Sentences with phrase «ambitious federal plan»

Four years later, with education near the top of voters» agendas in 2000, social conservatives calculated that they could live with their nominee offering an ambitious federal plan of his own.

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But his ambitious plan alarmed lawmakers who worry about ballooning federal deficits.

Sysco Corp. shares rose the most in nine months after its planned $ 3.5 billion takeover of US Foods Inc. was blocked by a federal judge, bringing relief to investors concerned about the company undertaking an ambitious merger.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration laid out an ambitious plan Monday to restructure the state's tax code to ease the burden of the recently enacted federal law.

Cuomo's ambitious plan aims to restructure the state's tax code to ease the burden of the federal law enacted just before Christmas.

HOUSING With New York's record high homeless population hitting 60,000, the city will need help from the federal government to make a dent even with the ambitious affordable housing plan from the de Blasio administration, experts said.

As federal corruption trials loom for several associates of Governor Andrew Cuomo, the administration is forging ahead with Buffalo Billion II, the second phase in an ambitious plan to revitalize Buffalo's beleaguered economy and help transform Upstate New York into a hub of technology innovation and jobs.

«New York has the most ambitious building plan in the nation, and it's absurd the federal government claimed these projects were a priority one day and then cut funding for them the next,» Mr. Cuomo said in a statement.

Edelgard Bulmahn, federal minister for education and research, announced the ambitious plan at a press conference last week in Berlin.

Norfolk is luckier than most of its neighbors: The city's large federal facilities may help it secure federal funding for flood control, and city officials have ambitious plans.

Jeffrey Mirel in «Unrequited Promise» tells the fascinating story of how New American Schools evolved from an ambitious plan to foster education change into a Beltway enterprise dependent largely on federal grants.

Four years earlier, Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole had pledged to abolish the Education Department, but in polls, voters said they preferred Clinton's ambitious federal education agenda to Dole's plan by a margin of 30 percentage points.

But no if this turns out to be its own unrealistically ambitious federal regulatory scheme, no if it amounts to a bunch of plan writing and plan reviewing that yields no real change on the ground, and no if it further complicates what is already a hugely challenging transition in most states to higher academic standards and new forms of assessment.

Republican members of Congress have laid out an ambitious plan to rebuild the troubled District of Columbia school system that calls for broad cooperation among federal officials, local government, and the private sector.

As a result of this legislation, over 350,000 education - related jobs were saved, state governments devised ambitious plans to compete for $ 4 billion in «Race to the Top» grants, and the federal government put forth solutions to the problems faced by the nation's weakest schools But the long - term impact of the stimulus money is much more unclear, according to a nationwide review led by the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media and the Education Writers Association.

Republicans are hatching an ambitious plan to rewrite No Child Left Behind this year — one that could end up dramatically rolling back the federal role in education and trigger national blowouts over standardized tests and teacher training.

On the federal Race to the Top competition for hundreds of millions of dollars awarded for showing past achievements and ambitious plans for students, Washington came in 32nd out of 36 states.

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

While Duncan's plans are ambitious, he has had to work against the edges of the traditionally limited power of the federal Education Department, which was founded in 1980 and controls under 10 percent of all education funding.

Couple that with the fact that the Obama administration's ambitious and very aggressive federal stimulus plan will add more money into the economy, mostly through tax rebates that will go directly to consumers, and we should soon see growing consumer confidence.

According to the German Federal Ministry of the Environment, this plan is ambitious, but feasible, if the expansion rate of the previous years is retained.