Sentences with phrase «more federal pressure»

The only possible outcome of Secretary Duncan putting more federal pressure on the states to adopt the Common Core is stoke the fires of conservative backlash — and to lose many of the states that have already signed on.

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Though thick, lavishly illustrated Sunday papers became popular in the United States during the late 19th century as a form of weekend leisure, religious pressure to ban labour and trade on Sundays assured that Saturday papers remained the more popular weekend reading in Canada — something cemented by the passing of the federal Lord's Day Act in 1906.

Then «tapering» talk by the Federal Reserve caused U.S. bond yields to shoot up and draw back the capital that had earlier flowed into the emerging markets, putting more downward pressure on financial markets and currencies.

Also pressuring the U.S. currency was data showing the U.S. economy in March created the fewest jobs in six months, which might prompt the Federal Reserve to go more slowly on plans to raise interest rates.

Couple that rising pressure with hard - fought efforts to maintain compliance with the federal government's Affordable Care Act, and some employers have chosen to waive benefits, placing more responsibility onto their employees, who pay more both in premiums and out - of - pocket costs.

While I understand that the NDP must feel intense pressure to capture votes — including from people who have never taken a course from John Smithin — I often wish that the NDP would show a bit more policy leadership on the issue of the deficit and debt. I was particularly disappointed during the 2008 federal election campaign when Mr. Layton stated, unequivocally, that the NDP would not run a deficit in the following year if elected (even though it was clear that Canada was entering a recession).

The US Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is under pressure... More

Federal funding for fire departments looking to buy new equipment or train new firefighters is down, putting pressure on local departments to do more with less.

Recall that Cuomo faced a $ 4 billion hole this year, plus more pressure to lower state taxes in the wake of federal reforms.

De Blasio tried to break the ice with a handshake in the beginning of the more than mile - long march — which was intended to pressure the federal government to improve health - care funding for Puerto Rico.

Bellotti says his organization already has a mailing list of 350,000 names, which he'll use to pressure Congress to require federal agencies to provide more details about the studies they conduct — and to defund labs or programs engaging in what the group considers wasteful and unnecessary research.

U.S. has launched winners in the past Failures of high - profile government investments in clean energy technologies could give more weight to critics of federal intervention in the economy and Republican pressures to reduce federal spending.

Republicans seized control of the U.S. House of Representatives and significantly bolstered their majorities in the Senate in Tuesday's election, an outcome that will almost certainly mean an end to emergency education aid to states and will heighten pressure for a more limited federal role in K - 12 policy.

All of this has been complicated by reformers» habit of leaning heavily on federal pressure, first through the No Child Left Behind Act and more recently on the Obama administration's Race to the Top program, to force states and cities to move — even if that meant that policies were pushed forward while still half - baked.

Congressional Democrats reaped modest gains in last week's hard - fought elections, which some observers here say could step up pressure for a more centrist, bipartisan approach to federal education policy on Capitol Hill next year, regardless of which candidate ultimately wins the White House.

More specifically, he charged that, under federal duress, states were pressuring districts to avoid his program or to create guidelines that made its adoption less likely.

But at the same time, those numbers are tainted by some districts who, under pressure to meet federal standards, simply lowered the academic bar to help more students reach it.

In the short run, increasing federal spending and / or reducing taxes can promote more employment and output, but these policies also put upward pressure on the price level and interest rates.

The reason the federal government got involved in K — 12 education in the first place was that districts couldn't resist local pressures to give more of their funds to wealthier students.

«Applying more pressure on unions and local districts to finally implement a more effective teacher evaluation system is a wise move by Governor Cuomo, especially with nearly $ 1 billion in much - needed state aid and federal Race to the Top dollars now at stake.

As social pressures on cities mount and the Federal financing share of urban education drops (from 12 percent in 1980 to 9 percent today), many parents say their search for a trustworthy city school is growing more frantic.

When Congress considers overhauling its federal education law early this year, Smith and a bipartisan group of 84 other House members want to include language that would pressure schools to offer more PE: Their idea is to force school officials to issue yearly reports on how much time students engage in physical activity, making it easier for the public to compare schools.

Teachers might explain how mechanized cotton farming made production cheaper, causing farmers to abandon other crops and pressure the federal government for more land to use for growing.

More importantly from a public school perspective: the loss of the SALT deduction would apply significant pressure on states and municipalities to reduce taxes in order to offset the increases in federal taxes paid by their constituents.

Now, under pressure from the federal government to come up with a plan to spread highly qualified teachers more evenly throughout the system, DCPS is planning to sweeten the deal.

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Rising Global Equity Markets Pressure Dollar Overnight Stronger global equity markets are contributing to the weakness in the Dollar as traders are once again increasing demand for more risky assets after reassessing U.S. economic data and the odds of an interest rate increase by the Federal Reserve.

With the Federal Reserve apparently finally poised to raise interest rates, albeit haltingly, more upward pressure on interest rates generally may be expected.

Anything to put more pressure on the federal gov» t to enact real changes to reduce the impact of global climate change is a winner in my book.

More importantly, the Midwest, in forming their own coalition similar to those in the east and west, puts further pressure on the federal government to match the states» efforts to fight global warming and develop domestic clean technologies.

To counter criticism of the business community from college campuses, business organizations such as the Chamber of Commerce should support scholars who will defend the free enterprise system, develop speakers and support speakers» bureaus that will counter the liberal rhetoric coming from college campuses, subject textbooks to ideological review, insist on equal time for speakers exposing the views of the business community for speakers on campuses, insist that college faculties be balanced by those who will defend the free enterprise system, request that graduate schools of business include courses that support the free enterprise system, encourage local chambers of commerce to provide the views of the business community in high schools, establish staff who work with the media to communicate to the general public the views of the business community, monitor and criticize television programs that unfairly criticize the free enterprise system and where appropriate file complaints with the Federal Communications Commission, monitor radio and other media and pressure them to cover the views of defenders of the free enterprise system, support scholars who support the free enterprise system to publish in scholarly journals, establish incentives for scholars to publish defenses of free enterprise in books, papers, and pamphlets, spend more money on advertising that expressly supports the free market system.

«Responding to pressure from Congress and others for greater consistency, the conference — the policy - making arm of the federal judiciary — enacted new rules that spell how and when complaints against judges must be investigated and made public,» Mauro writes, promising more details to come.

In 2012, federal civil case filings fell by 3.7 percent, and anecdotally we saw more cases settle and more pressure to trim costs.

FICALA would put MDLs back on the right track towards being a means of making the management of federal civil cases more efficient, rather than a tool used by trial attorneys to extract massive, pressured settlements from defendants.

Washington, DC, Public Finance partner Mitch Rapaport is quoted throughout this piece on the Government Finance Officers Association's efforts to galvanize public officials to pressure federal banking regulators into more permissive rules on municipal securities.

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One supporting argument for this point of view is that the new administration's call for sizable tax cuts and greater government spending will pressure the Federal Reserve to normalize interest rates more quickly than it would ordinarily due to heightened inflationary pressures and concerns that the labor market could become too tight.

The misdirected response of the federal government, making it harder to buy a home, allowed inventories to rise sharply, putting further downward pressure on values, thereby causing more foreclosures.