Sentences with phrase «federal commitment»

Nowadays, nearly 80 % of the world's population is living in countries with some forms of federal commitment [i].

The best combined effort of state and local governments, businesses, foundations, religious and other charitable institutions to support community development is no substitute for a renewed federal commitment to housing.

Out of this meeting came a renewed federal commitment to improving educational achievement and increasing the nation's commitment to students, teachers, and schools.

That's why, in Economic Action Plan 2013, our Government launched the new Building Canada Plan, the largest long - term federal commitment to infrastructure in Canadian history.

The federal government will have the opportunity to address this imbalance in the coming year through the negotiation of a new Health Accord, a major federal commitment to childcare, a federal - provincial carbon pricing framework, or other means.»

The health care law's financial assistance would mitigate premiums increases for the people who receive them — though that depends on an effectively unlimited federal commitment to subsidizing skyrocketing premiums.

At 1 p.m., at a press conference to call for a greater federal commitment to the New York City Housing Authority, key public housing leaders will announce their support for Sen. Adriano Espaillat's congressional run, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

King said he expects lawmakers to consider New York's federal commitments when they make amendments.

ELLIS - LAMKINS: The clean energy revolution will be led by people in communities, but in the end we'll need federal commitment to make it a reality.

Growing federal commitments to Medicare, Medicaid, social security, and interest on the federal debt continue to chew up a greater proportion of the federal budget.

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These federal programs are essential to support long ‐ standing federal commitments and help offset the recent budget cuts, which have forced school districts to cut academic programs and have disproportionately hurt our neediest students and schools.

She left confusion as to whether the decades - long federal commitment to serving children with disabilities — the Individuals with Disabilities Enforcement Act (IDEA)-- should be a matter left to the states.

The Budget advances infrastructure modernization initiatives like... a new federal commitment to high speed rail — a priority that also received funding from the Recovery Act.

Frustrated by the changing federal commitment to our clean energy future?

And, as SF Gate muses, «perhaps the most directly absurd element of this transportation bill is its elimination of a 30 - year federal commitment to commit a small portion of the gas tax (about 2.86 cents a gallon today) to mass transit.»

The infrastructure spending also includes $ 50 million for the Melbourne Airport rail link and Mr Pallas took aim at Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull for announcing a federal commitment to the project before the preliminary business case was complete.

«Approving this project flies in the face of both provincial and federal commitments to reconcile with Indigenous British Columbians and First Nations communities.

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.

(1) to strengthen the Federal commitment to ensuring access to equal educational opportunity for every individual;

Strengthen the Federal commitment to assuring access to equal educational opportunity for every individual;

Without this federal commitment, the future of New York's greatest affordable housing resource, and home to more than a half a million primarily low - income New Yorkers looks bleaker than ever.»

Key State and Federal Commitments: The de Blasio administration has secured funding from the state for high - quality, full - day universal pre-K programs, as well as the largest school aid increase in years and key funds for after - school programs.

The amount of money from the federal government is nothing compared with the total budget, and as I've seen here at Stanford, the federal commitment and the federal money is more than matched by private money.

That is why a federal commitment matters.

Momentum has been building rapidly since early 2010, when the city and FEMA ended five years of squabbling and came to terms on the federal commitment.

Federal officials should allow Arizona school leaders to decide the best way to measure student progress and make good on the federal commitment to give states more flexibility through ESSA.

In 1997, the reauthorization of the federal special - education law, now renamed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA, affirmed the federal commitment to inclusion.

Alexandria, Va. (Septemer 28, 2016)-- The National School Boards Association today issued a statement regarding federal investments for our nation's public school students, urging Congress to approve a Continuing Resolution (CR) that maintains the federal commitment to our students» success and supports the goals of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

NSBA, along with other leading national education groups, sent a letter to members of Congress this evening to encourage that education priorities and federal commitments are addressed in the appropriations process.

When Congress passed No Child Left Behind in 2001, it was a bipartisan effort to hold schools accountable to parents and taxpayers and a federal commitment to attack student achievement gaps.

As secretary of education, DeVos is responsible for meeting the department's mission to «[s] trengthen the Federal commitment to assuring access to equal educational opportunity for every individual.»

«We applaud Sen. Reed for introducing S. 1674 because it signals a federal commitment to providing educators with the sustained professional knowledge, skills, and training necessary to address students» evolving needs,» said David Griffith, ASCD policy director.

Randi Weingarten, president, American Federation of Teachers: «The time is now to fix the federal education law to end the testing fixation and maintain a federal commitment to opportunity for all, particularly high - needs, low - income students.

Under the new Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), signed into law in December 2015, Title I remains the foundation of the federal commitment to closing the achievement gap between low - income students and their peers.

Congress recognized that investing in educators» professional capacity is a critical strategy for promoting student success, so it re-confirmed the federal commitment to helping teachers and school leaders better meet their students» needs.

«Democrats continued to criticize the plan for repurposing other transportation funds and questioned its strategy of using a $ 200 billion federal commitment to generate a $ 1.5 trillion infrastructure package.

A federal commitment to the cost - sharing payments would help lower premiums and stabilize markets, Lee said.

A federal commitment to maintaining the MID and government backing would bring certainty to buyers and investors, a necessary first step to closing that 20 percent performance gap.

«The American electorate is sending a clear message that owning a home remains a cornerstone of the American Dream and preserving a federal commitment to homeownership is essential to maintain a thriving middle class and get housing and the economy back on track,» says Neil Newhouse, a partner and co-founder of Public Opinion Strategies.