Sentences with phrase «redirect federal dollars»

It would also redirect federal dollars currently used to finance class size reduction efforts to providing districts with funds to implement evaluations.

Not exact matches

I do expect the administration to make an effort to act on President - elect Trump's campaign proposal to devote 20 billion federal dollars to expanding school choice for low - income students, but it's a bit hard to see a Republican Congress either approving that much new spending or even redirecting existing funds on which districts currently rely.

It would be likely be funded by redirecting of a portion of current Title I dollars (federal dollars targeted to poor students) from states that don't allow choice.

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 Obama administration on Friday said legislation passed this week by Republicans on the House education panel would rob vital federal dollars from the nation's poorest schools and redirect them to wealthier schools.

The proposal redirects hundreds of millions of dollars from public schools — often, school districts that rely most heavily on federal aid, forcing them to cut vital services or raise local property taxes.»

The groups that represent local school districts and ISD administrators sent their leaders to testify against the legislation, saying that there's no feasible way to redirect federal special education dollars.

Donald Trump's education transition leader has indicated that Trump's administration will focus on expanding school choice by redirecting billions of dollars in existing federal funding to charter and private schools.

The nation currently spends about $ 15 billion on Title I, the federal program meant for the education of poor children, and analysts attempting to understand the impact of Trump's proposal have assumed that these are the dollars that would be redirected to vouchers.

He said Republicans would rather shift those dollars — and redirect Planned Parenthood's patients using those dollars — to federal community health centers.

• Offering the State of Connecticut and other entitlement communities the ability to re-allocate existing federal resources toward disaster relief — HUD's Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME programs give the State and communities the flexibility to redirect millions of dollars to address critical needs, including housing and services for disaster victims.