Sentences with phrase «with federal oversight»

The Act applies to activities with federal oversight across Canada, though most provinces and territories feature their own human rights» code to protect against discrimination.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (S. 1177) allows states to set their own guidelines for rating schools and improving them, with federal oversight and restrictions.

Not exact matches

I had no dealings with him when he ran the Federal Reserve, but I watched him bungle Arthur Andersen after he was appointed to chair Andersen's independent oversight board when the firm was marred by its role in the Enron scandal.

There are a slew of federal and state regulatory requirements that can persuade entrepreneurs to stay small rather than face the increased costs and oversight associated with a bigger business.

«And I would agree with the SEC that some type of federal oversight is a good idea.

JPMorgan ended up admitting to lax oversight of its trading arm and paid a $ 920 million fine in a settlement with federal regulators.

Local efforts by GDB and other Puerto Rican debt issuers to reach a debt restructuring are running in parallel with plans in the U.S. Congress to draft legislation aimed at solving the island's economic crisis, possibly by allowing it to restructure debt and putting its finances under federal oversight.

The settlements over the trading loss in London — reached with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Reserve and the Financial Conduct Authority in London — laid bare a pattern of «deficiencies» in JPMorgan's oversight.

EPA spokesman Jahan Wilcox said that the departures were unrelated to the ongoing federal investigations and that the agency was fully cooperating with the congressional probe, led by House oversight chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C.

A multitude of federal agencies, self - regulatory organizations (SROs), and state authorities share oversight of the financial system under a framework riddled with regulatory gaps, loopholes, and inefficiencies.»

One particularly interesting part of Giancarlo's testimony was where he mentioned that «current law does not provide any U.S. Federal regulator with such regulatory oversight authority over spot virtual currency platforms operating in the United States or abroad.»

In September 2013, JPMC paid $ 920 million in fines to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Reserve Bank, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the United Kingdom's Financial Conduct Authority to settle claims of mismanagement with respect to its oversight of traders involved in the «London Whale» disaster which caused losses of approximately $ 6 billion.

The voluntary system had been two and a half years in the making and had been approved by the forum of state, federal and New Zealand ministers with oversight of food.

On topic questions included funding for items in the City's SIRR report and whether there is an alternative source for such items, whether the mayor is satisfied with the pace of City spending of federal money for Sandy relief, whether the mayor is confident of reaching his 500 construction starts and 500 reimbursement checks by Labor Day, Comptroller Scott Stringer's report on a lack of oversight on spending by the Department of Homeless Services, whether the City has the «right formula» for Build It Back, the total number of homes damaged by Sandy and when all will reached through Build It Back, how many of the 132 construction starts to date are repairs and how many are rebuilds and whether the mayor has closely examined the City's emergency management system in the context of preparing for a future coastal storm.

As Commander - in - Chief of our nation, a vast amount of power resides with you to address the relief and rebuilding of these regions which will need years of diligent federal assistance and oversight.»

He said the jail had «fallen far out of compliance» with the last decree, saying «a resumption of federal oversight is the only viable alternative.»

This new agreement would greatly expand that oversight to monitor how NYCHA complies with all state, local and federal laws and rules.

This oversight was recently brought to our attention, and we will fully comply with this requirement as we do with other city, state, and federal reporting and disclosure requirements.»

The oversight will bring the NYPD in line with departments from other big cities and the federal government, Quinn said.

In a report out this week, the North American Electric Reliability Corp., a nonprofit regulatory authority charged by the federal government with oversight of reliability in U.S. power systems, found that it still lacked adequate analysis to know whether the plan's targets are achievable.

Accidents at universities have also drawn scrutiny of federal oversight of labs that work with select agents, a list of risky viruses, bacteria, and toxins that could potentially be used to cause harm.

have also drawn scrutiny of federal oversight of labs that work with select agents, a list of risky viruses, bacteria, and toxins that could potentially be used to cause harm.

«There's no federal or state oversight of [filings with FracFocus].»

A federal watchdog office has dismissed allegations that last year National Institutes of Health (NIH) officials improperly interfered with another federal office's oversight of the ethics of a controversial NIH - funded study involving premature infants.

If ongoing risk reviews by federal officials «identify significant unmanaged security or safety concerns, the government should consider making compliance with certain oversight or reporting measures mandatory for all researchers... regardless of funding sources,» the report says.

At a public hearing in Santa Fe on June 7, the head of NNSA's oversight office at Los Alamos said that federal permission in particular has not been granted for renewed work with plutonium liquids, which is needed to purify plutonium taken from older warheads for reuse, normally a routine practice.

The Office of Research Integrity provides oversight of research involving humans, animals and biohazards, to safeguard and ensure compliance with all federal, state and institutional rules and regulations.

