Sentences with phrase «federal grant requirements»

Performed bookkeeping tasks aligned with federal grant requirements.

Please note that if you have installed a safe room prior to receiving notification of selection for SoonerSafe, you will no longer be eligible for a rebate, due to federal grant requirements.

Ryan also helped administer the AAMFT Minority Fellowship Program ensuring program compliance with federal grant requirements.

Not exact matches

Ryan also said Republicans were working on changes that would allow federal block grants to states for Medicaid and permit states to impose a work requirement for able - bodied Medicaid recipients.

Federal officials have drafted a rule to relax a requirement that religious employers grant birth control coverage in health insurance plans.

When shares of Capital Stock are to be issued upon the exercise, grant or vesting of an Incentive Award, Google shall have the authority to withhold a number of such shares having a Fair Market Value at the date of the applicable taxable event determined by the Committee to be sufficient to satisfy the minimum federal, state and local withholding tax requirements, if any, attributable to such exercise, grant or vesting but not greater than the minimum withholding obligations, as determined by Google in its sole discretion.

Unfortunately, there aren't actually that many Canadian federal or provincial government grants available for small businesses, and the eligibility requirements for existing grants are very exacting.

King recently expressed extreme frustration with the teachers union and school administrators in several large cities downstate and upstate, over what he said was a failure to come up with a teacher evaluation plan by a December 31 deadline, to meet requirements for the federal Race to the Top grant awards.

Attorneys for Chicago asked a federal judge for a nationwide halt to Trump administration requirements that cities enforce tough immigration laws in order to receive some federal grants, staking out a leadership role for the nation's third largest city in the fight over so - called sanctuary cities.

The teacher evaluation requirement originated in 2010 after New York was awarded a grant of nearly $ 700 million under the federal Race to the Top program.

Without a significant new investment in New York State's Child Care Block Grant, New York State will not be able to meet federal health and safety requirements and maintain the current number of child care subsidies.

Provisions of the federal Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) Act are starting to be implemented, including the requirement that childcare providers pay for the fingerprinting of applicants and employees.

The governor also touted the state's new teacher evaluation system, which he championed, as it was a requirement of New York's $ 750 million Race To The Top federal grant award.

Cuomo championed the teacher evaluation system, which is a requirement of the federal Race To The Top grant program, through which New York won $ 700 million in 2010.

Clinton County Department of Social Services has taken donations of carbon monoxide detectors and the Clinton County County Office of Emergency Services has provided smoke detectors compliments of the New York State Association of Fire Chiefs and a federal smoke detector replacement grant program for installation in order to meet building code requirements, Day said.

contain measures that would ramp up federal oversight of farms and food processors, granting new inspection powers to the Food and Drug Administration, imposing agricultural standards for food crops, and beefing up record - keeping requirements that would help regulators trace a tainted food product to its source.

The current limited oversight largely stems from controls and reporting requirements imposed on the recipients of federal grants, Church said.

That is a sharp break with the U.S. where federal grants and loans are provided without regard to test scores or grades, although some programs offered by states and universities often include a merit requirement.

The plan would provide tuition grants for students who finished high school, met income requirements, took challenging high school courses, applied for federal and state financial aid, and earned a B average.

(Sec. 7007) The bill expands eligibility for emergency and modernization grants to an LEA that meets specified existing requirements if at least 10 % of the LEA's acreage is exempt from state and local taxation under federal law.

Like any federal grantee, Smarter Balanced must operate within the requirements of its federal grant; however, there is a great deal of latitude built into the grant for state decision - making.

The first special report, Schools with Federal Improvement Grants Face Challenges in Replacing Principals and Teachers, looks at how states, districts, and schools are addressing challenges related to SIG staffing requirements.

In granting waivers from NCLB's requirements, the Obama administration further pushed a federal agenda that included Common Core standards and more reliable teacher evaluations.

Common Core isn't required, but critics say eligibility requirements for federal grants and waivers closely align with the standards.

On top of that they have an additional set of requirements from the federal School Improvement Grant program.

Other problematic requirements, from the perspective of the officials interviewed, related to civil rights data collection, (Education Week reported extensively on that data) the Federal Funding and Transparency Act, and federal time distribution reports (the report noted that «in order for state and local federal grant recipients to use federal funds to pay salaries for their employees, they must document the employees» time spent on federally funded activFederal Funding and Transparency Act, and federal time distribution reports (the report noted that «in order for state and local federal grant recipients to use federal funds to pay salaries for their employees, they must document the employees» time spent on federally funded activfederal time distribution reports (the report noted that «in order for state and local federal grant recipients to use federal funds to pay salaries for their employees, they must document the employees» time spent on federally funded activfederal grant recipients to use federal funds to pay salaries for their employees, they must document the employees» time spent on federally funded activfederal funds to pay salaries for their employees, they must document the employees» time spent on federally funded activities.)

