Sentences with phrase «challenged federal education funding»

At the same time, by encouraging states to use 40 % of their school improvement allocation for middle level and high schools, ARRA highlights an issue that for far too long has challenged federal education funding.

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«Sustaining and growing support for research and development under the kinds of constraints that we have experienced in the federal budget» is one of the top S&T - related challenges — along with others involving climate change, NASA funding, and STEM education — facing the Obama administration in its last year and a half, said Holdren who is the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and assistant to the president for science and technology.

While the nearly $ 100 billion in federal economic - stimulus aid set aside for education has challenged school districts to turn one - time money into long - term reform, this historic influx of funding has also set the stage for long - term — and not necessarily positive — consequences.

Despite these economic challenges, only 22 percent of federal education funds are directed toward rural school districts.

How do you plan to address the challenge from the National Education Association and some states that districts should not be required to comply with provisions for which no federal funding is provided?

While the nearly $ 100 billion in federal economic - stimulus aid set aside for education has challenged school districts to turn one - time money into lasting reform, this historic influx of funding has also set the stage for long - term — and not necessarily positive — consequences.

The new platform called education choice «one of the greatest civil rights challenges of our time» and detailed the Party's support for education savings accounts (ESAs), vouchers, tuition tax credits, and portability of federal funding:

The warning by NSW education minister Adrian Piccoli — that any reduction in the federal funding NSW receives would mean «war» — speaks precisely to the policy and political challenges ahead.

Maximizing Large Federal Funds to Support Opportunity Youth This new report investigates the ways in which the existing federal funding streams of WIOA, TANF, SNAP (Food Stamps) Education and Training, and Pell Grants are challenging to use and hard to combine, even when it would be in the best interest of the young person and the community toFederal Funds to Support Opportunity Youth This new report investigates the ways in which the existing federal funding streams of WIOA, TANF, SNAP (Food Stamps) Education and Training, and Pell Grants are challenging to use and hard to combine, even when it would be in the best interest of the young person and the community tofederal funding streams of WIOA, TANF, SNAP (Food Stamps) Education and Training, and Pell Grants are challenging to use and hard to combine, even when it would be in the best interest of the young person and the community to do so.

After all, Brown knows full well that any attempt to withhold federal funding will be challenged by Golden State's influential congressional delegation (including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Dianne Feinstein); the former state attorney general is also likely betting that the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last year on the Affordable Healthcare Act, which effectively makes it impossible for the federal government to withhold subsidies from states for not implementing new regulations, can also be applied to what the administration can do on the education policy front.

The i3 program awards federal funds to projects that provide innovative solutions to common education challenges.

Faced with potentially losing federal funding after publicly challenging No Child Left Behind's student performance mandates, Montana's education chief Denise Juneau is now in discussions with the Department of Education in search of compromise, she told The Huffington Poseducation chief Denise Juneau is now in discussions with the Department of Education in search of compromise, she told The Huffington PosEducation in search of compromise, she told The Huffington Post Friday.

Prior to joining the Center, Hamm worked as a program examiner at the Office of Management and Budget on federal child care and early education programs, including the Race to the Top — Early Learning Challenge, the Child Care and Development Fund, and the Head Start program.