Sentences with phrase «other administration initiatives»

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Unlike in other administrations, the office will work with all government agencies, even those without department - specific faith - based initiatives.

Expand the role of the Small Business Administration's Office of Women's Business Ownership (OWBO) beyond oversight of the Women's Business Center (WBC) program to other growth - focused initiatives, including access to capital and access to markets

Carson's proposals, and other initiatives aimed at low - income Americans receiving federal assistance, amount to a comprehensive effort by the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress to restrict access to the safety net and reduce the levels of assistance for those who do qualify.

The Bush / Cheney administration was virulently anti-Christian as they used the «faith - based» initiative among other maneuvers to corrupt religion in America.

The event was a culmination of a joint initiative of the Senate President and DFID's ENABLE 2 and GEMS 3 programmes and had been preceded by a comprehensive research into laws inhibiting businesses in Nigeria leading to specific legislative proposals to improve the business environment in terms of competition and consumer protection, transportation and infrastructure, improving MSMEs access to finance, reform of land use and construction laws and administration, doing business reforms amongst others.

The House NY initiative works in tandem with other HCR affordable housing programs and the HCR Office of Rent Administration's vigorous efforts to protect more than two million rent - regulated tenants.

Another initiative was a special tax exemption that Cuomo's administration created for electronic books, which are sold by, among others, HarperCollins.

To the de Blasio administration, these and other progressive initiatives are resounding successes.

On - topic questions include: whether de Blasio and McCray's partnership is modeled on the Clintons, how the Mayor's Fund will be financed including whether they plan to ask Michael Bloomberg to contribute money, the anticipated size of McCray's staff and office location, whether McCray will regularly issue a public schedule, how de Blasio decided to appoint McCray, whether she will continue to be active in other efforts related to the administration such as the pre-K initiative, whether McCray is ready for increased public and press scrutiny and how others who disagree with any actions or decisions by McCray at the Mayor's Fund can address those with the mayor.

Questions on other topics include: the NYS Attorney General's investigation of the Puerto Rican Day Parade committee, whether de Blasio's pre-K initiative will include private and parochial schools, the «absent teacher reserve», a protest by Girls Prep supporters against de Blasio's expected charter school policies, performance of Administration for Children's Services and whether de Blasio plans to contact the St. Patrick's Day Parade committee to urge them to lift their exclusion of LGBT groups and organizations.

«It is government's role to provide the services that the private sector either can't or won't do, and I am proud to say that my administration has worked to strengthen public health though the Health Mall and other related initiatives and has also been instrumental in keeping residents connected to needed services through programs such as the Rural Transit Service.

The comptroller says an ongoing audit is already looking at some aspects of the increasingly controversial project and other Cuomo administration economic development initiatives that are currently under federal investigation.

He said to start with, entrepreneurs in the sector would be allowed to access the N25billion Employment Trust Fund (ETF), which is an initiative of his administration, to grow their businesses, as well as other interventions from the State's Ministry of Wealth Creation and Employment.

Though he will likely be best remembered for heading the DEC during the long debate over fracking, which started during former Gov. David Paterson's administration — in other words, before Martens took the helm — a number of other environmental initiatives were started or accomplished on the outgoing commissioner's watch.

«When you talk about the strategy of the administration and the way we're moving the system, it's by building these initiatives on top of each other and following a child and their family all the way through, from pre-K to college and career, and beyond.»

The Comptroller says an on going audit is already looking at some aspects of the increasingly controversial project and other Cuomo Administration economic development initiatives that are currently under federal investigation.

Since that December day in 2012, when he and Cuomo administration officials described to a reporter the role that Albany Molecular Research Inc. would play in anchoring the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, SUNY Poly has continued to be a partner in other upstate technology initiatives, including the new $ 600 million photonics research initiative announced earlier this summer in Rochester and the plans for a $ 2 billion analog chip fabrication facility at SUNY's Poly Marcy Nanocenter complex in Utica.

Cuomo was also asked about the federal investigation into the Buffalo Billion initiative and other upstate development deals, and whether members of his administration had been contacted.

Further work is also being accomplished in assembling the Initiatives for a Stronger Community, the administration's Health & Human Services Plan that works with community partners in addressing poverty and other societal problems.

The initiative to rehabilitate the roads within the communities was introduced in 2016 by Ambode's administration to fast - track development simultaneously with other major road projects across the State.

On Sept. 23 — the day after the state and federal charges were announced — the administration received a memo from private investigator Bart Schwartz, whose company Guidepost Solutions has been tasked by Cuomo with investigating improper lobbying and conflicts of interest in the «Buffalo Billion» initiative, and other projects overseen by SUNY Poly.

The Bawku Central Member of Parliament, Mahama Ayariga, has sued the Akufo - Addo administration at the Supreme Court over the implementation of some of its key initiatives such as the Infrastructure for Poverty Eradication Programme (IPEP), Free Senior High School, Planting for Food and Jobs, the Microfinance and Small Loans Center (MASLOC) and others.

Poloncarz acknowledged Monday that while his administration has gained some major wins since his last State of the County address, there are other initiatives — remember the ban on plastic bags?

«There are other initiatives... but I am not sure if they will be there in the long run due to the Trump administration's proposed elimination of all community development block grants,» Poloncarz said.

Bart M. Schwartz, a former federal prosecutor, is to conduct the review; it involves the Buffalo Billion, a signature Cuomo administration program meant to revitalize that long - suffering city, and other elements of the governor's nanotech initiative, on which he has hinged much of his upstate economic policy.

