Sentences with phrase «of stimulus funding»

Spending money on professional development is a common use of stimulus funding in general and school improvement grants in particular.

By far the biggest chunk of stimulus funds is going to energy efficiency and renewable energy, and the smallest is going to advanced research.

Though the federal government can't force states to make these changes, it can provide incentives by offering states favorable standing in the next round of stimulus funding.

What were the impacts of the Great Recession, the influx of stimulus funds and the subsequent depletion of those funds?

With the exception of the impact of the reprofile of the stimulus funding on 2011 - 12, these adjustments had no impact on future years.

The administration awarded a total of $ 3.5 billion to those schools, most of it stimulus funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Downward adjustments were made to the various components of direct program expenses, notably transfer payments (down ($ 1.8 billion of which $ 0.5 billion was attributable to a reprofile of stimulus funding from 2010 - 11 to 2011 - 12), other operating expenses (down $ 0.9 billion) and operating expenses subject to freeze (down $ 1.7 billion).

Congress has recently enacted whistleblower protections for contract employees and those who work for state and local governments to protect them when disclosing fraudulent spending of stimulus funds.

Ontario is but one of many jurisdictions pursuing green energy as a salve for recessionary wounds; many governments shovelled huge volumes of stimulus funding toward renewables.

That said, the outpouring of support for parties that contest the terms of the bailout plan would likely lead to some renegotiation of the terms — extensions on aid repayments, for instance, or perhaps even some kind of stimulus funding from the European Union.

With the ending of the stimulus funding and the repayment of the principal on assets maturing under the Insured Mortgage Purchase Program, the federal government's new borrowing requirements are falling dramatically.

Talk of the Sound has been reporting for more than a year on the out - of - control spending by the New Rochelle School District and warning that totally unrealistic assumptions about property assessments, state aid and one - time injections of stimulus funding.

(That doesn't include 2 years of stimulus funding during the recession.)

A U.S. senator from Maryland wants the home - state National Institutes of Health (NIH) to spend what he sees as its rightful share of stimulus funds on small businesses trying to commercialize medical research.

While the bulk of the stimulus funding went out with few strings attached to help cash - strapped states avoid layoffs, the grant program provided a unique opportunity to encourage innovation.

The drying up of stimulus funds worsened the blow.

Given the political climate and opportunities for change — the availability of stimulus funds (including Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's commitment of $ 350 million in stimulus funding to support assessment work), the movement toward common standards, and the upcoming reauthorization of No Child Left Behind — we can bypass the debate between the two flawed options of either maintaining the status quo or returning to performance - based assessment systems of the 1990s.

Maine is now likely to be out of the running for this huge pot of stimulus funds for public education, and Maine's future taxes will go to the other states who are showing more innovation in improving their public schools using the charter school model.

With cutbacks in state aid and the withdrawal of the stimulus funding, local funding played a larger role, despite the fact that local funding was also decreasing relative to trend.

For 2011 - 12, the deficit has been revised up by $ 2.7 billion to $ 32.3 billion, due to the provisional liability of $ 2.2 billion for the province of Quebec and the reprofiling of the stimulus funding.

When President Obama allocated about $ 35 billion of stimulus funds to help digitize medical records, proponents hailed the move as a way to eliminate waste and improve care.

According to the Seventh Report to Canadians, about $ 14 billion of stimulus funding was earmarked for 2010 - 11, of which $ 12.8 billion is «voted» spending.

Assuming that all of the stimulus funding is allocated within the timeframe specified, the Department of Finance originally estimated that 220,000 would be created or maintained by the end of 2010.

In August 2009, DOE awarded $ 2.4 billion of stimulus funds to jump - start the U.S. industry.

Have your school districts spent some of the stimulus funds on this group of students and if so, how?

The hearing comes after a busy year in education policy with statehouses passing laws altering the way teachers are hired and fired; school districts making cuts because of dried - up of stimulus funding; and with Duncan proposing regulatory relief for states burdened by the strictures of the No Child Left Behind act in light of Congress's failure to revamp the legislation.