Sentences with phrase «large federal departments»

Government Works supports large federal departments such as homeland security, department of defense, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services and others, in custom applications building and hosting.

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DHS consistently receives the largest number of FOIA requests of any federal department or agency, receiving almost 40 percent of all requests within the Federal Govefederal department or agency, receiving almost 40 percent of all requests within the Federal GoveFederal Government.

On behalf of the Department the Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR) collects an average of over $ 10 billion dollars in annual revenue — one of the Federal government's largest sources of non-tax revenue.

He's got a PhD in Economics from the University of Minnesota, he's a CFA charterholder, and he's worked at the Federal Reserve bank in Atlanta, and he currently works in the research department of a large investment manager here in San Francisco.

President Obama's nominee for Commerce secretary served as chairman of the board of a solar energy company that recently received a $ 1.37 billion federal loan guarantee — the largest the Department of Energy has ever given for a solar power project.

In April 2009, officials at the United States Department of Justice acknowledged that the NSA had engaged in large - scale overcollection of domestic communications in excess of the federal intelligence court's authority, but claimed that the acts were unintentional and had since been rectified.8

Dirschberger headed Erie County's largest department, with a staff of roughly 1,600 employees and annual spending of about $ 600 million in local, state and federal money.

The department also is collecting $ 715 million from Credit Suisse for cross-border banking violations, part of a larger settlement with state and federal authorities in May.

Department of Energy programs that employ one of the federal government's largest group of scientists and engineers would face a 17.9 % decrease in programs including those that seek to advance energy production and conservation.

Federal funders that have made significant investments include the National Science Foundation, through its Science of Learning Centers program, which offers awards for large - scale centers dedicated to the science of learning, and the Department of Education's Institute for Education Sciences, which funds neuroscience projects related to education.

December 9, 2013 • On Monday, federal prosecutors announced indictments against 18 current and former deputies of the L.A. Sheriff's department for corruption and civil rights abuses inside the nation's largest municipal jail system.

The $ 6 billion funding for the federal Reading First program has helped more students «crack the code» to identify letters and words, but it has not had an impact on reading comprehension among 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders in participating schools, according to one of the largest and most rigorous studies ever undertaken by the U.S. Department of Education.

The Education Department's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is a small federal agency with large ambitions.

To realize that goal, the commission urged the Department of Education to reduce its focus on monitoring a large number of postdiagnosis procedural requirements and instead concentrate on «a much smaller number of substantive measures guided by broad federal standards that focus on performance and results.»

The US Department of Education's decision to revisit the gainful employment regulations that would cut off federal aid to career training programs where students take on large debts relative to their income has been generally cheered by the right and criticized by the left.

Once past the long, agonizing upheaval of school desegregation, the states and their education departments by and large have bent to the federal will.

There is growing policy; fiscal and practical support for prosocial educational and school climate improvement efforts from federal agencies, state departments of education and large and small districts across America.

There is growing policy; fiscal and practical support for prosocial educational and school climate improvement efforts from federal agencies, state departments of education and large and small distri... Read More...

In fact, a growing number of Federal agencies (U.S. Departments of Education and Justice, CDC, SAMHSA and IES), state departments of education (Connecticut, Georgia, Minnesota and Massachusetts) and large and small districts (from Chicago to Westbrook, Connecticut) are developing school climate policies and / or laws that support students, parents / guardians, school personnel and even community members learning and working together to create safer, more supportive, engaging and flourishing K - Departments of Education and Justice, CDC, SAMHSA and IES), state departments of education (Connecticut, Georgia, Minnesota and Massachusetts) and large and small districts (from Chicago to Westbrook, Connecticut) are developing school climate policies and / or laws that support students, parents / guardians, school personnel and even community members learning and working together to create safer, more supportive, engaging and flourishing K - departments of education (Connecticut, Georgia, Minnesota and Massachusetts) and large and small districts (from Chicago to Westbrook, Connecticut) are developing school climate policies and / or laws that support students, parents / guardians, school personnel and even community members learning and working together to create safer, more supportive, engaging and flourishing K - 12 schools.

Leaders in the House and Senate education committees are holding oversight hearings with the U.S. Department of Education (USED), state and local leaders, and other stakeholders to discuss how states and districts will tackle adjustments to state accountability systems, educator support initiatives, and implementation of other programs now offered through the largest federal education law.

Mr. Taylor has overseen a large team at the California Department of Education of educational experts who calculated and reported various state and federal and alternative accountability systems.

Currently the money from both programs, the largest K - 12 initiatives in the Education Department, is awarded to states and districts based on federal formulas.

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.

