Sentences with phrase «federal grant money»

The fact is, several sources of federal grant money for community - based wellness, including family planning, prevention and testing, have been drastically reduced or eliminated altogether.

What's driving the recent efforts is frustration with longstanding school failure, not the lure of federal grant money that helped push the first three districts into being.

Alabama has filed an application for federal grant money from the U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) to establish a statewide longitudinal data system (SLDS), but won't learn the results of their application until some time in September.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said the administration will «strip federal grant money from sanctuary states and cities that harbor illegal immigrants» and will «figure out how we can defund those streams, look at those funding streams and figure out how they can be cut off.»

Initially funded with federal grant money, Delta Dental of So

Philadelphia, Guilford County, N.C., and four small districts in northern New Mexico have scooped up the last of the $ 42 million in federal grant money on offer this fall for rewarding teachers and principals who get higher student test scores in needy schools.

Officials believe much of the cost of putting homes on stilts will eventually be covered by federal grant money as well as the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which helped compensate homeowners after Katrina.

The project was part of the school's Reality - based Learning program, which was funded by federal grant money.

Earlier this month, Brown asked the Federal Aviation Administration to step into the dispute over the fate of Meigs Field, contending that federal grant money received by the city to make airport improvements require the tiny airfield to remain open through the year 2009.

Rejman said the Park District won $ 3.1 million in federal grant money earmarked for projects that benefit short - stay boaters.

The Obama administration's Race to the Top Fund, which was designed to use federal grant money as an incentive for states to replicate programs shown to improve student performance, has...

While applauding efforts by freshman Congressman Brad Schneider for his support of lakefront projects, McElroy said federal grant money is harder to come by.

Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren said she's not worried, despite the fact U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions warned cities earlier this week they could lose federal grant money for failing to cooperate with immigration authorities.

Whether ratepayers bear the brunt of that cost depends, at least partially, on how successful the utility is drawing federal grant money...

President Trump has two options, according to USA Today: File lawsuits against sanctuary - observing cities, counties and states for violating federal law by refusing to cooperate with immigration enforcement and withhold federal grant money for local law enforcement agencies.

Forest Hills synagogues and schools want federal grant money to make their facilities more secure, but a Kew Gardens rabbi thinks none of them should get a dime.

In contrast to much academic work, the need for research integrity professionals is especially high when federal grant money is tightest.

Right now federal grant money is in homeland security, so Gilbert believes that American CS and IT jobs may get a boost as the government begins to make grants available for such expenditures.

The U.S. Department of Education has released an audit of the Education Leaders Council, charging that the Washington - based organization misused federal grant money for its Following the Leaders project.

The decision to seek federal grant money was declared in Governor Robert Bentley's executive order issued in May.

But former Gov. Deval Patrick's administration traded away Massachusetts» proven, literature - rich English standards for $ 250 million in one - time federal grant money.

In fact, last year high schoolers missed out on as much as $ 2.7 billion in free federal grant money.

The issue of whether Peter Gleick's actions should or should not be prosecuted based upon the notion that the crime itself was not meeting some certain threshold of «seriousness» should be considered in the context that that Gleick was a high ranking member of an organization that was a recipient of significant federal grant monies — not merely the administrator of a private blog out to exact revenge on his [perceived] ideological foes.

As community health centers wait for Congress to act, they are making adjustments in case they don't get the $ 29 million in annual federal grant money they need by the end of December.

President Donald Trump's executive order threatening to strip federal grant money from sanctuary cities sets up a battle between the new president and more than 300 cities, counties, states and institutions that could play out in the courts and...

East Orange is funding its pre-crime efforts with federal grant money that has also permitted it to add other crime - fighting technology such as squad cars that automatically scan the license plates of all passing cars and cross-check the plates against databases of people on terrorist monitor lists, or with unpaid parking tickets or outstanding warrants.

The legislative scandals have reached almost farcical proportions: a senator from the Bronx, Pedro Espada Jr., stands accused — perhaps not coincidentally by Attorney General Cuomo — of spending $ 20,000 in state and federal grant money on takeout sushi that was delivered to his house in Westchester County.

Part of the process Congress should undertake is to establish conditions to use of federal grant monies.

It is the county head of finance who's civic duty is to collect bed and breakfast tax hotel motel rooming house fraternity house hostel sorority house lodge inn says state law Who collects federal grant money and publishes their account figures for the public at the village level town level.

The state was seen as dysfunctional, it couldn't win federal grant money, its budget was shattered, California was cutting school funds and districts were laying off teachers.

Rep. Charlie Rangel yesterday came roaring to the defense of a financially troubled nonprofit that won millions in federal grant money with his help.

«We're going to strip federal grant money from the sanctuary states and cities that harbor illegal immigrants,» he said.

In their bid to win millions in federal grant money for charter schools, Ohio Department of Education officials described the state as a beacon of oversight.

When I was invited to a Mennonite college to speak on peace and simple living (neither of which is Caesar's favorite topic), I had to sign a formal, legal contract — because my honorarium was to come out of federal grant money.

New York Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand have announced the state's receipt of federal grant money to fight homelessness.

The governor in recent days has been particularly incensed over the failure of many school districts and the teacher's union to come up with new teacher evaluation plans in time for a deadline for federal grant money.

According to Schumer, his office recently accessed $ 1 million in federal grant money to deal with problems in the water system in the Chautauqua County village of Westfield.

«In April I applied for federal grant money to fund promising projects that would push New York's high - speed rail plans forward and create jobs,» Governor Cuomo said.

The evaluations are required in order to qualify for federal grant money that New York State won under the Race to the Top program.

White House officials said the administration was still working through how much funding would be cut, but spokesperson Sean Spicer said the administration would «strip federal grant money from the sanctuary states and cities that harbor illegal immigrants.»

He congratulated the department for using $ 4 million in federal grant money for professional development but stressed a bigger investment would be necessary as teachers and students adjust.

«We're going to strip federal grant money for the sanctuary states and cities that harbor illegal immigrants,» White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said during a press briefing Wednesday.

Suffolk police also have applied for federal grant money to upgrade communication technology so helicopters can better interact with emergency responders on the ground, officials said.

Appel has lined up federal grant money to help build demonstration plants to process chicken offal and manure in Alabama and crop residuals and grease in Nevada.

«We appreciate the need for appropriate transparency to help ensure that taxpayers and policymakers have the necessary information and assurances that federal grant monies are well - managed and executed as intended,» a coalition of research universities wrote Lankford and committee Chairman Representative Darrell Issa (R - CA) in 2011.

The Department of Education has released an audit of the Education Leaders Council that concludes the nonprofit group misused nearly a half - million dollars in federal grant money.