Sentences with phrase «funded by individual state»

The board, a nonprofit consulting organization funded by individual state membership fees and corporate gifts, aired those views in a 30 - page report citing «widespread erosion» of student achievement and academic standards throughout the region's 260 colleges and universities and suggesting that such problems at both the school and college levels threaten the stability of the New England...

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And because individual states could still prohibit marijuana locally, Booker's bill would also incentivize states to change their marijuana laws by withholding federal funding from any states that have enforced laws against the drug in ways that disproportionately affect low - income citizens and people of color.

While private pension funds and mutual funds often steer stock markets in places like the United States, markets in China are more often swayed by amateur investors and well - heeled individuals willing to take big risks.

Legal requirements for accessibility to institutions which receive federal funds are listed in Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973; it states that «no otherwise qualified handicapped individual... shall, solely by reason of his handicap, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.»

«Other countries are not willing to lend to Greece» - note that most state debt is owned by private entities (pension funds, banks, even private individuals).

The money comes from: Refunds are paid from the state's general fund - income taxes paid by businesses and individuals, fees and other charges.

The report, issued Monday and made public Thursday, came a week after Thomas was charged by the state Attorney General's Office with stealing nearly $ 13,000 in campaign funds and failing to report on his city financial disclosure forms more than $ 75,000 he received from individuals, companies and his inaugural committee.

Alaska is the only state in the world to pay its individual citizens an annual, equal income, known as the permanent fund dividend (PFD), and this «basic income» is financed by the investment returns of its sovereign wealth fund, the Alaska Permanent Fund (Afund dividend (PFD), and this «basic income» is financed by the investment returns of its sovereign wealth fund, the Alaska Permanent Fund (Afund, the Alaska Permanent Fund (AFund (APF).

In actual policy, Gordon Brown and the British Labour Party initiated the United Kingdom Child Trust Fund, while in the United States the idea has been implemented in the form of Individual Development Accounts and argued for by Michael Sherraden.

That investigation exposed a nonprofit set up by, as the AG's press release put it, «a New York state senator,» which allegedly funneled about $ 30,000 in member item funds to those associated with it, including the senator's aide and an individual who shares a residence with the senator.

Ahead of last year's elections, state Senate Republicans boosted many of their candidates with financial support from a campaign fund that was barred under state law from being used to promote individual candidates, according to a court filing by the state Board of Elections» independent enforcement office.

New York State insurers selling plans on the individual market are asking the Cuomo administration to raise average premiums by more than 17 percent, a consequence of rising medical costs, decreasing federal funding and misplaced assumptions about the health of consumers.

Funded by the New York State Sheriffs» Association, the Yellow Dot Program is a free service available to individuals of all ages.

Last November the committee on standards in public life put forward a proposal to cap individual donations at # 10,000 and increase the amount of funding of political parties paid for by the state.

It also did not act on concerns raised by the state Board of Elections about more than $ 200,000 in checks issued from campaign funds to the staff members, campaign treasurer and other individuals, according to Maziarz.

The Lib Dems would probably be happy with a solution similar to that proposed by the Committee on Standards in Public Life — a # 10,000 cap on individual donations, with # 23 billion of state funding for parties — but the Conservatives would prefer a # 50,000 cap, and are wary of state funding.

The Governor also thanked the Delegation for replenishing the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Contingency Fund, a fund that can be accessed by States in times of significant economic crises, and advocated for an extension of the TANF Emergency Contingency Fund, which was created to help connect low - income individuals with subsidized employment opportunities that otherwise would not be available due to the current econFund, a fund that can be accessed by States in times of significant economic crises, and advocated for an extension of the TANF Emergency Contingency Fund, which was created to help connect low - income individuals with subsidized employment opportunities that otherwise would not be available due to the current econfund that can be accessed by States in times of significant economic crises, and advocated for an extension of the TANF Emergency Contingency Fund, which was created to help connect low - income individuals with subsidized employment opportunities that otherwise would not be available due to the current econFund, which was created to help connect low - income individuals with subsidized employment opportunities that otherwise would not be available due to the current economy.

Overall, four of the ten projects submitted by New York State in the individual projects category have received funding from the federal government.

