Sentences with phrase «place in federal policy»

And each has a place in federal policy.

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«Ending DACA would place severe economic strain on businesses around the country, putting them into the impossible and extremely costly position of having to fire productive employees for no other reason than an arbitrary change in federal policy, potentially resulting in backlash from other employees, or their broader community,» the report reads.
In other words, Greenspan saw eliminating the federal debt as a matter of «how,» not «if» - if, as he said, current policies remained in placIn other words, Greenspan saw eliminating the federal debt as a matter of «how,» not «if» - if, as he said, current policies remained in placin place.
As I have explained elsewhere, many of the policies put in place by the Federal government since the election of President Obama in 2008 — banking reform, business regulation, tax policies, and the Affordable Care Act to name a few — have made entrepreneurship more difficult to undertake.
«You could certainly write a book on why the US has yet to see a federal paid - leave policy — but the answers essentially come down to two distinct cultural elements at play in the US: the values we place in individualism and business,» she wrote.
Bernanke himself has said it's crucial «that fiscal policy - makers put in place a credible plan that sets the federal budget on a sustainable trajectory.»
The federal government believes it is putting in place the right policy environment to encourage businesses to act.
After its last major policy meeting, which took place in March 2017, the Federal Open Market Committee stated:
Finally, looser monetary policy implies that the economic situation is not as rosy as many would like to believe, so if the Federal Reserve acts by loosening monetary policy and driving down real interest rates then that sends a message that the economy is in a bad place therefore investors buy gold as a safe haven asset.
This acceleration is partly due to the very expansionary monetary and fiscal policy settings that have been in place for some time, with the federal funds rate at 1 per cent, and the federal fiscal balance swinging from a surplus of 2 1/2 per cent of GDP in 2000 to a 3 1/2 per cent deficit in 2003.
Promulgated by the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA), the agency which administers the state's federal school lunch program, the «Texas School Nutrition Policy» regulates the time and place in which competitive foods and beverages may be sold and also sets nutrition standards for those items.
But, at least at present, the ultimate check is a triennial audit by the state agencies overseeing federal school meal programs; this audit covers hundreds of items, everything from food safety to sanitation, and also includes determining whether a district has a wellness policy in place that's being enforced.
Your school and / or school district should have a wellness policy in place (it's required for participation in federal school food programs).
Although programs have proliferated to address the needs of fathers and families, there is also a need to evaluate their effectiveness in helping fathers become better parents and better partners.8 Federal and state policy makers have placed increasing demands on programs to evaluate the effects these programs have on fathers and families and whether they are worth investing public dollars.9
Speaking on the economy, Buhari, who was represented by the Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau said that the Federal Government was already putting policies in place to encourage and facilitate Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to promote made in Nigeria goods, adding that same was part of his administration's overall national economic policy.
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.
As one of the few Democratic governors in the country, with experience in federal government to boot, he was well - placed to propose himself as an alternative to the president's destructive policies.
Paterson said he was motivated to write his letter after reading about the proposals introduced today by members of the Senate and Assembly that would block the governor's controversial 90 - day email purge policy and establish an up to seven - year retention policy based on the system already in place in the federal government.
Terrorism: FG to Unveil New National Strategic Communications Approach The Federal Government has put machinery in place to unveil a new National Strategic Communications (NSSC) policy aimed at tackling the ideology and narrative of the Boko Haram terrorists and other insurgent groups in the country.
Most of the requirements in the new SUNY policy are already in place through federal law or regulations, while others are included in federal legislation introduced in July by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Representative Carolyn Maloney, both New York Democrats.
The new rules largely summarize existing federal law and policies already in place at individual SUNY schools, strategies Cuomo borrowed from other national, state and local leaders.
«The malpractice insurance administrator never sold one medical malpractice policy to a single doctor as a result of any call placed by or performed by Adam Skelos,» federal authorities wrote in the indictment.
«The event provided a platform for S&T Policy Fellows to apply skills in communicating succinctly and effectively to diverse audiences — a vital skill for making an impact in science policy,» said Cynthia Robinson, director of the S&T Policy Fellowships Program, which places scientists and engineers from a range of sectors in federal government assignments to learn about policymPolicy Fellows to apply skills in communicating succinctly and effectively to diverse audiences — a vital skill for making an impact in science policy,» said Cynthia Robinson, director of the S&T Policy Fellowships Program, which places scientists and engineers from a range of sectors in federal government assignments to learn about policympolicy,» said Cynthia Robinson, director of the S&T Policy Fellowships Program, which places scientists and engineers from a range of sectors in federal government assignments to learn about policymPolicy Fellowships Program, which places scientists and engineers from a range of sectors in federal government assignments to learn about policymaking.
Since 1973, that program has placed thousands of scientists and engineers in the U.S. federal policy arena, helping policymakers apply scientific evidence to decisions facing members of Congress, executive agencies and judicial offices.
Mauricio Horn, the visiting Secretariat of Scientific Technological Articulation adviser, spent a month at AAAS, learning about all aspects of AAAS» Science & Technology Policy Fellowships program, attending its training sessions, meeting with federal officials who work with the fellows AAAS places in their agencies and attending events sponsored by former fellows who have organized special topic - specific groups.
