Sentences with phrase «in state funding toward»

Mayor de Blasio is also calling upon Governor Andrew Cuomo to stick to his promise of paying $ 8 billion in state funding toward subway repairs, though Cuomo has some ideas of his own for generating funds for the subway that include offering companies the opportunity to sponsor subway stations for an annual fee.

COR Development had received $ 1.5 million in state funds toward the project, documents state.

Not exact matches

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.

That's why Colorado's Office of Economic Development and International Trade has taken an innovative step toward helping the entrepreneurial talent in the state's rural areas get access to early - stage funding.

The First Home Club offers the chance for borrowers to receive matching funds toward a down payment in the state of New York,

«The First Home Club offers the chance for borrowers to receive matching funds toward a down payment in the state of New York,» said Drew Sandholm with Quontic Bank in New York.

It also highlights efforts to help governments and companies measure food loss and waste, such as the FLW Standard announced in June, and new funding like the Danish government's subsidy program and The Rockefeller Foundation's Yieldwise, a $ 130 million investment toward practical approaches to reducing food loss and waste in Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, the United States and Europe.

Deeply cut the Environmental Protection Fund (EPF), whose dollars go toward protecting our drinking water, open space and recycling; Close state parks and campgrounds and slash staffing levels at our environmental enforcement agencies; and Steal from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) Fund, which was set up to invest in our clean - energy economy, not serve as a piggy bank for politicians.»

And the comptroller pointed out that the Cuomo administration is moving items off - budget — such as $ 125 million in Tobacco Settlement money, which will go toward Medicaid costs, and $ 100 million from the State Insurance Fund to help pay workers compensation costs.

By restoring state revenue sharing to former levels to pay for unfunded state mandates, which are driving many cities, towns, and counties toward bankruptcy, New York's local governments could fully fund their services and still cut their highest - in - the - nation property taxes.

After a review from the city's Independent Budget Office highlighted steadily shrinking funding toward the MTA signal system — the ancient, frequently failing traffic lights of the subway — Cuomo pledged an extra billion in state money toward the $ 32.5 billion MTA capital plan.

David's missive asserted that Johnson had agreed that the city should kick in $ 400 million toward the MTA's emergency construction plan — against de Blasio's wishes — and that the state would withhold $ 200 million in funding from the Housing Authority until the mayor, council and tenant leaders picked a private contractor to undertake repairs.

More than half the new funding would go toward meeting a nearly decade - old court order that found the state has traditionally underfunded its schools in needy districts.

The organizers said the main goals of the event were to persuade Cuomo to block all new natural gas infrastructure in the state, including pipelines and power plants; move toward 100 percent renewable energy, and tax emissions to fund the transition.

In addition to allegedly steering real estate clients to Goldberg & Iryami in exchange for payments and preferential treatment, prosecutors argued that Silver also steered state funding toward a Columbia University mesothelioma doctor, who in turn sent his patients to Weitz & Luxenberg, a law firm with ties to SilveIn addition to allegedly steering real estate clients to Goldberg & Iryami in exchange for payments and preferential treatment, prosecutors argued that Silver also steered state funding toward a Columbia University mesothelioma doctor, who in turn sent his patients to Weitz & Luxenberg, a law firm with ties to Silvein exchange for payments and preferential treatment, prosecutors argued that Silver also steered state funding toward a Columbia University mesothelioma doctor, who in turn sent his patients to Weitz & Luxenberg, a law firm with ties to Silvein turn sent his patients to Weitz & Luxenberg, a law firm with ties to Silver.

East End state Assemblyman Fred Thiele (I - Sag Harbor) called the proposal «bold and unprecedented,» noting that it builds on the recent extension of the Community Preservation Fund, a 2 percent tax on real estate transfers in the five East End towns that was enacted in the late 1990s and now features a provision mandating that 20 percent of those monies be used toward water quality initiatives.

They noted that Cuomo has earmarked more in his seven years toward NYCHA — $ 300 million in capital funding — than the state had provided in the previous 21 years combined.