The BOE issued a ruling that allowed limited liability corporations, or LLCs, to be treated as individual donors and individuals to donate unlimited funds to candidates for state - level offices by creating multiple LLCs.

As part of their Joint Task Force on Public Integrity, the Offices of the Attorney General and State Comptroller previously indicted then - Senator Huntley and three individuals associated with the Parent Workshop, Inc., a nonprofit set up by former Senator Huntley that funneled member item funds intended to benefit the public to the senator's aide and to the senator's niece.

Do they wish to go down an old and trodden path with Supervisor Gromack that has taken the town to the second highest property taxes in the United States where senior citizens were to be sold out to protect the Town's reserve fund and its bond street rating, where the properety values of citizens living in the Town of Clarkstown would not be protected by implementation of a Ward System, where consolidation of purchasing functions with the County would not occur, and where systemic corruption would continue to grow as revealed by several arrests of individuals receiving compensation from the Town?

Almost all universities are state funded, and grants are generally bestowed by the individual countries» research councils, either directly to a PI or through the PI's institution, depending upon the country and type of grant.

The United States concentrates its civilian research in universities, with projects funded mainly by competitive grants awarded to individual faculty members.

The report, funded by the Workforce Development Council of Seattle - King County, calculates how much individuals and families must earn in each of the state's 39 counties to cover housing, food, child care, health care, taxes, transportation and other necessities without outside assistance.

[5] By interacting changes in overall state funding with a measure of how much individual institutions generally depend on such funds, the authors are leveraging the fact that even within a given state and year, some institutions are hit much harder by such shocks than otherBy interacting changes in overall state funding with a measure of how much individual institutions generally depend on such funds, the authors are leveraging the fact that even within a given state and year, some institutions are hit much harder by such shocks than otherby such shocks than others.

The research, funding by the Nuffield Foundation, shows that of the 35,000 or so individuals training to become teachers each year, around 14,000 are not working in the state school sector within five years.

As a condition of the receipt of federal funds to support the education of individual students, schools should be required to participate in an open enrollment process conducted by a state - sanctioned authority.

The key points from each strand are highlighted as follows: Early Identification and support • Early identification of need: health and development review at 2/2.5 years • Support in early years from health professionals: greater capacity from health visiting services • Accessible and high quality early years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Tribunal

The academy trust is required by its funding agreement with the Secretary of State for Education to designate a named individual as the «accounting officer» and this designation confers legal responsibility for financial and administrative matters.

We propose that as a condition of the receipt of federal funds to support the education of individual students, schools be required to participate in an open enrollment process conducted by a state - sanctioned authority.

While more money sounds like it will produce a greater windfall for Australian schools, the priority in which they receive these funds is still determined by the individual states and territories, not by the Commonwealth, thereby producing markedly varied results across the country.

Smarter Balanced was created by assessment professionals in state education agencies who determined that by pooling their experience and expertise — and by taking advantage of the federal funds offered by the Department of Education and working in partnership with private sector firms — they could build more sophisticated and accurate assessments of student learning than any individual state could offer on its own.

The other vehicles involve either direct funding of service providers by the federal government, e.g., Head Start, or transfers to states from the federal government, and through them to providers or individuals, e.g., the Child Care and Development Fund.

[6] The columns in the table address: a) the vehicle by which funding is delivered (e.g., tax expenditure vs. social program); b) the particulars of that funding vehicle (e.g., payments to individuals vs. program providers or states); c) the dollar value of the benefit to a family; d) whether the tax benefits are refundable (provide refunds to low income families in excess of their tax liability); e) whether the benefits are progressive (inverse to family income); f) the total annual program expenditure that is conditional on children (e.g., spending on housing vouchers that goes to families without children is excluded); and g) the estimated portion of the total expenditure that goes to children under five years of age.

Led by Rep. Frank Riggs, R - Calif., the House last year approved a related amendment to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act that would allow states to forfeit a small portion of their federal special education funding if they chose not to provide such services to otherwise eligible prisoners.

In its 10th Year, the Leadership Academy is funded by a statewide Teacher Center grant to be a Learning Community studying Leadership.Its mission is to empower individuals to realize their professional and personal leadership capacity through learning together, enhancing individual and group skills, and to set and achieve goals that advance distributive leadership within the New York State Teacher Centers» Organization.

