Sentences with phrase «allocate federal education dollars»

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Over time, the government has come to rely on data from the census and its longer annual offshoot, the American Community Survey (ACS), to allocate half - a-trillion dollars through health, welfare, housing, infrastructure, education, and other federal programs.

The vast majority of EP alumni work for other education organizations, including high - performing charter school networks and education nonprofits, state and federal agencies that allocate billions of dollars across the sector and impact millions of children, education policy and advocacy organizations, and ed tech companies.

Nor does the federal government allocate dollars to gifted education.

Allocate at least five cents of every dollar in the federal budget to education in order to reflect a level of commitment commensurate with other important national priorities and to meet the educational needs of all students effectively

Under Alexander's legislation, states could opt to allocate the newly - consolidated funds to low - income parents, giving them much more say over how their child's share of federal education dollars are spent.

This effect of including federal funds reflects the fact that the bulk of federal education dollars are allocated based largely on the income profile of the communities schools serve, primarily through federal subsidies for free and reduced price meals and under Title I of the ESEA.19 But because subsidies for school lunch programs are the largest source of federal funds flowing to schools, those concerned with equity must determine how expenditures of those non-instructional funds are considered.

Education Secretary John B. King Jr. is in the middle of finalizing regulations to implement the law, including a hotly contested rule that would govern how districts allocate billions of federal dollars meant to educate poor children.