Sentences with phrase «urging federal officials»

She will support gauging school quality based on multiple measures while urging federal officials to keep the focus on academic indicators.

A top executive at AAAS, the world's largest general scientific organization, is urging federal officials to broaden the definition of research misconduct to include sexual harassment, saying such behavior is unacceptable and should carry serious financial repercussions.

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President Donald Trump's executive order on Inauguration Day urging federal officials to «take all actions consistent with law to minimize the unwarranted economic and regulatory burdens» of the federal health law did not provide administration officials with any new powers to unravel parts of the law.

A committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine urged federal officials to withdraw the entire proposal and form an expert commission to revamp the Common Rule.

ALBANY — The Cuomo administration urged federal officials on Monday not to grant a new license to the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County.

Not exact matches

In this case it's the unregulated 1,4 - dioxane, which Cuomo in a letter to the EPA urged the federal government to set an official threshold for following a roundtable discussion at SUNY Stony Brook.

Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino, right, stands with Mayor Bill de Blasio, and other local elected officials and transportation advocates, as they urge increased federal transportation investment in vital infrastructure in New York, on Nov. 24, 2015, under the Amtrak Rotunda at Penn Station in Manhattan.

«Given these demonstrated rehabilitative efforts, I urge federal immigration officials to once again grant Mr. Walters relief from deportation, so that he is not separated from his many family members who are United States citizens, including his two teenage children,» Paterson said at the time.

He urged state and Entergy officials to work with the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission to address the leak's cause.

Elected officials from Southold Town and Suffolk County joined several advocacy groups Monday to urge a New York State Assembly committee to preserve Plum Island, which the federal government owns and plans to sell.

Ten groups representing governors, state education officials and others sent letters to Congress on Monday urging reauthorization of the nation's main federal education law.

R. Herbert met with federal education officials in Washington to urge passage of the waiver.

The Saturday morning meeting held at Paterson's International High School lacked the rancor of the Newark meetings, but Hodges and others said they would make it up with persistence and urged attendees to take their concerns to local, state and even federal officials.

That law is at the center of a dispute between the Obama administration, which is urging states to more effectively determine teacher quality, and state education leaders, who insist that federal officials are misinterpreting the law.

The new federal education law allows states and school districts to press the reset button on an array of education policies, and some advocates are urging policymakers and education officials to take advantage of the opportunity to effectively use student data to improve learning and teaching.

NCSD urges federal government officials to increase funding for voluntary, public magnet schools that enroll a diverse student body.

To help solve this issue, Secretary Duncan recently urged top state education officials to use the summer months to take advantage of available federal programs that support the hiring and development of effective school counselors.

As news reports indicate that officials in the Department of Education are considering rescinding the guidance, we urge members and allies to tell the Department of Education to keep the important 2014 federal school discipline guidance in place.

Specifically, NAIA urges federal and state public health officials to consider adopting regulations for admitting dogs and cats, especially strays, to the North American Continent.

It came after officials in 16 states plus the District of Columbia urged the federal government to end funding for nursing homes that use the clauses, citing the practice as a means for nursing homes to hide patterns of wrongdoing and nursing home abuse of residents.

News of a letter from former DEA officials (some of whom profit from drug - testing business and, therefore, have a vested interest in keeping it illegal) to President Obama urging him to use federal power to put down Washington's and Colorado's recent local votes to legalize use of marijuana in their states hit the media week.

The documents that the government has released so far show that the financial industry has been in constant communication with the Federal Housing Finance Agency, urging officials to put a stop to local communities» principal reduction efforts.