the basis of scientific uncertchange on the basis of scientific uncertainty?

This brought not only great scrutiny of the approach, but — more important — it meant that all of the hostility to action on climate change, mainly but not exclusively from Republicans and coal - state Democrats, was targeted at the policy du jour — cap - and - trade.