Sentences with phrase «federal education aid for»

In his presentation, Bloomberg blamed shortfalls in expected state education dollars and a reduction in federal education aid for the layoffs.

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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos says college students will soon be able to file their applications for federal student aid through a mobile app.

Consider ALL of your education financing options before you apply for student loans and federal aid.

FSA ID stands for Federal Student Aid ID, a number used to verify your identity on StudentLoans.gov, as well as other Department of Education websites.

In an essay for the Chronicle of Higher Education — my industry's trade journal — Penn's Peter Conn argues that the regional accrediting agencies, which hold the keys to federal student aid, should under no circumstances give religious colleges and universities their imprimatur.

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.

«I'm so excited, I'm bubbling over,» said Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand after the US Senate cleared the way for New York to receive some $ 2.6 million worth of federal Medicaid funds and education aid.

Stung by the expiration of federal aid intended to help states balance budgets as they seek to recover from the recession that began in 2008, the final budget is also expected to include another cut in local aid to cities and towns and to call for reduced growth in the rate of spending on education and health care, although special education is one of the few areas in which significant investments appear imminent.

Cuomo administration officials said the governor's plan does not take dollars away from low - income students and will allow even more low - income families to take advantage of state and federal financial aid that's available for higher education.

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.

The New York State Educational Conference Board, a coalition of state education organizations, is calling for a $ 2 billion increase in school aid in the 2018 - 19 state budget, despite a looming deficit and uncertainty over federal spending.

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.

More than $ 1 billion in federal aid is now available to schools across the country for physical education.

The boycotts could cost Long Island's public schools more than $ 200 million in federal and state financial aid if Washington imposes penalties for low student test - participation rates, key superintendents in Nassau and Suffolk counties said in a January letter to acting U.S. Education Secretary John B. King Jr..

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Jointly administered by the state departments of education and human services, the GoodStarts program provides $ 7 million in state and federal aid for programs aimed at 3 - and 4 - year - olds that offer educational, social, health, nutritional, and child - care services and highlight parental involvement.

Not to be outdone, a «platform» released by the Movement for Black Lives (a group of organizations organized by Black Lives Matter) issued a scorched - earth condemnation of every aspect of the reform agenda, which it characterized as «a systematic attack... coordinated by an international education privatization agenda, bankrolled by billionaire philanthropists... and aided by the departments of education at the federal, state, and local level.»

Republicans seized control of the U.S. House of Representatives and significantly bolstered their majorities in the Senate in Tuesday's election, an outcome that will almost certainly mean an end to emergency education aid to states and will heighten pressure for a more limited federal role in K - 12 policy.

Many states need to revamp their policies for including limited - English - proficient students in state tests and accountability systems if they want to continue receiving all of their federal Title I aid, according to the Department of Education.

In its final audit, the OIG concludes that WGU is out of compliance in three areas, the most significant of which it says is that students do not engage in «regular and substantive interaction» with faculty in a majority of WGU's courses — a requirement to receive federal aid as a «distance education» program, as opposed to a «correspondence program,» which is not eligible for federal student aid.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, acting in a case that has been closely monitored across the nation, has upheld a federal district judge's order freezing $ 47.5 - million in Education Department funds pending the Reagan Administration's payment of desegregation aid to Chicago's schools.

But the U.S. Department of Education's Inspector General has called for the government to bar WGU students from federal student aid programs.

Washington — State education officials in New York announced last week that they will seek a federal court order to prevent the U.S. Department of Education (ED) from using 12 - year - old census data as the basis for distributing federal aid for disadvantaged children to theducation officials in New York announced last week that they will seek a federal court order to prevent the U.S. Department of Education (ED) from using 12 - year - old census data as the basis for distributing federal aid for disadvantaged children to thEducation (ED) from using 12 - year - old census data as the basis for distributing federal aid for disadvantaged children to the states.

While the nearly $ 100 billion in federal economic - stimulus aid set aside for education has challenged school districts to turn one - time money into long - term reform, this historic influx of funding has also set the stage for long - term — and not necessarily positive — consequences.

Without missing a beat, the secretary of education also took a moment to reflect on the state of higher education in America and to introduce her revision of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form.

