Sentences with phrase «federal mandates do»

But when Murphy brought her concerns to her son's school administrators, they told her state and federal mandates don't give parents the option.

Not exact matches

By the end of this year the federal government must renew the BoC's mandate, which it does every five years.

Unfortunately, since there is no existing federal mandate requiring online companies to provide a privacy policy, many businesses don't feel compelled to offer one.

Defense's practice of giving minority companies a 10 percent price credit meant that companies owned by certain socially and economically disadvantaged groups did not have to be the lowest bidder to win federal contracts, and helped the department achieve the congressionally mandated goal.

For purposes of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act, as well as Executive Order 12875, the final rule extending the applicability date does not include any federal mandate that we expect would result in such expenditures by State, local, or tribal governments, or the private sector.

The analysis does not include an additional cost of the legislation: its repeal of the individual mandate, which the Congressional Budget Office estimates could cause as many as 13 million fewer people to have health insurance, reducing federal spending for poor and middle - class Americans» health insurance by $ 338 billion over 10 years.

My response is that you do not need to see the words «financial stability» in the Federal Reserve Act for that to be a key part of our mandate.

It did not take long after the passage of Humphrey - Hawkins for wiser Federal Reserve officials, including Paul Volcker (who became Chair in 1979), to conclude that the «dual mandate,» far from defining a new and sustainable approach to monetary policy, was simply a nuisance — something they had to pay lip service to, whilst really concerning themselves with keeping a lid on inflation, so as to undo and avoid repeating the mistakes of the 70s.

Ottawa — On the cusp of Thursday's federal election debate on the economy, the Trade Justice Network, (www.tradejustice.ca), a coalition of Canadian unions, environmental groups and citizens» groups, is calling on federal leaders to mandate the Parliamentary Budget Officer to do real fact - based analysis before they sign «free trade» deals that are destructive to Canadian -LSB-...]

* 24 Department of Defense officials who learned of the FBIs congressionally mandated investigation tracking the money trail as they do for banl robberies and the woman who blew the whistle remain under federal gaga orders in spite of two US senators writing letters requesting those gags be lifted, rather.

April 2011 — For the first time in American history, Obama urges passage of a non-discrimination law, that does not contain hiring protections for religious groups, forcing religious organizations to hire according to federal mandates, without regard to the dictates of their own faith, thus eliminating conscience protection in hiring.

Everett Piper — the president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University, which sued the federal government over the ACA birth control mandate — and Montse Alvarado — executive director of Becket, a leading religious liberty law firm which represented the Little Sisters of the Poor in their contraceptive fight — spoke at the HHS announcement and applauded the new office, as did Jewish and Muslim representatives.

I don't think the federal government should have the authority to mandate that employers create a lactation room.

While the federal government mandates schools that receive federal money serve a free lunch to children whose families meet a certain income, the funds don't cover the entire cost of the meal.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver does not seem terribly perturbed about the prospect of having three separate primaries — federal, state and presidential — despite the fact that he and his Democratic colleagues have indicated a preference for moving the state contests up to conform with Judge Gary Sharpe's mandated June 26 date for the House and US Senate races.

«If the federal government really wanted to help workers — which is what they said all along; that they wanted to help workers, they wanted to help the middle class — if that's what they wanted to do, then the law they passed would have mandated that the corporations tax cut windfall go to pay workers higher wages or go to create jobs,» the governor said.

Under state and federal mandate, East Hampton Town must design and implement a comprehensive program to deal with stormwater runoff, ensuring that it does not transport pollutants into water bodies such as...

In a decision released Tuesday, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that competitive cheerleading does not yet meet the standards of a varsity sport under Title IX, the 1972 federal law that mandates equal opportunities for men and women in education and athletics.

The NFL has joined the ranks of the NBA and Major League Baseball by voluntarily relinquishing their tax exempt status and it was prudent of them to do so before being mandated by the state and federal government.»

Just like the mayor, Walcott blamed cuts in federal and state funding as well as state mandates forcing the city to spend money it doesn't have.

Republicans attempted to defund its implementation, [375][392] and in October 2013, House Republicans refused to fund the federal government unless accompanied with a delay in ACA implementation, after the President unilaterally deferred the employer mandate by one year, which critics claimed he had no power to do.

