Sentences with phrase «federal policy framework»

A K - 12 federal policy framework for competency education: Building capacity for systems change.

An approach to accountability that holds states responsible for the conditions to learn while holding communities responsible for equity and achievement: The current federal policy framework holds schools to unreasonable targets, using narrow assessment tools, with punishments that do little to improve school performance.

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In no particular order these included: a dysfunctional bankruptcy framework; an immature domestic capital market; withholding taxes on foreign capital; corruption (particularly at the state level — the Modi government has made progress at the federal level); policy and renegotiation risks (a number of legacy and high profile tax eases are yet to be resolved); land acquisition costs (and legal risks); and, the need for tax reforms.

Although the federal government helped create the policy framework, its ultimate impact will be determined by thousands of implementation and policy decisions at the state and local level.

TEA, in collaboration with the Texas Comprehensive Center (TXCC), designed and carried out a comprehensive, multi-pronged engagement strategy beginning in January 2016 to collect stakeholder input and feedback to help shape the agency's strategic direction, inform the development of innovative education systems, and create a unified framework across state and federal policy.

While federal policy from No Child Left Behind, to Race to the Top and the Every Student Succeeds Act defined multi-issue agendas that included elements of the accountability, choice, and equity agendas, within the advocacy sector, «education reform» has never been a unifying framework.

This inclusion parallels the recommendations of the Equity and Excellence Commission's report, signaling that children's experiences with poverty have taken their place alongside other significant variables impacting student achievement in the federal education policy framework.

During his tenure, he made the MTA the voice of the profession and established the teachers union as a partner in developing and implementing state and federal policy such as teacher - evaluation frameworks, new curriculum standards, district and school accountability measures, while strengthening labor - management collaboration focused on improving student achievement.

Based on insight from school districts, state education agencies, policymakers and education organizations, this policy framework guides states and districts in working together to create flexibility to support scaling personalized learning, including explorations of defining areas of flexibility at the state and federal policy level, the supports needed for district implementation of personalized, competency - based education and the roles of states and districts in this work.

State and federal education policy over the past 20 years has been developed within a standards - based reform framework which has emphasized a systemic approach to education reform.

Since taking office in January, Secretary DeVos has been tasked with reviewing the structure and mission of the agency along with analyzing work products (i.e. regulations) within the framework of reducing the federal imprint on education policy.

The FIPPs are a widely accepted framework that is at the core of the Privacy Act of 1974 and areare mirrored in other statutes, federal policy and guidance.

Bernanke, Ben S., «A Century of U.S. Central Banking: Goals, Frameworks, Accountability,» Speech given at «The First 100 Years of the Federal Reserve: The Policy Record, Lessons Learned, and Prospects for the Future,» a conference sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, July 10, 2013.

In the near term, federal policy could: i) level the playing field between air captured CO2 and fossil - fuel derived CO2 by providing subsidies or credits for superior carbon lifecycle emissions that account for recovering carbon from the atmosphere; ii) provide additional research funding into air capture R&D initiatives, along with other areas of carbon removal, which have historically been unable to secure grants; and iii) ensure air capture is deployed in a manner that leads to sustainable net - negative emissions pathways in the future, within the framework of near - term national emissions reductions, and securing 2 °C - avoiding emissions trajectories.

So while the Program adds some new institutions, it also embeds them within a coordinated policy framework of Acre, other states in the region, and the federal government including The Sustainable Amazon Plan, the Plan for Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Amazon, the National Plan of Climate Change, and The Amazon Fund.

The report explores potential options for building on existing policy frameworks at the federal and provincial levels related to electric vehicles, and highlights opportunities to optimize their potential to contribute to decarbonisation efforts.

But together they become something more — elevating the individual policy measures that have characterized this administration's approach to clean energy into a single overarching framework to help guide the federal government in making progress on climate and energy,» said Bracken Hendricks.

This memorandum establishes a framework and directs Federal departments and agencies (agencies) to perform certain functions to ensure that climate change - related impacts are fully considered in the development of national security doctrine, policies, and plans.

It is essential that the federal government coordinate its efforts and develop a broad reconciliation framework, which includes scrapping the existing comprehensive claims policies, overhauling the broken B.C. treaty making process and developing new and appropriate mechanisms to support reconciliation including self - government recognition legislation.»

All duties are to be performed in accordance with federal, state, local laws, regulations, and ordinances, as well as department and Company policies, practices, and procedures, within the framework and intent of the MGM Grand Detroit Statement.

Given the minimal framework for Indigenous policy being set by the federal government, the report deliberately seeks to place Indigenous issues within a broader context.

Realizing the Promise of Home Visitation: Addressing Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment: A Guide for Policy Makers Family Violence Prevention Fund (2010) Presents recommendations for building a strong national policy framework to maximize the effectiveness and reach of early childhood home visiting programs and to ensure that Federal home visiting policies directly address the needs of mothers and children who are experiencing or at risk of experiencing domestic vioPolicy Makers Family Violence Prevention Fund (2010) Presents recommendations for building a strong national policy framework to maximize the effectiveness and reach of early childhood home visiting programs and to ensure that Federal home visiting policies directly address the needs of mothers and children who are experiencing or at risk of experiencing domestic viopolicy framework to maximize the effectiveness and reach of early childhood home visiting programs and to ensure that Federal home visiting policies directly address the needs of mothers and children who are experiencing or at risk of experiencing domestic violence.

The failure of many state governments and the federal government to fully develop a policy direction for the negotiation of native title agreements means that the process takes place largely within a legal framework rather than a policy framework.