Sentences with phrase «v block grant funds»

The federal government should restructure current Title V block grant funds instead as matching grants to states to expand access to high - quality PK programs and aligned PK teacher and curricular standards with elementary grades.

Not exact matches

The Bush Administration had proposed to zero it out and roll it into the Community Development Block Grants, and then cut the consolidated program's funding.

«We can't guess what going to happen... (State block grant funding) probably would mean the elimination of national nutrition standards.»

To fund the project, the park district has received approval from the Rolling Meadows City Council to include their $ 450,000 grant request with the city's application for Cook County Community Development Block Grants.

Earlier this month, U.S. Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro, D - 3rd District, introduced the Diaper Investment and Aid to Promote Economic Recovery Act (DIAPER) Act, a bill that would amend the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to allow funding for diapers and diaper supplies.

SNA has put together a Block Grant Calculator *, which allows you to see a best - case - scenario estimate of funding cuts to your program.

SNA said it supports the Senate agreement on school nutrition standards, and opposes the House bill, H.R. 5003, the Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016, which would restrict school eligibility for CEP and institute a block grant pilot that would cut funds for school meal programs.

Critics of the school lunch block grant idea warn that the measure does not provide enough funding to keep up with growing needs, does not guarantee a free lunch to needy students, and would prompt many schools to offer fewer complete meals or to drop their lunch programs altogether.

New York also would lose a massive amount of Medicaid and Medicare funding — second only to California in the nation — if the block grant plan outlined under Cassidy - Graham passes.

That, he said, would cost New York roughly $ 19 billion as the legislation plans to block grant Medicaid funds.

The IDC wants to increase funding for the Child Care Block Grant by $ 100 million, which would create an additional 13,000 slots in child care centers.

What's more, New York also stands to lose a big chunk of its federal Medicaid funding if Congress ever manages to get a deal on repeal and replacement of Obamacare, with the most recent proposal — Cassidy - Graham — calling for block granting those funds, in a move that would hurt New York more than any other state, Cuomo said.

Reed, a Corning lawmaker who represents the Southern Tier, has also disagreed with Trump from time to time, on funding for the Great Lakes, Community Development Block Grants, the Appalachian Regional Commission and other issues.

The agency — headed by the mayor, who appoints a majority of its board members — has been criticized for poor financial oversight of block grant funds.

The CSS obtained a $ 40,000 grant from the Milwaukee County Community Development Block Grant fund and Barrett said he would not oppose a Common Council decision to award of $ 40,000 from the Development Fund and a low - interest loan for an additional amount of money needed to complete the progrant from the Milwaukee County Community Development Block Grant fund and Barrett said he would not oppose a Common Council decision to award of $ 40,000 from the Development Fund and a low - interest loan for an additional amount of money needed to complete the proGrant fund and Barrett said he would not oppose a Common Council decision to award of $ 40,000 from the Development Fund and a low - interest loan for an additional amount of money needed to complete the projfund and Barrett said he would not oppose a Common Council decision to award of $ 40,000 from the Development Fund and a low - interest loan for an additional amount of money needed to complete the projFund and a low - interest loan for an additional amount of money needed to complete the project.

The deadline for health and human services organizations to apply for state funds from a 200 - million dollar block grant has already arrived.

NYS Homes and Community Renewal has announced available funding from several Office of Community Renewal programs including: New York Main Street (NYMS), and Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Microenterprise, Public Facilities, Public Infrastructure, and Community Planning.

Tenney put out a statement naming nine proposed funding cuts she would fight, including the community development block grants and a program that helps low - income families pay for home heating.

Through its Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program, Dutchess County has funded numerous projects in local municipalities that improve access to facilities and resources.

Liberal Democrats have already made a manifesto commitment to top - up the Welsh block grant to a fairer funding level.

In a collaborative effort with another state agency, HCR has partnered with Empire State Development (ESD) to help retain and expand Amsterdam Printing and save 365 jobs by investing $ 900,000 in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds and $ 5.6 million in equity.

The AHCA would have switched Medicaid to block grants, which means states would receive a fixed amount of federal funding each year regardless of changes in program enrollment and mandates.

«The Repeal and Replace Act would block grant money to the state in the name of local flexibility but at the same time it would dramatically cut that funding.

Poughkeepsie... Dutchess County Executive Marcus J. Molinaro announced grants totaling more than $ 142,000 have been awarded to local non-profit agencies through Dutchess County's 2012 Community Development Block Grant to fund a variety of community programs.

