Sentences with phrase «federal funding for these programs now»

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Money from the fund is poured into the state's budget to fund Medicaid, triggering 50 percent federal matching funds that are essential to fund the massive $ 54 billion program that now provides insurance for nearly a third of all New Yorkers.

Syracuse has lost out on federal funding for lead removal in city homes for the first time in two decades and will have to now rely on the county's program.

Grants.gov is a repository for information on all federal grant - funding programs, and an increasing number of agencies now require applicants to use Grants.gov's standard online application forms and to apply through Grants.gov.

Federal funding paid for five pilot sites, and now the program is funded through AmeriCorps; private foundations; state and local public and private funds; and donations.

The bill would give states the option of using the funds now distributed through a host of federal programs — amounting to about $ 24 billion a year on the whole — as a single block grant to states for public and private school vouchers.

If these cuts were enacted, states would have to either backfill the loss of federal support for out - of - school care by drawing from other limited funding streams or accept that previously served students would now be in unsafe, unsupervised environments outside of school hours.54 Attendance, student achievement, and peer and student - to - teacher relations could suffer.55 States that cut after - school programs would likely have to allocate additional dollars in future years to triage the loss of jobs or depressed student outcomes.

«As Congress now moves forward with the remaining work of the FY14 appropriations process, we urge the Appropriations Committees to write funding bills that prioritize federal education programs that are crucial to helping our most disadvantaged students, specifically Title I and grants for students with disabilities.

Two unique opportunities exist within ESSA for states to utilize funding that would have gone to districts under past federal formulas, but can now be used for specific programs or purposes like personalized learning, credit recovery, or programs that support school leaders or principals.

According to Education Week's Alyson Klein, thanks to the U.S. Department of Education's new «Weighted Student Funding Pilot» program, school districts now have the chance for local, state, and federal funding to «follow children, so that kids with greater need have more money attacheFunding Pilot» program, school districts now have the chance for local, state, and federal funding to «follow children, so that kids with greater need have more money attachefunding to «follow children, so that kids with greater need have more money attached to...

According to Education Week's Alyson Klein, thanks to the U.S. Department of Education's new «Weighted Student Funding Pilot» program, school districts now have the chance for local, state, and federal funding to «follow children, so that kids with greater need have more money attached to them.Funding Pilot» program, school districts now have the chance for local, state, and federal funding to «follow children, so that kids with greater need have more money attached to them.funding to «follow children, so that kids with greater need have more money attached to them.»

First established as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (otherwise known as the «stimulus» legislation), and now continued as a regular Department program in the fiscal 2012 year, i3 was intended to shift the innovation ecosystem toward greater quantity, rigor and diffusion of innovation, to thread innovation into the way the Department itself works (including the use of a «field scan» mechanism) and to align funding for the «supply» of innovation with the «demand» the U.S. Department of Education had created through other federal programs.

As an aside, it's worth noting that Gallup asked Americans for their opinion on a federally funded school choice program, and there's plenty of discussion right now in the educational choice community about what role, if any, the federal government should have in an initiative that has been largely driven at the state level for the past quarter - century.

NAESP is pleased to have played a role in creating the opportunities that are now afforded to schools under the new law, such as allowing accountability systems to include multiple measures, factoring in elements other than test scores; conducting needs assessments for struggling schools and learning communities facing the greatest challenges; developing clear and concise plans for targeting federal funding in ways that meet the needs of students in the school; and implementing local programs and monitoring their progress in collaboration with educators.

Right now the government is on a massive spending spree in Louisiana to help fix up the state, but unfortunately, none of these funds are being allocated towards credit card relief and debt consolidation programs, besides for the federal student loan consolidation programs currently in place.

With social conservatives now in control of both the White House and Congress, abstinence - only programs are poised for a dramatic comeback and federal funding for these programs is likely to see significant increases again.

State agencies, communities and key programs partner to better serve families receiving federal TANF funds About 175 families receiving federal assistance will now have access to the high - quality home visiting programs that have the power to give their children a better start and change the future for their whole family.