Sentences with phrase «through federal community»

The news that New York City now qualifies for universal free lunch through the Federal Community Eligibility Provision is music to the ears for many families that do not qualify for reduced or free lunch yet still have difficulty providing their child with a nutritious lunch at school,» said Council Member Vincent J. Gentile.

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Anonymous, a 12 - year - old virtual community that's been linked to hacks on everything from the government of Zimbabwe and Bay Area Rapid Transit to Visa, MasterCard and the Federal Reserve, has proven plenty capable of following through with its threats.

The developer behind the controversial Islamic community center and mosque planned for Lower Manhattan has requested federal funding through the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation to support the project known as Park51.

«After spending time with police officers on ride - alongs, meeting with politicians on the state and federal level and grassroots organizations fighting for human rights, it's clear that our criminal justice system is still crippling communities of color through mass incarceration.»

Evidence - Based Model Crosswalk to Benchmarks: Model Alignment With Benchmark (PDF - 641 KB) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services & Health Resources and Services Administration (2011) Describes the Affordable Care Act Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (MIECHV), and how the act responds, through evidence - based home visiting programs, to diverse needs of children and families in at - risk communities through collaboration at the Federal, State, and community levels.

Mass Audubon recognizes and appreciates the sporting community's contributions to wildlife management and in conserving critical wildlife habitat, including thousands of acres in Massachusetts through their federal duck stamp purchases and fees collected from Massachusetts fishing, hunting, and sporting licenses.

New York City has sought all forms of funding for meal reimbursement and is now eligible to receive the highest reimbursement from the federal government through the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP).

After leaving the City Council, Zellnor became chair of his Neighborhood Advisory Board where, through community organizing, he helped secure nearly $ 400,000 in federal funding for job training, after school programming, and tenant protection.

The communities will be eligible to share in more than $ 500 million of funding through a federal supplemental appropriation, and the state will award at least $ 250 million of New York's FEMA - funded Hazard Mitigation Grant Program to New York Rising Communities to implement eligible projects contained in their plans.

The East West Road should be completed and, I am happy that the Federal Government is ready to build the rail line from Calabar to Lagos that will pass through our communities.

Continuing his efforts to make sure that «oil trains» passing through Buffalo and other New York communities do not derail and explode, US Sen. Chuck Schumer called on the federal government to require the oil in those tanker cars be made less volatile before it is shipped.

He also charged the federal government through the minister to intensify efforts at rehabilitating the Ilie - Ikirun - Iragbiji Road, stressing that it will be a major break as it will go a long way in Opening a lot of agricultural communities in the area.

US Sen. Chuck Schumer said NYC would be awarded $ 176 million in federal funding for the proposed project, through a national contest created by the Department of Housing and Urban Development to help communities recover from disasters and better prepare for them.

In its work for General Electric Co. through the years, the public relations firm owned by Mark Behan became entangled in a legal battle between GE and several river communities that filed federal lawsuits against the company when their water supplies were tainted by the PCBs dumped into the river from its plants in Fort Edward and Hudson Falls.

The report released Monday as part of a collaborative study between the Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health Policy, part of the School of Public Health and Health Services at George Washington University, and the RCHN Community Health Foundation, reveals that due to federal budget cuts through sequestration, the nation's 1,200 community health programs will lose $ 120 million inCommunity Health Policy, part of the School of Public Health and Health Services at George Washington University, and the RCHN Community Health Foundation, reveals that due to federal budget cuts through sequestration, the nation's 1,200 community health programs will lose $ 120 million inCommunity Health Foundation, reveals that due to federal budget cuts through sequestration, the nation's 1,200 community health programs will lose $ 120 million incommunity health programs will lose $ 120 million in funding.

According to a recent analysis, community health centers and residents of medically underserved areas will be hard hit by federal budget cuts through sequestration.

The Ona of Abaji and Chairman FCT Council of Traditional rulers, Alhaji Adamu Baba Yunusa on Friday raised alarm of threats by Boko Haram to attack the Federal Capital Territory through the Abaji and neighbouring communities saying that rumours of the attack was a serious cause of concern to him.

The low - interest loans were made available in June 2009 through the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to help communities stimulate the economy by making money available for development.

One of the reform movement's proposals is to create what Chen called «jury style community lending authorities» that leverage state funds through federal reserve lending facilities.

The statement added that in the past ten years, Indorama - Nigeria has been a responsible corporate citizen, reputed for its excellent Public Private Partnership (PPP)-- sharing its wealth / dividend with shareholders including the Federal Government (through the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and the Bureau of Public Enterprises), Rivers State Government, and host communities and Nigerian employees.

Rhodes said more must be done to provide opportunities for young people through job retraining, trade apprenticeships and increased federal aid to local universities and community colleges.

The New York Rising Community Construction program involves approximately 100 qualifying communities that will be eligible to share in more than $ 500 million of funding made available through the federal supplemental appropriation the governor worked with Congress to obtain earlier this year.

Poverty and more specific generational poverty can only be effectively addressed through strategic community partnerships, between the city, Onondaga County, who administers all social service programs and our state and federal governments.

