Sentences with phrase «federal education dollars from»

The Obama Administration has said it will withhold discretionary federal education dollars from states that block the creation and growth of charter schools.

The architects of NCLB sought to transform the federal education dollar from a school entitlement into an incentive to prod schools towards better performance.

Not exact matches

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.

Over time, the government has come to rely on data from the census and its longer annual offshoot, the American Community Survey (ACS), to allocate half - a-trillion dollars through health, welfare, housing, infrastructure, education, and other federal programs.

In 2013, over 5 billion dollars were awarded by the National Science Foundation to support research and education [3]; the National Institutes of Health dispenses even more money for health - related research and clinical studies Since everyone benefits from progress in science, the US federal government should be praised for financially supporting so many university researchers and research projects.

Democratic senator Mary Landrieu, a cosponsor of the «Three R's» bill, worked tirelessly, and against considerable opposition from members of both political parties, to increase the targeting of federal education dollars to low - income communities and schools in an effort to better support their school reform efforts.

Any state willing to forego its share of federal education dollars is free to do so — and to exempt itself from all the rules and constraints that accompany those dollars.

Some have criticized Gov. Chris Gregoire's education reform proposal for lacking boldness, but she said the bill moving through the Legislature has everything necessary to prepare the state to apply for millions of new dollars from the federal government.

And note how far this proposal is from the «let states do whatever they want with their federal dollars» approach of House education committee chairman John Kline.

While some schools benefit from certain categorical funds (e.g., magnet dollars, STEM, or tech - voc dollars), many don't qualify for other state and federal programs, such as Title I, bilingual education, and special education.

The PDK / Gallup found that 46 percent of adults believe the lion's share of education funding should come from states, while 23 percent said they want the federal government to kick in the most dollars.

The Obama administration on Friday said legislation passed this week by Republicans on the House education panel would rob vital federal dollars from the nation's poorest schools and redirect them to wealthier schools.

The i3 grant along with Race to the Top are perhaps the two signature education programs from the Obama administration where big federal dollars have been given in exchange for promises by states and local districts for sweeping changes.

According to the last set of federal and state campaign finance reports, Governor Malloy, the champion of the corporate education reform industry and the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure and repealing collective bargaining for teachers working in the poorest schools has received well over a quarter of a million dollars from leaders and political action committees associated with the national education reform and privatization effort.

Funding for college work - study programs would be cut in half, public - service loan forgiveness would end and hundreds of millions of dollars that public schools could use for mental health, advanced coursework and other services would vanish under a Trump administration plan to cut $ 10.6 billion from federal education initiatives, according to budget documents obtained by The Washington Post.

Kline's original goal was to move away from an omnibus approach to federal education policy as represented by No Child and offer up five bills that would essentially revert back to the days before the passage of No Child, when federal dollars were handed out to states without showing any results.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos refused to say Wednesday whether she would block private schools that discriminate against LGBT students from receiving federal dollars, explaining that she believes states should have the flexibility to design voucher programs and that parents should be able to choose schools that best fit their children's needs.

In a presentation to the State Board of Education earlier this month, Vanderbilt researcher Gary Henry said he found positive effects from turnaround efforts in North Carolina's bottom ranked elementary schools — but without continued state funding to replace the temporary federal dollars that were put toward this initiative, those gains won't continue.

As a result of their ill - conceived policies billions of dollars in public taxpayer funds at the federal level and tens of millions of dollars here in Connecticut are being shifted away from classroom instruction so that corporate education reform companies can continue to make even more money.

When asked specifically about this in a House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education, and Related Agencies meeting in May, Education Secretary DeVos refused to guarantee that she would prohibit private schools from receiving federal dollars if they discriminate.35

On average, the federal government contributes about 10 percent to the total amount spent on public education, but these dollars account for a larger portion of many high - poverty districts» budgets.11 For example, Los Angeles Unified School District and Chicago Public Schools — both high - poverty districts — receive about 15 percent of their budgets from the Education Department.12 These dollars serve essential purposes, such as supplementing services for low - income students, defraying the cost of individualized education programs for students with disabilities, and compensating for a loss of property tax due to federally oweducation, but these dollars account for a larger portion of many high - poverty districts» budgets.11 For example, Los Angeles Unified School District and Chicago Public Schools — both high - poverty districts — receive about 15 percent of their budgets from the Education Department.12 These dollars serve essential purposes, such as supplementing services for low - income students, defraying the cost of individualized education programs for students with disabilities, and compensating for a loss of property tax due to federally owEducation Department.12 These dollars serve essential purposes, such as supplementing services for low - income students, defraying the cost of individualized education programs for students with disabilities, and compensating for a loss of property tax due to federally oweducation programs for students with disabilities, and compensating for a loss of property tax due to federally owned land.

In light of this, the Department of Education should create a competition to fund — with federal dollars — ideas for building or expanding school choice that come from the field, not from Washington or statehouses.

After Montana State Superintendent Denise Juneau informed U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan of her decision in April, Duncan initially — and forcefully — responded by threatening to withhold millions of dollars in federal Title I funding from the state.

The Arizona Department of Education receives over $ 1 billion dollars from the federal government to implement Common Core Standards (Arizona, 2014).

Obama, in contrast, has sent education dollars from the federal government to the states via grants and direct aid, under the economic stimulus program, to save programs and jobs.

All PA Congressmen who voted for Trumpcare voted to gut millions of dollars in federal funding from Intermediate Units, which provide special education services to thousands of students with disabilities.

California placed a year - long moratorium on the use of Common Core exams to make «accountability» decisions, a modest step that drew threats from Duncan to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in federal education aid.

Pearson Education, ETS (Educational Testing Service), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw - Hill and dozens of other companies have spent tens of millions of dollars lobbying to weaken privacy laws or stop the federal and state governments from reducing their access to student data.

WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos refused to say Wednesday whether she would block private schools that discriminate against LGBT students from receiving federal dollars, explaining that she believes states should have the flexibility to design voucher programs and that parents should be able to choose schools that best fit their children's needs.

At the beginning of the year, many folks (Eduflack included) praised the selection of Denver Public Schools chief Michael Bennet for the open U.S. Senate seat from Colorado, again applauding the notion that a true - blue educator would be involved in authorizing and appropriating federal education dollars.

The federal government has made hefty financial commitments to education in recent years, including the implementation of No Child Left Behind and the subsequent waivers from the standards - based law as well as the influx of about $ 89 billion in stimulus dollars to prevent teacher layoffs, keep class sizes down and avoid program cuts.

From that website I learned of the department of education website where you can log on and review your student Fafsa report that shows a history of your student loans and grants received when in school and the payments paid during the repayment period (that is the money we pay to them for the loan) and found that not even one dollar of my payments have ever been reported by ACS, not even one, before the 10 years on the Income Based Repayment Plan, I was on a set plan that I had paid for 6 years $ 237 dollars each month on a fixed 3.25 % repayment plan, so why is it that not even one dollar is showing on the Federal Department of Education website showing any of those education website where you can log on and review your student Fafsa report that shows a history of your student loans and grants received when in school and the payments paid during the repayment period (that is the money we pay to them for the loan) and found that not even one dollar of my payments have ever been reported by ACS, not even one, before the 10 years on the Income Based Repayment Plan, I was on a set plan that I had paid for 6 years $ 237 dollars each month on a fixed 3.25 % repayment plan, so why is it that not even one dollar is showing on the Federal Department of Education website showing any of those Education website showing any of those payments?

For example, the Department of Education reports that for every dollar held in a 529 account in a parent's name, up to 5.6 cents will be subtracted from the family's federal need - based financial aid package.