Sentences with phrase «upon state funding»

Eligible attorneys must be employed full - time, and awards are dependent upon state funding each year.

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Expenses stated as of the fund's most recent prospectus: Institutional Shares Total / Net, Including Investment Related expenses are 0.76 % / 0.75 % and have contractual waivers with an end date of 4/30/18 terminable upon 90 days» notice.

The Gates Foundation has quickly become a major influence upon global health; the approximately US$ 800 million that the foundation gives every year for global health approaches the an - nual budget of the United Nations World Health Organization (193 nations) and is comparable to the funds given to fight infe - ctious di - sease by the United States Agency for International Development.

Powerful well - funded agencies, often promoted by the State (I avoid the word «Government» as I do not want to speak in party - political terms), are mounting a relentless onslaught upon the family and especially the moral sense of our young people.

They are forced to work without state funding and are entirely reliant upon donations from members of the public.

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The date happens to coincide with the new mayor's planned descent upon Albany to convince reticent state lawmakers to support his plan to raise taxes on the city's wealthy to fund universal pre-K and after - school programs.

Mayor de Blasio is also calling upon Governor Andrew Cuomo to stick to his promise of paying $ 8 billion in state funding toward subway repairs, though Cuomo has some ideas of his own for generating funds for the subway that include offering companies the opportunity to sponsor subway stations for an annual fee.

Plans for two new state - funded Catholic schools with discriminatory admissions policies have cleared a further hurdle today, after Mr Justice Sales in the High Court dismissed a judicial review of Richmond - upon - Thames council's decision to approve them.

In July, the Thruway Authority prevailed upon the Environmental Facilities Corporation (also controlled by the governor) to lend it $ 255.7 m in short term State Clean Water Revolving Fund, «STIFF» funds.

The federal funding is contingent upon the state's current investments and reaffirms New York's commitment to broadband expansion.

Cuomo's budget director Megna denies that the sweep of state insurance funds is a one shot, something frowned upon and criticized in past budgets in New York.

Cuts to HUD CDBGs that fund housing, services, and administrative staff to address the homeless issue may likely mean additional responsibilities upon local and state staff.

In 1964, for example, the Senate GOP's fundraising operations were pretty much dependent upon how much money the state party funded by Gov. Nelson Rockefeller decided to chip in; since then, the centralized Senate Republican Campaign Committee, a network of independent expenditure committees, and scores of single - member Albany fundraisers each year guarantee that no incumbent in a close race will lack for funds.

«Given the serious nature of the allegations made last week, the campaign contributions given by the defendants will be set aside in a separate account to be made available for any forfeiture recoveries pursued by law enforcement upon case disposition, rather than returning the funds to the defendants,» said Basil Smikle, the executive director of the state Democratic Committee in an email statement.

Upon Cuomo's pledge this month to chip in $ 8.3 billion to the MTA's modernization plan, upstate lawmakers began citing the needs of roads and bridges in their communities, hoping to have a shot at state funding for those improvements during the next budget process.

A third of existing state - funded schools are religious, as are a similar proportion of new Free Schools that are being approved, and now it seems that an increasing number of schools with no previous religious character are at risk of having one forced upon them.

Local Bronx Senator and Senate President Pro-Tem Jeff Klein has bucked the Governor, calling upon the state to approve the city plan put forward by Mayor Bill DeBlasio to tax city residents who earn over $ 500,000 to fund a universal Pre-K plan in the city.

Rice has closed out her attorney general accounts with the state Board of Elections, but kept her old district attorney campaign committee open, drawing upon its $ 1.6 million - plus in funds to bankroll ads and to sponsor local groups and candidates.

In a move widely seen as dismissive of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's education initiatives, Miner and de Blasio on Monday called upon state officials to revise school aid based on the Citizens for Fiscal Equity court decision, which held that New York City schools were inadequately funded.

Mr. DiNapoli's spokesman, Dennis Tompkins, said the comptroller's proposal was different from the one agreed upon by state leaders because it would also force state and local governments to set aside funds during prosperous times in reserve accounts that could be tapped during bear markets.

The New York State Sheriffs» Association today called upon the State Legislature to include in the 2018 State Budget sufficient funding to provide at least one armed school resource officer at every grade school and high school in the sState Sheriffs» Association today called upon the State Legislature to include in the 2018 State Budget sufficient funding to provide at least one armed school resource officer at every grade school and high school in the sState Legislature to include in the 2018 State Budget sufficient funding to provide at least one armed school resource officer at every grade school and high school in the sState Budget sufficient funding to provide at least one armed school resource officer at every grade school and high school in the statestate.

Now lowering the drinking age by the Governor and the State Legislature and telling our congressional delegation majority members (the Dems in the Senate and the Gops in the House) to uncouple the drinking age from the highway funding that triggered New York to raise it from 18 to 21 will have a very positive impact upon the economy!

Based upon the existing funding level expected in the state budget, roughly 300 youth will participate in the Summer Youth Employment Program, in which income - eligible teen - agers will work with local employers, including health care and not - for - profit employers, to learn work skills.

One of the charge reads: «That you, Obiageli Nwagu trading under the name and style of Pizzaz Enterprises on or about the 2nd day of December, 2013 at Enugu within the jurisdiction of the High Court of Enugu State issued a First City Monument Bank Plc cheque No: 01952241 dated 2ndDecember, 2013, valued at N3, 800,000.00 to Chinwe Uzakah, the said cheque when presented for payment within three months was dishonored on the grounds that insufficient funds were standing to the credit of the account upon which it was drawn and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1 (1) of the Dishonored Cheque (Offences) Act, Cap D11, Laws of the Federation 2004 and punishable under Section 1 (1)(b) of the same Act».

