Sentences with phrase «aided by millions of dollars»

Rep. Jerry McNerney (D) ran a competent campaign but was significantly aided by millions of dollars worth of ads pumped into the district by environmental groups attacking Rep. Richard Pombo (R).

Aided by millions of dollars in independent expenditures from labor unions, Sbranti was ultimately weighed down by his ties to the unions, especially after a vicious primary against moderate Democrat Steve Glazer.

Many schools plan to add new student programs and services next year, aided by millions of dollars in fresh financial assistance from Albany, as well as reductions in state pension costs.

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To do so, the Federation has taken unprecedented action, helping to coordinate hundreds of donation drives in the U.S. mainland, distributing millions of pounds of food, water and essentials to those most affected by the storm, delivering emergency relief aid to the 78 hard - hit municipalities, and seeding 13 million dollars to support emergency relief and recovery projects throughout Puerto Rico.

To do so, the Hispanic Federation has taken unprecedented action, helping to coordinate hundreds of donation drives in the U.S. mainland, distributing millions of pounds of food, water and essentials to those most affected by the storm, delivering emergency relief aid to the 78 hard - hit municipalities, and seeding 15 million dollars to support emergency relief and recovery projects throughout Puerto Rico.

He also referenced the fact that New York is now one of three states placed on a watch list for losing hundreds of millions of Race to the Top dollars by US Education Secretary Arne Duncan because it has «hit a roadblock» on significant policy provisions of qualifying for the aid, including establishment of the peformance evaluation system and creation of a database to track student records across school districts.

Cuomo is also trying to shake up education policy, by threatening to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in increases in school aid from schools that don't agree on teacher evaluation plans with teachers.

New York would have the power to recoup millions of dollars in state property - tax subsidies from wealthy homeowners who were ineligible to receive the aid, under legislation proposed by Cuomo.

While Sandy victims wait for government cash to rebuild their homes, a charity organized by Cuomo to aid homeowners has steered millions of dollars to two troubled state - sponsored housing developments.

Trump said he is holding up hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the Palestinians because they «disrespected» the United States by not meeting with Vice President Mike Pence during his recent swing through the Middle East.

The governor says schools that achieve their agreements early, by September, will get credit toward a competition for $ 250 million dollars in grants that Cuomo intends to award, as part of his school aid budget.

He returned to state government the following year after he was rehired by the Health Department to oversee the disbursal of more than $ 6 billion in federal aid from a recently approved Medicaid waiver, millions of dollars of which went to the health care organizations that were rumored to be clients of the politically well - connected firm he'd recently worked for.

E. Indebtedness contracted for school purposes, evidenced by bonds, to the extent to which state aid for common schools, not exceeding two million five hundred thousand dollars, shall meet the interest and the annual requirements for the amortization and payment of part or all of one or more issues of such bonds.

If AIDS is caused by a virus, why has it been impossible for researchers to develop a vaccine after 20 years and millions of dollars spent?

Midwestern gubernatorial races have been dominated by the dismal state of the region's economy — which has cost the region's public schools millions of dollars in state aid in the past few years.

Michelle Rhee and Kaya Henderson, aided by millions of private dollars, were able to institute epic reforms in both teacher evaluations and compensation in the District of Columbia Public Schools.

Several states have resisted the wave of changes prompted partly by the Obama administration, which offered states and districts millions of dollars in federal aid in exchange for overhauling their education policies through its Race to the Top program.

To that end, states and districts, aided by hundreds of millions of federal and philanthropic dollars, are developing intensive evaluation systems meant to identify teachers who need help, and pinpoint which skills they need help with.

This year in his budget proposal, according to commentator Jon Pelto in his April 17th blog, Malloy is reducing state aid to public schools by 150 MILLION dollars, while increasing charter school funding 25 percent These constant assaults by CEA's endorsed candidate negatively affects every one of you, your union brothers and sisters, and every one of your students!

Following in the footsteps of Ford, which announced last May that it would halt manufacturing in Australia by 2016, GM could no longer keep its Holden plants running due to hundreds of million in losses and insurmountable obstacles that could not be rectified even after billions of dollars in aid from the Australian government.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced it is taking action to halt a nationwide student financial aid scam that allegedly ripped off tens of thousands of students and families across the country by illegally charging millions of dollars in fees for sham financial services.

An increase of some $ 632 million over its aid last year, the increase means it will hit a key threshold in giving: For every 100 dollars generated by the Norwegian economy, it will give one dollar to aid.

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