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SAN FRANCISCO, November 9, 2010 — California can significantly improve the way it funds public schools by making strategic changes now, according to a report released today by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC).

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The compelling public policy case for an expanded CPP was usefully re-iterated by Jon Kesselman in an op ed piece in the Financial Post today.

Today, these values shape the public debate and policy of most industrialized countries and have been imposed on many others through the structural adjustment required by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

Washington DC — Wine Institute, the public policy advocacy group for California wineries, applauds today's announcement by the U.S. government requesting formal World Trade Organization (WTO) consultations with the Government of Canada to ensure that both imported and British Columbia (B.C.) wines have equal access to B.C. grocery store shelves.

An outstanding policy briefing paper Understanding Fatherhood in the 21st Century A Policy Briefing Paper for Northern Ireland written by Colin Shaw and Maria Lohan summarises the research evidence to support father involvement and makes a series of recommendations for changes in public policy and practice in Northern Ireland to facilitate the changing role of fathers policy briefing paper Understanding Fatherhood in the 21st Century A Policy Briefing Paper for Northern Ireland written by Colin Shaw and Maria Lohan summarises the research evidence to support father involvement and makes a series of recommendations for changes in public policy and practice in Northern Ireland to facilitate the changing role of fathers Policy Briefing Paper for Northern Ireland written by Colin Shaw and Maria Lohan summarises the research evidence to support father involvement and makes a series of recommendations for changes in public policy and practice in Northern Ireland to facilitate the changing role of fathers policy and practice in Northern Ireland to facilitate the changing role of fathers today.

Intended for use by policy - makers, national breastfeeding committees, breastfeeding advocates, women's health activists and others working for public health in the community, the Resource sets out why breastfeeding in the context of HIV has never been as safe as it is today.

Formed by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), the Independent Commission on National Security met for the first time today.

Nearly half of the 669 school districts seeking voter approval for budgets on Tuesday, May 15 are presenting spending plans that would increase property taxes as high as the 2011 property tax cap law allows, according to an analysis released today by the Empire Center for Public Policy.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The average pay for police and fire department employees in Syracuse was $ 83,882 last year, the highest of any city in Central New York, according to an analysis of public payrolls released today by the Empire Center for Public Ppublic payrolls released today by the Empire Center for Public PPublic Policy.

«We stand here today in outrage and disappointment that 15 of our City Council members, including nine members of the Progressive Caucus, have decided to participate in a delegation to Israel sponsored by groups known for promoting Islamophobic public policies,» said Brandon Davis, a member of Jewish Voice for Peace, in opening a rainy press conference outside of City Hall on January 12.

Today, it delivers this objective by developing, supporting and promoting geography through research, expeditions and fieldwork, education, and public engagement, while also providing geographical input to policy.

The referendum will now be held by October 2011, the prime minister announced today in a speech to the Institute for Public Policy Research, outlining what he called a «new politics».

Responding to the report published today by Policy Exchange arguing for reform of the public sector pay and pensions frameworks, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said: «This report appears to be another example of supporters of the Coalition Government seeking to rally support for localised pay in the face of a dearth of evidence to back up the Coalition's proposals for the abolition of national pay frameworks for public services.

MoveOn Political Action commissioned Public Policy Polling to do surveys of registered voters in 24 House congressional districts currently held by Republicans, and they say the surveys show a generic Democrat would beat the incumbent Republican member if elections were held today.

Today, Donohue called the failure of the Close to Home program «further evidence of the failure of Governor Andrew Cuomo's public policy by news release that puts people at risk.»

Tom Miers has written a pamphlet published today by Policy Exchange, The Devolution Distraction: How Scotland's constitutional obsession leads to bad government, which concludes that the not only has the Scottish Parliament not improved Scotland's economy or public services, but that further constitutional tinkering is a distraction from the real reform that is required north of the border.

With over 80 percent of forests already degraded by human and industrial activities, today's findings underscore the immediate need for international policies to secure remaining intact forests — including establishing new protected areas, securing the land rights of indigenous peoples, regulating industry and hunting, and targeting restoration efforts and public finance.

The rate of adults without health insurance across the U.S. dropped nearly twice as much as in Texas from 2013 to 2015, according to a new report released today by Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy and the Episcopal Health Foundation (EHF).

The percentage of uninsured adults ages 18 to 64 in Texas declined from 24.8 to 23.5 between September 2013 and March 2014, according to a report released today by Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy and the Episcopal Health Foundation.

But a study published online today in the journal Cognition by researchers at the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania found that the encyclical did not directly influence people's beliefs about the seriousness of climate change or its effect on the poor.

If the world's cities focused their investments on expanding public transportation, walking and cycling, they could save more than $ 100 trillion in public and private capital and urban transportation operating costs between now and 2050, according to a report released today by the University of California, Davis, and the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP).

I was reading today that a recent survey done by Public Policy Polling has really uncovered some interesting issues down south.

A new article by June Kronholz looks at the students who may be least favored by today's education policies — profoundly gifted students — and at a unique public school set up to serve them.

National Survey also reveals increased support for virtual schooling, support for charter schools rises sharply in minority communities CAMBRIDGE, MA - The fourth annual survey conducted by Harvard's Program on Education Policy and Governance (PEPG) and Education Next on a wide range of education issues released today reveals that the broader public and teachers are markedly divided in their support for merit pay, teacher tenure, and Race to the Top (RttT).

