THERE’S SOMETHING HAPPENING HERE. WHAT IT IS AIN’T EXACTLY CLEAR

November 25, 2013 · by Alison J Fox | in Uncategorized | tagged "competency based", agriculture, america invents act, bird, BLM, charter, common core, duke energy, education, edX, energy, energy efficiency, evolution, farm policy, federal policy, federal programs, gainful employment, gao, gas, Goodlatte, interior, keystone, leahy, mooc, moocs, NRC, nuclear, offshore, oil, oil & gas, patent, revenue, STEM, teach, teachers, teaching, tech, texas school board, troll, turbine, WIND, women & stem, yucca mountain | 2 Comments

Federal Policy Week, in honor of the Thanksgiving holiday and Congressional recess, will not publish next week, but return again on approximately December 8, 2013. Have a great holiday. Welcome to Federal Policy Week, a blog that covers federal policy developments in education, research, science, agriculture, immigration, energy, environment, natural resources, and intellectual property. To […]

DEAL OR NO DEAL – WILL THE BUDGET CONFERENCE SUCCEED (AND MUCH MORE)

November 17, 2013 · by Alison J Fox | in Uncategorized | tagged administration, affirmative action, agencies, agriculture, appropriations, budget, carbon capture, cellulosic ethanol, chimps, climate, coal, commerce, congress, education, energy, environment, EPA, ethanol, Fair Use, federal policy, for-profits, FTC, gainful employment, Grants, hearings, Higher ed, immigration, interior, International Students, jewell, military, mining, natural gas, nih, nominations, obama, oil, Online Ed, politics, post-9/11, renewables, research, science, sequester, STEM, textbooks, transmissions, tuition, us energy production, water, wrda, wrds | Leave a comment

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AND IT GOES ON AND ON, WATCHING THE (MESSY) RIVER RUN

November 6, 2013 · by Alison J Fox | in Uncategorized | tagged "America Competes", "chairman rodgers", "Chairman rogers", "coal ash", "College Value", "competency based", "federal policy week", "FIRST ACT", "Fischer v. University", "fugitive methane", "house schedule", "indirect costs", "patent troll", "The Frontier in Innovative Research, "The Sun Also Rises", affirmative action, agriculture, and Technology", antiquities act, Aviation, Beloved, budget, Chairman Goodlatte, chamber of commerce, climate, coal, college ratings, committee, common core, COMPETES, courts, defense, democrat, denham, diesel, education, Einstein, energy, energy efficiency, environment, EPA, federal government programs, federal policy, fracking, Goodlatte, GOP, higher education act, humanities, immigration, innovation, interior, James Hansen, jewell, mikulski, mooc, nasa, NextGen, nominations, nuclear, nuclear power, obama, PATENTS, renewables, RFS, Rubio, science, scientific community, Senator Cornyn, Senator Hatch, sequestration, technology, Twilight, university, yucca | 2 Comments

WATER, PATENTS, BUDGETS AND EDUCATION, OH MY

October 29, 2013 · by Alison J Fox | in Uncategorized | tagged agriculture, brain, budget, children, committee, darpa, defense, democrat, drilling, education, energy, EPA, FEDERAL AGENCIES, federal government programs, federal policy, genetics, government, immigration, judy blume, language gap, maya, nih, politics, polls, preschool, research, science, sequestration, spanking, tuition | 1 Comment

THE CONFERENCE BEGINS: REQUESTS MOUNT

October 21, 2013 · by Alison J Fox | in Uncategorized | tagged agriculture, budget, chimp, climate, committee, courts, credit, degree, democrat, economic research, education, energy, environment, EPA, federal government programs, federal policy, Florida, ged, high school, immigration, mooc, nclb, nuclear, obama, politics, Poverty, renewables, republican, research, science, shutdown, southern, sports, Texas, tuition, tutor | 1 Comment

THE BIG DEAL

October 18, 2013 · by Alison J Fox | in Uncategorized | tagged budget, committee, continuing resolution, debt limit, defense, democrat, education, federal policy, federal worker, funding, mcconnell, politics, Reaction Fee, republican, satellites, teach for america, weather, workers | Leave a comment

SPECIAL POST Congress finally reached a deal to re-open the government and raise the debt ceiling. Unfortunately, the legislation (HR 2775) only funds the government until January 15, 2014 and only extends the US borrowing authority until February 7, 2014. In the meantime, the House and Senate will hold a budget conference, hoping to hash […]