Sentences with phrase «federal efforts»

As we have witnessed with the disastrous results of Common Core and other federal efforts in education, the best oversight of education is left to those closest to the people.

You can also encourage state lawmakers to support federal efforts toward closing the gender pay gap.

, which is a coordinated federal effort to encourage healthy child development, universal developmental and behavioral screening for children, and support for the families and providers who care for them.

Nor are many people content with current federal efforts to fix the situation.

Each year a strong majority of the public has expressed support for federal efforts to hold schools accountable by requiring that students be tested in reading and math.

More than 60 percent say federal efforts to improve living standards either make things worse or have little impact.

Case in point is the ongoing federal effort to encourage hospitals and other providers to protect patients from potentially deadly infections from antibiotic - resistant bacteria.

And what of future federal efforts, in this policy area and others?

Unlike previous federal efforts, it combined specific performance goals for all students and high - stakes consequences for schools and districts for failing to meet those goals.

What can the competition and its aftermath teach us about federal efforts to spur changes in schooling?

It also set into motion a decades - long federal effort to better understand highway safety.

This new model comes at a time of concentrated federal efforts to accelerate solutions for diseases — including a number of debilitating conditions that touch only small percentages of the population.

But if the department wants to scale school choice effectively, top - down federal efforts aren't the answer.

The report suggested that additional federal efforts to help homeowners could be worthwhile, even at taxpayer expense.

We will add to current federal efforts to develop promising technologies, such as plug - ins, hybrids, flex - fuel vehicles, and hydrogen - powered cars and trucks.

We work with the field to support federal efforts to increase funding for research and evidence - based practice related to social and emotional learning.

Unlike previous federal efforts that focused on outcomes, the newer standards are focused more squarely on performance, measured in terms directly related to the experiences of children in foster care.

There are promising success stories in the remaking of federal efforts in education research.

In this role, Mr. Jennings led federal efforts to promote the safety, health and well being of America's students.

But will pulling way back on federal efforts to reform education — most likely by putting the money on a stump and letting states do whatever they like with it — benefit the other 49?

Author David Kuo, as a special assistant to President Bush from 2001 to 2003, helped craft plans to foster the participation of faith - based groups in federal efforts aimed at serving the needy.

As a supporter of Planned Parenthood, Doran said she will fight against federal efforts to limit women's access to health care.

While voicing empathy for the frustration people in Puerto Rico are experiencing in the lengthy timeframe for federal assistance, she also noted that reality is that federal efforts take time to to organize and effect.

Moreover, according to a draft of an anticipated Public Health Service (PHS) policy from the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) at the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the NIH scheme is only one part of a much larger federal effort aimed at improving the conduct of all research projects — not only those that use humans.

Romney's proposal would end federal efforts like President George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind law.

Despite federal efforts to bring uniformity to high school graduation calculations, states are inconsistent in setting diploma requirements for special education students.

In the first federal effort to address serious air pollution associated with fracking, the EPA issued new air quality standards that require oil and gas companies to capture toxic and climate - altering gases from wells, storage sites and pipelines.

The original COMPETES Act, passed in 2007, endorsed major budget increases for NSF, NIST, and research programs at the Department of Energy as well as bolstered federal efforts to improve STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education.

At 1 p.m., de Blasio and NYC First Lady Charlane McCray will make an announcement about healthcare in Queens and discuss federal efforts to roll back healthcare at the Charles B. Wang Community Health Center, 136 - 26 37th Ave., Flushing.

July 1, 2016 CMS selects UChicago Medicine for new Medicare cancer care initiative The University of Chicago Medicine is one of three academic medical centers in Illinois selected to participate in a new federal effort designed to provide better care to cancer patients.

We can, however, hope that new generations of education reformers make use of Jennings's accounts of past federal efforts in designing future initiatives that might be more effective.

Though his ruling was about Connecticut, he spoke to a larger nationwide truth: After the decades of lawsuits about equity and adequacy in education financing, after federal efforts like No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, after fights over the Common Core standards and high - stakes testing and the tug of war between charter schools and community schools, the stubborn achievement gaps between rich and poor, minority and white students persist.

Today, he reiterated his commitment to «keeping families together» — fighting federal efforts to deport undocumented immigrants unless the individuals have committed violent crimes — and asserted foreign - born business owners are «fueling our economy.»

Donald Trump will likely set back federal efforts for school integration, but the 100 school districts promoting economic diversity mostly created their plans on their own and school districts can continue to do so in the age of Trump.

Marino was under fire after reports emerged that he'd boosted a law that eventually made it harder for the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to freeze certain suspicious shipments, which critics say made federal efforts to fight opioid abuse more difficult.

The FBI's actions come in the wake of a newly invigorated federal effort to tackle the prescription painkiller epidemic, which has claimed the lives of more than 165,000 Americans since 1999.

These are some of the powerful stories about how federal efforts to restore the Great Lakes are producing results for people, communities, businesses, and fish and wildlife.

These rules, which were mandated by the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act, represent the first significant federal effort to regulate «competitive food,» i.e., the foods and drinks sold to kids during the school day through outlets such as vending machines, school stores, cafeteria «a la carte» (snack bar) lines and school fundraisers.

The CDC meeting, like the Obama administration news briefing Wednesday, are part of a broad federal effort to address concerns about the virus.

The Cable Telecommunications Association of New York issued a similar statement on behalf of its members, saying it supports a bipartisan federal effort to address net neutrality.

Proposals like Obama's plans to reform federal efforts on health care and energy are big heaves in normal times.

Rep. Nydia Velazquez introduced a bill to increase federal efforts against synthetic drugs including K2.

And the recently launched Environmental Protection Agency's Faith - based and Neighborhood Partnerships Initiative begins an historic federal effort to link environmental science to US religious communities.

Its lean budget — $ 1 million per year over the next 5 years — will likely preclude large - scale studies, but backers hope it will demonstrate the value of publicly funded gun research and perhaps help build support in Congress for a similar federal effort.

They knew that the MARC program, sponsored since 1982 by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is possibly the last remaining federal effort to use race as a factor in determining eligibility.

He is rolling back other federal efforts to combat climate change, such as reducing methane pollution from oil and gas pipelines as well as promoting a budget that could eliminate funding for clean energy research.

Today, Nevada and the nation must contend with what has become a single - minded, coercive federal effort to turn Yucca Mountain into a radioactive waste disposal site at any cost and by any means, while the mountain's flaws and the program's uncertainties continue to mount.

Following in the not - so - proud footprints of Comprehensive School Reform and NCLB school restructuring, it was only the latest in a long series of failed federal efforts to boost outcomes in struggling schools.

While it wasn't clear where federal efforts were making significant headway, a handful of states launched initiatives to try to raise achievement and address inequities.