Sentences with phrase «because of federal grants»

Because of federal grants and donations, we support programs of all sizes.

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Last fall, a federal immigration judge ordered 15 Iraqi Christians deported from California for immigration fraud — not because they were illegally coached on the tenants of Christianity, like in a New York City fraud ring — but because they had already been granted safe haven in Europe.

When I was invited to a Mennonite college to speak on peace and simple living (neither of which is Caesar's favorite topic), I had to sign a formal, legal contract — because my honorarium was to come out of federal grant money.

The number of students who qualify for a free or discounted meal based on income levels also matters because schools and entire school systems may qualify for grants and other federal funding based on the reported level of need among students.

For most women, taking time off is not a realistic option, either because their employers won't grant them anything beyond the 12 weeks of unpaid leave mandated by federal law or because they couldn't afford to take time off even if it were available.

Craig Malin, a village administrative assistant, said Wednesday that getting the Park District's approval is a required part of the federal grant application because the path beginning near Buffalo Grove would cross Sullivan Woods, a 43 - acre parcel owned by the park district.

It is also endangering tens of millions of dollars in federal Teacher Incentive Fund grants earmarked for its teachers, because it has not adopted a system which recognizes and highlights great teaching.

«And I don't think they should do it just because of the federal funding,» Clinton said, referring to New York's plan to apply for up to $ 700 million in Race to the Top grants.

The U.S. Department of Education tightened the noose last week when it announced New York could lose its federal Race to the Top money because it lags behind in complying with the terms of its grant.»

But the award of the Buffalo grant was rejected by DiNapoli's office in part because the project's main contractor was the brother and business associate of Louis Ciminelli, one of eight men facing federal corruption charges in a larger upstate bid - rigging scandal.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The 20 - year - old lead abatement program run by the city of Syracuse will shut down and its four employees will be laid off because federal officials, who had criticized the city's handling of grants, rejected Syracuse's application for continued funding.

Aside from the technical planning, I was also put in charge of acquiring federal and state grants because the energy - efficiency measures had to be put on solid financial grounds.

Because as a employee of a tax - exempt institution, a university, you have to distance yourself, you can't get health care insurance, salary from federal grants and run for office.

Because competition for federal research grants has intensified with declining federal support, the average age at which an investigator receives his / her first grant from the National Institutes of Health has now risen to 41!

Federal research grants are highly desirable because they provide both «direct costs» for laboratory personnel, supplies, and equipment, as well as «indirect costs» to underwrite facility and administrative support functions essential to the conduct of research.

The online program needed the waiver, the first of its kind, so its students would be eligible to apply for federal Pell Grants: that's because CFA doesn't use credit hours, or even traditional college «courses.»

Washington — As state officials continue preparations for the start of the new federal job - training program next month, the results of a recently released survey suggest that community colleges will have a greater role in providing skills training because of a change in the way state officials say they will use their special training grants.

First, because federal and state funds are often distributed through a variety of formula and restricted grant programs, schools are limited in how they can spend certain pots of money.

Yet critics back in the 1960s said the federally - sponsored reform was coercive because adoption of these curricula met conditions for eligibility for other federal grants and contracts and districts sometimes adopted them, in historian Jon Schaffarzick's words, «for fear of losing other federal support.»

Two federal grants also helped fuel OMA's early growth, but the project caught fire because of its results.

This language was necessary because of the unfortunate United States Supreme Court decision in Grove City College v. Bell in 1984, which held that colleges that accepted students participating in the federal Pell Grant program were recipients of federal funds and therefore subject to federal oversight.

The District Court granted summary judgment to the school district, finding that state law did not bar the district's use of the racial tiebreaker and that the plan survived strict scrutiny on the federal constitutional claim because it was narrowly tailored to serve a compelling government interest.

More than $ 40 million in federal grants awarded to some of Colorado's lowest - performing schools as part of a massive national turnaround effort is producing mixed results, with state officials suspending funding for five schools because of declining test scores.

