Sentences with phrase «federal education subsidies»

Centrist Democrat school reformers along with the more - sensible of movement conservative counterparts, governors from both parties, and civil rights - oriented players are opposed to proposals from true - believers to abolish No Child's testing provision, which rightfully requires states to administer reading, math, and science exams in exchange for federal education subsidies.

What Kline essentially proposes to do is allow states and districts to spend federal education subsidies as they see fit without being accountable for providing all children — including those from poor and minority backgrounds — with high - quality teaching and comprehensive college - preparatory curricula.

Not exact matches

Moreover, they argue that federal subsidies are warranted because a significant portion of state and local government spending is for education, health, public welfare, and transportation, all of which have important spillovers that benefit the population in other jurisdictions as well.

The sad thing is that our local community in New Square is described in Wikipedia as a place where «four Hasidic men created a nonexistent Jewish school to receive $ 30 million in education grants, subsidies, and loans from the U.S. federal government.

District administrators clearly understood that the district's budget was heavily dependent on the state's basic education subsidy, and that the state had increased this subsidy in fiscal years 2010 and 2011 by using federal stimulus funding.

Education schools have long been propped up by a variety of government subsidies, from federal support for tuition to state grants.

I assume that current federal spending on early childcare and education programs will be redirected to the new CESA program since the existing programs serve functions that are substantially redundant with the proposed childcare subsidy.

Based on prior years» tax returns and birth records, parents of a young child that qualifies for childcare subsidies, as described subsequently, would have deposited to the child's name and their control in a federal Childcare and Education Savings Account (CESA) the amount of subsidy to which they are entitled for a given year.

And an increase in the federal subsidy can not be supported by claiming that special education places a greater financial strain on schools, as the percentage of school revenue devoted to special education has not increased in the last three decades.

Delisle's paper, «The Tangled World of Teacher Debt: Clashing rules and uncertain benefits for federal student - loan subsidies,» is available on the Education Next website.

After all, Brown knows full well that any attempt to withhold federal funding will be challenged by Golden State's influential congressional delegation (including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Dianne Feinstein); the former state attorney general is also likely betting that the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last year on the Affordable Healthcare Act, which effectively makes it impossible for the federal government to withhold subsidies from states for not implementing new regulations, can also be applied to what the administration can do on the education policy front.

The fact the federal government should hold states accountable for the subsidies they are given under No Child — part of the whatever government is doing it should do well that is an oft - forgotten tenet of modern conservatism — also forces it to take a more - prominent role in education policymaking.

Federal funds provide additional subsidies: DSU received an award from the U.S. Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education program while JCPS and Region 1 used Title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act funds to support their principal training initiatives.

This effect of including federal funds reflects the fact that the bulk of federal education dollars are allocated based largely on the income profile of the communities schools serve, primarily through federal subsidies for free and reduced price meals and under Title I of the ESEA.19 But because subsidies for school lunch programs are the largest source of federal funds flowing to schools, those concerned with equity must determine how expenditures of those non-instructional funds are considered.

In a society where advanced degrees are required in a large and increasing number of fields, restoration of the in - school interest subsidy would help increase the affordability of, and access to, graduate and professional education, while serving the aims of the federal aid system and benefitting society in the process.

I'm all for the latter shift, but I'm among those who see better prospects of accomplishing that through some mix of a modest, even patriotic, «pay as you go» fee, an eventual end to distorting subsidies — something some conservatives seek, as well — and boosted and re-focused federal investments in research and development (and education).

The domination of federal child welfare services funding by worker training, reimbursement of foster parents, case management for children in foster care, and adoption subsidies (all entitlements under Title IV - E of the Social Security Act) leaves few resources to develop or implement high - quality parent education.

We welcome the Federal Government's initiative to invest in strengthening relationships, which provides up to 100,000 eligible couples with a $ 200 subsidy which can be used towards relationship education and counselling.

She is the author or co-author of numerous publications, including several publications on immigrant families» access to early education, reports on the use of Title I funds for early childhood programs, and analyses of federal and state child care subsidy policies.

She has written extensively about financing high quality early care and education systems, the federal child care subsidy program and its importance for low - income families, and state and local policies to create and implement high quality early childhood programs.