Sentences with phrase «use federal incentives»

W. Craig Fugate, the agency's administrator, acknowledged in an interview that «as a nation, we have not yet figured out» how to use federal incentives to improve resiliency and discourage excessive risks.

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Finally, the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) proposed abolition of network neutrality rules provides stronger incentives to AT&T to use the acquired contents exclusively.

And much of the reason its creators felt confident enough to invest all that time, money, and effort — given the small number of patients who might eventually use the medicine — can be traced to the Orphan Drug Act, a 1983 federal law that gave those who develop meds for uncommon diseases longer periods of marketing exclusivity and other financial incentives.

The federal government creates building code models for the provinces to use, says Weis, and it has the jurisdiction to support green building initiatives through incentives.

Blending this with federal incentive programs, greater access to information and services and more choices has challenged health systems and clinicians to adopt, use, and interoperate with new information technologies.

Using enrollment of thousands of people in a California blackout prevention program as an experimental test bed, a team of researchers that included Erez Yoeli, a researcher at the Federal Trade Commission, Moshe Hoffman, a visiting researcher at Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics (PED), David Rand, formerly a post-doctoral fellow at PED (now a professor at Yale University), and PED Director Martin Nowak, showed that while financial incentives boosted participation only slightly, making participation in the program observable — through the use of sign - up sheets posted in apartment buildings — produced a three-fold increase in sign - ups.

At last count, of the 34 states with 529 deductions or credits, eighteen automatically conformed or have passed legislation to conform to the federal 529 change, while sixteen have either argued that their state 529 incentives can not be used for K - 12 expenses, despite the federal change, or have yet to determine their course.

It was not difficult for opponents to cast Common Core as a federal initiative, given 1) the Obama administration's use of RttT incentives (and later, waivers to NCLB requirements) to encourage states to adopt the standards and 2) the administration's funding of the consortia.

Leveraging the federal role by using the Higher Education Act to offer students incentives to graduate ready for college and the workplace, support state efforts to raise high school exit standards and strengthen postsecondary accountability, and by aligning the 12th grade National Assessment of Educational Progress to ADP's benchmarks; and,

Pressure by the Obama Administration, using the carrot of incentives (RTTT) and the stick of proposed penalties (denial of access to Title I funding), to induce states to sign on to the common standards initiative raises serious questions about further federal involvement in standards - setting and assessments.

As states reach important milestones on the way toward building internationally competitive education systems, the federal government should offer a range of tiered incentives to make the next stage of the journey easier, including increased flexibility in the use of federal funds and in meeting federal educational requirements and providing more resources to implement world - class educational best practices.

Support this effort through a range of tiered incentives, such as providing states with greater flexibility in the use of existing federal funds, supporting a revised state accountability structure, and offering financial support for states to implement the standards.

The paper reviews several program approval processes and evaluates them according to seven quality criteria: ease of use; inclusion of industry approval; adjustability; federal recognition; incentives for providers; offering of program - level approval; and consideration of outcomes.

What to watch: Various stakeholder groups in Oklahoma expressed a desire to use federal funds on policy changes to elevate the teaching profession through recruitment; residency and mentoring; differentiated pay and other incentives; culturally relevant teaching; teacher leadership opportunities; and improvements to both the evaluation and licensure systems.

By encouraging states to use their funds for this purpose — and making it explicitly allowable under Title I — this proposal would create incentives to reduce inefficiencies in the spending of federal, state, and local dollars.

Federal policymakers should create incentives for states, districts, and schools to meaningfully engage families in their children's education using research - based strategies and practices.

However, using these additional resources to create incentives for states to contribute additional state funds toward the goal of equitably funding their low - income districts would make these federal resources even more effective.

Subject to proviso in the General Appropriations Act, the Commissioner of Education may use funds appropriated by the Legislature and funds from federal grants and other sources to provide incentives for teacher recruitment and preparation programs.

