Sentences with phrase «dollar block grant»

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

Not exact matches

Cuomo has slashed funding for transitional jobs programs to nearly zero, despite receiving an annual billion - dollar surplus as part of the fixed federal welfare (TANF) block grant.

Faso said he would also like to see sufficient funding set aside for high risk pools and a «dollar breakdown» of Medicaid block grants.

Governor Cuomo, who has warned that repealing the Affordable Care Act could result in a «devastating» $ 3.7 billion dollar hit to the state budget, says a block grant might not necessarily be a bad thing.

Trump said his proposed block grant program would come from redirecting existing federal funds, and he would leave it up to states to decide whether the dollars would follow children to public, private, charter or magnet schools.

Nevertheless to encourage choice, Trump's first budget if elected would include an additional $ 20 billion that will be raised by «reprioritizing existing federal dollars» to create a block grant that would be dedicated to «the 11 million school - aged kids living in absolute poverty.»

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.

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.

He proclaimed that parents should be able to walk their child to a school they choose to be at, adding that each state would develop its own formula for distributing the $ 20 billion block - grant money, but that the dollars must follow the student.

As this editorial board has repeatedly noted, instead of formula dollars going specifically to help struggling students — as Brown promised in 2013 — formula dollars are instead treated like block grants by many districts.

If our foundations had distributed the «hundreds of millions of dollars» in climate - change program funding mentioned by S&N in the form of block grants, I think we would have seen very different and much stronger environmental work.

If our foundations had distributed the «hundreds of millions of dollars» in climate - change program funding mentioned by Shellenberger and Nordhaus in the form of block grants, I think we would have seen very different and much stronger environmental work.

Public dollars, allocated through the Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG), make up a significant portion of SFTAs funding

Home visiting dollars are drawn from a variety of state sources — including general revenues, tobacco settlement funds and taxes — and federal streams, such as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, the Maternal Child Health Block Grant and Medicaid.

New York as well as other states that had significant damage caused by Super Storm Sandy received billions of dollars from The United State Department of Housing and Urban Development as a Community Block Grant.

• Offering the State of Connecticut and other entitlement communities the ability to re-allocate existing federal resources toward disaster relief — HUD's Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME programs give the State and communities the flexibility to redirect millions of dollars to address critical needs, including housing and services for disaster victims.