Sentences with phrase «where federal dollars»

Sen. Maggie Hassan then followed up, noting that IDEA is federal law and «federal law must be followed where federal dollars are in play.»

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Every federal dollar should be leveraged by partnering with state and local governments, and, where appropriate, tapping into private sector investment, to permanently fix the infrastructure deficit.

Another way that the current crisis hurts those at the bottom of the economic ladder was revealed in a conversation with Lucy Luna, a United Food and Commercial Workers union organizer among immigrant farm workers in the Fraser Valley, who notes that the reduced value of the Canadian dollar means that the remittances sent home to Mexico by the «guest workers» shipped to Canada under a federal temporary work permit program are now nearly cut in half in value by the time they reach Mexico, where the economy is geared to the U.S. dollar.

The US Dollar index hit new highs for the year ahead of the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision later today, where it's expected they will continue to signal further rate hikes as the US economy grows at a reasonable pace.

Moreover, I really want to hear from Mike McGalliard (either here on TLT where he's commented before or perhaps on next week's episode) how he plans to «scale up» a Carpinteria - style operation at West Adams using only federal reimbursement dollars.

That's very different situation from a high school like Holy Trinity where kids have no other lunch options (besides lunch from home), keeping the level of federal reimbursement dollars higher.

In November 2015, former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was convicted of 7 felony counts of federal corruption charges in a kick - back scheme where he gave $ 500,000 in state lump sum tax dollars to a physician who would refer patients to the Speaker's law firm where he would get referral fees.

Trump and Gov. Andrew Cuomo met at Trump Tower, where Cuomo made his pitch for the state to receive federal infrastructure dollars for state projects and voiced concerns about Republican - led efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

To avert a situation where New York is forced to return hundreds of millions of sorely - needed federal dollars, we urge you to consider introducing «shot clock» style measures to ensure that all school districts will fully implement the state's new teacher evaluation framework in accordance with the Race to the Top timeline.

President - elect Donald Trump and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo met at Trump Tower Wednesday morning, where Cuomo made his pitch for the state to receive federal infrastructure dollars for state projects and voiced concerns about Republican - led efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

Nixon will likely be the beneficiary of small - dollar donations — something that has not really been tried at a statewide level in New York, where contribution limits are far higher than the federal cap.

«And finally, in pending and future cases, to the extent any public official has a pension interest that accrued while engaging in criminal conduct, we will use federal forfeiture law to claw back an appropriate dollar amount commensurate with that pension where appropriate.»

If nothing changes, right now Cuomo is sitting on a scandal where top members of his administration, close to him, are accused in federal complaints of corruption involving many millions of dollars, not a small percentage of which has found its way into Cuomo's campaign war chest.

We must also be better stewards of hard - earned taxpayer dollars by directing federal investment where it can be most effective in addressing our energy needs.

Central Falls, R.I., where an entire high school teaching staff was recently fired, is the latest example of a growing trend: no - nonsense superintendents attempting to improve their schools by firing teachers perceived to be incompetent to secure a bigger share of federal education dollars.

But the federal government could allow states to enact funding systems where federal, state, and local dollars follow students to the public schools of their choice.

Parents will have the knowledge of school performance to make informed choices about where to spend their new federal dollars.

The i3 grant along with Race to the Top are perhaps the two signature education programs from the Obama administration where big federal dollars have been given in exchange for promises by states and local districts for sweeping changes.

The movement toward boarding schools for low - income students has made some of its greatest strides in the District, where both Maya Angelou and the SEED Public Charter School receive an extra $ 14,000 in federal tax dollars each year for every student who lives on their premises.

Federal law now provides those protections to everyone, yet the unions have continued to fight for ever - stronger job protections uniquely for teachers to the point where now, in 2014, it is nearly impossible to fire any teacher without spending thousands of dollars and hours in legal battles, even when there is proof of student abuse!

In a recent House Committee on Appropriations hearing where she defended the Trump administration's fiscal year 2018 budget, DeVos refused to say whether K - 12 private schools receiving federal dollars through her voucher scheme would be permitted to discriminate against students.

