Sentences with phrase «existing federal policy»

«Strengthening Aboriginal Governance» also includes a commitment by the Canadian government to working with aboriginal peoples, other levels of government and other partners to improve on the existing federal policy and negotiation process with particular regard to building governance capacities.

This resource analyzes the ways in which this population balances competing priorities, the supports available, and how existing Federal policy initiatives can better support working parents in their educational pursuits.

In December, more than 50 members of Congress sent DeVos a letter opposing any changes to existing federal policy.

«Our study shows that existing federal policy should be modified to support both informed decision making and equitable access to a desired sterilization,» advocated Dr. Borrero.

But existing federal policies help to perpetuate the disparity between assistantships and NRSA training positions, because guidelines «inadvertently» provide incentives that boost assistantship applications.

It would also require NSF to apply rules on how project contingency funds can be spent that are at odds with existing federal policies.

In May 2015, on a voice vote, lawmakers approved a bipartisan bill (H.R. 1119) from the science committee that would simply create a working group within the interagency National Science and Technology Council within the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to review existing federal policies.

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Unfortunately, since there is no existing federal mandate requiring online companies to provide a privacy policy, many businesses don't feel compelled to offer one.

«Until affirmative action is described and understood as one mechanism by which to make amends for historical wrongdoing against members of marginalized communities, it will fail to meaningfully address the inequality that exists as a direct result of federal policy,» he says.

We also modelled a number of existing and proposed federal and provincial policies aimed at helping Canadians save energy.

Meanwhile, President Trump also signed a pledge during his campaign last August to defend the innocence and dignity of America's children by enforcing the existing federal laws and advancing public policies designed to «prevent the sexual exploitation of children online and to make the internet safer for all.»

civil unions and Federal rights for LGBT couples, outlawing discrimination in the workplace, ensuring adoption rights, and ending the existing «Don't Ask, Don't Tell» policy in a way that strengthens our Armed Forces and our national security.

The federal wellness policy regulations exist for a reason.

Eight existing home visiting programs met the minimal legislative threshold for federal funding: Early Head Start, the Early Intervention Program, Family Check - up, Healthy Families America, Healthy Steps, Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters, Nurse - Family Partnership, and Parents as Teachers.40 In August 2011, the Coalition for Evidence - Based Policy built upon the government's review by evaluating the extent to which programs implemented with fidelity would produce important improvements in the lives of at - risk children and parents.41 Through this review, one program was given a strong rating (the Nurse - Family Partnership), two were given medium ratings (Early Intervention Program and Family Check - up), and all other programs were given a low rating.

The new rules largely summarize existing federal law and policies already in place at individual SUNY schools, strategies Cuomo borrowed from other national, state and local leaders.

Agencies should better coordinate existing federal research efforts into pollinators, but some research will require new funding from Congress, the task force says; the scientific findings that emerge would feed into policy actions taken under the broader pollinator health initiative.

Experts from federal agencies, intergovernmental organizations, law enforcement groups, and NGOs will present on and discuss existing policies, policy successes and failures, and how to adaptively manage policy moving forward.

Current policy only allows federal monies to be used for research on 21 stem cell lines that existed before 2001.

If the stubborn achievement gaps that exist in every state could prove a violation of federal equal - protection rights, would federal courts have to monitor every state's education policies and spending decisions?

An obvious implication of this analysis is that federal policymakers seeking to expand families» access to a larger number of schools (and school types) might seek to accomplish this goal in part by helping families access schools which they are eligible to attend under existing choice policies.

This variation highlights the challenge of designing federal policies that work well in states that vary in terms of district size, charter enrollment, size of the private sector, and existing choice policies such as interdistrict choice, charters, and vouchers.

«This book was designed to show what new evidence exists about integrated education and its relationship to equality of educational opportunity; what the political prospects are; what we know about new policy alternatives, including using socioeconomic status; and what the federal role could be in encouraging such options,» write Frankenberg and Debray.

The Justice and Education departments still have not determined how to address existing desegregation cases — and whether or where to bring new ones — and have received little guidance from the White House in crafting civil - rights policy, the Citizens» Commission on Civil Rights, a bipartisan panel of former federal civil - rights officials and other advocates, says in a report released last week.

Much will be learned from these experiences in the years ahead, but for the time being one immediate takeaway merits repeating: Local policy prerogatives and dire financial conditions trumped federal pleas for reform and led to the spending of massive amounts of aid on preserving the status quo and protecting existing jobs and programs.

Finding that «local policy prerogatives and dire financial conditions trumped federal pleas for reform and led to the spending of massive amounts of aid on preserving the status quo and protecting existing jobs and programs,» Smarick urges policymakers to heed the lessons learned from that experience and to focus on reducing the gulf between reforms promised and reforms delivered when it comes to the Department of Education's $ 4.35 billion Race to the Top fund.

