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Fresno, Calif. - Congressman Jim Costa (D-Calif.) announced that the Fresno Unified School District has received nearly $400,000 in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Education to expand counseling programs at four high-need elementary schools. The grant will enable the school district to expand and enhance the Safe and Civil Schools program, a school-wide and classroom-based program, to improve the safety and social behavior of students.
Fresno, Calif. - Congressman Jim Costa (D-Calif.) announced that the Kern County Superintendent of Schools (KCSOS) has received more than $500,000 in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Education to implement the "Kern Kids Get Moving!" project. The project is designed to help Kern County students meet state standards for physical education and will serve to promote and encourage lifelong eating habits. The project will target youth at the KCSOS Valley Oaks Charter School, Alternative Education Programs and five after school Migrant Education programs.
New police officer to join the force
Fresno, Calif. - Congressman Jim Costa (D-Calif.) announced that the Parlier Police Department will hire a new police officer for three years thanks to a $244,057 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS). Parlier was one of only 23 law enforcement agencies in California to receive the COPS Hiring Program grant.
"Legislation is powerful tool to hold EPA accountable"
Costa, Cardoza Applaud Court's Decision
Washington, D.C. – Congressmen Jim Costa (D-Fresno) and Dennis Cardoza (D-Merced) today reacted to the news that the United States District Court rejected a 2009 salmon biological opinion issued by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and ordered the agency to develop a new opinion. In his ruling, Judge Oliver Wanger criticized the biological opinion as "arbitrary, capricious, and unlawful" while also citing the "equivocal or bad science" used to justify the agency's action.
Calls on department to "stop the insanity"
Washington, D.C. - Congressman Jim Costa (D-Fresno) today rebuked the U.S. Department of the Interior in a letter to Secretary Ken Salazar for seeking a stay on Judge Oliver Wanger's Aug. 31 ruling on Interior's Delta smelt plan (fall X2). Judge Wanger found "there is essentially no biological evidence to support" the department's plan and halted its full implementation.
Washington, D.C. - Congressman Jim Costa (D-Fresno) released a statement following President Barack Obama's address to a Joint Session of Congress. The President laid out the principles of the American Jobs Act, legislation he will transmit to Congress in the coming days.
"I appreciated hearing the President's plan for job creation. We don't lack ideas. We lack jobs. That's why the President, the Congress, and the private sector must work together to put Americans back to work.
Grant will assist homeless and at-risk veterans in the San Joaquin Valley
Costa: Commonsense and good science have won the day
Fresno, Calif. - Congressman Jim Costa (D-Fresno) released a statement following the announcement that President Barack Obama directed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to withdraw proposed new regulations on air quality standards for ozone. The draft regulations would have rewritten the current ozone standards put in place by the Bush Administration in 2008 and are due to be updated in 2013, pursuant to the Clean Air Act.
Fresno, Calif. - Congressman Jim Costa (D-Calif.) announced that Clinica Sierra Vista of Bakersfield has received a $483,333 federal grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to open a new community health center in Fresno County known as the West Shaw Community Health Center. Clinica Sierra Vista was one of only 67 organizations across the nation to receive the HRSA grant. Costa supported Clinica Sierra Vista's application for federal funding in a letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.