Sentences with phrase «at a state level rather»

In the United States, most all voting law is found at the state level rather than the federal level.

Here's my wish for the Washington policy crowd this holiday season: greater humility and patience, so that good ideas (such as this one) can be given a chance to blossom at the state level rather than be screwed up by over-eager feds.

«By having education at a state level rather than only at a national level means that you can experiment more with what works best,» she said.

Traditionally, insurance in America has been regulated at the state level rather than at the Federal level.

Not exact matches

Most safety net programs are currently administered at the state or federal level, rather than the local level — meaning that states have a greater capacity to cover independent contractors through government safety net programs.

Strangely, just as welfare states are drowning in a sea of debt whilst also increasingly being seen as at least partly responsible for lower levels of family formation and employment, the Church has started to question welfare states rather less.

It became a model for Protestant states, where generally the prince, rather than a priest, was head of the church, and at the highest level directed its affairs.

Listen I keep seeing bumper stickers like «you can't be both Catholic and pro-choice» these are not reflective of my faith, theser are slogans made for propaganda, I have 2 beautiful children and I have never been on a position where abortion could even play a part, but it is a legal option to the public at large; this being said even the bible calls for us to be good citizens, and to obey the law, I believe that this is a matter that belongs with the family and not the state; no matter how we criminalize abortion, they will not stop, but people will go under - ground and more fatalities will occur, I rather see the government placing incentives on more conseling for these expectant mothers and more outreach done at church levels, to reduce the debate to a single slogan is dangerous and will not accomplish the ultimately goal of preventing abortions my two humble cents

If all states of affairs were intrinsically at the same level, there would be no valid reason for aiming at the achievement of one rather than another.

The theory, apparently, was that homosexuals were impermissibly burdened if they had to secure special protection, equivalent to that afforded racial minorities, at the state rather than the local level.

I think that if I were in a position where I couldn't afford enough food, I would prefer if I could solve the problem on the homefront, making my own decisions (i.e., with welfare $ $, or food - specific $ $), rather than having those decisions made at a state - wide level.

He spends a fair section of it on rather technical aspects of the growing presence of security and defence policy at the EU level, exploring why states delegate security / defence functions to the EU, and how EU officials then manage to navigate a way through the fast - changing international environment.

Mr. Bellone's original budget had not called for dipping into the sewer stabilization fund at all, but rather closing the budget gap in the $ 2.7 billion budget through borrowing from the New York State Dormitory Authority, a path that would have required legislation approved at the state lState Dormitory Authority, a path that would have required legislation approved at the state lstate level.

I am all about being proactive and fixing this infrastructure now rather than later and we certainly can't do it without funding and help from our state and federal governments at a local level.

Sadly, it contains no changes to the current over-testing of our children and doesn't address the Gap Elimination Adjustment (state funds owed to our schools), nor does it address the fact that special needs children are being tested at their grade level rather than their developmental level.

Rather than being locally negotiated, the «scoring bands» for both components would be set at the state level under the proposal, and if a teacher is rated «ineffective» on either portion, he or she may not get a score higher than «developing» overall.

In Minnesota, they have the Democratic - Farmer - Labor party (DFL for short) rather than the Democratic party at the state level.

REBNY has traditionally focused its lobbying efforts — and dollars — on candidates for state office rather than in New York City, for two main reasons, Lerner said: First, the city's relatively stringent campaign finance laws have historically made it harder for special interest groups to gain as much influence here; and second, although many key issues — such as 421a tax abatements — affect only New York City, they are decided at the state level.

County Executive Steve Bellone's original budget last year had not called for dipping into the sewer stabilization fund at all, but rather closing the budget gap in the $ 2.7 billion budget through borrowing from the New York State Dormitory Authority, a path that would have required legislation approved at the state lState Dormitory Authority, a path that would have required legislation approved at the state lstate level.

There may be 100 ways of accomplishing the transformation away from monopoly, but the best path will involve policy and finance reform at the state level; municipal rather than district oversight; and a combination of entrepreneurial energy with appropriate public accountability.

We asked about teacher salaries at the level of the state, rather than the specific district, because that is the lowest level of aggregation for which information on actual salaries is readily available nationwide.

In addition, a survey of English language arts classrooms published by the Fordham Institute found that most elementary - school teachers, at least in the early stages of common core implementation, assigned books based on students» abilities, rather than grade - level complexity, as the standards state.

They suggested that, rather than measuring academic achievement based on proficiency rates alone, states should either look at scale scores or some sort of an index providing partial credit for getting students to a basic level (and additional credit for getting students to an advanced one).

All of this helps to explain why «teacher accountability» is now the reformer's primary rallying cry — and why the battle is primarily being fought at the state, rather than district, level.

