Sentences with phrase «federal policy never»

Federal policy never mandated native - language instruction, but some states required it, if there were enough children speaking the same language at the same grade level.

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While I understand that the NDP must feel intense pressure to capture votes — including from people who have never taken a course from John Smithin — I often wish that the NDP would show a bit more policy leadership on the issue of the deficit and debt. I was particularly disappointed during the 2008 federal election campaign when Mr. Layton stated, unequivocally, that the NDP would not run a deficit in the following year if elected (even though it was clear that Canada was entering a recession).

Jerome Powell was first appointed to the Fed's seven - person Board of Governors in 2012, and over that time he has never dissented from the Federal Open Market Committee's (FOMC's) decisions on monetary policy.

Furthermore, the Obama administration has been pushing the agenda vigorously, with the federal government now aligning all agency policies in line with the Windsor decision - even extending to areas the decision was never intended to reach.

We have a president that received no vetting from CNN or those who voted for him and look what we got... a partisan ideologue who has brought the number of Americans who need food stamps to a record high, embraced policies that have resulted in 23 million Americans unemployed or under - employed, decreased household incomes by $ 4000 annually, increased the number of Americans dependent on the federal government to nearly 50 % and appointed dozens of «czars» who we know nothing about and who were also never vetted.

«Since Governor Fayose came on board, he never keyed into any of the Federal Government's policies on agriculture.

Under questioning, de Blasio pledged that he would never again form an issue - advocacy organization like the Campaign for One New York, which was the subject of a federal investigation, all while stressing the worthy policy goals that the group helped achieve, chiefly universal pre-K.

«The malpractice insurance administrator never sold one medical malpractice policy to a single doctor as a result of any call placed by or performed by Adam Skelos,» federal authorities wrote in the indictment.

Although the case never went to trial because of Ivins's suicide, it prompted federal agencies to review policies for screening and monitoring individuals with access to select agents.

While federal policy from No Child Left Behind, to Race to the Top and the Every Student Succeeds Act defined multi-issue agendas that included elements of the accountability, choice, and equity agendas, within the advocacy sector, «education reform» has never been a unifying framework.

«Never, I think, in the history of federal education policy has the disconnect between policy and practice been so evident, and possibly never so dangerous.&rNever, I think, in the history of federal education policy has the disconnect between policy and practice been so evident, and possibly never so dangerous.&rnever so dangerous.»

She referred to her critics as «flat - earthers» and said that while the federal government would never force states to adopt choice - friendly policies, those who opt out are making a «terrible mistake.»

Brockton never fired large numbers of teachers, in contrast with current federal policy, which encourages failing schools to consider replacing at least half of all teachers to reinvigorate instruction.

Though many of Thomas Jefferson's educational policies were never passed during his lifetime, they became the foundation of federal education today.

The courts never have overturned modern education tax credits or deductions - these policies have been upheld explicitly in all state and Federal legal challenges.

Federal education policy will continue to follow the whims of the richest people in the world — people who did not attend public schools and would never dream of sending their children to one — until the opt out movement joins with other social justice struggles to fundamentally shift the balance of power away from the executive board room and towards the classroom.

Despite never being explicitly mentioned Every Student Succeeds Act, college and career readiness has enjoyed increased attention from state boards of education as a result of the federal government's policy overhaul.

It's not that there was no media coverage of the EPA - caused Gold King Mine spill, the EPA - ignored Flint Water Crisis, the EPA administrator misleading Congress, the EPA violating federal propaganda policies, or many other problems under Jackson and her Obama replacement Gina McCarthy, but it was never done with the same bloodthirsty frenzy surrounding Pruitt.

The matter eventually made its way to the Supreme Court where Chief Justice Rehnquist delivered the opinion of the Court stating that Federal immigration policy, as expressed by Congress, foreclosed the NLRB from awarding back pay to an undocumented alien who has never been legally authorized to work in the United States.

Significantly, Congress has never made a formal policy decision that federal judges should base sentence increases on acquitted conduct.

And, interestingly, we never hear complaints or concerns about unelected federal prosecutors making policy judgments at sentencing (even though prosecutorial policy judgments are not made in open court nor subject to any kind of review).