Sentences with phrase «federal innovation efforts»

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Even though we are likely a long way from comprehensive federal virtual currency legislation, it is promising for the virtual currency and blockchain community that legislators are signaling bi-partisan efforts to pass statutes to ensure that consumers obtain the full benefit of these innovations.

He played an instrumental role in ensuring New York State qualified for, and won, $ 700 million in Federal Race to the Top dollars, a US Department of Education sponsored effort to spur innovation and reform in state and local district K - 12 education.

As federal «dysfunction» forces them to step up regulatory efforts, state and local governments need to develop new policies for the growing tech sectors in order to balance the need for protecting public interests and supporting innovation, AG Eric Schneiderman told a NY Tech Meetup event.

They will also talk about how federal investments are revolutionizing biotechnology, efforts to ensure that this field innovates responsibly, and how public - private partnerships will solidify the nation's leadership in the bioeconomy and speed innovations from the lab bench to the public.

In addition to his public service at NIH, he did his postdoctoral training within the NIH - NIEHS Superfund Research Program Center at the University of Kentucky, where he directed the Center's graduate and postdoctoral transdisciplinary training efforts and translated the Center's ongoing environmental health - related research innovations to relevant stakeholders, including state and federal policymakers and regulators, industry partners for technology transfer, and at - risk populations across Kentucky.

So if standardization is the enemy of innovation, hasn't the federal government contributed to that in its efforts to hold schools accountable, including charters?

WHEREAS, the over-reliance on high - stakes standardized testing in state and federal accountability systems is undermining educational quality and equity in U.S. public schools by hampering educators» efforts to focus on the broad range of learning experiences that promote the innovation, creativity, problem solving, collaboration, communication, critical thinking and deep subject - matter knowledge that will allow students to contribute and thrive in a democracy and an increasingly global society and economy; and

There are many dimensions of action affecting this moment in time — a renewed focus and emerging consensus regarding the kinds of learning outcomes essential for success in today's globally connected world; significant efforts to promote innovation affecting all facets of education, particularly regarding new teaching and learning strategies and opportunities; and a renewed focus on key elements of necessary systemic change, in which the roles of the federal government, the states, school systems and schools are better aligned and more coherently understood.

Federal policy also has reflected much of this change, with the U.S. Department of Education providing options for states to seek waivers from some of the dated NCLB requirements (in light of delays in Congressional reauthorization of that law), in an effort to promote innovation toward satisfaction of the rigorous kinds of standards established by the common core state standards.

Given the need to improve public schooling across the U.S. and the critical role of its surrounding ecosystem in that effort, the federal Department of Education has a unique and important role to play in creating and sustaining a cycle of innovation and learning for public education.

A prominent academic think tank is questioning whether three key federal compliance rules - supplement - not - supplant, comparability and maintenance of effort - pose more of a barrier to school innovation than a deterrent to scofflaw administrators.

The California Energy Commission's Integrated Energy Policy Report (IEPR) and Federal Stimulus Program (Ad Hoc) Committees will conduct a joint workshop to discuss clean technology innovation efforts funded through U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) competitive solicitations with a focus on projects receiving cost - share funding from the Energy Commission's Public Interest Energy Research and Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Programs.

This report analyzes the prospects of state efforts to address climate change by looking at a range of case studies to determine what characteristics of state policy innovation may be indicators of successful federal adoption.

The federal system has been doing it for some time but it would seem to me that the courts and the legal community, as a whole, could make concerted efforts to increase technology to reduce costs and improve innovation.