Sentences with phrase «ribbon commission appointed»

Raleigh, N.C. — A blue - ribbon commission appointed by Gov. James B. Hunt Jr. is recommending the establishment of a «career - growth» program for teachers, the reduction of class sizes in grades 4 - 6, and a recommitment to learning as schools» top priority.

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At the same time, the U.S. still lacks a long - term solution for nuclear waste due to the cancellation of a disposal facility being built at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, although President Obama has appointed a blue - ribbon commission to make recommendations.

The Department of Energy submitted a construction licence application for the Yucca Mountain repository to the NRC in 2008, but following 2009's presidential elections the Obama administration subsequently decided to abort the project, appointing a high - level Blue Ribbon Commission to come up with alternative strategies.

In a somewhat similar situation 20 years ago, when NAEP was being reinvented, Secretary William Bennett appointed a diverse, blue - ribbon commission (known as the Alexander - James Commission, after its chairman and vice chairman, Lamar Alexander and H. Thomas James) to recommend, among other things, how the «new NAEP» would operate and becommission (known as the Alexander - James Commission, after its chairman and vice chairman, Lamar Alexander and H. Thomas James) to recommend, among other things, how the «new NAEP» would operate and beCommission, after its chairman and vice chairman, Lamar Alexander and H. Thomas James) to recommend, among other things, how the «new NAEP» would operate and be governed.

Instead, the administration appointed the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future to address, once again, the country's efforts to store and dispose of high - level radioactive wastes.