Sentences with phrase «federal dollars»

And once states accepted tens of millions of federal dollars for things they had always funded themselves, federal compliance rules came into play.

Roughly $ 57 billion in federal dollars flow into our city and state budgets annually.

His bill would allow 100,000 public schools to use federal dollars for school counselors, alarm systems, security cameras and crisis intervention training.

If it did, then chess clubs at a university could not be funded by the university with federal dollars..

The point of this bill is to more accurately assess the impact of federal dollars on higher education.

Social services organizations receiving federal dollars — such as adoption agencies — could operate according to their beliefs on marriage.

In about 30 minutes school decision makers can see how many more kids they could feed and how much more federal dollars could be coming into their school.

The evidence based component of the chosen interventions to be funded by federal dollars leaves plenty of room for interpretation.

Are there risks in letting districts flow federal dollars into their weighted student funding formulas?

This draft bill also would allow federal dollars to flow but require virtually nothing in return.

That's $ 6 billion fewer federal dollars going to public schools.

The current funding process dictates how federal dollars are to be spent and imposes heavy regulations on local schools.

Title I is a federally funded program that offers additional federal dollars to support schools in areas with high free - reduced lunch numbers.

Do you anticipate a smooth transition when federal dollars expire?

The proposal would build on the 40 state - funded preschool programs already in existence by providing federal dollars, matched by the states, to expand access to high - quality programs.

However, the state was put on «high - risk status» and could have lost millions of federal dollars if it did not administer a state science test.

When public charter schools fail to meet their goals — whether for academic, financial or operational reasons — they should be closed, even if we have invested federal dollars in them.

This means commodity and municipal bond investors will need to pick up where federal dollars leave off.

As long as it lasted, the extra federal dollars did save jobs.

It's not surprising that we have seen property taxes triple as federal dollars shrink.

No consideration should be given to other sources of funding, including federal dollars.

Let's invest our scarce federal dollars in a way that can leverage real change in what happens inside districts.

It would also redirect federal dollars currently used to finance class size reduction efforts to providing districts with funds to implement evaluations.

Keep in mind that federal dollars account for only about 10 percent of the money that public schools receive, though that money disproportionately goes to high - poverty schools.

The evidence based component of the chosen interventions to be funded by federal dollars leaves plenty of room for interpretation.

Why do christians spend so much time, energy and federal dollars try to convince atheists that «god» does exist?

The system has struggled with financial difficulties due to declining federal dollars and the cost of caring of the uninsured, who are often undocumented immigrants ineligible for government subsidies.

But what we don't know is how best to award federal dollars to get that to happen.

If so, the state could potentially be granted more flexibility in spending $ 350 million in federal dollars intended to help boost student achievement.

So it's expected that state spending levels on education should come back up once the recession ended and federal dollars ran out.

How much could your school or district gain or lose in federal dollars next fiscal year?

But states and districts have learned they can earn federal dollars just by promising to pursue various initiatives.

A substantial chunk, if not all, of state and federal dollars typically stay with the district as well.

Instead, it has relied solely on restrictive federal dollars.

The transition begins with the bonuses, financed with federal dollars, tied to last school year's performance.

Both versions prevent states from using federal dollars to enforce motorcycle helmet laws, which saved more than 1,600 lives in 2013 alone.

And to receive federal dollars, districts must give parents the freedom to use this information to select the school of their choice — traditional public, charter, or private.

More federal dollars are available to help reach those targets than in previous bills, though acceptable uses for those funds could be better defined.

That is spending my program's federal dollars on something other than what will serve children's health and well being.

The bill would allow federal dollars to be invested in efforts to prevent child abuse and neglect, while also enhancing supports for family - like placements and for older youth.

There are also federal dollars going toward rails - to - trails conversions.

Currently, non-profits can only qualify for federal dollars for site remediation.

Parents will have the knowledge of school performance to make informed choices about where to spend their new federal dollars.

I think that's proven to be a good use of federal dollars.

We did not receive any philanthropic support or any additional federal dollars.

The mechanism was put in place as the state learned of potential significant cuts in federal dollars.