Sentences with phrase «individual state level»

We've included some key data highlighting how dropout and graduation rates compare nationally as well as on an individual state level.

On an individual state level, funding for pre-kindergarten programs increased by 6.9 % from 2012 - 2013, and a number of states have created new early childhood education agencies.

Although it is the spending category with the second - largest overall expansion nationwide in recent decades, K — 12 education spending at the individual state level is not related to declines in higher - education support.

Assemblyman Phil Steck noted that most industrialized nations provided some degree of socialized health care, though the panel noted the challenge of setting up a plan at the individual state level.

Not exact matches

Of course, marijuana remains very much illegal on the federal level, though the Obama Administration has typically allowed individual states to freely regulate the drug in accordance with voters» wishes.

Senator Cory Booker introduced a new bill on Tuesday that would legalize marijuana at the federal level while encouraging individual states to change their marijuana laws, or else be deprived of federal funds.

Proponents of the deduction counter that the portion of an individual's income claimed by state and local taxes is not really disposable income, and that taxing it at the federal level is double taxation.

The panel is based on credit report data collected by Equifax (one of the three credit bureaus in the United States) and it contains information on all outstanding loans — including mortgages, auto and student loans, and credit card debt — at the individual consumer level.

Individuals had experienced «financial ruin» because of the aggressive collection tactics utilized to levels which far exceeded usual methods seen in other states.

In an interview with the Post, Sir Ronald Sanders, Antigua and Barbuda's Ambassador Extraordinary to the United States, said Xiao was granted special diplomatic status because of his - «contacts with high level and high net - worth individuals who could benefit our nation's economy».

But given that the tax bill severely curtails the state and local deduction for most if not all individuals, many more taxpayers could take advantage of state - level initiatives that essentially reclassify state and local tax payments as federal charitable contributions.

Big, national employers are currently subject to only one set of health insurance regulations (federal), while small firms» plans are regulated at both the federal and state level (this is one of many reasons why individual and small group plans are so much more expensive than corporate plans).

The essence of it is that we are shifting from our current limited state, to a higher vibration and level of consciousness — a more spiritually evolved state, free from many of the individual and collective problems of our present existence.

There is another important aspect of «eye for an eye» that is often overlooked: in the Bible, the law prescribes that the punishment be leveled against the offending individual by the state.

Moreover, in keeping with the Church's teachings on subsidiarity, free will and real love, it seems most if not all the issues raised in the letter questioning Speaker Boehner's faith would be more efficient, effective, just and respectful of human dignity if they were left to the individual, family, community or state level.

Not convincing» which is funny circular argument because you state that everyone of that age «average education level of individuals is higher now than in the dark ages» so by your standard nothing of that age can be verified?

Since each body — individual, congregation, state, and national — remains autonomous, decisions regarding the appropriate amount of giving are made at each level.

It has become very difficult, in the world's present state of upheaval and distraction, to form any idea of the significance of what is going on except, by rising above the individual level.

Even if one concedes personhood to a pre-viable embryo / fetus, there remains the question of what level of state control a society is willing to grant over an individual's bodily autonomy.

Additional Accountability Requirements: The Statewide School Wellness Policy (2005) adopted by the State Board of Education requires school districts to report annually to the state on the implementation of their local wellness policies at the district and individual school lState Board of Education requires school districts to report annually to the state on the implementation of their local wellness policies at the district and individual school lstate on the implementation of their local wellness policies at the district and individual school level.

With the generous support of the Walmart Foundation, the newest phase of Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom shifts our focus from direct implementation in individual schools to a state - level expansion; this expansion will allow us to work in partnership with local organizations to provide district - and school - level technical assistance and support for start - up breakfast - in - the - classroom programs.

It is my personal belief that there should be at least a level playing field between the printed media and the online media but if we are not careful even «personal» correspondence between individuals on Google and Facebook will be legislated against and all social media data become the property of the state.

The ease of online self - publishing has created a whole new class of «network influentials,» a category that includes national and state - level bloggers, prominent Twitter voices, individual activists with large personal networks and the administrators of sizable email lists.

And even if the result is proportional in the state level, the results in individual districts would probably not be.

Therefore, global security and the security of any state or culture need to be achieved through good governance at all levels that guarantees justice for all individuals, states, and cultures».

