The current funding process dictates
how federal dollars are to be spent and imposes heavy regulations on local schools.
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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.
Not exact matches
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 withholdi
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 withholdi
how 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.