As a result, she said, the county will now continue to be ineligible for federal funding in the form of community block grants, an area in which it has lost more than $ 20 million since 2010.

And in a move sure to make the de Blasio administration happy, the Legislature rejected Gov. Cuomo's proposal to require $ 27 million in federal block grant funding be used exclusively on child care programs, a move the city says would have forced the closure of 65 senior day care centers.

Cuomo has slashed funding for transitional jobs programs to nearly zero, despite receiving an annual billion - dollar surplus as part of the fixed federal welfare (TANF) block grant.

Downing Street sources said the funding agreement — devised by Labour peer Lord Barnett in 1979 to adjust block grants to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland — would become increasingly redundant as more responsibility for tax is given to the Scottish Parliament.

Republicans say that number is too high, and favor replacing the open - ended program with a fixed block grant system that would instead award funds per beneficiary.

Since devolution in the United Kingdom was implemented in the late 1990s, creating the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and the Northern Ireland Assembly, the devolved governments of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have been funded by block grants from the government of the United Kingdom because only a relatively small percentage of the tax revenue is collected by the devolved governments.

Faso said he would also like to see sufficient funding set aside for high risk pools and a «dollar breakdown» of Medicaid block grants.

«They are going to defer to the states and block grant to the states to do healthcare, but then they cut the funding that New York has been getting to the tune of $ 4.6 billion over four years.»

The city determined that it would be able to use a portion of its federal Department of Housing and Urban Development Community Development Block Grant Program — Disaster Relief funds to cover this $ 28 million investment in SIUH's resiliency program.

Meanwhile, his administration has failed to clean up its mismanagement of the Community Development Block Grant program — the federally funded anti-poverty program — prompting the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in April to designate Buffalo as one of only a handful of «high risk» recipients across the nation.

Federal housing officials have issued yet another critical review of Buffalo's use of Community Development Block Grant funds.

But in France, where funds are traditionally given in block grants to institutions and labs and then distributed to individuals, and where being a scientist often means having a lifetime government job, the notion is revolutionary.

Outside of NIH, the budget proposes a Federal Emergency Response Fund for outbreak response without specifying funding size or mechanisms; and would «reform» the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by establishing a $ 500 million block grant program for state public health challenges.

Introduced in the House of Representatives in January 2017, H.R. 610 would replace parts of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act and would, among other changes, establish a voucher program «through which each state shall distribute block grant funds among local educational agencies.»

Washington — The chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, in strongly worded letters to the Secretary of Education and the Attorney General, has warned that a recent decision by a federal district judge could be interpreted as exempting local school programs funded under the new federal education block grant from compliance with civil - rights laws protecting the rights of women, the handicapped, and minorities.

The Senate passed a nearly $ 32 billion spending bill for education and other social programs last week, but Democrats and the Clinton administration were outraged by a provision in the bill that would transform most federal education funding into block grants.

Judge William Collette of Ingham County Circuit Court has blocked the state from providing funds to the schools until he decides whether the charter - school law that led them to be granted «public» status conforms to the state constitution.

President Bush's plan to consolidate a bevy of domestic programs into a $ 15 - billion block grant would cause a $ 27.4 billion shortfall for states over five years if they continue to fund the programs at their current levels, according to a report by the Senate Budget Committee.

To entice a presidential signature of the legislation — which would create tax breaks for parents» public and private education expenses — House and Senate negotiators have included a new reading program in it and deleted language that would have blocked plans for new national tests and transformed most federal education funding into block grants.

The bill would give states the option of using the funds now distributed through a host of federal programs — amounting to about $ 24 billion a year on the whole — as a single block grant to states for public and private school vouchers.

With the Senate joining the House in advancing bills that would replace dozens of vocational - education and job - training programs with block grants, educators are trying to assess the likely impact of handing most authority over federal funding in those areas to states and their governors.

Trump said his proposed block grant program would come from redirecting existing federal funds, and he would leave it up to states to decide whether the dollars would follow children to public, private, charter or magnet schools.

Washington — An independent assessment of the Education Department's initial review of how federal block - grant funds have been used charges that many of the 23 jurisdictions whose programs were evaluated by the department have not adequately monitored local school districts» use of Chapter 2 money.

Because funds are often fungible, a $ 14.5 billion federal block grant would just be another drop in a $ 3 trillion state and local total revenue bucket.

Republicans have typically proposed turning Medicaid into a block grant program, which could eliminate schools from eligibility for reimbursement funds.

When President Trump was on the campaign trail and announced his proposal to provide a block grant for vouchers, he said that the funding distribution would «favor states that have private school choice.»