Sentences with phrase «federal dollars going»

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

Bush and other GOP governors have offered support for Common Core academic standards, but Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney says he doesn't want federal dollars going to implement the new curriculum.

So I imagine choice advocates should mainly expect to see an expansion in federal dollars going to the Charter Schools Program, perhaps some new support for voucher programs.

Lawmakers considering portability or other federal voucher programs must understand that the concept of federal dollars going into a «backpack of cash» that follows eligible students to the schools of their choice, whether public or private, is only part of the story.

Solidarity with the poor is a moral imperative, Ryan agreed, but solidarity should not be measured by inputs — How many federal dollars go into anti-poverty programs?

Currently, some $ 500 million federal dollars go to Planned Parenthood annually receives more than $ 500 million annually.

The federal government best serves the nation's students by using their limited federal dollars to support the public school system and ensuring that federal dollars go to publicly accountable schools.

Not exact matches

In today's dollar terms, the federal minimum wage, which was last increased in 2009, hasn't gone up since 1969, business experts say.

Predictably, the Alaskan 8 (a) sector is booming: Its share of federal contracting set - asides has grown from $ 265 million in 2000 to at least $ 2.3 billion today, about 20 percent of all 8 (a) dollars — most of that going to just 20 firms.

The federal government says that 23 percent of all government dollars must be set aside of small businesses, and a part of that goes to minority - owned businesses (including women - owned, veteran & service - disabled veteran owned, Native American - owned, Alaskan - owned, and Native Hawaiian - owned corporations).

In the past, fewer than 5 percent of the women - owned firms in the United States were certified to do business with their state government and only 1.5 percent of the billions of dollars in federal contracts went to women - owned firms.

The Obama administration has awarded nearly $ 300 billion in federal - prime contracts to small businesses since 2009, and one - third of all federal - contracting dollars in the Recovery Act went to small businesses.

I bet you thought you were going to be mining more bitcoins than the Federal Reserve prints dollars, didn't you?

Ben Bernanke, the head of the Federal Reserve, announced a few days ago QE3, quantitative easing three, and now he says they're going to continue to buy assets, multibillion dollars of purchases, until the unemployment rate goes down.

Including interest, this bill will add $ 1.7 trillion to the federal debt over 10 years, and the Treasury will run a trillion - dollar deficit every year going forward.

Congress expanded Medicare by adding a prescription - drug entitlement that will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, and federal education spending has gone up as well.

I am sick of my tax dollars going to relieve regular «disasters» that always seem to be concentrated in the we hate paying taxes and the federal government states of the old Confederacy.

However, Prop 42 will go into effect at a time when federal financial aid for education is drying up; there will be fewer dollars for deserving, underprivileged youngsters who have excelled in the classroom, much less for academically marginal athletes.

Though there is a nearly two - year - old state mandate that opens the free summer lunch program to all children in Illinois — whether or not they're in summer school — there has not been much improvement in participation, and officials say millions of federal dollars available for the meals are going untapped.

But when you're serving 250,000 meals a day in Houston (or 700,000 in L.A.) on limited federal reimbursement dollars from a central kitchen, I can tell you with some confidence the food is going to look a lot more like the pictures I showed you above than it's going to look like the West Adams culinary students» brightly - hued, scratch - prepared wraps and salads.

Loss of a few dollar's in SALT isn't going to make that happen so then why are federal taxes going up for anyone?

To raise revenues, Cuomo proposed requiring extending sales tax collections on online sales, imposing a surcharge on certain health insurers who received a windfall from federal tax cuts, tapping hundreds of millions of dollars in proceeds from lawsuit settlements and raising taxes «e-cigarettes» and taxing opioids (2 cents per milligram prescribed to go to anti-addiction programs).

The $ 110 million federal dollars, matched with non-federal grants, would go toward establishing an Integrated Photonics Manufacturing Institute.

Stringer said his office has identified $ 165 million worth of sanctuary city money alone that's in jeopardy, and up to $ 7 billion worth of federal dollars — all told — many of which go to supporting the safety net.

He also said, once the federal government is able to earn more Dollars than it is currently earning, the exchange rate will go down.

But the mayor told the Observer that he would not allow public dollars to go toward the defense of anyone found guilty of one of the 170 crimes that New York exempts from its «sanctuary city» protections — violent offenses like rape, murder and terrorism, for which local law enforcement will turn over a foreign national to federal authorities.