Policing and Maintenance Through the NextGen program and other initiatives, the de Blasio administration has sought to reduce crime, improve maintenance response, and increase energy efficiency within developments.

The Bawku Central Member of Parliament, Mahama Ayariga, has sued the Akufo - Addo administration at the Supreme Court over the implementation of some of its key initiatives such as the Infrastructure for Poverty Eradication Programme (IPEP), Free Senior High School, Planting for Food and Jobs as well as the operations of existing agencies like the Microfinance and Small Loans Center (MASLOC) and others.

The Comptroller says an ongoing audit is already looking at some aspects of the increasingly controversial project and other Cuomo Administration economic development initiatives that are currently under federal investigation.

In addition, «while the Administration appreciates the overall funding level provided to NASA,» the statement says «the bill provides some NASA programs with unnecessary increases at the expense of other important initiatives.»

The administration has yet to release the calculations behind the new targets, but EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said yesterday that the «entire target was based on a thorough interagency review of the available tools in each of the agencies — the ones that are outlined in the Climate Action Plan, but also other tools and initiatives that could be teed up and brought to fruition quickly enough.»

It wouldn't be totally unreasonable to begin wondering if one of the administration's key initiatives (ESEA flexibility) ultimately undermines a number of its others (large competitive grants advancing federal priorities).

The administration has also hinted at pursuing other school - choice proposals in the coming year, including a $ 1 billion initiative to provide education savings accounts to military families.

The Office of School Finance is responsible for the development and administration of fiscal standards and other initiatives to promote or achieve efficiency within public schools; the administration of the state aid system for schools in accordance with applicable statutes; the development and maintenance of fiscal policy for all public school districts; and the development and maintenance of procedures for safe and efficient student transportation services.

Funding for college work - study programs would be cut in half, public - service loan forgiveness would end and hundreds of millions of dollars that public schools could use for mental health, advanced coursework and other services would vanish under a Trump administration plan to cut $ 10.6 billion from federal education initiatives, according to budget documents obtained by The Washington Post.

Green Strides - Webinar Series This webinar series, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education's Green Ribbon Schools initiative, features experts from the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of the Interior, Department of Agriculture, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and other federal programs.

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, who described overall performance as modest, credited those particularly large gains in some states to the introduction of the new, more rigorous «Common Core» standards and other initiatives the Obama administration has promoted, including new teacher evaluations.

But while the budget plans — including eliminations of the elimination of the $ 65 million - a-year Native Hawaiian and Alaska Native education programs and the Promise Neighborhoods initiative — won't pass muster on Capitol Hill, DeVos and the administration can take other actions that effectively decimate those programs.

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Thursday night, fielding questions on the Race To The Top program and other education initiatives undertaken by the Obama administration.

Molly worked for the Obama Administration at the U.S. Department of Education in the Office for Civil Rights, specifically on the recent transformation of the Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) and other equity - focused initiatives.

BWRSD's administration team also conducted a crosswalk of its FRS plan with the district's newly adopted strategic plan, along with other initiatives underway that align with and support FRS.

In addition, he joined Joshua DuBois, special assistant to the president and executive director of the White House Office of Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, at a town hall meeting at Memorial Middle School to announce Together for Tomorrow, a new administration initiative to both spotlight existing community efforts to turn around persistently low - performing schools, and encourage new community engagement that aims to do this for other schools.

But others in his camp have wondered about what might have been had Obama not decided to ally his increasingly unpopular administration with an initiative that desperately needed to stay bipartisan.

Coordination of the Department's engagement in Administration regulatory cooperation initiatives with Canada, Mexico and the European Union and others

Regulatory reform and streamlining project delivery are two other critical components of this Administration's infrastructure initiative.

In the heated political climate surrounding government - subsidized green energy initiatives, the company was quick to point out the that ATVM loans were initiated and approved under the Bush administration, and were completely separate from the federal bailout of General Motors and Chrysler, as well as being the smallest of the ATVM loans granted, the others being Ford at $ 5.9 billion, Nissan at $ 1.4 billion, and Fisker at $ 529 million.

Many in the short - term online lending industry were surprised by the announcement, which seems to be in lock - step with the current administration's Operation Choke Point, an initiative launched in 2013 by the United States Department of Justice, whose stated intent was to «attack Internet, telemarketing, mail, and other mass market fraud against consumers, by choking fraudsters» access to the banking system.»

The three main sections describe planned regulations, rules and standards aimed at cutting releases of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from power plants, heavy vehicles and buildings; a suite of new steps to cut vulnerability to climate and coastal hazards; and a fresh summary of international initiatives the administration plans to pursue with other countries.

(The innovation initiatives announced there by the Obama administration and Bill Gates and others are a great start, but just a start.)

Other recent actions the administration has taken irrespective of Congress include launching a wide - ranging initiative this month called the Quadrennial Energy Review, which will identify ways the administration can improve infrastructure and mitigate risks involved in energy transport and delivery.

Firstly, the RUAF Foundation cooperates with urban producers, local NGOs, public administrations and other relevant stakeholder groups in setting up of concrete short chain marketing initiatives, for example within the framework of the Market - oriented urban agriculture project in Gaza (implemented in cooperation with Oxfam) agricultural value chains in various specific product groups are supported in a market - for the poor - perspective; The From Seed to Table programme supported 30 urban farmer groups in 17 cities to innovate their local production systems, engage in value - adding activities and establish innovative short marketing channels; The projects in Freetown and Makeni in Sierra Leone implemented in cooperation with COOPI helped to establish various youth - led agro-enterprises (in pig raising and slaughtering; milk and fruit processing and waste management).