Sentences with phrase «federal commission»

With this in mind, it is also worth remembering that President Trump recently designated Betsy DeVos as the leader of a new Federal Commission on School Safety that is charged, in part, with examining the repeal of the Obama administration's guidance on anti-discriminatory school discipline practices.

Additional collection areas include law - related publications produced by and about the District of Columbia, and select high - interest reports and studies produced by federal commissions.

Additionally, in response to the recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida, President Trump designated US ED Secretary Betsy DeVos as the leader of a new federal commission on school safety that is charged, in part, with examining the repeal of the Obama administration's «Rethink School Discipline» policies.

In this particular work, the units can be seen as facing the sun, since this wooden piece relates directly to a large metal outdoor sculpture that Bourgeois did this past year on Federal commission for an energy - related building in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Clarence M. Pendleton Jr., chairman of the independent federal commission, said in the letters to Cabinet members Terrel H. Bell and William French Smith that he was concerned that U.S. District Judge D. Dorich Warriner's...

Full text of the Congressional Record 1874 - 2004 (and counting), scanned Wisconsin Reports volumes 1 - 200, selected federal commission reports, congressional biographies and more.

Commissioner Stoddart: In both Google wifi and Staples investigations they asked for practical enforcement ideas; took a book out of the US Federal Commission book.

Fifteen years ago a colleague served on a blue ribbon federal commission studying the future of the Web.

Also included in the proposals is the creation of a new federal commission on school safety chaired by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

More groups are going to bat for underrepresented minorities in science and engineering, the most recent being a Sloan Foundation pretenure faculty fellowship program, a National Academy of Engineering summit on women in engineering, and a new federal Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering and Technology.

«For their part, they are clean however, we are going to remain attentive in what confers to the surveillance of the destination in these types of cases,» Julio Mendoza Alvarez, the head of Mexico's Federal Commission for Protection Against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris), told Riviera Maya News.

A conservative should have an interest in repealing and replacing Obamacare, a program that tends inexorably to the political control of medicine, with everything drawn into a national budget, subject to national rationing by a federal commission.

The state Board of Elections should not work with a federal commission that is investigating allegations of voter fraud in the 2016 presidential election, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie urged in a letter released on Friday.

«From my perspective and I can't tell you that I'm an expert on the election law, the request by the federal commission does not involve an election.»

Outside of the AG's office, there was never much support for the proposed guidelines from the federal commission.

Administration officials said the June request by the federal commission could not have been legally released, such as parts of social security numbers.

The Cuomo administration in a statement said the federal commission had initially sought the data from the New York secretary of state's office «which was rejected.»

(ABC / AP) President Donald Trump has called for bold action to improve school safety after last month's Parkland shooting, but a set of proposals the White House formally plans to endorse on Monday leaves most authority for reform up to the states and for consideration by a new federal commission...

In letters to other states, the federal commission also requested military status, overseas citizen information and other information.

The request to the states came from Kris Kobach, the federal commission's co-chair who is also the Kansas secretary of state.

Buerkle was nominated for the consumer post in May by President Barack Obama at the request of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Ky., who recommends Republican appointments to federal commissions.

On Monday, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the government would dissolve the federal commission that had been working towards creating national standards in forensic science.

On the question of what to do about the nation's growing supply of radioactive waste from commercial nuclear power plants, Moniz said he would work to «push forward» the recommendations laid out in 2011 by a federal commission on which he served.

A federal commission voted last week to spare two military facilities in New England that the Pentagon had recommended closing, a move that relieved local school officials who would have faced a loss of students and federal impact aid had the bases closed.

In April 1983, a federal commission warned in a famous report, «A Nation at Risk,» that American education was a «rising tide of mediocrity.»

A federal commission formed to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education hopes to use the occasion to stir passion about history and civil rights among a generation of Americans too young to remember officially segregated schools.

WASHINGTON — Little has changed for hearing - impaired schoolchildren in the four years since a federal commission concluded that the education of deaf students was «unacceptably unsatisfactory,» witnesses last week told a House panel beginning work on extension of federal deaf - education programs.

Schools in Crisis, Reforms Not Working, U.S. Federal Panel Declares A federal commission on Tuesday said the U.S. education system had «thoroughly stacked the odds» against impoverished students and warned that an aggressive reform agenda embraced by both Democrats and Republicans had not done enough to improve public schools.

Rather, the president is establishing a Federal Commission on School Safety, to be chaired by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, that will explore possible solutions, such as the age requirement for purchases, officials said.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos» federal commission on school safety, formed in March in response to the Parkland shooting, is reportedly not hearing...

The Federal Commission on School Safety has not yet had a public meeting, has not yet publicly shared any draft agendas or meeting materials, and has no members that directly represent parents, teachers, schools, states, and / or civil rights groups.

President Trump has designated US ED Secretary Betsy DeVos as the leader of a federal commission on school safety that is charged, in part, with

School Discipline President Trump has designated US ED Secretary Betsy DeVos as the leader of a federal commission on school safety that is charged, in part, with examining the repeal of the Obama administration's «Rethink School Discipline» policies.

The program would be established by a federal commission under the Department of Energy.

Maybe, too, a way to imply criticism of the shutting down of the federal commission.

In 2007, Francis joined a federal commission of inquiry on national security matters.

Commission staff recently completed a consultation with indigenous women about the barriers they face when trying to access justice through the federal commission.

Recent international reports, Canadian court rulings and federal commissions of inquiry have shown this clearly.

These guidelines must comply with the recommendations of The Federal Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar and the Internal Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Abdullah Almalki, Ahmad Abou - Elmaati and Muayyed Nureddin.

Dr. Faust was reacting to a September 2006 federal Commission's recommendation that college use more standardized testing (a la No Child Left Behind) to raise student standards.

As you're no doubt aware, tax incentives for home ownership were among the targets of the federal Commission on Deficit Reduction and Reform.

A federal commission is considering whether to ask Congress to impose a simplified sales tax structure on e-commerce, leveling the playing field for brick - and - mortar stores.