He also vowed to cut federal funds to «sanctuary cities» such as New York that don't cooperate with his mandates.

We did this for Science, HPE and Arts for 5 years and only changed when the «5 point scale» was mandated by the Federal government.

The House and Senate bills both currently do just this, making clear that no federal official or employee should seek to «mandate, direct, or control» instructional content, academic standards and assessments, curricula, or programs of instruction.

One telling sign is that the federal government does not impose minimum standards for gifted education, even though the No Child Left Behind law imposes all sorts of mandates to bring up the bottom.

The federal No Child Left Behind Act, which President George W. Bush signed into law last year, represented a victory for the advocates of public school choice: the law rejected funding for private school vouchers, but did mandate that districts allow children in persistently failing schools to transfer to public schools that perform better.

The federal law does have language stating, «Nothing in this Act shall be construed to... mandate a state or any subdivision thereof to... incur any costs not paid for under this Act.»

And even though few voters outside education circles know who they are or what they do, the state schools chiefs have increasingly important roles as new federal mandates take hold.

Rather than mandating direct federal oversight of schools — telling states what to do — ESEA offered states funding for education programs on a conditional basis.

The federal government didn't write [the standards], didn't approve them, and doesn't mandate them.

That's why I wholeheartedly believe the future of choice does not begin with a new federal mandate from Washington!

And what do they think of federal efforts to mandate them?

In other words, are there simply a couple initiatives you really want to push, or do you intend to prioritize overarching governing principles like subsidiarity, enhanced civil society activity, and incremental change and opposition to federal mandates, technocratic thinking, and sweeping reform?

A chief concern among the negotiators was to walk a line between those constituencies that wanted to continue a federal mandate on standardized testing for «accountability» purposes and those that didn't want any federal involvement in local education decisions.

While liberals got some «guardrails» around state accountability systems, they failed to get a federal mandate on equalizing school funding — though Obama education secretary John King is now doing his utmost to devise one via executive branch regulations.

Despite the availability of Pell Grants and federal subsidized loans, the government does not mandate that colleges administer standardized tests.

Still, that doesn't mean states will walk in lockstep with federal mandates.

«DeVos Says Federal IDEA Mandates «Piled On,» Don't Match Funding.»

We don't, however, believe that the federal government is the right entity to be mandating teacher evaluations.

Doesn't faze the rich communities any, but for the rest of us, it's killing the middle class and still not generating enough funding for teachers and schools to keep pace with rising standards, a reform agenda gone awry, unfunded state and federal mandates, and ever increasing student poverty.

Federal funding is at risk when more than five percent of students don't take mandated annual tests, though it is unclear whether or how states or districts will be punished.

For example, mandating «challenging» state standards and tests, instead of «college - and career - ready» does actually remove federal force behind Common Core, since the latter is a regulatory dog - whistle for Common Core.

In none of these U-T pieces did the author correctly inform readers that charter schools must use lotteries mandated by both federal and state law when the number of applicants for their school exceeds the seats available.

Because the new law does away with so many federal mandates on everything from assessment, accountability and evaluation, state legislatures will be playing a decisive role in determining how ESSA is implemented.

«Overly rigid and unrealistic federal mandates undermine the ability of school districts to do what the law intends: prepare and serve nutritious food that enables America's public schoolchildren to grow, learn, and thrive,» said Gentzel.

But officials said Tuesday that even if the state does win a federal grant of up to $ 700 million, there's unlikely to be any effort to mandate any of the more controversial aspects of the latest California Race to the Top application - including incentive pay for teachers and principals.

«There are some people out there who for a very long time are saying that this (Common Core) is a federal mandate and states can't do anything to change it,» Brickman said.

What Connecticut is doing now, he writes, is merely complying with federal mandates that harm schools and demoralize teachers.

You should do this — Tester knows because he tried to eliminate it — because it continues the abominable federal mandate that all states must give annual standardized tests.

Even though NCLB mandated 17 federally required tests, the high stakes attached to them led states and districts to start administering multiple interim benchmark tests to see how well students would do on the federal tests.