Sentences with phrase «prohibits federal departments»

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The Department of Education has seen the surge in waiver applications because its Office for Civil Rights has «exceeded its legal authority» by taking the position since 2013 that the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination applies to transgender students, Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Gregory Baylor said.

While eight US states and the District of Columbia have voted to legalise recreational marijuana, the White House has hinted that the Department of Justice will do more to enforce federal laws prohibiting recreational marijuana, raising concerns over how Canada's approach will coexist with a potential crackdown south of the border.

In a recent court case, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Department of Justice is prohibited from using federal funds to prosecute businesses who operate within state laws regarding medical marijuana.

In a complaint filed in January by Common Cause with the FEC and the Department of Justice, the organization charges that the failure to report this expenditure to the FEC violates not only campaign finance law but also violates federal law prohibiting false statements of material fact to the Federal govefederal law prohibiting false statements of material fact to the Federal goveFederal government.

gree to conduct only research that is not prohibited by Federal law, regulations, or policies of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) or National Institutes of Health (NIH)

New York (CNN)- Civil rights lawyers filed papers in federal court Monday seeking to prohibit the New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslim communities when there is no evidence that they are linked to terrorism or other illegal activities.

CNN: Lawyers seek to limit New York police surveillance of Muslims Civil rights lawyers filed papers in federal court Monday seeking to prohibit the New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslim communities when there is no evidence that they are linked to terrorism or other illegal activities.

A similar invasion of civil rights is implicit in the initiative to require doctors to report to the Department of Health persons infected with the AIDS virus, and in the proposed restrictions that would prohibit any family planning institution receiving federal funds from informing clients of the availability of abortion services.

Non-discrimination Statement: In accordance with Federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, the USDA, its Agencies, offices, and employees, and institutions participating in or administering USDA programs are prohibited from discriminating based on race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity in any program or activity conducted or funded by USDA.

Following the settlement of a federal lawsuit that alleged a culture of violence among correction officers on Rikers Island, the Department of Correction will unveil a new use of force policy to its employees tomorrow, prohibiting certain maneuvers and encouraging officers to avoid force when possible.

The meta - analysis, published online Jan. 20, 2013, in Annals of Internal Medicine, pools results from 15 investigations, slightly more than half of which were done after a 1996 federal law prohibited the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from funding research that could be seen as promoting gun control.

That effort failed, but the California Department of Public Health has since ruled that federal law prohibits the university from giving students their individual results.

Senators voted to retain a provision, attached to a Justice Department appropriation bill, that would prohibit the use of federal funds to «obstruct the implementation of programs of voluntary prayer.»

[10] Yet three federal statutes prohibit the Education Department from making policy on curriculum.

The Department of Education has asked the federal district court in Columbus, Ohio, to uphold students» rights to privacy and prohibit two state universities from publicly releasing student disciplinary records.

Yet three federal statutes prohibit the Education Department from making policy on curriculum.

The Trump administration, in today's Federal Register, is officially backing away from its plan to exempt all Department of Veterans Affairs employees from a federal law prohibiting them from having a financial interest in or receiving a salary from for - profit coFederal Register, is officially backing away from its plan to exempt all Department of Veterans Affairs employees from a federal law prohibiting them from having a financial interest in or receiving a salary from for - profit cofederal law prohibiting them from having a financial interest in or receiving a salary from for - profit colleges.

Provisions in the rule violate ESSA and constitute the type of federal overreach Congress specifically prohibits the Department from undertaking.

The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) OCR enforces several Federal civil rights laws that prohibit discrimination in programs or activities that receive Federal financial assistance from the Department of Education.

Non-Discrimination Statement: In accordance with Federal law and U.S. Department of Agriculture policy, this institution is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability.

Three sets of laws prohibit the federal government from prescribing the content of state curricula and assessments, yet the Department of Education has done more than any other organization to propel the Common Core and is currently funding the creation of standardized assessments that are fully aligned with the Common Core.1

The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights spent nearly two years investigating Palatine - based Township High School District 211 and found «a preponderance of evidence» that school officials did not comply with Title IX, the federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex.

The new law, for instance, specifically prohibits the U.S. Department of Education or any other federal agency for that matter from providing any incentive supporting a specific set of standards.

The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced today that it has entered into a resolution agreement with Harmony Public Schools in Texas, to ensure compliance by its charter schools with federal civil rights laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, national origin and disability.

«Questions still remain, for example, about whether Mrs. DeVos will support the previous Department of Education's guidance clarifying that federal Title IX prohibits discrimination against transgender and gender non-confirming students.»

