Sentences with phrase «recent federal changes»

Other key questions of interest beyond the funding framework include target benefit plans, obtaining an annuity discharge and harmonizing the investment rules to recent federal changes.

In both America and France recent federal changes in the school lunch program looks at a similar goal: provide schoolchildren with nutritious meals that they like to eat.

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Other factors that have changed the nature of HRM in recent years include new management and operational theories like Total Quality Management (TQM), rapidly changing demographics, and changes in health insurance and federal and state employment legislation.

Small business owners are more satisfied with the federal government than they have been in recent years, but a new survey has found there are still a lot of changes the sector would like to see implemented to help run their businesses efficiently.

It indicated when it issued its most recent delay in November that it would use the time to work with other federal regulators on potential changes to the delayed provisions.

«We take stock of coal market developments in 2017 and find that while U.S. production did recover slightly, it had nothing to do with a change in federal policy,» Rhodium Group analysts wrote in a recent note.

Gold has regained its shine in recent months, but that doesn't change the dull outlook for the precious metal over the longer - term, warns Goldman Sachs, which sees prices falling to $ 1,000 in 12 months as the Federal Reserve normalizes monetary policy.

Federal regulations like Sarbanes - Oxley and recent rule changes that make e-mail subject to discovery in the course of a federal lawsuit are also driving companies to archive e-mail, FlynFederal regulations like Sarbanes - Oxley and recent rule changes that make e-mail subject to discovery in the course of a federal lawsuit are also driving companies to archive e-mail, Flynfederal lawsuit are also driving companies to archive e-mail, Flynn says.

One recent catalyst for change at airport checkpoints was Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, whom U.S. federal prosecutors accuse of attempting to detonate explosives stashed in his undergarments as Northwest Airlines Flight 253 descended toward Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport on Dec. 25, 2009.

The federal government failed to make its case that something about trading stocks and bonds and derivatives has changed so fundamentally in recent times that Ottawa must now step in.

In recent years, the biggest bond buyers have been the Federal Reserve, foreigners and mutual funds, but that may be changing.

Because of a recent change in the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), grandparents can soon use their tax - efficient 529 plans to help pay college costs earlier without impacting students» chances for federal financial aid.Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), grandparents can soon use their tax - efficient 529 plans to help pay college costs earlier without impacting students» chances for federal financial aid.federal financial aid.»

The LMCI is a relatively recent indicator developed by Federal Reserve economists to assess changes in the labor market conditions.

Congress might tighten existing background checks: The most recent change to background checks came in 1993, when Congress instituted a federal background - check system.

In «Drawing Down Our Savings: The Prospects for RRIF Holders Following the 2015 Federal Budget,» authors William B.P. Robson and Alexandre Laurin commend the government's recent change to RRIF rules but urge them to go further.

The Alberta NDP's climate change plan defies supporters of the much - maligned LEAP Manifesto, which was spearheaded by more radical elements of the federal NDP at that party's recent convention in Edmonton.

According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), recent changes to tax policy and the budget will increase the U.S. Treasury debt burden by a combined $ 1.8 trillion over 10 years ($ 1.46 trillion from tax policy and $ 320 billion related to the recent federal budget increase, on a «gross» basis).

Furthermore, changing monetary policies by the Federal Reserve are widely seen as a potential risk, leading investors to abandon their recent habit of buying market declines.

A self - deprecating NCAA is a welcome switch from the previously smug organization that has only been moved to meaningful action in the recent past by federal court decisions (the ban on cost - of - attendance stipends became illegal once the NCAA got whipped in O'Bannon vs. NCAA) and terrible PR (Connecticut guard Shabazz Napier made the schools look silly with their food rules by speaking out during a tournament that makes $ 770 million a year for the NCAA in television revenue, hence the unlimited meals rule change).

Broadridge Financial Solutions said it was boosting workers» pay, delivering bonuses and expanding employee benefits as a result of strong company growth and the recent federal tax law changes.

«We recognize the challenges we've had in recent years, but I'm hopeful with this changed federal landscape, this will serve as a real awakening, a real wake up call,» she said.

But green groups haven't hesitated to take aim at Trump online, with the Natural Resources Defense Council criticizing his recent move to rescind climate standards for federal infrastructure and the League of Conservation Voters praising Miami's Republican mayor, Tomás Regalado, for saying it is time to talk about climate change.

Changes the tax filing dates under Articles 9, 9A, 22, and 27 and under NYC's unincorporated business tax and corporate tax to March 15 from April 15, for consistency with recent federal amendments.

Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul and Majority Leader John Flanagan spoke of a need to address the recent plague of sexual harassment scandals, and a few people mentioned the impact on New York of the recent federal tax changes, but for the most part, leaders planned to leave the discussion of their agendas to next week.

