Sentences with phrase «education block grant»

CPS receives two block grants: General Education Block Grant (GEBG) and Educational Services Block Grant (ESBG).

The budget also proposes a $ 1.6 billion early education block grant that combines three existing programs to promote local flexibility, focusing on disadvantaged students and improved accountability.»

Harrisburg, Pa — Pennsylvania Gov. Richard Thornburgh's attempt to establish a state education block grant, modeled after the Reagan Administration's block grants, has touched off a heated partisan political controversy, deepened the rift between the Governor and the state's largest teachers» organization, and led to demands that Governor Thornburgh fire the chief state school officer.

Washington — The chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, in strongly worded letters to the Secretary of Education and the Attorney General, has warned that a recent decision by a federal district judge could be interpreted as exempting local school programs funded under the new federal education block grant from compliance with civil - rights laws protecting the rights of women, the handicapped, and minorities.

Washington — The new education block grants are a «political football» that state departments of education and local school systems risk fumbling to state legislators and governors around the country unless they act quickly.

Washington — State officials who oversee programs funded by Chapter 2 education block grants appear to disagree over whether master - teacher plans and other pay - incentive schemes are allowable expenses under that statute.

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.

Not exact matches

The AAP opposes the current bill in the U.S. House of Representatives, H.R. 5003, the Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016, because it would reduce access to free breakfast and lunch for children under the Community Eligibility Provision, endanger our child nutrition programs through a harmful 3 - state block grant program, weaken the evidence - based school nutrition standards, and fail to adequately invest in WIC, child care and summer feeding programs.

Just one day before the scheduled markup of the House Education and the Workforce Committee «s «Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016» (an Orwellian name if there ever was one, given how the bill would gut child nutrition), Congressman Todd Rokita (IN - R), chair of the subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education, introduced a substitute amendment which, among other things, proposes a three - state block grant pilot for school breakfasts and lunches.

The following materials were funded by a USDA Specialty Crop Block Grant through the Vermont Agency of Agriculture and are a collaboration of the Vermont Agency of Education, Vermont FEED (Food Education Every Day) and Green Mountain Farm to School.

SNA said it supports the Senate agreement on school nutrition standards, and opposes the House bill, H.R. 5003, the Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016, which would restrict school eligibility for CEP and institute a block grant pilot that would cut funds for school meal programs.

As reported here back in May, the School Nutrition Association (SNA) has parted ways with its former House Republican allies over the latter's controversial proposal, contained in the House Education & the Workforce Committee's Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) bill, to block grant school food in three states.

One of the last stumbling blocks remains education aid and the amount of money to be allocated through competitive grants.

In civil research, only the # 800 million allocated in block grants to universities by the education department remains outside Waldegrave's control.

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S 143 would repeal 91 separate vocational - education and job - training programs and replace them with a single block grant to states.

HR 1310, introduced last Tuesday, includes a $ 250 - million block - grants program for teacher - training in school districts and $ 50 - million for higher education — both sought by Representative Carl D. Perkins of Kentucky, chairman of the Education and Labor Ceducation — both sought by Representative Carl D. Perkins of Kentucky, chairman of the Education and Labor CEducation and Labor Committee.

The Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (ecia) merged 42 categorical education programs and sub-programs into one blockEducation Consolidation and Improvement Act (ecia) merged 42 categorical education programs and sub-programs into one blockeducation programs and sub-programs into one block grant...

Legislation to replace scores of programs with block grants was debated, and hearings were held on proposals to scrap the Department of Education.

Before it was repealed in 1981, when the Congress passed the education block - grants law, esaa provided categorical grants to school districts implementing desegregation plans.

Under the umbrella of Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) the group coordinated a major effort in 2010 to urge the New York State legislature to lift a charter school cap that had been a stumbling block in the state's first bid to win a federal Race to the Top (RttT) grant.

Specifically, members of the National Association of Administrators of State and Federal Education Programs (naasfep) lobbied their Congressional delegations to vote against the consolidation of existing categorical education programs into new block grants to the states, to maintain those programs at their current levels of funding, and to work actively against the passage of PreEducation Programs (naasfep) lobbied their Congressional delegations to vote against the consolidation of existing categorical education programs into new block grants to the states, to maintain those programs at their current levels of funding, and to work actively against the passage of Preeducation programs into new block grants to the states, to maintain those programs at their current levels of funding, and to work actively against the passage of President...

Introduced in the House of Representatives in January 2017, H.R. 610 would replace parts of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act and would, among other changes, establish a voucher program «through which each state shall distribute block grant funds among local educational agencies.»

