Sentences with phrase «of block grants»

Money would then be sent to the state in the form of block grants.

Previously districts were given some funds as part of a block grant.

His investigation of Buffalo's misuse of block grant funds won Governing Magazine's national reporting award in 2005.

Districts should take advantage of this opportunity and heed the advice of trade organizations, including CASBO and the California School Boards Association, that are recommending districts continue to file all initial claims, as well as claims that fall outside of the block grant.

Our partners at WGRZ have broken a number of stories recently about Buffalo's misuse of block grant funds and the failure of federal regulators to hold city officials accountable.

Report by WGRZ's Jeff Preval, including interview with Jim Heaney of Investigative Post, who has long covered City Hall's mismanagement of the block grant program.

«You could say that the logical conclusion would be to transfer the whole of the block grants from the universities to the research councils,» says Phillips.

It also comes in the final year of the block grant funding scheme passed when lawmakers scrapped the previous formula, which was popular with most school districts.

Other likely elements in any new legislation or program may include increasing emphasis on the use of high deductible health plans and health savings accounts (HSAs); providing consumers with greater access and more choices, including allowing health insurance to be sold across state lines and providing consumer access to imported prescription drugs; and funding Medicaid through the issuance of block grants to states.

The «Contract with America» includes welfare - reform provisions to cut all child nutrition entitlement programs in favor of block grants to the states.

trump seems to be onto that, with the talks of block grants to the states, etc. lets hope that the congressional republicans wise up.

The agency — headed by the mayor, who appoints a majority of its board members — has been criticized for poor financial oversight of block grant funds.

Said Councilwoman Luanne Konopko, who made aggressive pursuit of block grants one of her original campaign promises in 2009, «I can't tell you how pleased and grateful I am.

In contrast, if the Scottish Parliament was to use its tax - adjusting powers, the additional (or reduced) revenue would not be considered in any calculations by the Barnett formula of the block grant for Scotland.

IG David Montoya's office found that Cuomo's Office of Tourism and Marketing did a poor job meeting the requirements of the block grant money it received in the aftermath of 2012's Hurricane Sandy.

The idea of block grants to institutions — where the institutions themselves dole out the money — has gone.

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

At a time of scarce resources, this broad amendatory veto hits low - income school districts the hardest, cutting funding from poor kids while diverting dollars from low - income districts to wealthier districts, including a cut of more than $ 200 million from Chicago Public Schools by removing the cost of its block grants from the district's base funding minimum.

Essentially, the CDEP scheme is predicated upon the use of block grants (that total the equivalent of the unemployment benefits that would otherwise be available to Aboriginal people within certain communities) being made available to community controlled organisations.

That the Commonwealth Government, in conjunction with the State and Territory Governments, develop proposals for implementing a system of block grant funding of Aboriginal communities and organisations and also implement a system whereby Aboriginal communities and organisations are provided with a minimum level of funding on a triennial basis.

The topic of block grants has come up frequently since the November election.

Speculating on the impact of block grants is difficult because the yet - to - be-determined calculation methodology is essential to the reform's implementation.

Trump's plan to replace the Affordable Care Act will propose giving each state a fixed amount of federal money in the form of a block grant to provide health care to low - income people on Medicaid, Conway said.

The Senator's bill, which was introduced on Feb. 3, would provide $ 177.9 million for the program next year, up from $ 144 million in fiscal 1981, the last year that the program existed outside of the block grant.

Their companion bills, introduced in both the House and the Senate on July 23, propose getting rid of the E-rate and replacing it with a five - year program of block grants to states.

Sen. Steve Daines, R - Mont., offered the highly contentious A PLUS Act amendment, which would have allowed states to opt out of federal accountability entirely and send funding under the current law back to states in the form of block grants.

From the CASBO Newsletter: Districts should take advantage of this opportunity and heed the advice of trade organizations, including CASBO and the California School Boards Association, that are recommending districts continue to file all initial claims, as well as claims that fall outside of the block grant.

If our foundations had distributed the «hundreds of millions of dollars» in climate - change program funding mentioned by S&N in the form of block grants, I think we would have seen very different and much stronger environmental work.

If our foundations had distributed the «hundreds of millions of dollars» in climate - change program funding mentioned by Shellenberger and Nordhaus in the form of block grants, I think we would have seen very different and much stronger environmental work.