Sentences with phrase «for bipartisan efforts»

NSBA applauds the work of the Conference Committee for its bipartisan efforts to modernize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), and the steps Congress has taken thus far.

None of this offers much succor to those hoping for bipartisan efforts on NCLB / ESEA reauthorization, and it might just be raising eyebrows over at Democrats for Education Reform.

Climate Science • The new Republican House majority provides an opportunity to shape the science agenda for bipartisan efforts to reduce the nation's energy usage and to take steps towards a clean energy — based economy.

We were pleased to hear the president call for a bipartisan effort for the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), otherwise known as No Child Left Behind.

In the letter, Mr. Gentzel wrote «The National School Boards Association (NSBA), representing more than 90,000 local school board members across the nation, working with and through our state associations, supports passage of the «Every Student Succeeds Act,» and applauds the work of the Conference Committee for its bipartisan effort to modernize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).

Last year, prospects were looking good for a bipartisan effort in Congress to overhaul federal sentencing.

Not exact matches

President Donald Trump's pick to replace former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, Dr. Jerome Adams, is getting some bipartisan praise for his efforts to combat opioid addiction and the HIV scourge in Indiana — where, maybe not - so - incidentally, he served under then - Gov.

«A hiring freeze at the FDA would conflict with and do significant damage to these bipartisan efforts to fill vacant positions and expand the scientific and technical workforce needed for a robust review of drugs and medical devices,» wrote Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg put together a famous bipartisan effort with President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration that successfully created tax breaks for companies that implemented profit sharing for many years.

Action: Write to your political reps to demand stronger privacy laws Who is this for: Anyone who cares about privacy, and especially Internet users in North America right now How difficult is it: A bit of effort Tell me more: There appears to be bipartisan appetite among U.S. lawmakers to bring in some form of regulation for Internet companies.

After staying largely mum in the last few days about the massacre and the escalating debate about weapons, Mr. Trump said Monday that he was supportive of a bipartisan effort to strengthen federal background checks for gun purchases.

The goal of this effort is to build a collaborative and bipartisan coalition across both chambers of the legislature to put such a framework for accountability in place.

«New York leads the nation's efforts in strengthening climate security, and through the RGGI program and this latest bipartisan proposal to reduce emissions even further, the investment of proceeds will continue to support and create thousands of jobs and reduce electricity bills for residents,» Governor Cuomo said.

A bipartisan congressional effort, ignoring White House objections, produced a bill Saturday to impose sweeping sanctions against Russia for meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential race and its human rights violations.

Updated at 12:35 p.m. ET on 7/16 Washington (CNN)-- An effort to remove sexual assault cases from the military chain of command received a bipartisan boost Tuesday as conservative Republicans joined the bill's main backer, Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, to voice their support for the measure.

«We've assembled a strong ground team, begun raising sufficient local funds to competently share our message and constructed a campaign platform that rejects labels, embraces bipartisan efforts for change and offers realistic, common sense solutions to the economic challenges that face our community,» Katko said in a statement.

But House Speaker Joe Aresimowicz said Democrats bailed out on the budget because they had believed it would be a bipartisan effort — and then Republicans refused to vote for it.

Whitman has backed bipartisan efforts since leaving office in 2001 and faced opposition from Republican conservatives when she pressed for a moderate voice in the GOP in her essay, «It's My Party, Too.»

Dear Neighbor, In an effort to ensure the Hudson Valley is fairly represented in all legislative matters before the Senate, I and eight other local Senators representing Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, and Westchester Counties have formed the Hudson Valley Delegation — a bipartisan coalition to more effectively advocate for the needs and concerns of the residents, communities, organizations, and elected officials of the Hudson Valley.

WAMC's political observer Dr. Alan Chartock discusses indications that President Trump is open to supporting a bipartisan congressional effort to revise federal background checks for prospective gun buyers and President Trump's endorsement of Mitt Romney in the Utah Senate race.

Andrew Romanoff, in a necessary effort to differentiate himself from the centrist non-politician Bennet, has been moving far to the left of his former moderate positions, and away from the bipartisan cooperation he was known for when he was Speaker of the House.

We commend all of the Legislators for their diligent and bipartisan efforts.»

Rich Azzopardi, a spokesman for the governor, did not comment on the specifics on the meeting with the Republicans, but he said, «The governor campaigned for Democrats during the election cycle and the Senate Democrats thanked him for his efforts,» adding, «He is now governing and is working in a bipartisan way.»

Congresswoman Kathy Castor, a Tampa Democrat, says she «led efforts» by the bipartisan Tampa Bay Congressional Delegation to include funding for MacDill Air Force Base.

New York lawmakers, Democrats and Republicans alike, say they are looking for bipartisan solutions now that the latest GOP effort to repeal and replace Obamacare has collapsed, but they are divided over how best to solve the problem.

The collapse of the bipartisan congressional supercommittee's effort to agree on a plan to slash the federal budget deficit isn't just a defeat for congressional Republicans who, as AFT President Randi Weingarten said, «insisted on protecting the 1 percent from any additional taxes.»

