Sentences with phrase «based federal aid»

Professional Judgment (PJ) For need - based federal aid programs, the financial aid administrator can adjust the EFC, adjust the COA, or change the dependency status (with documentation) when extenuating circumstances exist.

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The award will be automatic to eligible students based on the information provided on their Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA.

According to the Federal Student Aid Office, such a plan «sets your monthly student loan payment at an amount that is intended to be affordable based on your income and family size.»

To be eligible for need - based or non-need-based loans, all you have to do is submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid.

The plan will tie federal financial aid to college performance based a new rating system: President Obama is directing the Department of Education to develop and publish a new college ratings system that would....

The plan will tie federal financial aid to college performance based a new rating system:

In the past month, Syracuse was denied a $ 2.9 million federal grant to remove toxic lead - based paint from homes with children, saw nearly 900 properties fall under a federal mandate to buy expensive flood insurance, and asked for federal aid to buy police body cameras.

While as many as 680 were arrested in the first week of February throughout Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, San Antonio, and New York City areas by raids conducted by ICE agents, according to Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, the legislation seeks to codify language to prevent Westchester County from aiding the federal government in investigations made on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, and national origin.

The latest immigration bill, which was sponsored in February by Majority Leader Catherine Borgia, an Ossining Democrat, came in response to Republican President Donald Trump's nationwide initiative to deport undocumented immigrants, and would have prevented the county's emergency services from aiding the federal government in investigations made on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity and national origin.

Federal economic stimulus aid helped close an estimated $ 162.5 billion in budget gaps among the 50 states in 2010, the report stated, citing a study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a Washington - based policy research group.

Based on damage estimates the impacted areas could be eligible for state aid but the threshold for a federal disaster declaration has not been met.

Known as the Immigration Protection Act, it aims to prevent Westchester County emergency services from aiding the federal government in investigations made on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity and national origin.

WGU pushes that framework in all sorts of ways, not the least of which is that credit hours are the basis on which the federal government doles out student aid, not attainment of competencies.

A federal commission voted last week to spare two military facilities in New England that the Pentagon had recommended closing, a move that relieved local school officials who would have faced a loss of students and federal impact aid had the bases closed.

Washington — State education officials in New York announced last week that they will seek a federal court order to prevent the U.S. Department of Education (ED) from using 12 - year - old census data as the basis for distributing federal aid for disadvantaged children to the states.

Supplemental education loans are credit - based loans that may be borrowed as supplements to the Federal Direct Unsubsidized Loan Program, effectively meeting the gap between your cost of attendance and any financial aid you may receive from the HGSE Financial Aid Offiaid you may receive from the HGSE Financial Aid OffiAid Office.

Ruling in Grove City College v. Bell last year, the Court held that the civil - rights statute — whose language is similar to laws barring discrimination on the basis of race, handicap, and age — applies only to programs and activities that receive federal aid, and not to the entire institution.

He also sought their aid in defining both «highly qualified» teachers and «scientifically based» research, two hot - button terms in the reauthorization of the most comprehensive federal law on K - 12 education.

By using the threat of effectively denying the children of military personnel access to public education, the bill seeks to force the federal government either to increase its impact - aid payments to districts or to establish separate schools, with full federal funding, on the bases.

Data based on the poverty line — the income level at which people are considered to be poor — are used to determine eligibility for many federal - aid programs, including Title I and the school - lunch program.

Another option is for SEOG and the other campus - based aid programs (federal work study and Perkins loans) to be recast as an emergency aid program that colleges could use to help students with unexpected expenses such as an extra trip home to visit a sick relative, or for «completion grants» to students facing relatively small financial barriers to finish their degrees.

Specifically, we could shift some of the federal aid budget to performance - based grants and make the assistance a student receives more conditional on both income and performance.

The question now facing the court is whether such provisions, if used to exclude organizations from aid programs based solely on the organization's religious status, violate the federal Constitution's guarantee of free religious exercise.

The federal government is indifferent to distance learning versus place - based learning and to geographical boundaries in the provision of financial aid to high - need postsecondary students, whereas in K — 12, that aid is funneled through local public - service monopolies that hold captive the students in their geographical catchment area.

