Sentences with phrase «flat fund r&ra»

He has promised to flat fund education for two years, essentially an 8 % cut, introduce an A-F grading system for all schools and create in - district school choice, all while adopting market - based «Money Follows the Child» to direct more state funds to privately run charter schools.»

I hope that the Administration does not flat fund R&RA (research and related activities) at NSF.

He says he will «flat fund» discretionary state spending to balance the budget, a plan that experts in the state Office of Policy and Management and the nonpartisan Office of Fiscal Analysis agree doesn't work.

Meanwhile, on the thorny issue of charter school funding — a tuition aid un-freeze that would see aid increase by $ 1,500 per student paid out by a school district — a potentially large hit for any locality, including $ 200 million for New York City — the proposal would be to have flat funding for charters this year.

The state, then, flat funds or cuts programs for human services.

The spending plan, which was released on Tuesday in Albany, includes a flat funding formula for the... [Read more...]

According to the Albany Times Union, earlier this week the chairman of the state Association of School Business Officials sent a letter to Senate Republican Majority Leader John Flanagan, explaining that flat funding due to low inflation could lead to layoffs and program cuts.

NASA's Office of Education, which was slated for termination in the President's request, was also protected in the Senate bill, with flat funding recommended for FY 2018.

The large proposed reduction to NSF research comes after a year of flat funding in FY 2017, not accounting for inflation.

First, on Tuesday, «[a] Senate spending panel... approved a tiny budget increase next year for [NSF] and flat funding for NASA — and congratulated themselves for doing so given a cap on overall domestic discretionary spending across the government,» Jeffrey Mervis reported.

The spending level is $ 158 million more than the flat funding House appropriators provided and represents the third year in a row that Senate appropriators have provided increased spending for the office.

A Senate spending panel today approved a tiny budget increase next year for the National Science Foundation (NSF) and flat funding for NASA — and congratulated themselves for doing so given a cap on overall domestic discretionary spending across the government.

The RSC plan also sought to break the most recent budget deal via a 9.0 percent cut to the discretionary budget in FY 2017 alone, compared with the previously agreed - upon flat funding.

A decade of flat funding by federal agencies, declines in in - house research programs in industry, and an academic research culture that relies upon an ever - increasing number of trainees to execute research have flooded the market with highly trained scientists competing for few permanent positions that would utilize their skills.

In turn, legislators agreed to funnel more than 10 % of it into the Office of Science, rescuing the office from what would otherwise have been flat funding in 2016.

After decades of flat funding, agricultural research seems to have caught the attention of U.S. policymakers, as Congress gave a 30 % boost to the main competitive grants program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), raising it to $ 263 million for 2010.

And while the committee would hold steady the $ 117 million now available for large new facilities, flat funding would actually mean a significant reduction in plans to scale up work on half a dozen projects in that account, for which NSF had requested $ 224 million.

The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences would be flat funded at $ 574 million — $ 64 million less than the president's request.

The budget proposal includes essentially flat funding for NASA, which would be sufficient to keep the James Webb Space Telescope on track.

While overall research activities fell short of what the Administration sought, the omnibus offers an improvement over the sub-inflationary increase in House appropriations and flat funding in the Senate.

Many in the science community will breathe a sigh of relief as DOE's basic research arm, the Office of Science, escaped a White House - proposed 17.1 percent cut, as appropriators opted for flat funding from FY 2017 levels.

However, this would mark the second year in a row of flat funding for R&RA; the FY 2017 omnibus was less generous to NSF compared to other nondefense science agencies.

The letter from the Coalition for Space Exploration thanks the committee for its support of human and robotic exploration programs (specifically mentioning the James Webb Space Telescope as an «exploration science mission»), but «we remain concerned that by flat funding SLS, Orion and other Exploration program levels... the bill would unintentionally constrain progress toward accelerating program content from Exploration Mission - 2 [EM - 2] to be included in Exploration Mission - 1 [EM - 1] in 2018.

Despite flat funding, services have continued to expand.

Unfortunately, President Bush has failed to fully fund after - school programs and again proposed flat funding after - school programs at $ 981 million next fiscal year.

In a flat funded system, even with stable pupil numbers, policy change creates winners and losers.

The fact is, all public schools are flat funded in this budget — that includes charters.

Rising costs and flat funding mean schools are facing real - terms cut in their funding of about 8 per cent over the next few years.

He affirmed his commitment by proposing an $ 83 million increase for preschool — $ 32.7 million for existing preschool programs that have been flat funded for 10 years; $ 25 million to continue programs in the districts that received funding this year to expand preschool; and another $ 25 million to expand high - quality preschool to more children.

The coming years will be marked by flat funding and increased expenses.

In addition to several years of flat funding, there are political and policy barriers that prevent districts from making cuts and right sizing when students leave district settings to attend charter schools.

Over the last decade, the ASES program has been stretched to its breaking point due to increased operating costs and flat funding.

The version approved by the Joint Finance Committee last week included flat funding for public schools, expanded private voucher schools attendance, continued teacher licensing, conversion of some Milwaukee schools to charter or private voucher schools, reduced transportation spending, huge slashing on the University of Wisconsin's funding, and elimination of 60 guard tower positions in the state's prisons.

This increase was a welcome relief for after school programs that have been in dire need based on minimum wage and other increases in the cost of doing business in the face of flat funding.

«We have welcomed over 180 student refugees from Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria and, as you may have guessed, flat funding effects our second language learner programs as well,» Brosnan said.

Meanwhile, the Educational Cost Sharing Grant for public school districts is flat funded, which means that in real terms public school funding is being cut.

Special Education Funding: The good news is the $ 20 million increase special education funding since special education has been flat funded for 5 + years.

Flat funding of $ 1.1 billion is recommended for Career and Technical education prioritizing expanded apprenticeships and STEM programs

Flat funding of $ 11.8 million for programs to support students with intellectual disabilities in higher education

Funding for the National Center for Special Education Research at IES is flat funded at $ 54 million

He believed that AM would continue to live in the Bayswater flat funded by WB but that, if she did not, he would finance the purchase of a suitable home by settling money in a trust (the approach advocated in Re P).

inforisktoday.com - Despite the White House's request for deep budget cuts, Congress passed and President Trump signed into law last week flat funding for the current fiscal year for

govinfosecurity.com - Despite the White House's request for deep budget cuts, Congress passed and President Trump signed into law last week flat funding for the current fiscal year for

«After joining us repeatedly in recognizing the successes of home visiting, Republicans propose flat funding with new impediments and a faulty offset.»

Not exact matches

So right now the situation that we're seeing is a flatter curve, yeah but the Fed funds rate is in the 160s, [10 - year yield] in the 270s.

An adviser who earns a flat fee - such an hourly rate or a set percentage of your portfolio value - is much better aligned with you than an adviser who earns commissions for selling you particular mutual funds, insurance policies, or other products.

The measure keeps domestic spending largely flat, while providing billions of dollars in additional funds to fight Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria and the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

In this case index funds, with their objective diversification, minimal management fees, instantaneous liquidity and flat returns over the last decade have trounced venture with its negative returns, narrow diversification, high management fees and illiquidity over the same time period.

It would not provide them with any additional money, however, and most have been flat - funded for years.

A third fund, established last year to blend the flagship funds» strategies into a single vehicle, this person has added, is flat through that same time period.