Sentences with phrase «federal standard means»

New federal standards mean that children from low - income families will spend more time in Head Start preschool classes.

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It reduced the cap on borrowing subject to the mortgage interest deduction (MID) from $ 1 million to $ 750,000, and capped deductions for state and local taxes, including property taxes, at $ 10,000.1 These changes, in combination with a doubling of the standard deduction, mean that many homeowners will experience a loss of tax benefits associated with homeownership, and the changes represent a significant shift in the federal government's willingness to promote and subsidize homeownership.

«If DeVos follows through on her plans to privatize education and hold charter schools receiving federal funds to different standards than public schools, as she indicated she would in her confirmation hearing, this could mean that fewer and fewer schools are even required to follow Title IX guidelines at all,» Gibbs wrote.

This means that the swing has passed federal safety standards.

When the U.S. Congress passed the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act in 2010, it meant an overhaul of school nutrition standards (the requirements for school lunch and breakfast programs funded by the federal government).

For those of you too young to remember the early 80s, President Reagan once caused a ruckus by attempting to lower school food nutrition standards as a means of reducing federal spending on the program.

While you were served a meal of meatloaf, mashed potatoes, peas and carrots and a canned pear half, today's children (if they have the financial means) can pay for a meal of processed «kid fare» which has to meet only the most minimal federal standards — chips, ice cream, and (particularly if they're in secondary school) items like brand - name pizza, breaded chicken sandwiches, Rice Krispie Treats and slushies.

(All new cribs sold in the U.S. must meet federal safety requirements, which means that whether you pay $ 100 at Ikea or $ 1,000 at a boutique, you'll get a crib that conforms to standards.)

AHCA does reduce federal aid for Medicaid, but it leaves eligibility standards alone — meaning no one covered by the program (more than 6 million, or one in three New Yorkers) would necessarily be displaced.

The second is that someone will ask the candidate whether he or she supports the Renewable Fuel Standard, or RFS: the federal program that, among other things, requires all gasoline sold in this country to contain a minimum amount of «renewable biofuel» — which in Iowa, of course, means corn - based ethanol.

Federal courts have played a key role in the development of special education policy by interpreting what Congress wrote in IDEA three decades ago, and the Supreme Court is reviewing what the law means by a «free appropriate public education» as it considers Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District, which deals with the standard of services districts are required to provide (see «Examining the Standards for Special Education» legal beat, Summer 2017).

That meant a school might be designated «needing improvement» because it had failed to raise scores over the past several years — but still could have a higher absolute score than a school that had met the federal standard because it had made steady gains from a lower base.

When we asked this question in our 2015 EdNext poll, 41 percent of the public thought the federal government should play the largest role in setting standards — which means we saw a 5 percentage - point drop from 2015 to 2017.

Nor does any of this mean that the standards and assessments should come from the federal government.

The law is meant to ensure states are free to make decisions about accountability, school improvement, standards, and assessments without federal interference... If the secretary chooses to ignore the law, then Congress and state and local leaders can use the tools they have to hold the secretary accountable, [a GOP aide] said.

This is not really true — the federal government encouraged states to adopt Common Core standards and the tests associated with them, but it didn't «take over» the standards, whatever that means — but Trump has remained constant on his message that Common Core is bad.

This means our schools must meet the same academic performance standards as traditional district schools, as required by federal and state laws.

d. State longitudinal data systems and a massive increase in state and federal gathering of private family, education, and psychological data on our children without consent e. Career - tracking, which undermines self - determination by means of an insistence on student compliance with the very flawed standards and subjective, unconstitutional psychological profiling f. Again, according to Education Week, the opt - out amendment that passed the House has been removed.

As a component of the school - level parental involvement policy mandated by federal law Title I, each school served under this part shall jointly develop with parents for all children served under this part a school - parent compact that outlines how parents, the entire school staff, and students will share the responsibility for improved student achievement and the means by which the school and parents will build and develop a partnership to help children achieve the State's high standards.