He returned to state government the following year after he was rehired by the Health Department to oversee the disbursal of more than $ 6 billion in federal aid from a recently approved Medicaid waiver, millions of dollars of which went to the health care organizations that were rumored to be clients of the politically well - connected firm he'd recently worked for.

The report, by the independent Authorities Budget Office, says the Cuomo Administration mishandled its attempts to use $ 500 million dollars in federal Clean Water monies to help finance work on the massive Tappan Zee Bridge reconstruction, including ignoring a warning letter from the EPA that the bridge project was an inappropriate use of the revolving loan fund, which is supposed to go to communities who need to clean up pollution.

Governor Andrew Cuomo is focusing on his New York Works program, with more than a billion federal and state dollars, with $ 121 million of that going into 48 projects across Western New York, all to start this year.

«I really think it's gonna happen, because the federal government just sent a bill to the state of New York for a half a billion dollars because we overcharged for Medicaid and we got ta pay that back.

While there are roughly 670,000 businesses owned by women citywide, only 1.48 percent of federal contract dollars goes to those firms, according to a recent study by Women Impacting Public Policy, an organization which advocates on behalf of women?

While there are roughly 670,000 businesses owned by women citywide, only 1.48 percent of federal contract dollars goes to those firms, according to a recent study by Women Impacting Public -LSB-...]

Thus, total R&D dollars and other metrics like federal R&D as a share of GDP will not be directly comparable to past years going forward.

The agencies together receive about US$ 60 billion in federal research dollars each year, with about half going to the NIH, so the number of papers available annually could double under the proposal, says Heather Joseph, another petition leader and executive director of the pro-open access Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, based in Washington DC.

Federal funds for R&D in almost every field have been declining for 30 years as a percentage of the gross domestic product, and most of these dollars are going to the development side.

Senate lawmakers would also like to see DHS consider a grant program aimed at increasing the amount of extramural research funding going to universities in states whose scientists typically fare poorly in the competition for federal science dollars.

He said increasing federal research dollars to fight the disease «is both going to be certainly one of my priorities, but I also think it will be National Institutes of Health's priority as we move into the coming years.

With millions of grant dollars on the line, representatives of the 16 state finalists for federal Race to the Top prize money will go to Washington next week to make final, in - person pitches to the U.S. Department of Education for investment in their brand of school reform.

Barring more big federal bailouts — which this year's election would seem to make ever less likely — school budgets are going to be strapped for years to come and cost - cutting, together with eking greater value out of the remaining dollars, is going to occupy the education - policy center ring.

In an Education Week commentary essay about school boards in 2009, I wrote, «[M] y sense of things, after two stints on my local school board... is that school boards have been overtaken by the «educatocracy,» by powerful trade unions, certified specialists, certification agencies, state and federal rule - makers and legislators, grants with strings, billion - dollar - contractor lobbyists, textbook mega-companies, professional associations, and lawyers — the list could go on.»

While the federal government does not collect data on the graduation rates of students who receive Pell grants, an investigation by the Hechinger Institute suggests that billions of taxpayer dollars are going to students who never earn degrees.

I think it's fair to say that there was then a waiting for a federal opportunity, because it was clear from the state budgets that there was going to be no major new dollars to say the least, in fact, fewer dollars.

Supporters of the new policy, which went into effect immediately, say it will increase financial accountability over millions of dollars in federal aid.

Although Davies says his «analysis is predicated on the assumption that compensatory programs... have fallen short of the buoyant expectations of the mid-1960s,» and notes that even at the time there was a «lack of convincing evidence that federal dollars were improving the quality of American education,» he does not explain why those expectations existed, or why dissenting voices went unheeded.

«It is critically important that the millions of dollars in federal funds going to school improvement be used as effectively as possible to...

Despite filing federal applications and being eligible for aid, many low - income students in California are going without millions of dollars in Pell Grants.

«The end result is the same — federal tax dollars going to private schools,» said Sasha Pudelski, assistant director for policy and advocacy at AASA, The School Superintendents Association, who called the program «a backdoor voucher.»

Politicians seizing on painless ways to cut the deficit reinforce this perception of massive spending, and Americans believe them: In surveys, they estimate that as much as one out of four dollars spent by the federal government goes to foreign governments.

It goes something like this: Step away from federal heavy - handedness around states» accountability and teacher credentialing systems; keep plenty of transparency of results in place, especially test scores disaggregated by racial and other subgroups; offer incentives for embracing promising reforms instead of mandates; and give school districts a lot more flexibility to move their federal dollars around as they see fit.

But the Trump agenda goes further by calling for federal dollars to follow low - income students into the school of their choice, whether private, public, or home school.