Once upon a time, the Empire State Development Corp. oversaw major economic development projects funded by the sState Development Corp. oversaw major economic development projects funded by the statestate.

Almost all universities are state funded, and grants are generally bestowed by the individual countries» research councils, either directly to a PI or through the PI's institution, depending upon the country and type of grant.

Upon completing his postdoctoral work, Nicolelis faced a stark choice: Return to Brazil, where research positions and funding opportunities were nearly nonexistent, or remain in the United States.

This material is based upon work supported as part of the «Solid State Solar - Thermal Energy Conversion Center (S3TEC), an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences under Award Number: DE-SC0001299 / DE-FG02-09ER46577.

The new bill, known as the Marijuana Justice Act, not only seeks to decriminalize marijuana, but it also hopes to impose penalties upon states that disproportionately target certain communities for drug related offenses and set up a fund designed to help improve the quality of life in areas most hard hit by the war on drugs.

Budget shocks are measured by changes in overall state funding for higher education, interacted with a measure of how much each institution generally depends upon such funding for its own budget.

State - level funding litigation has often revealed that education systems are based upon the bargains struck by politicians that are divorced from a rigorous analysis of the aims of education and the best means to achieve them.

Some of the organizers behind Education Forward have some clever ideas about how to fund the online courses a student might take, for example — by offering 50 percent of funding to the provider up - front for enrollment, 25 percent for the student passing the course, and the last 25 percent upon successful passage of the state final exam — but this idea, which moves the focus to student outcomes, isn't codified explicitly in the initiative (although the notion of competency - based learning is, which might lead to such an outcomes - based funding system).

And, third, such judicial funding decisions inappropriately intrude upon the power of states and localities to set their own public priorities and to make appropriate decisions.

As interest in early - childhood education grows, states struggle to build upon a patchwork funding system.

In reaching this conclusion, the Supreme Court relied upon the experience in state court «adequacy» cases, citing Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses: Solving the Funding - Achievement Puzzle in America's Public Schools, a recently released book by the authors of this post.

Because student funding in these states is so dependent upon neighborhood wealth, school districts are incentivized to create boundaries that exclude lower - income neighborhoods.

ASCD affiliates in other states or state or national departments of education might be able to draw upon funds that have been earmarked for professional development to support a project like Framework 2021.

They created a set of recommendations to update the state school funding formula and close the funding gap, one of which was to include a calculation to increase guidance and psychological staff based upon student enrollment, which does not currently exist.

This report authored by Californians Together and funded by The California Community Foundation, reports on data gathered from 40 school districts on English learners grades 6 — 12 and calls upon state policymakers and leaders to provide solutions for these students.

PEFNC outlined here that upon passage of a 2012 bill that would grant state tax credits for donations to tax - exempt scholarship - granting organizations that would fund scholarships for low - income students to use at private schools, PEFNC would administer that scholarship program, which was modeled after a program in Florida called Step Up For Students.

We've written that federal funding flowing to the two consortia designing new tests is contingent upon a minimum of 15 state participating.

This occurred at the federal level, as we all likely know, primarily via Race to the Top and the No Child Left Behind Waivers essentially forced upon states when states had to adopt VAMs (or growth models) to also reform their teachers, and subsequently their schools, in order to continue to receive the federal funds upon which all states still rely.

From the funds appropriated for the Florida Teachers Classroom Supply Assistance Program, the Commissioner of Education shall calculate an amount for each school district based upon each school district's proportionate share of the state's total unweighted FTE student enrollment and shall disburse the funds to the school districts by July 15.

The challenge, which called upon educator teams across the country to create plans that detailed innovative uses for federal funding for professional learning and student outcomes under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), named the Hope Street Group State Teacher Fellow team of Trey Ferguson (NC), Cassie Reding (KY), Carly Baldwin (KY), Natalie Coleman (TN) and Debbie Hickerson (TN) as finalists.

The 1988 funding levels were not based upon a valid analysis of the actual costs of providing a constitutionally adequate, quality education; and there is no basis to conclude that merely restoring the 1988 funding level will provide funding sufficient to meet the mandates of the Education Clause, state education reform legislation, or the Consolidated State state education reform legislation, or the Consolidated State State Plan.

Public education advocates and lawmakers like Cotham feared such requirements would be imposed upon potential recipients of state vouchers when funding for the program was bundled into the state's budget bill in 2013.

School districts are statutorily and constitutionally limited in their ability to generate revenues from local resources, but are dependent upon the state, which has consistently failed to provide sufficient funds to meet the qualitative mandate of the Education Clause and the requirements of education reform legislation and the Consolidated State state, which has consistently failed to provide sufficient funds to meet the qualitative mandate of the Education Clause and the requirements of education reform legislation and the Consolidated State State Plan.

Although state laws vary widely in terms of the policies governing charter school oversight and accountability, these publically funded institutions, which receive freedom from the rules and regulations of traditional district schools in exchange for meeting agreed - upon performance targets, now serve an estimated 2.9 million students in more than 6,700 schools around the country (National Alliance of Public Charter Schools [NAPCS], 2015).

Their average daily attendance (or ADA, the figure upon which the state bases annual funding for all districts) grew 6 %, so there's little question that more personnel helped keep pace with growing student need.