Sentences with phrase «recent federal initiatives»

This essay is a critical overview of the ideology, politics, and implications of recent federal initiatives in parent education.

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The federal government and private organizations have tried to encourage sharing in recent years through initiatives like the Genomic Data Commons, a «unified data repository» intended to hasten cancer cures by making research public.

The US Federal Reserve (Fed) looks likely to tighten monetary policy further, as inflation and unemployment move closer to its targets — underlining the strength of the domestic economy — but, while awaiting more substance on policy initiatives, we remain cautious about predictions of an end to the pattern of modest US growth seen in recent years.

USDA's recent initiatives will bring more opportunity to farmers and handlers across the country, and they represent additional elements of solid federal support for the growth of the organic sector.

The governor's prodigious fundraising has returned to the spotlight in recent weeks due to a newly revealed federal probe of the «Buffalo Billion» initiative and other development projects in western New York, including several overseen by SUNY Polytechnic Institute.

As a member of the Education & Workforce committee, I strongly support STEM education initiatives and strongly oppose recent efforts to reduce federal funding in these areas.

At least three federal voucher initiatives are in the works or have been proposed in recent weeks.

That power has steadily increased over the decades, especially in recent years, as federal initiatives like No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top have pushed states to assume more authority over education.

Overview Recent initiatives at the federal, state, and local levels have charged child welfare agencies with the challenge of better integrating research - based programs and practices into their daily routines.

First under George W. Bush and the No Child Left Behind Act, then under Barack Obama and a long list of intrusive initiatives, the federal government's role in education has metastasized, growing more and more aggressively in recent years.

In recent years community colleges have gained meaningful support — from the federal government and from a good number of philanthropic organizations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Lumina Foundation — to develop important initiatives geared toward helping students earn credentials that have labor - market value.

Seven Oaks is not alone in this regard — federal, state and private groups struggle to keep up with demand when financing for charter schools, according to a recent report by the nonprofit group Local Initiatives Support Corporation.

In recent years, policymakers and reform advocates have viewed State Education Agencies (SEAs) as the lead organizations for implementing sweeping reforms and initiatives in K — 12 education — everything from Race to the Top grants and federal waivers to teacher - evaluation systems and online schools.

As can be seen below, American Capital Agency has handsomely outperformed its rivals before and after the most recent quantitative easing initiative of the Federal Reserve.

«While our federal government is sitting on its hands, California is moving full speed ahead toward a clean energy future,» Mr. Schwarzenegger, who campaigned vigorously against the initiative, said in a recent address.

Its narrow zoning laws are better suited to transit - oriented, mixed - use development, and in recent decades it's made a strong push at the federal level to fund transit initiatives.

One of the firm's most recent technology initiatives was training paralegals on electronic filing with state and federal courts, Sullivan said.

Manchester commercial litigation partner Dan Deane provided commentary in this article about the Federal Trade Commission's recent comments in support of the Federal Communications Commission's initiative to allow telephone providers to block illegal telemarketing robocalls.

At the federal level, recent efforts have been made to create father - focused policies around paternal involvement, job training, and healthy marriage initiatives.

Despite recent policy initiatives and substantial federal funding of individually oriented relationship education programs for youth, there have been no meta - analytic reviews of this growing field.

At a recent CSP ™ conference in Toronto, Ontario a representative of the Canadian Federal Government applauded and supported the efforts of CSP ™ with the Eco Staging ™ initiative.