The most recent change to federal guidelines this year prohibited the sale of baked goods, candy or chips doing school hours.

Because much of the state's tax code is based on the federal law, big changes included in the recent tax overhaul in Washington will have significant and in some cases unforeseen effects on the state's own tax code.

School lunches have changed dramatically in recent years in because of the federal government's Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act, meant to curb childhood obesity.

Changes in regulatory policy and recent litigation regarding research misconduct have complicated the legal environment for the federal government, colleges and universities.

In addition, the community's experience with the recent decrease in the rate at which NIH can pay individual's salaries, from Executive Level I of the Federal Executive Pay Scale ($ 199,700) in FY2011 to Executive Level II ($ 179,700) in FY2012, may provide useful information about the effects of changes in salary support.

In a recent Rapid Communication in Physical Review B, researchers from the Max Born Institute in Berlin (Germany), the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology in Dübendorf (Switzerland), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg (USA) apply a novel method of optical pump — soft x-ray probe spectroscopy for generating coherent atomic vibrations in small LiBH4 crystals, and reading them out via changes of x-ray absorption.

While recent federal legislation and changes to the U.S. Medicare program have expanded opportunities for certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs) to provide care to more patients and receive reimbursement for their services, many states still restrict their scope of practice and limit their pay.

In recent years, S&T Fellows have helped to set up a digital library for Iraqi scientists, provided key data to support the Endangered Species Act, contributed to a federal task force on global climate change adaptation, and worked on recovery and reconstruction projects in Haiti just weeks after the country's devastating January 2010 earthquake.

«In addition to its reliance on existing and primarily recent synthesis reports from the peer reviewed literature, it also underwent a technical review by12 federal climate change experts, internal EPA review, and interagency review.»

It will be somewhat useful but I know from taking the GED test in Ohio not to long ago that the test here has definitely changed in recent years, I believe due to some Federal mandate.

«Recent changes in the federal laws guiding special education programs have made it much more difficult to be in simple compliance with student discipline, meeting paperwork requirements, and dealing with providing for the needs of what appears to be a growing population of students who qualify for special services.»

When it comes to school reform, a current wave of rhetoric and recent changes in federal education policy, including the No Child Left Behind Act, have put the spotlight on the academic achievement gap.

Those who follow federal education policy are well aware of a few big changes wrought by the Trump team, but another quintet of recent ed - related developments in Washington begs for attention.

She would undo most if not all of the «structural» reforms that have been put in place in recent years — mayoral control, performance - based pay, charter laws and other choice schemes, reliance on entrepreneurship and market incentives, federal efforts to incentivize and prod the system to change in constructive directions, testing - and results - based accountability and more.

And there are also a number of federal laws that relate to student privacy, one of which is the 40 - year - old Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), which has undergone regulatory changes in recent years that some claimed have weakened it.

How can recent changes to the federal E-rate program and new efforts by government, broadband advocacy groups, and schools fix the problem?

A Cost Allocation Model for Shared District Resources: A Means for Comparing Spending Across Schools Recent policy changes at the state and federal level have made schools the focus of accountability.

It lays out approaches to maximize the opportunities presented by recent changes at the state and federal level, including CALPADS new attendance data collection for 2016 - 17 school year, and new chronic absence reporting requirements in the Every Student Succeeds Act.

The Stanford Law and Policy Lab and Stanford Law's Youth & Education Law Project (YELP), on behalf of the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA), released a guide today to address increasing student absences and decreasing parental participation in California's public charter schools among immigrant families in the wake of recent federal policy changes.

Yet, recent changes in federal policy on the role states play in education may help turn the situation around.

Laws exist at both federal and state levels that include mandates for educators, but many school administrators are not aware of recent changes that may impact them.

More recent examples include proposed changes to DACA (the Obama - era executive order that protects younger immigrants without citizenship from being deported), Title IX (which governs the treatment of sexual assault on campuses), and federal education spending.

«Recent changes in federal policy — including the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)-- make it clear that progress in early education depends more than ever on the states,» said NIEER Senior Co-Director Steven Barnett.

It incorporates into state law recent changes made to the federal Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), the federal educational privacy law) by the Uninterrupted Scholars Act.

The updated standards reflect research about the effect that social aspects — such as family engagement — have on education, as well as the increasingly complex role of school leaders, brought on by recent changes in state and federal policy.

The convergence of sluggish growth in student achievement, high turnover in the ranks of teachers, continuing achievement gaps, and state and federal actions that have zeroed in on the capacity of the current education system have set the stage for changes that are unparalleled in recent education history.