Sentences with phrase «federal block grant funds»

The loan involved the use of federal block grant funds awarded the city to combat poverty and blight.

After a stint as The News» computer assisted reporting editor, Heaney joined the paper's newly formed investigative reporting team and produced a series of investigations related to economic development, including the city's squandering of federal block grant funds, and, with colleague Patrick Lakamp, the failings of the state Empire Zone program.

And in a move sure to make the de Blasio administration happy, the Legislature rejected Gov. Cuomo's proposal to require $ 27 million in federal block grant funding be used exclusively on child care programs, a move the city says would have forced the closure of 65 senior day care centers.

Not exact matches

Early into his tenure, Trump signed an executive order that sought to block municipalities that failed to cooperate with U.S. immigration authorities from receiving federal grant funding.

The bill divides federal healthcare funding to the states using block grants — a lump sum of sorts paid up front to states — rather than the current percent match of actual spending.

Many practical proposals were presented, including requests for more community development block - grant funds, the use of empty federal buildings, the release of surplus food from federal depositories and relaxation of SSI restrictions.

DHR is the lead state agency for the federal child care subsidy funds, while Bright From the Start manages the state pre-kindergarten program, the federal child nutrition program, all child care center licensing and registering of family child care homes, and the quality and infant — toddler set - asides of the state's portion of the federal Child Care and Development Block Grant.

At 10 a.m., Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz celebrates National Community Development Week by visiting sites funded by Community Development Block Grants, which are facing elimination in the proposed federal budget, 100 Dona St., Lackawanna.

What's more, New York also stands to lose a big chunk of its federal Medicaid funding if Congress ever manages to get a deal on repeal and replacement of Obamacare, with the most recent proposal — Cassidy - Graham — calling for block granting those funds, in a move that would hurt New York more than any other state, Cuomo said.

These areas heavily rely on federal funding of the arts, considering about 79 percent of National Endowment for the Arts block - grant funds go to rural communities and low - income areas, according to The Washington Post.

Advocates for Low - Income New Yorkers held a press conference today at the Legislative Office Building to urge Governor Pataki to stop playing politics with over $ 1 billion in federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) block grant funds.

Although less than 9 percent of the city's overall budget is comes from federal aid — excluding Community Development Block Grant - Disaster Recovery and other Hurricane Sandy - related aid — 11 out of more than 40 mayoral agencies that represent 59 percent of total city spending get 92 percent of federal grant aid, according to Stringer's initial analysis of federal funding, which he conducted to pinpoint what's at stake for New Yorkers ahead of Trump's inauguration in JanGrant - Disaster Recovery and other Hurricane Sandy - related aid — 11 out of more than 40 mayoral agencies that represent 59 percent of total city spending get 92 percent of federal grant aid, according to Stringer's initial analysis of federal funding, which he conducted to pinpoint what's at stake for New Yorkers ahead of Trump's inauguration in Jangrant aid, according to Stringer's initial analysis of federal funding, which he conducted to pinpoint what's at stake for New Yorkers ahead of Trump's inauguration in January.

BY MICHAEL RICONDA Stony Point — County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef presented a total of $ 2.67 million in federal Housing and Urban Development (HUD) funding to various municipal and not - for - profit groups at an award ceremony held ironically in Stony Point, the town that traditionally receives the least amount of support from the Community Block Grant -LSB-...]

The city of Auburn will not see any change in its 2018 - 2019 Community Development Block Grant funding from the federal government, despite struggling to comply with recently revised regulations attached to the grant mGrant funding from the federal government, despite struggling to comply with recently revised regulations attached to the grant mgrant money.

Most of the federal money ($ 4.87 million) will come from a Community Development Block Grant awarded to Syracuse by HUD, according to U.S. Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, who advocated in the Senate to increase the program's funding.