Grants for Chapter 1 compensatory education, Chapter 2 block grants, drug - free schools and communities, vocational education, education of the handicapped, and math and science teaching, among a host of other programs, all rely on funding formulas that use censusGrants for Chapter 1 compensatory education, Chapter 2 block grants, drug - free schools and communities, vocational education, education of the handicapped, and math and science teaching, among a host of other programs, all rely on funding formulas that use censusgrants, drug - free schools and communities, vocational education, education of the handicapped, and math and science teaching, among a host of other programs, all rely on funding formulas that use census data.

The Senate passed a nearly $ 32 billion spending bill for education and other social programs last week, but Democrats and the Clinton administration were outraged by a provision in the bill that would transform most federal education funding into block grants.

The first proposal would reinstitute provisions of the Emergency School Aid Act (esaa), which the Reagan Administration last year combined with other federal education programs into block grants to the states.

It convinced Congress to abolish the Emergency School Aid Act program, enacted in 1972 to support school - system desegregation efforts, and fold it into the education block - grant bill enacted in 1981, the Education Consolidation and Improveeducation block - grant bill enacted in 1981, the Education Consolidation and ImproveEducation Consolidation and Improvement Act.

In 1981 they were folded into the Chapter 2 block - grant program, but explicit federal support for magnet schools as desegregation tools resumed in 1985 with the authorization of the Magnet Schools Assistance Program (MSAP), included in the Education for Economic Security Act.

The blow to states - rights principles from national standards could be softened with pledges to block - grant federal education spending and encourage competition through charter schools or school vouchers, along the lines described in the contribution from Chester Finn and Michael Petrilli in this issue (see «A New New Federalism,» p. 48).

Key members of the House education committee are drafting legislation that would fold 11 federal education programs, including major initiatives such as Goals 2000, into a $ 1.4 billion block grant designed to spur reforms.

The Education Department, noting its disagreement with a statement of Congressional intent, says it will not require states to earmark extra Chapter 2 block - grant money for «high cost» pupils.

To entice a presidential signature of the legislation — which would create tax breaks for parents» public and private education expenses — House and Senate negotiators have included a new reading program in it and deleted language that would have blocked plans for new national tests and transformed most federal education funding into block grants.

The good news is that though Title IV had been targeted for elimination by President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, congress rebuffed the administration by giving a big boost to the block grants in the federal omnibus spending bill signed into law March 23.

The block grants essentially froze school funding at the level of the 2013 - 14 school year, to give the Legislature two years to rewrite the formula for paying for public education.

With the Senate joining the House in advancing bills that would replace dozens of vocational - education and job - training programs with block grants, educators are trying to assess the likely impact of handing most authority over federal funding in those areas to states and their governors.

Kansas switched to a block grant in mid-2015, preventing a meaningful comparison of current education funding with the formula used previously.

They also agreed to a scaled - back block - grant proposal that would have allowed 7 states and 25 school districts to sign a performance contract with the federal government that would free them of most federal education regulations in exchange for a promise to improve student performance.

A series of bipartisan negotiations between Reps. Miller and John Boehner, R - Ohio, chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, produced a bill that was similar to the Senate's, but without the block - grant provisions.

Washington — An independent assessment of the Education Department's initial review of how federal block - grant funds have been used charges that many of the 23 jurisdictions whose programs were evaluated by the department have not adequately monitored local school districts» use of Chapter 2 money.

Principals urged Congress to fund discretionary programs that provide principals with direct instructional leadership support and a newly - authorized Title IV block grant program that will help schools provide a well - rounded experience for all students through arts - integration and use of technology, as well as address issues such as providing school counselors, physical education programs, student mental health services, drug use prevention, and social and emotional learning.

There is currently a bill in the House that would replace the major federal education law with block grants, including for vouchers.

But Alexander now wanted to scale back the federal role, trim the education secretary power and potentially give states block granted federal funds that could be converted into school vouchers.

Block grants, instead, are more likely to de-emphasize the role of federal government in education, he said.

$ 200 million in one - time funding for College Readiness Block grants to school districts and charter schools serving high school students to provide additional services to help students transition to higher education.

One of Trump's biggest education promises — a proposed $ 20 billion block grant promoting charter and private schools — was developed with input from DeVos» D.C. - based advocacy group, the American Federation for Children.

• Consolidate nearly 50 programs into a block grant, which states and districts can allocate to student health and safety, well - rounded education, and other programs based on need.

What that means is that districts taking the block grant money must be able to prove compliance with all of the state's education mandates - even ones that some districts may never have applied for in the past.

Schools block funding, dedicated schools grant, education services grant, authority proforma tool, fund allocation and spending.

Allocate money to Basic Education Funding instead of the Ready to Learn Block Grant program.

Education Voters supports putting the increases from Governor Corbett's proposed block grant funding into the Basic Education Funding line.