Sentences with phrase «of federal grant dollars»

«It is important not to allow the lure of federal grant dollars to define our state's mission and programs,» Pence wrote in the Indianapolis Star after he killed the application.

RSVP is funded through $ 73,891 of federal grant dollars for the April 1, 2017 to March 31, 2018 fiscal year.

Not exact matches

The emergency declaration would also free up public health emergency funds at the Department of Health and Human Services, and grant individual states more flexibility in how they use federal dollars, and allow them to direct more funds toward addiction treatment and prevention.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

In addition to his excitement for the prospect of the futuristic mode of propulsion / levitation traveling, Foxx added that the hyperloop could be eligible for federal dollars via the University Transportation Centers grant.

Overseen by the Division of Family and Children of the state's Family and Social Services Administration, FaithWorks provides assistance to faith - based organizations in applying for state and federal grant dollars to support new or existing programs geared to helping people attain self - sufficiency.

He also launched the Canal Corridor Initiative that made millions of dollars in federal grants and loans available to canal communities.

Back in 2012, I worked with volunteer firefighters and the Firefighters Association of the State of New York, known as FASNY, to get Erie County included in the HELP (Higher Education Learning Plan) grant, which was paid for with federal dollars.

It is also endangering tens of millions of dollars in federal Teacher Incentive Fund grants earmarked for its teachers, because it has not adopted a system which recognizes and highlights great teaching.

But the federal Bureau of Justice Assistance bypassed Syracuse for its body - worn camera pilot program, instead awarding millions of dollars in matching grants to 72 agencies nationwide.

Cuomo has slashed funding for transitional jobs programs to nearly zero, despite receiving an annual billion - dollar surplus as part of the fixed federal welfare (TANF) block grant.

Obtained a grant from the Federal Housing Administration for aid to Erie County, its municipalities and individuals as a result of the floods in 1998 totaling over $ 1 million dollars.

The teacher evaluations are required in order for the state to be eligible for $ 700 million dollars in federal funding, as part of the Race to the Top grants.

Senate lawmakers would also like to see DHS consider a grant program aimed at increasing the amount of extramural research funding going to universities in states whose scientists typically fare poorly in the competition for federal science dollars.

With millions of grant dollars on the line, representatives of the 16 state finalists for federal Race to the Top prize money will go to Washington next week to make final, in - person pitches to the U.S. Department of Education for investment in their brand of school reform.

Financing for the ambitious project came from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, a federal institution that awarded the museum a grant of half a million dollars, part of which was earmarked for creating ArtThink.

In an Education Week commentary essay about school boards in 2009, I wrote, «[M] y sense of things, after two stints on my local school board... is that school boards have been overtaken by the «educatocracy,» by powerful trade unions, certified specialists, certification agencies, state and federal rule - makers and legislators, grants with strings, billion - dollar - contractor lobbyists, textbook mega-companies, professional associations, and lawyers — the list could go on.»

While the federal government does not collect data on the graduation rates of students who receive Pell grants, an investigation by the Hechinger Institute suggests that billions of taxpayer dollars are going to students who never earn degrees.

Over $ 650 million in funds will be awarded, and a coalition of foundations announced last week that it will offer up to half a billion dollars to match the federal grants.

In just the past five years, KIPP has received tens of millions of dollars in federal grants to open new schools, in addition to a $ 50 million grant through the Investing in Innovation Fund to develop its school - leader training program.

The New York City - based Foundation Center has launched a Web portal to help the philanthropic community leverage federal education dollars, particularly the new grants available as part of the economic - stimulus package.

The Department of Education has released an audit of the Education Leaders Council that concludes the nonprofit group misused nearly a half - million dollars in federal grant money.

This type of restructuring would likely lead to reduced federal grant aid for some students, but it should be possible to accomplish in a way that results in a net benefit to the neediest students, most of whom do not attend the private colleges that receive more than their fair share of SEOG dollars.

About 90 percent of Bryan's 13,500 students would be eligible for the $ 500 Pell Grants for Kids, putting more than $ 6 million in new federal dollars into the hands of Bryan parents.

For example, in a public middle school with 600 students, if two - thirds of the children are eligible for the grant, that's $ 200,000 in new federal dollars each year following those children to that school.

Despite filing federal applications and being eligible for aid, many low - income students in California are going without millions of dollars in Pell Grants.

