Sentences with phrase «as block grants»

Every year, the Bren School receives funds from the Graduate Division, which are known as block grants, that are used as recruitment incentive awards in the form of payment for fees, non-resident tuition, and / or stipends.

But Franklin's advice, in this case, cuts both ways: If these programs are hung together as block grants,...

The budget also provides # 1.6 billion «quality - related» funding, which is given as block grants to the best - performing university departments, and # 100 million for the various academies, including the Royal Society.

Of immediate concern is providing states with a lump sum for Medicaid spending — a system known as block grants — as opposed to an open - ended entitlement.

CLAS supports this bill because it allows local school systems to use any unappropriated revenue in this fund as a block grant for school security and all other expenditures already identified in the law.

In doing this, there are areas where the connections to FRS are clear, specifically, the parts of both consolidated plan templates that cover Title IV A, which is reimagined under ESSA as a block grant for student support and academic enrichment with a portion of the funds available to support digital infrastructure and integration of technology in the classroom.

The cuts are particularly concerning given the need to fund new programs under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) for FY17, such as the block grant in Title IV that supports a well - rounded education and safe and healthy school environments.

In short, as the block grant policy intends, states» possibilities for administering their Medicaid programs are endless.

Not exact matches

If I were to guess — and that is all any outsider can do at this point — I would say that the language of intrinsic value still in the Charter, granting nature some immunity from human need, language which, as noted, the Earth Charter Commission regards as essential and nonnegotiable, will prove the final stumbling block to official acceptance.

In this particular instance it is not very difficult to imagine scenarios in the not - too - distant future in which there might occur resurgences of socialist policies and ideals: the failure of neo-capitalist regimes in developing societies and / or the formerly Communist countries in Europe to achieve economic take - off; the insight granted to sundry dictators and despots that, while socialism invariably immiserates the masses, it is a very good recipe for enriching those who claim to hold power as the vanguard of the masses; the «creeping socialism» (still an aptly descriptive term) brought on by massive government intervention in the economy in the name of some societal good, e.g., there could be an environmentalist road to socialism, or a feminist one, or one constructed (perhaps inadvertently) with some other building blocks of politically managed regulations and entitlements; or, last but not least, the actual restoration of socialism, by coup or by voting, in a number of countries, beginning with Russia.

The Michigan Strategic Fund approved $ 12.5 m as part of Community Development Block Grant funds for the development of Coldwater.

CSWA was also one of 12 «new and innovative» projects that CDFA selected to receive a $ 100,000 grant as part of the Specialty Crop Block Grants program.

The stumbling block in nearly all these cases is not the transfer fee but, as we saw with Jenkinson in January, the buying club matching the current high wages that Arsenal have granted them up til now, a problem that could also occur with Jack Wilshere if he decides to find a new club.

The money thus saved is to be returned in lump sum block grants to the states to distribute food aid as they see fit.

Block grants are a favorite tool of conservatives to shrink the role of the federal government and reduce the size of social programs, but as the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities well articulated in a statement hastily released yesterday, block grants in the particular context of school food are very likely to put children's health and wellbeing at Block grants are a favorite tool of conservatives to shrink the role of the federal government and reduce the size of social programs, but as the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities well articulated in a statement hastily released yesterday, block grants in the particular context of school food are very likely to put children's health and wellbeing at block grants in the particular context of school food are very likely to put children's health and wellbeing at risk:

The House bill also proposed a a three - state block grant pilot for school meals, an idea which was seen by some as a precursor to dismantling the entire National School Lunch Program.

Former SNA President Dorothy Caldwell, who has been on the front lines of child nutrition for 37 years, said she is worried SNA leadership has been «naive» in its approach, allowing the National School Lunch Program to be unnecessarily politicized as it was during Newt Gingrich's effort to block the grant program during the Clinton administration, when she was a USDA official.

The committee also finalized its proposal to replace the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children (WIC) with a Family Nutrition Block Grant, as well as its proposed Child Care Block Grant, which would consolidate nine different federal child - care programs.

As reported here back in May, the School Nutrition Association (SNA) has parted ways with its former House Republican allies over the latter's controversial proposal, contained in the House Education & the Workforce Committee's Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) bill, to block grant school food in three states.

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

In 1911, Roosevelt as a newly elected state senator blocked the Tammany Hall - appointee for the U.S. Senate, back when Legislatures had that power, which was ultimately a way of granting patronage posts.

