Sentences with phrase «federal mandates across»

Let us guide you through the complexities of employment laws and federal mandates across the nation.

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By eliminating the single largest expense in county budgets, federal legislation mandating a state takeover of local Medicaid costs promises relief for property taxpayers across New York.

Counties across New York State are forced to operate under tight budgets due to numerous unfunded state and federal mandates.

In state after state, ballooning deficits that already have forced layoffs and other belt - tightening across state governments are hitting an education bureaucracy charged with carrying out a growing list of state and federal mandates.

At least since the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, this has been interpreted to give the federal government the power to intervene in cases of legally sanctioned discrimination, like the segregation of public schools across the country; to mandate equal access to education for students with disabilities; and, according to some arguments, to correct for persistently unequal access to resources across states and districts of different income levels.

After more than a decade of strict federal mandates and measures of school success, a new education law is inviting policymakers across the country to rethink «accountability.»

37 Thanks in part to multiple court orders and strong federal enforcement, school districts began to implement racial integration policies.38 From the 1960s through the 1980s, there was a general growth in school district integration as an increasing number of states and districts heeded Brown's mandate and created bussing policies and magnet schools that joined black and white students across neighborhood boundaries.

In order for schools to comply with federal mandates, an abundance of new evaluation instruments for teachers have been placed in use across the country.

They mention nowhere, however, the mediating set of influences interfering with such a claim, that likely lead to this claim entirely or at least in part — that many teachers across the nation have been forced, by prior federal and current state mandates (e.g., in New Mexico), to «embrace the new standards.»

Alison DeNisco writes in District Administration that «in light of a looming ESSA mandate to increase transparency around education spending,» district leaders across the nation «have been struggling to calculate per - pupil spending by school in accordance with state and federal requirements.»

A more visible presence in Congress and in the federal courts produced tangible results in strengthening the federal E-rate program, winning school boards relief from onerous federal mandates in school meal programs, and reversing some of the across - the - board budget cuts that hurt federal education programs.

«I've heard from many parents around the state who are worried not only about the quality of these federal educational programs but that they are mandated across the state, limiting the ability for individual towns and cities to decide on their students» education,» Avard said.

Federal and state mandates are taking their tolls on school districts across the country.

Schools across the country are ramping up for The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), a new federal mandate that goes into effect this fall.

When it came to discussing the C7 Project, Tadge talked about the reality of the CAFE fuel economy requirements and that Corvette has to play its part as the automaker is under a federal mandate to achieve a 35 mpg average across the fleet by 2016.

Not only is it mandatory in most states — certain motor carriers, freight forwarders, and freight brokers who transport goods or passengers across state lines are also mandated by federal law to have liability car insurance.