Sentences with phrase «education aid passed»

The Legislature will not return to Albany this week despite Gov. Paterson's call for lawmakers to come up with a plan for allocating $ 600 million in federal education aid passed by Congress last week.

The Legislature will not return to Albany this week despite Gov. David Paterson's call for lawmakers to come up with a plan for allocating $ 600 million in federal education aid passed by Congress last week.

Not exact matches

The federal bill that will provide New York with some $ 2.6 billion in Medicaid and education aid just passed the US Senate 61 - 39 (no surprise, as that was the same as yesterday's cloture vote in which two moderate Maine Republicans joined with the Democrats to end the GOP filibuster).

Remember: He executed the first veto — of $ 419 million worth of education aid, the bulk of the $ 519 million worth of funding restored by the Legislature that he nixed — on the same day the Assembly and Senate passed the first bills of their two - way deal.

Cuomo has demanded that education policy changes be passed along with the state budget, or he'll hold up school aid increases.

Mulgrew said that the governor's ploy to hold desperately needed additional school aid hostage unless lawmakers passed his education proposals was tantamount to an «extortionary scheme.»

If the Legislature passes his education reforms, Mr. Cuomo said he'll approve a 4.8 percent increase, or $ 1.1 billion, in school aid.

The new deal, which still must be passed by both houses, includes restoring $ 272 million in education aid from the $ 1.5 billion that had originally been slashed across the state.

The bill raises K - 12 state aid by $ 120 million over the $ 4.5 billion fiscal 1998 education budget passed earlier this year.

A resolution condemning terrorism was unanimously passed, but the young diplomats didn't stop there: They called for more humanitarian aid in the form of food, health care, and education so that terrorism was not considered the only way out of poverty and oppression and so that countries could look beyond survival and consider issues such as possible terrorists in their midst.

The New York State legislature this month passed a $ 462 - million increase in state aid to public schools, bringing to nearly $ 1 billion the amount of new money it has invested in elementary and secondary education in the past two years.

Since then, another 28 state legislatures have passed some kind of voucher program, tax credit, education savings account, or other intervention that provides government aid to students attending private schools.

The Emergency School Aid Act, a $ 149 million federal desegregation program that provided funding to Montclair, was wiped out along with 25 other federal programs when Congress passed a package of education block grants in the summer of 1981.

On a day when party labels had the other chamber in turmoil, a surprisingly unified House overwhelmingly passed a version of President Bush's education reform plan last week that would for the first time tie federal aid to school performance on annual math and reading tests.

Under the budget passed by the General Assembly this week, state funding for postsecondary education will be cut over the next two years, with total biennial decreases of 2.5 % for financial aid resources and for institutional funding.

Under the budget bill passed by the House last week, state funding for higher education will increase modestly over the next two years, with growth both in financial aid resources and institutional funding.

The increased focus on education began when Congress passed laws providing aid to schools in communities most affected by World War II and the GI Bill encouraged Americans to seek a postsecondary education.

Tennessee's legislature had just passed a law allowing the state's education agency to take the reins of the state's worst - performing schools and either run them directly or hand them over to a charter operator, a move that stood to drain potentially millions of state - aid dollars from the already financially struggling district.

take funds out of district budgets» but in N.J. school aid passes from traditional schools to charters, just like special education out - of - district placements, which is a dumb and divisive way of funding alternative public schools.

Oliver doesn't want to «take funds out of district budgets» but in N.J. school aid passes from traditional schools to charters, just like special education out - of - district placements, which is a dumb and divisive way of funding alternative public schools.

The modern era of student loans began in 2010 when Congress passed the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act that eliminated guaranteed student loans made by commercial banks, leaving only direct loans originated and funded by the Department of Education as the vehicle for obtaining federal student loans.

With the sudden passing of the breadwinner, monthly expenses, house loan, child's education, etc. is impossible to cover without any financial aid.

With the aid of the driving education program, one can pass these tests and eventually get a CDL truck license.

In this concern, with the aid of the online driver's education program, the surety of passing the examination is very high.