Sentences with phrase «dollars in state funds»

Instrumental in legislative appropriations request (LAR) of over $ 200 million dollars in state funds for the institution.

So now, after the spending more than $ 50 million dollars in state funds over the post two years on the new Common Core standardized testing scheme, and local school districts spending millions more, the Connecticut State Department will be revealing the test results this afternoon... A Friday afternoon in August.

FUSE / Jumoke Inc. already collects millions of dollars in state funds distributed by the State Department of Education and has major expansion plans.

School accountability should be achieved by sample testing, saving millions of dollars in state funds and simultaneously eliminating misuse of tests for such dysfunctional practices as in - grade retention or denial of diplomas.

* One charter school closed in 2014 after state auditors found a number of problems, including indications that administrators funneled millions of dollars in state funds to the schools» operator and her family and friends.

Don't forget the one involving a charter school that closed in 2014 after state auditors found a number of issues, including indications that administrators funneled millions of dollars in state funds to the schools» operator and her family and friends.

Until he was recently fired, Mr. Howe worked for Whiteman Osterman & Hanna, a prominent Albany law firm; among its clients was the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, which, as a linchpin of the Cuomo administration's efforts to stimulate economic growth upstate, has received and helped distribute hundreds of millions of dollars in state funds.

The Cortland Free Library on Church Street has been awarded over $ 10 thousand dollars in state funds

The charges against the former aides, Joseph Percoco and Todd R. Howe, and the state official, Alain Kaloyeros, were the culmination of a long - running federal investigation into the Cuomo administration's efforts to lure jobs and businesses to upstate New York's limping economy by furnishing billions of dollars in state funds to developers from Buffalo to Albany.

The institute has received praise — and billions of dollars in state funding — from Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who has referred to Mr. Kaloyeros as a visionary in the field of nanotechnology, engineering at the molecular level, which the governor has heralded as an economic engine in the state.

Mr. de Blasio courted Mr. Silver and forged a strong working relationship with the speaker, who played an instrumental role in securing hundreds of millions of dollars in state funding for his universal prekindergarten expansion.

The Central New York Regional Economic Development Council, which includes Cortland County, was awarded $ 500 million dollars in state funding today.

Advocates for the homeless were urging the governor and legislative leaders to sign an agreement that would release millions of dollars in state funding for 20,000 supportive - housing units statewide, saying that with lawmakers headed home to campaign for re-election this fall, there was little chance that the deal would materialize after the session ended.

The YWCA of Cortland has been awarded $ 70 thousand dollars in state funding.

A year later, Silver helped Taub's family member get a job at a nonprofit that received millions of dollars in state funding.

Mr. Silver was crucial in securing the hundreds of millions of dollars in state funding for Mr. de Blasio's universal prekindergarten program.

The superintendents of three Los Angeles County school districts are planning a joint appeal to their Los Angeles Unified counterpart in a bid to keep some 3,000 city students who collectively bring in millions of dollars in state funding to their districts.

Not exact matches

State pension funds, facing a potential multitrillion - dollar shortfall, find themselves in the center of a four - way battle: Employees and retirees expect to be paid their promised benefits; the pension systems have clear obligations but may not have the resources to pay them; politicians are looking for ways to resolve the underfunding and balance the burden among retirees and workers; and state taxpayers, challenged to provide for their own retirements, resent the additional tax State pension funds, facing a potential multitrillion - dollar shortfall, find themselves in the center of a four - way battle: Employees and retirees expect to be paid their promised benefits; the pension systems have clear obligations but may not have the resources to pay them; politicians are looking for ways to resolve the underfunding and balance the burden among retirees and workers; and state taxpayers, challenged to provide for their own retirements, resent the additional tax state taxpayers, challenged to provide for their own retirements, resent the additional tax load.

The measure keeps domestic spending largely flat, while providing billions of dollars in additional funds to fight Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria and the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

The emergency declaration would also free up public health emergency funds at the Department of Health and Human Services, and grant individual states more flexibility in how they use federal dollars, and allow them to direct more funds toward addiction treatment and prevention.

MacManus, in a written response to the senators, defended USAID's work without responding to their concerns about U.S. tax dollars supporting Soros's causes and their call for a State Department review into those funding decisions.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

Revenue from California's Mental Health Services Act has funded billions of dollars in mental health programs across the state, but finding out what's available — and to whom — could be a challenge for consumers.

According to a United States lawsuit filed in July, hundreds of millions of dollars of the absconded funds were moved through bank accounts in Singapore and elsewhere.

Monetizing deficits has never been more attractive for the United States, which today benefits from its foreign lenders» willingness to be repaid in US funds, putting them at the mercy of the US dollar exchange rate.

Your dollars are invested in a combination of United States and international stocks and bonds through low - fee exchange traded funds (ETFs).

