Sentences with phrase «influence of federal grants»

Two of her many books, The Influence of Federal Grants and The Politics of Deregulation, received the National Academy of Public Administration's Brownlow Award.

-- from The influence of federal grants: public assistance in Massachusetts (Harvard University Press, 1970)

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The program ended when Congress failed to appropriate funds for its continuation in the 2015 federal spending bill.14 In some sectors, there is increased debate about whether federal funds for education are best allocated through formulas or competitive processes, with opponents of competitive grants citing a desire to reduce federal influence in favor of state and locally - driven education policies.

He supports limiting federal influence on education, namely in the spirit of budget cuts, but this includes defunding the Pell Grant program and other higher education programs.

If sample size is not masking a significant correlation, the greater readability advantage in federal courts may be explained by the factors that depress the summary judgment success rate in state courts: more restrictive state summary judgment standards, the lack of state court resources compared with those in federal court, and state court judges» relative reluctance to grant summary judgment.111 Although greater readability could still influence the outcomes in some state cases, which would be consistent with the slight readability advantage in our sample, on the whole the anti-summary-judgment factors would reduce the potential readability effect on summary judgment outcome.