The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, which supported the EPA in the Supreme Court case, «certainly believes there needs to be a comprehensive federal policy in place to reduce carbon dioxide, and we intend to work constructively with members of Congress on that issue,» says alliance spokesperson Charles Territo.
«Compared with alcohol and other drugs, cannabis holds a unique place in federal and state policies — continuing to be illegal federally but with medical and recreational use legalized at the state level.
Higher education has taken K - 12's place in the hierarchy of federal policy issues — due both to weariness with what well - intended federal efforts have wrought in K - 12 and to public concerns about tuition prices and student debt.
Some farm - based educators would welcome the federal support, as long as any policy put in place is flexible enough to accommodate the needs of different states.
But the successor regime of Bush, in an overcorrection, reacted sharply against the perceived fecklessness of federal education policy, was indifferent to what the states had in place, and demanded impossibilities.
Federal bureaucrats would do well to focus on targeted competitive grant programs to encourage the adoption of their desired policies in places that really want to pursue them.
In placing a spotlight on the outcomes of our study, it contributes to the political debates on immigration and better informs federal and state policies as well as school and community practices.
The findings show states are putting in place policies that will help them meet the requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act in the areas of teacher quality, testing, and accountability.
Federal policy, beginning in 1994, pushed states to develop standards and tests in the first place, and No Child Left Behind, enacted in 2002, doubled down on these mandates, requiring states to disaggregate test results for numerous groups and sanction low - performing schools.
This inclusion parallels the recommendations of the Equity and Excellence Commission's report, signaling that children's experiences with poverty have taken their place alongside other significant variables impacting student achievement in the federal education policy framework.
Last week the Washington Post ran an article that was heavily critical of charters in California, and it also cited an August report from the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California which found that 20 percent of all charter schools in California had enrollment policies in place that violate state and federal law.
A plan popular among some state and federal policy makers uses student standardized test results as a significant component in evaluating teachers, in some places comprising up to 50 % of the evaluation.
(a) The following Wellness Policy was developed in response to the passage of Federal Public Law (PL108.265 Section 204) requiring each Local Education Authority (LEA) to have a local wellness policy in place by June 30,Policy was developed in response to the passage of Federal Public Law (PL108.265 Section 204) requiring each Local Education Authority (LEA) to have a local wellness policy in place by June 30,policy in place by June 30, 2006.
«Often, the school board and district staff are considered no more than middlemen in the education enterprise, passing federal and state funds on to schools - where the «real work» of education takes place - and keeping track of school compliance with federal and state laws, regulations and policies
The damage done to significant number of Bridgeport's special education students and the violation of federal and state laws that are in place to ensure special education students get the services they need and deserve, is a direct result of Paul Vallas» policy of arrogance and deceit.
Surveying that history, an analogy occurred to me that I offer as a speculative proposition: America's federal education policy as of 2008 is at about the same place that the Soviet Union's economic policy was in 1990.
As the Center on Education Policy noted in its recent survey of states granted waivers under the gambit, there is already fears that they will have scotch the accountability systems they put in place after receiving the waivers and start all over again under a new version of the federal education law.
Part of the federal budget agreement reached over the weekend by Congressional leaders and the Obama administration leaves in place a long - standing policy allowing teachers in alternative certification programs to be labeled highly qualified» under the No Child Left Behind Act.»
Duncan wrote Juneau back at the beginning of July, saying that until new NCLB policies are in place, «Montana does need to comply with existing federal requirements.»
Narrowing the achievement gap will require housing desegregation: voiding exclusionary zoning, placing low - and moderate - income housing in predominantly white suburbs, and ending federal subsidies for communities that fail to reverse policies that led to racial exclusion.
Although it maintains a federal mandate to measure and improve student academic achievement, ESSA codifies the nation's retreat from NCLB by mandating some of the very policy changes put in place by Georgia and other states.
According to McQueen, both policies were «written in secret» with no public involvement, «put into place by coercing states with the promise of federal money,» and represent «a centrally controlled delivery system, shaped by Big Government and steeped in the Progressive worldview of uniformity.»
In New Orleans, the Southern Poverty Law Center, Urban League, and Equity in All Places are just a few of the organizations that are attempting to align their policy agendas with the provisions of the federal laIn New Orleans, the Southern Poverty Law Center, Urban League, and Equity in All Places are just a few of the organizations that are attempting to align their policy agendas with the provisions of the federal lain All Places are just a few of the organizations that are attempting to align their policy agendas with the provisions of the federal law.
The «Trust's policies and procedures lack sufficient detail to ensure each participating school in [the voucher program] has the financial systems, controls, policies, and procedures in place to ensure federal funds are used according to the law» and has no means of verifying the financial statements of participating private schools.
But in response to a FOIA request filed by NCLC and the ACLU, the Department's Federal Student Aid office acknowledged that it has no policies in place to monitor the racial impacts of its collection practices, nor does it keep any data that would allow it to monitor how African American or Latino borrowers are faring.
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