Sentences with phrase «use of their federal resources»

ESSA has provided states, schools and districts a new approach to federal assistance and Positive Action is committed to helping educators make the best use of their federal resources.

The TIFIA program promotes cost - effective use of Federal resources to encourage co-investment in transportation infrastructure.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Vermont's State Board of Education followed with a resolution carefully reviewing the evidence on testing; calling on the federal government to reduce testing mandates and to stop using tests to evaluate teachers; and calling on state and national organizations to broaden educational goals and ensure adequate resources for schools.

• 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.

Under No Child Left Behind, the federal government requires school districts to use 1 percent of Title I money to fund programs that involve parents in the schools and provides another $ 39 million annually for 62 Parental Information and Resource Centers (PIRCs) that provide training and information for both parents and district personnel to bolster family engagement in schools.

Both call for reporting on how federal resources are being used to improve performance of struggling students.

Announced last November, the U.S. Department of Education's #GoOpen campaign aims to require all copyrightable resources developed with federal grant funds to have an open license, making them free to be customized, distributed, and used.

DOT's APR provides yearly updates on program performance and achievements to enable policymakers, Federal managers, and the public to assess how well the Department has made use of its resources.

State and Federal resources will be used to support FDOT's final acceptance payments ($ 686 million year of expenditure) and availability payments ($ 65.9 million annual Maximum Availability Payment in 2009 dollars) made to I - 595 Express, LLC.

The Agencies must consult with relevant Federal agencies and State resource agencies, State departments of transportation, Indian tribes, and the public on the appropriate use and scope of programmatic approaches.

The Digital Accountability and Transparency (DATA) Act of 2014 seeks to improve the effectiveness of the federal government's resources through increased transparency and use of federal spending data.

The key to obtaining federal short - term loans is to use all available resources for both private and public institutions as these multiple sources of funding will have different availability and terms associated with the loans.

The Ed Trust's report, «Doing Away With Debt: Using Existing Resources to Ensure College Affordability for Low and Middle Income Families,» suggests that for students who are willing to study, work, or serve their communities, the federal and state governments, along with their institutions, should make sure they can afford to go to college without the fear of crushing student loan debt.

It is time for federal loan guarantees for wind farms and federal planning for a balanced use of our national wind resource.

Federal Lands Jobs and Energy Security Act of 2013 - Title I: Federal Lands Jobs and Energy Security - Federal Lands Jobs and Energy Security Act -(Sec. 1002) Directs the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary), when practicable, to encourage the use of U.S. workers and equipment manufactured in the U.S. in all construction related to mineral resource development under this Act.

Title II: Planning For American Energy - Planning for American Energy Act of 2013 -(Sec. 2002) Amends the MLA to direct the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) with regard to lands administered by the Forest Service, to publish every four years a Quadrennial Federal Onshore Energy Production Strategy to direct federal land energy development and department resource allocation in order to promote the energy and national security of the United States in accordance with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) mission to promote the multiple use of federalFederal Onshore Energy Production Strategy to direct federal land energy development and department resource allocation in order to promote the energy and national security of the United States in accordance with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) mission to promote the multiple use of federalfederal land energy development and department resource allocation in order to promote the energy and national security of the United States in accordance with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) mission to promote the multiple use of federalfederal lands.

-- If electricity is generated using both a renewable energy resource or other qualifying energy resource and an energy source that is not a renewable energy resource or other qualifying energy resource (as, for example, in the case of co-firing of renewable biomass and fossil fuel), the Commission shall issue Federal renewable electricity credits based on the proportion of the electricity that is attributable to the renewable energy resource or other qualifying energy resource.