The state of Arizona faces a severe disruption in its budget, and some of its school districts face the loss of millions of dollars in federal impact aid, because the U.S. Education Department has declared the state's system for equalizing resources among districts inadequate.

Integrated Postsecondary Education Data Systems (IPEDS) IPEDS combines the surveys conducted by the U. S. Department of Education and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), to provide information on all postsecondary institutions as well as all technical and vocational schools participating in federal student aid programs or Title IV funding programs (NCES, n.d).

As my colleague Mike McShane and I noted last fall in our book Common Core Meets Education Reform, support for Common Core was always a mile wide and an inch deep (and that «mile wide» was greatly aided by federal inducements that encouraged folks to embrace Common Core no matter how lukewarm their enthusiasm).

While the nearly $ 100 billion in federal economic - stimulus aid set aside for education has challenged school districts to turn one - time money into lasting reform, this historic influx of funding has also set the stage for long - term — and not necessarily positive — consequences.

February 24, 2017 — Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court have or will soon hear cases involving the appropriate scope of services guaranteed by federal special - education law, government aid to religious institutions providing educational services, and restroom access for transgender students.

Under Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981, states must demonstrate that schools receiving the federal aid for disadvantaged students also receives a fair...

Making federal student aid programs simpler and easier for students to navigate is a key goal of efforts to reauthorize the Higher Education Act (HEA), the federal law that governs these programs.

The department has repeatedly come under fire in the past for proposing deep cuts in federal aid to education.

But leading committee Republicans said the government should consider other demands for federal education aid before committing to financing school construction projects.

Finding that «local policy prerogatives and dire financial conditions trumped federal pleas for reform and led to the spending of massive amounts of aid on preserving the status quo and protecting existing jobs and programs,» Smarick urges policymakers to heed the lessons learned from that experience and to focus on reducing the gulf between reforms promised and reforms delivered when it comes to the Department of Education's $ 4.35 billion Race to the Top fund.

On Jan. 21, 1983, Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell echoed that simplicity when he explained the new federal requirement for receiving Title IV aid under the Higher Education Act of 1965.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which earlier handpicked 15 states to receive up to $ 250,000 each to help prepare applications for federal Race to the Top Fund grants, will now offer aid to the other 35 states, too — if they meet eight education reform criteria.

The Pell Grant program has been the cornerstone of federal student aid for postsecondary education since its inception in the 1970s.

The fact that this sector is already integrated into the broader higher education system, through federal aid and some state aid programs, suggests that these policy levers might be used to better leverage the private sector to further policymakers» goals, such as increasing educational attainment overall and for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

While eliminating applications raises questions for important aspects of the largest federal K - 12 education aid program, the ESEA Title I program, the policy guidance published by USED in March 2015 provides a wide range of options for states and LEAs to implement CEP with minimal interference with Title I funding allocations or accountability measures.

That's a huge expansion of federal higher education spending; for comparison, the Congressional Budget Office projects that the Pell Grant program, the biggest part of the federal financial aid budget right now, will cost $ 380 billion over the next 10 years.

The topic of the full committee hearing is Ensuring Access to Higher Education: Simplifying Federal Student Aid for Today's College Student.

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Overall, the president's budget envisions deep cuts to the U.S. Department of Education budget, even as he wants to step up federal aid for school choice.

Instead of pumping billions into job training, financial aid for college students, and other education programs, Mr. Clinton became obsessed with cutting the federal budget deficit, according to Robert B. Reich, who resigned as labor secretary earlier this year.

The main reason for the lack of accurate information is that private schools do not operate under the provisions of the federal law that furnishes aid to the states for students identified as needing special education.

Districts must decide how they plan to spend that funding, called «impact aid,» by July 31, or give it back to the federal government, said Chad Colby, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Education.

Programs serving the nation's economically disadvantaged students and those with disabilities are receiving massive funding boosts through the federal stimulus package — $ 13 billion for Title I aid and $ 11.3 billion for special education — but how school districts choose to use the money may set them up for problems when it dries up.

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.

The department's plan to eliminate federal aid for dropouts going on to higher education — mainly proprietary schools — was submitted to the Congress last week as part of a draft legislative package to implement the Administration's 1986 postsecondary - education budget.