As new funding sources become available to states
through federal stimulus,...
For me, the current economic climate means that every opportunity, new and old, must be explored and explored again... from the possible opportunities for funding
through the Federal Stimulus Package which passed in February to letters updating donors who have supported us in past years.
Programs serving the nation's economically disadvantaged students and those with disabilities are receiving massive funding boosts
through the federal stimulus package — $ 13 billion for Title I aid and $ 11.3 billion for special education — but how school districts choose to use the money may set them up for problems when it dries up.
Not exact matches
The stakes are high for this assessment, not only because it will be a primary determinant of the timing of
Federal Reserve policy tightening; the more one believes that current high long - term unemployment is cyclically (demand) driven rather than structurally (mismatch and demographic) driven, the more one believes workers can be brought back into employment
through monetary (or other)
stimulus.»
A stronger
stimulus program would have propelled recovery — and
federal purchases could have been made
through the private sector rather than
through WPA - type programs.
Five local projects - including a steel processing plant and a boutique hotel - have been chosen to share a $ 28 million pot of tax - free financing made available
through the
federal government's economic
stimulus program.
SolarCity has agreed to pay $ 29.5 million to settle allegations that it lied to the
federal government by submitting inflated claims
through a solar energy
stimulus program, the Justice Department said.
School aid, in fact, increased
through the recession, McMahon pointed out, because of
federal stimulus aid, which ran out by the time Cuomo took office.
Economic
stimulus funding
through the
federal Recovery Act will direct $ 19 million towards Oneida County over the next two years to help deal with Medicaid costs.
The State,
through the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), awarded LIPA $ 6.7 million in
Federal stimulus funding which will allow LIPA to connect the solar panels installed on the carports to the Long Island electric grid.
The following statements were provided in support of
Federal stimulus funding for residential and large - scale solar energy projects
through LIPA:
Amid fanfare around the billions of dollars being delivered to schools
through the
federal economic -
stimulus package, members of the National Conference of State Legislatures are warning that the education agenda being pushed by the Obama administration is shaping up to be just as prescriptive and intrusive as the 8 - year - old No Child Left Behind Act.
These new tests are funded by $ 330 million in
stimulus money
through the
federal Race to the Top competition and are intended to measure critical thinking, particularly the critical skills emphasized by the Common Core State Standards, the set of educational standards most states have agreed to adopt.
The Race to the Top initiative, initially financed
through the 2009
federal economic -
stimulus legislation, gave Democrats the political cover to push for priorities such as expansion of charter schools, alternative teacher training, and teacher performance evaluations tied in part to students» academic gains — issues that previously had been associated most closely with Republicans.
recognizing the importance of the matter, president Obama and congressional leaders included $ 650 million in the
federal stimulus package for the enhancing education
Through technology (eett) state grant program — 25 percent of which must be used for professional development on the best uses of technology — that will begin flowing to schools later this month.
Many of the ideas Duncan pushed states to adopt
through Race to the Top, the $ 4 billion grant fund created by the 2009
federal stimulus law, come straight out of playbooks developed by Gates and other foundations.
First established as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (otherwise known as the «
stimulus» legislation), and now continued as a regular Department program in the fiscal 2012 year, i3 was intended to shift the innovation ecosystem toward greater quantity, rigor and diffusion of innovation, to thread innovation into the way the Department itself works (including the use of a «field scan» mechanism) and to align funding for the «supply» of innovation with the «demand» the U.S. Department of Education had created
through other
federal programs.
The
Federal Reserve has maintained its
stimulus program in full
through 2013, citing still - sluggish economic data as a reason to keep buying $ 85 billion in bonds per month.
Couple that with the fact that the Obama administration's ambitious and very aggressive
federal stimulus plan will add more money into the economy, mostly
through tax rebates that will go directly to consumers, and we should soon see growing consumer confidence.
CRISSY FIELD CENTER»S «GREEN» INTERIM MODULARS SHOWCASE SUSTAINABILITY FOR STUDENTS AND PARK VISITORS SAN FRANCISCO, CA: With the infusion of
federal stimulus funds
through the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act, one of the Bay Area's largest and most anticipated public works projects — the reconstruction of the Doyle Drive / Presidio Parkway approach to the Golden Gate Bridge, originally scheduled to begin in 2011 — was put on the fast track to break ground in summer 2009.
The California Energy Commission's Integrated Energy Policy Report (IEPR) and
Federal Stimulus Program (Ad Hoc) Committees will conduct a joint workshop to discuss clean technology innovation efforts funded
through U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) competitive solicitations with a focus on projects receiving cost - share funding from the Energy Commission's Public Interest Energy Research and Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Programs.
The
federal government came
through with real incentives for home buyers when it passed the $ 790 billion economic
stimulus package in mid-February, followed a day later with more positive action when the Obama administration released a $ 275 billion plan for helping home owners facing foreclosure (for more on these plans, read «A Stimulus for Home Sales&
stimulus package in mid-February, followed a day later with more positive action when the Obama administration released a $ 275 billion plan for helping home owners facing foreclosure (for more on these plans, read «A
Stimulus for Home Sales&
Stimulus for Home Sales»).