Sentences with phrase «into block grants»

If elected California governor, both the attorney general and the former eBay executive want to expand charter schools, consolidate categorical programs and simplify the per - pupil funding system into block grants that provide extra support for disadvantaged children.

At the same time, the new law if enacted would eliminate some programs and consolidate them into block grants to states.

To entice a presidential signature of the legislation — which would create tax breaks for parents» public and private education expenses — House and Senate negotiators have included a new reading program in it and deleted language that would have blocked plans for new national tests and transformed most federal education funding into block grants.

Senate Republican leaders indicated last week that they may not include provisions in their welfare - reform bill that would convert the federal school - meals and child - nutrition programs into block grants, as its House counterpart would do.

The first proposal would reinstitute provisions of the Emergency School Aid Act (esaa), which the Reagan Administration last year combined with other federal education programs into block grants to the states.

The Senate passed a nearly $ 32 billion spending bill for education and other social programs last week, but Democrats and the Clinton administration were outraged by a provision in the bill that would transform most federal education funding into block grants.

For example, changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program include converting the program into a block grant and requiring states to finance 25 percent of the total costs, eliminating the ability for states to waive work requirements, and ending categorical eligibility, among other changes.

Smith and other Democrats successfully fought attempts to transform ESEA into a block grant program in the 1983 and 1989 reauthorizations under the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations.

Republicans have typically proposed turning Medicaid into a block grant program, which could eliminate schools from eligibility for reimbursement funds.

• Consolidate nearly 50 programs into a block grant, which states and districts can allocate to student health and safety, well - rounded education, and other programs based on need.

Leaning heavily on recommendations from the non-partisan Legislative Analyst, the Brown administration proposed earlier this month cutting $ 38 million by eliminating or reducing state support for a number of school mandates, while looking for ways to transform the program into a block grant system.

Ryan has also proposed turning Head Start into a block grant, and testing different early education models for effectiveness.

Doing so ensures two things: that the Legislature is not imposing more work on districts without additional funding, and that future funding for the mandate program, if rolled into the block grant, is adequate.

Not exact matches

The wall appears in the digital version, initially blocking the pair from entering the country, before they travel a bit further along and come across two large doors, finally granting them entry into the US.

Early into his tenure, Trump signed an executive order that sought to block municipalities that failed to cooperate with U.S. immigration authorities from receiving federal grant funding.

An employee's options grant tends to be broken up into percentage blocks, with each block vesting annually over a set number of years.

The Bush Administration had proposed to zero it out and roll it into the Community Development Block Grants, and then cut the consolidated program's funding.

This is mostly done through adding work requirements into welfare programs, moving food stamps into the annual appropriations process and block granting them, and making other changes to income security programs to reduce spending.

With the FBI's investigation into Louisville and the likely firing of Rick Pitino, Grant Newsome posted a GIF of Trey Burke's clean block in the National Championship game with the caption: «NCAA about to reject that 2013 Louisville Championship harder than Trey Burke.»

A former insurance executive, Gregorius enjoys delving into the details of capped Medicaid expenses and cost - sharing plans, the possible effects of federal block grants versus needs payments, and ensuring that people make decisions based on real information, and not just emotions or campaign promises.

And we'll probably have block grants of Medicaid back into the states... Nobody is going to be dying on the streets with a President Trump.»

A coalition of Republicans and a handful of breakaway Democrats have blocked votes on an abortion rights provision that would codify into state law the federal rights granted to New York women under the landmark Roe v Wade decision.

The proposal would also convert Medicaid, the health program for the poor, into a series of block grants to give states more flexibility.

The Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (ecia) merged 42 categorical education programs and sub-programs into one block grant...

Specifically, members of the National Association of Administrators of State and Federal Education Programs (naasfep) lobbied their Congressional delegations to vote against the consolidation of existing categorical education programs into new block grants to the states, to maintain those programs at their current levels of funding, and to work actively against the passage of President...

The secretary's plan includes folding the Child Care Bureau, which administers the federal child - care block grant for low - income families, into the office of family assistance, which oversees the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families welfare...

It convinced Congress to abolish the Emergency School Aid Act program, enacted in 1972 to support school - system desegregation efforts, and fold it into the education block - grant bill enacted in 1981, the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act.

