Sentences with phrase «federal administration promises»

Findings that administrators» discipline decisions reflect community norms are particularly relevant as the new federal administration promises to promote the privatization, deregulation, and localization of schools.

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While Republican leaders and Trump administration officials promised as recently as three weeks ago that the bill would pay for itself with economic growth, the analyses have been universal: They have shown that the bill would add roughly $ 1 trillion or more to the federal deficit over 10 years, even when accounting for the growth.

«In recent weeks, the Trump administration and Attorney General Jeff Sessions promised to crack down on federal marijuana crimes,» his office wrote.

As the first months of the new administration unfold, one sector that seems poised to benefit from both lighter regulation that the Trump administration promises, as well as the Federal Reserve's (Fed's) path toward higher interest rates, is financials.

The federal government has demanded that New York pay back nearly $ 1.3 billion in Medicaid money distributed in 2010, prompting a rebuke from the Cuomo administration and a promise to appeal the decision.

Yet another courtroom battle promises to pull the White House into the legal spotlight today as crucial arguments are heard in New York in a sweeping lawsuit that is challenging the administration's marijuana policy by seeking to legalize pot under federal law.

ALBANY — Federal highway regulators say they have «promises» from Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration to take down the controversial I Love NY signs that now dot highways across the state.

-- Stalled meeting delays Cuomo promises on water contamination limits - POLITICO's Marie French and Nick Niedzwiadek: The state has yet to reschedule a postponed meeting to discuss limits on emerging contaminants in drinking water — stalling action on new standards that Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration promised to implement if the federal government did not act.

Percoco's trial, which Judge Valerie Caproni has said could last more than six weeks — and which won't be affected, for now at least, by the federal government shutdown — promises a rare glimpse inside the inner workings of the secretive Cuomo administration.

STILL NO NEW WATER STANDARDS — POLITICO's Marie J. French and Nick Niedzwiadek: The state has yet to reschedule a postponed meeting to discuss limits on emerging contaminants in drinking water — stalling action on new standards that Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration promised to implement if the federal government did not act.

Federal highway regulators say they have «promises» from Cuomo's administration to take down the controversial I Love NY signs that now dot highways across the state.

The federal government has demanded that New York state pay back nearly $ 1.3 billion in Medicaid money distributed in 2010, prompting a rebuke from Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration and a promise to appeal the decision.

A Cuomo administration budget official said the proposed payroll tax also could be used to raise more revenue by seizing some of the tax cuts promised to corporations and the wealthy under the federal tax law, as a way to shore up state finances.

Interest has been so great that the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has had to push back the first round of grants, which the FRA initially promised to award by late summer, until early next year.

Now, the Obama administration has sought to boost school improvement through Race to the Top by getting states and districts to compete for some federal dollars with promises to execute needed reforms.

On October 1, 2014, OCR issued an astonishing «Dear Colleague» letter (DCL) that promises to draw the federal government into the minutest details of school administration.

For one thing, in getting a waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind Act, Indiana (like other states) promised the Obama administration it would adopt standards that met federal criteria; align curricula and teaching; select, pilot, and administer new tests aligned to the standards; and integrate the standards into both school - and teacher - accountability systems.

The i3 grant along with Race to the Top are perhaps the two signature education programs from the Obama administration where big federal dollars have been given in exchange for promises by states and local districts for sweeping changes.

But Hanna Vaandering, vice president of Oregon's teachers union, blasted the Obama administration for forcing Oregon to promise to grade teachers by test scores to keep federal schools money flowing.

The decision three years ago by President Barack Obama to not push for a budget for 2010 - 2011, a move to which Democrats who controlled all of Congress at the time had acquiesced (even as it was clear that the party would lose control of the federal lower house), has resulted in sequestration - triggered budget cuts that denies the administration funding it can leverage through competitive grant programs such as Race to the Top in order to force states to fulfill their promises under the waiver.

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 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.

On higher education, California and the administration found much more common ground with initiatives such as the expansion of Pell grants, simplifying the federal application for student financial aid, and its crackdown on for - profit colleges that did not deliver on their promises.

With billions promised by the Trump / DeVos administration in new federal school privatization efforts to make the country over in the likeness of Michigan's privatized chaos, perhaps now would be a good time to inform the Secretary of Education that Uber is a convenience.

«The Trump Administration's decision to close the one office in the federal government exclusively dedicated to protecting student loan borrowers is an about - face on the President's student lending campaign promises... The Trump Administration is turning its back on a generation of student loan borrowers.»

The Obama administration, which promised during its transition to power that it would enhance «whistle - blower laws to protect federal workers,» has been more prone than any administration in history in trying to silence and prosecute federal workers.

President - elect Donald Trump ran on a promise to cut federal regulations, and to the extent the new administration carries out that goal, real estate could be greatly affected.