Sentences with phrase «of federal grant money»

The fact is, several sources of federal grant money for community - based wellness, including family planning, prevention and testing, have been drastically reduced or eliminated altogether.

State and local agencies that procure cell - site simulators, often with the help of federal grant money, have generally been required to sign non-disclosure agreements with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

On the other hand, it is strongly beginning to appear as though Shukla may find himself under indictment for reasons pertaining only to his use (or alleged misuse) of federal grant money.

The city schools system is planning to use up to one - tenth of its $ 256 million share of the federal grant money for as many as 16 new standardized exams to cover science, math, social studies and English in the 3rd through 12th grades.

The adoption of these standards by a majority of states has been incentivized by $ 4billion of federal grant money (Race to the Top), for which Alabama applied and was turned down.

What's driving the recent efforts is frustration with longstanding school failure, not the lure of federal grant money that helped push the first three districts into being.

Fourth - grader Omar Ponce de Leon, 9, plays at Greenlee Elementary, the recipient of federal grant money to help it turn around.

New York Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand have announced the state's receipt of federal grant money to fight homelessness.

When I was invited to a Mennonite college to speak on peace and simple living (neither of which is Caesar's favorite topic), I had to sign a formal, legal contract — because my honorarium was to come out of federal grant money.

Part of the process Congress should undertake is to establish conditions to use of federal grant monies.

Not exact matches

Similar kinds of cases are under way in other parts of the country, including a case on appeal in Chicago after a federal judge issued a nationwide injunction barring the government from blocking grant money typically used to help local police combat violent crime and help victims.

Federal Election Commission records show that these groups, as well as five other grant recipients of Crossroads GPS, spent money on political ads, directly or indirectly, in the 2010 election cycle.

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However, this money is comprised by the donations of many non-governmental organizations such as World Vision (large grants from the federal government) and the Red Cross accu - mulated from different parts of the globe through various campaigns in support of Haiti.

A Maryland town hall attendee who works for Secular Coalition for America asked Obama about statements he made as a candidate in 2008 when he said, «If you get a federal grant, you can't use that grant money to proselytize to the people you help, and you can't discriminate against them - or against the people you hire - on the basis of their religion.»

Earlier this month, Brown asked the Federal Aviation Administration to step into the dispute over the fate of Meigs Field, contending that federal grant money received by the city to make airport improvements require the tiny airfield to remain open through the yeaFederal Aviation Administration to step into the dispute over the fate of Meigs Field, contending that federal grant money received by the city to make airport improvements require the tiny airfield to remain open through the yeafederal grant money received by the city to make airport improvements require the tiny airfield to remain open through the year 2009.

Tenney says the $ 15 million gondola planned for the New York State Fair is an unnecessary waste of taxpayers» money, and she'll oppose granting the federal approval needed for the project.

New York State has agreed to adopt high - stakes testing and controversial teacher evaluation systems tied to Common Core State Standards for a one - time installment of $ 700 millions in federal Race to the Top grant money.

This grant, made up of federal monies from the U.S. Department of Transportation, would improve the Harold Interlocking» at the yards.

The legislative scandals have reached almost farcical proportions: a senator from the Bronx, Pedro Espada Jr., stands accused — perhaps not coincidentally by Attorney General Cuomo — of spending $ 20,000 in state and federal grant money on takeout sushi that was delivered to his house in Westchester County.

But it remains unclear how the state will ultimately pay for the project in the long run, though a mix of federal loans and grants, along with state financing and windfall settlement money has been mentioned.

The city of Auburn will not see any change in its 2018 - 2019 Community Development Block Grant funding from the federal government, despite struggling to comply with recently revised regulations attached to the grant mGrant funding from the federal government, despite struggling to comply with recently revised regulations attached to the grant mgrant money.

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.

Suffolk Police Commissioner nominee Geraldine Hart said she wants to work closely with authorities in El Salvador to help fight the deadly MS - 13 gang's activities in the county and plans to use her knowledge of federal programs to push for more grant money.

