Sentences with phrase «aid department said»

When I was in graduate school, the financial aid department said a powerful statement that changed my view on saving and spending.

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«An excise tax on the endowments of some private colleges and universities, regardless of how many or how few institutions it affects, is a remarkably bad idea that takes money that would otherwise be used for student aid, research, and faculty salaries and sends it to the Department of the Treasury to finance corporate tax cuts,» said Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education, a higher education trade group.
Applications for jobless aid rose 2,000 to a seasonally adjusted 263,000, matching its four - week moving average, the Labor Department said Thursday.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said National Guard chain - saw crews were aiding Transportation Department workers clearing roads in the western part of the state, where Irma's assault was most severe.
«We have transformed the way the department manages its finances, so spending is attached to tangible results on the ground, which are rigorously scrutinised by the new independent aid watchdog,» international development secretary Andrew Mitchell said.
With the capital city poised to receive $ 500,000 less in additional state aid, and managing the now scuttled $ 620,000 sale of property it owns in Coeymans, Mayor Kathy Sheehan said departments heads will have to take a hard look at overtime costs to fill the gaps in Albany's $ 168 million 2018 budget.
«In terms of advocating on school aid and looking for more money, that's certainly [the Education Department's] position, but it's also the Legislature's position,» Greenberg said.
To date, however, none of the five East End town police departments is using that portion of the program, which has been offered to them at no cost, said Laura Ahearn, director of the nonprofit, which works to prevent sex offenses and aid victims of sex crimes.
«The department knows its increase in funding, and new approach to aiding developing countries, brings challenges», he said.
Amyas Morse, head of the National Audit Office, said the department's new aid targets would be «higher risk».
«Under this legislation it will be illegal to operate any motorized device within New York City that is incapable of being registered with the New York State Department of Motor Vehicle, unless the motor vehicle is a wheelchair or other mobility aids designed for use by the disabled,» Quinn said at a press conference at City Hall.
«Gov. Cuomo was crystal clear — if the New York City Department of Education and United Federation of Teachers do not reach an agreement on the parameters of how to best evaluate teachers, the city could be forced to sacrifice crucial state aidsaid Micah Lasher, Executive Director of StudentsFirstNY.
«Angle's radical plans to eliminate the Department of Education would cost Nevada college students more than $ 500 million in financial aid like Pell grants, and hundreds of millions for our state's elementary and secondary schools — all at a time when our students can least afford such draconian cuts,» Reid campaign spokesman Kelly Steele said in a statement.
City Comptroller Scott Stringer, who said his office is still reviewing the order, said Wednesday that $ 165 million in federal aid was immediately at risk: $ 156 million in Urban Area Security Initiative grants, $ 6 million in criminal alien assistance grants and $ 3 million in general assistance grants from the Justice Department.
In an attempt to soothe markets and forestall other industries overwhelming his department with requests for aid, Mandelson said the cost of the car aid would come from existing commitments made in the pre-budget report last autumn.
To those who say that we should continue in Labour's vein, simply patting ourselves on the back for getting money out of the door, I say this: Our commitment to reaching 0.7 % of national income on aid by 2013, and enshrining this in law, imposes an even greater duty on us, more than any other department in Whitehall to get value for money, to bear down on waste, and to ensure that aid secures 100 pence of value for every hard - earned British taxpayer's pound we spend.
Walcott said the department will revise its five - year capital plan to include an extra $ 1.75 billion, thanks to restorations in state aid.
A small group of middle school students caused the trouble, said Capt. Karen Smith of the North Tonawanda Police Department, the city's juvenile aid officer until recently.
Berlin said the department has current state aid data that will be updated Feb. 13.
As detectives investigated the source of her injuries and paramedics treated her on the scene, police said the already large crowd swelled to about 100 and grew more unruly, prompting Niagara Falls police to call for mutual aid from the Town of Niagara Police Department, the Niagara County Sheriff's Office and New York parole officers, who helped patrol the vicinity for about 30 minutes, police said.
High temperatures are detrimental to predatory insects that aid farmers, protecting crops from pest invasions, said Bradford Hawkins, a professor with the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine.
«There's absolutely no doubt that if one can perform male circumcision without anesthesia, you save time, money and it requires less expertise,» says Kim Eva Dickson, senior adviser in WHO's HIV / AIDS department.
«Thirty four percent of people who are trying to quit smoking use pharmaceutical aids and yet most are not successful,» said senior study author John P. Pierce, PhD, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health at UC San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center.
«First Aid, CPR and AED training need to become part of a larger culture of safety within workplaces,» said Michael Kurz, MD, chair of the American Heart Association's Systems of Care Subcommittee and associate professor at the University of Alabama School of Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine.
