Sentences with phrase «block grant»

In contrast to Title I, a portion of Title IV block grant funds may be used on school - wide initiatives.

Money would then be sent to the state in the form of block grants.

Most of the stimulus money and energy efficiency block grants for buildings are slated for the public building sector.

Federal rules blocked the grants from being used for other projects.

The measure would have taken funding out of the approximately $ 2 billion in federal block grants to states for child - care development aid.

Those provisions would convert federal vocational - education programs into block grants and tie them to the massive welfare - reform effort.

Gone are the days of receiving block grants, and North American churches generally have less money to give.

They've set aside $ 200 million for the new block grant option.

It would be simpler and more stable to transfer funding through block grant.

The bill divides federal healthcare funding to the states using block grants — a lump sum of sorts paid up front to states — rather than the current percent match of actual spending.

The proposed block grant would be about $ 6.7 billion that year.

A number of groups have said they're concerned about the Title I investment and inadequate funding for a Title IV block grant created by the law, for example.

S 143 would repeal 91 separate vocational - education and job - training programs and replace them with a single block grant to states.

Those dollars would be used to increase the base funding that all districts receive as well as a remaining supplemental block grant for disadvantaged students.

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

The deadline for health and human services organizations to apply for state funds from a 200 - million dollar block grant has already arrived.

The rest of the funding would go out to districts as a «unified block grant» to be used at the discretion of administrators, principals, teachers, and parents.

The rest of the money allocated to schools would be rolled into uniform block grants used by the local administrators as they see fit.

Since these grants are largely block grants, it is up to local school boards to decide how to cope with the cuts.

When charter schools first came on the scene, block grants for an additional $ 400 per student were added for affiliated charters.

Or will it be shattered and sent back to individual states in the form of federal block grants?

At the same time, the new law if enacted would eliminate some programs and consolidate them into block grants to states.

The project would be completed by spring 2019 with support from a federal Community Development Block Grant Economic Development award of $ 330,000, he said.

The New York State Department of Agriculture and markets and the Erie County Community Development Block Grant program provided key funding for the project, and the Erie County Department of Environment and Planning led the local effort to gather and assess public input with guidance from the Erie County Agricultural and Farmland Protection Board;

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

But there's one big difference: The ED money is distributed to states as block grants rather than by peer review (Science, 11 January 2002, p. 265).

The resultant changes in block grant from year to year are called Barnett consequentials.

The IDC wants to increase funding for the Child Care Block Grant by $ 100 million, which would create an additional 13,000 slots in child care centers.

The SNA is particularly alarmed by a proposal in the House last year to block grant school meals in three states.

Legislation to replace scores of programs with block grants was debated, and hearings were held on proposals to scrap the Department of Education.

The revised bill gives states the option to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients and pays states block grants for Medicaid, rather than using a cap system that would be more favorable to New York.

Planned Parenthood receives approximately $ 300 million from the federal government, Rovner says, an amount that includes not only funds for the Title X family planning program but also Medicaid funds and support for the Maternal and Child Health block grant program.

House Republicans are discussing a bill that would potentially provide block grants for the state's Medicaid program.

The centerpiece of Brown's plan is the Local Control Funding Formula, which rolls virtually all of the state's current maze of spending on schools into a more simplified block grant system where districts with higher numbers of English learners and students receiving subsidized meals would be provided additional dollars.

She also led a subcontract to the Erikson Institute to evaluate the Illinois Early Childhood Block Grant Program (statewide birth through age 5 programs) for the Illinois State Board of Education.

A compromise that would permit seven states to try running school - meals programs under block grants ended a weeks - long legislative stalemate late last month, allowing passage of a massive welfare - reform bill.

The following materials were funded by a USDA Specialty Crop Block Grant through the Vermont Agency of Agriculture and are a collaboration of the Vermont Agency of Education, Vermont FEED (Food Education Every Day) and Green Mountain Farm to School.

Charter schools» base categorical block grant funding received growth for new pupils in the 2012 - 13 state budget; a total of $ 53.7 million to accommodate the increasing number of students in California's charter public schools and keep the per pupil funding level from decreasing.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) included several key funding opportunities for energy efficiency projects at the local level, including for the first time monies for the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) program.1 Funding was additionally provided for state energy programs, weatherization assistance, and efficient transportation efficiency among other initiatives.

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.

At the national level, the Empowerment Zone / Enterprise Community program awards block grants to foster local collaboration, and tax incentives to encourage private sector investment,

SNA has issued a new call on Congress to oppose any school meal block grant proposal and provide greater support to school nutrition programs, which contribute to the health and academic success of students.

At issue is the proposed School - Based Nutrition Block Grant Program, which Republicans tout as a bureaucracy - slashing measure that would give states greater freedom to decide the most effective way to use funds.

A more recent legislative effort, the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act, relied chiefly on block grants backed up by a detailed set of mandates and goals for teacher quality, curriculum, and student performance.