Sentences with phrase «states more flexibility»

He said in the coming year, Congress will be focused on giving states more flexibility with Medicaid and on «getting people from welfare to work.»

In the executive order President Trump signed on his first day in office, he instructed federal agencies to prepare to grant the states more flexibility in managing their health care programs.

A common theme was the idea of giving states more flexibility to change the definition of essential health benefits, or block granting the ACA's funding to the states and let them develop their own solutions.

Officials said this would give states more flexibility in picking navigators, though advocates who commented on the rules said they would reduce access to in - person help signing up for health care.

Eventually, there was a bit of gas - tax money to spend on mass transit, and ISTEA is the bill that gave states more flexibility about how to spend it.

The newest incarnation of the law could theoretically eliminate the requirement that nearly every public school student is tested in grades three through eighth and once in high school or could give states more flexibility when it comes to the tests they administer.

The measure, by GOP Sen. Lamar Alexander, would give states more flexibility over designing their own accountability systems.

The National Education Association expressed satisfaction that the bill maintains the disaggregation of student performance data and provides states more flexibility in their use of federal dollars, but displeasure of the prescriptive nature of the bill's school turnaround proposals.

The goal of the waivers is to give states more flexibility as they seek to reach educational achievement goals set by the federal government when George W. Bush was president.

A new federal law has addressed that concern and will allow states more flexibility in rating schools.

«Starting today, we'll be giving states more flexibility to meet high standards.»

ESSA gives states more flexibility to decide their own testing policies, including what to do if a school or district falls below 95 percent.

(Va.) Despite recent efforts of the Obama administration to provide states more flexibility in developing new accountability systems, school districts across the nation continue to rely on performance measures tied to conventional testing systems, according to a new report.

In addition to providing states more flexibility than the statute alone, the regulations both promote consistency and clarity across states and provide public transparency in the development and implementation of ESSA locally.

Programs in Connecticut, Maine, Mississippi, and New Jersey were approved last month under the Adoption and Safe Families Act, which gives states more flexibility in trying innovative child - welfare projects.

Allowing states more flexibility in how they deliver education to students is at the core of ESSA.

Federal officials should allow Arizona school leaders to decide the best way to measure student progress and make good on the federal commitment to give states more flexibility through ESSA.

ESSA standards are supposed to give states more flexibility in monitoring student and school performance.

The proposal would also convert Medicaid, the health program for the poor, into a series of block grants to give states more flexibility.

But later he emphasizes the importance of giving «states more flexibility.»

It sparked a national conversation on giving states more flexibility in education policy.

However, there are moves by the EU to give member states more flexibility on VAT.

Along with work requirements, the agencies are instructed to follow nine «Principles of Economic Mobility» to guide their proposed changes, including giving states more flexibility, encouraging private sector involvement, and promoting marriage as a means to escape poverty.

The emergency declaration would also free up public health emergency funds at the Department of Health and Human Services, and grant individual states more flexibility in how they use federal dollars, and allow them to direct more funds toward addiction treatment and prevention.

Not exact matches

I like work flexibility because it will allow me to see more of my family that lives in another state, as well as be available more for my dad who is going to be 82 this year.

«The launch of this third forex market has the potential to give the system some flexibility and the capacity for a more efficient allocation of resources,» Barclays stated in a research note.

About three thousand students are already benefiting from the latest wrinkle in five states, «education savings accounts,» which provide even more flexibility to families by allowing those who withdraw their children from public schools to receive a deposit of public funds into government - authorized savings accounts that can be used to pay for private school tuition, online learning programs, private tutoring, educational therapies, or college costs.

«USDA has continued to show flexibility in implementing these new standards, and Congress should focus on partnering with USDA, states, schools, and parents to help our kids have access to more healthy food, not less.»

They were designed to allow flexibility for state associations that collectively oversee the more than 15,000 high schools across the country that have football programs.

The marathon 20 hours of wheeling and dealing behind closed doors produced votes to approve a last - minute ethics bill, a mandate to test school drinking water supplies for lead, money for SUNY and CUNY, more money and operating flexibility for charter schools, $ 570 million for «supportive housing» for the homeless, and continued state control of the New York Racing Association until October 2017.

But while the move may offer more flexibility by transferring funds without the OK from lawmakers, other state officials say it brings down openness in government.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in an interview on Sunday called his effort to gain more «flexibility» over the budget after its approval a «major sticking point» with lawmakers, but a necessary move given the potential for federal actions that could negatively impact the state.

He says he's taking that step to give state agencies more flexibility in responding to issues related to the flooding which has impacted homeowners and businesses near the lake.

New York education leaders urged government officials to build more flexibility into the state's new «free tuition» program, which launched this summer and is currently serving more than 23,000 public college students statewide.

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Cuomo's budget director, Robert Megna, rebuts DiNapoli's charges, saying the governor needs more «flexibility» in the budget to improve efficiencies for things like procurement, and the consolidation of information technology among state agencies.

Here's perhaps the best proof of the flexibility the governor has in state spending: for all the uproar among gun rights advocates over the SAFE Act ammunition database, no one has ever identified a provision of the budget which funds the state's separate rifle registration system, which had tallied more than 44,000 records by 2015 without ever once being mentioned in the governor's budget requests.

Proposed changes, which will come into focus during the upcoming legislative session, include amending or altogether repealing a 2011 statute that provided SUNY more flexibility by eliminating the need for pre-approval from the state comptroller for all SUNY procurements (excluding non-construction service purchases totaling more than $ 250,000)-- a measure lawmakers reauthorized in April through 2021.

So the key here is to create more flexibility, more ability for states to design programs, and also to have more flexibility in terms of the insurance law.»

«New York's medical marijuana has made the state more economically competitive and has ushered in a new era of compassionate care by giving patients and families suffering from debilitating illness greater flexibility and choices to get the life - sustaining medical care they need,» she said in a statement.

It also gives more flexibility to the State Liquor Authority in issuing permits.

• Voters appeared ready to approve a referendum that would allow the state to create a 250 - acre land bank in the Adirondacks and the Catskills while giving local communities more flexibility in making infrastructure improvements.

Central New York state legislators have introduced a bill that would give the state Department of Environmental Conservation more flexibility with issuing deer control permits.

Computer science researchers at North Carolina State University and Universidade de Lisboa have developed a tool for use with the game Skyrim that can be used to create nonplayer characters (NPCs) that allow for more variability and flexibility in game play.

The State Department recently relaxed deadlines for student visas, giving holders more flexibility about when they apply and when they may arrive in the U.S..

Since cost per student (not price, which is passed on as tuition) is roughly the same at public and private colleges, she also proposes that a greater proportion of state money for higher education should go directly to students, giving them more flexibility.9

Waiver: Comprehensive flexibility that the U.S. Department of Education has granted to more than 40 states and the District of Columbia from key requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act (the current version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act) in exchange for embracing certain Obama administration education - redesign priorities on teachers, testing, standards, and school turnarounds.

The education platform of his 2016 presidential campaign reflected his state focus, calling for more state flexibility in designing their own accountability systems.

The Every Student Succeeds Act pushes states to move beyond test scores in gauging school performance and gives them all sorts of new flexibility when it comes to funding, turning around low - performing schools, and more.

As Congress wrestles with reauthorizing the 5 1/2 - year - old No Child Left Behind Act, some disability - rights advocates fear high standards for students with disabilities could be sacrificed as states seek more flexibility in the law.