Sentences with phrase «wonk on»

The wonks on Twitter who would engage in a real - time debate over financial markets and the economy.

This is because it can be difficult for even the most reform - minded governors, with strong support for his efforts from activists and wonks on the ground, to overhaul public education.

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Some wonks — and more than a few members of Congress — are seizing on language in the 14th Amendment they claim would let the White House order the Treasury to borrow.

Tax wonks have begun a deep dive into the GOP's new bill, and the details on what the proposed overhaul means to you are beginning to emerge.

As a side point, perhaps interesting to monetary wonks here at OTE, the title's insistence on the 1993 vintage of the Taylor rule is out of step with much research on the variables, values, and coefficients that would go into such a rule today.

With Hillary Clinton's tax proposals to encourage longer - term investing, the debate over whether American business is too fixated on the short term has moved from the dimly lit offices of earnest policy wonks into the klieg lights of U.S. primary season.

While political and foreign policy wonks will understand that Trump isn't necessarily going to end the deal by sending the issue to Congress, broadly speaking it will be read by the American public and the international community as him trying to deliver on his promise to scrap or improve the pact.

United States steel producers and consumers, not to mention international trade wonks, have been waiting with bated breath for the release of the Commerce Department's report on its Section 232 investigation of steel imports.

I got on this idea today after reading a post by Brad Johnson (@climatebrad) originally at his site, The Wonk Room, -LSB-...]

While this debate has provided fodder for policy wonks, it has not had much influence on Capitol Hill which seems poised to allow federal unemployment benefits to lapse without much of an alternative strategy for getting the long term jobless working again.

Both of these capacious minds, I suspect, would have felt rather out of place in today's technocratic world of wonks and white papers, with its distinction between «politics» and «policy» — but more on that later.

Clinton became governor again at 34, and Hillary forever stepped into the spotlight as a political wonk in her own right, spearheading efforts on education reform (previously, Hillary's feminist, Midwestern background, lack of accent, and thick - rimmed glasses did not sit well with Southern Democrats).

While political parties have become increasingly sophisticated organisations with a cadre of professional policy wonks, media managers and spin doctors, when it comes to fighting elections they remain heavily dependent on a large number of volunteers to knock on doors, deliver leaflets and make phone calls.

The parade of Oxbridge policy wonks dropped from on high is symptomatic of a shallow, undemocratic Party: it unimaginable today that a young Dennis Skinner would even get on a shortlist.

Garodnick is a Manhattan Democrat known for being a bit of a policy wonk, and has told people a campaign could be run on strong management of a city that is concerned about homelessness and quality - of - life.

Over the weekend, Daily Freeman correspondent William J. Kemble catapulted to fame among political wonks nationwide when he and Congressman Maurice Hinchey came close to fisticuffs at a Saugerties candidates» forum on Thursday night.

Everyone with a pulse knew Dems would have super high turnout with Obama on the ballot, even without being policy wonks and reading polls.

At a breakfast in March, Moskowitz said she was a «little bit less of a policy wonk than I used to be,» and declined to comment on Governor Andrew Cuomo's plans to take over failing schools, saying she hadn't seen the specifics.

Officially called the «Task Force on Evaluating Economic Development Tax Expenditures,» the group brings together liberal activists such as Javier Valdes of Make the Road with budget wonks, such as Michael Dardia of the Citizens Budget Commission and James Parrott of the Fiscal Policy Institute.

A self - avowed wonk, Kallos has worked on open source and other campaigns to make government more responsive.

Few other than political wonks and the media pay much attention to the annual pronouncements on the state of county, town and city affairs.

So, according to the pollsters, besides a Liberal bubble now apparently subsiding a little, not much has changed in a month despite the armies of spin doctors, policy wonks and image makers deployed on all sides.

In short, Walcott is more than an education reformer with soul; he is also a policy wonk who can translate his aims so that parents can embrace them as their own — so that the self - appointed advocates will have to get on board or be left on the sidelines.

Self - described «policy wonk» Laura Walls served one term as Gardiner town supervisor from 2000 to 2002 as well as several terms on the New Paltz School Board, and was long known in the community as co-owner of the municipal grantwriting firm Shingebiss Associates.