Indeed, other changes have involved shifts in power at the local level or even decentralization below the school district level, rather than greater control by the state (or the federal government).

Paige... I would love to see the Feds thinking more globally and rather than just thinking about states use... dive deeper and think about district use... that will help get the consistency that we really need in reporting and getting data back down to a usable level at the district

Rather than send high school students to college campuses to take real college courses from real college professors, many states» «dual enrollment» programs have high school students take so - called college courses at their high school, taught by high school teachers, with no external validation that what is learned is actually college - level.

Some black teachers do insist that Shakespeare is the heritage of black students as well as of the English - speaking world in general, but, encouraged by changes in curriculum at state and city levels, rather more teachers believe that the writings of black authors are more suitable for black students and will better seize their interests.

Many school policies are set locally, rather than at the state level, which means that any analysis of state data has limitations.

An estimated 150 teachers, school administrators, parents and others from around the state came to the conference at the University of Washington Tacoma to learn about charters, which are public schools that permit significant decisions to be made at a school level, rather than by a school district or state officials.

States have set up command - and - control frameworks, viewing districts rather than schools as public education's first responders, which is at odds with school - level efforts to address the particular needs of students and communities.

Rather than seeing state adoption of the Standards as a routine response to a financial inducement, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan (2010) credited RTTT with having «unleashed an avalanche of pent - up education reform activity at the state and local level» (para. 15).

«With the move to the SAT we'll have a test that aligns with Illinois learning standards rather than having two state assessments at the high school level,» said District 128 Superintendent Prentiss Lea.

Monitor trends in higher education financing at the federal, state, and institutional levels and advance strategies that work in concert — rather than at cross-purposes — to provide financial supports to low - and moderate - income students

That the final Race to the Top rules hardly touch teacher quality reform — among the most - important issues in achieving true education reform — also makes the opposition among traditional education supporters at the state level seem rather, well, ridiculous.

Local school leaders say legislators should restore previously held allowances for districts to shuffle resources as needed at the local level, rather than setting state - mandated guidelines for how dollars are spent.

It would please me to be able to suggest to you that there is, in fact, a grand plan to improve our public school system (rather than abandon it in favor of a hodgepodge of lower - performing alternatives), to reinvigorate the teaching profession, and to direct resources to the campuses and students where they are most needed, but that vision hasn't yet been articulated or embraced at the state level.

Rather, the LCFF defined how the state allocates K - 12 dollars by creating funding targets for a base grant per student to be provided to all California school districts, adjusted for the number of students at various grade levels.

If the Progressive Era created the organizational imprint for the rationalization of schooling, a now almost forgotten standards movement in the 1960s and 1970s reenergized the desire for scientific management of schools, this time at the state rather than the district level.

Much of the growth we are seeing in K - 12 online and blended learning is coming not from state - level programs, but rather at the district level.

Typically, states report student achievement data for charter management organizations at the school level rather than in the aggregate.

«The purpose is not to give states and districts a reprieve from accountability, but rather to unleash energy to improve our schools at the local level.»

Yet, as Connecticut's economy continues to lag, rather than invest in more vocational and technical programs, or at least provide the funds needed to maintain the level of services at the state's existing schools, the budget that the Democrats are being instructed to support includes a record - breaking budget cut to the Vo - Tech high school system.

Rather than requiring parents to «trigger» a restrictive, damaging set of reforms or shop around among wildly divergent charter schools, PAA supports the kind of empowerment which involves parents authentically at the ground level and in district -, state -, and nationwide policy discussions about how to improve schools.

Content instruction at the high school level typically emphasizes alignment with state standards rather than building upon individual students» skills and gaps.

In fact, and rather, we have evidence directly from the state of Ohio contradicting this claim that he calls a «myth» — that, indeed, bias is alive and well in Ohio (as well as elsewhere), especially when VAM - based estimates are aggregated at the school level (see a post with figures illustrating bias in Ohio here).

Rather than requiring parents to «trigger» a restrictive, damaging set of reforms, PAA supports real parent empowerment at the school level, as well as involvement in decision - making at the district, state, and national levels.

«Rather than criticize our promising results this year, it would be more helpful to have support at the state level for the work that our teachers and staff are doing every day — support for the Common Core and a stable environment for us to focus on the day - to - day work of teaching and learning.»

As one of the leaders in curricular publishing, too, Scholastic's release of Wilhelm and Smith's title will hopefully hold some level of sway over administrative decision making at the local and state government school boards, allowing more time during the school day to be spent on individualized reading for pleasure rather than simply reading for the sake of the curriculum.

As Alpholio ™ stated in previous posts, the decision about the percentage of cash should really be left to the investor at the portfolio level rather than to a manager of each mutual fund.