Sentences with phrase «first federal child»

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Relations between worker and employer are governed by a welter of state and federal laws and regulations drafted in the first half of the 20th century to prevent child labor and other abuses in factories and on farms.

Cendy is one of millions of immigrants who were brought illegally to the U.S. as children — a group known as «DREAMers» by advocates of the Dream Act, a federal bill first introduced in the Senate in 2001 to allow them a pathway to permanent residency.

Schulman hopes that, armed with new federal funding to tackle these challenges, states will step up and begin filling the gaping holes in the American child care system — smoothing out the child care cliff while also making it easier for families access care in the first place, increasing the number of American kids who spend their days playing, coloring, building, and singing in a safe, caring environment their parents can actually afford.

Feelings run high, for example, around a key Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruling last year, which found that the federal government discriminates against First Nations children by underfunding family services.

Since the U.S. Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the first law that articulated a federal role in enforcing the rights of disabled people, the laws surrounding the education of children with special needs have evolved.

However, the Liberal platform also envisaged temporary deficits to finance higher spending on social programs such as child benefits, a higher Guaranteed Income Supplement for single seniors, public health care, child care and First Nations programs, and did not increase overall federal tax revenues.

VICTORIA — New Democrat spokesperson for aboriginal relations and reconciliation, Scott Fraser, and New Democrat children and families spokesperson, Doug Donaldson, welcomed this week's decision by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal that the federal government discriminates against First Nation children...

Whether or not Congress chooses to increase reimbursements, the first step to providing resources for higher quality school meals is to ensure that federal reimbursements for free and reduced price meals are used for their intended purpose — providing nutritious breakfasts and lunches to low - income school children.

The bill, a priority for the president and first lady Michelle Obama, would boost spending on child nutrition $ 4.5 billion over 10 years and raise federal reimbursements for school lunches more than the inflation rate for the first time since 1973.

At the launch of the initiative, President Barack Obama signed a Presidential Memorandum creating the first - ever Task Force on Childhood Obesity to conduct a review of every single program and policy relating to child nutrition and physical activity and develop a national action plan to maximize federal resources and set concrete benchmarks toward the First Lady's national first - ever Task Force on Childhood Obesity to conduct a review of every single program and policy relating to child nutrition and physical activity and develop a national action plan to maximize federal resources and set concrete benchmarks toward the First Lady's national First Lady's national goal.

That came in 1978, when Tennessee became the first state to enact a law requiring that infants and young children be strapped into car seats that met the federal standard.

Before parents can obtain a 504 plan for their special needs child, they must first get a team to assess their child, decide with federal laws apply to their child's disability, and establish a plan based on those findings.

I was discouraged as a new mother to my first child, by a nurse at the hospital, to exclusively pump unless I didn't qualify for free formula through the federal nutrition program.

«When I first ran for Congress, I left a 20 - year career as a federal prosecutor because I was frustrated with the inaction in Washington and knew that if I wanted to see real change for my children and for future generations that I needed to get off the sidelines and do something about it.

Innocent, first out of five children of Mr. Daniel Kokorifa, an official of the Federal Road Safety Corps, was shot dead in a mysterious circumstance by the police Anti - Vice / Anti-Kidnapping team along Airforce Road in Yenagoa, on August 18, 2016.

Sen. Chuck Schumer is pushing the House of Representatives to follow the Senate's lead and pass a federal bill to help the children of fallen first responders.

Innocent, first out of five children of an official of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Daniel Kokorifa, was shot dead in a mysterious circumstance by the police Anti - Vice / Anti-Kidnapping team about 11 am along Airforce Road in Yenagoa, on August 18, 2016.

The study is one of the first to examine whether a child's participation in the federal program benefits mothers and fathers — in particular parents» educational attainment and employment.

It is the first study to be published from a five - year federal grant to study the impacts of the expansion of Medicaid in Oregon on the health of women of reproductive age and their children up to age 2.

REDHERRING — Mar 27 — A federal law, the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act (IMBRA), makes it a felony for a man in the United States to communicate with a foreign woman via dating site, without the man first submitting unilaterally to criminal background and sex - offender checks and certifying all previous convictions or arrests, marriages, or divorces, children, and states of residence since the age of 18.

Students who are the first generation of their families to attend college lag behind children of college - educated parents in earning bachelor's degrees, according to a federal study.

Connecticut last week became the first and, so far, only state to sue over the federal No Child Left Behind Act, a move that some analysts say could embolden policymakers elsewhere to step up their varied challenges to the Bush administration's signature education law.

For almost the first time since the passage in 1975 of a landmark federal law entitling all disabled children to an education, educators and lawmakers in a number of states are looking for ways to control rising special - education costs.

Back in 2004, Spencer Hsu told the story of how the first federal voucher program was launched, when George W. Bush signed legislation providing grants worth as much as $ 7,500 each to children from dozens of public schools in the District of Columbia for their use at private or religious schools in a five - year experiment.

