The purpose of the National Professional Development Program, which is administered by the Office of English Language Acquisition, is to support pre-service education and professional development activities intended to improve instruction for English Learners (ELs). Grants are made to Institutions of Higher Education that have entered into consortium arrangements with states or school districts. Funded projects are designed to increase the pool of highly-qualified teachers prepared to serve EL students and increase the skills of teachers already serving them.
Alcohol sales data provide a more accurate indication of alcohol consumption than alternative methods such as population surveys. This information can be used to better understand epidemiological issues related to alcohol consumption, policy development and evaluation. Official sales records were collected for the 28 regional districts of British Columbia (BC) for 2002-2005, while homemade alcohol was estimated from survey data. Alcohol consumption rates were found to vary across geographic regions, by season, and with population level demographics. Government stores were the largest source of alcohol consumption in BC, accounting for 45.1% of total alcohol consumption in 2004. U-Brews/U-Vins accounted for 4.0%, private liquor stores accounted for 27.5% of the total, and homemade alcoho...
Section 1016 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-458) (IRTPA) calls for the creation of an "Information Sharing Environment" to provide for Federal, State, local, and tribal access as appropriate to terrorism information and for the designation of a program manager "responsible for information sharing across the Federal Government." Section 1016 supplements Section 892 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-296), and Executive Orders...
On May 26, 2000, President Clinton signed Executive Order (EO) 13158, directing federal agencies (led by NOAA and DOI) to establish a comprehensive national system of MPAs serving multiple conservation and management goals. To this end, the EO directs NOAA to establish a National Marine Protected Area Center (``MPA Center'') within NOAA (Sec. 4(e)) to carry out several provisions in cooperation with the Department of the Interior. Over the past decade, the MPA Center has conducted a variety of efforts to establish and support the growing national system through targeted science, information resources, coordination and policy development. An external review of the MPA Center is needed to maximize its effectiveness and transparency and to ensure that the MPA Center is conducting high qual...
The Web site of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at www.federalreserve.gov, provides access to educational and other information developed by the Federal Reserve, as well as other resources related to the central bank of the US. The main and home webpages use a common main menu in the header to organize the primary sections of the Web site: "about the Fed," "news & events," "monetary policy," "banking information & regulation," "payment systems," "economic research & data," "consumer information," "community development," "reporting forms," and "publications." One nice feature of the site is the links above the banner header to "what's new," "what's next," "site map," an "A-Z index," "FAQs," and "careers." "consumer information" section offers a wealth o...
To: State Desk Contact: Jason Sanford of the Health Policy Institute of Ohio, 614-224-4950, ext. 302
A partnership of the federal government and the states implement rural community development policy today, yet researchers rarely examine the nature and efficacy of this extensive intergovernmental collaboration. The authors collected data on Community Development Block Grant awards made by one state to small and rural communities for a variety of development projects over a period of more than ten years, and using a modified rural classification system detected patterns and trends in allocation. This study seeks to determine if a federally funded program assists states address the development needs of a diverse mix of rural communities. Do federal block grant programs help states meet rural community development policy objectives? This information should be helpful to local, state, and...
... (FY) 2006 Notice of Funding Availability, Policy Requirements and General Section to SuperNOFA for ... applications, in order to provide information equitably to all applicants for this NOFA. HUD's c...
Established by the Legislature, MIFI is charged with developing and implementing a continuous, statewide forest resource inventory necessary for the sustainable forest-based economy, while also being responsible for effective distribution and management of forest inventory-based information for economic and public policy development.
... (FY) 2006 Notice of Funding Availability, Policy Requirements and General Section to SuperNOFA for ... applications, in order to provide information equitably to all applicants for this NOFA. HUD's c...
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