Sentences with phrase «more state flexibility»

The education platform of his 2016 presidential campaign reflected his state focus, calling for more state flexibility in designing their own accountability systems.

Kline has also moved a bill out of committee that would slash half of NCLB's federal education programs and another one that would give more states flexibility over spending federal education funds intended to serve disadvantaged students.

Not exact matches

The emergency declaration would also free up public health emergency funds at the Department of Health and Human Services, and grant individual states more flexibility in how they use federal dollars, and allow them to direct more funds toward addiction treatment and prevention.

Along with work requirements, the agencies are instructed to follow nine «Principles of Economic Mobility» to guide their proposed changes, including giving states more flexibility, encouraging private sector involvement, and promoting marriage as a means to escape poverty.

I like work flexibility because it will allow me to see more of my family that lives in another state, as well as be available more for my dad who is going to be 82 this year.

«The launch of this third forex market has the potential to give the system some flexibility and the capacity for a more efficient allocation of resources,» Barclays stated in a research note.

About three thousand students are already benefiting from the latest wrinkle in five states, «education savings accounts,» which provide even more flexibility to families by allowing those who withdraw their children from public schools to receive a deposit of public funds into government - authorized savings accounts that can be used to pay for private school tuition, online learning programs, private tutoring, educational therapies, or college costs.

«USDA has continued to show flexibility in implementing these new standards, and Congress should focus on partnering with USDA, states, schools, and parents to help our kids have access to more healthy food, not less.»

They were designed to allow flexibility for state associations that collectively oversee the more than 15,000 high schools across the country that have football programs.

The marathon 20 hours of wheeling and dealing behind closed doors produced votes to approve a last - minute ethics bill, a mandate to test school drinking water supplies for lead, money for SUNY and CUNY, more money and operating flexibility for charter schools, $ 570 million for «supportive housing» for the homeless, and continued state control of the New York Racing Association until October 2017.

However, there are moves by the EU to give member states more flexibility on VAT.

But while the move may offer more flexibility by transferring funds without the OK from lawmakers, other state officials say it brings down openness in government.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in an interview on Sunday called his effort to gain more «flexibility» over the budget after its approval a «major sticking point» with lawmakers, but a necessary move given the potential for federal actions that could negatively impact the state.

He says he's taking that step to give state agencies more flexibility in responding to issues related to the flooding which has impacted homeowners and businesses near the lake.

New York education leaders urged government officials to build more flexibility into the state's new «free tuition» program, which launched this summer and is currently serving more than 23,000 public college students statewide.

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Cuomo's budget director, Robert Megna, rebuts DiNapoli's charges, saying the governor needs more «flexibility» in the budget to improve efficiencies for things like procurement, and the consolidation of information technology among state agencies.

Here's perhaps the best proof of the flexibility the governor has in state spending: for all the uproar among gun rights advocates over the SAFE Act ammunition database, no one has ever identified a provision of the budget which funds the state's separate rifle registration system, which had tallied more than 44,000 records by 2015 without ever once being mentioned in the governor's budget requests.

Proposed changes, which will come into focus during the upcoming legislative session, include amending or altogether repealing a 2011 statute that provided SUNY more flexibility by eliminating the need for pre-approval from the state comptroller for all SUNY procurements (excluding non-construction service purchases totaling more than $ 250,000)-- a measure lawmakers reauthorized in April through 2021.

It sparked a national conversation on giving states more flexibility in education policy.

So the key here is to create more flexibility, more ability for states to design programs, and also to have more flexibility in terms of the insurance law.»

«New York's medical marijuana has made the state more economically competitive and has ushered in a new era of compassionate care by giving patients and families suffering from debilitating illness greater flexibility and choices to get the life - sustaining medical care they need,» she said in a statement.

It also gives more flexibility to the State Liquor Authority in issuing permits.

• Voters appeared ready to approve a referendum that would allow the state to create a 250 - acre land bank in the Adirondacks and the Catskills while giving local communities more flexibility in making infrastructure improvements.

Central New York state legislators have introduced a bill that would give the state Department of Environmental Conservation more flexibility with issuing deer control permits.

Computer science researchers at North Carolina State University and Universidade de Lisboa have developed a tool for use with the game Skyrim that can be used to create nonplayer characters (NPCs) that allow for more variability and flexibility in game play.

The State Department recently relaxed deadlines for student visas, giving holders more flexibility about when they apply and when they may arrive in the U.S..

Since cost per student (not price, which is passed on as tuition) is roughly the same at public and private colleges, she also proposes that a greater proportion of state money for higher education should go directly to students, giving them more flexibility.9

Waiver: Comprehensive flexibility that the U.S. Department of Education has granted to more than 40 states and the District of Columbia from key requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act (the current version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act) in exchange for embracing certain Obama administration education - redesign priorities on teachers, testing, standards, and school turnarounds.

But later he emphasizes the importance of giving «states more flexibility.»

The proposal would also convert Medicaid, the health program for the poor, into a series of block grants to give states more flexibility.

The Every Student Succeeds Act pushes states to move beyond test scores in gauging school performance and gives them all sorts of new flexibility when it comes to funding, turning around low - performing schools, and more.

As Congress wrestles with reauthorizing the 5 1/2 - year - old No Child Left Behind Act, some disability - rights advocates fear high standards for students with disabilities could be sacrificed as states seek more flexibility in the law.

Moreover, states and local districts ought to be given more flexibility in deciding how to spend federal funds designated for technical assistance.

Along with other major changes to state - funded education, the new legislation gave public schools more flexibility in offering single - sex programs.

States now have more flexibility than at any time since 2001 to develop accountability systems.

If states shrewdly take advantage of ESSA's flexibility, there's a real chance that they can create accountability systems that more fully and fairly assess schools.

It would require state accountability systems to designate schools and districts based on their performance against these targets (so there would be a bit more flexibility than NCLB or waivers).

In addition, the law block - granted several state and local funding streams, giving the board much more flexibility to fund its initiatives.

Talking with the governors about NCLB waivers earlier this week, he stated that «if you're willing to set, higher, more honest standards then we will give you more flexibility to meet those standards.»

Although the waivers provided more flexibility, states still had to develop an array of targets; identify (federally defined) priority, focus, and reward schools; and follow a prescribed set of interventions.

If this path of breakthrough is selected, the system evolves to a state in which it has a processing capacity of intensified information and more efficient use of free energy as well as more flexibility, greater structural complexity and additional levels of organization».

The Chancellor has stated the intention of these plans is to give individuals more flexibility and trusting them to make their own decisions with their pension savings.

Republican presidetial hopeful Elizabeth Hanford Dole last week outlined her vision for reshaping federal education policy, calling for significantly more flexibility for states and school districts.

Jason Pater, a real estate manager for National Heritage Academies, which operates a network of charter schools in five states, noted that charters have more flexibility to use different construction methods.

That's because its decision to condition ESEA flexibility on state adoption of teacher evaluation systems has not only raised the stakes of reading and math tests (making them less popular and potentially more damaging to the educational enterprise).

It would eliminate many «set - asides» for special populations, giving more flexibility to states and school districts.

The legislature passed several school - related resolutions, including one urging the state department of education to implement a pilot project that could offer more flexibility to a group schools in Hawaii's statewide school district.

[12] State education officials may have modestly more flexibility in some areas, but the federal government continues to set the agenda.

Instead of arguing whether charter schools should be included in No Child Left Behind, a more fruitful question is how to ensure that state accountability schemes allow enough flexibility for boutique programs within the public system while not opening up loopholes that low - quality schools can slip through.