As Education Week's Andrew Ujifusa recently observed, the proposed 2017 - 2018 cuts represent the largest proposed reduction to federal education spending «since President Ronald Reagan sought a 35.7 percent cut to the department in his proposed 1983 budget.»

On average, the federal government contributes about 10 percent to the total amount spent on public education, but these dollars account for a larger portion of many high - poverty districts» budgets.11 For example, Los Angeles Unified School District and Chicago Public Schools — both high - poverty districts — receive about 15 percent of their budgets from the Education Department.12 These dollars serve essential purposes, such as supplementing services for low - income students, defraying the cost of individualized education programs for students with disabilities, and compensating for a loss of property tax due to federally owned land.

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The federal government, which is administered by several agencies that include the Bureau of Land Management, the Bureau of Reclamation, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, the U.S. National Park Service, the Utah State Department of Wildlife Resources, the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and in some cases the Utah State Department of State Parks, owns approximately 64 percent of the state of Utah The Bureau of Land Management manages approximately 36 percent of the land, making it the largest single landowner in the state.

The money is coming from the largest source of federal funding for state, local, and tribal public safety activities and is one of several programs administered by the Department of Justice that support law enforcement operations and improve officer safety.

A former Obama administration appointee, she served as a communications director for the U.S. Department of Transportation's third - largest agency, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

«Earlier this week we were asked to provide information to U.S. Department of Education officials as part of a larger federal audit of e-rate technology grants,» the school official said in a statement.

The federal government has an ambitious goal of connecting 99 percent of America's students to high - speed broadband and wireless in their schools by 2018; at the state level, more than $ 2 billion has been allocated to support technology infrastructure improvement in schools (US Department of Education 2013; California Department of Education 2013, 2014, 2015).2 In spite of these investments, a large number of schools need significant infrastructure upgrades (Gao 2015).

State leaders dispute her assessment, but the argument hints at a larger issue: with a leader who is wired to think that less government is always better in charge of a department that has to implement federal policy, it makes little sense to complain when states take you up on your offer of less interference.

By waiving the high school diploma requirement for students taking dual and concurrent enrollment courses from colleges and universities that participate in the Department's experiment, low income students will be able to have early access to their Pell Grants, the largest federal program of student financial aid.

At the federal level, the Department of Education could promote the use of ESSA funding for expanded school schedules, encouraging high - poverty schools to use funds from Title I, Part A to pay for longer school days as part of a larger effort to boost student achievement.

The DOT CIO also has oversight responsibility over the entire Department of Transportation (DOT) IT portfolio of over $ 3 billion annually, the 6th largest in the federal government.

about U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Railroad Administration Eliminates One of the Nation's Largest Rail Chokepoints in Chicago

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) today announced the launch of its new safety - focused campaign, «Our Roads, Our Responsibility,» to raise public awareness about how to operate safely around large trucks and buses, or commercial motor vehicles (CMVs).

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), within the Department of Transportation (DOT), has been given the responsibility to reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities involving large trucks and buses.

The mission of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), an Operating Administration within the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), is to reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities involving large trucks and buses (motor coaches).

The Permitting Dashboard website, hosted and managed jointly by the Department's Office of Transportation Policy and Office of the Chief Information Officer, is one element of a larger, government - wide effort to streamline and increase transparency into the federal permitting and review process.

Specializing in managing companies subject to U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and its drug and alcohol testing regulations, DATCS has one of the largest Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) consortiums in Texas and Louisiana.

Apple senior vice president Eddy Cue offered only short answers in testimony Thursday in federal court when questioned by U.S. Justice Department prosecutors trying to solidify their case that Apple, along with five of the largest book publishers, worked together to illegally set the prices of electronic books for the market.

The largest federal student loan program, whereby the U.S. Department of Education is the lender.

The world's largest credit union, for example, Navy Federal Credit Union, will only allow members of the Department of Defense and U.S. Coast Guard to be members.

This is the largest federal student loan program under the U. S. Department of Education.

U.S. Education Department Profits from Student Loan Debt The Department of Education is turning in a large profit and forecasts making around $ 127 billion from federal student loan borrowers over -LSB-...]

Although the Department of Education is the largest issuer of federal student loans for borrowers in the United States, they do not often service the loans issued to individuals after funds are disbursed.

A case in point is the Treasury Department's press release touting its decision to permit «10 of the largest U.S. financial institutions» to begin repaying $ 68 billion in federal bailout money.

The federal government, through the Department of Education (DOE), is perhaps the largest student loan creditor, with nearly $ 855 billion in outstanding direct loans in the first quarter of 2016.

Recently, the U.S. Department of Education has been in the process of transferring large numbers of federal student loans to new loan servicing companies and in so doing, they may have confused many borrowers who have suddenly encountered issues with their loans such as payments that are adjusted up or down for no apparent reason.