Sentences with phrase «categorical grant»

So problems of whatever size — big or small — were solved through a categorical grant.

Dept. and obtain «freedom from the current requirements placed on categorical grant programs» — which may well include civil rights protections and such.

However, those funds were phased out, along with dozens of other categorical grant programs, after the state introduced the Local Control Funding Formula in 2013.

Should the EPA Waste Reduction grants be a part of that 45 % reduction in categorical grant funding, the WNYSBR, through Erie County, would stand to lose $ 130,196 in Grant funding as well as the services of the full time staff person managing WNYSBR and money for training for WNYSBR members.

Categorical grants to localities would fall 45 percent, from $ 1.1 billion to $ 597 million.

Before it was repealed in 1981, when the Congress passed the education block - grants law, esaa provided categorical grants to school districts implementing desegregation plans.

Account Cap: 90 percent of state and local funds reflected in the state funding formula and categorical grants for students with special needs

Then, as various districts began to be favored by the pattern of categorical grants, the districts that didn't get much money said, «We need a categorical grant for us.»

The reform act consolidates most of these state funding streams, with some categorical grants remaining separate.

While the categorical grants that Michigan once offered provided some help, Hammer says even those measures were always «very small relative to the need» and mostly enacted to quiet critics.

In addition to the GSA the state funds education through categorical grants for a variety of expenses, supplemental grants for services, and a special block grant to Chicago for special education services in city schools.

And, under the old system of funding «categorical grants,» some districts received hundreds of dollars extra in funding per student.

Not exact matches

For example, changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program include converting the program into a block grant and requiring states to finance 25 percent of the total costs, eliminating the ability for states to waive work requirements, and ending categorical eligibility, among other changes.

Despite these reports, in 2009, the MMS granted BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling operation a «categorical exclusion» from all environmental reviews under the US National Environmental Policy Act.

The Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (ecia) merged 42 categorical education programs and sub-programs into one block grant...

Specifically, members of the National Association of Administrators of State and Federal Education Programs (naasfep) lobbied their Congressional delegations to vote against the consolidation of existing categorical education programs into new block grants to the states, to maintain those programs at their current levels of funding, and to work actively against the passage of President...

ED put money into competitive grants rather than categorical programs such as Title III, the main vehicle for federal ELL funding.

The most appropriate role for the federal government may be to provide resources to states through categorical formula funding or a competitive grant program that would allow policy design to fit the local context rather than try to act as a national school board from Washington, DC.

To provide additional funding for students «at risk» — those in poverty or headed for academic failure — most states adjust each district's aid level through a weight or use categorical programs to grant school districts money that typically must be spent on specific services.

In addition to receiving an increase in the base categorical block grant to accommodate projected increases in charter school enrollment and not being singled out for any additional cuts, new and growing charter schools retained the supplemental block grant of $ 127 per pupil that was created last year as a result of our advocacy highlighting this inequity.

Ensure that charter schools» base categorical block grant funding also received growth for new schools and that new and growing charter schools retained the supplemental block grant of $ 127 per pupil,

In response to the economic crisis and to mitigate deep cuts to education, lawmakers enacted mid-year changes that granted schools more flexibility in how they spent categorical funds.

The new «Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF)» will eliminate most of the state's categorical programs, providing instead a base grant for every student enrolled plus 20 percent more funding for every English learner, low - income child and foster youth.

Along with categorical aid, collaboration grants and training are included.

Two key school safety grant initiatives were then among some 39 categorical programs that were eliminated when the state adopted Gov. Jerry Brown's new school finance system, the Local Control Funding Formula, in 2013.

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.

If elected California governor, both the attorney general and the former eBay executive want to expand charter schools, consolidate categorical programs and simplify the per - pupil funding system into block grants that provide extra support for disadvantaged children.

If elected governor, Whitman wants to consolidate the state's categorical programs into grants that would provide bonuses for special education, high performing teachers and schools, and other achievement - based programs.

B - 3 Categorical / Grant Fund / Operating Budget: $ 3,160,000 Amendment of Contract with Carnegie Learning, Inc. — Professional Development for Summer Math Institute and Math Institute Specialists

A-23 Categorical / Grant Fund / Operating Budget: $ 555,000 Contracts with QBS, Inc., Dale Carnegie Training, and KJR Consulting — Training for Central Office and Select Field Staff

A-18 Categorical / Grant Fund: $ 1,200,000 from Drexel University — Promise of Strong Partnership for Education Reform (ProSPER)

Collapse the state's categorical program into simplified grants.

Finance Budget Projections and Cash Flow; Monitoring your Financial Statements; Cost - saving Success Stories; Audits; Finance Options for Charter Schools; Categorical Programs and Grants; Strategic Planning; Procurement; Local Control Funding Formula

Prior to working with SI&A, Carder was the Director for Categorical Programs for Grant JUHSD and held many additional positions throughout his long tenure in public education.

Although school districts control major operations on affiliated charters including employment decisions, the school gains access to the charter categorical block grant, which expands spending flexibility and can be used to reduce teacher layoffs in a given year.

Drexel University's role continues to expand with Resolutions A-12 Categorical / Grant Fund: $ 250,000 Ratification of Grant Acceptance from the Promise of Strong Partnership for Education Reform; and Resolutions B - 3 and B - 4 for the newest SLA addition — SLAMS.

In this way, categorical funding is somewhat analogous to federal formula grants like Title I.

Brown would also grant districts more power to determine how money is spent, permanently eliminating most categorical programs, while requiring districts to provide detailed, transparent accountability plans for parents and the public.

Unfortunately, before the MMS got around to granting wind such categorical exclusions, there was that oily matter in the Gulf of Mexico.

In the catastrophe's wake, it was discovered that one of the corners cut on behalf of BP was the granting of a categorical exclusion.

One of the most important suggested solutions for an improved offshore wind approval process is the granting to developers of a «categorical exclusion» from certain environmental study obligations on the grounds that such studies have been conducted time and again and new ones would only yield the same results.

The New York Times recently shed light on yet another important aspect of gas drilling leases, that U.S. Department of Agriculture rural housing loans are being routinely granted on properties with oil and gas leases using a so - called «categorical exclusion» from the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), although such exclusions are only supposed to apply to properties without environmental risks.

The court granted the motion, but inquired in its written order: «[d] oes Defendant think it is ok if Plaintiff's counsel makes a categorical statement that is incorrect — after counting to ten?

Although the majority of the Supreme Court of Canada granted Mr. Baldree's appeal and ordered a new trial, Fish J. confirmed, at paragraph 70 of the decision, that hearsay statements of this kind may be admissible if a principled analysis shows that they meet the test for necessity and reliability, ``... I take care not to be understood to have proposed a categorical rule for drug purchase calls.

The Office is under the direction of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs (DASPA), whose responsibilities include implementation of the mandated provisions of the categorical family planning grant program, Title X of the Public Health Service Act.