Sentences with phrase «how federal programs»

Witnesses testified about how charter schools were succeeding, how federal charter school funds were assisting them, obstacles to operating charter schools, and how federal programs, in general, help or hurt charter schools.

Yet, many workers planning for retirement — and even some retirees — don't understand how the federal program works.

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The Conference Board notes that the federal government has placed great emphasis in improving Canada's innovation performance for years, most directly in the 2012 budget's revamping of how $ 3.5 billion is doled out to firms under the Scientific Research and Experimental Development program.

The department also did not say how much the federal program would cost, but it added that the cost would be revealed in the coming days.

UpCounsel Employment attorney Mary Fong explains how to ensure that your company's internship program is compliant with all local and federal employment laws.

The Federal Reserve is meeting later this month, and with inflation below its targeted 2 percent, all eyes will be on how the US central bank chalks out its asset - sale program.

The federal government — with, disturbingly enough, the help of Madison Avenue marketing firms — has set up a program teaching fourth through sixth graders how to read and respond to advertisements.

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?

I just learned that late last month, the USDA announced the federal reimbursement rates for the 2010 - 2011 school lunch program (for background on federal reimbursement and how it works, see my School Lunch FAQs).

Because most school districts do not keep detailed records regarding the cost and revenue associated with various components of the school food program, it is often difficult to gain a clear picture of how they use federal reimbursements (except where USDA has conducted rigorous studies).

This is partly due to the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act, a once - every - five - years event when Congress decides how much federal money schools will receive under the National School Lunch Program.

«LAC brought to light just how involved a federal program we are,» explained Bonner.

We are not referring to federal or state code (while important and will be taken into consideration,) we are talking about how your district defines or describe the food ingredients procured for your meal programs.

Evidence - Based Model Crosswalk to Benchmarks: Model Alignment With Benchmark (PDF - 641 KB) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services & Health Resources and Services Administration (2011) Describes the Affordable Care Act Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (MIECHV), and how the act responds, through evidence - based home visiting programs, to diverse needs of children and families in at - risk communities through collaboration at the Federal, State, and community levels.

Information on how state agencies and their community nonprofit and local government partners can receive matching federal funds to create and implement Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) outreach plans.

Information on how states can choose «categorical eligibility» (Cat El) rules to raise or eliminate the federal asset test in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

Heather's work primarily focuses on obesity, dietary quality, and health outcomes among low - income and food - insecure children and families, with emphasis on how the federal nutrition programs improve health, nutrition, and well - being.

It would take an entire book to explain how flawed the NSLP has become, how, starting in the 1970s and 80s, the program morphed from an anti-hunger initiative into one in which school districts were so starved of cash by the federal government (thank you, Ronald Reagan) that school children came to be seen as «customers» whose palates must be pleased at all costs, with heavier reliance on junk food a la carte sales and «carnival food» menus.

Everyone else lives pretty much in a perpetual state of misery, trying to figure out how they can possibly serve good food on the few scheckels the federal government provides in its subsidized meal programs.

Schools: Nutrition Hubs for Children Hear how your school can be a nutrition hub while effectively implementing federal meals programs.

For a good example of how the virtual can combine with the real to yield results, see Food and Water Watch «s campaign last year to get federal approval for schools to buy hormone - free milk through the National School Lunch Program.

TROY, N.Y. — It is known as the Immigration and Nationality Act section 287g - a federal program championed by President Donald Trump that allows law enforcement to send officers for training on how to identify and deal with illegal immigrants inside the county jail.

Nonetheless, Mr. Cuomo said he wanted to see how Mr. Trump would handle federal programs, like housing, that he called «very important to New York.»

PLATTSBURGH As the state nears the end of its universal broadband project, a state senator is calling for a formal probe into how the Broadband Program Office allocated $ 670 million in state and federal funding.

Question topics included the estimated time for completion of all of the Sandy recovery home rebuilding, the implementation of new flood maps, whether de Blasio's reported future endorsement of Hillary Clinton is tied to a longterm need for federal government assistance, whether in Secretary Castro's view the City could do better on any element of Sandy recovery efforts, communicating an increased sense of urgency to City agencies, significant variations in the reported number of Build It Back applicants, how the City will continue its increased rate of repairs, details on the construction firms used in the program and praise for developer Gerry Romski.

