Sentences with phrase «much federal attention»

He does so in front of school kids and that's a clue: Primary education is a provincial responsibility, but it was symbolic of where much federal attention is focused these days, on funding matters in, or of relevance to the provinces.

Not exact matches

Can you imagine what the impact would be if the movement to bring sanity to federal regulations got as much attention in the media as the movement to boost the federal minimum wage to $ 15.

They make up a third of the nation's cash crop receipts — 50 percent of receipts if floriculture and greenhouse plant sales are counted — and, until now, they haven't drawn much federal money or attention.

Case in point: a petition on the NAACP site urging the U.S. Justice Department to file federal civil rights charges against Zimmerman attracted so much attention that their servers...

The jury in the Joe Percoco federal corruption trial resumes its work today, after appearing to focus much of its attention last Friday on the low - show job given to Percoco's wife, Lisa, by a Maryland - based energy company, Competitive Power Ventures, which is behind a controversial new power plant in Orange County.

Case in point: a petition on the NAACP site urging the U.S. Justice Department to file federal civil rights charges against Zimmerman attracted so much attention that their servers couldn't handle it:

He also said federal officials aren't doing enough to help western and upstate New York and that too much attention has been showered on the downstate region.

The 2012 presidential race has garnered so much attention that it's easy to forget about the other state and federal candidates on the ballot this November.

«PANDEF was formed to draw the attention of the federal government to the fact that the region is very much undeveloped.»

While Parkland's student activists have received much attention, family members of victims of a school shooting their have successfully pushed for changes at both the state and federal levels.

The third is the topic getting much attention of late: the administration's interpretation of the federal law's longstanding «supplement, not supplant» language.

A serious transmission process for innovation requires much more attention to rewarding districts that serve as alpha sites (starting with philanthropic and federal research support), easing the transfer of new solutions from district hands to independent entities, and creating a culture where such a dynamic transmission belt is regarded as a good, healthy, and normal thing.

In the first five years of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, much attention has been focused on implementation issues — from how to manage the increasing number of schools and districts «in need of improvement» or in «corrective action,» to problems with testing programs, adequate - yearly - progress reporting, and the law's highly - qualified - teacher requirements.

The U.S. Department of Education and numerous other researchers have sought continually to assess the effectiveness of the federal role in education in terms of its impact on the academic achievement of the targeted populations, but much less attention has been given to the effectiveness of the funding approach.

The problem stems from parents» concern that their own children might be denied promotion or graduation based on a test score; from voters» confusion when their own upscale suburban schools are deemed to be failing by state or federal accountability systems even though most of the graduates do just fine; and from frustration when parents — often prompted by teachers — conclude that the basic - skills testing regime yields too much «drill and kill,» too little flexibility, and insufficient attention to art, music, and other creative disciplines.

Much attention has been focused on assessment in higher education, with special focus on teacher preparation as a result of the federal Higher Education Act (Title II) and the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (Bales, 2006).

And if you haven't been paying much attention to what has been happening in federal education policy for the past decade, you may actually even buy into Petrilli's argument.

Career and technical education (CTE) initiatives are receiving much attention of late across the federal government, as policymakers and leaders look toward CTE programs as an alternative workforce development pipeline for the next generation of science, technology, engineering and math careers.

If you've heard a news commentator talk about the Federal Reserve Board raising or lowering interest rates, you may not have paid much attention unless you were about to buy a house or take out a loan.

I think it would, in fact, be quite interesting to know how much attention the Federal Court of Appeal pays to earlier decisions of the provincial court of appeal of a province from which it is hearing the case.

Claims against both federal and state governments require great attention to detail, as their statute of limitations is much shorter than in personal claims against individuals.

Although the media focuses much of its attention on violent crimes, state and federal prosecutors devote significant resources to fighting white collar crimes and fraud.

Though much attention has been focused on inter-jurisdictional struggle between the federal and provincial governments over regulation and environmental assessment, the company and governments have both failed to dispense their legal duties of obtaining consent from the proper title holders of the land.

While the review of these decisions are burdensome to federal district judges, they are also as important as other types of litigation that garner much greater attention.

The case of NASA v Nelson garnered much attention as a unanimous ruling from the Supreme Court found that the federal agency's background checks are appropriate and do not represent a violation of privacy.

I wasn't paying much attention to the «Job Hunting» series (because I have a «permanent» position with the federal government), but since I need to apply for the job I'm currently acting in, this posts is very useful to me!

I constantly have to pay attention to what I say as state laws vary so much in certain areas, TX, GA, CA, LA, PA and MO can have some wide swings, but laws of agency are pretty much uniform on a federal level.