CAMBRIDGE, MA - The fourth annual survey conducted by Harvard's Program on Education Policy and Governance (PEPG) and Education Next on a wide range of education issues released today reveals that the broader public and teachers are markedly divided in their support for merit pay, teacher tenure, and Race to the Top (RttT).

Today if you don't recognize Indiana's Superintendent of Public Instruction by name, you're probably familiar with his policies — high stakes reading exams for third graders, merit pay for teachers, A-F grading for schools.

Today, Mitt Romney squandered an opportunity to participate in a meaningful discussion of real education reform by attempting to disguise attacks on teachers and public education as meaningful policy proposals.

Hamilton, New Jersey — «The New Jersey Charter Schools Association (NJCSA) today filed a formal complaint with, and requests an investigation by, the New Jersey State Ethics Commission against Associate Professor Julia Sass Rubin, Rutgers University, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy.

Many teachers today, including NEA members, have been angry at the Obama administration for education reform policies that they say have harmed public education, including its support for the expansion of charter schools and the controversial evaluation of teachers by student test scores.

The collaboration comes as a new report, published today by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), a think tank, claims teachers working in disadvantaged areas need advanced training to ensure the most in - need pupils get the best education.

Education Savings Accounts (ESAs) will not decimate public school budgets, a report released today by the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy public school budgets, a report released today by the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy Public Policy shows.

Legislation pending in Congress would create new opportunities for corporations and successful investors to earn huge profits by transferring public funding to private schools, according to a report released today by AASA, The School Superintendents Association, and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.

What will make or break today's accountability systems is whether policymakers dig down into the data or make the mistake of NCLB by drawing quick conclusions about interventions or sanctions, says Ben DeGrow, director of education policy for Michigan's Mackinac Center for Public Ppolicy for Michigan's Mackinac Center for Public PolicyPolicy.

Rather than address the fact that the State of Connecticut underfunds it public schools by almost $ 2 billion a year and the state should dramatically increase its level of support for public schools in the state, Governor Dannel Malloy went to New Britain today to announce a sham proposal that will further exacerbate Connecticut's failed school funding policies.

«We will provide a way to make your public comment if the USFWS again pursues this misguided policy, but you can help today by sharing the petition to Secretary Zinke with 5 friends asking them to oppose the importation of trophies from elephants.

The staunch nonprofit known as the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA), which helps dealers and collectors with concerns regarding appraisals, scholarship, ethical practice, public policy, and other imperative art market concerns, has been putting on a small (by today's standards) art fair called simply The Art Show since 1989.

Scientists have always been engaged in > politics, sometimes for good (advocating vaccination campaigns against > smallpox, for example) and sometimes for ill (arguing for the improvement > of > the «white» race by eugenics), but scientists have had their «meddling» > fingers in politics for centuries, maybe millennia, without any lasting > ill > effects on our current ability to investigate the workings of the world or > > to influence the development of public policy today.

The four - page fact sheet released by her campaign offered only vague promises that her climate policy planks will ensure «that fossil fuel production taking place today is safe and responsible, that taxpayers get a fair deal for development on public lands, and that areas that are too sensitive for energy production are taken off the table.»

Their forecasts of dire calamities have strained public credulity and antagonized many in the scientific community, who contend that government policies today are moved more by press release than by sound, scientific research.»

Invited to speak today at a press conference held by Congressman Maloney, Scenic Hudson Director of Public Policy Andy Bicking summarized why the Coast Guard review is significant.

FBI agents misled officials and the public, violated their own policy manual, used poor judgment, and engaged in sloppy police work when they investigated certain left - leaning, high - profile, domestic advocacy groups in the years immediately following 9/11, the Justice Department announced today following a four - year - long internal investigation by the Office of the Inspector General.

The Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP) released a study by Pierre Lortie today concluding that Canada does not need a national securities regulator.

The DHS Privacy Office also released today a Privacy Impact Assessment, available at www.dhs.gov/privacy, in connection with the new directives to enhance public understanding of the authorities, policies, procedures and controls employed by DHS during border searches of electronic data to protect individuals» privacy.

«The majority today departs from the settled approach separating patent and antitrust law, weakens the protections afforded to innovators by patents, frustrates the public policy in favor of settling, and likely undermines the very policy it seeks to promote by forcing generics who step into the litigation ring to do so without the prospect of cash settlements.

WASHINGTON, DC — Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), and Laurie Rubiner, PPFA vice-president for advocacy and public policy, participated in today's Women's Health Care stakeholder discussion hosted by the White House and highlighted the increasing need for access to affordable primary and preventive health care for women.

Two key champions of health care reform — Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) and the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (NLIRH)-- participated today in the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute's (CHCI) 2010 Public Policy Conference by sponsoring a networking breakfast immediately prior to First Lady Michelle Obama's speech at the morning plenary session, titled «America's Promise: The Impact of Health Care Reform.»

Today's suggestion by the Australian Medical Association (AMA) that the Coalition's abandoned general practice (GP) co-payments policy might be resurrected has been strongly condemned by the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association (AHHA), Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA), Consumers Health Forum of Australia (CHF), National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) and Australian Council of Social Services (ACOSS).

Established in 1997, the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA)» is the national voice of the reverse mortgage industry, serving as an educational resource, policy advocate and public affairs center for lenders, as well as related professionals... Over 90 % of the reverse mortgages in the United States today are originated or purchased by NRMLA members, and over 95 % of the reverse mortgages originated in the United States at this time are home equity conversion mortgage («HECM») loans insured by the FHA.»