Sentences with phrase «state aid policy»

This Briefing focuses on the development of EU State aid policy in 2014 and the recent preliminary ruling handed down by the European Union's Court of Justice (CJ) on whether the London bus lane restricted use policy constitutes State aid.

His thesis examines the interaction between EU state aid rules and national tax measures, exploring, in particular, the extent to which EU state aid policy can serve as a tool against harmful tax competition between Member States.

Importantly, the successful provision of information related to college choice through initiatives like ECO-C is likely to magnify the return to existing federal and state aid policies, while the return to high - cost interventions such as expanding the Pell grant program is likely to be very limited unless students possess sufficient information about college alternatives.

They successfully avoid the list of most inequitable states due to their state aid policies, which effectively offset the variability in local resources.

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But for the past 8 decades they have welcomed the Hypocritical big businessmen, who profess faith yet stand vehemently against taxation designed to aid the poor, a cornerstone of almost all faiths, and have consistently forced people to LINK Church and State by means of creating policies with subliminal purposes.

The judge wrote: «There is another justification for the policy of excluding homosexuals from service in the United States Armed Forces... [F] ar and away the highest risk category for those who are HIV - positive, a population who will with a high degree of medical certainty one day contract AIDS, is homosexual men.»

Any analysis of the current state of humanitarian aid and the policies of intervention should take into account both the historical realities presented in books like Balakian's and the grim political realities that Rieff outlines.

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Even if you don't have health insurance or feel your policy isn't adequate enough, a good doctor's office will be able to explain what you're going to owe, help you setup a payment plan and / or even get you in contact with the state to see if you qualify for aid.

He also referenced the fact that New York is now one of three states placed on a watch list for losing hundreds of millions of Race to the Top dollars by US Education Secretary Arne Duncan because it has «hit a roadblock» on significant policy provisions of qualifying for the aid, including establishment of the peformance evaluation system and creation of a database to track student records across school districts.

Nevertheless, Cuomo was successful this year in forming a new teacher evaluation system as well as making it harder for teachers to obtain tenure — a move that state lawmakers felt they had no choice but to accept given the policy's linkage to an increase in school aid.

Already prior to the financial crisis, since the early / mid - 2000 s, the Commission had attempted to coordinate European aid policies more closely for the sake of reducing fragmentation and enhancing their effectiveness by committing the EU institutions and member states to one common policy.

However, the fact that there is much more wriggle room in the state aid measures than he suggests gives him the opportunity to present a more proactive industrial policy as a victory against EU restrictions when in fact it is just an example of a member state working the system.

Dyster said the city has followed the policy of using casino money to match state highway aid to double the amount of streets it repaves each year.

«To address this crisis, I have advanced legislation to delink this essential state education aid with the implementation of a new teacher evaluation policy.»

Paterson's veto also drew the wrath of Housing Works, which said the bill would have addressed an «egregious injustice» in state housing policy and impacted some 10,000 poor New Yorkers living with HIV / AIDS.

To a large extent, state fiscal policies have caused great pressure on property taxes in needy cities, counties and school districts, including decisions: to reduce revenue sharing; to decrease the share of local school budgets covered by state aid, to divide the non-federal share of Medicaid costs without considering ability to pay, and to allocate STAR benefits... (read more)

Earlier this year, the conference approved a package of education policy changes opposed by the state's teachers unions, but linked to a spike in school aid funding for the new year.

Cuomo has come under fire for his education policies from the state's teachers unions and state lawmakers reluctantly approved the changes in part because they were tied to a boost in state education aid.

Cuomo would increase education aid in the state budget by as much as $ 1.1 billion, but much of the funding is linked to his policy proposals, which also include a strengthening of the state's charter schools.

As Gov. Andrew Cuomo raises the possibility of an «extender» budget blamed on federal government - level uncertainty over potential cuts in spending to the state, the Fiscal Policy Institute has released a report examining the impact of D.C. aid to New York state and local governments.

Senator Liz Krueger, also a Democrat from Manhattan, says the policy could actually have the opposite effect, and aid state officials in hiding what they don't want revealed.

If lawmakers seem to have a sense of urgency, it's because parents and the state's teachers unions have been vocally opposed to the education changes included in the budget agreement — policies lawmakers reluctantly adopted in order to get a boost of state aid.

The BHA was a founding member of the Protest the Pope campaign, which condemned the policies of the Pope and his state, the Holy See, including their opposition to condom distribution in AIDS prevention programmes across the world.

The state Senate voted (again) to end gap elimination aid — a policy that allowed the state to withhold a portion of school funding from local districts to prop up the state's overall budget.

But instead of saying they support membership of the single market but want reform of state aid rules, he has decided to validate Theresa May's entire policy platform.

