Sentences with phrase «federal stimulus legislation»

Regardless of the final shape or size of federal stimulus legislation, unless New York puts its fiscal house in order, increased federal assistance will only mask our current structural problems, not provide a permanent fix.

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As a result of this legislation, over 350,000 education - related jobs were saved, state governments devised ambitious plans to compete for $ 4 billion in «Race to the Top» grants, and the federal government put forth solutions to the problems faced by the nation's weakest schools But the long - term impact of the stimulus money is much more unclear, according to a nationwide review led by the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media and the Education Writers Association.

The Race to the Top initiative, initially financed through the 2009 federal economic - stimulus legislation, gave Democrats the political cover to push for priorities such as expansion of charter schools, alternative teacher training, and teacher performance evaluations tied in part to students» academic gains — issues that previously had been associated most closely with Republicans.

The federal government now controls two major car companies, has wasted over $ 860 billion on a failed economic stimulus plan, taken over our health care system, put the nation's banks and financial systems under its enormous thumb and attempted to restructure our entire economy with cap - and - trade legislation.

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.

Of course, Obama has barely been able to tweak federal science budgets beyond the one - time boost in the stimulus legislation, so the issues go far deeper than presidential politics.