Sentences with phrase «national priority»

Making a connection between your work, the work of others, and technical matters of national priority is another example of sound scientific politics.

It would start with setting national priorities for transparency on measures that matter (like student growth and college - readiness) and add in a strong federal role in research and innovation.

We'll focus both on neighborhood issues like transportation and development, as well as national priorities that affect our community, such as immigration rights.

The report makes 10 key recommendations to be implemented as a matter of top national priority.

Scientific collaboration offers significant opportunities to advance biological science to address these and other national priorities and discuss shared principles and standards of practice to minimize risks associated with the research.

Fortunately, biomedical research seems placed as a uniquely high national priority, and given apparently partial immunity from these spending limits.

Such extensive government efforts and penalties, one would think, could only be allocated to a most critical national priority.

And federal government leadership matters in identifying national priorities and promoting equal access to educational opportunities for all students.

Among its recommendations: expand early education, improve teacher quality, support school innovation, make math and science national priorities, address the dropout crisis, and improve college access and affordability.

The level of importance assigned to these various missions, and the role of federal R&D in serving them, has varied over the years, reflecting changing national priorities.

We must fund and leverage this asset to advance national priorities related to educational and economic opportunity and progress.

Supporters say new laws would bolster national priorities; critics see political interference.

Our work also seeks to build understanding of the evolution of federal education policy and the intersection between national priorities and state and local implementation efforts.

If ever nuclear become a necessity and national priority per need of low cost power and elimination of CO2 environmental problems... it would happen without delay.

Both developed and developing countries need to work together in crafting policies aimed at mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, while recognizing the potential for differing national priorities.

Academic learning + social - emotional learning = national priority.

Even seemingly remote rural areas have electricity, and the protection of cultural and natural heritage is clearly a high national priority.

In particular, addressing the lack of students from lower socio - economic backgrounds entering the medical profession is a key national priority.

The EPA proposes adding the two - mile long tidal portion of Wappinger Creek to its Superfund National Priorities List of the country's most hazardous waste sites.

In this forum, Isabel Sawhill, co-director of the Center on Children and Families and the Budgeting for National Priorities Project at the Brookings Institution, calls for conditioning Pell Grants on both financial need and the likelihood of college completion.

«There are important national priorities in space beyond the goals of JWST that as a country we can not afford to sacrifice,» the editors argue.

Linda Sherry, director of national priorities at Consumer Action explains that «a minimum payment on a credit card is the least amount you must pay by the due date to avoid a late fee.»

They told us to restore democratic control of immigration policy and to spend their money on national priorities such as health, education and science instead of giving it to Brussels.

Under No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and Race To The Top (RTTT), raising student achievement (as measured by standardized assessments) and attainment (as gauged by outcomes such as graduation and postsecondary success) have become national priority.

«Here are the facts: «The central responsibility of the minister of finance IS to find sources of funding for the financing of approved national priorities such as security, job creation and infrastructure.

We also appreciate that this issue arises at a time of other important national priorities and sharp divisions within Congress.

«Achieving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and life expectancy equality by 2030 is an agreed national priority.

The event highlighted the contributions of citizen science for addressing national priority challenges including coastal resilience, pollinators, and public health.

Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center (ECKLC) National Head Start Association North Dakota Association for the Education of Young Children North Dakota Kids Count Healthy North Dakota Pre-K Now National Priorities Project North Dakota Early Learning Guidelines (PDF)

In 1994, the government recognized the contamination of Onondaga Lake and related upland sites by adding it to the Federal Superfund National Priorities List, according to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.

Instead, Brooks said he wanted to examine national priorities across all scientific disciplines and whether the federal government needed to support these fields.

It outlines 36 practical actions within the following six national priority areas, to be undertaken over the next three years:

The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) seeks to «turn environmental values into national priorities.»

The loss of that opportunity with the shift in national priorities after the attack was a real loss for the GOP.

«The central responsibility of the Minister of Finance is to find sources of funding for the financing of approved national priorities such as security, job creation and infrastructure» she said.

The President's budget offers hope that the nation will continue to make science and education investments a top national priority while taking serious steps to reduce budget deficits.

States can «borrow strength» from the federal government when the Education Department sets national priorities for education.

That structure is too complex, hampers interdisciplinary research, and makes aligning the agency's efforts with national priorities difficult, two top government advisers said in a report made public along with 2025 - Vision (Dutch).

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan roundly criticized the supercommittee for its failure to reduce the nation's debt in a «thoughtful and deliberate way that protects national priorities like education at such a critical time.»

They can't reorder national priorities because that would mean a sharp reduction in the military and CIA budgets, both of which are sacrosanct.

Congress has begun working to reauthorize No Child Left Behind, the sweeping education law notorious for first shifting national priorities to emphasize uniform high - stakes tests.

Discretionary spending, which is the only part of the budget that Congress and the White House can control from year to year, accounted for just 29 % of the nearly $ 4 trillion the government will spend this year (the green slice in this pie chart, prepared by the nonprofit National Priorities Project).