In a letter Thursday to Schwarzenegger, Steinberg noted that under the state constitution, the Legislature is prohibited from sending to the governor any bill that appropriates funds except for emergency bills that have been recommended by the governor.Officials from the governor's Department of Finance have said that the federal school jobs money could not be released without a budget, but it is unclear if the administration still holds that position.

The substitute amendment prohibits the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) from considering how many pupils enrolled in a school or school district have been excused from taking an examination required under state or federal law for purposes of the annual school and school district accountability report published by DPI.

That guidance was, the Obama Education Department said, a clarification of the obligations that schools already had under federal law, known as Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination at schools that receive federal funds.

In fact, federal law prohibits the U.S. Department of Education from prescribing any curriculum, but in this case the Department figured out a clever way to evade the letter of the law.»

But federal law essentially prohibits the U.S. Department of Education from laying out exactly what these standards should be (lest it be accused of crafting a national curricula), and it can not public support the implementation of Common Core standards in reading and math already underway in all but a few states.

As readers of this blog know, Connecticut Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy and his State Department of Education continue to claim that federal and state laws prohibit parents from opting their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme.

NONDISCRIMINATION In accordance with Federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, the USDA, its Agencies, offices, and employees, and institutions participating in or administering USDA programs are prohibited from discriminating based on race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity in any program or activity conducted or funded by the USDA.

In accordance with Federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture civil rights regulations and policies, the USDA, its Agencies, offices, and employees, and institutions participating in or administering USDA programs are prohibited from discriminating.

Despite the fact that federal law prohibits the U.S. Department of Education from maintaining a national student database, schools can now release a child's information without the consent of parents and, in some cases, without even informing parents.

The WASB has strong concerns about a provision in the amended bill that prohibits the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) from considering how many pupils enrolled in a school or school district have been excused from taking an examination required under state or federal law for purposes of the annual school and school district accountability report published by DPI.

The Department of Public Instruction released a draft application to the U.S. Education Department for a waiver from the 10 - year - old federal No Child Left Behind Act, which State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers said «has shackled schools by being overly prescriptive and prohibiting creative reforms.»

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today fined LAN Airlines, a carrier based in Chile, $ 50,000 for violating federal aviation laws and the Department's rules prohibiting deceptive price advertising in air travel.

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is a Federal law that gives you the right to access any U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) records unless DOT reasonably foresees that the release of the information in those records would harm an interest protected by one or more of the nine exemptions (such as classified national security, business proprietary, personal privacy, investigative documents) or release is prohibited by law.

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today fined AirTran Airways $ 60,000 for violating federal aviation laws and the Department's rules prohibiting deceptive price advertising in air travel.

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today assessed a civil penalty of $ 40,000 against Qantas Airways, a carrier based in Australia, for violating federal aviation laws and the Department's rules prohibiting deceptive price advertising in air travel.

By this order Frontier Airlines (Frontier) is directed to answer certain questions, provide information and / or produce documents that are necessary to enable the Department to determine whether Frontier on a particular occasion violated federal statutes prohibiting air carriers from discriminating against passengers based on their race, color, national origin, religion, sex, or ancestry.

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today fined Icelandair $ 50,000 for violating federal aviation laws and the Department's rules prohibiting deceptive price advertising in air travel.

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today fined Virgin Atlantic Airways, an airline based in the United Kingdom, $ 50,000 for violating federal aviation laws and the Department's rules prohibiting deceptive price advertising in air travel.

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today fined Ethiopian Airlines $ 50,000 for violating federal aviation laws and the Department's rules prohibiting deceptive price advertising in air travel.

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today fined JetBlue Airways $ 50,000 for violating federal aviation laws and the Department's rules prohibiting deceptive price advertising in air travel.

S. 1675 — Student Loan Servicer Performance Accountability Act [Sen. Roy Blunt (R - MO)-RSB- would promote competition in federal student loan servicing by prohibiting the Department of Education from awarding all federal student loans to a single federal student loan servicer.

The «Defense of Marriage Act» (DOMA), which prohibits recognition of same - sex marriages in relation to federal laws would seem tio prohibite it, but an announcement by the United States Department of Justice yesterday may change all that.

gree to conduct only research that is not prohibited by Federal law, regulations, or policies of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) or National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Prohibits the location of certain wind electric generation facilities within forty miles of an airfield or airbase under jurisdiction of any federal military department.

Measure 91 amends Chapter 897's «Revocation or refusal of license or permit» regarding industrial hemp to prevent the department from revoking a state hemp license on the basis that «industrial hemp productions or possession, or commerce in industrial hemp commodities or products» is prohibited by federal law.