Sentences with phrase «way federal policymakers»

There's a way federal policymakers can help.

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As offshore energy development expands, researchers argue that federal policymakers must devise ways to settle legal disputes

INDIANAPOLIS — Given declining revenues from gasoline and diesel fuel taxes and the need for new ways of funding road infrastructure, state and federal policymakers are considering or have enacted annual registration fees for plug - in vehicles.

Students would be much better off if policymakers and education leaders were to focus on student achievement results as a way to assess teacher quality overall, and to assess the quality of teacher preparation programs supported by federal and state dollars.

• The RSD, conceived originally as a modest pilot program that had awarded turnaround charters for just four schools prior to Hurricane Katrina, was dramatically enlarged by Louisiana policymakers as a way to get public schools open after the ensuing floods, and was propelled by more than $ 20 million in federal charter school funding.

Following the report presentation, practitioners and policymakers in attendance discussed the ways federal, state, and local policy and resources can help support the implementation of high - quality professional learning opportunities for teachers.

In order to improve rural schools, authors recommend federal policymakers stop promoting private school vouchers as a way to expand educational opportunities in rural areas, and to instead boost educational opportunities in local public schools by increasing efforts to modernize rural classrooms and integrate technology into teaching and learning.

NCLD spoke with advocates, parents, educators, experts and policymakers at both the state and federal levels to explore ways to ensure that personalized learning systems benefit students with disabilities.

Federal policymakers gave states significant flexibility to advance innovative, next generation education systems, and in turn, most states leveraged these possibilities in one way or another to develop a foundation for personalized models and strategies.

As students continue to take out federal loans to pay for college, policymakers should begin to look at what is continuing to drive up the costs of higher education and examine ways to deter students from unnecessary borrowing.

That means buttressing existing federal protections at the state level to ensure that anti — family planning activists and policymakers, including those in the Trump administration, do not undermine Medicaid, private insurance or family planning grant programs.22, 23,25 And it means expanding on current protections in various ways: For example, policymakers could address gaps in insurance coverage by requiring Medicaid and private insurance plans to cover vasectomy and condoms, as well as methods obtained without a prescription.

Bankers, regulators, policymakers, the Federal Reserve — everyone has been going out of their way to figure out how to kickstart housing — the $ 8,000 first - time home buyer tax credit, QE, near zero interest rate policies, and the GSEs revising lending policies to make it easier for home buyers to obtain financing even as bank lending dried up.