In 1981 they were folded into the Chapter 2 block - grant program, but explicit federal support for magnet schools as desegregation tools resumed in 1985 with the authorization of the Magnet Schools Assistance Program (MSAP), included in the Education for Economic Security Act.

President Bush's plan to consolidate a bevy of domestic programs into a $ 15 - billion block grant would cause a $ 27.4 billion shortfall for states over five years if they continue to fund the programs at their current levels, according to a report by the Senate Budget Committee.

Key members of the House education committee are drafting legislation that would fold 11 federal education programs, including major initiatives such as Goals 2000, into a $ 1.4 billion block grant designed to spur reforms.

After five days of contentious negotiations at the National Governors» Association conference here, Republican and Democratic governors remained at odds over whether welfare programs should be collapsed into huge block grants to the states, a scenario most of the Republicans favor, or preserved as federal entitlements to any individual who qualifies, a method backed by Democrats.

The good news is that though Title IV had been targeted for elimination by President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, congress rebuffed the administration by giving a big boost to the block grants in the federal omnibus spending bill signed into law March 23.

House Republicans caught a lot of heat from Democrats last winter over their plan, still pending, to dismantle the federal school - lunch program and wrap its funding into a child - nutrition block grant to the states.

This huge hike in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) block grant was signed into law last month and it may help your district acquire essential digital tools that support both teaching and learning in the schools that need it most.

It also consolidates nearly 50 programs into a giant block grant.

But Alexander now wanted to scale back the federal role, trim the education secretary power and potentially give states block granted federal funds that could be converted into school vouchers.

Her bill would allow schools to Title IV - A block grants to collect data to better identify the causes of absenteeism and monitor if any progress is being made, and would give districts the ability to tap into other funding sources to implement programs to reduce absenteeism through school - based mentoring programs.

You may have heard SSAEG described in more political terms as a new $ 1.6 billion ESSA program that consolidates about 50 different federal funding programs into one state block grant.

The centerpiece of Brown's plan is the Local Control Funding Formula, which rolls virtually all of the state's current maze of spending on schools into a more simplified block grant system where districts with higher numbers of English learners and students receiving subsidized meals would be provided additional dollars.

The rest of the money allocated to schools would be rolled into uniform block grants used by the local administrators as they see fit.

Education Voters supports putting the increases from Governor Corbett's proposed block grant funding into the Basic Education Funding line.

Along with putting a new Education Cost Sharing (ECS) formula into statute and moving away from — beginning in FY 2019 — the practice of allocating ECS funds to towns via arbitrary block grants, the ECS formula passed by the General Assembly incorporates several key elements to establishing a fair and equitable school funding system for Connecticut.

ESSA also consolidated many Title IV programs such as Safe and Drug - Free Schools and Counseling Programs into a single block grant.

It would consolidate some 50 programs into a big block grant, and seriously curtail the U.S. education secretary's authority, while maintaining the Education Department's important enforcement protections, one sponsor says.

Dr. Thompson has won numerous grants to support his research, continuing education, and teaching, including a U-M-Center for Research on Learning and Teaching Faculty Development Fund to support «Teaching Private Piano Lessons using Video Game Piano Transcriptions,» a UMOR Small Grant to Support Major Conferences to help fund «Hosting the 5th annual North American Conference on Video Game Music at U-M in 2018,» a U-M Center for Japanese Studies Faculty Research Grant to support «Recording of Recently Composed Japanese Oboe / Piano Duos,» an SMTD Faculty Block Grant to support «Translation of Japanese Video Game Piano Collections,» and multiple Arts at Michigan Course Connection grants that have allowed integration of live performances into his classroom teaching.

Advanced tactics also come into play with perfectly timed dodges granting you an increase in speed and power, as well as perfectly time blocking leaving the enemy wide open.

This grants you the ability to shoot Gold Fireballs that turn enemies and blocks into coins.

While many players will simply make the hardest levels imaginable or form blocks into inappropriate shapes, Super Mario Maker will grant those exceptionally creative Mario fans a template to showcase their imaginations and abilities.

In the first he investigates a hotel with a room said to grant wishes, while in the second he receives a note telling him to look into the mysteries of his apartment block before it's demolished.

The first reexamination request was granted in April and involves a Clear Channel patent for a system and method of creating recordings of live performances, locking musical acts into using Clear Channel technology and blocking innovations by others.