The plan that the board approved today, and that Albany will now spend months deliberating on, would fund a new fare payment system to replace the already - obsolete MetroCard; put $ 2.9 billion toward finally finishing the East Side Access project that will allow Long Island Rail Road passengers to disembark in Grand Central; allocate $ 1.5 billion to begin work on the second phase of the Second Avenue Subway, extending it from 96th to 125th streets; and fund countless other nitty - gritty, state - of - good - repair needs across the system's 5,000 - square - mile service area.

Once results are in by the end of summer, Walsh says the city will develop a business plan, and then look for funding, with an eye toward a state pot of money earmarked for broadband expansion.

The waterfront and the medical campus have been redeveloped while Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who's firmly in Brown's corner, has funneled significant state funds toward the city's economic development.

«By providing funding for new housing units, beds and supportive services, the state is taking an aggressive step toward ensuring that those in need have access to resources that will place them on the road towards health, recovery and prosperity,» said Dr. Rosa Gil, president and CEO of Comunilife.

But the fact of the matter is, there are and potentially will be real ramifications toward that, most significantly if that movement accelerates to a point and reaches a critical mass, then it is entirely possible that federal funding to public schools in New York State could be in jeopardy.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city wouldn't contribute additional funds toward the $ 836 million plan unveiled by Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Joe Lhota this week until the state returned the nearly half a billion in funds it has drawn from MTA coffers since 2011.

The move signaled to his Republican colleagues and the Cuomo administration that the state had health care problems outside of Brooklyn, where Cuomo's top deputies are working toward transforming the health care delivery model, aided by $ 700 million in capital funding set aside in 2015.

The Federal Election Commission bars the use of funds from state and local campaign committees toward bids for office in Washington.

It could just as persuasively be argued that he, Andrew Cuomo, is the one primarily responsible for «blocking progress» toward a statewide teacher evaluation format that would pass muster with the feds for $ 700 million in Race to the Top funds, the State Education Department and the unions.

These include the fate of more than $ 100 millions in state - to - city funding cuts proposed by Governor Andrew Cuomo; whether more than $ 1 billion in affordable housing funding will be released; final budgetary allocations toward

Shoken Miyama, director of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, described how researchers and funding agencies in the United States, Japan, and Europe had negotiated «different cultures, different budgetary processes, and different time schedules» to get ALMA heading toward the start of scientific operations «with no major problems.»

In a project funded by electronics giant Samsung, a team of Penn State materials scientists and electrical engineers has designed a mechanical energy transducer based on flexible organic ionic diodes that points toward a new direction in scalable energy harvesting of unused mechanical energy in the environment, including wind, ocean waves and human motioIn a project funded by electronics giant Samsung, a team of Penn State materials scientists and electrical engineers has designed a mechanical energy transducer based on flexible organic ionic diodes that points toward a new direction in scalable energy harvesting of unused mechanical energy in the environment, including wind, ocean waves and human motioin scalable energy harvesting of unused mechanical energy in the environment, including wind, ocean waves and human motioin the environment, including wind, ocean waves and human motion.

In return, the parent receives a state - funded account that can be put toward multiple but limited uses: private - school tuition, tutoring from certified tutors, individual public - school courses, online programs, community college and university tuition, standardized testing fees, curriculum costs, and saving for future higher - education expenses in a tax - advantaged federal Coverdell AccounIn return, the parent receives a state - funded account that can be put toward multiple but limited uses: private - school tuition, tutoring from certified tutors, individual public - school courses, online programs, community college and university tuition, standardized testing fees, curriculum costs, and saving for future higher - education expenses in a tax - advantaged federal Coverdell Accounin a tax - advantaged federal Coverdell Account.

If states and districts act in bad faith and fail to spend money with an eye toward reform and restoration of essential programs and staff, they'll forfeit the second round of funds, expected mid-summer.

The legislation that would provide undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States as children a path toward legal status through education or the military has had a long journey, says Angela Maria Kelley, executive director of the Center for American Progress Action Fund.

The same drive toward better content in curriculum led me to include funding in New York state's successful Race to the Top application, which led to EngageNY, a set of content - rich curriculum units available for universal, free download.

