Sentences with phrase «federal policies influenced»

How have federal policies influenced the schools and districts with which states work on school turnaround?

Respondents also are skeptical of federal policy influences on public schools and of the Common Core State Standards.

Level of Service (LOS) project to assess how Federal policy influences and is connected to the use of automobile LOS measures in transportation decision making, and to support the shift to a broader set of performance metrics.

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DN: I think the Federal Reserve policy is the single biggest overriding influence in the public markets today.

Powell said individual Fed members will be crafting new projections at the central bank's meeting in March, which would be influenced by federal government's ambitious fiscal policies including tax cuts.

In that case, monetary policy's ability to get in all the cracks of the financial system — to paraphrase former Federal Reserve Governor Jeremy Stein — would give it a more powerful influence on financial stability.8

Cohn's exit is, in its way, normal: He passed his signature policy effort, he didn't get the promotion to Federal Reserve chair, he was losing influence internally, he was burnt out, and so he is leaving.

Central banks such as the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) use monetary policy tactics, including interest rate moves and increasing or decreasing the monetary supply, to try and influence the level of inflation, stimulate the economy and spur employment.

The Federal Reserve's unconventional monetary policy has robbed it of the ability to influence interest rates as it has in the past.

Market participants were wondering how the mostly stronger data could influence the Federal Reserve's interest rate trajectory this year, at a time when other central banks are not really in a hurry to tighten their policies.

While this debate has provided fodder for policy wonks, it has not had much influence on Capitol Hill which seems poised to allow federal unemployment benefits to lapse without much of an alternative strategy for getting the long term jobless working again.

Builders, based in Aledo, Texas, whose expressed goal is «to exert a positive influence in government, education, and the family by 1) educating the nation concerning the Godly foundation of our country; 2) providing information to federal, state and local officials as they develop public policies which reflect Biblical values; and 3) encouraging Christians to get involved in the civic arena.

Her most recent book, Deliberating Monetary Policy, seeks to examine the role and influence of deliberation in US monetary policy in two institutional settings — the decision making body itself (the Federal Open Market Committee) and the congressional oversight committees (House and SePolicy, seeks to examine the role and influence of deliberation in US monetary policy in two institutional settings — the decision making body itself (the Federal Open Market Committee) and the congressional oversight committees (House and Sepolicy in two institutional settings — the decision making body itself (the Federal Open Market Committee) and the congressional oversight committees (House and Senate).

Perhaps best known for advocating that the nation guard against the potential influence of the military — industrial complex, a term he is credited with coining, the speech also expressed concerns about planning for the future and the dangers of massive spending, especially deficit spending, the prospect of the domination of science through Federal funding and, conversely, the domination of science - based public policy by what he called a «scientific - technological elite».

In the context of systemic risk due to banking panics, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has the political effect of giving bankers an overpowering incentive to influence the Federal Reserve System's Federal Open Market Committee and the Federal Reserve Board of Governors to implement system wide policies for extension of credit which socialize and cartelize the banking sector to work towards its own common purpose.

Immigration experts, however, say that governors have little influence over federal resettlement policy, though they can make conditions less welcoming for refugees in their states.

«We will respond aggressively to those who overstep those bounds and seek to influence the making of Federal policies and legislation by making threats to the lives of those entrusted with such tasks and their families.»

Influencing and informing public policy, including but not limited to federal and university policies 2.

Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva, the ranking member of the House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands, today called for a full Natural Resources Committee hearing to determine whether a high - ranking Department of the Interior (DOI) official received outside payments from a conservative group that seeks to influence federal policy.

Representing the Endocrine Society, our members strive to influence public policy related to research and clinical endocrinology issues by testifying before the United States Congress, Federal agencies, and other legislative and deliberative bodies.

There's the ongoing special - counsel investigation into whether the Trump campaign aided a Russian campaign to aid Trump's candidacy and defeat his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton; there's the associated inquiry into whether the president obstructed justice when he fired former FBI Director James Comey, whom he had asked not to investigate his former national - security adviser; there are the president's hush - money payments to women with whom he allegedly had extramarital affairs, made through his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and facilitated by corporate cash paid to influence the White House; there is his ongoing effort to interfere with the Russia inquiry and politicize federal law enforcement; there are the foreign governments that seem to be utilizing the president's properties as vehicles for influencing administration policy; there's the emerging evidence that Trump campaign officials sought aid not only from Russia, but from other foreign countries, which may have affected Trump's foreign policy; there are the ongoing revelations of the president's Cabinet officials» misusing taxpayer funds; there is the accumulating evidence that administration decisions are made at the behest of private industry, in particular those in which Republican donors have significant interests.

With the departure this month of the first head of the Department of Education's office of innovation and improvement, those who follow the 3 1/2 - year - old - office are wondering whether it will continue to play a prominent role in federal policy or whether its influence will fade.

Federal involvement in education has trended up consistently, aided and abetted by conservatives who might have been expected to prefer local or state or family control of education decisions but instead expanded federal influences that favored their policy preferences, e.g., No Child Left Federal involvement in education has trended up consistently, aided and abetted by conservatives who might have been expected to prefer local or state or family control of education decisions but instead expanded federal influences that favored their policy preferences, e.g., No Child Left federal influences that favored their policy preferences, e.g., No Child Left Behind.

ESSA also gave state leaders significantly more autonomy to set policy on other questions, such as teacher evaluation, diminishing the federal government's influence over state policy.

Several prominent experts offered their views on how current research and state and federal policies should influence classroom practice.