On Wednesday evening, many New York politicos, policy wonks, and others will gather to celebrate the 25th anniversary of City Journal, the Manhattan Institute policy publication.

DM and I had a row drafting TB's Times article on public services, which I felt had to have real cutting edge and DM kept defaulting to these policy wonk words that I found impenetrable.

For policy wonks, university administrators and those who followed the Dearing report debate, the need for much more money for universities may have been old news - but it was not on the public radar.

Warner is all for transparency, but being a chemist himself, he knows how his colleagues think, and he's concerned that if green chemistry becomes mandatory, industrial chemists will misunderstand it, writing it off as a policy - wonk proposal when in fact it is solid science, built on the core principles of traditional chemistry.

If you're a real wonk, you can find a list of all activity codes and technical definitions on the NIH Web site (PDF document).

If you're a real wonk, you can find a list of all activity codes and technical definitions on the NIH Web site (Acrobat Reader required):

Even as policy wonks speculated on where the U.S. emission cuts would come from, Republicans were harmonizing around a dire message — that China is an untrustworthy partner and is outmaneuvering Obama.

As for the feminine side of the equation, Rachael Stirling, as a Ministry wonk in charge of making sure the film does not go off the rails, gives off Eve Arden vibes in natty Marlene Dietrich - style menswear — and on several occasions gives nudge - nudge hints of being proudly lesbian.

Politicians and policy wonks across the ideological spectrum have embraced the principle that parents should get to choose their children's schools and local districts should not have a monopoly on school supply.

On Thursday morning, the Fordham Institute and the Knowledge Alliance are bringing together policy wonks and academics to discuss whether and how we can build better bridges across the research - to - policy divide.

It also appeals to the yearning of some GOP lawmakers and libertarian policy wonks to get Uncle Sam completely out of the school - accountability business (though they'll gag on Rothstein's demand for buckets more in federal dollars for those unaccountable schools and sundry other services to kids).

They didn't look to hire an eLearning consultant because they didn't realize they exist, or if they did realize they existed, they think we are solely university employees converting classes to on - line and putting tenured professors out of work, or corporate wonks writing boring sexual harassment and timecard training.

Wonks love national standards for solving wonky problems, like the downward pressure on standards and the incomparability of states» test results under No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

This was an exciting occasion for us Washington - based policy wonks, starved as we are for any legislative action on education.

For instance, none of our wonks focused overly much on school closure as a strategy toward greatness; most seem to see it as a way to raise the floor.

But they didn't want the Futures of School Reform working group to be just academics, so they pulled people from various circles and with differing ideologies, including academics, government officials, politicians and policy wonks, practitioners already working on reform, foundation folks, entrepreneurs, and one international deputy minister of education.

This is why we shouldn't categorically evaluate a statewide reform based solely on its initial year of operation, and why policy wonks should read the fine print of the studies they cite.

I think it is safe to say that Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin, the founders of KIPP, have had more influence on the school reform debate than any academic or policy wonk over the past 15 years.

When the National Assessment of Education Progress results are released on Tuesday, reporters, educators, and policy wonks will have a lot to digest.

Certainly you can expect the likes of Manhattan Institute wonk Max Eden (who, for some reason, was testifying at a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on school safety convened a month after the Parkland Massacre) to make big hay of the Maryland Republican's complaints.

The Thomas B. Fordham Institute held its third annual «Wonk - a-thon» where this year eleven «wonks» authored articles on ESSA and choice.

Also on the list are Dale Russakoff's tome on Newark's school reform efforts, a Parent Power book from Tom Vander Ark and his team at Getting Smart, and a tome on education governance from famed education policy wonk Paul Hill.

Education policy wonks and observers are so pessimistic, they've declared it will never be updated, though it's already seven years overdue for a rewrite and considered broken by those on the left and the right.

Today's speech by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on reauthorizing the No Child Left Behind Act, along with the entire circus over the latest efforts to pass a new version of the federal education law, have certainly garnered plenty of attention from Beltway school reformers and other policy wonks.

The liberal think tank that hired me focused on state issues, so I had nothing to do with the project that was consuming D.C. wonks at the time: a once - a-decade reauthorization of the mammoth federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act that would become the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.