Most of the federal money ($ 4.87 million) will come from a Community Development Block Grant awarded to Syracuse by HUD, according to U.S. Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, who advocated in the Senate to increase the program's funding.

Whether ratepayers bear the brunt of that cost depends, at least partially, on how successful the utility is drawing federal grant money...

The waiver money, a matching grant program from the federal government that allows providers across the state to invest in new ways to provide and deliver care to their communities, is divided into several different pots of money.

SURA uses federal money from its Community Development Block Grant to buy insurance for its employees, a cost of about $ 50,000, said DelVecchio.

Major money is headed to the Buffalo City Mission for its work to help the homeless in the region: The mission received a $ 3.26 million grant from the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York, sponsored by M&T Bank.

Picente told the federal leaders that not only are the thresholds required to qualify for FEMA money unrealistic, but even when the funding is granted, the process of obtaining it is a «bureaucratic nightmare.»

Officials have praised a letter from Governors Chris Christie and Andrew Cuomo asking President Barack Obama for a federal grant to fund half the cost of the project, but details about how much each state will pay and where the money will come from are unclear.

Forest Hills synagogues and schools want federal grant money to make their facilities more secure, but a Kew Gardens rabbi thinks none of them should get a dime.

The U.S. Department of Education tightened the noose last week when it announced New York could lose its federal Race to the Top money because it lags behind in complying with the terms of its grant.»

Grant money for the Greene County town of Windham was set aside by Governor Cuomo's office earlier this year, part of a $ 60 billion federal effort to assist areas hit hardest by Irene, Lee and Sandy.

By Sean Ryan Proposed changes to the judging of construction grant applications would give commuter rail in southeastern Wisconsin a less obstructed path to federal money.

«We received [$ 10,000 in] grant money from [state] senator George Amedore's office, an $ 8000 grant from the federal government for ballistic helmets, and we received $ 13,000 from the Department of Homeland Security for a new canine and a $ 10,000 sustainability grant.

The grant of the permission followed the affidavit evidence filed by the Federal Government that investigations into the alleged possession of firearms and money laundering have been fully completed.

The permission was granted following the affidavit evidence filed by the Federal Government that investigations into the alleged possession of firearms and money laundering have been fully completed.

The grant money is part of a broader federal initiative by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to rid the country's housing stock of lead - paint hazards.

Except for postdocs receiving federal fellowships that explicitly bar them from being considered employees (and who, by the way, are ineligible to join the postdoc union at UCHC), postdocs paid out of grants to principal investigators receive their money through university payroll systems, which generally deduct payroll taxes.

Federal research agencies now funnel most of their money for graduate students through grants to faculty members.

Cutting their salaries wouldn't save the university money, they argued; instead, it would deprive the university of revenue from overhead costs on federal grants and deprive the state of sorely needed tax revenue.

Lacking any official declaration of the project's cost or how it would be funded, some researchers bristled at the prospect of a large new federal initiative that could take money from traditional grants for individual scientists, especially at a time when NIH faces a massive budget cut.

That money, most of it from federal grants through the Human Genome Project, has paid for the first rough guides to the 3 billion nucleotides in human DNA: maps studded with thousands of landmarks called «sequence tagged sites» (Science, 25 October 1996, p. 540).

Currently, high school graduates can use federal student aid money to pay for up to 30 credits of remedial coursework, so long as it is part of a degree - granting program.

According to a G.A.O. report, which was done at the request of Representative William H. Natcher of Kentucky, chairman of the appropriations subcommittee on labor, health and human services, and education, two - thirds of rural districts that receive federal drug - free school grants say the money covers more than half of their total drug - education program.

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.

To pay for the lessons, Ms. Johnson used some of the $ 8,000 in federal money her school, Handley Middle School in Roanoke, Ala., received this year under the Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities grant program.

In 2009, the federal government overhauled the Title I School Improvement Grant program, increased its value to $ 3.5 billion with money from the recovery act, and spelled out four turnaround options from which perennially failing schools would have to choose to get a share of the funding.

The following state consortia have applied for grant money from the federal government to help devise new tests of English - language proficiency: