Sentences with phrase «of federal dollars»

And once states accepted tens of millions of federal dollars for things they had always funded themselves, federal compliance rules came into play.

I think that's proven to be a good use of federal dollars.

Moreover, they could provide regulatory guidance allowing districts to use a portion of their share of federal dollars to pay the cost of participation.

The point of this bill is to more accurately assess the impact of federal dollars on higher education.

Thirty percent of programs would have to be paid for outside of federal dollars by 2020.

However, the state was put on «high - risk status» and could have lost millions of federal dollars if it did not administer a state science test.

That would, of course, represent a considerable waste of federal dollars.

This call to action, motivated by the receipt of federal dollars, certainly forced many school systems to find ways better ways to evaluate classroom and leadership practice.

His continuing attempts to fight a 2009 court order to end segregation patterns in zoning have resulted in the loss of millions of federal dollars to his community.

Those schools would receive funding to improve student achievement and provide technical assistance to similar schools in the state as well as significant flexibility in the use of federal dollars.

DALLAS — Texas» lieutenant governor said Friday that the state is prepared to forfeit billions of federal dollars in public school funding in defiance of an Obama administration directive requiring schools to allow transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their chosen gender identity.

He would achieve his goal by forfeiting hundreds of millions of federal dollars in Medicaid tagged for women's health care.

Jason Velez: There's lots of federal dollars out there to help provide these utility services, if you would.

Trump has signaled that he intends to pour billions of federal dollars into efforts to expand vouchers and charter schools nationwide.

According to the study, «many teachers believe a need to comply with federal guidelines and a fear of penalties and the potential loss of federal dollars pushed MPS administrators to reduce discipline numbers however possible; even going so far as to stop issuing suspensions or even detentions for clear violations of school rules.»

Houston and other cities affected by recent hurricanes are receiving a mass infusion of federal dollars, and they need to have urban plans in place in order to make wise investments.

The research gap: Through the Federation of American Scientists, 34 winners of the Nobel Prize have sent an open letter to President Obama urging him to keep his promise to create a robust, consistent flow of federal dollars for basic research in energy and related fields.

Sixty - three percent of the federal dollars now being spent on K - 12 education programs would be converted into private school vouchers under this bill.

The SBA reports that it has tried to increase the share of federal dollars going to small businesses by implementing new contracting provisions.

Though there is a nearly two - year - old state mandate that opens the free summer lunch program to all children in Illinois — whether or not they're in summer school — there has not been much improvement in participation, and officials say millions of federal dollars available for the meals are going untapped.

Losing a significant amount of federal dollars would deal a blow to a state finally inching forward in terms of education progress.

The needs of the Park and Preserve can not be covered with an ever - shrinking number of federal dollars; and as a result, the Conservancy was created to work with the Park Service to support the needs that are not otherwise met.

Education was a rich, untapped market with billions of federal dollars there for the taking.

Independent researchers across the U.S. have spent millions of federal dollars developing dozens of evidence - based programs shown to teach children to make wise and responsible decisions about drugs.

The agency that controls the pipeline of federal dollars for road and transit projects here just released its $ 517 billion funding list, and what's on it is just as interesting as what's off.

About 400 of them were to be rehired after CPS received an influx of federal dollars.

Three school districts in Western New York will share hundreds of thousands of federal dollars, because Uncle Sam has land within their respective districts that can not be taxed.

The FBI conducted raids Wednesday in Rockland County's Ramapo and Orange County's Kiryas Joel to see if millions of federal dollars earmarked for technology in religious schools were misused.

Cake walking into a state job, getting ready to bring glad tidings of federal dollars to villages, suburbs and fields.

Stringer said his office has identified $ 165 million worth of sanctuary city money alone that's in jeopardy, and up to $ 7 billion worth of federal dollars — all told — many of which go to supporting the safety net.

Bob Antonocci, who's running for state comptroller, says Common Core was something forced on the state with the promise of federal dollars.

More than 700,000 students in more than 1,200 New York City schools — including large high schools in all five boroughs — would face higher class sizes, have fewer teachers and lose after - school academic and enrichment programs if President - elect Trump makes good on a campaign promise to pull billions of federal dollars away from public schools to pay for private vouchers, a UFT analysis has found.

He gets alot of federal dollars out to Long Island.

As the mechanism for apportioning congressional districts — and billions of federal dollars linked to geographic, income, and population data — the census has always been a political football.

But without the initial investment of federal dollars many of these sites may never have been able to garner additional funding to bring them back into productive re-use,» Miller - Travis said.

Other problems would emerge given any serious attempt to implement such a program, especially if it were nationwide and in response to a federal mandate (or in pursuit of federal dollars, which never seem to quite cover the new responsibilities districts take on to get them).

These formulas send some funds on a uniform, per - disadvantaged - child basis, but direct close to half of federal dollars in a way that recognizes high - poverty districts face greater challenges, using weights to allocate per - eligible funds progressively with respect to a district's poverty rate.

Lawmakers considering portability or other federal voucher programs must understand that the concept of federal dollars going into a «backpack of cash» that follows eligible students to the schools of their choice, whether public or private, is only part of the story.

If one looks strictly at the flow of federal dollars rather than the flow of talk, one sees that in 2010 maintaining jobs for teachers trumped fixing schools for kids.

It would remove one of the main barriers (the non-portability of federal dollars) that discourages states and districts from moving toward «weighted student funding» with their own money.

Introduction Since its inception in 1965, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, now known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB), has directed billions of federal dollars toward low - income students.

And the present decade opened with the Race to the Top, the brainchild of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, based on the bold hypothesis that sizable grants of federal dollars, disbursed via a competitive process, can induce states to jump through reform policy hoops that they likely would not otherwise have attempted.

President Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan are using the leverage of federal dollars to promote an increase in charter schools, which are still limited in many states by caps on their number and on funding.

Most egregiously, the bill proposed by Chairman Alexander eliminates the targeting of federal dollars to schools and districts with the highest concentrations of low - income students.