Stony Point — County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef presented a total of $ 2.67 million in federal Housing and Urban Development (HUD) funding to various municipal and not - for - profit groups at an award ceremony held ironically in Stony Point, the town that traditionally receives the least amount of support from the Community Block Grant Program.

Fuentes» abrupt departure from the office, which helps direct and administer federal entitlement funds under the Community Development Block Grant program, came as a surprise to most observers.

President Trump is proposing the elimination of the Community Development Block Grant program, the federal funding stream that funds numerous infrastructure projects across the Adirondack Park.

The AHCA would have switched Medicaid to block grants, which means states would receive a fixed amount of federal funding each year regardless of changes in program enrollment and mandates.

As a result, she said, the county will now continue to be ineligible for federal funding in the form of community block grants, an area in which it has lost more than $ 20 million since 2010.

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.

The Community Development Block Grant is funding distributed by the federal government to local governments and states to use on housing and economic and social development.

The city determined that it would be able to use a portion of its federal Department of Housing and Urban Development Community Development Block Grant Program — Disaster Relief funds to cover this $ 28 million investment in SIUH's resiliency program.

Federal housing officials have issued yet another critical review of Buffalo's use of Community Development Block Grant funds.

Outside of NIH, the budget proposes a Federal Emergency Response Fund for outbreak response without specifying funding size or mechanisms; and would «reform» the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by establishing a $ 500 million block grant program for state public health challenges.

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 President...

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.

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 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.

Currently, school - based clinics solicit funds from a variety of federal sources, including Medicaid, maternal - and child - health block grants, the drug - free - schools program, and Title X of the Public Health Service Act, although none of these programs is specifically designed to fund them.

School library collections are frozen in the 1970s because that's when a major change in funding occurred: Federal money previously aimed specifically at library materials was reallocated to block grants that are administered on the local level.

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 bill would give states the option of using the funds now distributed through a host of federal programs — amounting to about $ 24 billion a year on the whole — as a single block grant to states for public and private school vouchers.

On Friday, the Trump administration is filing a request to block abortion - providing facilities (or facilities that share space with an abortionist) from receiving federal family planning funding through the federal grant program.

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.

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.

House Republicans caught a lot of heat from Democrats last winter over their plan, still pending, to dismantle the federal school - lunch program and wrap its funding into a child - nutrition block grant to the states.

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.

Because funds are often fungible, a $ 14.5 billion federal block grant would just be another drop in a $ 3 trillion state and local total revenue bucket.

The Trump - DeVos budget and the House Appropriation Committee bill raid student aid programs — including the federal Pell Grant reserve, which the federal government slowly established after an inadequate rainy day fund led to painful cuts56 to the program — by $ 3.9 billion and $ 3.3 billion, respectively.57 The Pell Grant is the fundamental building block of financial aid support for low - income students.

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.

You may have heard SSAEG described in more political terms as a new $ 1.6 billion ESSA program that consolidates about 50 different federal funding programs into one state block grant.

But that flexibility must also be represented in the federal government's funding commitment, specifically by funding Title IV block grants at a level no lower than the authorized $ 1.65 billion.

Scenario # 1: DeVos moves quickly to implement President - Elect Trump's plan to use $ 20 billion of federal funds for block grants to states to support vouchers for poor children to attend private schools.

The new federal Child Care Development Fund block grant will pay for 3,800 more child - care voucher slots.

Last September, Trump rolled out a $ 20 billion block grant proposal that would use existing federal funds to incentivize school choice programs.

The federal government should restructure current Title V block grant funds instead as matching grants to states to expand access to high - quality PK programs and aligned PK teacher and curricular standards with elementary grades.

On Friday, the Trump administration is filing a request to block abortion - providing facilities (or facilities that share space with an abortionist) from receiving federal family planning funding through the federal grant program.

Redistributes federal funding (i.e. those block grants) from Medicaid expansion states to non-expansion states (more on this in a sec).

The Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) is a federal block grant that provides funding for states to improve access to quality child care for high - need children and families.