By this they hope to attract the attention of the Federal Government and the international community through the huge economic loses that often result from the success of any of their activities, strikes or attacks.

If the $ 15 million federal grant comes through, Onondaga Community College will be able to partner with local businesses and place graduates in a job and train local residents in the growing field of mechatronics.

Etim Ekpimah, Uyo Traditional rulers and community leaders from Eket Federal Constituency have asked the Federal Government through the National Assembly Joint Committee on Petroleum Industry Bill to establish a Petroleum Host Communities Development Trust.

The organizations receive a combined $ 400,000 of federal aid distributed through New York state and Onondaga County's Office for Aging from a federal community development block grant.

The federal funding comes through the state and distributed through the Office of Community Development.

Each year we sift through the President's budget, monitor ongoing Congressional debates, and keep an eye on longer - term budget trends to provide timely and objective information and perspectives on the federal R&D enterprise to policymakers and the science and engineering community.

Over time, the government has come to rely on data from the census and its longer annual offshoot, the American Community Survey (ACS), to allocate half - a-trillion dollars through health, welfare, housing, infrastructure, education, and other federal programs.

The many serious technical deficiencies of the Yucca Mountain site and DOE's flawed approach to geologic disposal notwithstanding, the most potentially explosive aspect of the federal program is the reality that tens of thousands of shipments of deadly spent nuclear fuel and high - level radioactive waste will travel the nation's highways and railroads - through 43 states and thousands of communities, day after day for upwards of 40 years.

Since 1994, SRIC has worked with those communities and the community - based group, Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining (ENDAUM - CCT), to stop the proposed mines through community education, interaction with Navajo Nation leaders, and a seven - year - long legal challenge of the mines» federal license.

Through ACURA universities with support from the Federal Granting Councils, the National Research Council of Canada, and provincial funding, the Canadian astronomical community has contributed important work to TMT over the last decade in two key development areas.

We create opportunities for collaboration through partnerships with other DOE facilities, other federal agencies, the academic community, and industry.

Mar 13, but your community in ma a One way to learn about federal laws and regulations is through the federal agencies charged with enforcing them.

Those who swear by it frequently invoke the results of Project Follow Through, the largest and most expensive educational research study ever mounted by the federal government, which compared the outcomes of over twenty different educational interventions in high - poverty communities over a multiyear period.

Lamar Alexander, chairman of the Senate HELP committee, put forth a bill that leaves open the possibility of removing the federal requirement that states test students annually in reading and math from grades three through eight — a possibility that has thoroughly freaked out much of the education - reform community.

Fifty percent of the programs funding comes from a 21st Century Community Center grant, a federal program administered through the Vermont Department of Education, and the other half comes from the school budget, donations, other grants and community partCommunity Center grant, a federal program administered through the Vermont Department of Education, and the other half comes from the school budget, donations, other grants and community partcommunity partnerships.

Teachers Can Help With the U.S. Census The U.S. Census provides the federal government with key data that affects local communities, and the Census Bureau wants educators to spread the word about the 2010 head count through lesson plans and teaching materials it has prepared for teachers.

Topics discussed include petition filed by principals from high schools in Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) on the district to apply for federal small learning community (SLC) grant from the U.S. Department of Education, early college credit options through dual enrollment, dual credit offered by academies and views of student Mohamad Obaid on the same.

The administration promised $ 1 billion in new spending on preschool; spurred states to adopt controversial K - 12 reforms such as performance - based teacher evaluations and the adoption of the Common Core State Standards through its Race to the Top grant program and waivers to the No Child Left Behind law; significantly expanded the federal School Improvement Grant program to turn around low - performing schools; targeted for - profit colleges and attempted to increase accountability in the higher education sector; and pushed a proposal by the president to make community college free.

''... Public university leaders working through the Science and Mathematics Teacher Imperative will catalyze action across sectors — state and federal governments, the business community, the K - 12 community, and others to seriously undertake the challenging effort of adequately preparing teachers to teach science and mathematics in the 21st century..»

Jones said she is contemplating a bill to eliminate the child deduction on Utah income tax (though not the federal deduction) and dedicating new revenues from this move to local public schools through the community councils.

Through the Community Eligibility Provision, the federal government splits meal costs with school districts to provide free lunches to 6.4 million children attending high - poverty schools.

At DFER we partnered with the civil rights community and with congressional Democrats to preserve federal testing mandates in national education policy through the recently enacted Every Student Succeeds Act.

Federal policy also could help foster productive external relationships by providing incentives for family and community involvement through the school assessment process.

As one of the federal Early Head Start and Head Start grant recipients in the Chicago area, the Ounce of Prevention Fund provides high - quality child care and education to more than 1,400 young children through partnerships with eight community agencies.

Some states had already started down this path, broadening the measures they used to assess school quality in response to federal education policy changes made in 2011 through the Obama administration's No Child Left Behind waivers.2 Building on this progress, ESSA requires all states to rethink their school classification systems in consultation with community members.

We are discouraged by the data, but are confident that our community of advocates will reverse these trends through research, communications, and smart policymaking at the federal and local levels.»

A public charter school, Morris Jeff Community School relies heavily on state and federal per pupil funding through Louisiana's Minimum Foundation Program.