The Rural Education Achievement Program (REAP) is designed to help small, rural districts
use federal resources more effectively.
Not exact matches
These programs provide free one - on - one mentoring and low - cost training opportunities for their clients in locations around the country,
using a combination of
federal funds, state and local government contributions, and private sector
resources.
'' [The agreement] will allow NASA to focus its
resources on core missions, while protecting the
federal need to
use Moffett Field as a continued, limited -
use airfield,» said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden in a statement.
Corporations are banned from contributing to
federal election campaigns, and the
use of official Trump Organization corporate
resources would constitute a violation of that rule.
Furthermore, we found no clear correlation between
use of
federal government
resources and perceptions of success, though the possibility deserves more research.
The role of the
federal government should be to regulate aggregate demand to maintain full
use of
resources (more or less).
Using the Bloomberg BNA audit tool to measure our performance against
federal, state and local regulations, as well as gap analyses conducted by our EHS team at each of our sites every two years, we've established a consistent approach to how we allocate
resources, assign responsibilities and evaluate our practices, procedures and processes to reduce our environmental footprint.
Whether or not Congress chooses to increase reimbursements, the first step to providing
resources for higher quality school meals is to ensure that
federal reimbursements for free and reduced price meals are
used for their intended purpose — providing nutritious breakfasts and lunches to low - income school children.
Advocates can expand the Afterschool Meal Program and obtain
federal reimbursement
using proven outreach strategies, including promoting the program, building relationships with afterschool and out - of - school time provider networks, connecting sites to available community
resources, and working closely with the state agency.
For its part, the airline says that it already provides places that comply with
federal and Colorado state requirements in all airports it
uses, according to Cindi Ruff, vice president of human
resources at Frontier.
Democrats and Republicans waged war —
using tweets, Congressional memos and even a presidential TV appearance — over whether the FBI misused
federal surveillance
resources against President Trump's 2016 campaign.
Rangel was found to have misused
federal resources to solicit donations for a City College of New York center named in his honor,
used a rent - stabilized apartment for his campaign office, failed to pay taxes on a villa in the Dominican Republic and filed inaccurate financial disclosure forms.
«The problem here is that in some ways what this is based on is the idea that you can violate state law and state prohibitions on
using government
resources during a campaign as a defense against
federal bribery charges,» Kaehny said.
«The residents of Hoosick Falls deserve to know that every available
resource at both the state and
federal levels is being
used to fully investigate the source of the PFOA contamination, and that aggressive steps are being taken by the EPA to identify the responsible parties and ensure that full remediation will occur,» Gillibrand wrote.
«
Using official
resources for campaign purposes is a clear violation» of House rules and
federal law, Slaughter said, «and is a clear and undeniable abuse of official staff time,
resources and attention.»
«Now that the
Federal Government is talking about diversification of the economy, Fayemi should
use his position to assist Ekiti State in harnessing its solid mineral
resources for the economic benefit of the State and Nigeria.
• New York State, local and
federal resources were
used to evacuate health care facilities that were in the direct predicted path of Hurricane Irene.
«The
resources of the City of Syracuse, including the Syracuse Police Department, are not being
used to enforce
federal anti-immigrant policies nor are they empowered to do so,» Miner said.
«As long as I am Mayor, we will not
use our
resources to enforce
federal anti-immigrant policies.
«We will take every action that we can, we will
use every
resource and if that include legal action to stop the
federal government because this can not happen.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's campaign manager appeared to make extensive
use of state
resources while running the governor's re-election bid in 2014, including placing hundreds of phone calls from a government office, according to evidence presented in Manhattan
federal court on Monday.
Miner declared Syracuse a «sanctuary city» in January, saying that city
resources and its police force will not be
used to enforce
federal «anti-immigrant policies.»
The measure also would prohibit county
resources from being
used to create a
federal registry based on immigration status and states that the county won't
use citizenship or immigration status when providing services or benefits, except when those services or benefits are contingent on citizenship or legal immigration status.
Other questions included whether Jindal has spoken with Chris Christie, who heads the Republican Governors Association about his lack of support for Astorino, whether Jindal would, if he were still head of the RGA,
use RGA
resources to support Astorino, whether Jindal agrees with Senator Rand Paul that the
federal government is being untruthful about the danger from Ebola and what Jindal thinks of Cuomo's performance as governor.
