Sentences with phrase «time federal initiatives»

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With new programs and initiatives being unveiled at the provincial and federal level all the time, there will always be a need for talented civil servants to keep Canada's political institutions running.

For example, the federal government implemented a number of one - time measures, including $ 4.0 billion in 2002 - 03 for health care initiatives, $ 3.5 billion in 2003 - 04 for health care initiatives and agricultural support, $ 3.6 billion in 2004 - 05 for the Wait Times Reduction Fund and $ 9 billion in 2009 - 10 to support the auto sector.

After The Close - Stocks did little more than mark time on Tuesday, turning in a mixed performance after trading broadly higher for much of the day on hopes for new policy initiatives on the part of the Federal Reserve and a lessening in fears about the euro zone.

With Albany's transactional politics now the subject of a federal probe, the context of that April 2013 book deal is particularly significant: An International Business Times review of New York state documents reveals that News Corporation gave Cuomo a book contract after Cuomo's administration backed a series of state initiatives that benefited the media giant.

«Top aides arrested, signature initiatives plagued by corruption, widening scandals at every turn,» Chris Martin, an NRCC spokesman, said in an email, referencing federal charges against Cuomo's one - time top aide Joe Percoco.

Lacking any official declaration of the project's cost or how it would be funded, some researchers bristled at the prospect of a large new federal initiative that could take money from traditional grants for individual scientists, especially at a time when NIH faces a massive budget cut.

Almost every time one looks at an Education Department initiative nowadays, one is forced to wonder why they persist in thinking that education utopia can be attained via federal regulation.

The Administration's initiative is merely an attempt to buy time for the implementation of another round of counter-productive federal policies that double down on the failure of the past decade of test - and - punish programs.

Almost every high - performing charter network in the country, from KIPP to Achievement First, uses significantly more scheduled time to achieve impressive academic gains, and many public schools, spurred by local initiatives, innovative state policies and federal leadership, are also adopting this promising practice.

Federal judges who oversee desegregation plans in Louisiana are wrestling with that issue at a time when President Trump wants to spend billions of dollars on charter schools, vouchers and other «school choice» initiatives.

Broad has two distinct flagship initiatives, a residency program for placing «participants into full - time high - level managerial positions in school districts, CMOs (Charter Management Organizations), and federal / state departments of education» (http://broadresidency.org/about/overview.html)

I would beg to differ as these systems have not changed much over time, pre and post these federal initiatives as (without evidence or warrant) claimed by these authors herein.

She managed a Federal Preschool Development Grant and, as part of the Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge Grant, worked on a first time initiative to require child care providers to conduct developmental screening on children aged 6 weeks to 5 years old and to help families access referrals and / or resources as necessary.

The Bank highlighted that household debt ratios will continue to rise, but these will be mitigated over time by the announced changes to housing finance rules.Even before the unanticipated rise in mortgage rates in October, the Bank revised down its economic forecast in large measure because of the federal government's new initiatives «to promote stability in Canada's housing market».

From 1935 to 1941, the artist worked under the WPA Federal Art Project alongside Willem de Kooning, a major government initiative to provide artists with work at the time of the Great Depression.

It is time for our federal government to take leadership and work with provinces and territories to implement the CEDAW, and launch a comprehensive national initiative so all women in Canada can enjoy the equality CEDAW guarantees.

«We've seen a 3.6 % reduction in smoking rates over that time yet the Federal Budget has reduced spending on closing the gap anti-smoking initiatives,»

In this time of shrinking federal resource allocation for disadvantaged families and public policy that champions faith - based initiatives and volunteerism to address social problems, policy makers might use our findings and conclude that volunteer - based programs may be complementary to but not a substitute for other forms of early intervention and support services for socially and economically disadvantaged childbearing teenagers.