Sentences with phrase «with policies mandating»

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Mandated by 1986 congressional legislation, they are not actual national strategies that spell out specific policy goals and match those goals with resources and detailed timelines.

Everything I have mentioned so far today is consistent with the existing framework for financial stability policy in Australia: APRA has the mandate to use its powers to promote financial stability; it can take a holistic approach to risk; it can and does coordinate with other regulators, under the auspices of the Council of Financial Regulators.

The administration is including language in the final rule to make clear how a contractor's current sick leave policy can comport with the mandate.

Responsibility for monetary policy ultimately lies with the minister of finance; this responsibility is discharged by providing the Bank of Canada a formal mandate.

At the country level, Malaysia Equity Funds continue to post inflows as investors anticipate incumbent Prime Minister Najib Razak will emerge from next month's general election with a mandate to continue the existing economic policies.

It did not take long after the passage of Humphrey - Hawkins for wiser Federal Reserve officials, including Paul Volcker (who became Chair in 1979), to conclude that the «dual mandate,» far from defining a new and sustainable approach to monetary policy, was simply a nuisance — something they had to pay lip service to, whilst really concerning themselves with keeping a lid on inflation, so as to undo and avoid repeating the mistakes of the 70s.

Instead, the central bank, in its statement said that consistent with its statutory mandate of fostering maximum employment and price stability, had decided «to maintain a highly accommodative stance for monetary policy.»

The most important policy priority with respect to the Fed is protecting it from stone age monetary ideas like a return to the gold standard, or turning policymaking over to a formula, or removing the dual mandate commanding the Fed to worry about unemployment as well as inflation.

Calomiris proposes (1) internal governance reforms that would decentralize power within the Fed and promote diversity of thinking; (2) policy process reforms that would narrow the Fed's primary mandate to price stability and require the Fed to adopt and disclose a systematic approach to monetary policy; and (3) other reforms that would constrain the Fed's asset holdings and activities so as to avoid actions that conflict with its monetary policy mission and that risk undermining its independence.

With Fed policy - makers expecting continued low inflation, Yellen put greater weight on the second part of the Fed's dual mandate — maximizing employment.

Because the birth control cases all focus on a 1993 federal law, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, not the Constitution, the Justices will face questions about whether the mandate to provide free access to 20 forms of birth control drugs or devices, sterilization, screenings, and counseling imposes a «substantial burden» on religious freedom of nonprofit employers with religious objections to some or all contraceptives, whether the mandate in fact serves a «compelling interest» of the government, and whether an attempt to provide an exemption from the mandate satisfies the requirement that such an accommodation is «the least restrictive means» of achieving the government's policy interest.

The Federal Nuclear Waste Policy Act has mandated that deep - mine disposal of high - level radioactive effluent and spent fuel rods from nuclear reactors commence by 1998, but states with proposed geological sites are screaming foul.

If there is a certain skittishness when it comes to talking about them much, I suspect it is in large part because both have been exploited for ideological purposes: slavery to underscore black victimhood and to mandate compensatory attitudes and policies; the Holocaust as a convenient stick with which the ACLU and its like beat their «Fascist,» i.e., conservative, critics.

More popular with both physicians and ethicists is the policy of «required request,» mandating that hospitals ask families about organ donation in every case of brain death.

RU486 is abortion and it is mandated with this policy.

Guidance Materials: RCW 28A.210.360 (Senate Bill 5436, 2004) requires districts to adopt local wellness policies and mandated the creation of a model policy and recommendations consistent with and above the federal requirements by a broad - based advisory committee.

While some CNMs are able to practice like direct entry midwives, most are limited by hospital and doctor policies, and busy practices, sometimes mandated by HMOs, may mean the CNM just comes in to catch the baby and is not able to provide the continuous hands - on care we associate with the Midwives Model of Care.

School Nutrition Association is calling on USDA to turn this national mandate on meal prices into a pilot program in a limited number of schools with a report back to Congress before the provision becomes national policy.

And in 1923 and Feb 1974, the Prime Minister was seeking a renewed mandate to enact specific policies (tariff raising in 1923 and to deal with a miners» strike in 1974)

And that is a tragedy because imaginative and radical policies with a popular mandate are required to deal with the problems of Greater Manchester.

You will have helped provide a mandate for Miliband and co to enact the policies you «didn't agree with».

Policy think tank, IMANI Ghana, is of the view that government's decision to set up what it calls a Nation Builders Corps (NBC), which seeks to employ over 100,000 graduates with a budgetary allocation of Ghc600 million, is just a duplication of the mandate of the National Service Scheme.

He disclosed that the committee in line with its mandate has been able to offer veritable advice that has enabled the government take positive measures aimed at moving the state forward, revealing that its area of concentration is how to meaningfully engage more unemployed youths, through innovation and sustainable socio - economic development policies

By staying in the county Legislature, he said, he can «better work to deliver unfunded mandate relief and help to make Dutchess County financially stronger with policies that will lead to a more efficient, effective county government.»

Ball says with the Supreme Court currently deciding whether the health policy mandates are constitutional, there is «zero need» to build an initial framework now.

As Mayor Bloomberg said, â $ ˜ What we are urging you to do is provide our students with their fair share of state aid and our city with the tools and reform needed to end unnecessary mandates and crippling policy that otherwise will accelerate an already daunting situation,»» she said.

