Sentences with phrase «larger federal effort»

The White House recently announced plans to set aside a «highway» of conserved habitat between Texas and Minnesota that will aid embattled monarch butterflies on their annual migrations, part of a larger federal effort to protect crop pollinators.

Not exact matches

The main man in this regard was Mr. Paul Boothe, an unassuming, consummate federal civil servant who proved in the heat of battle that he could negotiate with the best of them. If only all our public officials were as determined and skilful in their efforts to pro-actively win real investment and real opportunities for our industries. The St. Catharines announcement is in large part the fruition of the efforts by Boothe (and all the other stakeholders in last year's rescue, including the provincial government and the CAW) to negotiate a package that was much more than a bailout. Rather, it was a recipe for a reaffirmed Canadian presence by these two lynchpin manufacturers (GM and Chrysler).

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is only part of a large team that continues to bring resources to as - sist a community in its response and recovery efforts.

But investing in large - scale public works efforts has largely fizzled on the federal level.

Cuomo returned to hurricane - crippled Puerto Rico Saturday to tour the island's recovery efforts, and he's calling on the federal government to swiftly pass a large aid package.

«He was instrumental in redesigning New York's Medicaid system to lower costs and help more residents, was invaluable with our efforts to secure the Medicaid waiver from the Obama administration that allowed the largest healthcare system transformation in the nation to continue, and greatly helped in our efforts to defeat punitive Republican federal legislation that would have devastated New York's healthcare network.

On the efforts by the President Muhammadu Buharu administration to improve electricity in Nigeria, Fashola said «Federal government is implementing off - grid renewable energy solutions such as rural mini-grids, standalone home solutions, IPP for Federal Universities, Teaching Hospitals and large - scale solar PV projects such as the Jigawa solar city.

The net result would be a federal R&D portfolio in the 21st century that would look significantly different from today: defense R&D would be less than half the total portfolio for the first time since before World War II, while the NIH's R&D effort would be almost as large as those of all other nondefense R&D funding agencies combined.

Like every government agency, NASA faces sharp cutbacks as part of the larger effort to tame the federal deficit; this was underscored in July, when the House Appropriations Committee stripped funding for the high - priority (and over-budget) James Webb Space Telescope.

Biomedical research productivity perhaps has fallen because after receiving a large infusion of federal funding in the past decade it may take time for new or expanded research efforts to become efficient.

Its lean budget — $ 1 million per year over the next 5 years — will likely preclude large - scale studies, but backers hope it will demonstrate the value of publicly funded gun research and perhaps help build support in Congress for a similar federal effort.

With the largest single pool of federal education dollars in history flowing to states and school districts, education - related companies have been looking to gain a share of the cash, marketing themselves as uniquely equipped to help with improvement efforts.

The good news is that, in large part because of NCLB and the accountability measures that federal law has encouraged at all levels of school reform — not to mention the dogged efforts of Diane Ravitch and Sol Stern to keep Bloomberg and Klein on their toes — these arguments are smarter and more refined — and, yes, despite public relations — more transparent.

The intense debate around teacher evaluation has been fueled in recent years by the federal government's efforts to spur the creation of more sophisticated evaluation systems at the state level, in large part through incentives embedded in the Race to the Top grant competition and No Child Left Behind waiver process.

By giving parents «private accounts» to spend on digital learning, tutoring, and the like, it could weaken schools» larger improvement efforts, which are mostly funded by these federal dollars.

The latest example: Michael Fletcher, writing for the Washington Post on Tuesday, who misleads his readers with the following: «The $ 4.35 billion effort was enacted last year as part of the $ 787 billion economic stimulus plan, marking one of the largest federal expenditures ever on the nation's public schools.»

To discern the larger contours of the legal climate facing schools, we analyzed all appellate - level federal and state court cases in which school efforts to discipline and control students have been challenged.

As education leaders who have implemented successful education reforms around the country, we believe that Title II - A, the largest Federal resource dedicated specifically for the development of teachers and school leaders, is vital to our efforts.

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...

«The good news, however, is that, spurred in large part by President Obama's Race to the Top federal education grant contest and supported by a burgeoning network of reformers, more efforts like Pittsburgh's are now underway.»

This occurred in large part due to Sanders's (and others») lobbying efforts when the federal government ultimately choose to incentivize and de facto require that all states hold their teachers accountable for their value - added, or lack thereof, while attaching high - stakes consequences (e.g., teacher termination) to teachers» value - added estimates.