Though many states have special education laws of their own — a few of them as innovative as Florida's McKay Scholarship Program --- and multiple federal statutes influence how society does (and doesn't) treat disabled individuals, both in school and beyond, the principal policy engine in the K — 12 realm remains the federal IDEA statute, which has not been reauthorized since 2004 and — as many others have noted — is due for a top - to - bottom review.

Preserving the Federal Role in Encouraging and Evaluating Education Innovation Brookings, 2/19/15 «The question is whether, in their understandable efforts to rein in Washington's influence, legislators can preserve those elements of federal policy that stand to benefit students and taxpayers — particularly those that fulfill functions that would otherwise go unaddressed within our multi-layered system of education governance.Federal Role in Encouraging and Evaluating Education Innovation Brookings, 2/19/15 «The question is whether, in their understandable efforts to rein in Washington's influence, legislators can preserve those elements of federal policy that stand to benefit students and taxpayers — particularly those that fulfill functions that would otherwise go unaddressed within our multi-layered system of education governance.federal policy that stand to benefit students and taxpayers — particularly those that fulfill functions that would otherwise go unaddressed within our multi-layered system of education governance.»

Rarely discussed is union influence over state and federal elections and over domestic policy, from fundamental issues such as taxation and health care to more esoteric ones, such as gay marriage and redistricting.

The 2016 WPS also featured more than 50 speakers, including several EPFP alumni, sharing their expertise on a diverse range of issues and topics, from the history of federal education policy and the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act to media coverage of education and philanthropic influence in education policy.

As Kantor (1991) indicated, the significance of ESEA was twofold: (1) it characterized the federal role in advancing educational equity, much in the same merit as other Civil Rights laws; and (2) it institutionalized the federal role and influence in education policy.

They acknowledged the legitimacy of state policy (even if they dislike the notion of federal mandates and bemoan inadequate state funding), and generally find that they are able to use policy to enlarge their own influence over the improvement of education in their settings.

The launch occurred during NAESP's annual National Leaders Conference (NLC), which hosted nearly 200 principals and state association advocates who engaged in important discussions to influence congressional action on implementing the Every Student Achieves Act (ESSA), the FY 2017 federal budget, student data privacy, and higher education policy.

Held every February in the nation's capital during National Magnet School Month, the Policy Training Conference helps magnet school professionals understand the complex federal, state and local policy issues that influence magnet school proPolicy Training Conference helps magnet school professionals understand the complex federal, state and local policy issues that influence magnet school propolicy issues that influence magnet school programs.

Held every February in the nation's capital during National Magnet School Month, the Policy Training Conference assists magnet school professionals in understanding the complex federal, state and local policy issues that influence magnet school proPolicy Training Conference assists magnet school professionals in understanding the complex federal, state and local policy issues that influence magnet school propolicy issues that influence magnet school programs.

For all the schools and districts sampled in our study, state and federal curriculum policies, standards, and accountability systems influenced direction setting pervasively.

The major federal policy initiatives of the last decade and a half, No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, were designed mainly to change the attitudes and behaviors of teachers and principals — the members of the school community known to have the greatest and most direct influence on students» academic achievement.

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As an organization, we'll be looking into how state and federal policy can better prepare teachers to address SEL in the classroom, include SEL in successful turnaround intervention strategies under ESSA, and how we can influence education policymakers to leverage industry standards into useful legislation.

The agenda, which was unveiled at ASCD's 2009 Annual Conference, is designed to help the Association, its members, and other educators influence policy discussions and decisions regarding federal education legislation as well as reforms at the state and local levels.

Just as the Department of Justice has a hand in protecting students» civil rights, other federal agencies» policies and budgets influence children nationwide.

Learn about the changes in federal requirements under ESSA in assessments, accountability, professional development, and others, and how educators can influence the decisions about new state and local policies.

Regardless of the party affiliation or priorities of the administration, federal dollars and influence help shape the policies that govern every public school in the country.

They're expected to discuss how the federal government should — and should not — influence education policy in the U.S.

While our findings demonstrate the vertical influence federal incentivization can have on state adoption activity, our findings also support earlier work in education (e.g., Cohen - Vogel, Ingle, Albee, and Spence 2008; Mintrom and Vergari 1998) showing that the likelihood of state adoption may be enhanced through participation in national policy consortia.

Dana Goldstein: Gates, Broad, and other philanthropists have a huge influence on both federal and local policies.

The independent effects for policy network membership and states» previous standards - based reform activity suggest that, irrespective of the vertical influence of the federal government, states» memberships in policy networks and their predisposition for standards - based reform were also determinants of whether and when states adopted the CCSS.

Joining the Federal Policy Coordinators Network allows you to work as a team with your school board and superintendent to influence the policy - making process and to ensure that the decision - makers in Washington, D.C., know how these polices will impact your school disPolicy Coordinators Network allows you to work as a team with your school board and superintendent to influence the policy - making process and to ensure that the decision - makers in Washington, D.C., know how these polices will impact your school dispolicy - making process and to ensure that the decision - makers in Washington, D.C., know how these polices will impact your school district.

Moreover, as the sector has grown in size and policy influence, advocates have advanced laws at both the federal and state levels that limit many charter schools» accountability, transparency, and responsiveness to the communities they serve, notwithstanding their receipt of a growing share of tax dollars.

State legislatures and local school boards may have the ultimate say on education policy in the U.S., but the Department of Education exerts a huge influence with the strings it attaches to federal funding.

The program ended when Congress failed to appropriate funds for its continuation in the 2015 federal spending bill.14 In some sectors, there is increased debate about whether federal funds for education are best allocated through formulas or competitive processes, with opponents of competitive grants citing a desire to reduce federal influence in favor of state and locally - driven education policies.