The Fiscal Policy Institute, a labor - backed think tank that supports the increase, believes the state should step up with more funding rather than leaving mandated pay hikes to local property taxpayers.

But a program of tax - free micro-zones on and near college campuses is nowhere near potent enough to overcome New York's other competitive disadvantages, which the governor has compounded with policies including opposition to natural gas pipelines, a costly renewable energy mandate, and the nation's highest minimum wage.

At the lectern, Mr. de Blasio told the church's black congregation about the launch of his universal pre-kindergarten plan and signing of a new executive order mandating higher wages at city - subsidized companies — peppering his speech with religious references, criticisms of the stop - and - frisk policing policy and expressions of sympathy for President Barack Obama and his struggles with the Republican - dominated Congress.

«If you have a leader, with a mandate, with a strong vote, you could package a bill that rolled back Common Core, that empowered local schools with resources and flexible policies and in the same bill, roll back the SAFE Act and include mental health and include provisions to crack down on gangs and narco traffickers,» Gibson said.

The parliamentary party has a clear collective mandate as the official opposition, partly on the basis of a manifesto with clear commitments to Nato and the EU plus renewal of Trident, all policies now put into question by Corbyn's leadership campaign.

The department plans to sign the deal with Strategic Policy Partnerships to fulfill Bratton and Mayor Bill de Blasio's mandate to fix community policing in the wake of the Eric Garner case.

But New Yorkers voting in districts with less contentious races can still have an impact by adding to or subtracting from the winner's margin of victory: a politician with a greater mandate can pursue his or her agenda, while a politician with a smaller one will promote more moderate policies to secure re-election.

«Our party has always been a broad church, and despite my principled differences with Jeremy over many issues of defence, foreign policy and national security, I agreed to serve on his front bench because of the mandate he was given, his assurances that honesty and difference were welcomed, and due to the many areas we agreed wholeheartedly on such as fighting the vicious Tory trade union bill - which I was proud to lead our work on - cuts to tax credits and tackling climate change.

Especially when the budget sets new policy on issues like raising the minimum wage or mandating paid family leave — issues with long - term consequences.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) in Arlington, Virginia, has decided to double down on its implementation of a congressionally mandated policy aimed at reducing research misconduct among NSF - funded scientists, despite a new report that notes problems with the agency's approach.

The biggest driver of lower carbon dioxide emissions has been declining natural gas prices, which has allowed the industry to replace coal - fired power plants economically with cleaner natural gas power plants — and without a costly regulatory mandate,» said Jeffrey J. Anderson, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy.

Despite Congress's dismal record with mandating storage and disposal sites and dates in the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, and for Greater Than Class C and mercury, there are already proposals to try to implement the «prompt consolidated storage» recommended by the Blue Ribbon Commission.

ITB ensures compliance with mandated DHHS / NIH regulations and provides guidance for preparing, distributing, and implementing IT policies.

Right now, the «playbook» at the boundary of science, society and public policy is being re-written, by multiple groups with multiple mandates and agendas.

It is intended to be useful to policymakers in the water sector, and to policymakers in those sectors that are major water users, such as the agricultural, industrial and mining sectors, as well as those with a mandate to protect the natural environment and those whose policies and decisions impact directly or indirectly on water quantity, quality and accessibility.

Not only is the scholarship tax credit policy consistent with Article IX, Section 1 of the state constitution, it has been proven to advance that constitutional mandate.

These are the most important, but by far not the only, mandates of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the federal statute that, under various names, has guided special education policy since 1975.

You'd imagine educational entities would mandate standards for their school «air - traffic controllers», in training, in software, in timetabling best practice — as published policy — and with organised conventions to bring school knowledge and industry together.

With the testing industry struggling to keep up with the demand fueled by mandates for more student tests, the Bush administration needs to take dramatic steps to ensure that states have the ability to develop high - quality K - 12 assessments, the first report from a recently launched Washington policy group sWith the testing industry struggling to keep up with the demand fueled by mandates for more student tests, the Bush administration needs to take dramatic steps to ensure that states have the ability to develop high - quality K - 12 assessments, the first report from a recently launched Washington policy group swith the demand fueled by mandates for more student tests, the Bush administration needs to take dramatic steps to ensure that states have the ability to develop high - quality K - 12 assessments, the first report from a recently launched Washington policy group says.

So policies that mandate the accumulation of course credits, advancing in terms of degree status (e.g., from A.A. to B.A.), or attending workshops, by themselves are not likely to produce teachers with high - quality classroom skills or necessarily contribute to children's achievement.

Educational entities do not necessarily mandate standards for their school scheduling either in training, in software, in timetabling best practice, as published policy or with organised conventions to bring school knowledge and industry together.

A number of states have instituted new policies in this area since the 1990s, and the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 contained a mandate requiring that all classrooms be staffed with a «highly qualified teacher.»

Although it makes some important changes to NCLB, such as eliminating AYP mandates, the proposed ESSA would not accomplish important policy priorities of allowing states to make funding for Title I portable, allowing states to completely opt out through the A-PLUS provision, or cutting programs and spending that have accumulated over the decades in a manner that has failed students and burdened school leaders with red tape.

This resource includes federal policy analysis and reports on major actions of Congress and federal agencies, as well as implementation guidance that can save your district time and money in complying with mandates.