Sentences with phrase «do federal government policy»

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Opinion: As a matter of constitutional jurisdiction, the federal government does not need Alberta's buy - in to legally enact and implement its national climate change policy

Importantly, none of these groups could point to federal government dysfunction on climate policy to defend their own inaction, he said, because the wild rhetoric of government dissidents like Craig Kelly does not reflect mainstream government policy for the nation to meet its Paris commitments for a 26 - 28 per cent reduction in carbon emissions by 2030.

Share: FacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogle + emailIf asked what the federal government is doing to cut carbon pollution, most Canadians would likely point to the policy they've heard the most about: carbon pricing.

If asked what the federal government is doing to cut carbon pollution, most Canadians would likely point to the policy they've heard the most about: carbon pricing.

We want a country where the federal government does not adopt short sighted policy for political gain, but acts in the best interests of the whole country with a long term vision of what Canada can and should be.

So here's a modest proposal: why doesn't the federal government get things rolling by pushing for reform of supply management — that convoluted mess of federal and provincial policies that actually make it an offence for farmers to sell milk and poultry across provincial boundaries?

For more than a year, public policy experts across Canada have hotly debated the federal government's strict anti-corruption rules, which are aimed at ensuring that Ottawa does business only with ethical suppliers.

The legal bottom line: As a matter of constitutional jurisdiction, the federal government does not need Alberta's buy - in to legally enact and implement its national climate change policy.

So for me, the key issue is not the sorts of welfare policies the federal government can do.

That does not equate to a «reduction in government», it simply means they want to restrain federal fiscal policy.

The views expressed here do not necessarily represent the official policy of federal, territorial or provincial governments.

The Federal Government may have initiated another strategy to increase the ease of doing business in Nigeria with a visa policy that allows visitors to be issued visas on arrival.

«[Underwood] is an extremely capable lawyer, and the office primarily does litigation, but there are also public policy decisions that have to made,» such as how aggressively the office challenges the federal government to represent the interests of New Yorkers, Horner said.

If Palin does make a stab at presidential politics, she'll have a natural following among Tea Party activists, whose grassroots network is fueled by anger over the growth of the federal government and President Barack Obama's policies.

«We do hope that the federal government will quickly reimburse us to complement our efforts, so that our people will benefit from the change policy.»

And, in the U.S., the federal government has almost no control over state tax policy (even less than the E.U. does over its member states).

Do you have any examples where the federal government implemented policy and it did not limit the power of the state government?

Acting Solicitor General Neal Kumar Katyal argued in the government motion that the justices should reject a request by the Log Cabin Republicans to reinstate a federal judge's injunction against the «don't ask, don't tell» policy.

(CNN)- A federal appeals court sided with the government Monday, allowing the military to maintain its «don't ask, don't tell» policy during an appeal of a lower court ruling that the law barring openly gay and lesbian soldiers is unconstitutional.

«He supports marriage equality, and a 45 - minute discussion with him several weeks ago, revealed that the former Naval Officer has always been against the «Don't Ask, Don't Tell» policy espoused by the federal government.»

Robert H. Nelson, a professor of public policy focusing on public lands management at the University of Maryland and a proponent of the federal government transferring federal public lands to the states, said that what's most notable about McMorris Rodgers» nomination is that, unlike other Trump cabinet nominees, she does not appear to be a well - known activist.

Actually, «the federal government is looking at our water policy, realizing we have none, and wants to position itself as doing something,» contends Swackhamer, chair of the US Environmental Protection Agency's Scientific Advisory Board.

However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the U.S. Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.

To the extent the speech laid out policy positions, or at least bright lines, it did so through a series of «I believe» statements and a device that differentiated between an active federal government and deference to states (i.e., making things «optional»).

A new policy brief from a civil rights group is calling on the federal government to do more to counter racial segregation in the nation's growing population of charter schools.

It's vintage Jennings, perceptive about both what has happened and why and how it has (and hasn't) worked, then incurably and relentlessly over-ambitious — in a classic, big - government, big - spending, liberal sort of way — about what federal policy should do tomorrow.