The federal government has a critical investment role to play in 1) supporting the replication and scale - up of the best providers through its grant programs; 2) improving access to low - cost public facilities for charter schools through its own funds and by leveraging existing public - school space; 3) pushing states and local districts toward more equitable funding systems for all public school students, including those in charter schools; and 4) supporting efforts to create early - stage, innovative, and scalable models that incorporate greater uses of learning technology.

In addition, Race to the Top helped fund a new generation of high - quality, online assessments designed by states and educators to evaluate students» progress toward college and career readiness.

Relentless, yet also patient and charming, she quickly became one of the most popular teachers at the Alexandria school, and in June 2012 she received a state - funded Titan Transformer Award for «outstanding work toward the goal of transformation» of T.C.

Even though money from the first year of funding is just now moving toward being awarded to states, Obama administration officials credit it with prompting education policy changes in many parts of the country.

As states reach important milestones on the way toward building internationally competitive education systems, the federal government should offer a range of tiered incentives to make the next stage of the journey easier, including increased flexibility in the use of federal funds and in meeting federal educational requirements and providing more resources to implement world - class educational best practices.

Yet today, in states like Arizona, Florida, and Mississippi (with two others, Tennessee and Nevada moving toward implementation and funding strategies) families are able to access exactly that type of tailor - made education for their children.

Speaking on the public television show «Off the Record,» MEA President Steven Cook said the MEA paid $ 25,000 toward a recall effort against House Education Committee Chairman Paul Scott, R - Grand Blanc, because polling showed voters in Scott's district are upset over the elimination of a pension tax deduction and public school funding levels, the Lansing State Journal reported.

The lure of $ 4 billion in federal funding at a time of fiscal peril has driven state after state toward school reforms long considered politically unlikely, undoable or unthinkable.

Written into the original ESEA in 1966, the rule is geared toward keeping states and districts from using federal Title 1 dollars to subsidize the instruction and curricular activities they were already funding out of their own coffers.

Indeed, the majority has called in the past for a cut of $ 1 trillion in NDD funding.100 At the federal level, NDD spending is poised to be at its lowest, as a percent of GDP, since 1962, the lowest point on record.101 With states still struggling to stabilize their budgets after the 2008 recession, a deep cut in NDD would halt positive momentum toward recovery.

While much work remains before Illinois will achieve funding equity and adequacy, the law sets every school district in the state on a path toward providing a quality education.

Zimmer identified three factors pushing the district toward the financial abyss: the federal government's reneging on promises of more money for special education students, creating a $ 200 million shortfall for the district; the state's «extremely low» per - pupil funding level and the district's steady decline in enrollment.

In a presentation to the State Board of Education earlier this month, Vanderbilt researcher Gary Henry said he found positive effects from turnaround efforts in North Carolina's bottom ranked elementary schools — but without continued state funding to replace the temporary federal dollars that were put toward this initiative, those gains won't continuIn a presentation to the State Board of Education earlier this month, Vanderbilt researcher Gary Henry said he found positive effects from turnaround efforts in North Carolina's bottom ranked elementary schools — but without continued state funding to replace the temporary federal dollars that were put toward this initiative, those gains won't contState Board of Education earlier this month, Vanderbilt researcher Gary Henry said he found positive effects from turnaround efforts in North Carolina's bottom ranked elementary schools — but without continued state funding to replace the temporary federal dollars that were put toward this initiative, those gains won't continuin North Carolina's bottom ranked elementary schools — but without continued state funding to replace the temporary federal dollars that were put toward this initiative, those gains won't contstate funding to replace the temporary federal dollars that were put toward this initiative, those gains won't continue.

Although districts can use the funding however they want, Brown suggested in the budget summary that it go toward implementing the state's academic standards — Common Core and the Next Generation Science Standards — training teachers and buying textbooks.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan said that the federal government's role in the sustained push toward more data - driven decision - making in education was to provide funding and resources to states pursuing those initiatives.

Trump, according to his campaign materials, plans to immediately put $ 20 billion in grant funding toward school choice, and to give states the option of allowing money to follow students to whatever kind of school they choose to attend.

The way we fund public education in the United States remains deeply flawed, even as we inch our way toward a more federalized and centralized system.