Sentences with phrase «aid funding away»

A controversial proposal before Congress that would redirect federal Impact Aid funding away from public school districts and toward education savings accounts (ESAs) for students in military families is drawing criticism from the very families it is intended to benefit.

Not exact matches

In return for those payments, funded with foreign aid, Hanafi worked with local officials in Nangahar province to try to lure other militants away from the fight.

Maybe instead of pointing at the atheists in your midst, you might want to start with the believers who think gov» t funded programs that aid the sick and poor should be done away with because it's not «real» charity.

In an Albany TU OpEd, former Gov. Eliot Spitzer takes on Cuomo over his effort to do away with foundation aid, which was set up to settle the CFE case, but never fully funded.

The law, which reduces the amount of state aid received by school districts, was first imposed in the 2010 to help close New York State's multi-billion dollar deficit by taking funding away from schools.

Paonessa favors cutting the state workforce through attrition and doing away with some business incentives that he considers corporate welfare, such as the $ 22 million in aid that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy gave the Bridgewater hedge fund this year.

The seed money funding AIDS and related research that drove the biotech industry in upstate New York was no longer there and many moved away or just went out of business.

Closing costs are «money that would have been better used to support research that ultimately could have continued to combat diseases like AIDS and Parkinson's, rather than shutting down a productive research enterprise, mothballing a valuable research campus, and walking away from» millions in federal funding, said R. Paul Johnson, a former director of the primate center who now leads the Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University.

By this time next week, schools will have received their first batch of state aid based on Gov. Jerry Brown's Local Control Funding Formula even though entitlement calculations are months away from being finalized.

Often reacting to mandates from courts that found local finance systems unconstitutional, states have moved away from funding based primarily on property taxes and have implemented state aid formulas that direct more money to low - income and low - tax - base school districts.

UPDATE 5/19: John Tierney has an interesting piece up on his blog reviewing how non-governmental funding for agricultural research aiding poor countries dried up as foundations and international lenders shifted priorities away from boosting food production, partly due to rising pressure from green groups.

-LSB-...] Even those living in poverty, who are eligible for civil legal aid, often are unable to obtain assistance: the Legal Services Corporation estimated that in 2009, half of those seeking assistance from LSC - funded services were turned away -LSB-...] As for pro bono work: American lawyers average about 30 hours of pro bono work per year.

However, these types of creative solutions however are only possible when we step away from the exclusive preoccupation with legal aid funding, and start to brainstorm the alternatives.

In the United States, nearly a million people are turned away from federally funded legal aid services a year; new, scalable solutions are desperately needed.

He noted that New York City's Legal Aid Society was turning away 8 of every 9 applications for help due to lack of funding.

Massachusetts legal aid organizations turned away nearly two - thirds of people qualifying for civil legal assistance over the last year due to a lack of funding, leaving thousands of low - income residents without representation in cases from domestic violence to foreclosure, according to the findings of a statewide task force to be released Wednesday.