South Carolina educators
use federal stimulus dollars to work with students in danger of failing to earn diplomas.
Not exact matches
Race to the Top: President Obama's Race to the Top (RttT) initiative helped (and continues to help) to distribute billions of
dollars in
federal stimulus monies to states, thus far to a total of $ 4.35 billion, if states promise via their legislative policies that they will
use students» large - scale standardized test scores for even more consequential purposes than NCLB required prior.
«The group's proposed reforms correspond to criteria the
federal government will
use to award additional education
stimulus dollars on a competitive basis starting this fall.»
Here in Australian, the
federal government is spending tens of billions of
dollars on
stimulus package after
stimulus package, and tiny fractions of that (mainly at the instigation of Greens senators who are
using their balance of power for leverage) are going towards emissions reduction.
The
federal government made a stunning 179,000 «categorical exclusions» that allowed corporations — many with disastrous environmental records — to
use stimulus funding to sponsor projects without submitting them to review under the nation's «most basic form of environmental oversight», a new report from the Center for Public Integrity found.Making matters worse, many of these projects were approved under the auspices of being «green» or clean energy projects (many more are transportation - related)-- thus helping to comprise the billions of
dollars in funding for green projects that sent progressives» hearts aflutter two years ago.