Sentences with phrase «state policymakers and the public»

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Abigail Bozarth, a spokeswoman for AstraZeneca, said «AstraZeneca believes it is important to engage with policymakers, key partners, and the public — across all states in the United States — about the very challenging issues we face as we all work to strengthen our nation's health care system.&states in the United States — about the very challenging issues we face as we all work to strengthen our nation's health care system.&States — about the very challenging issues we face as we all work to strengthen our nation's health care system.»

«While San Francisco policymakers pursue common sense regulation of standup electronic scooters to enhance the public benefit of this new shared mobility technology and to reduce potential harm to the public, state legislators seek to eliminate elements of the Vehicle Code that exist to protect the health and safety of members of the public including users of standup electric scooters,» Peskin wrote in his resolution.

By telling our story — educating the public and working with policymakers at the state and federal level — we can ensure that the trucking industry remains the thriving industry it is today.

In their current state of development, home visitation programs do not appear to represent the low - cost solution to child health and developmental problems that policymakers and the public have hoped for.5 However, information that is accumulating about long - term outcomes and effective practices may lead to the development of replicable programs that are capable of producing modest but consistent and positive results for participating target families.

AAPD members interested in public policy issues in their state as well as policymakers and advocates for children's oral health at the state level should feel free to contact the PPA in your state.

Through research papers, policy briefings, commentaries and conferences, the think tank seeks to educate and inform New York State policymakers, news media and the general public.

«However, state policymakers need to know what level of funding is needed to maintain current educational programs and services in our public schools and to foster student success.»

Also last week, the governor and state legislators essentially neutered the «M.T.A. lock box» bill, which would have required policymakers to issue a public impact statement before taking money intended for the M.T.A. and spending it elsewhere.

«A tax cap that is tied to an inflationary number that does not reflect school district costs and which results in negative levies should raise concerns with both state policymakers and the general public that want a quality education for our students.»

The measure, which a spokesman said would be applied only to corrupt elected officials and policymakers, would set in motion the process to amend the state constitution, which now guarantees public pensions to all public - sector workers.

«Although there will still be significant gaps in the available information about the outside activities of lawmakers and other officials, this database will ensure that going forward the public, the media, and policymakers will be better able to discern whether an officeholder or their business partners are representing clients with state business before state agencies, an important part of the overall picture.»

Major casino operators are aggressively pushing for the licenses, and spent more than $ 11 million in the past two years to influence state and local policymakers, according to the nonprofit New York Public Interest Research Group.

«As the AAAS Council stated in 2006: Censorship, intimidation, or other restriction on the freedom of scientists employed or funded by governmental organizations to communicate their unclassified scientific findings and assessments not only to each other but also to policymakers and to the public is inimical to the advance of science and its appropriate application in the policy domain.»

In addition to his public service at NIH, he did his postdoctoral training within the NIH - NIEHS Superfund Research Program Center at the University of Kentucky, where he directed the Center's graduate and postdoctoral transdisciplinary training efforts and translated the Center's ongoing environmental health - related research innovations to relevant stakeholders, including state and federal policymakers and regulators, industry partners for technology transfer, and at - risk populations across Kentucky.

Speakers will discuss the contributions of the marine and environmental sciences communities in assessing and communicating to the public and policymakers the effects of similar disasters in ROK and the United States, where nuclear reactors are at risk from similar natural hazards.

«This was intended to be an exploratory study,» Allareddy said, «one that we hope will help alert the public, researchers, and policymakers of the need to fully define and address this important, emerging public health problem among children in the United States.»

In a joint effort, scientists from Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK), the Cluster of Excellence LabexMER (France), Scripps Institution of Oceanography (United States), the University Pierre and Marie Curie (France), the UK Ocean Acidification research programme (UKOA) and the German research network Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification (BIOACID) engaged with public and policymakers at COP 21.

In a few states, policymakers have taken a creative step toward solving this problem by giving public - education money directly to K — 12 parents in a liberal but use - restricted and monitored account that encourages families to treat the money as their own.

State policymakers who wish to switch over to portability should think carefully not only about reporting requirements and accountability for private schools under portability, but also about the details of the fiscal transition, such as hold harmless rates, that could allow high poverty public schools now served with Title I time to adjust.

The resulting attacks come from three directions: state policymakers, local school systems, and organized public education interest groups.

Finally, I have a recommendation for proponents of school choice: Educate policymakers, the media, and the general public on the longstanding regulatory relationship between state governments and private schools.

Now, educators and policymakers in that state are scrambling to determine whether and how to enforce the new law, a direct challenge to Plyler v. Doe, a 1982 Supreme Court ruling that asserts that public schools must provide all students an education, regardless of their immigration status.

