Sentences with phrase «state involvement»

This has been cited as evidence of state involvement.

State involvement promises to raise standards for the teaching profession to a degree that would be impossible for districts at the bargaining table.

The article also incorrectly stated the involvement of solar companies.

But when the science committee's Democrats invited her to a 23 May hearing on state involvement in EPA regulation setting, she told them she would appear only as a private citizen and would focus on how science helps the agency do its job.

Policy Priorities provides updates on state involvement with the consortia and explains how involvement could change over the course of the 2014 — 15 school year.

WASHINGTON — With discussions about climate change intensifying ahead of treaty talks in Copenhagen in December, African and United States officials and experts on forests and climate met in Washington this week to discuss United States involvement in a decade - old international program aimed at preserving the tropical rain forests of Central Africa's Congo Basin.

The 1909 law, which is still in place, was intended to improve education by providing increased state involvement in public schools while still permitting considerable local control and accountability.

But they did have a well thought out model for state involvement and, to my mind, Singapore has been extremely successful by applying a close descendant of it.

An article in the Fall 2016 issue of Education Next, «The Politics of the Common Core Assessments,» by Ashley Jochim and Patrick McGuinn, looks at political pressures within the states that are affecting state involvement with the standards and tests.

Singapore is an interesting case as, although it appears capitalist, it actually has very strong state involvement in its economic activity.

Greater state involvement in providing Indigenous services is administratively logical, given the constitutional responsibility of the states.

Ulster County Executive Mike Hein wants local governments to help each other before they reach the «distressed» status that could trigger state involvement in restructuring local operations.

In 2011 - 12, a series of student - led protests arose around Chile demanding major reforms to the country's education system, including the end of the Chilean school voucher system and more direct state involvement in secondary education.

[But] the true intent of this testimony was to criticize Administrator Pruitt's evaluation of the BOSC rather than discuss state involvement of EPA rulemaking.»

Ultimately, people will gravitate towards closed rather than open primaries in my view: (i) open primaries would need state involvement so are a deeper proposition (you need to run them concurrently and they would be too costly for the parties if done properly); (ii) vested interests may well prevail if the proposed reform is not building on the current system (as indeed they have in the Tory party where they experimented with this quarter - heartedly).

Less so today, but the early, post-colonial, period had a state much more in keeping with the national socialist conception of state involvement as envisaged by Mussolini.

The evidence overwhelmingly points to Russian state involvement.

But prosecutors sought to undermine that argument through testimony suggesting that beyond Mr. Silver's decision to have the awards granted to Dr. Taub through the Department of Health, there was no other state involvement in that process.

The furore over the attempted takeover of the UK's AstraZeneca by US - based Pfizer showed how contentious state involvement in the pharma industry can be.

At the opposite end are the Nordic countries, «where - Palència said - there is a higher State involvement in the care of children, the elderly and dependents through public services, which means that women have less family burden and a higher work engagement.»

He added that he sees an increase in other Russian filmmakers pursuing the same strategy of avoiding government funding (and censorship), and that nine of the 14 titles that screened in competition at the recent edition of Kinotavr were financed without state involvement.

Poll results released last week showed that 60 percent of a representative sample of local voters favored state involvement to fix the district's problems.

FRA enforce rail safety regulations and statutes through routine inspections (sample of track, locomotives, rail cars, operating practices, signals and train control systems, and hazardous material shipments for compliance with Federal safety standards at high risk areas) and broader assessments; investigate and analyze accidents; manage state involvement in rail safety programs; and implement highway - rail grade crossing programs.

So while it might be a good idea to remove ISDS (perhaps drop the idea altogether), you might need to add some provisions of shared competence or exclusive Member State competence, to ensure that Member States involvement.

And mandatory reporting by private litigants as to how they bring, prosecute, settle, abandon or take their cases to judgment («enhanced interrogation» of litigants) is seen as a diagnostic tool enabling further state involvement.

Other significant areas of state involvement include widespread distrust among Aboriginal women of law enforcement and the lack of an independent police complaint mechanism.

Outlaw state involvement in the worship of St Patrick (Roy)?

The technical agreement requires state involvement in matters like the regularisation of roads and tenure for community infrastructure.

The Papers tells the story of The Washington Post's role in exposing the Pentagon Papers, a classified study into the United States involvement in Vietnam, and the newspaper's legal struggle over the right to publish the report.

accelerated the trend of increasing state involvement and paved the way for many more charter schools.

The fellow writing for the «right» (Petrilli) argues for state involvement, while the fellow representing the «left» (Sizer) objects to a strong exercise of federal power.

Interestingly, the countries in which nuclear has been most successful and accepted are the nations with the strongest state involvement in electricity — France, Sweden, Japan, Russia, and China.

De Blasio joined with Quinn and others on letters to then - governor David Paterson, calling for greater state involvement and a full - service emergency facility.

Ulster County Executive Mike Hein is trying to help local governments help each other before they reach «distressed» status, a designation that could trigger state involvement in restructuring local operations.

In 2011 - 12, a series of student - led protests arose around Chile demanding major reforms to the country's education system, including the end of the Chilean school voucher system and more direct state involvement in secondary education.In this edition of the EdCast, Camila Vallejo and Noam Titelman...

As Cohen and Walsh say in closing, «State involvement promises to raise standards for the teaching profession to a degree that would be impossible for districts at the bargaining table.»

The imperative to liberalize has demanded a shrinking of state involvement in national life, producing a wave of privatization, cutting jobs, slashing health, education and food subsidies, etc. affecting the poor people in society.

This book was initially difficult reading, for a few reasons: I was unfamiliar with the background of the Khmer Rouge régime and the United States involvement in Cambodia, and I have no knowledge of French or SE Asian languages.

The Church was running schools across Britain long before there was any State involvement.

He expressed concern however and added: «At the same time, this is becoming increasingly necessary because of a lack of state contribution and lack of state involvement.»

Incumbent Matthew Ritter, 34, a Democrat running for his fourth term, would prefer the city avoid bankruptcy and says that will take tough work by municipal officials, regional cooperation and state involvement.

The New York State School Boards Association said the task force makes several «sensible recommendations» and «represents a much - needed scaling back of federal and state involvement in local school board decision - making.»

It is hard to think of a branch of the arts that did not prosper prior to state involvement.

Corbyn appeared to single out Eagle as the more rightwing of his two rivals, claiming that as shadow business secretary, she was reluctant to support the idea of state involvement in rescuing the steel sector when the Port Talbot steelworks was put up for sale earlier this year.

Federal and state involvement could greatly expand the model or eliminate some of the barriers that cities might face in implementing such programs on their own.