But the Obama administration made test - based evaluations a requirement for any state that wanted to compete for Race to the Top grant money or win relief from the federal No Child Left Behind law.

Indiana and the 25 other states granted waivers from certain requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind law will still have to send student data to Washington, D.C., writes Sarah D. Sparks for Education Week:

Gentzel calls for the elimination of overly prescriptive requirements, urging Congress and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to «grant autonomy and relief for school districts to successfully administer school meal programs by enacting policy to make implementation feasible within available federal resources.»

In a letter addressed to Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott and the teachers union president Michael Mulgrew that was delivered last week, teachers petitioned the two sides to reach an agreement on a new teacher evaluation system that would fulfill the requirements of the federal grant and allow the state to restore their financing.

Investing in Innovation The department has announced that all 23 Investing in Innovation (i3) grant finalists successfully secured a total of $ 18 million in private donations, ensuring that they have met the competition's matching requirement and qualifying them to receive $ 150 million in federal funding from the i3 program.

In a Federal Register notice published Monday morning, the department lays out the new requirements for direct grants under the Education Department General Administrative Regulations, or EDGAR, to bring them in line with the tiered standards for evidence that are outlined in ESSA.

The new federal education law grants the Department of Education the ability to waive certain NCLB or Waiver requirements in the interest of a smooth transition to the new law (ESSA) with a January 2017 cross-over target.

U.S. Department of Education officials don't want to grant that exemption, saying California can't ignore the federal requirement to measure students» progress in science annually.

Huberty urged Morath to reach out the U.S. Department of Education to find out whether a waiver from testing could be granted and to report back on the financial ramifications of failing to meet federal requirements in affected districts.

Since 2011 states have been operating under individual flexibility waivers granted to individual states from certain federal requirements, while still meeting accountability, regulatory, administrative, and reporting standards.

But when asked whether Texas could request a waiver from federal accountability requirements, Morath stated that there was no precedent for that to his knowledge nor did he think one would likely be granted.

Repeal federal «Highly Qualified Teacher» requirements and grant states the flexibility to develop their own teacher evaluation systems to better gauge an educator's effectiveness, if they so choose.

What Hyslop describes as «clarifications» would be viewed by most as additional requirements (granted, federal officials may have trouble distinguishing the one from the other).

In November, 2014 the U.S. Department of Education proposed a set of priorities, requirements, and criteria for the federal charter grants to state education agencies.

On the right, advocates for vouchers and the free market are pushing for testing loopholes such as opt - out provisions and doling out federal money in block grants with no performance requirements whatsoever.

He had indicated a willingness to grant states a one - year waiver from federal testing requirements if each student took both the English language arts and math tests.

In 2012, the federal Department of Education, led by Secretary Arne Duncan, granted Connecticut a waiver from the draconian requirements of No Child Left Behind.

The first of the three special reports, Schools with Federal School Improvement Grants Face Challenges in Replacing Principals and Teachers, looks at SIG - related staffing requirements.

For additional information on MSAP grant eligibility, requirements and parameters, visit the Federal Grants Wire MSAP page.

At the state policy level, 46 states have adopted leadership standards for principals, and many have begun aligning them to all components of a school leader's career continuum.125 In addition, recently more than half of states, through a mix of state and federal initiatives, have passed laws to strengthen the evaluation process for principals.3 AAnd under the federal Race to the Top grant, states such as Louisiana and Rhode Island implemented new requirements for principal preparation programs.

Given the lack of Congressional action and recognizing the promising policies states were pursuing on their own, in 2011, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan began granting waivers to provide states relief from some of the federal requirements that were most at odds with current knowledge and practice.47

In addition to ESEA waiver requirements that districts incorporate evaluation data into personnel decisions (though compensation isn't specified), the Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF), a federal grant program that has allocated over $ 2 billion since its inception, began supporting state and district efforts to implement performance - based compensation in 2006.79 Grantees from across the country have included Miami - Dade County Public Schools, Mississippi, Pittsburgh Public Schools, Seattle Public Schools, and Washington, D.C. Public Schools (see Case Study: Lessons From Washington, D.C.'s IMPACT System).

As one of the first federal grant - in - aid programs, the Smith - Hughes Act provided federal aid on a matching basis to states and established requirements regarding how the money was to be used.

By waiving the high school diploma requirement for students taking dual and concurrent enrollment courses from colleges and universities that participate in the Department's experiment, low income students will be able to have early access to their Pell Grants, the largest federal program of student financial aid.