Sentences with phrase «new federal choice»

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President Obama's choice of a new overseer for Federal Housing Financing Agency, Joseph A. Smith, brings a toughness hewn from fighting federal regulators in pursuit of predatory lenders in his state role in North CaFederal Housing Financing Agency, Joseph A. Smith, brings a toughness hewn from fighting federal regulators in pursuit of predatory lenders in his state role in North Cafederal regulators in pursuit of predatory lenders in his state role in North Carolina.

The Federal Communications Commission is reportedly proposing new regulations that could give cable customers a choice of buying their own set - top boxes instead of renting the default company - offered device.

By utilizing newly established federal immigration programs, we can once again make Ontario the destination of choice for new Canadians.

The upcoming selection of a new chairman of the Federal Reserve is being cast as a three - way race, in the sense that President Obama mentioned exactly three names in discussing the choice with Congressional Democrats: Larry Summers, Janet Yellen and Donald Kohn.

Blending this with federal incentive programs, greater access to information and services and more choices has challenged health systems and clinicians to adopt, use, and interoperate with new information technologies.

«We're calling on the federal government to help attract new airlines to Canadian airports, offer more choices to Canadian consumers and in turn make our Canadian airports more competitive with their rivals in competing jurisdictions.»

In 1996 a «Charitable Choice» section was added to the federal welfare reform law, establishing new rules for collaboration between government and religious institutions.

The WFP has pledged to be a «bulwark» in New York against Trump's policies, placing pressure on Democratic state elected officials to provide an alternative policy choice to a Republican - led federal government.

In between are the choices for both of New York's federal Senate seats, state comptroller and attorney general and state Supreme Court, County Court and Family Court judgeships.

Affordable housing: New York would take a $ 229.9 million cut in federal aid for Housing Choice vouchers, affecting 13,620 low - income families who find housing in the private market.

NEW YORK, May 11 (Reuters)- The New York Lottery said on Tuesday it restarted its search for a video lottery terminal vendor for Aqueduct Racetrack after the previous choice was rejected amid state and federal probNEW YORK, May 11 (Reuters)- The New York Lottery said on Tuesday it restarted its search for a video lottery terminal vendor for Aqueduct Racetrack after the previous choice was rejected amid state and federal probNew York Lottery said on Tuesday it restarted its search for a video lottery terminal vendor for Aqueduct Racetrack after the previous choice was rejected amid state and federal probes.

Also, the federal Voting Rights Act requires that new boundaries be drawn in a manner which provides minority communities with opportunities to elect representatives of their choice.

Recent federal recommendations against offering the inhaled nasal influenza vaccine due to lack of effectiveness could lead to more flu illness in the U.S. if the inhaled vaccine becomes effective again or if not having the choice of the needle-less vaccine substantially reduces immunization rates, according to a new analysis led by University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine scientists.

Today the federal government's new food icon, MyPlate, was created to serve as a reminder to help you make healthier food choices.

A story found on the New York times says that Kody Brown and his «sister wives» (who also appear in a reality TV series about their polyamorous relationship choices and multi-women family living choice) is / are filing a federal lawsuit to challenge the anti-polygamy law in Utah.

I do expect the administration to make an effort to act on President - elect Trump's campaign proposal to devote 20 billion federal dollars to expanding school choice for low - income students, but it's a bit hard to see a Republican Congress either approving that much new spending or even redirecting existing funds on which districts currently rely.

The choice of a new leader for the union representing teachers in the District of Columbia — the first since a financial scandal sent its former president to federal prison last year — won't be decided until a runoff election is held later this month.

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• Leverage federal, state, and private dollars into systems to equalize funding, pay for school start - ups and human capital training, and develop new information and enrollment systems to help families navigate their choices and become savvy school choice consumers.

The administration has yet to release a proposal for how the federal government might foster more school choice in states and localities around the country, although its initial budget proposal included additional funding for charters and other forms of public school choice, as well as funding for a new private school choice program.

«I can tell you this — if you gave the American people a choice today between using federal dollars to renovate and build new public schools or using public tax dollars to pay for private school vouchers, there would be no question how the American people would vote,» asserted U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley in a speech made when the report was released.

Andrew Ujifusa and Alyson Klein of Ed Week note that the plan calls for the creation of a new $ 1 billion program that will allow students to take federal, state, and local education dollars to the public school of their choice.

Direct Student Services gives states new leeway to use some of their federal Title I dollars to expand instructional choice for students.

Practically all he proposed during the campaign was a whopping new federal program to promote school choice.

That's why I wholeheartedly believe the future of choice does not begin with a new federal mandate from Washington!

So I imagine choice advocates should mainly expect to see an expansion in federal dollars going to the Charter Schools Program, perhaps some new support for voucher programs.

Parents will have the knowledge of school performance to make informed choices about where to spend their new federal dollars.