It had momentum prior to the 2008 election as state policymakers came to understand that their own academic standards for public schooling were far too low — and sadly uneven — and that a joint effort to create common standards might provide the political cover to aim higher.

The nomination of Betsy DeVos as secretary of education guarantees that school choice will remain a key component of the education policy agenda in 2017, as public charter schools continue to expand and state and federal policymakers implement or consider policies to expand access to private schools.

Federal and state policymakers sometimes embrace high standards and quality assessments in principle, but when they experience intense pressure from interest groups and the public, their support is likely to falter.

It is fair to ask if national standards and assessments might start us down the road to a national K — 12 system of public education, effectively turning on its head a system defined today by state and local policymakers and resources.

The wide variation across states in the relative size and characteristics of the public and private sectors revealed by this exploratory, descriptive analysis suggests the need to tailor federal and state policy efforts to best leverage the private sector in each state to meet policymakers» goals.

First, state policymakers should consider the optimal balance of state appropriations to public institutions and state grant aid that can be used at private, non-profit colleges.

In particular, state policymakers need to consider the role of the private sector when deciding the right balance between direct funding of public institutions and vouchers that students can use at any institution (in the state or more broadly).

«We publish books, reports, and briefing papers that illuminate critical problems and advance innovative solutions; work at both the national and state level with advocates and policymakers to promote reforms; help to build the capacity and skills of key progressive constituencies; project our values into the media by promoting Demos Fellows and staff in print, broadcast, and Internet venues; and host public events that showcase new ideas and leading progressive voices.»

Their successes have led community organizers and a growing number of education policymakers to see California's fledgling community schooling movement as a holistic, bottom - up reform that can restore equality of opportunity and the democratic promise of the state's system of universal public education.

The annual PDK / Gallup education poll comes out Wednesday, and policymakers, analysts and pundits will be busy parsing the findings on perceptions of the nation's public schools — from campus safety to high - stakes testing to the new Common Core State Standards.

Knowing that supportive public and social policies can advance our vision of every school a community school, NCCS partners with colleagues at the city, state and national levels to educate policymakers about the core components and results of this research - based strategy.

For the first time, a dozen major education organizations have pulled together their best practices and research to state these elements and help policymakers, school leaders and the public understand why some schools succeed and how they do it.

Education policymakers, postsecondary educators, public school principals, secondary academic and vocational teachers, state and local education personnel, and teacher - educators, are invited to participate.

These efforts have paid short shrift to the simple and frustrating fact that, while public policy can make people do things, it can not make people do those things well... First, state and federal policymakers do not run schools; they merely write laws and regulations telling school districts what principals and teachers ought to do.

Based on the findings presented in this report, CAP offers a series of recommendations for policymakers at the federal, state, and district level to facilitate the goal of making public schools more socioeconomically diverse.

Historically, state policymakers have delegated their authority over public education to local school districts, particularly in matters of curriculum and instruction.

A public education and advocacy organization promoting high - quality, voluntary prekindergarten for all 3 - and 4 - year - olds; supports state - based children's advocates, and educates policymakers and the public about the need for preK for all children.

We are appealing to Colorado policymakers in the legislature and at the State Board to use every tool available to ensure that all students have a quality public education.

Federal and state policymakers should support public education as a means to grow their economies and help create well - educated citizens.

Authors David Madland and Alex Rowell urge policymakers to heed Wisconsin's warning — attacks on public - sector workers are harmful for states.

Volume II, by the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) at the University of Washington, describes the policy environments of online charter schools and provides recommendations to state policymakers.

«Our goal in conducting the state surveys was to give relevant, actionable information on public views of public education to policymakers at the state and local levels,» said Joshua P. Starr, chief executive officer of PDK.

Thanks to No Child, the work of researchers such as Robert Balfanz, Jay P. Greene, and Christopher Swanson, the efforts of policymakers such as former Indiana Commissioner of Higher Education Stan Jones and Congressman - Elect Luke Messer, and the National Governors Association, states revamped their graduation rate calculations and admitted the abysmal state of American public education.

We continuously study priority issues, inform the public and policymakers and engage citizens, business leaders, families, students, and others in a shared mission to move Kentucky to the top tier of all states for education success.

As the state's policymakers begin to work on the meager changes to the system supported by this ruling, community engagement and insistence on quality public schools for all children must be strongly and persistently communicated, and attempts to saddle this state with mediocrity rejected.

That would be necessary because state policymakers have a responsibility to the state's taxpayers to assure that the funds are being used to promote the public interest and not just the interests of the direct beneficiaries.

And, policymakers use state assessment data to communicate the state of education to the public.

We hope the findings and conclusions of our analysis will provide insight for policymakers and the public and spark a much - needed conversation about the future of the teaching workforce within the state and the region.