March 5, 2010 Pomona hearing 1:00 - 4:00 PM Health and Mental Health Transportation, Economic Development, Environmental Conservation Rockland County Fire Training Center Auditorium 35 Firemen's Memorial Drive, Pomona, NY 10970 Contact: Dan Moscato at [phone] or [email protected] March 12, 2010 Bronxville hearing 4:00 - 7:00 PM Education, Labor and Family Assistance Public Protection and General Government Concordia College Sommer Center for Worship & the Performing Arts 171 White Plains Road, Bronxville, NY 10708 Contact: Shelley Andrews at [phone] or [email protected] The Hudson Valley Delegation of the New York State Senate In an effort to ensure the Hudson Valley is fairly represented in all legislative matters before the Senate, nine local Senators representing the counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, and Westchester have formed a bipartisan delegation to more effectively advocate for the needs and concerns of their constituents.

The bipartisan effort follows demands by the city's top elected Democrats for full compensation after the GOP - led Congress authorized only $ 7 million in reimbursement in December.

The Tappan Zee replacement project is frequently touted by Cuomo as one of his signature achievements after it was stalled for decades and he frequently refers to movement on the project as a bipartisan effort.

But there's a glimmer of hope for bipartisan agreement in the U.S. Senate on legislation affecting programs at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and federal efforts to improve science and math education.

President Bill Clinton's science adviser Neal Lane immediately hailed the study as «a rigorous analytic review» that gives a green light to the program and called for bipartisan support for the effort.

As part of this effort, Dr. Bosarge contributed to the Bipartisan Policy Center's July 2015 report, Advancing Medical Innovation for a Healthier America.

Four years ago, bipartisan majorities in the California Legislature approved a landmark clean energy bill that many hoped would serve as a template for a national effort to reduce dependence on foreign oil and mitigate the threat of climate change.

Senator Lamar Alexander, the chairman of the committee responsible for education, will almost certainly play a leading role, as he did in the successful bipartisan effort to reauthorize the major K - 12 education law in 2015.

Beyond a sentence reminding the joint session of Congress of the bipartisan effort that produced the «No Child Left Behind» Act of 2001, the president's Jan. 28 speech visited the subject just once more to outline a new proposal to train mentors for disadvantaged junior high school students and the children of prisoners.

My point is not that other policies are therefore unimportant, but rather that the policies mentioned here have broad support, have moderate to strong research evidence of positive effects (except for the case of nonurban charters, which have strong evidence of neutral to negative effects), and could therefore be a prime target for ongoing bipartisan policy efforts.

This means that the next president and congress (as well as governors and state legislatures) have the opportunity to use education for bipartisan policy efforts that will unify, rather than fracture, diverse groups.

Currently, Digital Promise (an independent, bipartisan, nonprofit organization originally authorized by Congress in 2008) is spearheading a national effort to develop what it calls an «ecosystem» of microcredentials or digital badges for educators, all of them competency - based, on demand, personalized, and easily displayed on one's web site or CV.

Of particular note are their efforts to build bipartisan support for prevention, particularly in the realm of juvenile justice policy.

You have folks such as Jeanne Allen of the Center for Education Reform, Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute, and once - respectable education historian Diane Ravitch asking some hard and (and with the exception of Ravitch) honest questions about how the standards will be implemented and whether the bipartisan politics driving the standards effort will hold.

The House last week passed the first of a series of bills Mr. Kline has introduced in an effort to rewrite the No Child law, but there has been no prospect for bipartisan consensus on a full rewrite in the House or the Senate.

Much of that work may be in vain if Common Core's supporters can't convince the public that the standards weren't a conspiracy by a few nefarious powerbrokers, but rather a sincere — and bipartisan — effort to raise expectations for American students.

Given that it will take a bipartisan effort to advance reform at all levels of government, they can't simply stay silent while the president weakens the conditions for overhauling American public education.

About The National Commission on Teaching & America's Future (NCTAF) The National Commission on Teaching & America's Future (NCTAF) is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 1994 as a bipartisan effort to engage education policymakers and practitioners to address the entrenched national challenge of recruiting, developing, and retaining great teachers in order to ensure that all students have access to quality teaching in schools organized for success.

A bipartisan coalition of 27 governors has joined the effort, saying they see teaching coding and programming as a way to draw middle - class jobs to their states, and dozens of school system superintendents and nonprofit leaders say they see computer science courses as essential for giving children the skills they'll need to be successful in the modern economy.

(District of Columbia) In an effort to increase economic and educational opportunities for Native American youth, federal officials are looking to unify resources available to often underserved communities with bipartisan support.

The National Commission on Teaching & America's Future (NCTAF) is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 1994 as a bipartisan effort to engage education policymakers and practitioners to address the entrenched national challenge of recruiting, developing, and retaining great teachers in order to ensure that all students have access to quality teaching in schools organized for success.

Texans for Education Opportunity Founder and Chair Stacy Hock issued the following statement after the Texas Senate passed House Bill 21 in a bipartisan effort early this morning.

Indeed, this bipartisan education - and - poverty consensus has guided research and political efforts for decades.

Even as we work with states to offer flexibility from existing law, the Obama administration will support a bipartisan effort by Congress to create a law that supports a well - rounded education while holding schools, districts and states accountable for results.