Because, at least when it comes to education policy, just about everything he wants the federal government to do involves things that can't be done successfully from Washington but that well - led states can and should do: raise academic standards, evaluate teachers, give kids choices, and more.

National Leaders The federal government's political leadership has adopted school policies that the public does not support or does not believe will lead to better education.

First, it is most certainly a civil rights matter when there are racial disparities in how policies are applied, and there is most definitely a role for the federal government to be sure this does not happen.

While not yet acknowledging how holding teachers accountable for their students» test scores, while ideal, simply does not work (see the «Top Ten» reasons why this does not work here), at least the federal government has given back to the states the authority to devise, hopefully, some more research - informed educational policies in these regards (I know....).

He noted that teacher evaluation is «the biggest factor that most policies get wrong... Teacher appraisal, even if you get it right — which the federal government doesn't do — is the wrong driver.

As Lindsey described, a really good opportunity to rethink how the federal government supports the education of active - duty military families and to try to consider more choice - based, choice - friendly policies, so that these families do have that flexibility.

After all, Brown knows full well that any attempt to withhold federal funding will be challenged by Golden State's influential congressional delegation (including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Dianne Feinstein); the former state attorney general is also likely betting that the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last year on the Affordable Healthcare Act, which effectively makes it impossible for the federal government to withhold subsidies from states for not implementing new regulations, can also be applied to what the administration can do on the education policy front.

What ESSA sets out to do is strike the right balance between the respective roles of the federal, state and local governments in formulating education policy.

These facts, along with the reality that the federal government is barred from developing a national curricula and doesn't have much ability to force states to stick to any promises to enact college - preparatory curricula standards, belies Malkin's argument that Common Core is merely an Obama administration effort to «usurp state authority» over education policy.

The survey, which was conducted in November, found that only 10 percent of superintendents thought the federal government had done a good or excellent job with education policy over the last five years.

However, the contents of the described report do not necessarily represent the positions or policies of the National Institute on Student Achievement, Curriculum, and Assessment or the National Institute on Early Childhood development, or the U.S. Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal government.

Those Republicans thought that someone who keeps insisting that states and local school districts should make education policy should not be overseeing a process in which the federal government tells states what to do.

While the vast majority of K - 12 spending is done by state and local governments, the bulging layers of bureaucracy that administer education policy are the direct result of federal overreach into our education system.

The new federal data were released on the heels of a report by the nonprofit Center on Budget and Policy Priorities showing that state governments in at least 31 states are contributing less to public education than they did in 2008, before the recession.

However, those content of the event does not necessarily represent the policy of the U.S. Department of Education, and you should not assume the endorsement by the Federal Government.

Information presented in this site does not necessarily represent the policies of the Department of Education, and does not imply endorsement by the Federal Government.

While DeVos acknowledged that not every state will choose to implement programs that give parents the most choices, she noted that the federal government will encourage such programs, and she emphasized the value of federalism, regardless of what states choose to do in the realm of education policy.

These are genuinely damaging policy shifts that fail to generate very many headlines, but they also represent an overall pattern for the Trump administration: hacking away at expansions of the federal governments role as protector of vulnerable populations is a lot easier than doing anything new.

Not only does the federal government lack constitutional jurisdiction (outside of Washington, D.C., military installations, and tribal lands), but a federal voucher program poses a danger to school choice efforts nationwide because a less - friendly future administration could attach regulations that undermine choice policies.

The contents do not necessarily represent the positions or policies of these agencies, and readers should not assume endorsement of these positions by the federal government.

At the federal level, Vargas concluded, the first recommendation is the same: do no harm — the federal government should be aware of policies that stand in the way of dual enrollment because they treat high school and college as silos which may force those systems to work at cross purposes.

However, the contents do not necessarily represent the positions or policies of the National Institute on Student Achievement, Curriculum, and Assessment or the National Institute on Early Childhood Development, or the U.S. Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the federal government.

For the most part, the federal government doesn't tax the proceeds benefits from a life insurance policy.

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