Sentences with phrase «few federal initiatives»

In K — 12 education, the states are ultimately in charge and few federal initiatives in this realm work nearly as well as intended.

Not exact matches

The federal government's 2013 budget unveiled Thursday contains a select few initiatives aimed at reducing costs at the household level including efforts to close the U.S. - Canada price gap for young families.

In order to remain globally competitive in the 21st Century, we must continue our broad support for federal initiatives that have helped foster thousands of innovations like the microchip, GPS, the Internet, and the bar code, just to name a few.

Creating a federal initiative to support development of new therapies for ultra-rare diseases occurring in fewer than one in 250,000 births annually.

I think [Common Core] is essentially a federal initiative at this point, having been created by a small group of people, including very few if any teachers, working in conjunction with the Duncan administration, and it has been at the very least aggressively encouraged for states to adopt, particularly through the Race to the Top funding.»

UPDATED: The federal government's 2013 budget contains a select few initiatives aimed at reducing costs at the household level including efforts to close the U.S. - Canada price gap for young families.