Sentences with phrase «federal intervention in»

There would be no federal intervention in WA's land rights legislation, no veto over mineral exploration, no mining royalty equivalents and no mention of lost lands.

However, the government decided to continue the federal intervention in the Northern Territory, imposed by the previous government in 2007 in response to evidence of rampant pedophilia, juvenile prostitution, domestic abuse, and other problems in Aboriginal communities.

Currently the public favors the EPA regulations by 67 to 29 percent so there appear to be many possible recipients for better information if we are to succeed in avoiding the future that radical environmentalists want to impose on our country through unjustified Federal intervention in still another vital sector of the economy.

This one event, along with Bear Stearns around the same time, caused a tsunami of unprecedented failures in banking and other financial institutions, and led to a massive Federal intervention in the financial system.

They could include limitations on Title I funding for low - income students and federal intervention in low - performing schools.

In response, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has suggested that the massive student boycotts of the Common Core tests as seen in New York is unacceptable, and if unchecked, could lead to federal intervention in our schools to ensure test compliance.

The NCLB law applies strict sanctions if certain educational goals are not met by 2014, like limitations on Title I funding for low - income students and federal intervention in low - performing schools.

The bill would require states to have «college and career - ready standards» for student performance and would replace a system of proficiency targets that labeled many schools as failing with a focus on federal intervention in underperforming schools.

«I see this as a good step toward limiting federal intervention in education and restoring state and local control,» said Lindsey Burke of the Heritage Foundation.

The ESSA authorizes historically high levels of federal education spending, continuing a trend that has increased federal intervention in local school policy while failing to improve educational outcomes for children.

As such, the proposed ESSA does not accomplish conservative policy priorities and would maintain significant federal intervention in local school policy for years to come.

In 2013, Burke was also named the Will Skillman Fellow in Education Policy, devoting her time and research to reducing federal intervention in education at all levels and empowering families with education choice.

«It's hard to reconcile the creation of a new program with reducing federal intervention in education,» Burke said.

What should we make of the fact that, under our last Republican president we saw a great deal of federal intervention in education policy and now, under a Democratic administration, we have a law that returns much of education policymaking to the states?

U.S. has launched winners in the past Failures of high - profile government investments in clean energy technologies could give more weight to critics of federal intervention in the economy and Republican pressures to reduce federal spending.

The most celebrated example of Federal intervention in state and local school affairs is the 1954 racial desegregation decision of the United States Supreme Court.

The Constitutionality of Federal Intervention in the Marketplace: The Competition Case, Howe Research Institute Commentary 7, by S.G.M. Grange.

Not exact matches

One analysis by Avalere Health found that effective intervention strategies could decrease federal spending on diabetes treatment by $ 1.3 billion in the first decade.

Medicare spent more than $ 15,700 per beneficiary with diabetes in 2014, but effective intervention strategies could decrease federal spending on diabetes treatment by $ 1.3 billion in the first decade, according to analysis by Avalere Health.

Federal treasurer Scott Morrison has launched a stunning intervention in the Hayne royal commission by issuing a warning to AMP executives.

These include activities considered intervention under the Internal Revenue Code in any political campaign, such as direct and indirect political contributions to candidates, political parties, or political organizations; independent expenditures; or electioneering communications on behalf of federal, state, or local candidates.

Without the Federal Reserve's intervention, Mr. Paulsen says, the 10 - year Treasury yield would be in the vicinity of 4 percent based on current levels of economic growth, core inflation and wage growth.

Current right - wing mythology has it that bad banking is always the result of government intervention, whether from the Federal Reserve or meddling liberals in Congress.

The CEI calculates that in 2014, the annual cost of federal regulation and intervention amounted to a jaw - dropping $ 1.8 trillion, a figure that exceeds the $ 1.3 trillion collected in federal income taxes that year.

The turning point in the market came with the intervention by the US Federal Reserve to support the yen exchange rate; this caused a sharp rise in the yen and the Australian dollar moved up with it.

All major civil rights gains to date in this country (abolition, women's sufferage, minority equality) have required federal intervention and prosecution of federal violators to prevent civil rights abuses.

The debate over federal government intervention in school nutrition programs continues to be a point of contention in Congress.