Importantly, the successful provision of information related to college choice through initiatives like ECO-C is likely to magnify the return to existing federal and state aid policies, while the return to high - cost interventions such as expanding the Pell grant program is likely to be very limited unless students possess sufficient information about college alternatives.

The book describes how federal policies can worsen existing racial inequalities in higher education and offers alternative solutions aimed to protect and advance civil rights for low - income and minority students and their colleges.

If access to public charter schools is sustained and accelerated in federal and state policy, the opportunity exists to lift student achievement, educational attainment and life outcomes for all students.

Mr. Sciarra reminds us that education policy is the domain of state governments, not the federal government, and it is at the state level where we must «energize existing coalitions and campaigns of parents, educators, students and community organizations to protect and defend the public schools.»

Prior to working in the federal government she was the Director of Public Policy and Community Partnerships for Green Dot Public Schools where she was responsible for executing Green Dot's reform agenda by advocating at the local, state and federal level for education reform, supporting existing schools with compliance and oversight, the development of new schools and overseeing the implementation a community schools model at the new Locke Wellness Center.

Duncan wrote Juneau back at the beginning of July, saying that until new NCLB policies are in place, «Montana does need to comply with existing federal requirements.»

The materials included were intended to assist states, districts, and schools in developing policies and practices to meet existing federal civil rights laws and to promote positive school climates.

WHEREAS, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), currently known as the «No Child Left Behind Act of 2001,» was due for reauthorization in 2007, and the U.S. Congress has not reached a bipartisan agreement that will ensure passage to streamline existing federal requirements and allow states and local educational agencies to develop and implement policies that will best support students; and

The Department promotes the professional development of its scientific staff that is consistent with Federal ethics rules, job responsibilities and existing DOT policy regarding political appointees.

DOT, with FMCSA as the delegate, is required to develop a policy for the States on making CDLIS information available to authorized users that is consistent with existing Federal information and privacy laws [49 U.S.C. 31106 (e)-RSB-.

Many conclude that the Federal Reserve's ultra-low rate policy completely altered the landscape such that the idea of a business cycle no longer exists.

The Committee is maintaining its existing policy of reinvesting principal payments from its holdings of agency debt and agency mortgage - backed securities in agency mortgage - backed securities and of rolling over maturing Treasury securities at auction, and it anticipates doing so until normalization of the level of the federal funds rate is well under way.

Federal and state energy efficiency policy analysis, which examines the overall costs and benefits of potential new policy opportunities and those of existing policies and programs, is a critical...

A combination of state and Federal level policy including stiffer renewable energy targets and a continuation of existing policies to limit emissions from fossil fuel power stations.

In furtherance of the Texas Public Policy Foundation's mission, the Center for the American Future exists to advance Tenth Amendment principles through opposition to federal abuse and overreach in the areas of environmental, private property, and business autonomy rights.

The report explores potential options for building on existing policy frameworks at the federal and provincial levels related to electric vehicles, and highlights opportunities to optimize their potential to contribute to decarbonisation efforts.

Similar opportunities exist beyond the federal level for climate change policy.

Today, Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii unveiled the FAIR Energy Policy Act, which would end a subset of existing U.S. federal oil subsidies within four years.

But for the core of climate policy — which is carbon pricing — the simplest, cleanest, and best way to avoid unnecessary costs and unnecessary actions is for existing state systems to become part of the federal system.

Among the most frequently heard objections to these suits are that 1) municipalities filed these cases because the federal government has refused to act, but that tort cases are no substitute for federal policy action, and 2) that liability for climate damages — if any exist — properly rests with fossil fuel consumers, not fossil fuel producers.

The research would also highlight non-GHG benefits achieved due to the implementation of climate policy, and evaluate the outcome of Canada's emissions if all provinces or the federal government had implemented existing «best - in - Canada» policies (as they came into effect) relative to Canada's emissions target for 2020, using Navius Research's economy and emissions model.

Without the federal government capping nuclear industry liability (i.e. Price Anderson Act), signing contracts to take custody and dispose of spent nuclear fuel (i.e. Nuclear Waste Policy Act), bankrolling civilian and military atomic research and development for light water and breeder reactors (i.e. Atomic Energy Act), and other programs, the industry would not exist.

The lowest case represents a scenario in which federal policies exist, but are only modestly stringent.

As a first step, we should dismantle the web of policies that overwhelmingly favors fossil - fuel production and use and actively discriminates against new technologies and practices that would reduce harmful emissions... The second step is to institute federal, state, and local policies that reverse the disincentives created by the existing policy structure and force users to pay the costs of extracting, transporting, and burning fossil fuels.

Prior to coming to UCS, Ms. Wisland was the director of the California Hydropower Reform Coalition where she helped design several state and federal policies to reduce the environmental impacts of California's existing network of hydropower dams.