Sentences with phrase «big federal grant program»

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That's a huge expansion of federal higher education spending; for comparison, the Congressional Budget Office projects that the Pell Grant program, the biggest part of the federal financial aid budget right now, will cost $ 380 billion over the next 10 years.

With unprecedented federal investment in failing schools through the multi-billion-dollar School Improvement Grant program, it's been a big year for school turnaround efforts.

The i3 grant along with Race to the Top are perhaps the two signature education programs from the Obama administration where big federal dollars have been given in exchange for promises by states and local districts for sweeping changes.

The two biggest statewide teachers unions — California Teachers Association (CTA) and California Federation of Teachers (CFT)-- have problems with the waivers granted to eight school districts from the federal program, No Child Left Behind.

Career and technical education, the biggest federal program for high schools, would be financed at $ 1.1 billion, and Improving Teacher Quality State grants would also be level funded at nearly $ 2.5 billion.

And the biggest new federal program in ESSA is the Student Support and Academic Enrichment grant program being sold as «providing greater flexibility to enhance support for students and schools.»