Sentences with phrase «of federal money»

Here's a 50 - year view of big initiatives, seen through the lens of federal money for basic research and development.

They also no longer have to set aside a certain amount of federal money to deal with low performing schools.

But I think that's the right measure in this case, because a lot of federal money went on incentives for investment by lower levels.

The administration would put a pile of federal money on the table and award it to a few states that most aggressively embraced reform.

Schools are supposed to have all of their students meeting learning standards by 2014, or else lose control over big chunks of federal money.

Public schools are funded with state and local dollars, with a bit of federal money mixed in.

The waiver allows the state to have flexibility with millions of dollars of federal money.

And that is called big waste of federal money.

We know that the focus of the stimulus package is on short - term spending over 1 - 2 years, without long - term commitments of federal money.

A thriving charter sector was one of the criteria for receipt of the federal money.

If you heard on the street that there is this fund of federal money and they were giving it away to make your mortgage payments for you, you could be forgiven for skepticism.

It also puts the state out of touch with education reforms sweeping the nation, and could put our schools out of contention for new pots of federal money.

Their promise was so great that when President Obama announced last March that he was lifting the ban on the use of federal money for research on human embryonic stem cells, critics on the right were apoplectic: iPS cells, they said, made such a move scientifically unjustified.

States have a better chance of winning the extra pool of federal money designated for innovative education reform with support from schools.

Amount of federal money available for free and reduced price school breakfast but NOT accessed due to children not participating:

Over the last several months, discussions of the Common Core State Standards have been eclipsed by the public's reaction to major issues which have arisen in their implementation — issues such as declining student test scores, and the role of such test scores in teacher evaluations, evaluations mandated if a state was to receive its share of federal money from the «Race to the Top» funds.

Is steering large sums of federal money into America's clean energy economy worth the risk?

Louisiana's Department of Education would receive a significant share of the federal money if the Race to the Top application is successful, which state officials say they would use to directly assist schools with their work.

Despite lack of empirical evidence that an infusion of federal money into state and urban school budgets improved the education or schools of low - income children, ESEA has been re-authorized over the years, and with increased appropriations in each successive version.

We propose that the bulk of federal money through Title I for low - income children and through IDEA for children with special needs should follow the child to whatever school the family thinks will work best for them.

Even without a penny of federal money, which is only now sluicing through the pipeline, the company has increased revenue 50 percent over last year.

«Now we're going to get something that's much worse — a lot of federal money going out for almost no leverage for any national purpose,» Orfield said.

To date, New York has received only a small fraction of federal money for high speed rail, but we want to make it a success now, and my Administration will aggressively pursue all funding opportunities to make high speed rail a reality.

Duncan told reporters at the White House on Wednesday that the Kanawha County school system was already handing out pink slips in anticipation of the automatic cuts that, among other things, will impact the amount of federal money states get through September.

If history is a guide, they weigh the benefits of federal money heavily and hope the costs of the conditions can be avoided or adequately compensated for by political support from constituencies within the state.

Lusher Charter School intensified its cries for basic building renovations and Sophie B. Wright supporters made a full - court press for a gym Tuesday night at the second town - hall meeting Uptown on the allocation of federal money for New Orleans schools.

He previously floated the possibility that lawmakers could be recalled to the Capitol to adjust the law that guides the distribution of federal money for hospitals that aid the poor after a federal funding stream was turned off Oct. 1.

Knowing this, Duncan designed Race to the Top, an ingenious program that gave states the chance to dip into a $ 4.35 billion pot of federal money if they adopted certain accountability and school choice policies.

The promise of federal money has prodded 11 states to revamp their laws to allow for more charter schools, for new plans to remake failing schools, and to create more incentives to attract better teachers.

«The bulk of the federal money through Title I for low - income children and through IDEA for disabled youngsters should follow the students to whatever school they choose so that eligible pupils, through open enrollment, can bring their share of the funding with them,» according to the party platform.

They knew that the billions of federal money spent on upgrading education for disadvantaged children had produced no demonstrable improvements.

Harmful proposals, including diversion of federal monies from high - poverty schools and allowing parents to opt their children out of tests, were beaten back.

His comments came as Trump signed an executive order directing the director of Homeland Security «to look at... funding streams that are going to these cities of federal monies and figure out how we can defund those streams.

«Here in Los Angeles, we've got about half a billion dollars» worth of federal money supporting community - development banks.

When the main so - called Labour Market Agreements with the provinces come up for renegotiation in 2014, Flaherty said they will be changed so that much of the federal money goes directly to businesses.

And he offered more details about the government's new Venture Capital Action Plan, a $ 400 - million pool of federal money meant to lure private investors into pumping more into Canadian start - ups.

Community development block grants — pots of federal money funneled into cities — have been delayed this year and could be on the chopping block under the Trump administration.

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

On Tuesday evening, however, even as Mr. Cuomo unveiled his state budget for the coming fiscal year, he returned to the importance of federal money feeding state coffers.

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.

The influx of federal money, observers say, helped cushion the blow at a time when the Upstate economy was reeling from the loss of manufacturing jobs and the withdrawal of IBM from its sprawling facility in the Town of Ulster.

Blair Horner, with the American Cancer Society, says approval of the health exchanges will trigger appropriations of federal money, so it makes sense to include them as part of the budget.

Cuomo has warned of the potential loss of federal money due to President Donald Trump's proposed budget, leaving the possibility of aid reduction in the middle of the budget year.

Both houses reject Cuomo's attempt to alter how legislatively approved spending is done after the budget is adopted, insisting, instead, that special sessions be called if the state's budget has to be amended later this year if the Trump administration and Congress okay Obamacare changes that could affect the flow of federal money to Albany.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo — viewed as one of the Democrats» leading 2020 presidential contenders — urged President Donald Trump today to either allocate huge sums of federal money toward emergency repairs and construction at Penn Station, or let New York State take over massive transit nexus from the Washington - run Amtrak.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality maintains a list of its fellowships in health services research; and the National Institutes of Health, which, along with AHRQ, is a major benefactor of the federal money given to CER, plans to fund new training programs in the field.

We've been trying to balance that set of messages in this reauthorization [of federal money].