«If the bill before the Ugandan parliament becomes law, it must be the policy of the United States government to oppose any aid to Uganda from the World Bank, the African Development Bank, or any other international financial institution of which we are a member.»

Federal economic stimulus aid helped close an estimated $ 162.5 billion in budget gaps among the 50 states in 2010, the report stated, citing a study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a Washington - based policy research Policy Priorities, a Washington - based policy research policy research group.

As Mayor Bloomberg said, â $ ˜ What we are urging you to do is provide our students with their fair share of state aid and our city with the tools and reform needed to end unnecessary mandates and crippling policy that otherwise will accelerate an already daunting situation,»» she said.

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«There's no question that the Trump administration's policies are meant to damage progressive states such as ours,» Mulgrew told the assembled legislators, calling for a $ 1.5 billion investment in state education aid and «a state budget that protects our children and public schools.»

Cuomo has demanded that education policy changes be passed along with the state budget, or he'll hold up school aid increases.

The Green Party candidate is strongly against Common Core standards and high stakes testing, as well as distribution of school aid policies that rank New York among those states with the poorest records.

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The Indigent Care Pool (ICP) was created under the 1996 Health Care Reform Act as a means of reimbursing hospitals for care provided to patients without health insurance, using funds raised by the state's taxes on health insurance policies along with federal aid.

The Senate's version of the bill includes a proposal to modify the «last in, first out» teacher firing policy as well as $ 280 million in additional school aid — about 9 percent more than Cuomo's proposed budget, State Sen. Liz Krueger said.

Governor Andrew Cuomo unveiled his full policy agenda for the 2018 legislative session on Wednesday, returning to his traditional State of the State format: a single address at the Empire State Convention Center, chock full of slideshow - aided proposals and lofty rhetoric, with legislative leaders of all five conferences and other statewide elected officials accompanying him on stage.

Mid-career and more senior Franklin Fellows, both sponsored and self - nominated, work on global issues of vital importance to the United States, such as the environment; counterterrorism; human rights; consular matters; international development assistance; HIV / AIDS and other trans - national diseases; trade, energy and financial policy; and many others.

Russell Lundberg of the Department of Security Studies at Sam Houston State University and Henry Willis, Director of the Rand Homeland Security and Defense Center, recently applied a tool originally developed to address risks in environmental policy, the Deliberative Method for Ranking Risk, to aid in strategic planning for security.

«Our findings can help state health care decision makers and policy leaders to develop new Medicaid policies that aid low income individuals in receiving recommended cancer screenings.»

«To give young children a fair chance of life success, we need to strengthen basic safety net policies, including Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF), expand Medicaid across all states so that parents will not be left in poor health without health coverage, and invest in programs that have proven effective in helping families overcome adversities so their children can thrive.»

She is the recipient of several prestigious local and international awards including South Africa's highest honour, the Order of Mapungubwe, from the President of South Africa in 2013 for outstanding work in the field of HIV / AIDS and Tuberculosis Research and Health Policy Development, the 2013 African Union's Kwame Nkrumah Prize for Science and Technology, the 2014 TWAS - Lenovo Prize from The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) «for her exceptional and distinguished contributions to HIV prevention and women's health» and the 2016 L'Oréal - UNESCO Women in Science award for Africa and the Arab States.

Republicans seized control of the U.S. House of Representatives and significantly bolstered their majorities in the Senate in Tuesday's election, an outcome that will almost certainly mean an end to emergency education aid to states and will heighten pressure for a more limited federal role in K - 12 policy.

Many states need to revamp their policies for including limited - English - proficient students in state tests and accountability systems if they want to continue receiving all of their federal Title I aid, according to the Department of Education.

This is encouraged by state policies that frequently provide lease aid rather than capital funding.

Federal involvement in education has trended up consistently, aided and abetted by conservatives who might have been expected to prefer local or state or family control of education decisions but instead expanded federal influences that favored their policy preferences, e.g., No Child Left Behind.

When absenteeism increased last year in the Dallas Independent School District, resulting in the loss of more than $ 1 million in state aid, school officials drafted a new policy requiring that any student who misses more than 10 classes during the school year automatically receive a failing grade.

The 10,000 - student elementary school district in Orange County, Calif., stands to lose up to $ 10 million in state and federal categorical aid if its policy isn't brought into compliance.

The fact that this sector is already integrated into the broader higher education system, through federal aid and some state aid programs, suggests that these policy levers might be used to better leverage the private sector to further policymakers» goals, such as increasing educational attainment overall and for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

While eliminating applications raises questions for important aspects of the largest federal K - 12 education aid program, the ESEA Title I program, the policy guidance published by USED in March 2015 provides a wide range of options for states and LEAs to implement CEP with minimal interference with Title I funding allocations or accountability measures.