Sentences with phrase «federal support for programs»

Although the administration was not involved in the development of Common Core, Obama and Duncan were big supporters and attempted to encourage states to adopt the nationalized curriculum standards and make college and career readiness conditions for getting federal support for some programs.

«She believes we need to prioritize support for the most vulnerable in Medicaid, including the blind and the disabled, and this package continues to provide federal support for this program,» Flanagin said.

Not exact matches

Western Australia's peak industry lobby group has repeated its call for the federal government to come up with credible evidence to support its proposed changes to the 457 visa program for temporary s

Among its suggestions is a recommendation that all levels of government use procurement programs as a means to support small and medium enterprises and minority - owned businesses, including requiring supplier diversity policies for federal crown corporations and agencies.

James Richardson, alumni professor of economics at Louisiana State University, in May noted that the state had an obligation to fund care for uninsured patients whether or not it expanded Medicaid, and estimated that Louisiana stood to gain between $ 810 million to $ 864 million in federal support by expanding the program.

The Jenkins report proposes creating an Industrial Research and Innovation Council (IRIC) as an «' arms length» agency... [to] become the common service platform for all appropriate federal business innovation support programs», reporting to Parliament through the proposed Minister for Innovation.

These efficiency gains in the SR&ED Program could be tied into a common service platform for federal business innovation support programs such as the IRIC proposed by the Jenkins report and redirected to other support programs for innovation.

Regardless of whether the proposed council is created, CATA strongly recommends that the Government move to a common service platform for all appropriate federal business innovation support programs, including the SR&ED Program, to rationalize services and thereby reducing government and private sector costs.

Funded through the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario) and with support from the Canadian Innovation Centre (CIC) and a consortium of other non-profit Regional Innovation Centres, including MaRS, the program is geared to train as many as 450 entrepreneurs over 15 months, and provide as much as $ 4 million in seed financing to qualified applicants.

B.C. New Democrats support the call for a federal review of the TFW program and a new provincial registry to track numbers and sectors of temporary workers in B.C.

One form of federal support for child care is maternity and parental benefits offered through the federal Employment Insurance Program (EI).

The platform states they would pay for this program by consolidating fragmented support for childcare and by «using a combination of existing federal and provincial program funding, plus new funding.»

Overseen by the Division of Family and Children of the state's Family and Social Services Administration, FaithWorks provides assistance to faith - based organizations in applying for state and federal grant dollars to support new or existing programs geared to helping people attain self - sufficiency.

When the Community Mental Health Centers Act was adopted in 1963, it provided Federal support for the development of a national program of comprehensive mental health services based in local communities.

Federal funds are also granted to state public health programs ($ 66,000,000 in the fiscal year 1969) Community mental health receives a minimum of 15 percent of each state's allotment, and 70 percent of the grant is available to support services in communities for which both public and private nonprofit groups may apply.

Potawatomi Bingo Casino (Milwaukee, Wis.) An internal education and standards program for cook chill systems, the effectiveness of which has not only improved costs, safety and efficiency — but also led to on - site workshops for local, state and federal inspectors that support better food safety for the greater community.

IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).

Hats off to them for doing that, but the cost of building a central kitchen is not something which every community can bear, and it should be counted as part of the «outside money» used to support the meal program because it is outside of the money the federal government provides for running meal programs.

If you believe that your case should be eligible for the Federal Tax Refund Offset Program, or you suspect that the other parent has received his or her tax refund in error, contact your local Office of Child Support Enforcement.

Nearly all of the state's 54 school districts have signed up for the program, and the schools are buying Alaska food they couldn't afford when they received only federal support amounting to less than $ 2 a meal.

Support Federal and State Funding for Programs that Support Healthy Mothers and Healthy Babies, including:

The Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program provides federal funds for states and Tribal entities to support voluntary, evidence - based home visiting services during pregnancy and to parents with young children up to 5 years old.

An Office of Family Assistance (OFA) funded national resource for fathers, practitioners, programs / Federal grantees, states, and the public at - large who are serving or interested in supporting strong fathers and families.

MIECHV is the federal program that supports states in implementing evidence - based home visiting programs for at - risk families.

Especially in districts with large numbers of needy students, federal subsidy dollars can more than pay for breakfast, meaning extra cash to help support the entire meal program.

Covariates included mother's age, education, smoking during pregnancy, and participation in the federal nutritional support program for Women, Infants, and Children; and infant's gender, race, birth weight, congenital malformation reported at birth, live birth order, and single or multiple birth.