Until such a time that another body develops with both the oversight capacity and the leverage to get states to do what they promise, folks will look to the federal government.

The bill would require states to develop their own standards for student performance with little federal oversight, according to language obtained by The Huffington Post.

We feel that schools, school districts, states and the federal government are requiring ever - increasing technology time without informed input from parents, and with little oversight of the effects of these devices and programs on children's health and even less monitoring of their academic effectiveness.

Leaders in the House and Senate education committees are holding oversight hearings with the U.S. Department of Education (USED), state and local leaders, and other stakeholders to discuss how states and districts will tackle adjustments to state accountability systems, educator support initiatives, and implementation of other programs now offered through the largest federal education law.

chools, school districts, states and the federal government are requiring ever - increasing technology time without informed input from parents, and with little oversight of the effects of these devices and programs on children's health and even less monitoring of their academic effectiveness.

Federal policymakers must strike a balance between federal oversight and local control by working with practitioners and other education stakeholders to select, establish, and enforce effective and equitable school discipline poFederal policymakers must strike a balance between federal oversight and local control by working with practitioners and other education stakeholders to select, establish, and enforce effective and equitable school discipline pofederal oversight and local control by working with practitioners and other education stakeholders to select, establish, and enforce effective and equitable school discipline policies.

The Obama administration is tightening its oversight of the way states educate special - needs students, applying more - stringent criteria that drop the number of jurisdictions in compliance with federal law from 38 to 15.

As states transition from No Child Left Behind to using their new authority under ESSA, Anne Wicks and William McKenzie of the George W. Bush Institute write in The 74 that it is critical for all stakeholders — federal officials, advocacy organizations, and policymakers — provide proper oversight to make sure states «implement their plans with fidelity and support the education leaders who use accountability as a key tool to help all kids achieve.»

The state Department of Public Instruction — which oversees the state's four voucher programs — said Johnson's amendment would remove federal oversight of the treatment of students who attend private schools participating in the state's voucher programs, including a new one specifically for students with disabilities.

This is one reason among many why I respond so viscerally to demands by not only Trump and Cruz, but, sadly even the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, to weaken federal oversight and rely on local control to secure rights for historically disenfranchised children like those of color, those in poverty, and those with disabilities.

Freed from burdens like fundraising, our partner boards can focus on governance and oversight... NHA and its partner schools comply fully with state and federal laws, authorizer oversight requirements and education department regulations — including everything related to transparency.»)

You and your co-authors make the case that, just as with subprime mortgages, the federal government is encouraging the expansion of charter schools with little oversight, and the result could be a charter school «bubble» that blows up in urban communities.

NHA and its partner schools comply fully with state and federal laws, authorizer oversight requirements, and education department regulations — including everything related to transparency.»

The authorizer plays a vital role in charter school financial oversight, as it is the only entity charged with looking at the entire picture of the charter school — it's financial, organizational, and academic operations — and verifying that the school is meeting all of its federal obligations.

The ESSA is to reduce «the federal footprint and restore local control, while empowering parents and education leaders to hold schools accountable for effectively teaching students» within their states, and also «[reset] Washington's relationship with the nation's 100,000 public schools» and its nearly 50 million public school students and their 3.4 million public school teachers, while «sending significant power back to states and local districts while maintaining limited federal oversight of education.»

The anti-toxic testing measure also calls for governmental oversight of the powerful testing industry with the creation of a «testing ombudsman» by the U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Consumer Protection Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission.

NCLB architect and ranking Democratic committee member George Miller (CA) agreed with «the need to balance the accountability we worked so hard to implement in NCLB with greater flexibility at the local level and less prescription at the federal level,» but cautioned that some sort of federal oversight was needed lest schools return to a time when group averages obscured individual student performance in schools.

Prior to working in the federal government she was the Director of Public Policy and Community Partnerships for Green Dot Public Schools where she was responsible for executing Green Dot's reform agenda by advocating at the local, state and federal level for education reform, supporting existing schools with compliance and oversight, the development of new schools and overseeing the implementation a community schools model at the new Locke Wellness Center.

In the absence of federal oversight and a strong social safety net, we must form partnerships with health and human services directors, departments of recreation, volunteer programs, and on and on.

As is typical with any new law, after passage of the ESSA, the federal agency responsible for administration and oversight — in this case, the U.S. Department of Education — established regulations to make sure the intent of the law was properly applied.

Instead, Brown has suggested that the existing system for managing federal and state special education money that runs through regional oversight bodies be replaced with a system that would more directly provide the same money to districts for SWDs.

As we have witnessed with the disastrous results of Common Core and other federal efforts in education, the best oversight of education is left to those closest to the people.

Works closely with the Federal Aviation Administration related to the issuance of U.S. Air Carrier Operating Certificates and airline safety oversight; and