Sentences with phrase «federal decision mandate»

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The paper takes a close look at a critical aspect of how the Federal Reserve makes decisions about monetary policy: the rules and benchmarks that guide them in meeting their dual mandate of full employment and stable prices.

Catholic News Agency: Domino's founder sues over contraception mandate Tom Monaghan, the founder and former owner of Domino's Pizza, is suing the federal government over a controversial mandate that requires him to violate his Catholic faith in his business decisions.

In a decision released Tuesday, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that competitive cheerleading does not yet meet the standards of a varsity sport under Title IX, the 1972 federal law that mandates equal opportunities for men and women in education and athletics.

Dovetailing HUD's decision to deny the county's AI earlier this month, a federal appeals panel also denied the seventh appeal from the county on April 28, ruling that Westchester has engaged in «total obstructionism» regarding its 2009 federal mandate to increase access to affordable housing in more affluent pockets of the county.

At least since the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, this has been interpreted to give the federal government the power to intervene in cases of legally sanctioned discrimination, like the segregation of public schools across the country; to mandate equal access to education for students with disabilities; and, according to some arguments, to correct for persistently unequal access to resources across states and districts of different income levels.

They weren't the result of bossy federal mandates or sweeping court decisions.

A chief concern among the negotiators was to walk a line between those constituencies that wanted to continue a federal mandate on standardized testing for «accountability» purposes and those that didn't want any federal involvement in local education decisions.

Paraprofessionals also report that they are often left alone with students to make important decisions and act independently, despite federal mandates that require paraprofessionals to work under the supervision of a certified teacher.

A reauthorized ESEA may completely eliminate the federal interventions that are in the current version of ESEA and is likely to give individual states much more decision - making authority when it comes to accountability and testing mandates.

Moreover, the law mandates unworkable remedies at the federal level instead of allowing local educators to make spending decisions.

The data we get from federal - and state - mandated tests are usually old by the time we get them, so they aren't useful for making instructional decisions on the current year.

The new law prohibits the federal government from mandating teacher evaluations or defining what an «effective» teacher is and calls for many decisions for local schools and states be determined by collaboration between educators, parents and other community members.

The examinations fulfill federal mandates for testing in our public schools, and they inform personnel decisions locally, administrative decisions at the district and state levels, and federal actions nationally.

It was the congressional intent of ESSA to significantly shift authority and decision - making to the state and local level as compared to the federal mandates of the No Child Left Behind Law it replaced.

This report evaluates the draft Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) report to determine if it meets the requirements of the federal mandate, whether it provides accurate information grounded in the scientific literature, and whether it effectively communicates climate science, impacts, and responses for general audiences including the public, decision makers, and other stakeholders.

Section 58 of the Federal Courts Act, RSC 1985, c F - 7, discusses the law reports for the Federal Court and Federal Court of appeal, with s 58 (4) mandating that each decision published in the official reports be published in both official languages.

Notable mandates: Plan of arrangement to separate FirstService Corp. and Colliers Realty; acquisition, development, financing, and sale of multiple utility scale solar projects for Canadian Solar; representation of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. in landmark decision of Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal on right to dismiss unionized employees without cause; representation of developers on significant condo and mixed use projects including Art Shoppe Condos and The One; initial public offerings for Imperus Labs and Nutritional High.

Even though the case law Samsung cites gives Judge Koh more than enough ammunition to at least stay the case, Samsung's lawyers also present an argument that would enable the district court to reject Apple's demand for premature enforcement even if the court interpreted the Federal Circuit's mandate the way Apple proposes: «Manifest injustice would warrant deviation from a decision rejecting, without briefing, collateral estoppel or a stay»

The decision, which determined a province could not unilaterally secede, also suggested that if a province had a popular mandate to do so, the Federal government had an obligation to negotiate on the issue.

The decision, however, highlights the paradox of our federal government responding to an important issue of public policy by adopting legislation (the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act) that mandates compliance with rules governing the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information, but at the same time not equipping the privacy commissioner with powers to enforce compliance or punish violators.

The insurer attributes 60 % of the increase to federal policy changes, including Trump's decision to cut CSR funding, weakened enforcement of the individual mandate and reinstatement of the health insurance tax.

Counseling: The federal government mandates that all reverse mortgage loan candidates must meet with an unbiased HUD - approved counselor before completing a reverse mortgage application to ensure that all borrower (s) have all the information they need to make the right decision before entering the loan; this is to protect the borrower.