Sentences with phrase «ambitious federal goals»

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Electricity generated by solar panels and windmills has played a bigger role in the energy mix in recent years as the federal government and states seek to reduce heat - trapping gases through ambitious climate goals.

For a decade now, federal policy has required states to measure graduation rates uniformly, to set ambitious goals for raising those rates, and to hold high schools accountable for meeting such goals.

The original legislation called for major increases in education spending to offset the cost of reaching NCLB's ambitious goals for student achievement, but federal spending never reached the lofty levels outlined in the law.

The federal law passed in 2001 set ambitious goals for schools, particularly around improving outcomes for poor and minority students.

Over the past 20 years, federal, state and local governments have provided significant funds to support this innovation and on many counts, charters have met these ambitious goals.

Ambitious reading and math proficiency goals set in Kansas's federal education plan The Topeka Capital - Journal ow.ly / JyqN30fd8Kh

The federal government has an ambitious goal of connecting 99 percent of America's students to high - speed broadband and wireless in their schools by 2018; at the state level, more than $ 2 billion has been allocated to support technology infrastructure improvement in schools (US Department of Education 2013; California Department of Education 2013, 2014, 2015).2 In spite of these investments, a large number of schools need significant infrastructure upgrades (Gao 2015).

Wisconsin's proposal for holding schools accountable is short on details and lacks ambitious goals to improve student achievement, according to a federal review.

The goals of the transition are certainly «ambitious» for Germany, an industrial heavyweight, but they are «clear,» Federal Minister of Economics and Technology Philip Rösler contends in a recent policy brochure.

States are showing the nation and the world that ambitious climate action is achievable: Despite the U.S. federal government's decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, Alliance members are committed to supporting the international agreement, and are pursuing aggressive climate action to make progress toward its goals.

While the tree - planting goal is obviously quite ambitious, the Distrito Federal, or Federal District, which encompasses much of Mexico City, has made a solid contribution to the goal by planting three million trees in 25 communities over 49,000 acres (20,000 hectares) in the district's rural southern zone.According to the National Forest Commission (Spanish link), as of mid August, 50 million tree seedlings had been distributed around the country, which means they may reach the goal of 250 million trees by year's end.

Federal programs created to help owners stay in their home have depended on the efforts of large financial institutions to assist consumers and have fallen far short of ambitious but achievable goals.