Sentences with phrase «using federal funds»

In addition, Sen. John Cornyn, R - Texas, has introduced The Protection of Homes, Small Businesses, and Private Property Act of 2005, S. 1313, to prohibit the federal government — and state and local governments using federal funds in a project — from taking land for economic development.

The DOT works with the program using federal funds to create safe - pedestrian initiatives.

NSBA opposes private school vouchers and urges Congress to reject using any federal funds for voucher programs, including any special education vouchers for military children or specific subgroups of students.

One such opportunity includes using federal funds to support the recruitment, preparation, and training of high - quality leaders using the optional state set - aside under Title II.

The authorizer's primary task is to determine if the charter school is using federal funds and fulfilling federal requirements in full compliance with its charter agreement and charter law.

NSBA opposes private school vouchers and urges Congress to reject using any federal funds for a national voucher program, including any special education vouchers for military children and / or specific subgroups of students.

States can invest in high - quality principals by using federal funds available under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) for teacher and school leader development in addition to state funds.

The loss will give local districts less flexibility in using federal funds.

Kantor (1991) also noted that one of the major fears with ESEA was the idea that local education authorities would have little interest or initiative in using federal funds to support economically disadvantaged students.

RAND recently released a report that determined that Playworks meets the highest standards for evidence under the Every Student Succeeds Act, so some schools and districts are using those federal funds.

School districts attempting to turn around low - performing schools using federal funds are overwhelming choosing the least disruptive interventions.

The case brought attention to the practice of using federal funds to sterilize mostly poor minorities in the name of public health.

In March, President Barack Obama lifted Bush's ban on using federal funds for research on human embryonic stem cells derived after August 2001.

Scientists in the United States have been trying to find ways around the ban on using federal funds to create stem cells from human embryos.

In this way the Reform Party membership would like to keep legislators from using federal funds to purchase votes, contributions and favors.

Republicans and election reform advocates object to the Democrats using federal funds for a state race.

He plans to pay for this using federal funds and increased recoveries, thereby rendering the initiative cost neutral to New Yorkers.

Voted against using federal funds for the display of Confederate flags at national cemeteries.

Voted against using federal funds to block enforcement of a section of federal communications law that some interpret to require Super PACs to disclose contributors that paid for television commercials;

Before you scream too loudly over this move by President Obama, keep in mind that the prohibition for using federal funds under the executive order by President Bush did not stop the practice of harvesting stem cells from unused embryos in fertility clinics.

The paper hypothesize that the change occurred because the Federal Open Market Committee switched from using the federal funds rate as an operating instrument to using it to implement monetary policy and presents evidence from a variety of sources supporting the hypothesis.

And just yesterday, Mester supported her colleagues» notion to announce a plan for balance sheet reduction, which will take «several years,» as well as a return to using the federal funds rate as the «main tool» for monetary policy.

In a recent court case, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Department of Justice is prohibited from using federal funds to prosecute businesses who operate within state laws regarding medical marijuana.

Pat Schramm, executive director of the Workforce Development Board of South Central Wisconsin, a nonprofit that uses federal funds to help employees get training and jobs, said a Rapid Response Team will execute a plan right away.

Some of these centers (fewer than half) offer abortion services, but none actually uses federal funds to perform abortions, since using those funds for that purpose is already illegal.

In this instance an enlightened administrator used federal funds (LEAA) to engineer the abolition of all juvenile institutions in the state.

She also called for the de-militarization of police departments around the country who increasingly use federal funds to buy military grade equipment for use in their policing efforts.

We use federal funds to pay for large, very expensive projects.

McDonald says the DOT plans to use federal funds to build new tracks upstate and an environmental impact statement on what investment is needed to bring that corridor to 90 to 110 miles per hour is close to completion.

On the issue of pork barrel spending, the Reform Party would like to keep legislators from using federal funding to support projects that have little economic, social or cultural effect.

Perhaps people would be more willing to use federal funds if the researchers promised to create two new embryos to be stored indefinitely at -80 °C for each one they destroy... (once it becomes possible to induce totipotent cells).

Others were disappointed that the White House had effectively prohibited the creation of new stem cell lines using federal funding.

Researchers in the United States will not be able to use Federal funding for work on these lines, as they were created after 9 August 2001 (see section on the United States).

In addition, the U.S. National Institutes of Health are not allowed to use federal funds to promote embryo research.

One sensible move is to embrace full Title I portability, so that states can use federal funds to help low - income students attend the district, charter, or private school of their choice.

States and districts can use federal funds to create teacher evaluation systems, but they're not required to do so.

Governor Romney has made the expansion of school choice for disadvantaged students central to his campaign, calling for the expansion of the Washington, D.C., voucher program and for allowing low - income and special education students to use federal funds to enroll in private schools.

Soon, it will be easier for schools to use federal funds to cover the costs of new construction on fiber - optic networks.

In principle, NCEE could fund evaluation studies for any intervention that states or districts might use federal funds to purchase.

One sensible move would be to embrace full Title I portability, so that states can use federal funds to help low - income students attend the district, charter, or private school of their choice.

The Senate last week decisively rejected a proposal to allow low - income parents to use federal funds to send their children to private schools.

While the state has professional - development standards, it uses federal funds to pay for professional development for teachers.

In addition, under Sections 2102 and 2103 of the Act (Title II, Part A), states may use federal funds provided through formula grants for supporting effective instruction to carry out in - service training for school staff to help them understand when and how to refer students affected by ACEs for appropriate treatment and intervention services.

What to watch: Various stakeholder groups in Oklahoma expressed a desire to use federal funds on policy changes to elevate the teaching profession through recruitment; residency and mentoring; differentiated pay and other incentives; culturally relevant teaching; teacher leadership opportunities; and improvements to both the evaluation and licensure systems.

Other problematic requirements, from the perspective of the officials interviewed, related to civil rights data collection, (Education Week reported extensively on that data) the Federal Funding and Transparency Act, and federal time distribution reports (the report noted that «in order for state and local federal grant recipients to use federal funds to pay salaries for their employees, they must document the employees» time spent on federally funded activities.)

Title I school - wide assistance — Title I schools with 40 percent or greater high - poverty, student population may use federal funding to meet the needs of all students at the school.

Kentucky's plan to use federal funds underscores the agency's belief that the best way to improve student achievement is to increase the effectiveness of educators who are closest to students.

She noted that the district uses federal funds to help pay for teachers to obtain graduate certifications as literacy specialists, and it sponsors biweekly parent nights with advice on homework help for children, nutrition and immigration status.

A provision allows for states to use federal funds for teacher and school leader evaluations, but such systems are not mandated.

The new bill would provide grants so that states may use federal funds to train teachers on using data to inform classroom practice, require states to tie K — 12 data with early childhood and post-secondary data, and involve educators in the research and peer review process by putting two educators on the National Board for Education Sciences.