The first release of the school ratings comes as most states are grappling with how to judge schools as required by the federal «No Child Left Behind» Act of 2001.

First, just as the states refused to make good on the «equal» part of «separate but equal» after Plessy, for more than 40 years states have failed to provide equal access to the funding needed to achieve excellent schools for all children, largely because of a lack of federal accountability for equitable school funding.

Children should receive a second dose of the vaccine against measles, mumps, and rubella upon entering school to supplement the measles vaccine first administered at age 15 months, the federal Centers for Disease Control has recommended.

All of this has been complicated by reformers» habit of leaning heavily on federal pressure, first through the No Child Left Behind Act and more recently on the Obama administration's Race to the Top program, to force states and cities to move — even if that meant that policies were pushed forward while still half - baked.

On the day before school was to open that year, federal district court judge Solomon Oliver struck down the program, ruling that the use of tax dollars to pay for children to attend religious schools offends the First Amendment's Establishment Clause.

First, as Table 1 shows (page 28), several streams of federal and state funding support preschool education and child care.

A 2008 report from the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics on the well - being of American children finds that from 2005 to 2006, the teen - pregnancy rate increased for the first time in 15 years — rising from 21 to 22 births per 1,000 girls ages 15 - 17.

In 2001, Bush persuaded Congress to pass a new law, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), which created the nation's first reform - minded federal regulatory regime in education.

Congress Set to Dump No Child Left Behind Politico, 11/30/15» «This is the first reauthorization since at least the 1980s — but arguably dating all the way back to its inception — where you see a rollback of federal involvement, as opposed to further extension,» [Associate Professor Martin] West said.»

In the first five years of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, much attention has been focused on implementation issues — from how to manage the increasing number of schools and districts «in need of improvement» or in «corrective action,» to problems with testing programs, adequate - yearly - progress reporting, and the law's highly - qualified - teacher requirements.

For the first time in history, federal education funds will be linked to a student, so that parents can send their child to any public or charter school, or to a private school, where permitted.

Addressing the plaintiff's argument from First - Amendment rights, the Court held in contrast that the federal non-discrimination laws «do... not violate constitutionally protected rights of free association and privacy, or a parent's right to direct the education of his children.»

First, the authors dismiss the pressure schools face from the federal No Child Left Behind Act, which requires near - universal student proficiency less than seven years from now.

At the federal level, perhaps the most prominent early - childhood initiative that has come from the Bush administration is «Early Reading First,» a national effort to deliver effective reading instruction to young children.

While a lottery to select voucher recipients chose first from among students in 15 D.C. public schools that failed for two years to meet goals under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, about one in six D.C. children who will receive tuition grants are students who already attend private school.

The Trump administration is considering a first - of - its - kind federal tax credit scholarship program that would channel billions of dollars to families from working - class households to enable their children to attend private schools, including religious schools.

In fact, President Lyndon B. Johnson's support for, and the subsequent enactment of, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) in 1965 — the first significant federal intervention into education, which continues to authorize the bulk of federal K — 12 spending today — was born out of a belief that existing education programs and spending were not adequate for poor children.

In his first two years as principal, Central had such abysmal scores on the state proficiency exam given annually to juniors that it was in danger of being closed under the federal No Child Left Behind law.

The federal No Child Left Behind Act has helped prompt some school districts to develop, for the first time, a well - articulated curriculum for English - language learners — and even to work together in tackling what can be a daunting task for local educators.

And in a letter to be read at the Symposium, former President Carter noted that Richmond, the first director of the federal Head Start program, and the first Surgeon General to establish national health goals, «improved the lives of literally millions of children and adults in our country and around the world, and future generations will be healthier because of his work.»

NCLB's supplemental services provisions are significant because they offer real options to some parents who previously had none and because of the precedent it sets: true Title I portability — the first time the federal government has formally established in law that «the money follows the child.»

Federal policy, beginning in 1994, pushed states to develop standards and tests in the first place, and No Child Left Behind, enacted in 2002, doubled down on these mandates, requiring states to disaggregate test results for numerous groups and sanction low - performing schools.

The parents of a child with severe physical and mental handicaps have appealed a federal - court decision that is believed to be the first to declare a child ineligible to receive special - education services because he is not «capable of benefiting» from them.

State officials have aligned the remake of their letter grade system with Indiana's request for a waiver from requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind law, which the state filed in November — about the same time the proposal first came before the State Board of Education.

The bill, first introduced last week by Rep. Jim Banks (R., Ind.), would set up education savings accounts for parents in the armed forces who could divert a portion of funds that would have been sent to a public school on their child's behalf under the federal Impact Aid program to different schooling options.

Under the administration's budget, two of the department's largest expenditures in K - 12 education, special education and Title I funds to help poor children, would remain unchanged compared to federal funding levels in the first half of fiscal 2017.