Sentences with phrase «whether federal officials»

But the guidance — which some advocates likened to Title IX's expansion of women's athletics — also touched off debate over whether federal officials had overstepped their authority.

A related concern of policymakers is whether federal officials will get involved in the setting of proficiency levels.

Not exact matches

Mexico and the United States are looking into whether armed U.S. federal air marshals could be deployed on commercial cross-border flights, according to a document seen by Reuters and a Mexican official.

Since January, Canada's federal lobbying commissioner has been investigating whether the fundraiser violated government rules, which say lobbyists can not lobby officials they helped get elected.

The billionaire entrepreneur also questioned whether it was advisable for federal officials to deprive the bank of billions of dollars in a proposed settlement, which would effectively siphon money away from shareholders.

That's the question that confronts officials at the Federal Reserve and institutional investors everywhere ahead of March 15, when the U.S. central bank will decide whether to raise short - term interest rates for the first time since December.

That suit is expected to go to trial in the fall, and the judge in the case recently recommended that federal officials look into whether criminal charges should be filed.

Though there is a nearly two - year - old state mandate that opens the free summer lunch program to all children in Illinois — whether or not they're in summer school — there has not been much improvement in participation, and officials say millions of federal dollars available for the meals are going untapped.

Armed security officers are becoming more prevalent at America's schools, according to a federal study released amid a heated debate over whether teachers and other school officials should carry guns.

The agreement requires «the town, its officers, officials, employees, and agents to continue to cooperate with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and any and all federal, state and local agencies and authorities, on matters whether civil or criminal in nature, regarding these allegations.»

The formal investigation panel has been charged with looking into whether Young broke House rules by allegedly failing to report gifts on his annual financial disclosure forms and allegedly lying to federal officials.

Watertown is applying for a federal grant to help pay for new firefighters, but officials are divided on whether it will ultimately save the city money.

(they also file a Birth Certificate but that's only with local authorities and I'm unaware whether there's an official Federal database harvesting that data).

A year after a court annulled town laws setting overnight curfews at East Hampton Airport, town officials opened discussions this week about whether to apply to the Federal Aviation Administration for permission to reinstitute restrictions in order...

Though officials at Denenberg's former firm say they have forwarded the matter to federal prosecutors, Blakeman spokesman Matt Coleman questioned whether it should be the DA's office to investigate Denenberg.

Company officials said they are required to follow federal rules, which give them little discretion on whether to start foreclosure proceedings, but would support the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development extending a moratorium on foreclosures of reverse mortgages on the island.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — State economic development officials have refused to say whether lobbyist Todd Howe — whose activities recently drew scrutiny from federal investigators — helped to secure a $ 2.5 million grant to renovate the former Nynex building in downtown Syracuse.

Officials at the Internal Revenue Service have not said whether such donations would be considered legitimate deductions for federal purposes.

The Manhattan district attorney's office is investigating de Blasio's fundraising practices, and federal prosecutors are probing whether the mayor or city officials gave preferential treatment to contributors in exchange for donations.

Whether to designate a certain language as an official language is not a federal issue, but a state issue.

NYPD officials have reassigned another high - ranking officer amid a federal probe into whether officers accepted gifts from businessmen with ties to de Blasio.

For example, the recommended protocol for purchasing property includes: «Indicate whether any individuals involved in the negotiations or sale are or were connected in any way with any federal, state, county or local elected or appointed officials or any lobbyists or counsel representing any of those individuals or entities or made any political contributions to any of them.»

Mr. Espada, whose long - running battles with prosecutors and election officials are the stuff of political legend, also faces criminal investigations by federal prosecutors into possible money laundering and by the Bronx district attorney, who is looking into whether Mr. Espada actually lives in his Bronx Senate district, as required by law.

Federal energy officials are weighing whether to greenlight the $ 600 million project, and, if approved, whether to put it at Brookhaven or the Jefferson National Lab in Newport News, Virginia.

Republican members of the State Senate will convene behind closed doors this morning to discuss whether it's time for Skelos, a Long Islander who has led their conference for just shy of seven years, to relinquish the reins as he fights federal charges that he traded official favors with a major developer and environmental company that gave a job and money to his son.

The felony charges against him are the result of an ongoing federal investigation into whether Nassau public officials have taken money from county contractors and if those parties then tried to conceal their actions.

It remains to be seen whether the federal EPA or other state officials will agree to this unwise scheme.

It is unclear whether federal agents can recover the content of those emails, and it is unclear whether Ms. Clinton violated official State Department policy, though a federal judge said yesterday he believed she did.

