Sentences with phrase «expanded federal one»

The EPA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have released a proposal to rescind the Waters of the United States rule that expanded federal jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act.

RISMEDIA, December 17, 2009 — Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC announced the findings from a new survey that looked at how the recently expanded federal homebuyer tax credit, which opened up the credit to existing homeowners, might impact the economy.

This legislation greatly expanded federal funding for voluntary, evidence - based home visiting programs for expectant families and families with young children up to age 5.

Coordination of expanded federal investments in children from birth to five to improve school readiness and child development

The Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA) greatly expanded the federal courts» jurisdiction over class actions by relaxing the requirements for federal subject matter jurisdiction.

Brad represented the petitioner in Exxon Corp. v. Central Gulf Lines, Inc., 500 U.S. 603 (1991), in which the United States Supreme Court overruled its own 135 - year - old precedent and expanded federal admiralty jurisdiction in favor of his client.

Those regulations were set to be implemented on July 1, 2017 and expanded the federal student loan forgiveness program to certain cases were for - profit colleges had defrauded students.

Reason for hope: In the 21st - century, administrations from both parties expanded the federal role in education, encouraging reform and experimentation to an unprecedented degree.

This influx of ARRA funds for education expanded the federal share of funding and largely made up for the drop in state education funds to maintain a relatively stable total funding level through the recession (Figure 5).

When President George W. Bush signed the current version, No Child Left Behind, in 2002, it expanded federal involvement and penalized schools that it labeled as «failing.»

In yet another illustration of his selective embrace of conservative precepts, President - Elect Trump has proposed an expanded federal role...

The administration promised $ 1 billion in new spending on preschool; spurred states to adopt controversial K - 12 reforms such as performance - based teacher evaluations and the adoption of the Common Core State Standards through its Race to the Top grant program and waivers to the No Child Left Behind law; significantly expanded the federal School Improvement Grant program to turn around low - performing schools; targeted for - profit colleges and attempted to increase accountability in the higher education sector; and pushed a proposal by the president to make community college free.

These same companies will have to approximately double the volume of business they handle to meet the expanded federal testing requirements in ESEA.

As I've stated previously, ESSA expanded federal support for charter schools by authorizing more than $ 1.1 billion in competitive grants by 2020.

No Child Left Behind, the result of bipartisan deal - making between President George W. Bush and the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D - Mass), significantly expanded federal authority over local schools.

JW: An expanded federal role will allow our entire nation to cut through some of the political fog that has prevented good, sound ideas about how to change our schools from getting the go - ahead to proceed as part of a major systemic reform strategy.

George W. Bush, who expanded the federal role in education, had to fight to get eliminating the department out of the Republican Party platform in 2000.

The expanded federal role has been most evident in a thoroughly revamped National Assessment of Educational Progress (1988); the Clinton administration's Goals 2000 Act (1994); the Bush administration's No Child Left Behind Act (2001); and, most recently, the «Race to the Top» component of the 2009 economic stimulus act, which will award competitive grants to states that, in the judgment of the Obama administration, have what it takes to turn around failing schools and boost student achievement.

While most states remain committed to the standards, opposition has been voiced both by conservative groups who fear expanded federal control and by teachers unions worried about the consequences for teacher evaluation.

While the standards remain in place in most states, they are opposed by conservative groups that fear expanded federal control and by teachers unions wary of their use in teacher evaluations.

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 Behind.

Bipartisan in its origins but controversial in its execution, NCLB, which is the latest version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, expanded the federal role in education and targeted improving the achievement of disadvantaged students.

It calls for an expanded federal role in education, which somehow or other still respects the primary role of states, districts, and schools.

June 14, 2016 • The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rejected a lawsuit by telecom, cable and wireless industry associations against new rules that expanded federal oversight of Internet service providers.

The challengers contended the EPA's move had improperly expanded federal regulatory power.

The United States expanded its federal biofuels mandate in a 2007 law to reach 36 billion gallons by 2022, with up to 15 billion gallons coming from corn ethanol and the balance from so - called advanced biofuels like cellulosic ethanol.

