Sentences with phrase «by federal involvement»

Nonetheless, greater equity in schooling has undoubtedly been achieved by federal involvement in education.

Common Core «was tainted by federal involvement,» he says.

Not exact matches

JPMorgan's involvement in the rigging of foreign currency has now been looked at by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the U.S. Justice Department, the Federal Reserve, and the U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority.

The U.S. Senate on June 29 approved a bill that will allow Puerto Rico to restructure roughly $ 70 billion of debt in return for accepting involvement by a federal oversight board.

In its statement the NCCC called for greater involvement by the Federal Communications Commission in guarding the public airwaves.

Republican activist E. O'Brien Murray filed an ethics complaint against US Ambassador to South Africa Patrick Gaspard, claiming Gaspard broke the federal law barring political involvement by government employees by assisting de Blasio in last year's mayoral contest.

Fayose described the claim as «bare - faced attempt by the federal government to divert the attention of Nigerians and the international community from its involvement in the violence unleashed on the people of Rivers State during the December 10 rerun elections.»

The AAS supports such community involvement in the hard decisions imposed on us by the current trend of diminishing federal investment in the nation's future scientific capacity, a trend we regard as unwise.

The Audience Award: U.S. Documentary, Presented by Acura was presented to: The Sentence (Director: Rudy Valdez, Producers: Sam Bisbee, Jackie Kelman Bisbee)-- Cindy Shank, mother of three, is serving a 15 - year sentence in federal prison for her tangential involvement with a Michigan drug ring years earlier.

This compelling biopic follows Martin Luther King Jr. (played by British actor David Oyelowo) as he fights for federal legislation to protect the voting rights of black citizens and his involvement in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches.

Jointly administered by the state departments of education and human services, the GoodStarts program provides $ 7 million in state and federal aid for programs aimed at 3 - and 4 - year - olds that offer educational, social, health, nutritional, and child - care services and highlight parental involvement.

When a federal court in 2005 rejected an attempt by the Dover, Pa., school board to introduce intelligent design as an alternative to evolution to explain the development of life on Earth, it sparked a renaissance in involvement among scientists in K - 12 science instruction.

Mr. Honig has «engaged in a pattern of activity» aiding the Quality Education Project, a nonprofit parent - involvement organization rounded by Nancy Honig, a preliminary report by federal auditors charges.

Federal involvement in education has trended up consistently, aided and abetted by conservatives who might have been expected to prefer local or state or family control of education decisions but instead expanded federal influences that favored their policy preferences, e.g., No Child Left Federal involvement in education has trended up consistently, aided and abetted by conservatives who might have been expected to prefer local or state or family control of education decisions but instead expanded federal influences that favored their policy preferences, e.g., No Child Left federal influences that favored their policy preferences, e.g., No Child Left Behind.

Previously, federal involvement in education had been minimal, even after Congress responded to the Russians» launch of Sputnik by passing the National Defense Education Act (NDEA) in 1958.

The more useful example for us among those he has examined is Ontario, for Canada has no federal education department nor (to my knowledge) any involvement by the national government in the delivery or financing or even policy - setting for primary - secondary education.

Last week I was in D.C. for a conference hosted by Rick Hess and AEI that aimed to derive lessons from 50 years of federal government involvement in schooling.

More than a decade has passed since Ohio bolstered its involvement in Head Start by adding $ 4 million in state money to the federal dollars spent on the comprehensive preschool program for poor children.

Pressure by the Obama Administration, using the carrot of incentives (RTTT) and the stick of proposed penalties (denial of access to Title I funding), to induce states to sign on to the common standards initiative raises serious questions about further federal involvement in standards - setting and assessments.

This federal involvement was not limited to higher learning; it also encompassed K — 12 education, driven by science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) issues, the justification being that the United States needed more scientists, more engineers, and better mathematicians.

The analysis by the National Committee for Citizens in Education, a nonprofit group, shows that other problems uncovered by the federal evaluators include poor control of private schools» participation in the program and inadequate oversight of parental and public involvement.

Despite the lack of federal involvement in developing the Common Core standards, the U.S. Department of Education has supported them by:

As a component of the school - level parental involvement policy mandated by federal law Title I, each school served under this part shall jointly develop with parents for all children served under this part a school - parent compact that outlines how parents, the entire school staff, and students will share the responsibility for improved student achievement and the means by which the school and parents will build and develop a partnership to help children achieve the State's high standards.