The Trump administration has named a fervent critic of government support for wind and solar projects — Dan Simmons — to oversee federal renewable energy programs.

These federal funds will help Mohawk Valley Community Action Agency, Inc. support important educational programs for children and will reduce the cost of high - quality early childhood care for some of the most vulnerable families in our community.

She voted against legislation to delay implementation of federal ozone standards, and she voted in support of a spending bill for energy and water programs.

«The Governor's support for the federal DACA program, our immigrant students and passage of the Dream Act affirms the value these individuals have in our society.

Mr. Giardina supports seeking a state and federal loan to obtain money to replace failing septics versus a current incentive program through which property owners who update their septics are provided with rebates paid for from the town's preservation fund.

It gets more complicated because the terms morphed around the WWII era when the leftists started to support more «entitlement» programs like social security, which would mean bigger government and higher taxes, not necessarily tariffs on imports, or support for a monarchy but still more federal spending.

The $ 4.1 trillion spending plan calls for steep cuts in a range of support programs for low - income individuals to balance the federal government's books over the next decade.

U.S. Reps. John Katko (R — Camillus), Claudia Tenney (R — New Hartford), and Elise Stefanik (R — Willsboro) this week urged President Donald Trump, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to support New York's application for the FAA unmanned - aircraft systems (UAS) integration pilot program (IPP).

Grimm was honored earlier this year by the American Alliance of Museums for supporting federal funding for arts programs like the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

But the governor also said that the state could use the two - month delay to get a better sense of what could be coming from the federal government as President Donald Trump and the Republican Congress craft their own budget, which is anticipated to result in less aid for New York state — especially in terms of support for its sprawling Medicaid program.

Stony Point — County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef presented a total of $ 2.67 million in federal Housing and Urban Development (HUD) funding to various municipal and not - for - profit groups at an award ceremony held ironically in Stony Point, the town that traditionally receives the least amount of support from the Community Block Grant Program.

First, the Erie County Legislature unanimously approved a resolution at the Dec. 1 session that I cosponsored that supports the federal Broadband Connects for Rural Opportunities Program (B - CROP) Act.

With local businesses, including the Rochester Red Wings, ESL Federal Credit Union, and many others, REF helped coordinate a quality summer internship program for city students until the school support component was eliminated by the city school district.

The Department of Mental Health also manages the Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) Program for Erie County, and administers Federal and State Grants promoting Service Enhancements for Mentally Ill Children, Drug Free Outpatient Services, Juvenile Delinquent Diversion Services, and McKinney Homeless Mentally Ill Supported Housing funded by the United States Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD).

And a new «Excelsior Scholarship» will provide «last dollar» support for students who attend SUNY and CUNY, meaning the program will make up the difference between the cost of tuition and existing federal and state aid programs.

LIPA Chief Operating Officer Michael Hervey said: «I would like to thank Governor Paterson, our partners at the State and Federal levels and NYSERDA for securing additional funds to support LIPA's nationally recognized Solar Pioneer Program.

«Though our program is yielding great results for the state, we also support initiatives to further bolster and grow broadband connectivity in rural areas,» said a spokesman with Empire State Development, the state agency overseeing the effort, when asked about the federal legislation.

She also supports the efforts of the Federal Experts Security Advisory Panel, which was tasked by an executive order to provide recommendations to the Select Agent Program for optimizing laboratory biosecurity.

Since 1976, the AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Program has served as a leading source of analysis on funding and policy issues affecting federal support for research and development (R&D).

Drawing increasingly on support from foundations and federal agencies, the Association has built pioneering programs for bringing underrepresented groups into science; applying science to human rights; supporting the growth of science in the developing world; exploring issues of science, ethics, and law; tracking federal spending for R&D; and in bringing scientists and engineers to work in Congress and executive agencies of government.

In a typical year, about 40 % are undergraduates, 40 % are master's degree students, and 20 % are pursuing Ph.D. s. Two scholarship programs — the National Science Foundation's Federal Cyber Service: Scholarship for Service and the Department of Defense's (DOD's) Information Assurance Scholarship Program — support many of the students.

The right - leaning R Street Institute released a report this week that found no economic justification for financially supporting reactors that have been disadvantaged by cheap natural gas, state clean energy programs and federal tax incentives for wind.

And although it may prepare them for any federal program — both presidential candidates support a national cap - and - trade program for greenhouse gas emissions — it may also end up driving electricity production outside the region higher.

Its 2009 budget request to Congress contains a program, dubbed ACI fellows, that is intended to complement the Bush Administration's American Competitiveness Initiative to bolster federal support for the physical sciences.