Equitable Services = Specific, Effective & Allowable The intent of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act is that districts use their federal grant dollars to design programs and services that meet the individual needs of teachers and students in non-public schools.

Trump's plan would reprioritize existing federal dollars to establish a grant to allow children living in poverty to attend the school of their choice.

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.

During this reauthorization process, NSBA has worked closely with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to advocate for a modernized education law that affirms the importance of local governance, protects federal investments in Title I grants for disadvantaged students, and prevents the diversion of public tax dollars for private use.

Carlyle, a Seattle Democrat, is pained that Washington isn't better positioned to win some of the billions of dollars in federal «Race to the Top» grants.

During the reauthorization process, there was a collective effort by NSBA and local school board members to advocate before Members of Congress for a modernized education law that underscores the importance of local governance, protects federal investments in Title I grants for disadvantaged students, and prevents the diversion of public tax dollars for private use.

This year, most of those schools in every state received substantial federal School Improvement Grants, often a million dollars over three years, with the expectation that they will be «turned around» or made into much better schools.

It also used Race to the Top, its competitive grant program, as an inducement, saying that states adopting «college and career ready» standards had a better chance of winning federal dollars under the program.

Despite its effectiveness, each school costs over a million dollars to operate each year, and at best, 65 % of funding can come from state and federal grants.

This is about the size of Title I grants for many schools, and it means that schools could pay for the reforms using federal dollars.

But as Education secretary, DeVos would likely prod more states to get on board, perhaps dangling millions of dollars in federal grants as an incentive.

The GI Bill, Pell Grants, student loans, both Presidents Bush, President Trump, the 25 states that allow parents to choose among public and private schools, Congress with its passage of the Washington, D.C. voucher program, 45 U.S. senators who voted in 2015 to allow states to use existing federal dollars for vouchers, Betsy DeVos — or her senate critics?

One key difference, however, is that the Barefoot - Hise proposal would order traditional school systems to share myriad funds currently not accessible to charters, including gifts, sales tax dollars and federal grants and reimbursements, at least one pool of which is used to offset the costs of school lunch programs, even though many charters do not participate in such programs.

This bill will stymie any attempts both the state and the city have made to win hundreds of millions of dollars in federal education grants that are contingent upon having a strong teacher evaluation system.

These policies included a proposed federal budget that cut millions of dollars for HBCUs and college access programs that help send low - income and first - generation students to HBCUs and other institutions, and $ 3.9 billion from Pell Grants, which a majority of HBCU students rely on to pay for tuition.

The Obama administration's proposal to reserve 25 percent of Title II, Part A funds for competitive grants to states and districts to improve educator evaluation and licensure is a modest first step, but states and districts must also be held accountable for the use of these federal dollars.

New Orleans allocates the vast majority of public funding directly to schools, and resources from philanthropy and competitive federal grants have complemented these core dollars.

The state planted the seeds for implementing this type of reform in 2009 by passing legislation to pad its application for federal Race to the Top grant dollars, said Michael Addonizio, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies in the College of Education at Wayne State University, in Detroit.

That relief could take the form of granting waivers on test scoring to flexibility on how schools spend federal dollars.

States across the country have followed the District's lead, many in pursuit of rewards — such as billions of dollars in federal Race to the Top funds and waivers from the most onerous provisions of the federal No Child Left Behind law — that the Obama administration granted to states that agreed to use student test scores in teacher evaluations.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) is a historic piece of legislation for school libraries because it is the fist time in over five decades that school library programs have been explicitly granted eligibility for federal dollars.

From that website I learned of the department of education website where you can log on and review your student Fafsa report that shows a history of your student loans and grants received when in school and the payments paid during the repayment period (that is the money we pay to them for the loan) and found that not even one dollar of my payments have ever been reported by ACS, not even one, before the 10 years on the Income Based Repayment Plan, I was on a set plan that I had paid for 6 years $ 237 dollars each month on a fixed 3.25 % repayment plan, so why is it that not even one dollar is showing on the Federal Department of Education website showing any of those payments?

James Grant, editor of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, talks with Bloomberg's Pimm Fox in New York about the Federal Reserve's intervention in the credit market crisis and its impact on the value of the U.S. dollar.

The Public Buildings Cost Reduction Act of 2007 (S. 992) helps make federal buildings more energy efficient and cost effective, and includes $ 100 million dollars in EPA grants for local governments to make their buildings more energy efficient as well.