Sentences with phrase «in federal dollars»

If so, the state could potentially be granted more flexibility in spending $ 350 million in federal dollars intended to help boost student achievement.

The mechanism was put in place as the state learned of potential significant cuts in federal dollars.

Roughly $ 57 billion in federal dollars flow into our city and state budgets annually.

How much could your school or district gain or lose in federal dollars next fiscal year?

It is business bringing in Federal dollars to their communities.

Likewise, immigration support groups across Canada are preparing to adjust their programs following a $ 53 - million hack in federal dollars.

The Medicaid Redesign Team brought together health care interests from across the state and they soon agreed to cut Medicaid rates by 2 percent, cap the growth of state Medicaid spending and apply for an enormous waiver that would bring billions in federal dollars back to New York.

It also appeals to the yearning of some GOP lawmakers and libertarian policy wonks to get Uncle Sam completely out of the school - accountability business (though they'll gag on Rothstein's demand for buckets more in federal dollars for those unaccountable schools and sundry other services to kids).

Popham provides a pithy and highly readable treatment of key challenges in standards, testing, and assessment, one that is particularly timely as governors and influential supporters move to embrace some version of common standards (with hundreds of millions in federal dollars pledged to finance the ensuing tests).

So I imagine choice advocates should mainly expect to see an expansion in federal dollars going to the Charter Schools Program, perhaps some new support for voucher programs.

Following nearly a year - long stall in the Legislature, an agreement appears to have been worked out on the use of $ 37.6 million in federal dollars aimed at helping schools make technology purchases.

Yet the state legislature is prepared to enact a bill that would virtually ensure that the state loses out on $ 40 million dollars through Race to the Top, and a much - needed ESEA waiver that would bring flexibility for state spending of $ 350 million in federal dollars on behalf of students statewide.

Patrick and state lawmakers pushed through legislation earlier this year that doubled the number of charter school seats in districts with low MCAS scores as part of an effort to compete for $ 4.3 billion in federal dollars made available by President Obama's Race to the Top initiative, which has sought to prod states to overhaul their public schools.

New Jersey terminated the project and the Department has been seeking repayment of $ 271 million in federal dollars spent by the state on the project.

After all, the federal, state, and local governments already works with faith - based operations to provide healthcare and other services — including $ 3 billion in federal dollars into Catholic Charities alone — while Centrist Democrat and progressive school reformers are more than happy to back charters, which are operated by nonprofit and even for - profit organizations, and support federal and state student aid (which flows into private and parochial universities).

Meeks steered millions in federal dollars and tax credits to the organization, which counts the Rev. Floyd Flake — a former congressman and Meeks» mentor — as a board member.

Deputy Superintendent and Chief Financial Officer Ruth Quinto says the district is expecting a $ 4 million to $ 6 million cut in federal dollars.

In a recent confirmation hearing, DeVos said she wouldn't mandate vouchers as secretary, but later said she would «absolutely» support a program floated by Republican Senator Lamar Alexander to funnel billions in federal dollars to states for the purposes of creating $ 2,100 vouchers.

The positions Trump has mentioned — pumping $ 20 billion in federal dollars and convincing states to divert another $ 110 billion into school choice; repealing Common Core; reducing or eliminating the Department of Education — remain fairly ambiguous goals that, in some cases, raise more questions than they answer.

If the states collectively contribute another $ 110 billion of their own education budgets toward school choice, on top of the $ 20 billion in federal dollars, that could provide $ 12,000 in school choice funds to every K - 12 student who today lives in poverty.

Four Wake County magnet schools will share $ 14.9 million in federal dollars to spend on new science - and engineering - related themes designed to lure more students into those schools.

The new legislation returns control of about $ 40 million in federal dollars to local school officials.

«If the states collectively contribute another $ 110 billion of their own education budgets toward school choice on top of the 20 billion in federal dollars, that could provide $ 12,000 in school choice funds to every single K - 12 student who today is living in poverty,» Trump said at a campaign event.

LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy Seeks No Child Left Behind Waivers With California unable to get a waiver from the No Child Left Behind law, LAUSD and nine other districts have launched an effort to create their own data - based accountability systems — and have more freedom in how to spend tens of millions in federal dollars.

The $ 36 million project is funded in part by more than $ 34 million in federal dollars, including $ 25 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and $ 9 million in additional federal transit funds directed to the Bi-State Development Agency of the Missouri - Illinois Metropolitan District.

I'll bet a few of the signatories wish they hadn't done the bidding of the organizer and first signatory, Jagadish Shukla, who, BTW, in constant 2015 dollars, has probably bagged about 100million (yes that's a tenth of a billion) in federal dollars.

High speed rail advocate Gary Goyke said returning $ 810 million in federal dollars was a «generational mistake» that will have repercussions for decades to come.