Sentences with phrase «federal initiatives come»

The different federal initiatives come as the offshore wind industry is «picking up momentum after a lull,» said Kit Kennedy, director of energy and transportation for the Natural Resources Defense Council, who was at the White House meeting.

The last major federal initiative came in 1994, when the Clinton administration worked with Congress to create Early Head Start, which serves pregnant women and children from birth to age 3.

Not exact matches

However, with technology - based education initiatives likely to see a reduction in federal and state funding in the coming years, the public sector will likely not have the resources to step in and help bridge the gap between a lack of skilled workers and unfilled jobs.

It would take an entire book to explain how flawed the NSLP has become, how, starting in the 1970s and 80s, the program morphed from an anti-hunger initiative into one in which school districts were so starved of cash by the federal government (thank you, Ronald Reagan) that school children came to be seen as «customers» whose palates must be pleased at all costs, with heavier reliance on junk food a la carte sales and «carnival food» menus.

The latest immigration bill, which was sponsored in February by Majority Leader Catherine Borgia, an Ossining Democrat, came in response to Republican President Donald Trump's nationwide initiative to deport undocumented immigrants, and would have prevented the county's emergency services from aiding the federal government in investigations made on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity and national origin.

They said they had consulted widely and had come up with 16 points that could help the Federal Government achieve its «quick wins initiative.»

He informed his audiences at the various locations where he was received with fanfare that with the cantankerous and combative stance of the the present administration, Ekiti state is losing out on billions of Naira that could have come into the state in form of support from many of the intervention initiatives by the federal government to cushion the effect of the recession and restore the economic health of the nation.

The push comes after the Trump administration has pledged an investment in infrastructure nationally, though that initiative that slowed amid the slog to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act as well as federal tax reform.

Acknowledgment of the investigation comes just days after federal prosecutors subpoenaed Cuomo's «executive chamber» — the official name of his office — regarding projects involved in the «Buffalo Billion» economic initiative and a proposed power plant in the Hudson Valley.

The initiatives come as federal data, released last month by Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D - N.Y., show children in Western New York — ages 5 and under — suffer from the highest rate of lead poisoning in upstate New York.

One big challenge to U.S. efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions comes this week, as a federal circuit court hears arguments over a challenge to the White House's major climate change initiative, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) regulations targeting emissions from power plants.

At the federal level, perhaps the most prominent early - childhood initiative that has come from the Bush administration is «Early Reading First,» a national effort to deliver effective reading instruction to young children.

If they refuse to «secularize,» they would be shut out from the flood of philanthropy that could come from a scholarship tax credit initiative at the federal level.

In combination, these initiatives have progressively increased the demands on teachers and their students and have laid the groundwork for what was to come next - an unprecedented federal intervention on state level education policy - making that directs all states toward a single goal (i.e., 100 % of students reaching «proficiency») via a single system of implementation (i.e., standards - based assessment and accountability).

The total funding related to all of these Schools of Hope initiatives for the 2015 - 16 school year is just over $ 2 million, with about $ 600,000 of it coming from federal grants and most of the rest from United Way.

I get the philosophy of returning more responsibility to the states but won't this just create an inequity in the ability of individuals to plan for education when there may be a patchwork of education initiatives by state instead of one federal regulation when it comes to student loan and education issues?

Venture capitalist friends were helping me with politicians, who came on board and were talking with the California state and federal governments about upcoming desalination projects and how we might be able to save them money on their new large scale initiatives.

The World Resources Institute (via the Green blog) has done a study concluding that with a lot of heavy lifting, existing federal and state initiatives could come fairly close to achieving the United States» short - term climate goal, set by President Obama in climate treaty talks last December, of a cut in emissions by 2020 to a level 17 percent below that measured in 2005:

Did they make the recommendation that it be raised, or did it come from a federal initiative with which they concurred?

Importantly, states were required to spend at least three - quarters of the federal funds on home visiting models that met federal standards of evidence - based effectiveness.1 As many policy scholars have noted, that a national initiative brought the importance of evidence - based practice to the forefront of public policy is a triumph for social science and demonstrates the importance of rigorous program evaluation.2 With that triumph, however, comes a responsibility to ensure that the public's expectations for success of these programs are consistent with what researchers understand about the empirical evidence — will the same positive outcomes found in programs» randomized controlled trials emerge when those programs are taken to scale?

In fact, 40 percent of responses to NAR's federal calls for action come through the Broker Involvement Program, an initiative designed to engage brokers and their agents more significantly in national political action.