Global security, instead, has five dimensions that include human, environmental, national, transnational, and transcultural security, and, therefore, global security and the security of any state or culture can not be achieved without good governance at all levels that guarantees security through justice for all individuals, states, and cultures.»

She legislated to abolish the power of the Parliament of the United Kingdom to legislate for individual Australian states, to end the British Government's consultative role in Australian state - level affairs, and to deprive the Queen's Australian subjects of their right of appeal to Her Majesty in Council.

Many plywood factories in Oregon, and many parts of the agricultural industry in the United States above the individual farm level, are similarly organized on a cooperative basis.

The ease of online self - publishing has created a whole new class of «network influentials,» a category that includes national and state - level bloggers, prominent Twitterers, individual activists with large personal networks and the administrators of sizable email lists — basically, anyone with a following.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who closed the event, focused not so much on individual ideas presented on the stage, but on the nuts - and - bolts importance of winning elections at the state and local level.

By summing up the behavior of the individual voters, we can then see how these numbers affect behavior at the state level.

While the documents obtained by City & State do not quantify or rank the Commission's relative level of interest in the subjects of its inquiry, several legislators stand out based upon the number of entries pertaining to each individual lawmaker and their descriptions.

Not just New Labour's overwhelming desire to amass all sorts of information about the individual and New Labour's managerial model of how to govern but also, in particular, a steady shift away from «justice» and towards «control»: towards the arbitrary, unconstrained use of power through the regular invocation of states of exception (terror legislation and Iceland is in this category); the creation of catch - all legislation whose operational interpretation is at the whim of the police (photography, questioning individual police officers); government attempts to constrain the judiciary through tick - the - box sentencing guidelines, and at an individual level examples such as David Milliband's quite disgraceful prevarication over torture allegations.

Pending her confirmation by the New York State Senate, Ms. Crossdale will serve as Acting Director, where she will lead NYSOFAs efforts to improve access to cost - effective non-medical support services for older individuals to maximize their ability to age in their community and avoid higher levels of publicly - financed care.

Howard Zemsky is another individual locally with a tremendous amount of power and he's donated a lot of money to politicians locally and at the state level.

The report focuses on families and individuals caught in the gap between the federal poverty level and the actual cost of living in New York State and Ulster County.

If you say «No, they'd still have to follow the laws of the individual states,» then you'd have a patchwork of state level operations, which is what exists now.

David Weprin: Well, clearly when you're dealing with an opponent that is not part of the system, who has unlimited funds, as the recent election we just went through with the mayor of the city of New York, I would remove the individual cap on contributions for donors and go to a much higher cap similar to the one that's at the state level for the governor of the state of New York.

Those are individuals representing the state federally, not at the state level of legislation.

Third, individuals that supported the losing candidate will feel more socially integrated at the local level in states where a plurality also supported the losing candidate compared to individuals in states that supported the winning candidate.

Under the Secure Communities plan, when a local law enforcement agency makes an arrest and submits fingerprints to the State Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) to conduct a State criminal history check and to the FBI for a nationwide check, an expanded integrated records check is conducted at the Federal level that includes both criminal history and immigration status of the arrested individual.

The problem of figuring out how to localize income from intangibles, which was mostly dividend income until recently, is one of the important reasons that it has been hard for the United States to come up with a corporate tax system that integrates corporate level taxation and individual level taxation on dividends.

Of the 12 individuals who donated to New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany, a PAC controlled by StudentsFirstNY, seven gave $ 1.28 million to state - level parties in candidates in 2014.

She added that there is also more than can be done on the state level such as keeping guns away from individuals who are dangerous to themselves and others.

The BOE issued a ruling that allowed limited liability corporations, or LLCs, to be treated as individual donors and individuals to donate unlimited funds to candidates for state - level offices by creating multiple LLCs.

Mujica said Cuomo's budget amendments would also «decouple» the state tax code from the federal tax code to, among other things, allow individuals who do not itemize deductions at the federal level to do so on their state returns.

Because of this, donors who max out to an individual candidate often write larger checks to that candidate's party, though this typically involves state - level party committees.

This legislation will put New York firms on a level playing field so talented individuals in New York have the same opportunities they would in neighboring states.

There have only been a couple of dozen instances since 1999 in which state - level candidates have received donations from more individuals in a six - month filing period than Cynthia Nixon did in just 24 hours.

I don't believe in Libertarian principles, but he is an intelligent, persuasive and likeable individual that I believe would be an excellent representative at the state level.