Sentences with phrase «federal resources»

The act provided federal resources for states to level the playing field between schools in wealthy and poor districts.

A major concern cited was federal resources available for observation, reporting, verification and prevention.

We'll also invest federal resources, including tax incentives and government contracts, into developing next generation biofuels.

In addition, school districts will be allowed to use federal resources to support professional development of principals and teachers to help all students develop these skills.

While the jury is still out on their potential impact, education advocates have been considering the possibilities of limited federal resources.

These competitive awards are a smart way to use scarce federal resources to improve the lives of children and families through home visiting programs that research shows yield results.

You may find that even with federal resources, you still can not afford to pay back your private student loans.

Now, that's the true realization of meaningful, bottom - up, locally controlled school improvement through federal resources and thousands of partnerships.

Both call for reporting on how federal resources are being used to improve performance of struggling students.

Because federal resources for such investigations can be virtually unlimited, having an skilled advocate on the case is crucial to your future.

Federal laws, lead - based paint disclosure information, fair housing act and other federal resources for landlords and tenants.

If you are aware of local, state, or federal resources for evacuation transportation you can communicate these resources too.

«[The] UCAR white paper emphasizes that focused investment of federal resources in the atmospheric, Earth, and related sciences will make significant contributions addressing important societal needs.

Florida MIECHV is investing federal resources in evidence - based programs that support parents in their most important job — raising healthy and safe children who enter school ready to learn.

Like the January summit, Monday's event was largely about how to make progress short of new federal resources.

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is throwing his support behind a bill that would boost federal resources to prevent and combat synthetic opioid addiction.

President Donald Trump will take executive action today directing federal resources toward building a border wall as part of a multi-day rollout of immigration actions that's also expected to include moves related to refugees and visas.

Later Clinton initiatives targeted federal resources to improve low - performing schools.

The Bus & Bus Facilities Infrastructure Investment Program (49 U.S.C. 5339) makes federal resources available to states and direct recipients to replace, rehabilitate and purchase buses and related equipment.

As states and districts struggle to recover from the most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression, the administration appears most interested in delivering federal resources only to those states and districts that craft the most effective grant applications.

He says if larger states go under, they might drag the smaller states down with them by causing the markets to tank and usurping valuable federal resources.

Former federal resources minister Martin Ferguson has joined the board of trustees of the University of Western Australia's Energy and Minerals Institute.

And this year, we also celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which created a substantive federal role in education and provided additional federal resources for low - income students across the country.

«It is critical that we get federal resources on the ground as soon as possible, so that the counties hit by these flood waters can begin to rebuild — and to do that we need an approved federal disaster declaration,» Schumer said in a statement.

She was effective in bringing federal resources and attention back to Buffalo, Rochester and Niagara Falls,» Brown said.

Jolie Milstein (center) with Washington state Senator Maria Cantwell (left), and N.Y. Senator Charles Schumer (right) calling for increased federal resources in NYC for affoadable housing, April 22, 2016.

Washington — Continuing a trend documented in 1987, the number of federal awards for independent research in education declined in the past two years, as did the amount of federal resources devoted to evaluating education programs, a General Accounting Office official reported last week.

It is possible that some of those dollars are coming from federal resources or restricted funds, so I'm not confident listing either of those amounts as the KTIP - specific general fund cut.

The result is the same: they divert desperately - needed federal resources away from the public school system to private schools.

The recent failure to meet a congressional deadline at the National Ignition Facility — a giant laser - centered fusion project at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory — generated commentary, including from the editorial page of The New York Times, arguing that it was time to shift limited federal resources away from this particular long - pass approach.

Obama will build upon his efforts in the Senate to ensure that more Metropolitan Planning Organizations create policies to incentivize greater bicycle and pedestrian usage of roads and sidewalks, and he will also re-commit federal resources to public mass transportation projects across the country.

The Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting, or MIECHV, program provides federal resources to expand home visiting to at - risk children and parents.

The declaration would allow federal resources to be used to help clean up areas in the village contaminated with a man - made chemical that polluted public and private water supplies.

(FEMA is keeping a running list of federal resources deployed to Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.)

In his confirmation hearings, Sessions acknowledged that disrupting states marijuana markets by enforcing federal marijuana laws could create a strain on federal resources.

«I urge Rep. Pocan and Rep. Moore to stop wasting federal resources by trying to undermine parental school choice and focus on what's best for parents and kids by breaking down the barriers to school choice nationwide.»

The mayor argued that his national travels, which will continue on Wednesday with a trip to California to talk about income inequality, are necessary to shift the national focus and, ultimately, help him secure federal resources for New York City.

,» «Marijuana Legalization: Pros and Cons,» and «Leveraging Federal Resources to Support Local Reentry Initiatives.»

Since the launch of MyPlate in 2011, ChooseMyPlate.gov has become a popular federal resource for consumers seeking information on nutrition and health.

Rangel was found to have misused federal resources to solicit donations for a City College of New York center named in his honor, used a rent - stabilized apartment for his campaign office, failed to pay taxes on a villa in the Dominican Republic and filed inaccurate financial disclosure forms.

Charlie Rangel has never wavered in his fight to secure crucial federal resources to support the priorities of middle class New Yorkers - education, health care, and job creation.»

A dredging project isn't the most exciting of issues, especially in D.C., and in a time of diminishing federal resources it would be easy for lawmakers and the administration to follow another tried and true government policy and shelve the idea.

We urge EPA to move quickly to formally add this site to the federal superfund program and actually begin contributing federal resources to build on the state's ongoing restoration underway.»