Sentences with phrase «federal efforts like»

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.

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

Not exact matches

For a while there, it looked like Netflix was on its own in fighting the Federal Communications Commission's bone - headed and double - speaking effort at institutionalizing «net neutrality» rules, but on Wednesday the floodgates burst open.

With such lack of accountability it is not surprising that Alphabet contributed substantial funds to the tech lobbying groups who are opposing federal legislative efforts to give additional options to prosecutors and civil trial lawyers to fight websites like Backpage (child sex trafficking) and prevent them from flourishing.

New York will remain steadfast in pushing back against federal encroachment efforts like the [Office of the Controller of the Currency's] proposal to impose a one - size - fits - all national bank charter that increases risk and seeks to usurp state sovereignty.»

And should the Supreme Court be unwise enough to impose same - sex marriage on the whole country, the decision will be greeted not like Loving v. Virginia (overturning antimiscegenation laws in 1967), as an achievement of obvious justice, but like Roe v. Wade, with a tireless movement dedicated to overturning its obvious injustice, and a reinvigorated effort to pass a federal marriage amendment.

The governor says legislators should reveal their outside income even further in an effort to avoid federal investigations like the one that ended Leibell's 28 - year - career, along with so many others in both political parties.

Mayor de Blasio's work to push forward national policies through the U.S. Conference of Mayors and other partnerships is vital to our efforts to secure key federal funding for priorities like infrastructure and homeland security, and move forward an agenda that will lift up New Yorkers around the five boroughs,» Spitalnick said in an emailed statement.

One area that he will not instruct it to examine will be the issue of outside nonprofit groups created to take donations to support an elected official's policies, like the Campaign for One New York, which was created for Mr. de Blasio, and whose efforts were later examined by state and federal investigators.

State Senator Gustavo Rivera said grassroots efforts like UptownUNIDOS were essential, as he considered the federal government's response to be «an utter failure.»

There's a federal - state effort to add sand, the Southampton Democrat said, but not to fix it to withstand another storm like Sandy.

Like every government agency, NASA faces sharp cutbacks as part of the larger effort to tame the federal deficit; this was underscored in July, when the House Appropriations Committee stripped funding for the high - priority (and over-budget) James Webb Space Telescope.

The absence of a coordinated federal supercomputing effort had made it more difficult for agencies like the Department of Energy (DOE) to make their case with the Office of Management and Budget that they needed to boost supercomputing budgets, Simon says.

Like other federal and private efforts designed to benefit underrepresented minorities, MARC has come under scrutiny in recent years.

The movement for LGBT workplace equality in the scientific enterprise and beyond has been driven predominantly at the grassroots level and on an institution by institution basis through the collective efforts of organizations like NOGLSTP, Out & Equal Workplace Advocates, and Federal GLOBE.

They have leveled blistering criticism about Obama's efforts to slow down the Keystone Pipeline; they don't like his new auto emissions standards; they are unhappy with new EPA mercury emissions rules for boilers; and they don't like the fact that permits for drilling and fracking on federal lands have slowed.

By giving parents «private accounts» to spend on digital learning, tutoring, and the like, it could weaken schools» larger improvement efforts, which are mostly funded by these federal dollars.

Third, he seems annoyed, in noting the principled case for a federal role in supporting basic ed research, that we didn't list various administration efforts or proposals (like i3 and ARPA - ED).

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?

Meanwhile, others, like Brown University's Matt Kraft and North Carolina State's Anna Egalite, were more upbeat about the legacies of federal efforts to boost teacher quality and support charter schooling.

Rubinstein and McCarthy write in the Working Paper that «over the past 16 years, federal efforts to improve public education have focused on market reforms like charter schools and voucher programs.

«The good news, however, is that, spurred in large part by President Obama's Race to the Top federal education grant contest and supported by a burgeoning network of reformers, more efforts like Pittsburgh's are now underway.»

This effort, like the one in Indianapolis, was largely funded with private philanthropy, but it got a boost from a $ 28 million federal grant.

But this big initiative, like the No Child Left Behind Act, has shown that big initiatives at the federal level lead to the success of smaller efforts spurred by it.

Over the past several years, in part due to federal grant programs like Race to the Top and other federal and state policies, states and districts have made extensive efforts to improve or refine their teacher and leader evaluation systems.

Senator Tom Harkin (D - IA), chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor and Health and Human Services, released a new report (PDF) in conjunction with the hearing that underscores how sequestration could unravel federal efforts to protect the middle class and have more destructive consequences for domestic programs like education than for defense.

But it also calls for greater local control over school districts, criticizing some of the Obama administration's federal efforts to make changes to the education system through programs like Race to The Top.

It also builds on the disaster assistance efforts President Obama approved in the last several days, including major disaster declarations, which make federal assistance - like these emergency relief funds - available to supplement state and local response and recovery efforts.

Seems like only yesterday, but it was eight years ago, when politicians came to a very dismal Detroit show following the federal government's bailout of GM and Chrysler (and federal Energy department money for a Ford green car effort).

But like most things lead by the federal government, the relief efforts were notoriously slow.

The Federal Reserve announced several new rules like banning YSP loan commissions in an effort to minimize abusive mortgage lending practices.

Like many students in Canada, she's benefited from the federal and provincial governments» efforts to reduce the cost of an education.

It receives no federal, state or municipal funding, and relies solely on generous supporters like you to continue its lifesaving efforts.

Yet while federal and international programs have encouraged companies to seek and curb methane emissions from gas and oil wells, pipelines and tanks, aggressive efforts like EnCana's are still far from the industry norm.

Unfortunately their efforts are undermined by rogue agencies like the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission which is failing to do its job and evaluate the environmental and climate impacts of the massive fossil fuel infrastructure projects it approves.

Witness the failure of past fuel - tax efforts, the resistance to fossil - fuel - displacing wind farms in some areas, and the persistence of costly tax entitlements like the deductibility of home mortgage interest payments from federal taxes — each, in its own way, testament to the dictum that «losers cry louder than winners sing,» in the words of University of Michigan tax policy expert Joel Slemrod.

That declaration sounds a lot like what Pruitt endorsed at the conclusion of his CPAC speech, but of course he was referring to state efforts to weaken federal environmental safeguards, not strengthen them.

«In a never - ending effort to ensure poor dolts like me continue to be confused on Federal Courts final exams, the Graham Amendment has reared its ugly head.

The Chief Justice has spoken eloquently on this subject, 6 the report of the Volcker Commission helped, and the tireless efforts of colleagues like Circuit Judges Grady Jolly, Deanell Tacha and John Walker on behalf of the Federal Judges Association have contributed mightily.

Across the country, people just like you are raising their voices and engaging in efforts to educate federal and state public policy leaders on the issues facing children and families.

The bill would allow federal dollars to be invested in efforts to prevent child abuse and neglect, while also enhancing supports for family - like placements and for older youth.

NeighborCity then brought its own claims against NorthstarMLS, attacking the very efforts and litigation tactics by the MLS that kept its information away from sites like NeighborCity, alleging violations of federal and Minnesota antitrust laws.