We strongly object to having our tax dollars suctioned out of public schools, where those hard - won rights apply, and spent to lure families into fly - by - night private schools, where all of the federal special education rights and protections disappear, to be replaced by nothing more binding than a warning of «buyer, beware!»

A key role for federal education programs is offering what the Department calls an «emergency response system,» — a means of «filling the gaps» 6 where state and local dollars are not flowing proportionately to the students and schools that need them most.

From that website I learned of the department of education website where you can log on and review your student Fafsa report that shows a history of your student loans and grants received when in school and the payments paid during the repayment period (that is the money we pay to them for the loan) and found that not even one dollar of my payments have ever been reported by ACS, not even one, before the 10 years on the Income Based Repayment Plan, I was on a set plan that I had paid for 6 years $ 237 dollars each month on a fixed 3.25 % repayment plan, so why is it that not even one dollar is showing on the Federal Department of Education website showing any of those payments?

Golden Financial Services could consolidate the federal student loans into an income - based program, where the client's new monthly payment would be close to zero dollars per month.

For that matter, there was nothing normal about the U.S. Federal Reserve's quantitative easing experiment — an emergency endeavor where $ 3.75 trillion in electronic dollar credits were used to acquire government debt and mortgage - backed debt.

Rick held the title of Vice President of Originations and Operations for Key Education Resources, the student loan division of Key Bank where he managed the strategic operations and origination of a 1.8 billion dollar Federal and Private Student Loan Portfolio.

The reason why students are often confused with whether or not a Sallie Mae student loan is private or federal is because in 2008 our congress approved the Ensuring Continued Access to Student Loans Act where the government took over 112 - billion dollars worth of private student loan debts (commercially originated debt).

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At least in America where dispite the fact that 2 out of every 4 dollars the U.S. Federal government spends is borrowed, Conservatives continue to demand that they are over taxed and that tax cuts — what has produced America's $ 14 trillion dollare debt — are the solution to the budget crisis.

In California, where the lawsuits seek billions of dollars to pay for mitigation measures, such as sea walls to protect coastal property, the oil and gas companies responded by seeking to move the cases to federal courts, where nuisance claims are less likely to succeed.

We have successfully represented clients in both state and federal court, as well as in arbitration, winning construction cases where millions of dollars were at stake.

Via a post on the Land Use Prof Blog, I discovered that San Francisco (funded by your federal tax dollars) has, over the past couple of weeks, begun toying with a system of variable rate, electronically monitored parking meters, the stated goal of which is «collecting and distributing real - time information about where parking is available so drivers can quickly find open spaces,» and instituting «demand - responsive pricing.»

As it stands, Canada's federal courts rely on a tariff - based scheme where legal services are assigned a category from which a dollar amount is derived.

In 2013, after a two - month jury trial in federal court in Minnesota, Zelle attorneys helped obtain a complete defense verdict in a case where plaintiffs alleged the bank misrepresented its securities lending program and purchased unsuitable, high - risk investments causing plaintiffs to lose millions of dollars.

The revelations have touched off a string of investigations around the world, including the United States, where the Federal Trade Commission is scrutinizing Facebook over its privacy practices — and could potentially penalize the company with fines reaching into the millions of dollars.

In the cases of Arizona, Indiana, and Texas, where legislatures and governors had tried to bar the federally approved provider from participating in state Medicaid, judges ruled that states simply can't do that and expect to receive federal dollars.

Would the state do all right under the House Republican MIECHV plan, where the state would ultimately have to match all federal dollars?

Where the U.S. dollar's capacity to store value is managed by the quasi-governmental Federal Reserve, a cryptocurrency depends exclusively upon its underlying software and network to pass value between trading partners.

Decisions were made to turn down dollars for both high speed rail — defined by the federal government as trains that move at 110 miles per hour or far slower than the California project and European trains — as well as money for higher speed rail, where trains move slower, but are still quicker than cars.