Sentences with phrase «allow federal dollars»

The bill would allow federal dollars to be invested in efforts to prevent child abuse and neglect, while also enhancing supports for family - like placements and for older youth.

Utah Republican Gov. Gary Herbert announced that he would no longer allow federal dollars to pass through the state to the group, spurring the Planned Parenthood Association of Utah to announce Monday that it was suing the state.

This draft bill also would allow federal dollars to flow but require virtually nothing in return.

On August 23, 2010, Judge Royce Lamberth of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia issued a preliminary injunction against the National Institutes of Health (NIH) guidelines allowing federal dollars to fund projects in which embryos were destroyed to derive new stem cell lines.

That bill, based on one from Rep. Diana DeGette, D - Colo., would have allowed federal dollars to flow toward research on stem cell lines using embryos left over from in vitro fertilization, slated for disposal and donated by the parents.

Not exact matches

The emergency declaration would also free up public health emergency funds at the Department of Health and Human Services, and grant individual states more flexibility in how they use federal dollars, and allow them to direct more funds toward addiction treatment and prevention.

But Capitol Hill is also widely expected to take up an emergency «supplemental» funding bill that would send tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars to help begin to repair the Texas coast using the Federal Relief Act, which allows the federal government to steer emergency cash to state governments hit by natural disFederal Relief Act, which allows the federal government to steer emergency cash to state governments hit by natural disfederal government to steer emergency cash to state governments hit by natural disasters.

The Program allows contracting officers, for the first time, to set aside specific contracts for certified WOSBs and EDWOSBs and will help federal agencies achieve the existing statutory goal of five percent of federal contracting dollars being awarded to WOSBs.

Trump has appointed a pro-life Supreme Court justice, banned federal dollars from funding abortion overseas, and signed a law allowing states to withhold funding for abortion providers.

Action is needed to stem the tide of the U.S. federal government agencies that allow these chemicals to contaminate our food supply, and protect the companies who are earning billions of dollars in producing GMO seeds and toxic herbicides and pesticides.

Strategic financing strategies allow and incentivize braiding and blending of funding streams; leverage federal, state, local, and private dollars across systems; and secure sufficient and sustainable funding to support progress toward common goals.

Cuomo administration officials said the governor's plan does not take dollars away from low - income students and will allow even more low - income families to take advantage of state and federal financial aid that's available for higher education.

But the mayor told the Observer that he would not allow public dollars to go toward the defense of anyone found guilty of one of the 170 crimes that New York exempts from its «sanctuary city» protections — violent offenses like rape, murder and terrorism, for which local law enforcement will turn over a foreign national to federal authorities.

Allow individual taxpayers to take a dollar for dollar deduction from their federal income taxes for state taxes paid.

Action is needed to stem the tide of the U.S. federal government agencies that allow these chemicals to contaminate our food supply, and protect the companies who are earning billions of dollars in producing GMO seeds and toxic herbicides and pesticides.

Rules like the so - called comparability loophole — which allows districts to use average instead of actual teacher salaries for budget calculations — mean federal dollars are not getting to the schools and students who need them the most.

It would be likely be funded by redirecting of a portion of current Title I dollars (federal dollars targeted to poor students) from states that don't allow choice.

Andrew Ujifusa and Alyson Klein of Ed Week note that the plan calls for the creation of a new $ 1 billion program that will allow students to take federal, state, and local education dollars to the public school of their choice.

Education lobbyists say HR 2086 would conceivably allow school districts to use federal dollars to pay for vouchers for private school tuition or to pay private companies to provide school services.

But the federal government could allow states to enact funding systems where federal, state, and local dollars follow students to the public schools of their choice.

Much of the gap can be filled, however, by allowing states to allocate more of their federal dollars to supporting turnaround efforts in low - performing districts.

Instead of allowing tax dollars to follow students to the schools of their parents» choice, the federal government gives $ 35 billion directly to the schools themselves (or to the states, which then give it to schools).

Moreover, they could provide regulatory guidance allowing districts to use a portion of their share of federal dollars to pay the cost of participation.

When combined with a federal tax loophole that allows taxpayers to receive a federal deduction on a dollar - for - dollar state tax credit, 10 of these states» credits are so lucrative that they allow some upper - income taxpayers to turn a profit (at federal taxpayer expense) on contributions they make to fund private school vouchers.

Trump's plan would reprioritize existing federal dollars to establish a grant to allow children living in poverty to attend the school of their choice.

He once spoke movingly about the virtues of NCLB, calling it «an effort to end decades of failed federal education policy that allowed billions of taxpayer dollars to be spent without insisting on results for students» But that was before Boehner had to corral a caucus full of Tea Party - backed freshmen.

