Sentences with phrase «proposed block grant»

Education Voters supports putting the increases from Governor Corbett's proposed block grant funding into the Basic Education Funding line.

The Republican presidential nominee and founder of Trump University accused Democrats of trapping black and Hispanic youth in failing public schools and offered the postern door of school choice through a proposed block grant, voucher - like program in which per pupil expenditures would follow students to the school of their parents» liking.

Trump said his proposed block grant program would come from redirecting existing federal funds, and he would leave it up to states to decide whether the dollars would follow children to public, private, charter or magnet schools.

The proposed block grant would be about $ 6.7 billion that year.

The budget also proposes block granting Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) at pre-ACA levels along with a state option of per - capita cap funding.

Not exact matches

The Bush Administration had proposed to zero it out and roll it into the Community Development Block Grants, and then cut the consolidated program's funding.

Just one day before the scheduled markup of the House Education and the Workforce Committee «s «Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016» (an Orwellian name if there ever was one, given how the bill would gut child nutrition), Congressman Todd Rokita (IN - R), chair of the subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education, introduced a substitute amendment which, among other things, proposes a three - state block grant pilot for school breakfasts and lunches.

The House bill also proposed a a three - state block grant pilot for school meals, an idea which was seen by some as a precursor to dismantling the entire National School Lunch Program.

The proposed School - Based Nutrition Block Grant is an important part of that effort.

The committee also finalized its proposal to replace the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children (WIC) with a Family Nutrition Block Grant, as well as its proposed Child Care Block Grant, which would consolidate nine different federal child - care programs.

At 10 a.m., Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz celebrates National Community Development Week by visiting sites funded by Community Development Block Grants, which are facing elimination in the proposed federal budget, 100 Dona St., Lackawanna.

At 2 p.m., Rep. Claudia Tenney holds a press conference to express her opposition to the elimination of community services block grants funding in Trump's proposed budget, Mohawk Valley Community Action Agency, 9882 River Road, Utica.

As a strategy for controlling Medicaid costs, leaders in Congress are proposing to adopt some variation of «block grant» financing.

Tenney put out a statement naming nine proposed funding cuts she would fight, including the community development block grants and a program that helps low - income families pay for home heating.

It proposes new tax - raising powers for the Scottish Parliament, for which income tax in Scotland would effectively be cut in Scotland by 10p and the Treasury block grant reduced, leaving it up to Holyrood to make up the difference.

In his speech, Poloncarz says even more can be done to promote projects in small villages and communities, improve Main Streets and continue to provide transportation to senior citizens in rural areas, but he says that could be threatened thanks to the proposed elimination of community development block grants by the Trump Administration.

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.

[31] One measure proposed by Young was to make grants and subsidies available to minimize «some of the disadvantages of living on estates containing tower blocks.»

President Trump is proposing the elimination of the Community Development Block Grant program, the federal funding stream that funds numerous infrastructure projects across the Adirondack Park.

Off - topic questions included the mayor's proposed budget and the potential cost of open labor contracts, a timeline for settling the open labor contracts, the Build it Back program, the administration's «comprehensive review» of the city's Sandy recovery efforts, release of Bishop Findlayter's arrest report, the mayor's September promise to visit a carriage horse stable before acting on his pledge to ban carriage horses and the administration's community development block grant application.

At 10 a.m., the Division of Community Services holds a public hearing to allow interested members of the public to provide comments on the Department of State's proposed revisions to the NYS Community Services Block Grant Application and Plan for federal fiscal years 2016 and 2017, 123 William St., Manhattan; 99 Washington Ave., Albany and 65 Court St., Buffalo.

Legoland opponents, seeking to block the sale of town - owned lands for the proposed $ 500 million theme park in the Town of Goshen, won a round in court this week, with an appellate court granting a restraining order on the sale of the nine acres for the park.

She proposed blocking elected officials from awarding contracts, grants, loans or tax breaks to campaign donors for two years.

«There are other initiatives... but I am not sure if they will be there in the long run due to the Trump administration's proposed elimination of all community development block grants,» Poloncarz said.

Outside of NIH, the budget proposes a Federal Emergency Response Fund for outbreak response without specifying funding size or mechanisms; and would «reform» the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by establishing a $ 500 million block grant program for state public health challenges.

Their companion bills, introduced in both the House and the Senate on July 23, propose getting rid of the E-rate and replacing it with a five - year program of block grants to states.

Republicans have typically proposed turning Medicaid into a block grant program, which could eliminate schools from eligibility for reimbursement funds.

The budget also proposes a $ 1.6 billion early education block grant that combines three existing programs to promote local flexibility, focusing on disadvantaged students and improved accountability.»

One of Trump's biggest education promises — a proposed $ 20 billion block grant promoting charter and private schools — was developed with input from DeVos» D.C. - based advocacy group, the American Federation for Children.

Leaning heavily on recommendations from the non-partisan Legislative Analyst, the Brown administration proposed earlier this month cutting $ 38 million by eliminating or reducing state support for a number of school mandates, while looking for ways to transform the program into a block grant system.

And for his part, President Donald Trump proposed allocating $ 20 billion in federal education money to create block grants aimed at providing low - income children with more educational choices.

Ryan has also proposed turning Head Start into a block grant, and testing different early education models for effectiveness.

Restored $ 50 million for the Accountability Block Grant Program, which restores 50 % of the Governor's proposed cut, yet still only 20 % of the appropriation made in 2010 - 2011.

The $ 241 million increase to Accountability Block Grant (ABG) funding proposed in the Ready to Learn program is clearly a nod to public sentiment.

Many of those programs rely on state accountability block grants to pay for all or part of the full - day kindergarten programs, but Gov. Tom Corbett has proposed eliminating such grants.

On 4 March 2004, the Minister for Indigenous Affairs announces that, «Indigenous legal services are set for a shake - up under proposed reforms that will focus on the delivery of services rather than just block grants to organisations.»

• Supporting our Federal Child Care System: The President has proposed new investments to expand access and quality in the Child Care and Development Block Grant.

Governor Rauner today proposed a $ 75 million increase to the Early Childhood Block Grant (along with K - 12 funding increases) separate from any larger budget negotiations.