Sentences with phrase «of federal grants»

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.

Probably because ethanol mandates and electric car subsidies are lucrative sources of federal grants, loans, subsidies and tax credits for «alternative fuels» and electric cars.

Because of federal grants, most materials and products are free to use.

The test scores are then used as part of the new process of teacher evaluations required under terms of federal grants worth millions of dollars that the state has received.

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.

Moreover, many schools are taking advantage of federal grants and other financing strategies to upgrade kitchen equipment, making it easier to prepare more nutritious and delicious meals.

But in the real world of politics and policy, they are rational actors, calculating the costs and benefits of federal grant laws.

At the conclusion of the federal grant, Smarter Balanced will transition to being an operational assessment system supported by its member states.

Because of federal grants and donations, we support programs of all sizes.

Concept Schools is also under federal investigation over its use of federal grant funds.

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.

Oregon is one of five states chosen in the latest round of federal grants to aid charter schools, which are public schools that are free to break the mold and offer distinctive programs under a contract, or charter, with their local school board.

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

This person is well versed in the ins and outs of federal grants for at - risk or low income students.The

The Trump administration in the form of Attorney General Jeff Sessions once again warned so - called sanctuary cities face the loss of federal grant funds if they do not cooperate.

Craig Malin, a village administrative assistant, said Wednesday that getting the Park District's approval is a required part of the federal grant application because the path beginning near Buffalo Grove would cross Sullivan Woods, a 43 - acre parcel owned by the park district.

System - to - system delivery makes sense mainly for institutions with a high volume of federal grant applications since the system requires considerable planning and system design and development.

Although less than 9 percent of the city's overall budget is comes from federal aid — excluding Community Development Block Grant - Disaster Recovery and other Hurricane Sandy - related aid — 11 out of more than 40 mayoral agencies that represent 59 percent of total city spending get 92 percent of federal grant aid, according to Stringer's initial analysis of federal funding, which he conducted to pinpoint what's at stake for New Yorkers ahead of Trump's inauguration in January.

«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.

At institutions with a small volume of federal grants, the POC and AOR may be the same person.

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

-- from The influence of federal grants: public assistance in Massachusetts (Harvard University Press, 1970)

Like any federal grantee, Smarter Balanced must operate within the requirements of its federal grant; however, there is a great deal of latitude built into the grant for state decision - making.

While the Common Core State Standards might survive in some form without annual standardized testing, the testing consortia, Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and Smarter Balance Assessment Consortium (SBAC), began their work with the support of federal grants almost as soon as the standards were being adopted thanks to financial support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and federal incentives from the Race to the Top grant program.

With the help of a federal grant of about $ 450,000, Pope made sure all students in 1st through 5th grade took instrumental music and a daily movement or dance class.

As a result, «the amount of federal grants spent by undergraduates enrolled in at least one remedial course rose 380 percent.»

High - performing charter schools in the Recovery School District — such as Sophie B. Wright, Lafayette Academy and several KIPP campuses in Uptown — are concerned that the Orleans Parish School Board will take an administrative fee out of their federal grants if they return to the district, amid broader issues of trust and autonomy, reports Jessica Williams of The Lens.

«The combined value of federal grants and contracts for research and related activities at Vanderbilt University, including the Medical Center, totaled $ 424 million in fiscal year 2009.»

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

The clean water funds are a mixture of federal grants and repaid clean water loans, and state officials have contested EPA's authority over the funds.

New York state started gradually adopting Common Core standards in 2010 with the promise of federal grants.

The following year, New York adopted the Common Core in order to qualify for a $ 700 million portion of the federal grant, and later published lesson plans for teachers to help students meet the new standards.

The council submitted $ 610,000 in budget cuts to Mayor Lou Rosamilia that include not funding the three school resource officers beyond the expiration of the federal grant that pays for the jobs.

He has been fighting the federal government over affordable housing in some of the more exclusive communities, at the expense of fines and the forfeiture of federal grants to the more needy communities.

More than five years after a wind energy boom on the North Fork, vineyard owners say the turbines — which sprang up in the late 2000s thanks to the availability of federal grants and rebates from the Long Island Power Authority — have paid back their investments.

The authors analyzed two key policy issues — the level of federal grant funding and the expansion of Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act (ACA)-- and examined the impact of various levels of support on health center capacity.

A combination of federal grants and private support fund most of the technology enhancements to the Observatory.

NCLB, enacted in 2001, included art as one of the ten core academic subjects of public education, a designation that qualified arts programs for an assortment of federal grants.

There is not much evidence that federal funding has improved the quality of schooling, and yet the morass of federal grant programs in primary and secondary schooling survives and grows.

But many of the federal grant programs that get funnelled through the Department of Education, including Title I for low - income students and the Individuals with Disabilities with Education Act, now face Congressional budget cuts.

Interim Kansas Education Commissioner Diane DeBacker indicated that Kansas had several shortcomings in the eyes of the federal grant reviewers.

Prodded by incentives of federal grant money and waivers from federal requirements, more than half the states have overhauled their evaluation systems in recent years.

Principal Sonya Swafford says the magnet program, particularly the health portion, which is backed by a patchwork of federal grants, has brought the school a sense of purpose and community.

Central Decatur is in its last year of the federal grant, but the teacher - leadership work will continue with state funding, Coffelt says.