«It is important not to allow the lure of federal grant dollars to define our state's mission and programs,» Pence wrote in the Indianapolis Star after he killed the application.

While woefully short on details, this proposal makes clear that the administration seeks to create a new $ 250 million federal program that will allow taxpayer dollars to flow to private schools, which are not accountable; can discriminate in admissions and discipline; and are not subject to basic monitoring, oversight, and civil rights laws.

The waiver allows the state to have flexibility with millions of dollars of federal money.

APLUS would allow states to opt out and spend their share of federal education dollars on any lawful education purpose they believe would best benefit students.

The administration would devote $ 1 billion in Title I dollars meant for poor children to a new grant program (called Furthering Options for Children to Unlock Success, or FOCUS) for school districts that agree to allow students to choose which public school they attend — and take their federal, state and local dollars with them.

The bill would have allowed charter schools to receive more federal and local tax dollars — as well as private grants — than to which they are currently entitled.

DALLAS — Texas» lieutenant governor said Friday that the state is prepared to forfeit billions of federal dollars in public school funding in defiance of an Obama administration directive requiring schools to allow transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their chosen gender identity.

The GI Bill, Pell Grants, student loans, both Presidents Bush, President Trump, the 25 states that allow parents to choose among public and private schools, Congress with its passage of the Washington, D.C. voucher program, 45 U.S. senators who voted in 2015 to allow states to use existing federal dollars for vouchers, Betsy DeVos — or her senate critics?

«State education chiefs recognize we can always improve on how state and federal funds are spent, but cutting these funds to zero wouldn't allow for an opportunity to improve how we spend those dollars and would turn our back on the commitments we have made to teachers and students.

States will be required to report chronic absenteeism rates for schools, and school districts will be allowed to spend federal dollars on training to reduce absenteeism, under a sweeping education bill signed into law by President Obama on Dec. 10.

The fact that federal dollars should depend on federal testing seems as much of a no - brainer as the fact that people shouldn't be allowed to select their own jury.

A change in the law not only would allow Maryland to take a bigger bite out of the achievement gap but also could attract more federal and private school reform dollars.

Just as importantly, the waiver gambit reaffirms the role of states in structuring education without holding them accountable for how they spend federal dollars (or for providing them with high - quality teaching, curricula, and school options); this includes the administration's move through the waiver process to bless implementation of Plessy v. Ferguson - like proficiency targets that allow districts and other school operators to effectively ignore poor and minority students.

Betsy DeVos has one mission at the Department of Education: to expand charter schools and lead the establishment of a federal voucher program — a program that would siphon public dollars meant for our public schools, and allow it to pad the pockets and budgets of private schools and private management companies.

Previously earmarked for college education, the federal plan would allow the 529 to pay for private and parochial K - 12 education with after tax dollars in accounts growing tax free for this tuition.

School districts are not allowed to underfund schools in poor neighborhoods and then use the federal dollars to fill in the hole.

We do not want to limit the way in which Alabama is allowed to use the federal dollars, nor do we want to obligate ALSDE to utilize our allotment in any particular way, now or in the future.

I also strongly object to the federal government's continued willingness to provide private businesses access to scarce tax - dollars to fund charter schools that are then allowed to flaunt the rules and regulations that traditional public schools are required to follow.

The House bill — H. R. 5, the «Student Success Act» — would streamline federal education programs and includes language that would allow Title I dollars to follow students to public schools of their choice — a deal - breaker for House Democrats.

H.R. 1891, otherwise known as «The State and Local Funding Flexibility Act,» is designed to allow states and local school districts maximum flexibility in their use of federal education dollars.

To offset the federal government's obligation to cover long - term care expenses, the Partnership Program, administered at the state level, allows individuals to retain assets equal to a dollar - for - dollar amount of long - term care coverage.

The US dollar went off the gold - exchange standard and the US dollar became a purely fiat currency backed by nothing but government decree which allows the Federal Reserve to print money ad nauseum.

Pentagon Federal Credit Union, also known as «PenFed,» has launched a new credit card that allows cardholders to earn up to 2 percent cash back on every dollar they spend.

The federal government made a stunning 179,000 «categorical exclusions» that allowed corporations — many with disastrous environmental records — to use stimulus funding to sponsor projects without submitting them to review under the nation's «most basic form of environmental oversight», a new report from the Center for Public Integrity found.Making matters worse, many of these projects were approved under the auspices of being «green» or clean energy projects (many more are transportation - related)-- thus helping to comprise the billions of dollars in funding for green projects that sent progressives» hearts aflutter two years ago.