«If it is true, as Rep. Messer says, that the big tax reform bill will not include a school choice component, then it is fair to say that a big new federal push on private school choice is dead,» Petrilli said.

With U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos at the helm of a federal initiative to spread private school choice even further, a new forum for Education Next brings together experts to assess the research on these programs — a tax - credit - funded scholarship in Florida and voucher programs in Indiana, Louisiana, and Ohio — and the implications for whether and how states should design and oversee statewide choice programs.

The new funds would be used to encourage districts to adopt a controversial form of choice: Allowing local, state and federal funds to follow children to whichever public school they choose.

There's a new federal law that requires school districts to offer parents choices if their children's schools aren't measuring up.

The new platform called education choice «one of the greatest civil rights challenges of our time» and detailed the Party's support for education savings accounts (ESAs), vouchers, tuition tax credits, and portability of federal funding:

For many years, states and the federal government have been creating a range of schooling options for students, and the focus of the new administration on expanding choice is likely to accelerate this trend.

For many years, states and the federal government have been creating a range of schooling options for students, and the focus of the new Administration on expanding choice is likely to accelerate this trend.

While the administration's proposed cuts have been embraced by fiscal conservatives who argue that Education Department programs need to be trimmed or eliminated, some conservatives are also troubled by the administration's proposal to invest new money in school choice, saying that represents an unwelcome expansion of the federal footprint in education.

«As much as I want to see every single child in America have school choice, it is just not appropriate for the federal government to be using new dollars and new programs to push states in that direction,» said Lindsey Burke, an education policy expert at the conservative Heritage Foundation.

Patte Barth, director of the Center for Public Education, provided a summary of the new report, which uses data from the federal Schools and Staffing Survey to examine the scope of choices available both across different school buildings and within school programs.

Washington — About 85 percent of renowned teachers disagree that the federal government should provide greater school choice through vouchers, a new survey finds - and almost all of the surveyed teachers believe that charter schools and private schools that receive federal funds should be subject to the same accountability measures as public schools.

Hyslop writes that under the new system, the choices individual states made about how to design an accountability system mattered less than the fact the federal government dictated states intervene in 15 percent of Title I schools.

In 2016, $ 121 billion in federal Pell Grants and new student loans followed 11 million college students to accredited public, private or religious schools of their choice, whether Notre Dame, Yeshiva, the University of Tennessee or Nashville's auto diesel college.

$ 1 billion in new spending to encourage districts to adopt a controversial form of choice: Allowing local, state and federal funds to follow children to whichever public school they choose.

At the same time, it seeks a historic $ 1.4 billlon federal investment in school choice, including new money for private school vouchers and charter schools, as well as directing $ 1 billion to follow students to the school of their choice.

* Title I — $ 1 billion increase * New private school choice program — $ 250 million (increase since it's new) * Charter schools — $ 168 million increase * Title II A, Supporting Effective Instruction Program — $ 2.4 billion cut * 21st Century Community Learning Centers — $ 1.17 billion cut * Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Program — $ 190 million cut * Impact Aid Payments for Federal Property — $ 66.8 million cut * Teacher Quality Partnership — $ 43.1 million New private school choice program — $ 250 million (increase since it's new) * Charter schools — $ 168 million increase * Title II A, Supporting Effective Instruction Program — $ 2.4 billion cut * 21st Century Community Learning Centers — $ 1.17 billion cut * Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Program — $ 190 million cut * Impact Aid Payments for Federal Property — $ 66.8 million cut * Teacher Quality Partnership — $ 43.1 million new) * Charter schools — $ 168 million increase * Title II A, Supporting Effective Instruction Program — $ 2.4 billion cut * 21st Century Community Learning Centers — $ 1.17 billion cut * Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Program — $ 190 million cut * Impact Aid Payments for Federal Property — $ 66.8 million cut * Teacher Quality Partnership — $ 43.1 million cut

Politico reported last week that advocates are encouraging the Trump administration, which has been vocally supportive of school choice, to do just that, pushing for a new federal tax - credit scholarship.

A new, large - scale federal initiative could constrain the prospects for widespread, long - term educational improvements, ultimately harming the good school - choice work being done in the states.

Denisha is excited for the future of this movement, because she believes that the new administration will advance federal school - choice programs similar to the scholarship that altered the ruinous trajectory of her life.

The California Board of Education is facing some tough choices — and heavy lobbying from parent groups and student advocates — as it works its way toward approving a new school accountability system that meets federal mandates and the vision of Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature in passing the Local Control Funding Formula.

Trump has proposed a new $ 20 billion federal program to encourage school choice nationwide.

These projects, competitively funded through the Federal Transit Administration's (FTA) Capital Investment Grant Program (CIG), will create or sustain thousands of good construction - related jobs and help communities expand transportation choices that offer new ladders of opportunity for hard - working families.

On June 29, federal regulators issued tougher lending guidelines, prompting the Mortgage Bankers Association to warn that the new rules will «constrain consumer credit choices.»