Eight existing home visiting programs met the minimal legislative threshold for federal funding: Early Head Start, the Early Intervention Program, Family Check - up, Healthy Families America, Healthy Steps, Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters, Nurse - Family Partnership, and Parents as Teachers.40 In August 2011, the Coalition for Evidence - Based Policy built upon the government's review by evaluating the extent to which programs implemented with fidelity would produce important improvements in the lives of at - risk children and parents.41 Through this review, one program was given a strong rating (the Nurse - Family Partnership), two were given medium ratings (Early Intervention Program and Family Check - up), and all other programs were given a low ratinIn August 2011, the Coalition for Evidence - Based Policy built upon the government's review by evaluating the extent to which programs implemented with fidelity would produce important improvements in the lives of at - risk children and parents.41 Through this review, one program was given a strong rating (the Nurse - Family Partnership), two were given medium ratings (Early Intervention Program and Family Check - up), and all other programs were given a low ratinin the lives of at - risk children and parents.41 Through this review, one program was given a strong rating (the Nurse - Family Partnership), two were given medium ratings (Early Intervention Program and Family Check - up), and all other programs were given a low rating.

The Senate Committee on States and Local Government Administration and the House of Representatives Committee on Special duties on Tuesday commenced inspection of Federal Government's N300m intervention projects in Bakassi Local Government of Cross River.

This includes any activity considered intervention in a political campaign under the Internal Revenue Code, such as direct and indirect contributions to political candidates, parties, or organizations, and independent expenditures or electioneering communications on behalf of federal, state, or local candidates.

He said, «I want to sincerely appreciate the efforts of Ogbeni Aregbesola on his intervention on federal roads in the state despite the paucity of funds.

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.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently announced the repeal of a 2013 Obama - era policy that protected legalized marijuana programs in various states from federal prosecutor intervention.

POLITICO has previously reported that the state waited more than a year to make a significant intervention in Hoosick Falls, despite knowing that PFOA levels in the public water supply exceeded federal guidance.

A former Governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswam, has lauded the federal government for its intervention in the bloody fight between herdsmen and farmers in the...

He commended Buhari for his strides in governing the country and for the unprecedented federal projects in Kwara State, which he added, were aided by the intervention of Saraki.

Bayside Patch: A federal judge is recommending court intervention in the redistricting process, after considering a lawsuit co-filed by a Bay Terrace man.

We want intervention from the federal government to find a way forward in this situation.

A former Governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswam, has lauded the federal government for its intervention in the bloody fight between herdsmen and farmers in the state.

He said the study should also look at the effects of legalization in Massachusetts — and possibly New Jersey — on New York, as well as any future federal intervention.

The audit will cover the funds released to the Niger Delta Development Commission, the Ministry of Niger Delta and other Federal Government intervention projects in the oil - rich region.

Although survival rates for people who suffer cardiac arrest outside a hospital are extremely low in most places, emergency physicians propose three interventions to improve survival rates and functional outcomes in any community and urge additional federal funding for cardiac resuscitation research in an editorial published online in Annals of Emergency Medicine.

A coalition of environmental groups filed suit against the federal agency in May, accusing it of violating the Endangered Species Act and driving salmon to extinction by delaying interventions in the Columbia River Basin.

While our nation considers how to address gun violence, it is important to remember that scientific research can help us understand risk factors and the impacts of gun policy interventions at federal, state and local levels,» said Rush Holt, chief executive officer of AAAS, in a March 13 letter sent to President Donald Trump and congressional leadership.

«Opioid prevention and treatment efforts in the United States remain constrained and consequently stigmatized by a legacy of federal restrictions, an unwillingness to acknowledge idiopathic addiction, and a lack of science - based interventions for chronic pain,» the authors write.

The researchers aim to develop a real - time intervention that could stop unhealthy behaviors and reduce obesity, which affects more than one - third of adults and 17 percent of all children and teens in the United States, according to federal health statistics.

The reason the federal government doesn't recommend everyone shoot for under 100 is that despite the lower risk accompanying more optimal cholesterol levels, the intensity of clinical intervention required to achieve such levels for everyone in the population would «financially overload the health care system.

Those who swear by it frequently invoke the results of Project Follow Through, the largest and most expensive educational research study ever mounted by the federal government, which compared the outcomes of over twenty different educational interventions in high - poverty communities over a multiyear period.

In 2004, «response to intervention» was introduced into federal special education law as a method of identifying children with learning disabilities.

An interactive timeline looking at federal, regional, and local efforts to establish dropout - intervention programs to help keep students in school.