Sentences with phrase «current federal efforts»

We will add to current federal efforts to develop promising technologies, such as plug - ins, hybrids, flex - fuel vehicles, and hydrogen - powered cars and trucks.

These findings are important as they document large improvements in the joint productivity of teachers in low - performing schools, a finding which is out of step with current federal efforts to improve schools that implicitly assume teacher productivity is essentially fixed over time.

Nor are many people content with current federal efforts to fix the situation.

Current federal efforts to revive the coal industry will likely do more harm than good to fragile Appalachian communities transitioning from coal as a major source of employment, according to a study conducted by Indiana University researchers.

A national survey commissioned by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation — an independent private foundation focused on the optimal development of children — reveals that 9 out of 10 Americans support current federal efforts to keep school meals healthy.

Not exact matches

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Federal Reserve Bank of New York President William Dudley participates in discussion with economists on current economic conditions and recovery efforts in the aftermath of hurricanes Irma and Maria at event hosted by the Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce - 1300 GMT.

Recent reports of secret meetings among industry reps and the Food and Drug Adminstration over GMO labeling piqued my interest, mostly because this critical aspect was missing: any effort to label GE foods at the federal level could bring the current grassroots movement to a grinding halt by preventing any stronger local laws from ever being enacted.

While commending the current administration for the efforts at tackling corruption and recovering looted funds, saying through the law on forfeiture, the federal government last week, took possession of $ 437 million belonging to a looter, who is on the run.

In addition, the bill establishes a working group to make recommendations on existing programs and research and to prepare a report summarizing these recommendations as well as current federal research efforts related to Lyme disease and other tick - borne diseases.

Additionally, Elise's efforts to help recruit and develop other women for current and future runs for federal office show her commitment to the next generation of leadership.

About 200 protesters, under the aegis of the Coalition of Civil Society Groups, in Abuja on Thursday, warned those they called fifth columnists, sabotaging the efforts of the Federal Government to address the current economic recession, to desist in their own interest.

Taken together, the maps showing intensity of recreational use as well as environmental stress provide federal and regional officials with an unprecedented scientific foundation upon which to sustainably manage the Great Lakes, where current restoration efforts exceed $ 1.5 billion, the researchers conclude.

This regional anomaly has set off alarm bells at state and federal health departments alike, because it shows that current efforts are failing to contain the infection.

The income distribution of any federal income tax cut or refund is an inherently political matter, and the outcome of current efforts in Washington to pass new tax legislation is uncertain.

We are living in Obama era of federal over-reach, and we don't know how influential these current efforts at federal direction of K - 12 curriculum will be.

Join Laura Bornfreund, the deputy director of the Early Education Initiative for the New America Foundation, and Debi Mathias, the director of the QRIS National Learning Network, as they discuss current early - childhood policy, efforts underway to bolster preschool quality, and suggestions for improvements at the local, state, and federal levels.

«Research clearly shows that no school improvement effort can succeed without effective leadership, and such leadership is needed at all levels - federal, state, district, and school - in our current systems and in the systems we will create in the future,» said M. Christine DeVita, president of The Wallace Foundation, which provided a $ 10 - million grant to support the effort.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Board of Education of the San Diego Unified School District calls on the U.S. Congress to reinstate the current Maintenance of Effort requirements in ESEA to protect the integrity and benefits of federal ESEA programs; and

We applaud the efforts by the Department of Education to bring together leaders from both parties to find ways to correct the problems with the current federal approach to education.

Several points that I felt were imperative: 1) Everyone at the federal level knows that the current law is disliked and must change, 2) There is a recognized effort to make the language and details of the next ESEA reauthorization more user - friendly — all stakeholders of a school community should be able to understand the legislation and be vested in the success of schools, and 3) Legislators are seeking the right balance between formula funding and competitive grants — one area of consideration is the consolidation of educational programs or initiatives, which will allow federal monies to be used more effectively to help schools and children.

Given the current effort by the federal government to clamp down on some of the income «splitting and sprinkling» tax benefits of Canadian - Controlled Private Corporations (CCPCs), there's definitely a lot of uncertainty among executives, business owners, and professionals about the tax benefits of incorporation.

Given the tax reform effort currently under way in Congress this would seem an appropriate time to consider the usefulness of a carbon tax to increase Federal revenue even though no such proposal (happily) is in the current tax bill.

These include efforts to retract the Clean Power Plan, to eliminate the use of the social cost of carbon as currently constituted in federal cost / benefit analyses, and acknowledgement the current generation of climate models has no utility with regard to policy.

Two current U.S. federal court technology efforts aim to help nonlawyers put legal information in context.

Because federal, state and local efforts to regulate freshwater or wetlands can overlap or present contradictory information, Sheppard Mullin has deep expertise in all current initiatives and trends pertaining to this vast body of law.

There is a current effort underway to modify the language in some of the federal rules to address proportionality.

The project will build on current state efforts and partnerships to improve the developmental health of young children and family well - being in high - need neighborhoods through Florida MIECHV, Florida Help Me Grow, local Early Learning Coalitions and Early Head Start, Title V, federal and state Healthy Start, community residents and funders.

Global central banks, spearheaded by the Federal Reserve Board in the U.S., have expended enormous effort to keep interest rates artificially low since the dawning of the current economic crisis in an attempt to do two things.

«The zeal with which Federal officials carried out policies of discrimination in the early days of the Government's housing effort has not been matched by a similar enthusiasm in carrying out their current legal mandate of equal housing opportunity,» the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights wrote in its assessment of the fifth anniversary of the Fair Housing Act.