In her new office, Patton will oversee the disbursement of billions of dollars in federal housing funds to the states in which the president's company owns the most propertIn her new office, Patton will oversee the disbursement of billions of dollars in federal housing funds to the states in which the president's company owns the most propertin federal housing funds to the states in which the president's company owns the most propertin which the president's company owns the most property.

The investment objective of State Street Institutional Liquid Reserves Fund («ILR» or sometimes referred to in context as the «Fund») is to seek to maximize current income, to the extent consistent with the preservation of capital and liquidity, by investing in U.S. dollar - denominated money market securities.

At the federal level, the Department of Education can implement STEM as a requirement in America's classrooms, and fund more initiatives like Race to the Top, a $ 4 billion dollar program that to incentivizes states to develop next - generation educational standards.

I'm not sure that with the already abysmal state of education in this country, why I should be expected to be tolerant while my children are taught falsehood and belief as fact, especially while my tax dollars are funding this education.

A massive campaign aimed at forcing Switzerland to make billions available in «compensation» was launched by the WJC, with the governors of four American states threatening economic sanctions against the Swiss, and the City of Los Angeles withdrawing millions of dollars of pension funds from a Swiss bank.

Part of every pari - mutuel dollar goes to the state agriculture department, which in turn disburses funds to fairs and shows.

With the Park District increasingly dependent on outside funding for capital improvements, the advisory councils have stepped in, convincing state and local elected officials to contribute hundreds of thousands of dollars.

«In the short term, I call on the State Department of Education, local school districts and the union leadership to expedite their negotiations on a teacher evaluation system to prevent the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal fundinIn the short term, I call on the State Department of Education, local school districts and the union leadership to expedite their negotiations on a teacher evaluation system to prevent the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal fundinin federal funding.

«I am voting for this resolution because of the more than half a billion dollars in new funding it asks our state to deliver to non-charter New York City publics schools,» Avella said at the time.

The Biss phenomenon illustrates another way the Internet is shaking up politics and changing the way races are run this year: online fund raising is now filtering down to low - dollar state and local races, where a little bit of extra money goes further than it would in a national race.

Our two governments have put the machinery in place for their respective Attorneys - General to collaborate in ensuring the return to Nigeria of over five hundred million United States Dollars ($ 500) of looted funds siphoned away in banks around the world.

At 11 a.m., Strong Nonprofits for a Better New York hosts a press conference with members of the state Legislature calling on the state to increase funding for wages in nonprofit contracts, Million Dollar Staircase, state Capitol, Albany.

Last year, Cuomo announced a plan that would have used state funds to pay for college for prison inmates, arguing that the investment would save taxpayer dollars in the long run because incarceration is more expensive than education.

Deeply cut the Environmental Protection Fund (EPF), whose dollars go toward protecting our drinking water, open space and recycling; Close state parks and campgrounds and slash staffing levels at our environmental enforcement agencies; and Steal from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) Fund, which was set up to invest in our clean - energy economy, not serve as a piggy bank for politicians.»

«We're not surprised that the Senate Democrats, who nearly bankrupted this state, would want to force New Yorkers to spend $ 200 million in taxpayer money to fund political campaigns rather than investing those dollars in our schools or providing incentives to help businesses create jobs,» said the spokesman, Scott Reif.

The governor has held an annual contest to make regions of the state compete to win millions of dollars in economic development funds.

Governor Cuomo released a state budget plan that closes a $ 2 billion dollar gap, recommends a phased in state takeover of county health care costs, and offers an ultimatum to schools to accept a teacher evaluation program or lose access to increased school funding.

However, while blanket sweeps have raided hundreds of millions of dollars statewide from dedicated funds in recent years, according to a report from the state comptroller [PDF], only a small fraction of the sweeps have affected transit funding.

Governor Cuomo released a state budget plan that closes a $ 2 billion dollar gap, recommends a phased in state takeover of county health care costs, and offers an ultimatum to schools to accept a teacher evaluation program or lose increased school funding.

The state loses about a billion dollars in federal funding now that Congress has failed to renew the Child Health Plus plan, which offers health care to about 330,000 low - income children in New York.

«New hires funded by city dollars at this point would be a reckless move in light of the fiscal state of our city,» said Councilwoman Corazon Pineda - Isaac.

A former top aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo — described in court papers as his «right - hand man» — was charged Thursday with taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from companies looking to score state - funded contracts.

Since 2009, Albany has stolen roughly $ 260 million dollars from dedicated transit funds in an attempt to plug the state government's enormous deficits.

«In addition to the fundraising dollars detailed in the periodic filings, the State Party has also been active in raising additional funds directly for our Republican candidates and committees.&raquIn addition to the fundraising dollars detailed in the periodic filings, the State Party has also been active in raising additional funds directly for our Republican candidates and committees.&raquin the periodic filings, the State Party has also been active in raising additional funds directly for our Republican candidates and committees.&raquin raising additional funds directly for our Republican candidates and committees.»