Sentences with phrase «billions of federal dollars»

Trump has signaled that he intends to pour billions of federal dollars into efforts to expand vouchers and charter schools nationwide.

Together, we secured billions of federal dollars for two of the largest infrastructure projects in the country — the 2nd Avenue Subway and the Queens - Manhattan Connector.

Education Secretary John B. King Jr. is in the middle of finalizing regulations to implement the law, including a hotly contested rule that would govern how districts allocate billions of federal dollars meant to educate poor children.

The ESEA pours billions of federal dollars each year into schools that serve low - income kids, Johnson's best effort at leveling the playing field for poor students.

More than 700,000 students in more than 1,200 New York City schools — including large high schools in all five boroughs — would face higher class sizes, have fewer teachers and lose after - school academic and enrichment programs if President - elect Trump makes good on a campaign promise to pull billions of federal dollars away from public schools to pay for private vouchers, a UFT analysis has found.

As the mechanism for apportioning congressional districts — and billions of federal dollars linked to geographic, income, and population data — the census has always been a political football.

«One of the Obama administration's signature efforts in education, which pumped billions of federal dollars into overhauling the nation's worst schools, failed to produce meaningful results, according to a federal analysis.»

Introduction Since its inception in 1965, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, now known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB), has directed billions of federal dollars toward low - income students.

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 law still funnels billions of federal dollars to schools with high concentrations of poor children.

Education was a rich, untapped market with billions of federal dollars there for the taking.

The Obama administration, which persistently denied that a climate debate even existed, channeled billions of federal dollars into programs and studies that supported its claims, while silencing contrary opinions.

The Department of Education's Race to the Top program, which is allocating billions of federal dollars to states on a state - by - state application basis, included state commitments to the Common Core as one of the criteria assessed in the applications.

Billions of federal dollars to hospitals will be cut beginning October 1, impacting services to low - income and the uninsured.

Billions and billions of federal dollars have funded Head Start over the years, and billions more are being proposed for a universal pre-school program.

Labor chiefs are openly miffed over President Obama's offer of moral support and billions of federal dollars to escalate the «war» being waged by Villaraigosa and his fellow mayors.

Can billions of federal dollars and a menu of market - based reforms fix the problem?

Secretary DeVos holds the purse strings for billions of federal dollars and leads federal involvement in schools, making it critically important that she know what students in too many schools today know all too well, and what Congress has mandated for close to 60 years: The federal government must actively ensure that our nation's schools keep core civil rights promises.

All that states have to do to be free is «voluntarily» give up billions of federal dollars that came from their taxpaying citizens whether those citizens liked it or not!