Sentences with phrase «funding flexibility provided»

Under the Senate plan, districts that do not show academic improvement across subgroups could face a loss of the funding flexibility provided in the bill.

Not exact matches

Peladeau told analysts that Quebecor has «the flexibility required» to execute its plans but provided few details about where the funds will be allocated.

«Having assets in all three buckets provides tremendous flexibility to choose where to withdraw funds to take advantage of whatever tax laws may exist in the future,» he said.

A donor - advised fund may provide the improved tax deductions, increased grant flexibility, anonymity, and lower costs you're looking for.

That's why our funding solutions are built for flexibility - to provide a perfect fit for your business.

That cash infusion will fund the CA$ 65 million heavy oil acquisition in Pease River as well as pay down debt and provide additional flexibility for capex.

Apple CFO Luca Maestri said that Apple wants to maintain the cash it needs to fund day to day operations, invest in the future, and provide the flexibility it needs to respond strategically to opportunities that arise.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

About three thousand students are already benefiting from the latest wrinkle in five states, «education savings accounts,» which provide even more flexibility to families by allowing those who withdraw their children from public schools to receive a deposit of public funds into government - authorized savings accounts that can be used to pay for private school tuition, online learning programs, private tutoring, educational therapies, or college costs.

Funds raised would be used to fund Wellard's acquisition of two subsidiaries, provide financial flexibility, pay offer costs and provide a liquid market for the company.

In the absence of increased funding, this agreement eases operational challenges and provides school meal programs critical flexibility to help them plan healthy school meals that appeal to students.»

But to address these unintended consequences and ensure the standards are «workable» and «successful» for all schools and students, Congress needs to provide more funding and flexibility.

We are working with schools to provide funding, training, and flexibility so that 100 percent of schools will be able to successfully serve children healthier meals.

The coalition has already announced measures to limit tax credits, scrap the Child Trust Fund, for the part - privatisation of Royal Mail, to scrap National Insurance increases for employers but maintain them for employees, cut by 10,000 the planned extra university places, provide for a greater role for the private sector in «free schools» and a «review» of all employment law to «maximise flexibility» amongst other measures.

The city plan requested $ 12.5 million in funding, in order to provide the state flexibility in how the $ 9.7 million would be used, he said.

Susan Stamler, executive director for United Neighborhood Houses, an organization which operates several settlement houses that provide a range of services including senior and child care, said the governor's proposal will take away the city's funding flexibility.

«To preserve the balance of NASA's science portfolio and maintain flexibility to conduct missions that were determined to be more important by the science community, the Budget provides no funding for a multi-billion-dollar mission to land on Europa,» OMB officials wrote.

Other strategies that could stimulate women to stay in science are a) various forms of flexibility with federal - grant funding designed to accommodate women with young children keeping these women in the game; b) increasing the value of teaching, service, and administrative experience in the tenure / promotion evaluation process; c) providing on - campus childcare centres; d) supporting requests from partners for shared tenure lines that enable couples to better balance work and personal / caretaking roles; e) stopping the tenure clock for one year per child due to childbearing demands; f) providing fully - paid leave for giving birth for tenure track women for one semester; g) providing equal opportunity for women and men to lead committees and research groups.

This fund provides the financial resources and flexibility to support areas of greatest need, including patient care services, educational programs and innovative research projects.

We offer a huge amount of flexibility with the sole aim of providing the perfect honeymoon fund.»

Boston officials say this method provides a more logical, transparent way to distribute funds, although some critics say that the principals often don't have that much flexibility in how they can use the money, and that these funding formulas don't affect student achievement.

As states reach important milestones on the way toward building internationally competitive education systems, the federal government should offer a range of tiered incentives to make the next stage of the journey easier, including increased flexibility in the use of federal funds and in meeting federal educational requirements and providing more resources to implement world - class educational best practices.

ESAs are not the equivalent of cash because the funds are restricted to approved categories of educational expenses, but they do provide families with much greater flexibility in how to spend (or save) the funds than vouchers do.

Support this effort through a range of tiered incentives, such as providing states with greater flexibility in the use of existing federal funds, supporting a revised state accountability structure, and offering financial support for states to implement the standards.

Goals 2000 was intended to help states jump - start standards - based reform, while deliberately providing states with a great deal of flexibility in the design of reform strategies and the use of federal funds.

This transferability provision provides a school division the flexibility to target and transfer funds to the areas it deems as needing the greatest assistance.

The tension between advocates for equity and defenders of flexibility was reflected in comments on proposed options for meeting the funding law's key requirement — that districts provide additional programs and services for high - needs students in proportion to the additional revenue that the funding law allocates for them.