De Blasio commended sanitation workers for their role in helping the city rebuild following Hurricane Sandy in 2012, as he battles the federal government over how effectively the city managed funds provided for the Build It Back program for homeowners and faces pressure from City Council members to speed up the rebuilding of homes.

Sheriff Russo «should have to explain to the public what the fiscal justification for this program would be,» county resident Siobhan Burke said on Wednesday night, raising concerns about somewhat vague comments the sheriff made to the Times Union last month about how funding from ICE «could offset the cost» of holding more federal detainees.

Cuomo's Buffalo Billion Under Federal Investigation: Federal investigators are looking into how contracts were awarded in Governor Cuomo's Buffalo economic development program.

«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.»

The president's program would be funded through a federal - state share, but it is unclear how much either share would be.

In November, Investigative Post reported how the Erie County Water Authority had cut corners in a program required by the federal government to test tap water for lead.

How the R&D Funding Data are Compiled The data presented by the AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Program cover only research and development (R&D), not the entire federal budget.

, program officers representing private and federal funding sources (see sidebar) offered a glimpse into how they make decisions on fellowship guidelines.

, who called on the Government Accountability Office to look into the federal coal leasing program in 2012, said, «Leading on climate change means leading by example in how we manage the oil, gas and coal resources that belong to the American people.»

To learn how taxes are collected and budgets are created, students played People's Pie and had to determine corporate, payroll and income taxes, decide what federal program to fund or eliminate from the budget, and respond to upset citizens based on funding decisions.

The research complements other work being done in Dr. Roberts» lab, including an ongoing study funded by the federal BRAIN Initiative research program to understand how the brain functions during vocal learning.

Speaking at the Center for American Progress, Orszag said he's asked each federal agency to submit a list of «their bottom 5 % performing discretionary programs» as well as «how they would reduce their budgets by 5 %.»

The Work Group made several recommendations on how federal agencies can improve, ranging from engaging the leadership to becoming more aware and involved in this issue to reinvigorating the agencies» career development programs.

The authors outline how recent collaborations between major hospitals, technology vendors, federal committees, and industry organizations are accelerating the adoption of standard application programming interfaces for reading and writing data from electronic health record systems.

OMB's role in the budget process does not end when Congress passes and the President signs the annual appropriations bills (or, in more recent years, the continuing resolutions to provide funding for a limited period of time after the fiscal year until the appropriations bills are agreed upon).195 OMB is intimately involved in budget execution — the way federal agencies carry out their work under the budgetary authority they have been granted.196 OMB affects budget execution through two different levers: the formal specification lever, through which it «apportions» and otherwise defines how agencies spend the funds Congress has appropriated, and the informal monitoring lever, through which it oversees agencies» implementation of their programs.

The CTR - IN also facilitates an «Advance to Funding» (ATF) program, which is a mock study section providing specific expertise and written feedback on how to improve NIH and other federal grant applications prior to submission.

Back in 2004, Spencer Hsu told the story of how the first federal voucher program was launched, when George W. Bush signed legislation providing grants worth as much as $ 7,500 each to children from dozens of public schools in the District of Columbia for their use at private or religious schools in a five - year experiment.

It remains to be seen whether the federal government has successfully shown public schools how to institute single - sex programs without violating Title IX, at least in spirit.

Yet while federal funding programs for magnet schools require them to outline how they will prevent...

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.

Among other recommendations in its Jan. 13 report, the investigative arm of Congress says the department should require states receiving money through the federal charter school program to provide more details on how the money is being used.

Tom Carroll wrote in more detail about how a tax credit scholarship program could work in «A Federal Scholarship Tax Credit: The Only Fifty - State School - Choice Option.»

WASHINGTON — Just a few weeks after the Children's Television Act of 1990 became law, the Federal Communications Commission has moved quickly to propose new rules to reflect the direction it received from the Congress on how to regulate children's programming.

It's how you end up with exciting victories like the federal School Improvement Grant program, the Common Core, or teacher evaluation reform, that look a lot less victorious in hindsight.

And do you know how many federal employees at my Department work to support the program?