Sentences with phrase «promise of federal money»

According to McQueen, both policies were «written in secret» with no public involvement, «put into place by coercing states with the promise of federal money,» and represent «a centrally controlled delivery system, shaped by Big Government and steeped in the Progressive worldview of uniformity.»

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.

Not exact matches

«An individual should sit down with a financial professional to look at their whole picture if the windfall is of any size,» said Alexis Hongamen, a money manager at Federal Retirement Investment Advisers in Orlando, Fla. «For small windfalls, it may be best just to pay off credit card debt and promise themselves never to fall into that trap again.»

Critics like University of Victoria professors Rob Gillezeau and Jeffrey Ansloos point, for example, to the Parliamentary Budget Officer's analysis that shows the federal government may not have allocated enough money to fulfill the Liberals» key 2015 election promise to eliminate the gap between federal spending on First Nations students and kids attending provincially funded schools.

The willingness of President Bush (in his better moments) to spend money to shore up civil society — making it perhaps less necessary to spend money down the road, as the promise of the «ownership society» was fulfilled — was taken as an opportunity by those not invested in that «limited» project (I have in mind here both the conventional Republicans in the Bush White House and the pork - barrelling Republicans in the House and Senate) to open the federal purse with relative abandon.

7) For the residents of Endicott in Broome County, New York, all the good paying jobs the friendly folks at Endicott Interconnect Technologies have been promising ever since the company's principals bought and refurbished IBM's local facility with federal and state money delivered by Charles Gargano, Governor George Pataki and local Rep Tom Libous.

Brooklyn federal prosecutors say that Meng promised to use his influence quash the tax fraud probe by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office for an acquaintance, but in reality only intended to bilk the businessman out of money and pocket it for himself.

McMahon said an overall reduction in the budget was a certainty after the loss of temporary federal stimulus money and Cuomo's campaign promise of no tax increases.

Now critics are saying that the Democrats» pro-Malloy mailings will undo the original promise of the public financing system — because the special - interest money will flow into the state campaign through the party's «federal account» even as taxpayers continue to pay for campaigns that were supposed to be kept «clean» of contractors» money.

According to documents filed by federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, Silver used his relationship with JoRon Management, a Buffalo - area company run by Jordan Levy, to invest his money in Counsel Financial, which prosecutors call a «private investment vehicle that promised a high annual rate of return with little risk.»

The city has started an aggressive campaign to foreclose on properties and will continue with or without any promise of state and federal money, Mayor Stephanie Miner said.

The most famous Einstein letter is in 1939, but in the spring of 1940, when Szilard and Fermi were not receiving the money that they were promised, they wrote a second letter; that is, Einstein and Szilard, in a fact, blackmailing the federal government and saying, if you don't send us the money to do research at Columbia, we're going to publish our results.

In a letter this morning addressed to Reps. Doc Hastings and Ed Markey, the Committee chairman and ranking member, Grijalva urges the Committee to determine whether Indur Goklany, the DOI Assistant Director of Programs, Science and Technology Policy, received money he was promised by the Heartland Institute for writing a chapter in a book focused on climate policy in apparent violation of federal rules, among other issues.

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.

The federal tax credit proposal is one of several ideas under review by the White House to fulfill Donald Trump's campaign promise to promote the expansion of charter schools and vouchers that would allow families of low income to use public money for private school tuition, sources tell POLITICO.

Several big - city districts agreed to experiment with this controversial and promising reform, thanks to the availability of «free» money from the federal government.

Zimmer identified three factors pushing the district toward the financial abyss: the federal government's reneging on promises of more money for special education students, creating a $ 200 million shortfall for the district; the state's «extremely low» per - pupil funding level and the district's steady decline in enrollment.

But Hanna Vaandering, vice president of Oregon's teachers union, blasted the Obama administration for forcing Oregon to promise to grade teachers by test scores to keep federal schools money flowing.

Race to the Top: President Obama's Race to the Top (RttT) initiative helped (and continues to help) to distribute billions of dollars in federal stimulus monies to states, thus far to a total of $ 4.35 billion, if states promise via their legislative policies that they will use students» large - scale standardized test scores for even more consequential purposes than NCLB required prior.

In Senate hearings this summer, for - profit colleges were accused of soaking up a disproportionate share of federal loan money, recruiting students with inflated promises, fudging financial - aid applications and leaving graduates with crushing debt and bleak job prospects.

Eventually Brown would win the game of chicken with Duncan, whose department caved, promising not to pull federal money, which would have meant cutting off over a billion dollars, largely to districts serving poor students, and from a state that carried huge weight in the Democratic party.

City officials, accepting millions in federal urban renewal money, had promised a crackdown on vice, but it took the heart of a cop to know exactly what would happen.

An investor lends money to a corporation or a government (federal, state, local) and in return gets the promise of regular interest payments, as well as the full return of the loan at the end of a specified period.

But to win money from the newly - available federal Clean Coal Power Initiative, Southern now promised to also use TRIG to capture most of the plant's carbon dioxide, which would be compressed and piped out to older underproducing oil fields and injected into the ground to drive more oil to the surface — a process called enhanced oil recovery.

The plan the president is releasing Monday calls for allocating $ 200 billion in federal funds over a decade, mostly as seed money to spur states, localities and the private sector to spend the balance of the promised investment, the official said.

The plan the president is releasing Monday calls for allocating $ 200 billion in federal funds over a decade, mostly as seed money to spur states, localities and the private sector to spend the balance of the promised...