Responding to a comment by DeVos that she couldn't think of an ongoing civil rights issue that would warrant federal involvement, Lhamon, in an op - ed for The Hechinger Report, ran down the types of cases her office had worked on: a North Carolina University revoking a student's acceptance after discovering he had cerebral palsy; a segregated Alabama school district offering advanced courses at its high schools that served primarily white students, but not at the high school that served virtually all of its black students; California district employees ignoring sexual assault cases because they considered them part of their Latino students» «urban culture.»

After No Child Left Behind established a high watermark for federal involvement in education, the new bill slashes the federal role by historic proportions, experts say.

Proponents of the standards maintain they were developed by states without federal involvement.

Federal policy also could help foster productive external relationships by providing incentives for family and community involvement through the school assessment process.

School safety promoted by engaging students, parents and promoting dialogue Meeting in the wake of yet another school shooting — this one in Sparks, NV — speakers and attendees at CEP's first - ever School Safety Summit Oct. 24 in Washington, D.C., rallied around the ideas of greater student engagement, wider community involvement and more robust support from the federal government.

According to McQueen, both policies were «written in secret» with no public involvement, «put into place by coercing states with the promise of federal money,» and represent «a centrally controlled delivery system, shaped by Big Government and steeped in the Progressive worldview of uniformity.»

These two statements alone would constitute a powerful marker that could help restrain future officials, but federal legislators would also need to strengthen the firewalls around curriculum and instruction by adding language that explicitly prohibits federal involvement in setting state standards.

Though the law was initiated and signed by a Republican president, presidential candidates like Mitt Romney and Rick Perry, who once supported it, now talk about getting the federal government out of education, echoing Tea Party members who deem federal involvement a constitutional travesty.

This team works on a wide range of issues related to: ensuring that planned transportation projects meet community needs, including by ensuring effective public involvement; developing and reviewing transportation legislation and regulations related to transportation planning and investment; and coordinating national transportation policy initiatives, including by working with other federal, State and local agencies.

This team works on a wide range of issues related to: ensuring that planned transportation projects meet community needs, including by ensuring effective public involvement; developing and reviewing transportation legislation and regulations related to transportation planning and investment; and coordinating national transportation policy initiatives, including by working with other Federal, State and local agencies.

A later federal report concluded that ABS reduces overall crash involvement risk by 6 percent for cars and 8 percent for pickups and SUVs but has no effect on fatal crash risk.

The committee that recommends an artist to represent the United States at the Biennale has been disbanded by its overseer, the National Endowment for the Arts, which is rethinking its involvement with federal advisory committees.

For the past two and a half years years, Tom Kirkendall of Houston's Clear Thinkers has been offering continuing coverage of the long, tragic story of Jamie Olis, a midlevel executive at Dynegy who was sentenced by federal district Judge Sim Lake to a 24 - year prison term for his involvement in a fraudulent accounting scheme.

«[T] he weight of authority suggests that accurate news reporting — even when it is likely to have an adverse impact on the subjects of the report — usually does not give rise to an action for intentional infliction of emotional distress»: Yesterday, a unanimous three - judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit issued a decision affirming a federal district court's dismissal of claims for invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress asserted by two former undercover police officers against a television station in Albuquerque that had revealed their identities and their undercover status in the context of a televised report about their suspected involvement in an alleged incident of sexual assault.

«The federal government also has obligations under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act and the Fisheries Act, although they have been eroded by recent legislative changes,» says Abouchar, who has observed a steady increase in involvement by the province on First Nations issues.

[120] The assessment cites the decision of the Federal Court of Appeal in Harb v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration), 2003 FCA 39, in support of a statement that «membership in an organization implies the existence of an institutional link between the organization and an individual, accompanied by more than a nominal involvement in the activities of the organization».

A US antitrust investigation was initially prompted by a whistleblower — a company that confessed its involvement in the alleged cartel involving marine hose to the US authorities — resulting in a combined operation by the Defense Criminal Investigative Service (part of the Department of Defense's Office of Inspector General), the US Navy Criminal Investigative Service, the Antitrust Division of the DoJ, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The background was that although a group of native title applications in the Central Desert region of Western Australia had been referred to the Tribunal for mediation by the Federal Court, the negotiations had generally taken place between the applicants and the State of Western Australia without the involvement of the Tribunal.

As research continues to side with shared parenting, federal statistics continue to reveal the risks faced by children denied the active involvement of both parents.

... there must be scope to exclude the Federal Court and the NNTT from involvement where all parties agree that they want to proceed themselves... the threat of having a trial listed by the Court can also distract parties and divert resources from negotiations.

More children attend preschool and all - day kindergarten than ever before, and educators are being urged by federal, state, and local institutions to use research - based or evidence - based approaches to improve their work with families and families» involvement with their children and the school.