Sentences with phrase «end federal efforts»

Romney's proposal would end federal efforts like President George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind law.

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The Federal Emergency Management Agency also suffered its own contractor troubles in the recovery effort, and the agency waffled on whether or not it would withdraw from Puerto Rico at the end of January.

A District of Columbia federal judge has delivered the toughest blow yet to Trump administration efforts to end deportation protections for young undocumented immigrants, ordering the government to continue the Obama - era program and - for the first time...

In this role, she is responsible for leading the efforts to improve public policies to end hunger, reduce poverty, promote nutrition and increase the availability of healthy affordable food in low - income areas; maximize participation in all federal nutrition programs (SNAP, school meals, early childhood nutrition, WIC, and summer meals); and educate the public about both the stark reality of hunger's existence in the nation's capital and the real opportunities for effective solutions.

Also at noon, immigrants and advocates hold a «die in» to call on President Obama to put an immediate end to efforts to deport Central American refugees, outside 26 Federal Plaza, Manhattan.

The governor says legislators should reveal their outside income even further in an effort to avoid federal investigations like the one that ended Leibell's 28 - year - career, along with so many others in both political parties.

A federal judge in California on Thursday temporarily blocked an effort by the attorney for adult - film star Stormy Daniels to depose President TrumpDonald John TrumpUS ends aid for northwest Syria: report FBI informant met with three Trump campaign advisers: report McCabe lawyer fires back at Trump: «You need to stop lying» MORE and his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, over a $ 130,000 payment from Cohen to the actress before the 2016 presidential election.

East Hampton officials, who have so far been stymied in their effort to cut back air traffic into and out of the town airport — and the accompanying noise that causes complaints across the East End — agreed this week to apply to the Federal Aviation...

Cuomo traveled to Puerto Rico on Thursday to assist in the recovery effort, which he said has been too slow on the federal government's end.

Minister of Interior, Comrade Abba Moro, has disclosed that there are ongoing efforts by the federal government to end reign of terrorism in the North - Eastern part...

Sheldon Silver, who held a seemingly intractable grip on power for decades as one of the most feared politicians in New York State, was found guilty on Monday of federal corruption charges, ending a trial that was the capstone of the government's efforts to expose the seamy culture of influence - peddling in Albany.

But the governor — who teasingly sidestepped chants that he run for president — did not mention President Donald Trump's name, choosing instead to lambaste Republicans in Congress for efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act and end state and local deductions on the federal income tax.

IJAW traditional rulers, yesterday, in Warri, Delta State, said they were not subject to the wishes of a former Federal Commissioner for Information, Chief Edwin Clark, in their efforts to end renewed militancy in the Niger Delta and allied matters.

A year after the Department of Justice banned putting juvenile inmates in federal prisons into solitary confinement, a small network of inmate advocates has undertaken an effort to end the practice in some of upstate New York's county jails.

U.S. Senate Republican leaders seem increasingly focused on reviving their effort to undo the Affordable Care Act before the end of the month, asking Congress's nonpartisan budget analysts to fast - track consideration of a plan that would devolve federal health - care spending to the states.

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who held a seemingly intractable grip on power for decades as one of the most feared politicians in New York, was found guilty on seven federal corruption charges, ending a trial that was the capstone of the government's efforts to expose the seamy culture of influence - peddling in Albany.

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Emmanuel Kachikwu, on Wednesday, said regardless of the federal government's effort to end the ongoing fuel scarcity across the country, queues might not disappear from filling stations until about two months.

After several years where Cuomo's reform pushes always ended with lackluster, half - loaf settlements, nobody expects a serious effort — unless the pending federal case against his political allies demands it.

While the population of the city's jails is lower than ever, there has been an increased focus on them, following news stories about brutality at the hands of correction officers, a rise in inmate - on - inmate violence, efforts to end or reduce solitary confinement and a federal lawsuit that alleged a «culture of violence» in the city's jails.

«PDP remains supportive of the efforts of the Federal Government to see to the end of the insurgency».

New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says he's joining a multistate effort to sue over President Donald Trump's decision to end a provision of the federal health care law that lowered out - of - pocket medical costs for millions of Americans.

In a speech that was equal parts wish list, progressive victory lap and ominous critique of the federal landscape, the governor issued an ambitious list of 30 - or - so proposals, including implementing a uniform sexual harassment policy for state and local officials, tightening up efforts to combat election meddling, ending homelessness and expanding access to food at school to combat child hunger.

Alan I. Leshner, chief executive officer of AAAS and executive publisher of Science, sent letters to U.S. President Barack Obama and two congressional representatives commending their efforts to end a long - standing federal freeze on gun violence research.