LEAs participating in the Department's weighted student funding (WSF) pilot could request funds to build on the flexibility provided by WSF systems by establishing or expanding open enrollment systems.

When asked about charter schools, Vermont's Deputy Secretary of Education said she did not support charter schools saying «No I don't think we need them... The state's longtime tradition of allowing public funding to flow to private, non-religious schools when a community does not have a public school... provides enough flexibility.»

Title I provides flexibility in developing plans to support the development and implementation of school improvement activities, and state and local districts are strongly encouraged to use Title II, Part A funds to improve equitable access to effective teachers.

ESSA gives states greater flexibility to design their own accountability systems and provides funding for those innovating in areas such as teacher recruitment and retention in hard - to - staff schools, teacher evaluation, and teacher - led professional development.

Currently, state law has suspended new textbook adoption through 2015 - 16 and has also provided districts flexibility with use of instructional materials funding through 2014 - 15.

Flexibility, however, enables states to use these funds to expand the school day or year to provide more time for student learning — a powerful intervention when students use the additional time for high - quality activities.

In order to continue that success, Arizona must grow schools like Valley Academy, Espiritu and Mission Montessori, and maintain flexibility in any new funding provided to K - 12 education.

But the General Assembly also provided local school systems with the flexibility to move that money — which is largely sitting in a pot for teachers — back into funding for teacher assistants if they so choose.

Language changes providing flexibility to school divisions on the types of positions that can be funded using the state and local funds calculated for certain funded positions;

In its recently released ESEA Flexibility Renewal Guidance, the Department states that «given the range of SEA and LEA strategies being implemented under ESEA flexibility, ED is interested in working with SEAs to evaluate and learn from different state and local approaches, including providing some funding for such evaluatiFlexibility Renewal Guidance, the Department states that «given the range of SEA and LEA strategies being implemented under ESEA flexibility, ED is interested in working with SEAs to evaluate and learn from different state and local approaches, including providing some funding for such evaluatiflexibility, ED is interested in working with SEAs to evaluate and learn from different state and local approaches, including providing some funding for such evaluations.»

To address the issues, 75 percent of school leaders encourage an increase in federal funding for school districts to comply with the new standards and 60.3 percent support additional flexibility for school districts to improve their ability to provide good nutrition without harm to instruction, personnel, and other school district operations.

Some Senators have suggested local districts are misusing their classroom funding, although GOP lawmakers have not provided any examples of actual wrongdoing by districts, which say they've long used flexibility over K - 3 class sizes to retain arts, music and P.E. educators.

This federal law, which replaces No Child Left Behind, shifts significant decision making authority away from the federal government, providing each state with more flexibility to distribute funds, design accountability and evaluation systems, and devise supports for struggling schools.

NSBA's comments supplement the remarks made by Thomas J. Gentzel, NSBA Executive Director, at ED's January 11, 2016 listening session in Washington, D.C. and include recommendations that the Department ensure a balanced «federal - state - local partnership;» provide sufficient flexibility for local schools and communities to make decisions regarding the use of Title I funds; and provide local school districts with technical and compliance support.

In fact, of the eight states that asked for flexibility in using the 21st CCLC grants, only three — Kentucky, Massachusetts, and Oklahoma — provided insight into how they planned to use this funding differently.

In particular, the report offers a set of «Lessons for Other States» that provide information on the need for flexibility and adaptability in a state funding system.

Those measures, which did not receive Democratic support, would eliminate more than 40 federal education programs and provide states with unprecedented funding flexibility.

ESSA replaces No Child Left Behind, and provides states, districts and schools with increased flexibility over how to use funding, how to demonstrate student progress and achievement and how to improve school performance and narrow the opportunity gap, among other changes.

Many education organizations applaud the enhanced accountability and funding flexibility the bills provide to states and local districts, but civil rights organizations have serious concerns that the loosening of federal accountability mandates could lead to growing achievement gaps.

In July, AASA spearheaded the introduction of an important bill in Congress that will provide districts with flexibility to ensure they are not wrongly penalized for changes in their special education funding levels that in no way impact the provision of special education to students with disabilities.

ESSA provides much more flexibility and discretion to the states about how federal education funds are spent, allowing funds to be spent where they are needed most.

Those schools would receive funding to improve student achievement and provide technical assistance to similar schools in the state as well as significant flexibility in the use of federal dollars.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Board of Education of the San Diego Unified School District supports a ESEA reauthorization bill that provides school districts the flexibility and resources needed to respond to the educational challenges in local communities, and provides greater local flexibility in the use of ESEA funding for Titles I, II and III as states and school districts are in the best position to make spending decisions to facilitate local innovation and student achievement, without placing undue burdens on districts that would adversely impact effective governance; and