Unfortunately, the US Department of Education has ruled that the district has to stop using this system because the system does not link its ratings of teachers to student test scores — a condition of Maryland's federal «Race to the Top» grant.

Montgomery refused to join Maryland's successful bid in 2010 for a federal Race to the Top school - reform grant because union and school leaders found it out of sync with the evaluation system they had created.

Sharon Robinson, president and chief executive officer of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, warned against linking eligibility for the federal grants — about $ 100 million's worth per year, given to prospective teachers who are planning to work in high - need schools — in part because of the precedent it could set.

The Legislature needs to move fast to nix this law because Wisconsin has only a few months to submit an application for some of the $ 4.5 billion in federal innovation grants.

In the case of any action terminating, or refusing to grant or continue, assistance because of failure to comply with a requirement imposed pursuant to this section, the head of the federal department or agency shall file with the committees of the House and Senate having legislative jurisdiction over the program or activity involved a full written report of the circumstances and the grounds for such action.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) is a historic piece of legislation for school libraries because it is the fist time in over five decades that school library programs have been explicitly granted eligibility for federal dollars.

Question: Dear Steve, When going to school for my undergraduate degree, I was denied any federal aid or grants because of my parents» income being too high.

It's different from other federal loans because it is granted and issued by the school itself and not by the U.S. Department of Education.

Then I find out that because I already have one degree, I no longer qualify for any sort of federal assistance - that means no federal loans (queue up the 13 % private loans), and no federal grants (I never received any the first time due to my parents» income).

When going to school for my undergraduate degree, I was denied any federal aid or grants because of my parents» income being too high.

Turns out it's because the Federal Communications Commission has been granting waivers for years at the request of the Electronic Software Association, and in fact, it's just granted another.

Probably because ethanol mandates and electric car subsidies are lucrative sources of federal grants, loans, subsidies and tax credits for «alternative fuels» and electric cars.

A Texas federal court judge granted an injunction against Microsoft, barring the company from selling some of its Word word - processing software because it violates a Canadian company's patent related to XML (extensible markup language), reports The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and other media sources.

Immigrants so persecuted because of membership in a particular social group have also been granted asylum by federal appeals courts and the BIA, the brief says.

The patent will still be deemed invalid as granted and as amended because of the Steve Jobs video, a holding that Apple can appeal (as a matter of right) to the Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Court of Justice).

If, instead of bringing counterclaims in the original lawsuit, the defendant brings a separate lawsuit against the plaintiff, the plaintiff could seek to either (1) consolidate the cases if they are filed in the same court system (i.e. a federal case and a federal case, or a New York State case and a New York State case), or (2) move to dismiss the new lawsuit because the claims were required to be brought in the original lawsuit as mandatory counterclaims, or (3) move to stay proceedings in the second lawsuit pending resolution of the first lawsuit, or (4) move to dismiss the claims in the second lawsuit on the merits if it is apparent from the face of the countersuit that it does not state a claim upon which relief can be granted or was filed in the wrong court.

The lawsuit was granted in federal court because of premises identified in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.

The federal district court in Las Vegas erred in granting summary judgment to patent infringement defendant DigiDeal as to certain cancelled claims (upon reexamination by the USPTO) of U.S. Patent No. 7,523,935 because suits based upon cancelled claims must be dismissed for

(We used «average net price» because it takes into account extra expenses like books and supplies, as well as the average amount of federal, state / local government, or institutional grant or scholarship aid for incoming freshmen.)

The organisation is unique because the entire grant was given in a lump sum to an Aboriginal Board of Directors, and its activities were described in an agreement signed by the Board and the federal government.

«A number (of priorities) have particular urgency because we must meet federal or state deadlines and deliverables, and we will need new or renewed revenue to sustain gains made in these priorities once the Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge grant and the current Maternal, Infant, Early Childhood Home Visiting grant end.»

Because of the success of the toolkit, Region X was awarded a MIECHV federal Innovation Grant in 2017 to pilot a regional expansion.

Washington grant writers impressed the federal agency because grant amounts were largely based on the quality of an application and $ 9.4 million of state's $ 11.5 million came under that competitive process.