«It would mean turning the future of our schools over to an industry that has poorer quality control than pet food manufacturers, who at least have to meet federal content standards.»

This means that just like traditional public schools, public charter schools are tuition - free and open to all students, do not discriminate on any basis, are publicly funded based on enrollment, and are held accountable to state and federal standards.

The term child restraint means any device (including child safety seat, booster seat, harness, and excepting seat belts) designed for use in a motor vehicle to restrain, seat, or position children who weigh 65 pounds (30 kilograms) or less, and certified to the Federal motor vehicle safety standard prescribed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for child restraints.

Every Versa Note also carries the PUREDRIVE ™ badge, which designates that means that Versa Note meets or exceeds the industry - average US Federal CAFE standards for model year 2016.

That means it only makes sense to itemize if all of your itemized deductions — medical expenses, charitable contributions, taxes besides federal taxes, interest expense and miscellaneous deductions — exceed the standard deduction.

The government offers a federal consolidation loan program, but it does not come with the same benefits as a standard refinance, meaning a reduced interest rate.

Federal Housing Administration (FHA) approved lenders issue loans that are backed by the government, which means that they must apply and conform to federal staFederal Housing Administration (FHA) approved lenders issue loans that are backed by the government, which means that they must apply and conform to federal stafederal standards.

With the adoption of the Basel (BIS) bank capital standards in 1988, CMHC insurance, with a full Federal government guarantee, became a «zero risk weight» which meant a bank did not need to set aside any capital against a NHA insured mortgage.

On your federal return for 2016, you claimed the standard deduction rather than itemized deductions — meaning you didn't claim a deduction for state income taxes paid.

The federal government currently sets baseline efficiency standards for appliances for sale in the United States, which means that none of the products on the market are «inefficient.»

For truckers, fleet operators, and America's largest companies — including Walmart, Coke, Pepsi, UPS, and FedEx — a strong federal standard also means good business: annual shipping costs could fall by at least $ 135 per American household, and likely much more.

U.S. air and water quality have improved dramatically during the past several decades because of the creation of reasonable federal standards for criteria pollutants, such as sulfur, carbon monoxide, and particulates, and allowing the affected companies to choose the most effective and least expensive means to comply.

This means that we treat our organic dairy cows according to federal organic standards.

Back then the standard Hague Conference drafting language did not contain a satisfactory federal state clause which meant that Canada had to have all the provinces on side — it could not sign, and then let them enact local legislation at their own pace.

In addition, trucking companies must abide by certain federal safety standards designed to prevent blowout accidents from happening in the first place, so failure to do so can mean that the company is liable.

Both Sharma and Bining, as well as Gleeson, kindly stayed for a few minutes after the hearing to take questions from students about the differences between the reasonableness and correctness standards of review, what it means to certify a question for appeal and how frequently immigration matters receive leave to appeal at the Federal Court (only 20 per cent to 30 per cent of matters make it past the threshold for leave).

Today's bumpers are meant to withstand the impact of a low speed collisions that meet Federal standards.

Calls for a federal intervention already started; in a statement provided to AndroidHeadlines, the Internet Innovation Alliance repeated its support of the idea of an «Internet Bill of Rights» meant to «promote one standard of privacy and one set of rules that apply to all companies in the internet ecosystem,» thus relating the issue to the still - ongoing debate on net neutrality.

Since the Federal Circuit's refusal to follow Twombly rested entirely on the existence of Form 18, this change should mean that parties that sue for patent infringement will now be held to the same standard that has developed for other types of litigation.

Reliance on a combination of local, state, and federal funding streams means these ECE programs are disjointed, they are governed by different administrators and use divergent standards, and there's no one path for families to access ECE services.

This means that the agency has been accredited or approved according to the federal government standards (Hague standards) to provide or identify the provider of the adoption services associated with an International adoption.

That means anyone who in 2016 just took the standard deduction and didn't itemize all their deductions, would very likely pay a lot less federal taxes under either the House or the Senate tax bill.