President Bush's No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) famously requires that any instructional materials supported by federal aid be proven to work through «scientifically based research.»

Washington — The Reagan Administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to let stand a federal appeals - court ruling that requires colleges whose students receive federal aid to certify that they do not discriminate on the basis of sex.

My new book, Presidents, Congress, and the Public Schools (Harvard Education Press, March 2015) contains such a proposal: states would be encouraged to adopt research - based improvements while the federal government provides increased funding and more flexible financial aid to help address these basic issues.

«I think it's ingenious on the part of the Obama administration... to get all of these states to change their laws» based on the chance to win a portion of the federal stimulus aid, said Mr. Wiman, whose union is an affiliate of the National Education Association.

The amount of all Federal Pell Grant aid (in percentage) awarded to you, divided by the amount of Pell Grant aid you would have been eligible to receive based on full - time enrollment.

The Family Engagement Team is composed of staff from the Office for Civil Rights, Office of Innovation and Improvement, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Center for Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnership, Federal Student Aid, Office of English Language Acquisition, Office of Communications and Outreach, the White House Initiatives, and Office of Early Learning.

Kline also added provisions that would address Impact Aid, which provides dollars to districts whose boundaries either include military bases and other federal property not subject to taxes, or serve Native students who live on reservations (from which districts also can not collect taxes).

But the federal anti-poverty program that funds the academic drive at Adelphi represents a model of education reform — spreading aid to states based on population and need — that is fast going out of fashion.

From the initiation of federal aid to local school districts in 1965, Democratic administrations had insisted on formula grants, which distributed federal money to schools and districts based on the proportion of students who were poor, not on a competition among states.

As one of the first federal education programs, Impact Aid was created in 1950 to address the absence of a local property tax base to fund the education of military - connected students on installations.

Based on information from the Arizona State Impact Aid Association, 79 district and charter schools receive the federal money, totaling $ 221,031,427 in 2012.

Where Ritz would get the money is unclear, as she argued she can direct per - pupil aid, special education money and federal grants based only on directives in state or federal law.

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Our foci with federal advocacy efforts are around the areas of FAFSA simplification, sustaining the purchasing power of federal need - based financial aid, and ensuring continued availability of federal college access and success programs.

Current federal student aid, however, is geared toward supporting students in traditional, time - based degree programs.

Several opportunities are available to help students cut the cost of college, including a tuition exchange program, merit - based scholarships, federal aid and pell grants.

In September, the Brookings Institution touted a new analysis that argued that state financial - aid systems «undermine» federal financial aid (because merit - based state aid is insufficiently redistributive).

As one of the first federal grant - in - aid programs, the Smith - Hughes Act provided federal aid on a matching basis to states and established requirements regarding how the money was to be used.

After all, the federal, state, and local governments already works with faith - based operations to provide healthcare and other services — including $ 3 billion in federal dollars into Catholic Charities alone — while Centrist Democrat and progressive school reformers are more than happy to back charters, which are operated by nonprofit and even for - profit organizations, and support federal and state student aid (which flows into private and parochial universities).

More significant, Duncan has said that some of the billions in more traditional annual federal aid that has flowed to states according to population formulas should now be based on Racelike competitions aimed at various pieces of the reform agenda.

In 2012, the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP - 21) established a new performance - based approach, called Transportation Performance Management (TPM), to carry out the Federal - aid highway program.

Performance management will transform the Federal - aid highway program and provide a means to the most efficient investment of Federal transportation funds by refocusing on national transportation goals, increasing the accountability and transparency of the Federal - aid highway program, and improving project decisionmaking through performance - based planning and programming.

The Federal Student Aid website lists all of the repayment options based on your specific loan.

Most aid granted to the student by federal, state and respective institutions is needs based.

So if a school's total cost of attendance is $ 20,000 and your EFC is $ 4,000, you qualify for up to $ 16,000 of need - based aid via programs like the federal Pell Grant, Perkins and direct subsidized loans and the work - study program.

Base Year The year before financial aid disbursement that serves as the reference to determine federal financial aid eligibility.