The State of Utah Office of Education offers a typical definition of a private school: «A school that is controlled by an individual or agency other than a governmental entity, which is usually supported primarily by other than public funds, and the operation of whose program rests with someone other than publicly elected or appointed officials.»

Free schools are state - funded schools set up by faith groups, parents, teachers and other individuals and groups.

Contract schools are essentially state - funded schools that are operated by non-state agencies such as individuals, NGOs or other organizations.

Continuing this practice, while also reducing total ECS spending (compared to FY 2017 levels) in FYs 2018 and 2019, puts Connecticut at further risk of violating its federal maintenance of support (MOS) requirement, which is the primary fiscal measure by which states are judged to be eligible for federal funding under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

The overall effectiveness of the learning environment in public schools is also affected by the individual state funding allotted to education.

Clemons is the individual whose company is collecting in excess of $ 500,000 thanks to a no - bid contract that was mandated by the State Board of Education and funded through the State Department of Education.

The OCPF charged that FESA violated state campaign finance laws by receiving individual contributions and then funneling those funds to

On an individual state level, funding for pre-kindergarten programs increased by 6.9 % from 2012 - 2013, and a number of states have created new early childhood education agencies.

The letter concluded that because the school choice program is publicly funded, it must meet standards under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which states that «no qualified individual with a disability shall, by reason of such disability, be excluded from participation in or be denied the benefits of the services... of a public entity.»

(A) designate a State agency as the sole State agency to administer the plan, or to supervise its administration by a local agency, except that (i) where under the State's law the State agency for the blind or other agency which provides assistance or services to the adult blind, is authorized to * provide vocational REHABILITATION services to such individuals, such agency may be designated as the sole State agency to administer the part of the plan * under which vocational REHABILITATION services are provided for the blind (or to supervise the administration of such part by a local agency) and a separate State agency may be designated as the sole State agency with respect to the rest of the State plan, and (ii) the Secretary, upon the request of a State, may authorize such agency to share funding and administrative responsibility with another agency of the State or with a local agency in order to permit such agencies to carry out a joint program to provide services to handicapped individuals, and may waive compliance with respect to vocational * REHABILITATION services furnished under such programs with the requirement of clause (4) of this subsection that the plan be in effect in all political subdivisions of that State;

(B)(i) that such unit shall be located at an organizational level and shall have an organizational status within such State agency comparable to that of other major organizational units of such agency, or (ii) in the case of an agency described in clause (1)(B)(ii), either that such unit shall be so located and have such status, or that the director of such unit shall be the executive officer of such State agency; except that, in the case of a State which has designated only one State agency pursuant to clause (1) of this subsection, such State may, if it so desires, assign responsibility for the part of the plan under which vocational REHABILITATION services are provided for the blind to one organizational unit of such agency, and assign responsibility for the rest of the plan to another organizational unit of such agency, with the provisions of this clause applying separately to each of such units; provide for financial participation by the State, or if the State so elects, by the State and local agencies to meet the amount of the non - Federal share; provide that the plan shall be in effect in all political subdivisions, except that in the case of any activity which, in the judgment of the Secretary, is likely to assist in promoting the vocational REHABILITATION of substantially larger numbers of handicapped individuals or groups of handicapped individuals the Secretary may waive compliance with the requirement herein that the plan be in effect in all political subdivisions of the State to the extent and for such period as may be provided in accordance with regulations prescribed by him, but only if the non - Federal share of the * cost of such vocational REHABILITATION services is met from funds made available by a local agency (including, to the extent permitted by such regulations, funds contributed to such agency by a private agency, organization, or individual);

To be eligible for state funding, students must submit their FAFSA applications by their individual state deadlines, which are often different (earlier) than the federal deadline.

Further, all transactions will be governed by the rules of the individual Mutual Fund / AMC as stated in their Scheme Information Documents and therefore submission of a transaction and time stamping at MFUI portal should not be deemed to be guarantee of acceptance and processing of transaction by the Mutual Fund / AMC.

For more information, individuals can visit the VA Home Loan Centers state - by - state information, and they can also contact a representative from the company, to determine eligibility, loan limits, appraisal fees and funding fees.