Sentences with phrase «state awarded the money»

Cuomo previously said the state awarded money to the area because city and county leaders pledged to merge the two governments, and also said the leaders will have «a serious problem» if they are unable to advance the consolidation, according to Syracuse.com.

He later said the state awarded the money to the area because Syracuse and county leaders pledged to merge their two governments, according to Syracuse.com.

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The money will be awarded to the groups through the state's Office of New Americans and can be put toward immigrant defense services that would prevent deportation, green card application processing as well as job assistance.

Every year the state awards the funding to a provider who administers the money.

The Government argues performance pay can be decided by individual states and territories; with money awarded to each jurisdiction through their Gonski agreements.

Queens Councilman Ruben Wills misspent nearly two - thirds of the tax money awarded to him for a nonprofit, a state investigator testified at Wills» corruption trial.

State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli chided policies that award economic development money without specifying how it gets spent.

Those changes include empowering Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office to review all SUNY and Office of General Services contracts of more than $ 250,000, block state - affilaited entities from doing business with their boards of directors and creation of a database of deals to show the total value of subsidies and other inducements awarded to businesses as well as provisions for clawing the money back.

So, in 2005, Silver awarded Taub's research center a $ 250,000 research grant from an $ 8.5 million pool of taxpayer money established by the state Health Care Reform Act — which was disbursed at the speaker's sole discretion with no public disclosure, court papers state.

In one scheme, for example, prosecutors accused Silver of pulling strings to award state money to a mesothelioma researcher at Columbia, who would then route mesothelioma victims to his own law firm, netting him millions in referral bonuses.

The state money, to be drawn from a previously announced $ 500 million Upstate Revitalization Initiative award, is seen as an initial investment.

The money, administered by the New York State Spinal Cord Injury Research program, represents the first round of competitive awards since program funding was reinstated in 2013.

In one case, he siphoned off $ 21,000 in state grant money that had been awarded to his non-profit group, New York 4 Life.

The state will award $ 500 million economic development grants to each of the three regions that propose the best ways to invest the money.

Skelos says he likes the idea of competition, but wants to award the money based on the merits of each entry, and not pit one entire region of the state against another.

The money was awarded by Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, D - Bronx, and comes from a $ 1.1 billion fund in the state budget earmarked for municipal projects, according to Magnarelli.

State Sen. David Valesky, D - Oneida, who represents Madison County and a few Oneida County towns, sponsored the bill in the Senate that would amend the deal and award Madison County extra money.

The initial project proposed for Lake Flower won $ 2 million in Empire State Development grant monies as part of the North Country Regional Economic Development Council awards in December of 2013.

The money will be awarded competitively by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority.

Queens Councilman Ruben Wills misspent nearly two - thirds of the tax money awarded to him for a nonprofit, a state investigator testified Wednesday at Wills» corruption trial.

ALBANY — Residents in some parts of upstate New York got roughly 30 times as much money per capita in the latest round of state funding awards than residents of New York City.

Among the gold medals awarded to Bill de Blasio on Thursday was one for limbo - dancing his way past election laws so he and his allies could funnel money into 2014 state legislative campaigns at a rate 10 times the supposed limit.

Late last year, as part of the Regional Economic Development Council awards, the state said it would provide the money for a $ 3.2 million hemp processing plant to be owned by Southern Tier Hemp, a company co-founded and chaired by Michael P. Falcone.

The ongoing monies dedicated to all the state's REDCs continues for future award rounds totaling $ 750,000 million per year.

After three months, the agency overseeing the discretionary fund — Empire State Development — answered a request for information about how four projects in New York City were awarded TIF money with a series of documents that made no specific mention of the fund and were all produced before its first appropriation in 2015.

Rob Walker, who has testified in state Sen. Dean Skelos» corruption trial, is being investigated for awarding a contract to a company that had given money to his political committee.

The state awarded the hospital another $ 12 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency grant money for the effort.

I am frankly surprised by a few critics of the proposal who object to the fact that the funding will be awarded through a competitive process instead of splitting the money up and giving an equal amount to each region in the State.

The group also won significant state economic development monies on Dec. 8 with a $ 498,825 grant award from the North Country Regional Economic Development Council to rehabilitate camp infrastructure.

State government has utilized design - build to save time and money on big infrastructure projects and New York City wants similar power to streamline the process by awarding one contract for project design and execution, instead of engaging in separate processes and contracts.

Although there were other grant proposals in the pipeline, none of them had yet been awarded and people were starting to get nervous — nervous enough to consider picking up the whole operation and moving to the other side of the state in search of money.

Florida's «Merit Award Program» provides state money to local school districts.

Mr. Duncan has pledged that states with laws he deems unfriendly to charters will be last in line for the grant money he will have broad authority to award from the $ 4.35 billion Race to...

Arkansas will be the first state awarded federal money to promote a program that encourages high school students to pursue a more a rigorous course of study.

-- The National Science Foundation (NSF) promoted the NCTM standards beginning in 1991 and awarded millions of dollars in grant money for the writing of math texts that embraced them and to state boards of education whose math standards aligned with them (see Figure 1).

How many total dollars these suits have contributed to the rapid increase in education spending is unknown, but we do know that, since 1989, adequacy lawsuits have been launched in more than 30 states, and a vast majority of them have resulted in a court award to plaintiffs mandating more money for schools.

The state also awarded grants on a supercompetitive basis: Out of about 80 applicants, eight received money.

Even though money from the first year of funding is just now moving toward being awarded to states, Obama administration officials credit it with prompting education policy changes in many parts of the country.

Another criticism of the grant program, particularly in Colorado, is that even though schools are required to compete for the federal funds, every school district that applied in this state was awarded money.

More discretionary money than the feds have ever made available, the funds will be awarded to states to spur and support eduction reform...

States and education groups are curious about whether, if they win a grant, they can award a portion of their Race to the Top money to a select group of school districts, or if they have to dole out money to all of them.

Currently the money from both programs, the largest K - 12 initiatives in the Education Department, is awarded to states and districts based on federal formulas.

Idaho is 1 of 5 states awarded federal money earlier this year to further develop charter schools.

Gendron believes the department is waiting to award some of the money to give states without charter laws, like Washington or Maine, time to get charters on the books.

Often bypassing Congress, Duncan used the money to work directly with states, persuading them to adopt favored policies by providing incentives through Race to the Top, a $ 4.35 billion competitive grant program in which states were awarded points for adopting ideas such as performance - based teacher and principal evaluations, higher academic standards, and raising charter school caps.

For example, Race to the Top, a federal competition that awarded money to states with the best plans to overhaul their education systems, prompted many states to adopt new data systems that will use student test scores to grade schools and teachers.

The administration would put a pile of federal money on the table and award it to a few states that most aggressively embraced reform.

Since then she has won awards for her work with children, and was recently recruited to join Los Angeles Universal Preschool, a nonprofit group funded with money from the state tobacco tax to expand preschool programs in Los Angeles County.

Two longtime, award - winning educators seeking to oversee Wisconsin's schools sparred on Friday over how to improve academic success for black students, whether the state's academic standards are good for schools and how the state should spend its money on education.

At any rate, it could be argued that these threats of financial sanction for opt out are meaningless when our schools are already having money withheld: after more than a decade New York State still owes city schools nearly $ 2 billion dollars awarded by the courts in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity case.