Sentences with phrase «how federal dollars»

The current funding process dictates how federal dollars are to be spent and imposes heavy regulations on local schools.
On Top of the News Arne Duncan's Wrong Turn on Reform: How Federal Dollars Fueled the Testing Backlash 7/22/15 The 74
Portability would make significant changes to how federal dollars allocated at the state level flow across and within school districts, private schooling aside.
It also determined the state did not get sufficiently detailed budgets from either ESDS or Long Beach on how the federal dollars would get spent.
Earlier this month, two former senior officials in the finance department assailed the Conservative government for eroding the «integrity and credibility» of federal budgets through what they argued is a system of secrecy that keeps parliamentarians and Canadians in the dark about how federal dollars are spent.

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The upcoming federal budget will likely include specifics, dollar amounts and details on how various initiatives under the government's Innovation Agenda will roll out.
The emergency declaration would also free up public health emergency funds at the Department of Health and Human Services, and grant individual states more flexibility in how they use federal dollars, and allow them to direct more funds toward addiction treatment and prevention.
With the Presidential election nearing, we break down the candidates» stance on small - business contracting and how they plan to invest — or not invest — future federal dollars.
No matter how the federal health care debate turns out, developing more reliable health care guides for consumers has the potential improve care quality, saving lives and eliminating billions of dollars in needless costs.
The U.S. media are silent about the most important topic policy makers are discussing here (and I suspect in Asia too): how to protect their countries from three inter-related dynamics: (1) the surplus dollars pouring into the rest of the world for yet further financial speculation and corporate takeovers; (2) the fact that central banks are obliged to recycle these dollar inflows to buy U.S. Treasury bonds to finance the federal U.S. budget...
How much you pay in federal income tax depends on a few different factors like your marital status, your salary, how many allowances you claim and if you have an additional dollar withholdiHow much you pay in federal income tax depends on a few different factors like your marital status, your salary, how many allowances you claim and if you have an additional dollar withholdihow many allowances you claim and if you have an additional dollar withholding.
How are we to think about the message of bond prices when the U.S. Federal Reserve, and other central banks, have literally bought trillions and trillions of dollars of them?
Solidarity with the poor is a moral imperative, Ryan agreed, but solidarity should not be measured by inputs — How many federal dollars go into anti-poverty programs?
HOW do people think the POOR got help BEFORE the government took over the job of redistribution??? NOW we PAY federal workers to redistribute money to the poor with a LOT of wasted dollars in between because of layers and layers of federal mess in between
How Trump Administration's Proposed USDA Cuts Could Harm America's Multibillion - Dollar Wine Industry USDA budget cuts could impact U.S. wine exports Though grape growers aren't supported by federal subsidies, US wine makers could still be effected by potential cuts to the USDA.
Moreover, I really want to hear from Mike McGalliard (either here on TLT where he's commented before or perhaps on next week's episode) how he plans to «scale up» a Carpinteria - style operation at West Adams using only federal reimbursement dollars.
The difference being that the shareholders (tax payers) votes would be weighted by how many shares (tax dollars) they paid into the company (federal government).
«We understand the Governor's obsession with the Mayor has prevented him from learning how NYCHA funding works, but the truth is NYCHA is spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year to fill the hole left by state and federal underinvestment,» the spokesperson said.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan, led by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, are looking at how SUNY Polytechnic Institute and its dependent subsidiary, the Fort Schuyler Management Corporation, let contracts for multi-million dollar factories in Buffalo and Syracuse.
As New York sorts out how to spend millions of federal dollars for railroad upgrades, officials in Albany and Rensselaer are hoping some of that money can help restore a pedestrian and bike pathway over the Hudson River to reconnect the two cities.
New York State received $ 6 billion dollars in federal aid after Superstorm Sandy, and Governor Cuomo invited Vice President Joe Biden to the State Capitol, to show him how he's spending the money.
«We understand the governor's obsession with the mayor has prevented him from learning how NYCHA funding works, but the truth is NYCHA is spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year to fill the hole left by state and federal underinvestment,» she wrote in an email.
As a Republican, how do you balance the need for spending cuts and reducing the deficit and the debt with the desire for constituents to get some federal dollars to this area that has been struggling so with the economy?