A federal judge has ended an 18 - year - old desegregation suit against the Lowndes County, Ala., schools, after declaring further efforts at integration pointless since the overwhelming majority of students in the district now are black.

Districts and states should take these lessons to heart, but the simplest fix supported by Levenson's findings must occur at the federal level: End maintenance - of - effort requirements that are both inefficient and ineffective.

Denver school officials said they planned to file a motion late last week seeking to end federal court supervision of the district's 22 - year old desegregation effort.

A federal judge last week declared the Denver school system desegregated, effectively ending a landmark case and the sharply debated busing efforts it spawned.

He once spoke movingly about the virtues of NCLB, calling it «an effort to end decades of failed federal education policy that allowed billions of taxpayer dollars to be spent without insisting on results for students» But that was before Boehner had to corral a caucus full of Tea Party - backed freshmen.

These schools are sharing $ 5 billion in federal tax dollars in a massive, three - year rescue effort, but no one nationally is tracking how the money is spent and no one can say whether the influx of cash will end up helping kids.

The effort to end de jure segregation back then enjoyed broad public and judicial support; OCR worked hand in hand with the federal courts to desegregate southern schools.

While Kline's proposal to end the federal School Improvement Program, one of the three key aspects of the Obama administration's school reform efforts, makes sense because school turnarounds driven by districts, are a fool's errand, he doesn't offer anything that would address the critical question of what to do with dropout factories and failure mills.

APR — Annual Performance Report CEIS — Coordinated Early Intervening Services DCV — Discipline, Crime and Violence EOY — End of Year FFY — Federal Fiscal Year IDEA — Individuals with Disabilities Education Act IPAL — Instructional Personnel and Licensure LEA — Local Education Agency MOE — Maintenance of Effort OSEP — U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs PSA — Proportionate Set - Aside SFY — State Fiscal Year SOP — State Operated Programs SPP — State Performance Plan SRC — Student Record Collection SSEAC — State Special Education Advisory Committee SSWS — Single Sign - on for Web Systems VDOE — Virginia Department of Education

1912: NEA endorses Women's Suffrage 1919: NEA members in New Jersey lead the way to the nation's first state pension; by 1945, every state had a pension plan in effect 1941: NEA successfully lobbied Congress for special funding for public schools near military bases 1945: NEA lobbied for the G.I. Bill of Rights to help returning soldiers continue their education 1958: NEA helps gain passage of the National Defense Education Act 1964: NEA lobbies to pass the Civil Rights Act 1968: NEA leads an effort to establish the Bilingual Education Act 1974: NEA backs a case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court that proposes to make unlawful the firing of pregnant teachers or forced maternity leave 1984: NEA fights for and wins passage of a federal retirement equity law that provides the means to end sex discrimination against women in retirement funds 2000s: NEA has lobbied for changes to the No Child Left Behind Act 2009: NEA delegates to the Representative Assembly pass a resolution that opposes the discriminatory treatment of same - sex couple

What began at the turn of the 20th century as a movement from highly variable one - room schoolhouses to a district - level «one best system» had by century's end become a national effort to use the power of the federal government to create uniformity across the nation's public schools.

According to a press release published at the end of May, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D - MA) announced the launch of DeVos Watch, an organized effort to scrutinize Devos» management of the $ 1 trillion plus federal student loan program and oversight of student loan servicers.

Sometimes you can beat the door down with efforts to get Federal and State officials to tackle problems, but at the end of the day, locals can best get the job done, quietly and quickly.

The event is part of a broader effort to help San Francisco - based Internet Archive with its End of Term 2016 project, an effort by university, government and nonprofit officials to find and archive valuable pages on federal websites.

«In a never - ending effort to ensure poor dolts like me continue to be confused on Federal Courts final exams, the Graham Amendment has reared its ugly head.

Efforts by Child Welfare Agencies, Local Communities, and Federal Agencies to End Family and Youth Homelessness (PDF - 263 KB)

This orchestrated effort led, predictably, to state and federal calls to end funding for all Planned Parenthood services — more than 95 % of which involve such things as contraception and screening for sexually transmitted diseases, rather than abortion.

The undercover videos have been at the center of the effort by conservative Republicans to end federal funding for Planned Parenthood, with some threatening to shut down the federal government if federal funding for the group isn't ceased.

She has worked closely with the city of Portland, and state and federal officials to end homelessness and increase funding for early childhood education, after - school and mentoring efforts and child abuse prevention.

The federal government is expanding its effort to catch people and organizations that use all - cash purchases of high - end real estate to launder money.