Sentences with phrase «federal reform dollars»

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Rigrodsky & Long, P.A., with offices in Wilmington, Delaware, Garden City, New York, and San Francisco, California, has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of investors and achieved substantial corporate governance reforms in numerous cases nationwide, including federal securities fraud actions, shareholder class actions, and shareholder derivative actions.

The dollar index (DXY) peaked in December 2016 and has subsequently lost nearly 13 per cent, shrugging off what should have been positive effects from U.S. tax reform and a Federal Reserve about to embark on a tightening cycle.

But for better or worse, private actors — not our federal legislators, who seem inescapably captive to Big Food's dollars — may be the future of food reform.

Before Benedict Donald's tax reform NY State sent $ 48B dollars to the Fed more than we received back in direct Federal benefits.

He played an instrumental role in ensuring New York State qualified for, and won, $ 700 million in Federal Race to the Top dollars, a US Department of Education sponsored effort to spur innovation and reform in state and local district K - 12 education.

By prohibiting government from restricting people and corporations from creating unlimited independent expenditure campaigns capable of funneling billions of dollars into election cycles, this decision undid a century's worth of state and federal campaign finance reform.

As New York nears the midpoint of its five - year, $ 8 billion project to reform Medicaid, hundreds of millions of dollars awarded from the federal government have yet to be spent, and that could negatively impact the Cuomo administration's effort to overhaul the system.

More federal dollars being available to make upgrades to ports and waterways in upstate New York is closer to reality as the Water Resources Reform and Development Act, or WRRDA, passed the House of Representatives last night.

* Announced over 8 million dollars in federal funds to repair and reconstruct highways and roads that suffered severe damage as a result of the 2013 flooding and cosponsored and voted to pass FEMA reforms that would ensure our communities receive vital federal resources following severe flooding.

Other reforms Hawkins is calling for include a windfall tax on pharmaceutical companies» opioid wealth, a surtax on high - dollar pass - through income from LLCs and other pass - through vehicles, a clawback of the new federal tax cuts if not used to increase workers» pay, home rule for local income taxes, and tax credit «circuit breakers» to protect low - to - moderate income tenants and homeowners from unaffordable rents and property taxes.

With millions of grant dollars on the line, representatives of the 16 state finalists for federal Race to the Top prize money will go to Washington next week to make final, in - person pitches to the U.S. Department of Education for investment in their brand of school reform.

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.

Now, the Obama administration has sought to boost school improvement through Race to the Top by getting states and districts to compete for some federal dollars with promises to execute needed reforms.

On Top of the News Arne Duncan's Wrong Turn on Reform: How Federal Dollars Fueled the Testing Backlash 7/22/15 The 74

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.

The passage of the 1997 Obey - Porter amendment, which provided millions of federal dollars to support whole - school reform, was a pivotal development in the transformation of NAS from a revolutionary upstart to an important player inside the Beltway.

For instance, it must choose whether to allocate all the federal dollars by formula, or ask districts to compete for some of those dollars by declaring what reforms those dollars would fund.

Even as it faces a multimillion - dollar financial crisis and scrambles to meet new federal education requirements, the nation's second largest district is taking on a new challenge: restroom reform.

With applications in for round two of the Race to the Top competition, states must now turn their attention to the challenging future they face, whether or not they win federal dollars for the reform plans they've outlined.

The House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight approved a bill last week that would give local governments more flexibility in using federal dollars.

Can billions of federal dollars and a menu of market - based reforms fix the problem?

The debate is about what strings should be tied to those federal dollars, and toward which reforms the funding should be aimed.

And the present decade opened with the Race to the Top, the brainchild of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, based on the bold hypothesis that sizable grants of federal dollars, disbursed via a competitive process, can induce states to jump through reform policy hoops that they likely would not otherwise have attempted.

The federal government deployed powerful resources to promote math reform and the National Science Foundation spent hundreds of millions of dollars training teachers in three different systemic reform initiatives.

It goes something like this: Step away from federal heavy - handedness around states» accountability and teacher credentialing systems; keep plenty of transparency of results in place, especially test scores disaggregated by racial and other subgroups; offer incentives for embracing promising reforms instead of mandates; and give school districts a lot more flexibility to move their federal dollars around as they see fit.

These are federal stimulus dollars designed to spur education reform at the state level.

Fast forward to 2017: President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos have championed a plan to provide federal funding for private school voucher systems nationwide, which would funnel millions of taxpayer dollars out of public schools and into unaccountable private schools — a school reform policy that they say would provide better options for low - income students trapped in failing schools.

Race to the Top is a $ 4.35 billion effort to reward reforms, such as friendly charter school laws and tying pay to student performance, with cash, and in these tough economic times 41 states applied for the federal dollars.

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.

The critics of modern school reform that I know are people who see enormous trouble in the public education system, but don't think it will be fixed by spending billions of dollars on questionable teacher assessment systems linked to standardized test scores, or expanding charter schools that are hardly the panacea their early supporters claimed they would be, or handing out federal education dollars based on promises to change schools according to the likes and dislikes of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, whose record as superintendent of Chicago public schools was hardly distinguished.

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.

This is about the size of Title I grants for many schools, and it means that schools could pay for the reforms using federal dollars.

These battles do show the limits of federal government - led reform initiatives even when the dollars are attached to the effort.

«The group's proposed reforms correspond to criteria the federal government will use to award additional education stimulus dollars on a competitive basis starting this fall.»

The bottom line is that despite the billions of dollars from the federal government and foundations, firing of all those old bad teachers, no teacher union and no local elected school board the New Orleans reforms failed miserably.

So why, with over half a billion dollars in federal education stimulus money flowing to Connecticut — money intended to promote reform and protect jobs — is Hartford Public High School laying off teachers?

As such, all the elementary schools in his district have the same curriculum driven by the same comprehensive school reform model; the same school environment and discipline policy; and the same way of using Title I and other federal budget dollars.

A change in the law not only would allow Maryland to take a bigger bite out of the achievement gap but also could attract more federal and private school reform dollars.

Instead of continuing to throw millions of precious tax dollars into the proverbial, but very real, pit of failed education reforms; instead of continuing to enrich test corporations and educational entrepreneurs who game the system; instead of maintaining the false and demoralizing narrative that our students and teachers are failures, our state legislators need to take this opportunity to tell the CSDE and CSBE that it will no longer support expensive mandates that unnecessarily impact our budget health when a re-design of state assessment practices has been encouraged by recent federal legislation.

The state planted the seeds for implementing this type of reform in 2009 by passing legislation to pad its application for federal Race to the Top grant dollars, said Michael Addonizio, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies in the College of Education at Wayne State University, in Detroit.

«This bill will pave the way for a House - Senate conference to discuss both reforming how taxpayer dollars are spent on federal infrastructure programs, and also meaningful solutions that would address high gas prices and create jobs by permanently removing government barriers to American energy production.»

For the formal announcement, Pruitt was introduced by NADA's President and CEO Peter Welch, who praised the administrator for «[spearheading] over two dozen significant regulatory reforms worth over one billion dollars in savings in his first year at EPA» and «issuing more deregulatory actions than any other federal agency under the Trump administration.»