In January 2005, a federal judge ordered officials in Cobb County, Georgia, to remove stickers questioning Darwinism from textbooks; in May, the Kansas board of education began deliberating on whether to include the «controversy» in state science curricula.

«We now have better information sharing between federal agencies and systems to track whether students and researchers have changed their fields of study,» says C. Stewart Verdery, outgoing assistant secretary for Border / Transportation Security Policy at the Department of Homeland Security and one of the officials who worked on the extension.

Federal law requires that the administration undertake a formal evaluation of the rule before a decision is made about whether to rescind the regulation, the senior official said, adding that the review would likely take a «long time to get through.»

After federal officials announced on May 26 the halting of a trial probing whether Abbott Laboratories» formulation of the B vitamin niacin can help prevent heart disease and strokes, scientists and physicians were left with an immediate follow - on question.

Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva, the ranking member of the House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands, today called for a full Natural Resources Committee hearing to determine whether a high - ranking Department of the Interior (DOI) official received outside payments from a conservative group that seeks to influence federal policy.

There's the ongoing special - counsel investigation into whether the Trump campaign aided a Russian campaign to aid Trump's candidacy and defeat his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton; there's the associated inquiry into whether the president obstructed justice when he fired former FBI Director James Comey, whom he had asked not to investigate his former national - security adviser; there are the president's hush - money payments to women with whom he allegedly had extramarital affairs, made through his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and facilitated by corporate cash paid to influence the White House; there is his ongoing effort to interfere with the Russia inquiry and politicize federal law enforcement; there are the foreign governments that seem to be utilizing the president's properties as vehicles for influencing administration policy; there's the emerging evidence that Trump campaign officials sought aid not only from Russia, but from other foreign countries, which may have affected Trump's foreign policy; there are the ongoing revelations of the president's Cabinet officials» misusing taxpayer funds; there is the accumulating evidence that administration decisions are made at the behest of private industry, in particular those in which Republican donors have significant interests.

Whether countervailing forces — federal pressure, political pressure from organized parent groups, or conscientious officials committed to the law's goals — are strong enough to force states and districts to implement meaningful turnaround efforts remains to be seen, but the evidence so far is not encouraging.

The statistic not only showed the growing strength of the «opt out» movement against standardized testing, but also put immediate pressure on state and federal officials, who must now decide whether to penalize schools and districts with low participation rates.

The Justice and Education departments still have not determined how to address existing desegregation cases — and whether or where to bring new ones — and have received little guidance from the White House in crafting civil - rights policy, the Citizens» Commission on Civil Rights, a bipartisan panel of former federal civil - rights officials and other advocates, says in a report released last week.

In an initial review of how the department administered funds under the emergency federal aid approved by Congress, the inspectors found that department officials visited affected areas and reviewed all available data to verify whether a particular school district was entitled to the federal money, the report says.

The actions that state and federal officials take to address these requirements will determine whether they provide the right pressure to drive needed changes in state and local practice, prove to be utterly unworkable, or are relegated to the margins of state and local improvement strategies.

Whether the boycott movement grows in the new school year or education officials can successfully talk parents out of opting out, it's more clear that schools with high test boycott rates won't be penalized by losing federal or state monies.

The trend may push state and federal officials to make an uncomfortable decision: whether to use their power to financially punish districts that fall below 95 percent participation, the federal standard.

State education officials said Monday they are confident the U.S. Education Department will grant Wisconsin flexibility under the federal No Child Left Behind law, though they haven't received any assurances whether or when the state's application will be approved.

While almost every state has gotten an official permission slip, federal bureaucrats retained the final word on whether a state's plan would pass muster, and those waivers were conditioned on commitments to adopt administration - approved education reforms.

Duncan is seeking public comments from state and local officials as well as other stakeholders about proposed changes - whether they are helpful in clarifying one of the most complex and controversial mandates in federal law.

The only open question is whether the results of the official tests will be used for high stakes accountability purposes, especially federal funding.

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Trump officials have made clear their intent to reexamine how Federal Housing Administration lenders are cited under the False Claims Act, but whether that means lenders can rest easier is an open question.

As federal officials prepare to test whether they can ignite a patch of the oil slick spreading from the seafloor wreckage of the Gulf of Mexico well, seasoned specialists say the logic in pursuing this option is clear and well established by decades of testing.

«We request the DOJ investigate whether ExxonMobil violated RICO, consumer protection, truth in advertising, public health, shareholder protection or other laws,» the congressmen's letter said, referring to the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations law, which was how federal officials prosecuted tobacco companies in the 1990s.

The politicians are requesting that the Justice Department look into whether Exxon violated the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) law, which federal officials used to prosecute tobacco companies in the 1990s for lying about what they knew about the health impacts of smoking.