Sentences with phrase «get public grants»

Statewide office candidates (other than for governor) who do qualify get public grants $ 812,550 for the general election.

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Granted, President Bush did make a public relations misstep in the days immediately following the 9/11 attacks when he called the coming U.S - led war against global terrorism a «crusade» and promised that terrorists would face the «full wrath» of the U.S. «A lot of people think that America is out to get Islam, anyway,» Joshua Salaam, director of the Council on American - Islamic Relations, warned at the time.

The United States Department of Agriculture mandates that school lunches be served between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., but Chicago Public Schools have been granted state waivers, getting permission last fall to serve lunch outside those hours at 17 schools.

Silver makes sure the council gets ample public funding: Tax forms for its 2008 - 09 fiscal year list some $ 14 million in «government grants» — about half its total revenue.

Other sustainability and development programs that have been initiated or reformed over the last six years under Governor Cuomo include: · Cleaner, Greener Regional Sustainability Plans · Regional Economic Development Councils · Land Bank Act to convert vacant properties · Legislation to combat zombie properties · Complete Streets design initiative · Upstate Revitalization Initiative · Hudson Valley Farmland Preservation and Southern Tier Agricultural Industry Enhancement Programs · Clean Energy Communities · Brownfield Redevelopment Reform · Historic Preservation Tax Credit · Climate Smart Communities Grants · Community Risk and Resiliency Act Elaine Kamarck, Founding Director of the Center for Effective Public Management at the Brookings Institution and Author of Why Presidents Fail and How They Can Succeed Again said, «Whenever I get a chance to come home I'm always impressed at the rapid progress being made here in the Finger Lakes.

Senate candidates can get public general election grants of $ 93,690 and House candidates $ 27,850.

The city is urging the State Legislature to grant it several new powers — something it is often loath to do — which the administration asserts will enable it to get more public contracts to so - called minority - and women - owned business enterprises.

«The governor is correct that the only housing authority that got direct grants to their housing authority was NYCHA,» said William Simmons, president of the New York State Public Housing Authority Directors Association, which represents the majority of housing authorities in the state.

The freeze on charters» per - pupil funding won't officially end for another year, but these innovative public schools will get direct state grants to reduce the gap this year — and also get markedly more facilities funding.

To close the budget gap, the city is proposing a 1.64 percent property tax increase, cutting nearly 200 fire, police, public works, and parks jobs, as well as joining the state restructuring board to get a $ 5 million grant.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has noted on several occasions that he stands ready and willing to do more public corruption cases, but that would require a referral from the governor, which is something Cuomo - while eager to get more power when he was AG himself - is now reluctant to grant.

The Oswego County town of Volney will receive about $ 2 million in federal grants and loans to help build new water lines for about 100 homes and get them on the public water system.

There are still several opportunities to get grants or appointments for doing research at universities and public institutions for those who have only a laurea and who have no intention of pursuing a PhD.

Here's what Facebook tried to get away with in 2009 (a public backlash forced it to tone down the language): «You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, nonexclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any User Content you (i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof.»

Newly public data on grant funding success rates reflect one impetus for abandoning the set - aside: At many institutes, AIDS grants have been much easier to get than non-AIDS funding, suggesting that officials were struggling to find ways to spend the money.

«We're advocating for the bill because of the need to get NIH back on track,» says Jennifer Poulakidas of the Association of Public and Land - grant Universities in Washington, D.C. «If there's the possibility of expanding that approach to all federally funded research, then we'd be in favor of that, too.

November 2, 2017 Chicago students to get hands - on cancer research experience through $ 1.9 million grant to UChicago Medicine The Chicago EYES on Cancer program will recruit students from underrepresented backgrounds and teachers from Chicago Public Schools for a two - year summer research apprenticeship.

Diagnosed in second grade with a learning disability, Grant says she was supported in her public schools in Massachusetts and Kentucky and feels the legislation helped her get the accommodations she needed as both a student and later as a teacher.

If one assumes that charter schools get their fair share of Title II funds as per the underlying ESSA statue, 39 with 5 percent of the nation's students, 40 they stand to lose $ 115 million per year under the Trump - Devos budget41 — close to one - third of the amount the federal government invested in the Charter Schools Grants program in FY 2017.42 Education Week reports that Eagle Academy Public Charter School in Washington, D.C., for example, receives roughly $ 82,000 in Title II funding annually.43 Joe Smith, the school's chief financial officer, states, «If this was taken away from us, that would hurt.

The Springfield Public Schools had gotten a grant to start something called an «Expeditionary Learning» school.

Got questions about how to complete the latest Public Charter Schools Grant Program application?

The Selective Public High School Grant is intended to support the establishment of new programs or enhancement of existing initiatives that prepare academically talented students with financial need to get into and / or through selective public high scPublic High School Grant is intended to support the establishment of new programs or enhancement of existing initiatives that prepare academically talented students with financial need to get into and / or through selective public high scpublic high schools.

Asked whether Democrats take teachers» unions for granted, Van Roekel said that's not the issue and pointed to a different culprit: «There's so much money involved that somehow, some way, you have to get those deep pockets or you can't be in public service.»

The traditional public school district, managed by the Orleans Parish School Board, not only got a makeover (New Orleans received a $ 1.8 billion FEMA grant to build or renovate schools); these reforms also dramatically changed who teaches, how students enroll, who's accountable, and the funding schools received.

I had to file a Freedom of Information request in order to get a copy of the paperwork on the Gates grant and what I received was only the partial information, because as Connecticut taxpayers will have learned from the Jumoke / FUSE fiasco, while charter schools consistently argue they are «public» when it comes to accepting money from the state, they are quick to claim that they are private institutions when it comes to transparency and accountability.

(The district is not named in the paper, but the demographics, along with other details of the case study, match those of the Broward County Public Schools system in Florida, which the same researchers got grant money to study a few years ago.)

This is the company, elsevier, with spectacular profit rates, whch gets its material (papers, books) which have mostly been produced at public expense (university salaries, public research grants), do very little actual editorial work (one usually has to supply papers charts etc «print ready»), get academic reviewers to review the books and papers free of charge (well, paid for by universities or they do it in free time), depend on journal editors whose time is paid for by (generally publicly funded) universities, then sells the journals to the same universities, sometimes for subscription prices in the thousands of dollars.

Providing resources to help get cats fixed through grants or public funding is an absolute must.

Matisse's great - granddaughter and Diebenkorn's daughter got to see the exhibition before it opened to the public; Gretchen Diebenkorn Grant, 71, and Sophie Matisse, 51, met for the first time at the Baltimore Museum of Art.

The PSA is intended simply as an attention - getting device to snag the interest of the non-lionfish infatuated general public, hopefully guiding them to our Web site which then links them to a variety of sources of information on the issue ranging from government agencies such as NOAA / Sea Grant to individuals like the Lionfish Hunter.

One can only speculate on how much private capital KiOR attracted based on its success in getting smaller public grants and investments coupled with its $ 1 billion request of the Department of Energy, but those programs certainly played some role.

Human rights and legal groups lobbying for a public and open debate on whether the Law Society of British Columbia should grant accreditation to graduates of Trinity Western University's proposed law school instead got an invitation from benchers for written submissions.

In several instances, we have determined that conditional licences can be granted, which protect the public and permit the lawyer to get back to work more quickly.

«These days, public funds are probably not going to get it all done, so as a requirement, we expect successful grant applicants to come to the table with other leveraged sources, whether it is San Antonio, Texas, New Orleans or Seattle.