As a strategy for controlling Medicaid costs, leaders in Congress are proposing to adopt some variation of «block grant» financing.

It's a conceit that feels ignored in this budget, particularly with cuts to programs such as Close to Home, which Cuomo created and championed, and the proposal to block - grant funding for child welfare services, said Jim Purcell, chief executive officer at the Council of Family and Child Caring Agencies.

As such, Jurczynski dispensed funds from HUD's Community Development Block Grant Program (CDBG).

Assistance received from HUD supports many programs and services county - wide, including those provided by Erie County's Community Development Block Grant (herein referred to as «CDBG») Consortium areas.

Community Services Block Grant: It is DSS's understanding that the Community Action Organization of Erie County (herein referred to as «CAOEC») is the primary recipient of Community Services Block Grant (herein referred to as «CSBG») funding in our area.

Plaid Cymru, Conservative and Liberal Democrat politicians demanded this funding be made available solely from central government in addition to the block grant already paid to the Welsh Assembly by the UK Treasury, and the chief reporter for Wales on Sunday newspaper Martin Shipton stood as a single - issue candidate demanding «Match Funding now».

About a year after Sandy, the state utilized community development block grants (CDBGs) and HUD money to purchase the homes at prestorm prices as part of the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP).

New York was among the 31 states that participated in the expansion of the Medicaid program, which would be phased over to a block grant program, ending it as an open - ended entitlement.

Rev. Peter Young, a pioneer of programs for people with substance abuse problems, was treated to a profanity - laced tirade by a Cuomo administration official as the state continues to block the nonprofit from applying for publicly - funded grants and government contracts.

Utilization of funds must be eligible pursuant to the guidelines governing the HUD Community Development Block Grant program and as amended.

Fuentes» abrupt departure from the office, which helps direct and administer federal entitlement funds under the Community Development Block Grant program, came as a surprise to most observers.

After a stint as The News» computer assisted reporting editor, Heaney joined the paper's newly formed investigative reporting team and produced a series of investigations related to economic development, including the city's squandering of federal block grant funds, and, with colleague Patrick Lakamp, the failings of the state Empire Zone program.

«The Commission Shall return all unused federal government block grant, pursuant to section 11 (2) of this section to the federation account not later than the end of every appropriation year as enacted by the National Assembly from time to time.»

Talk of a Medicaid block grant as a possible replacement to Obamacare has surfaced in Congress, in the form of a memo leaked to Politco.

In Albany, Joe Nicolla and Columbia Development gave Cuomo thousands as it won contracts to build new buildings for SUNY Poly and a state grant to renovate a hotel down the block from the Capitol, adjacent to the new site of the Albany convention center.

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.

The Economic Development Corporation (EDC) was initially created in 2010 as a subsidiary of the Industrial Development Agency (IDA) to be the County's sub-recipient of Community Development Block Grant loan repayments for economic development purposes.

A spokesperson for the state Department of Housing and Community Renewal, which acts as a conduit for the Community Development Block Grant program, said the company did not receive the $ 330,000 gGrant program, said the company did not receive the $ 330,000 grantgrant.

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.

A Substantial Amendment to the 2016 Action Plan Components to the 2015 - 2019 Consolidated Plan as prepared for the Erie County / Town of West Seneca Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Consortium and Erie County / Town of Hamburg / Town of West Seneca HOME Consortium.

Welsh Conservatives would spend the same as Labour overall on public services, but we would spend the Assembly's block grant more effectively.

Talk of a Medicaid block grant as a possible replacement to Obamacare has surfaced in Congress, in the form of a memo leaked to Politico.

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.

One $ 262 million program has been tweaked to let universities — who receive block grants based on an assessment of faculty productivity — provide infrastructure for established as well as newly hired professors.

In future, the money should be open to competition from research council institutes, which are normally funded by block grants, commercial research organisations, and government laboratories and agencies such as the Building Research Establishment.

Charged with providing access to treatment programs, SAMHSA is encouraging medication - assisted therapy through the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant as well as regulatory oversight of medications used to treat opioid addiction.

It urges the government to foster cooperation — as well as healthy competition — among the centers and between them and outside labs by following a U.S. - style funding model that emphasizes research programs that cut across many institutions rather than block grants to individual facilities.

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.