Sentences with phrase «larger federal role»

A larger federal role would help with teacher quality, funding for instructional interventions and other worthy initiatives.

Congressional Panel Calls for Larger Federal Role in Directing Schools A white paper released Tuesday on improving educational competitiveness and closing the achievement gap called for a significantly larger federal role in the management of the nation's public school system.

The Battle Over Common Core Math Standards: Will A Larger Federal Role Help or Hinder Curriculum Improvement?

The larger federal role of the mid twentieth century was really an aberration brought about by the demands of global war.

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In the absence of a federal policy for paid sick leave, it is remarkable that a large Fortune 500 company like Microsoft is now performing the role of setting employment policy for other businesses.

U.S. employment data are a key metric for investors as they play a large role in the Federal Reserve's monetary policy decision making.

These two budgets propose different roles for the federal government with the C.D Howe Institute favouring a smaller role and the CCPA favouring a larger role for the federal government.

In January, the company promoted Schindler to president of U.S. and Canada for CGI Group, giving him a larger role overseeing CGI Federal within the parent company.

For while the newfangled Federal Reserve System is no less capable of mischief than the old one was, it also has the Fed playing a far larger role than before in commandeering and allocating scarce credit.

While federal and provincial governments will continue to play an important role investing in infrastructure, they simply do not have the resources to meet the demand — pegged at somewhere in the neighbourhood of $ 500 - billion — without a large increase in tax revenues or drastic cuts to social programs.

Federal authorities are now taking a larger role in the overall security of the pope during his time in Brazil.

Also Dickson community to community meet the people tour may turn out to be the game changer for the ruling party as the tour afforded the governor the opportunity to interface with the communities in all the nooks and crannies of the council to sell his agenda to the locals The APC may have captured power at the federal level but the PDP remains a formidable party in the state where money, to a large extent, plays a major role in swaying the vote.

Many have felt the federal government is too large and does not have a proper role doing many of the things it currently does.

Attorneys for Chicago asked a federal judge for a nationwide halt to Trump administration requirements that cities enforce tough immigration laws in order to receive some federal grants, staking out a leadership role for the nation's third largest city in the fight over so - called sanctuary cities.

Outsiders, however, have frequently viewed these confines of the law as inherently debilitating and responsible for the large role federal prosecutors have taken in investigating New York politicians.

«As a company employing more than 15,000 people, and as the nation's 6th largest U.S. Small Business Administration lender, it's important for M&T Bank to maintain continuing dialogue with our local, state and federal government leaders to help them understand our vital role in creating jobs and economic growth in communities we serve.»

Litts sees the legislature's role as primarily fiscal, a challenge given the large amount of spending which is mandated by state and federal requirements.

However, federal policies can reach larger populations and fund programs that benefit populations at risk for obesity, and thus play an essential role in improving public health.

In the end, there's going to have to be a federal role larger than there is now.

Compared with 2015, the public prefers a smaller role in education for the federal government and a larger role for local governments in three policy areas: setting standards, identifying failing schools, and fixing failing school.

When we asked this question in our 2015 EdNext poll, 41 percent of the public thought the federal government should play the largest role in setting standards — which means we saw a 5 percentage - point drop from 2015 to 2017.

When it comes to setting educational standards, only 36 percent of the general public think the federal government — as opposed to state or local governments — should play the largest role in these decisions.

This has led to a range of proposals for dramatic changes in how we finance and govern higher education, which is an area where the federal government does play a large role through Pell grants and student loans.

Only 18 % of respondents say that the federal government should play the largest role in identifying failing schools, and 20 % say it should do so when it comes to fixing them.

In urban centers and areas where poverty is high, public schools have taken a larger role in educating pre-k students thanks to a mix of local, state, and federal funding.

The bill «unfortunately continues to propagate the large and ever - growing role of the federal government in our education system — the same federal government that sold us failed top - down standards like Common Core,» Cruz, who didn't vote, said in a statement Wednesday.

And the changes were unpopular, helping generate a backlash against much of the reform playbook for the last few decades - as well as a strong federal role in education policy writ large.

The role is a paid position in which Fellows, in turn, share what they've learned with other teachers in their professional networks, contributing to a larger understanding of federal initiatives and gaining broader input into policy and programs designed to improve education at all levels.

Despite a modest % of total K - 12 spending, the federal role, and Obama's readiness to overextend it, drives a much larger share of the discussion.

«States and the federal government have a role in changing the way districts support effective leadership in every school;» said Jean Desravines, CEO of New Leaders, Inc. «To scale and sustain school improvement, state and federal leaders must recognize the important role that districts play and promote and model large shifts in organizational culture and operations.»

Without a functional democracy, there can be no federal role in responding to voter demand, not only for a clean energy economy that is less dependent on fossil fuels, but also for clean air, water, large reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, and a robust federal climate change science program.

Additionally, the provincial and municipal governments across the country have a large role to play as they have been explicitly given authority by the federal government to fill in... [more]

Additionally, the provincial and municipal governments across the country have a large role to play as they have been explicitly given authority by the federal government to fill in some of the legislative holes (e.g. as the law will relate to retail and distribution) or to alter some of the existing baselines set out by the Cannabis Act (e.g. the minimum age for purchase and consumption).

First, a larger observational study using a similar model may help further clarify whether readability plays a different role in federal and state courts.

In the United States, the federal court plays a larger role in these types of cases.

After muscling its way to the top as the largest contributor to federal races last year, RPAC now faces a new challenge: playing a decisive role regarding the issues and races that will be critical to the real estate industry.

However, several centrist Republicans and a large number of Democrats insist that a federal role is necessary in order to preserve liquid markets for the 30 - year, fixed - rate mortgage.