«I promise you, that so long as I am mayor, the
resources of the city, including the Syracuse Police Department, will not be
used to enforce
federal anti-immigrant policies,» said the mayor.
The declaration would allow
federal resources to be
used to help clean up areas in the village contaminated with a man - made chemical that polluted public and private water supplies.
In a statement from her office, Miner pledged to continue «Syracuse's commitment to our New American residents» by «not allowing the city's
resources, including the police department, to be
used to to enforce
federal anti-immigrant policies.»
Let's not forget that all states in the union have
federal allocations to take proper care of their destitute persons, why is Peter Obi and Anambra state not
using such allocation for the said purposes, why push his state's destitute to Lagos, in a clear misguided attempt to drain Lagos state's allocated
resources for same purpose?
During these times of shrinking budgets, data driven decisions are critical to ensure that scarce
federal resources are
used effectively.
Five Canadian
federal government departments dealing with natural
resources have banded together to encourage collaboration and coordination in the
use of science and technology for sustainable development.
A group of researchers led by Felix Kienast from the Swiss
Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) has investigated this issue as part of the National Research Programme «Sustainable
use of soil as a
resource» (NRP 68).
Miller - Travis said the
federal grants enable hundreds of communities to transform threats to their public health, natural
resources and economy into parks and other recreational
uses, housing and new businesses.
Government careers range from
federal agencies concerned with regulatory issues, like the FDA and the US Environmental Protection Agency, to the municipality level, for example, a county interested in
using geographical information systems to plot local
resources.
But the Clean Air Act, which the Obama administration
used as the legal mechanism for the plan, mandates that the
federal government regulate carbon dioxide emissions because the EPA has already declared it to be a pollutant, said David Goldston, government affairs director for the Natural
Resources Defense Council.
It is the policy of the
Federal Government, in cooperation with State and local governments, Indian tribes, and other interested stakeholders to
use all practicable means and measures to protect, restore, and conserve natural
resources to enable them to become more resilient, adapt to, and withstand the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification.
Provide the principal interface and project management function for
federal customers providing services through either HGS direct
resources or through a «matrixed management» approach to
using Holtec International
resources and capabilities (engineering, design, analytical capabilities, manufacturing and field services);
The Department of Energy leads in bringing together
federal agencies to discuss ongoing marine and hydrokinetic
resource use and technology development.
A team of researchers from the
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil,
used data collected by NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft to pinpoint star clusters located in the
resource rich environment of the spiral arms, and
use them as markers to trace the structure of our galaxy.
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In a particularly bold move, the independent commission of educators, researchers, and child advocates recommends that
federal funds be
used as leverage to force states to «equalize» the
resources available to school districts.
If the «
resources in the home» variable is a reliable proxy for family income data, as the authors claim, then why
use the flawed
federal lunch program variable at all?
The authors» suggestion that states could
use a «triage» approach to focus
resources on the most needy schools confuses what is likely to happen, based on the available
resources, with what needs to happen in order to meet state and
federal standards.
Schools
used their share of $ 4.3 billion in
federal Race to the Top competitive - grant money to make significant progress in areas including state data systems and instructional
resources for teachers.
There's no ready estimate of how much districts spend for extracurriculars: Districts account differently for teachers» afterschool pay (it can be lumped in with merit pay, says Stephen Frank of Education
Resource Strategies), whether they include team buses in the extracurricular budget, how much they depend on parents and booster clubs for field maintenance and stage - set construction, if and how much they charge students to participate, whether they
use federal Title I funds for afterschool enrichment, and so on.
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.
But most importantly he will bring a deep commitment to
using the
resources of the
federal government to support educators in a positive way in the broad agenda of improving teaching and learning.
«In light of the recent
federal guidance on assessment, it's even more critical for teachers to have programs and
resources that foster an understanding of how to
use assessment to provide every student with an equitable K - 12 education.»
The statement concludes: «There is no reasonable rationale for
using taxpayer funds to build more charter schools until and unless the
federal government provides
resources to build and renovate our traditional public schools, especially in underfunded and overcrowded urban districts, proportional to the number of students currently enrolled in them.»
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.
The Department of Education should
use national tests to evaluate education in the United States and where possible formulate plans where the
resources of the
federal government can lessen the cost of education in the United States.