Sentences with phrase «largest federal funding source»
This year, the largest federal funding source for home visiting programs — the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting, or MIECHV, program — was able to serve only about 115,000 parents and children, a small fraction of the children and families who live in poverty in the United States.
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The numbers for the Office of Science, the largest source of federal funds for basic research in the physical sciences, look good so far, says the American Physical Society's Michael Lubell.
The money is coming from the largest source of federal funding for state, local, and tribal public safety activities and is one of several programs administered by the Department of Justice that support law enforcement operations and improve officer safety.
This effect of including federal funds reflects the fact that the bulk of federal education dollars are allocated based largely on the income profile of the communities schools serve, primarily through federal subsidies for free and reduced price meals and under Title I of the ESEA.19 But because subsidies for school lunch programs are the largest source of federal funds flowing to schools, those concerned with equity must determine how expenditures of those non-instructional funds are considered.
Its Title I section, the largest single source of federal funding for public schools (some $ 15 billion to $ 16 billion annually), provides for the newly named School Improvement Funds program, which (along with other parts of Title I) can be tapped for school leadership efforts.
However, there is no doubt that federal student loans are the largest source of funds for students and the first choice of any student with financial needs.
Why we focused on Pell Grants: As the largest source of federal funds for college, Pell Grants are free money and a major part of most financial aid award packages — before work - study funds and student loans are tacked on.
In the midst of the greatest economic meltdown in a generation, Congress is poised to cut 2012 funding for the federal Legal Services Corporation (LSC), the largest single funding source for civil legal services to the poor.