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Recent Examples of state aid
In 2020, the Florida Supreme Court gave religious schools access to state aid.
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Clara-Sophia Daly, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2025
Enrollment is the primary driver of a school district’s budget, with nearly all revenue linked to enrollment, including state aid and local property taxes, according to SPPS.
—Imani Cruzen, Twin Cities, 16 Mar. 2025
The district has been balancing its budget, amid inflation and stagnant state aid, by banking on hundreds of staff positions going unfilled.
—Rory Linnane, Journal Sentinel, 24 June 2024
The district is facing an uncertain fiscal future and ballooning deficits without local and state aid.
—Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 28 Mar. 2025
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Clara-Sophia Daly, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2025
Enrollment is the primary driver of a school district’s budget, with nearly all revenue linked to enrollment, including state aid and local property taxes, according to SPPS.
—Imani Cruzen, Twin Cities, 16 Mar. 2025
The district has been balancing its budget, amid inflation and stagnant state aid, by banking on hundreds of staff positions going unfilled.
—Rory Linnane, Journal Sentinel, 24 June 2024
The district is facing an uncertain fiscal future and ballooning deficits without local and state aid.
—Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 28 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for state aid
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With the Republicans enjoying a majority in both the House and Senate, the courts have emerged as a major impediment to Trump administration policy, and have ruled against the government on a range of issues including the presence of transgender personnel in the military and a foreign aid freeze.—
James Bickerton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 May 2025
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The Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, known as PRM, is assuming that function from the U.S. Agency for International Development, the main U.S. foreign aid agency that the Trump administration has been dismantling, say the excerpts reviewed by Reuters.—
Jonathan Landay,
USA Today,
23 May 2025
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In addition, urgent cases are being referred for emergency cash assistance.—
Sarah Ferguson,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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Kennealy was the head of the former Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development, the agency that oversaw emergency shelter assistance shelters set up under the state’s right-to-shelter law.—
Chris Van Buskirk,
Boston Herald,
22 May 2025
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Shrinking resources for assistance LIHEAP, created in 1981, provides funding to states as block grants to help low-income families pay their utility bills.—
Conor Harrison,
The Conversation,
13 May 2025
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The effect of turning them to block grants would depend on how the state used the money; Baker notes the irony that state grants would be based on need, but the state would not be under any obligation to give the money to districts where that need exists.—
Peter Greene,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
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The evolution of Spain’s television landscape could offer partial relief.—
Jamie Lang,
Variety,
14 May 2025
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Frequent Shein and Temu shoppers can breathe a small sigh of relief after President Donald Trump rolled back the most stringent policies on Chinese imports, with the new rules effective today.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
14 May 2025
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“State aid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/state%20aid. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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