The model produces different jobs and growth projections for a business - as - usual scenario with no technology breakthroughs or major new policies, and then generates different outcomes by factoring in new policies such as a national clean energy standards such as proposed by President Obama; increases in corporate average fuel economy standards; tougher environmental controls on coal - fired power generators; extended investment and production tax credits for clean energy sources and an expanded federal energy loan guarantee program.

Overwhelming debt, unsustainable spending, a weak national security, and a government bureaucracy that believes the best fix to any problem is an expanded federal one.

He did this in part with money from Obamacare, which greatly expanded the federal Medicaid program.

Early Head Start expanded the federal commitment to address the needs of low - income families with pregnant women, infants, and toddlers up to age 3.

That's an appealing idea on its face, but it's important to remember that schools in economically depressed areas can offer free, in - class breakfast and also qualify for the newly expanded federal after - school snack program.

«Expanded federal support, along with all medical schools and teaching hospitals working to enhance education and improve care delivery, would be a measured approach to solving what could be a dangerous health care crisis.»

There are multiple reasons why lawmakers have opposed mixing banking and commerce, including expanding the federal safety net of deposit insurance in effect to cover another large part of the economy and creating too many possible conflicts of interest in lending and investing decisions.

«We can no longer expand federal spending without finding savings somewhere,» said Rep. Andy Harris, R - Md.

Meanwhile, Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins has been noncommittal on the bill, while Sen. Bob Corker, R - Tenn., has expressed concerns about expanding the federal deficit.

Another early obstacle is the projected fiscal impact of the plan, which would slash U.S. revenues and expand the federal deficit and the national debt, which now exceeds $ 20 trillion.

With inflation likely to remain low and Treasuries continuing to be a haven for domestic and foreign investors, financing the expanding federal debt should continue without major problems.

The «No Child Left Behind» act, signed by President Bush in January, greatly expands federal oversight of public education, mandating annual testing of children in grades 3 through 8 and one grade - level in high school, insisting every classroom teacher be fully certified and setting a 12 - year timetable for closing racial and economic achievement gaps in test scores.

These are just some of the reasons anti-hunger advocates want New York City to join this expanding federal program that allows all kids in a given district to eat for free.

He spent so much of the book saying the problem begins at home, then attempts to solve it by expanding Federal government.

Mr. Katz cited the example of transportation funding in Los Angeles, where former mayor Antonio Villaraigosa worked with mayors of nearby cities to get Washington to vastly expand federal transportation loans to cities like his, and then supplemented that federal funding with a sales tax hike devoted to funding regional transit.

The expanding federal probe is examining whether the donors to the Campaign for One New York, which has since been disbanded, received special treatment, sources said.

Maple Street Charter School, the for - profit charter school hoping to open in Rochester next year, has paid tens of thousands of dollars to a lobbying firm at the center of a rapidly expanding federal investigation into improper influence in Albany.

Some of those deals are now part of an expanding federal investigation.

«If President Buhari could acknowledge that he had been working with a trimmed cabinet to avoid waste, one wonders the improvement that he has brought to bear on the country's economy to warrant his new decision to expand the Federal Executive Council to bring in more supporters of the APC and settle the party members with other federal appointments.»

AAAS wrote to leaders in Congress and the White House, encouraging them to back efforts to expand federal support for stem cell research.

Without an expanding economy and an expanding federal budget for scientific research, an expanding research workforce can not be supported.

A bill introduced by Senator Tom Udall (D - N.M.) and Congressman Ben Ray Lujan (D - N.M.) would expand the federal Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, making it easier for uranium workers and residents downwind from nuclear test sites to get federal cash and medical help.

A petition urging the White House to expand federal policies requiring free access to taxpayer - funded research papers has gotten the 25,000 signatures needed to trigger a response.

The 2012 platform also repeats previous calls for expanding federal funding «for the stem - cell research that now offers the greatest hope for many afflictions — with adult stem cells, umbilical cord blood, and cells reprogrammed into pluripotent stem cells — without the destruction of embryonic human life.»