«We do need to recognize we simply will need more resources for the AIDS response to really and effectively reach everybody who needs to be reached with treatment and prevention — we should not shy away from saying this,» explained Bernhard Schwartlander, director of UNAIDS's department of evidence, strategy and results.
«We were a little bit optimistic in really getting it all ready in terms of thinking through the operational implications,» says Gottfried Hirnschall, head of the HIV / AIDS department for WHO.
«HIV has very few known sites of vulnerability, but in this work we've described a new one, and we expect it will be useful in developing a vaccine,» said Dennis R. Burton, professor in TSRI's Department of Immunology and Microbial Science and scientific director of the IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center (NAC) and of the National Institutes of Health's Center for HIV / AIDS Vaccine Immunology and Immunogen Discovery (CHAVI - ID) on TSRI's La Jolla campus.
The surge has continued into February, said Lynn Bartosh, AIDS surveillance coordinator for the Ventura County Public Health Department.
«Whether we're helping victims of bullying take the first step by connecting with a counselor or aiding law enforcement put away criminals abusing children,» says Bennett, «I believe Callyo will have a strong future putting important technology in the hands of local schools and police departments everywhere.»
In an initial review of how the department administered funds under the emergency federal aid approved by Congress, the inspectors found that department officials visited affected areas and reviewed all available data to verify whether a particular school district was entitled to the federal money, the report says.
Districts must decide how they plan to spend that funding, called «impact aid,» by July 31, or give it back to the federal government, said Chad Colby, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Education.
As New York lawmakers hammered out the state budget Monday, state education department officials said the latest proposal would require many school districts to quickly revise their evaluation agreements with teachers unions in order to get increased school aid.
«We will not allow the New York State Education Department to use our children to aid in the systematic breakdown of our public education system,» Deuterman said at the Tilles Center.
FAFSA CHANGES FOR HOMELESS STUDENTS: The Education Department plans to streamline and simplify how some homeless students apply for federal financial aid, Education Secretary John B. King Jr. said in a letter [http://politico.pro/28ZDW1p] Tuesday to Sen. Patty Murray, the top Democrat on the Senate HELP committee who has been pressing the administration to make the changes.
A spokesman for the federal Department of Education said if school districts fail to collect data on restraints, the government works with them to construct a plan to improve and could ultimately compel them to report by suspending federal aid until they do.
Maria Morelli - Wolfe, a lawyer with Greater Hartford Legal Aid Inc., which last year filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights on behalf of children with disabilities at the public charter school, said that very often those students spend too many hours out of the classroom — suspended in school or out of school — because of behaviors they weren't necessarily able to control.
Vandevender is said to have «aided and abetted the [Truth Outreach Center, Inc.] to embezzle, misapply, and convert to its own use $ 388,422.68 in North Carolina Withholding Tax,» according to a Department of Revenue news release.
I just spoke with the US Department of Education about student aid center and they said it was «very fishy.»
i had called devry about the loan forgiveness that was mandated by the department of education and they said they would transfer me to the department that can help me (without telling me it was actually a seperate debt consolidation company) later i find out the «department» they transferred me to is actually a debt consolidation company called alumni aid assistance and that i only supposedly qualified to have about $ 1200 removed from my loan and i had to pay back the rest.
Dr. Katie Slocombe from the University of York's Department of Psychology, said: «A special speech register, known as infant - directed speech, is thought to aid language acquisition and improve the way a human baby bonds with an adult.
«Cats are challenging because they tend to obscure the behaviors associated with pain,» said Ralph Harvey, DVM, MS, DACVAA, director of anesthesia and pain management services in the Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences at the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine.5 «Advances are being made to aid in accurately evaluating feline pain, and we now have an analgesic medication indicated specifically for cats.»
Maryland and Virginia's U.S. senators say there's no time to waste in declaring the decline of Chesapeake Bay blue crabs a federal disaster... In a letter to federal authorities, the senators argue for a declaration that would provide about $ 20 million in federal aid to watermen and seafood processors hurt by the crab's decline... The letter was sent yesterday to Department of Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez.
Even with a large surplus and an annual provincial budget of $ 46 billion, the CBA has been told by the government there is no new money for legal aid, because each department must balance its own budget, says Shorten.
«Following a media release by the Department earlier this week, Legal Aid Alberta sought clarification regarding the proposed funding of these orders as it was not aware of the Department's position on that point,» Cranna said in a statement last Friday.
A meeting between PBLO and Catholic Children's Aid revealed the legal department at the agency was getting a number of requests from adoption workers asking for help in finalizing adoptions for some of the former Crown wards who had just turned 18, says Lynn Burns, executive director of PBLO.
The note also said the investigation was being aided by the Department of Justice's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, as well as US attorney general offices in Arizona and California.
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