Sentences with phrase «several federal initiatives»

Tying student growth to teacher and principal evaluations has proven difficult for states, but it's been a focus of several federal initiatives, including waivers and the Race to the Top grant program.

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Continuing on the topic of jobs, raising the minimum wage beyond the $ 7.25 federal hourly rate is a key ballot initiative for this midterm cycle in several red states including Alaska, Arkansas, South Dakota and Nebraska.

Cuomo announced that he has formally requested that New York be excluded from the federal government's expansion of offshore oil and gas drilling access and touted several other initiatives that he's undertaken as governor.

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.

With the Environmental Protection Agency convening a National Bedbug Summit Tuesday, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and several council members called on federal officials to put money into initiatives to fight the minuscule, resilient creatures.

This approach has several advantages over vouchers funded out of the federal budget: no existing federal money expected by school districts would be affected; no state money would be involved, thus avoiding legal conflicts with constitutional provisions that bar the use of state and local money for religious schools in 37 states; and, as a pure federal initiative, state laws and tax codes would remain unaffected.

In response to questions from several committee members, Thatcher said he knew of no entanglement in the initiative by the federal government.

During his State of the Union address, President Obama announced that the Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, and several private companies signed on to support his ConnectED initiative to help schools build higher - speed Internet connections.

Over the last several years federal initiatives have called on states to improve the nation's lowest performing schools.

At a broader level, several mechanisms for facilitating communication among the staff, professional development, collaboration, and participation in state and federal educational initiatives were found.

Several points that I felt were imperative: 1) Everyone at the federal level knows that the current law is disliked and must change, 2) There is a recognized effort to make the language and details of the next ESEA reauthorization more user - friendly — all stakeholders of a school community should be able to understand the legislation and be vested in the success of schools, and 3) Legislators are seeking the right balance between formula funding and competitive grants — one area of consideration is the consolidation of educational programs or initiatives, which will allow federal monies to be used more effectively to help schools and children.

There are several types available, each of which are designed to provide an increase in the level of health care in rural areas, while also acting as part of the federal student loan forgiveness initiative.

He cosponsored several student loan initiatives such as the Federal refinancing bill, financial counseling bill, and more.

«Any one of the several new or likely regulatory initiatives for CO2 emissions from power plants — including state carbon controls, E.P.A.'s regulations under the Clean Air Act, or the enactment of federal global warming legislation — would add a significant cost to carbon - intensive coal generation,» the letters said... Selective disclosure of favorable information or omission of unfavorable information concerning climate change is misleading.

There have been numerous federal initiatives aimed at protecting the privacy of especially sensitive personal information over the past several years — and several decades.

The ONDCP coordinates anti-drug initiatives at several federal agencies.

By John Geha The federal budget tabled in January included several initiatives to stimulate the Canadian economy through home - buying initiatives, and rightly so.

Wong said the Pasadena Foothills Association of REALTORS ® has been supportive of several city affordable housing initiatives, including contributing funds that the city used to match with federal dollars to provide down payments to qualified home buyers.

Both the government of Moscow and the federal government plans to implement several initiatives.