Sentences with phrase «federal push»

«If it is true, as Rep. Messer says, that the big tax reform bill will not include a school choice component, then it is fair to say that a big new federal push on private school choice is dead,» Petrilli said.

We gathered a panel of policy wonks to discuss three major options for a new federal push on school choice: a competitive grant program, akin to Race to the Top; making Title I and special education dollars portable, including following students to private schools; or revising the federal tax code to support «tax credit scholarship programs» in at the state level.

ALBANY, NY (AP)-- Former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who cracked down on insider abuses on Wall Street, said Wednesday that the new federal push against potential insider trading has the hallmarks of important work, if the innovative approach can prove the communication is illegal.

If TNTP is right, a major federal push seems terribly unfair.

Smith wondered aloud to the educators at the session if the apparent federal push - also seen in several states — signifies that charter schools finally have lift - off.

With the recent Federal push for fixing our nation's highways, this is a big issue if you are traveling by car.

State - level changes coincide with federal push for looser coal ash regulation — even as utility shareholders and activists push for more stringent management.

Alberta remains staunchly opposed to the federal push to create a national securities regulator, provincial Finance Minister Doug Horner said Wednesday.

At the same time, the federal push to overhaul taxes could end the deduction of state and local taxes and cap property tax deductions at $ 10,000.

«There is a federal push to learn our numbers, our letters and our words, but a focus on the content, without a focus on the skills required to use that content, will end up with children being left behind.»

The education policy community, particularly those who lean toward a stronger federal role, has not fully grappled with the consequences of the failures of the federal push for improved teacher evaluation policy, but they are severe.

Today, the R - word is not heard very often, but we believe two crucial aspects of restructuring — the tasks teachers do and the way they use time — are on the horizon if teachers proactively shape the data - based decisionmaking prompted by the state and federal push...

Whether districts embrace charters, alternative schools or the federal push to restructure failing schools, what is needed is a sense of urgency to drive creativity and a willingness to try different things.

Kelly Riley, executive director of Mississippi Professional Educators, said the inclusion of student test scores came from a federal push for accountability.

Amid a federal push for the expansion of charter schools, this study of Charlotte - Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) in North Carolina describes how charter schools directly and indirectly contribute to resegregation in traditional public schools.

«I think probably the bigger loss not that we're likely to see districts abandoning this work, but rather that we won't have the important role of a federal push for getting districts to do this work, either through a carrot or a stick.

While some districts were already working to reduce suspensions, the federal push spurred more schools to revamp their disciplinary procedures.

The federal push to develop alternatives in the two other major energy categories — nuclear and renewables — has been rocky, to say the least.