Sentences with phrase «independent federal entity»
The 26 - member board is an independent federal entity that sets policy for the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP.
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Third, because of current federal and state law, the SEA must be involved in many activities, whereas independent charter authorizers and entities like Louisiana's RSD make the urban district expendable.
A serious transmission process for innovation requires much more attention to rewarding districts that serve as alpha sites (starting with philanthropic and federal research support), easing the transfer of new solutions from district hands to independent entities, and creating a culture where such a dynamic transmission belt is regarded as a good, healthy, and normal thing.
CEDA would be a new independent entity within DOE, with autonomy like the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has.
Peter Neufeld, co-founder of the Innocence Project, says such scandals are definitely more «observable» thanks to the passage of the Innocence Protection Act in 2004, which requires states that receive federal funding for DNA databanks to certify the existence of an independent entity to investigate labs against which serious allegations of misconduct or negligence have been raised.
(8) «Income» means any form of payment to an individual, regardless of source, including, but not limited to: wages, salary, commissions and bonuses, compensation as an independent contractor, worker's compensation, disability benefits, annuity and retirement benefits, pensions, dividends, interest, royalties, trusts, and any other payments, made by any person, private entity, federal or state government, or any unit of local government.
H.R. 2426 would require the GSA (and other non-military federal agencies with independent statutory leasing authority)-- prior to awarding any leasing contract for a high security government tenant — to identify each beneficial owner of a potential lessor and identify any beneficial owner who is a foreign person or entity.