The Obama administration has used federal money for the Teacher Incentive Fund, Race to the Top and School Improvement Grant program to encourage policymakers in states and districts to adopt new teacher evaluations that incorporate student test scores, despite the controversy surrounding them.

The Obama administration's Race to the Top Fund, which was designed to use federal grant money as an incentive for states to replicate programs shown to improve student performance, has...

There is no federal funding stream for induction programs, but funds from the Every Student Succeeds Act Title II, Part A and the Teacher and School Leader Incentive Grants program can be used for this purpose.89

The goal is to use federal funds as an incentive to get projects underway and built more quickly, with greater participation by state, local and private partners.

And, given the Volt's current low lease rates, using federal tax incentives, it is likely that value has become a motivator for prospective buyers of this extended - range electric car as well.

The 2015 federal budget wasn't very enticing, but it did offer a couple of tax and saving incentives for those considering estate planning using real estate or looking to stay in their home a bit longer.

The lenders are adopting a code of conduct that bans a variety of marketing practices, such as using logos or seals that look like federal emblems, providing incentives to induce students to borrow from the lender (e.g., gift cards, iPods, prizes and sweepstakes), providing false rebate checks, paying students referral fees to encourage friends to borrow, advertising interest rates and discounts that few borrowers will realize (including using such rates and loan terms in repayment examples and examples illustrating loan costs), misrepresenting the advantages of private loans over federal loans.

In the weeks that followed, in his attempt to «take down» TPWR, Mr. Garay engaged in repeated posts of fabricated and defaming statements about TPWR; contacted state and federal agencies as well as supporters of TPWR with intent to discredit our organization; contacted personally volunteers and supporters of our rescue offering monetary incentive (bribes) for them to share with him any details that could be used against TPWR in further attempts to discredit TPWR's record; posted publicly solicitation of individuals for him to hire who would be willing to further «investigate» and «expose» TPWR; personally and directly interfered in and had his followers contact individuals who were collaborating with TPWR while coordinating the rescue of Weimaraners in need into the TPWR rescue program.

What I have been advocating for is that the federal government establish programs that provides positive financial incentives for using less energy — by driving less, flying less and conserving energy in the home.

The American Lung Association supports federal incentives for the purchase of E85 flex - fuel vehicles if and only if these incentives require the use of E85.

The advantages of installing solar panels in Illinois is the net metering law and the federal solar tax credit of 30 % and almost certainly in the near future an SREC program, all these incentives should be used now while they're still around!

One source in a report to the federal Secretaries of Energy and Agriculture (44) makes the claim that «Governments can use three broad tools to effect change: spending, incentives, and regulation....

The federal ITC allows for 30 % of the system cost to be claimed as a deduction to federal taxes, this incentive may be used over several years to suit anyones tax liability.

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The use of CNG remains most popular in states like California and New York, though popularity may soon spread as customers take advantage of federal vehicle tax credits and incentives for purchasing CNG vehicles or converting a gas - powered car.

So far, the high cost of domestic offshore wind projects has made them economically unattractive, despite the availability of federal tax incentives and state policies to promote use of renewable energy.

«The most useful tax incentives target long - term structural changes in the market, using temporary federal assistance to build the market for energy - efficient products so that tax incentives can be phased out,» said Nadel.

No explanation is provided for why they did not use EIA's more recent 2015 and 2014 data, which show that wind energy imposes no net cost relative to conventional sources of energy even after removing the impact of federal incentives.

The NEPD Group recommends that the President direct federal agencies... to identify environmentally and cost - effective ways to use market mechanisms and incentives... and cooperate with allies, including through international processes, to develop technologies, market - based incentives, and other innovative approaches to address the issue of global climate change.»

In November, a presidential commission headed by Mr. Trump's one - time political rival for the Republican presidential nomination, former Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, issued a 56 - recommendation report that included calls for the federal government to set up drug courts across the U.S., retrain medical prescribers on opioid use and reduce incentives for doctors to offer the powerful painkillers.