Though his ruling was about Connecticut, he spoke to a larger nationwide truth: After the decades of lawsuits about equity and adequacy in education financing, after federal efforts like No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, after fights over the Common Core standards and high - stakes testing and the tug of war between charter schools and community schools, the stubborn achievement gaps between rich and poor, minority and white students persist.

The bigger problem with expanding federal funding and reach on preschool is that the evidence is preschool has few if any lasting benefits, at least that have been rigorously documented for any large, modern efforts.

Instead, due in large part to the efforts of Noelle, Sasha and Leslie, congress did not act to pass this proposal, but acted put dollars back into the important federal programs providing services to children.

These findings are important as they document large improvements in the joint productivity of teachers in low - performing schools, a finding which is out of step with current federal efforts to improve schools that implicitly assume teacher productivity is essentially fixed over time.

Its Title I section, the largest single source of federal funding for public schools (some $ 15 billion to $ 16 billion annually), provides for the newly named School Improvement Funds program, which (along with other parts of Title I) can be tapped for school leadership efforts.

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 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.

As a support to their clients» efforts to meet the requirements of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's (FDIC) Large Bank Pricing Rule, specifically in the subprime loan reporting that will start effective Oct 1, 2011, Experian is creating a complete product to be made available to its banking clients.

These efforts generated a tremendous amount of national publicity, the closing of numerous puppy mills, probes by the federal government's General Accounting Office and the Office of Inspector General, and the closing of the nation's largest pet store chain, «Docktors Pet Center».

«Two conservation groups are urging federal regulators to slow down on approval of what would be the nation's largest wind farm until more efforts are made to mitigate the impact on eagles.

The endangered Steller sea lions, while still victims from large - scale, intensive trawl fishing, are no longer victim to a hostile effort from Stevens to suspend federal environmental laws for the sake of industrial fishing special interests.

Since a large body of evidence links pollution with poor health, and health is an important part of human capital, efforts to reduce pollution could plausibly be viewed as an investment in human capital and thus a tool for promoting economic growth... We find robust evidence that ozone levels well below federal air quality standards have a significant impact on productivity: a 10 ppb decrease in ozone concentrations increases worker productivity by 4.2 percent.

For many years now, law school career services offices have focused their efforts on three primary activities: (1) assisting top students as they navigate the OCI / large - firm recruiting process, (2) assisting the same top students as they also navigate the federal and appellate clerkship recruiting process, and (3) assisting everyone else as they apply to job openings in small and medium firms and corporate, non-profit, and government law offices.

The organization OpenTheGovernment.org has launched a blog, Evaluating Open Gov, as part of its larger effort to track and evaluate the federal government's progress towards fulfilling President Obama's commitment to «creating an unprecedented level of openness in government.»

A pretty large volume of the entire U.S. Court of Appeals docket involves sentencing decisions where guilt is not disputed, and surely panel sentencing in cases with potentially long sentences would reduce that and might even be money saving for the federal judicial branch as a whole despite the extra effort invested at the trial court level, in addition to furthering justice by balancing out extreme stances.

The latest moves by Google and Facebook - two of world's largest internet and advertising platforms - are also in line with U.S. regulators» effort at both state and federal levels in cracking down ICOs that appear dubious in the government's view.

SUMMARY: Mr. Bobb has extensive knowledge of proposal development experience with a track record of successfully writing and managing proposal efforts from inception to completion for large federal government bids.

Getting help with federal job search is well worth the effort for military spouses — in large part due to a 2008 presidential directive known as Executive Order 13473 and the programs it enables.

The purpose of this paper is to review the evidence base for three widely - used home visiting programs that have met the federal criteria for evidence - based to highlight the limits to both the internal and external validity of the evidence and to provide a case study as a point of comparison using data from a large, statewide implementation effort.

The legislature in Washington directed the state to raise eligibility under the program from 200 % to 250 % of the federal poverty level, reversing an earlier attempt by the state agency, as part of a larger effort to cut state expenditures, to discontinue its existing Medicaid family planning expansion.

Federal programs created to help owners stay in their home have depended on the efforts of large financial institutions to assist consumers and have fallen far short of ambitious but achievable goals.

After large numbers of homeowners lost their homes to foreclosure, the federal government launched efforts to make fixed - rate mortgages available, says Susan Wachter, the Sussman professor of real estate and finance at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

But for the lobbying efforts by the largest trade organization in the country, federal banks have been kept out of real estate and private property owners have been saved from transfer taxes and been able to keep their mortgage interest deduction.