In his letter Mr. Miller noted that Elizabeth Slater, the senior vice president for the grants program, was "laid off last spring due to our more limited available financial resources".
"We look for projects that will, when possible, affect the school in grades K-12, and affect every teacher and child in the school, which was appealing about this technology initiative," said Liz Murphy, one of the foundation's vice presidents for the grants program.
Within ten months from October 17, 1978, the Secretary shall promulgate rules and regulations for the conduct of the grant program established by this subchapter.
Paul Gilman, the agency's associate administrator for research and development, defended the grants program, noting that last year the National Research Council, the research arm of the National Academy of Sciences, reviewed it positively.
The money for the grant program is part of the $2.7 billion set aside last year by Congress in two separate appropriations for the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan.
But the secretary succeeded in increasing funding for charter schools by $58 million to $400 million, though she had hoped Congress would allocate $500 million for the grant program.
to extent practicable, has conducted peer reviews in not less than two previous competitions for the grant program that is the subject of such secondary review.
Handling borrowers in deferment or forbearance and those who are delinquent is less lucrative for the company than servicing student loans — but, in most cases, it's still more than the government pays for the grant program.
This year, Mr. Mulvaney zeroed out funding for the grant program, which provides a broad and flexible funding pool for an array of community development, only to have Senate Republicans restore the cuts.
The audit did, however, find that some projects that had been promised money in the lead-up to election were later found to be ineligible for the grant program.
"I'm not a fan of arming teachers, but the safe schools block grant for many years has allowed states to make the decision about how to use those federal dollars to make schools safer for children," he said, using an earlier name for the grant program at issue.
