Sentences with phrase «federal goals»

It's a step towards a larger federal goal of reducing emissions from that greenhouse gas by 40 to 45 percent from 2012 levels over the next ten years.
On average, the lunches exceed federal goals for levels of fat, saturated fat and sodium.
Yet the idea of a competitive race among states to meet federal goals captured media attention.
But given the strain on school budgets in recent years, experts say middle - income districts also need help to reach federal goals for Internet speed and the deployment of computers.
«It doesn't make sense to label more schools as failure simply because of an unrealistic federal goal and stretch the money even thinner,» she said.
Requirements that high school students complete college prep courses as a condition of graduation may upgrade the value of the diploma and make some quick inroads on federal goals to produce college and career ready students.
The result, experts say, is that many rural districts still face a steep climb to meet long - term federal goals for school connectivity, even though most currently provide students with the minimum recommended bandwidth.
We urge lawmakers to focus on a new federal goal to close the international achievement gap between the United States and other countries.
In line with federal goals, the governor has signed legislation abolishing a «firewall» between student data and teacher evaluation.
Indiana education officials have dropped ambitious federal goals for student performance spelled out under No Child Left Behind.
So, how can Congress require mostly appointed, state - paid staff at a state department of education to submit a four - year plan to the U.S. Department of Education to address these seemingly unobtainable federal goals?
With a stated federal goal of reconciliation with Canada's First Nations, governments on both federal and provincial levels may find they will need to step up to the plate in order to make the talk less than merely symbolic.
As researchers and policymakers turn attention and resources to boosting adolescent literacy, an analysis of students» performance on state and national tests holds out scant hope that schools will come close to meeting federal goals for reading achievement over the next decade.
The state attorney general, Patrick Morrisey (R), is leading a 24 - state lawsuit to kill it, and the state Legislature last year passed a law that limits the kind of plan that the state's environment agency, the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), can write to meet federal goals.
DNA sequencing technology using off - the - shelf equipment devised by George M. Church at Harvard Medical School and collaborators at Harvard and Washington University in St. Louis may help realize the federal goal of reducing that price to $ 1,000 by 2015, which experts say would make it practical to decode an individual's genes for routine medical purposes.
The federal goals of improving teacher evaluations, adopting college - and career - ready standards, and turning around low - performing schools trace their legislative provenance to congressional authorizations permitting the secretary of education to allocate federal funds based on priorities he determines rather than specific laws passed by Congress.
The partnership, founded a little over a year ago, is made up of 100 education and arts organizations, foundations, businesses, and government agencies that want to make sure the arts are not left out when districts and states craft reform plans under the federal Goals 2000 program.
The Belle Vue program, supported by grants from the federal Goals 2000 program, was designed to allow students to explore the personal and educational requirements of a variety of jobs and to help them determine whether those requirements match their own interests and abilities.
Ms. Fox also announced that she would push to end a state - financed school - reform demonstration project, and to pull the state out of the federal Goals 2000 initiative.
States labored for decades to put such standards in place, prodded in 1994 by the federal Goals 2000 Act, then in 2002 by the No Child Left Behind Act, with its insistence on annual testing and consequential accountability.
In addition, through a federal Goal 3 study, researchers are examining the impact of our 4Rs Program combined with an innovative teacher coaching process on 33 Bronx elementary schools.
We have partnered with leading researchers on a federal Goal 3 research program to examine the impact of our 4Rs Program combined with a powerful teacher coaching process developed by the University of Virginia called My Teaching Partner.
The Colorado legislature passed three laws this year aimed at aligning state and federal goals on turning around low - performing schools, linking teacher and student data and helping students at risk of dropping out, according to Lt. Gov. Barbara O'Brien (D).
This could be read as evidence that USDE is willing to give states more power, but with some assurances that a federal goal is achieved.
In turn, how can this state education department staff commit hundreds of locally elected school boards to these federal goals (in exchange for federal funds) without their permission and without the approval of a governor and a state legislature?
Ten working groups are investigating the role of efficacy research as it relates to (a) K - 12 district and school decision making, (b) higher education decision making, (c) research spending, (d) evidence and quality of efficacy in research approaches, (e) institutional competence, (f) investors and entrepreneurs, (g) the role of federal goals and funding, (h) educational philanthropies, (i) end users, and (j) crowdsourcing.
Ontario, for example, has just announced provincial targets that are far more dramatic than the federal goals.
«There's a federal goal for zero airplane fatalities and a federal goal for zero railroad fatalities,» Bhatia said.
We have partnered with leading researchers on a federal Goal 3 research program to examine the impact of our 4Rs Program combined with a powerful teacher coaching process developed by the University of Virginia called My Teaching Partner.
In addition, through a federal Goal 3 study, researchers are examining the impact of our 4Rs Program combined with an innovative teacher coaching process on 33 Bronx elementary schools.
«Certain provisions of ASFA... can invigorate child welfare systems to involve fathers and their families in achieving the federal goals of child safety, permanency, and well - being.
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