Sentences with phrase «distributing federal education funds»

I am referring to the proposed radical shift away from formula driven grants — the traditional mechanism for distributing federal education funds — to competitive funding.

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Its principal task: to distribute federal funds to states and local school districts amounting to about 8 percent of the total spent nationally on education.
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Because there is no set federal mandate prescribing the distribution of special education funds to charter schools — aside from the requirement that federal funds be distributed equitably — an appreciation of federal, state, and local sources of funding is necessary to understand the particular way charter schools receive money earmarked for special education services.
Oklahoma schools would have faced similar restrictions on about $ 29 million in federal funding through Title I funding of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which distributes money to schools and school districts with a high percentage of students from poor families.
Worse yet, funding has continued to go to the federal Department of Education despite its poor showing for all the federal money it was given to distribute to the states and local school districts.
The Maine Department of Education will again apply for federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) funding that the Department would distribute to help the state's most struggling schools.
Announced last November, the U.S. Department of Education's #GoOpen campaign aims to require all copyrightable resources developed with federal grant funds to have an open license, making them free to be customized, distributed, and used.
Under IDEA, federal special education funds are distributed through three state grant programs and several discretionary grant programs:
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