Sentences with phrase «big federal programs»

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.

Not exact matches

That's important because the ECB's liquidity is one of the biggest remaining supporting factors behind the global stock market rally, now that the Federal Reserve has ended its own «quantitative easing» program and has started to raise official U.S. interest rates.

«Any time you roll out a big government program like this, confusion is inevitable,» said Lois Greisman, an associate director in the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission.

If the new administration really wants to restore U.S. manufacturing, fix the trade deficit, and boost innovation, it should leverage the best ideas that come from federal research programs and invest in funding the next big thing.

The other big announcement was Employment Minister Jason Kenney's decision to place a moratorium on new approvals for restaurants to hire temporary foreign workers, in response to a myriad of complaints about abuses under the federal program.

And they book in big savings from program cuts that are still working their way through the federal government.

But if one of the most popular federal programs does survive in its current form — and that is a big if — the average millennial married couple could actually receive nearly double the average Social Security benefits that current retirees collect, according to a...

So the big question in the world of economics is whether or not the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates and end their bond buying program known as quantitative easing.

Similarly, various federal loan forgiveness programs for teachers could mean big savings on student debt.

This week the United States Treasury began selling $ 100 billion in new bonds to begin financing of what is the biggest federal spending program since World War II.

Indeed, world currency markets have roared back to life lately after years of hibernation, with a handful of monetary policy surprises — including the European Central Bank (ECB)'s bigger - than - expected bond buying program and the Federal Reserve (Fed)'s delay in raising rates — leading to rising volatility, as the chart below shows.

Treasury 30 - year bonds advanced after biggest quarterly rally since the depths of the financial crisis in 2008 as the Federal Reserve prepared to buy longer - term debt under the program known as Operation Twist.

The New Nationalism he put forward in his quixotic Bull Moose campaign for the presidency in 1912, with its sweeping program of federal regulation of the economy and guarantees for social welfare, set the blueprint for the big government crusades of Progressivism, the New Deal, and the Great Society.

We have three elementary [schools] that qualify for the federal fruit and veggie bar, and our [backpack program] is really big — it's a really big deal.»

... the federal government is now one of the biggest buyers of baby formula, through its nutritional programs for women and infant children.

(And btw, I am not a big fan of Federal funding for school food programs.

The suggested boost in dairy intake could spell big profits for the industry, as federal nutrition programs such as school lunch menus are adjusted to conform.»

Not sure why Black brought this up, except maybe to knock it down in defense of low - income children, who are the biggest beneficiaries of the federal meals program and also hardest hit by malnutrition and weight issues.

School districts that comply with the new standards will receive an additional federal payment of 6 cents for each lunch served, a pretty big incentive to get with the program.

The Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 introduced big changes to school nutrition standards (which govern school lunch and breakfast programs that receive federal government funding).

It gets more complicated because the terms morphed around the WWII era when the leftists started to support more «entitlement» programs like social security, which would mean bigger government and higher taxes, not necessarily tariffs on imports, or support for a monarchy but still more federal spending.

Both firms are also big Cuomo donors and, like Percoco, are caught up in a federal probe into the governor's «Buffalo Billion» economic development program and nanotechnology initiatives.

Changes that lawmakers want to economic development programs were made ripe following allegations by federal prosecutors that the Buffalo Billion and a couple of other big upstate initiatives were part of a massive, alleged pay - to - play, bid - rigging scandal.

State officials will also have to respond if Trump and Congress move to repeal the Affordable Care Act or cut federal funding for Medicaid or other big - ticket programs.

The governor's big - headline, big - dollar programs are run by SUNY Polytechnic Institute and are the subject of a federal investigation.

As a fellow, he works on Big Data policies and programs, participates in a coordination and leadership group on cyberinfrastructure investments, and works to advance the data - intensive science and high performance computing communities supported by NSF and other Federal agencies.

To prevent any slippage, the report says, the federal government should reform the patent system to make litigation less common, ease financial regulations that may impose special burdens on start - up companies, and fund research programs aimed at some of the field's biggest challenges.

And it tweaks the rules governing existing activities, from the fledgling Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy at DOE to long - running training programs at NSF, with the goal of getting a bigger economic payoff from federal investments.

In 2008, Nichole got the biggest television break of her career as she was tapped to play the younger sister of Mary Shannon (played by Mary McCormack), Brandi, on In Plain Sight, a drama about the high - risk life of a Federal Marshal with the Witness Protection Program.

Big changes to the E-rate program made by the Federal Communications Commission over the past 18 months are showing up in dramatic ways in this year's requests for telecommunications - related funding by schools and libraries.

The chairman of the House education committee released a proposal late last week that would allow states and school districts to transfer money between several big - ticket programs contained in the main federal K - 12 law.

WASHINGTON — The number of schools participating in the federal school - breakfast program jumped 8.9 percent this fiscal year — the biggest increase in 13 years — due to a sluggish economy and stepped - up efforts to sign up schools, a research and advocacy group reported last week.

Since Donald Trump's election and Betsy DeVos's selection as Secretary of Education put private - school - choice programs in the national spotlight — after years of slow - and - steady growth at the state level — advocates across Twitter and the blogosphere have been offering ideas on what a big push at the federal level might look like.

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.

But instead of just handing over big checks to school districts on the basis of need, the federal government showers the states with dozens of small programs.

But these charter efforts remained a tiny percentage of federal spending, Bush was rebuffed on an effort to make school choice a much bigger component of NCLB, and the Obama administration did its best to anesthetize the D.C. voucher program.

Yet two recent studies with big implications for the federal student loan program have gone largely unnoticed.

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 Problem of Head Start Nowhere is resistance to structured, curriculum - based, standards - and - assessment - driven early education clearer than in the big, iconic, federal early - childhood program known as Head Start, a legacy of Lyndon Johnson's mid-1960s declaration of war on poverty.

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.

Schools have made big changes against a tight clock, a consequence of the program's genesis: the 2009 stimulus package, which sought to pump job - boosting federal money into the economy.

And the narrow focus on math and reading test scores is a big reason why educators, parents and students across the country became frustrated with the federal No Child Left Behind program.

Although the administration was not involved in the development of Common Core, Obama and Duncan were big supporters and attempted to encourage states to adopt the nationalized curriculum standards and make college and career readiness conditions for getting federal support for some programs.

The programs with the biggest enrollment numbers in California are now institutions with extensive online offerings, according to federal data.

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.

The biggest program, Early Head Start, is so meagerly funded by the states and the federal government that it can enroll fewer than 1 % of eligible (below poverty line) infants.

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.»

Another big challenge in tracking young learners is that the federal Head Start and Early Head Start programs use a reporting system «that doesn't interface at all with state - level systems,» said Rachel Demma, a senior policy analyst with the National Governors Association.

ear after Maryland lawmakers created the state's first private school voucher program, indications are that the state is gearing up for big changes to address low - performing schools as education officials work to draft a plan to comply with the federal Every Student Succeeds Act.

«The change reflects the big improvements manufacturers have made in frontal crashworthiness in response to Institute and federal government frontal crash test programs,» says Institute president Adrian Lund.