In testimony at the federal bribery trial of former city correction union boss Norman Seabrook, Rechnitz told how he bought the key to the city for some $ 160,000 in donations to de Blasio and the state Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, plus tens of thousands of dollars more in gifts to NYPD brass.
The Republican leader sent a letter to de Blasio on Monday, claiming the city has failed to meet a state requirement by filling out a form that shows, building by building, how schools spend local, state and federal tax dollars.
«We understand the governor's obsession with the mayor has prevented him from learning how NYHCA funding works, but the truth is NYCHA is spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year to fill the hole left by state and federal underinvestment,» mayoral spokeswoman Olivia Lapeyrolerie wrote in an email.
In a statement, a spokeperson for the mayor says, «We understand the Governor's obsession with the Mayor has prevented him from learning how NYCHA funding works, but the truth is NYCHA is spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year to fill the hole left by state and federal underinvestment.
«He knows how to deliver crucial safety net programs to residents, navigate constantly changing state and federal regulations and ensure that tax dollars are spent wisely.»
«And also the census data is used to determine how much federal dollars come back to places like Manhattan or surrounding cities.»
Of all the problems that could beset a federal bureaucrat, deciding how to shovel billions of unexpected dollars out the door in record time has got to be one of the least common and most enjoyable.
«Wait until you see how angry the American people get when they discover... NIH [has] been using federal tax dollars to study «lot lizards,»» coalition director Andrea Lafferty declared in an open letter.
How the NSF money was actually spent arguably belies Flake's suggestion of wasted federal dollars.
But several Republican legislators regard the survey, which provides policymakers and social scientists with an exquisitely detailed portrait of the country and is used to determine how to distribute half a trillion dollars in federal aid, as a form of harassment and an invasion of privacy.
Price also advocated streamlining the Food and Drug Administration's approval processes for new antibiotics and medical devices, and giving scientists more discretion in how federal research dollars are allocated.
Federal statistics move the U.S. economy, providing data that governments and companies use in deciding how to spend trillions of dollars in public and private investments.
«Rather than inject politics into this process, our discussion today should instead concentrate on how to safeguard the often unexpected process of discovery inherent in scientific inquiry, while ensuring that federal dollars spent on research remains completely and fully accountable taxpayers.»
While NASA's $ 200 million funding reduction pales in comparison to cuts that would face some federal agencies under the proposed budget (which has to be reviewed and approved by Congress before becoming official), it would make significant changes to how those dollars are spent.
A proposal unveiled by the Clinton Administration last week would consolidate 23 separate vocational - education programs into a single grant, giving states greater flexibility over how to use the federal dollars.
But what we don't know is how best to award federal dollars to get that to happen.
«I can tell you this — if you gave the American people a choice today between using federal dollars to renovate and build new public schools or using public tax dollars to pay for private school vouchers, there would be no question how the American people would vote,» asserted U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley in a speech made when the report was released.
Moreover, the federal share of the school dollar — a dime — isn't big enough to yield much leverage over how the system works.
And how should districts ensure they are truly using federal dollars to «supplement not supplant» state and local funds?
And note how far this proposal is from the «let states do whatever they want with their federal dollars» approach of House education committee chairman John Kline.
The important question now is how to make the most out of new federal dollars intended to support replication and scale.
Pell Grants for Kids would provide more federal dollars for schools while also encouraging more local control - I mean more control by parents and teachers - over how that money is spent.
The district made the change because it anticipated a significant drop in federal funding during the recession, and needed to prioritize how it spent precious federal dollars on schools with higher concentrations of low - income students.
We compared how districts fund schools that are eligible to receive federal Title I dollars with other schools in their grade span — elementary, middle, or high school grades — and found vast disparities throughout the country in how districts spend state and local dollars on Title I schools.
The state now knows how much federal funding it stands to lose by declining to give state standardized tests in math and English language arts next spring to all students: at least $ 15 million — and potentially tens of millions of dollars more.
While neither of those things will actually happen, there is increasing danger of a compromise whereby the federal government continues to disburse billions of dollars to local schools but plays no meaningful role in determining how — or how well — that money is spent.
These schools are sharing $ 5 billion in federal tax dollars in a massive, three - year rescue effort, but no one nationally is tracking how the money is spent and no one can say whether the influx of cash will end up helping kids.
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