Sentences with phrase «funding for college work»

Funding for college work - study programs would be cut in half, public - service loan forgiveness would end and hundreds of millions of dollars that public schools could use for mental health, advanced coursework and other services would vanish under a Trump administration plan to cut $ 10.6 billion from federal education initiatives, according to budget documents obtained by The Washington Post.

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As an example, Crowder points to Catalyst Fund portfolio company Quad Learning, which works with community colleges to offer affordable education for students earning a bachelor's degree.

After college, Bezos worked for several years in finance, including at hedge fund D. E. Shaw, where he had the idea to sell books over the Internet, according to the Wired feature.

After graduating from Middlebury College with a major in geography in 2003, he spent a couple of years working for the Conservation Fund, a nonprofit that helps fund land and water conservation projeFund, a nonprofit that helps fund land and water conservation projefund land and water conservation projects.

I did work at a fund for 9 months in college..

He started an online textbook retail company while in college, served as the CFO for an electric vehicle startup, Lit Motors, and worked for Innovation Endeavors, a seed stage venture fund backed by Eric Schmidt.

That means the Google sale accomplished three lifelong goals for me: allowing me to set aside enough to pay for my twin toddlers» college educations, funding my wife and my retirement account, and giving us a financial cushion that means I'll never have to work at a job I don't love.

«Yet as a private college, finance for college fees is capped at # 6,000 [per year](not the # 9,000 for the state sector) and overseas students are denied the opportunity to work, where this is not the case with publicly funded institutions.»

Consider this... a person goes to college, gets a four year degree in archaeology (or some antiquities preservation analog); spends summers sifting through sand and rock and gravel, all the while taking graduate level classes... person eventually obtains the vaunted PhD in archaeology... then works his / her tail off seeking funding for an archeological excavation, with the payoff being more funding, and more opportunities to dig in the dirt... do you think professional archaeologists are looking hard for evidence of the Exodus on a speculative basis... not a chance... they know their PhD buys them nothing more than a job at Tel Aviv Walmart if they don't discover and publish... so they write grants for digs near established sites / communities, and stay employed sifting rock in culturally safe areas... not unless some shepard stumbles upon a rare find in an unexpected place do you get archeological interest and action in remote places... not at all surprising that the pottery and other evidence of the Exodus and other biblical events lie waiting to be discovered... doesn't mean not there... just not found yet...

The Wall Street Journal Financial Guidebook for New Parents shows you the way, with information on how to: safeguard your child's well - being with wills, trusts, and life insurance; best weigh your child - care options and decide whether to go back to work; save on taxes with child - friendly tax credits and deductions plus tax - advantaged benefits at work; manage your family's health - care costs; save for long - term costs by setting up a college fund; spend smart and save money at every stage of your child's development; continue to contribute to your own retirement savings

The legislative leaders say they are still working out the details to provide more funds for college tuition for New York's students, and they want to resolve differences over extending ride hailing services to places outside New York City.

Bonilla has worked for the Census Bureau; the Fund for the City of New York as the Director of Operations for its E-CommunityConnect Technology Initiative; and spent nine years at CUNY in the Heights, which is part of Hostos Community College's Division of Continuing Education and Workforce Development.

«I want to see more details of the governor's proposal to understand how this would work, where the funding would come from, when students would qualify for and receive the free tuition and what would happen if a student doesn't complete their college studies,» Little told the Sun in an email.

«Despite the progress outlined in this tentative deal there is clearly a lot of work ahead of us, including stronger criminal justice reforms; full funding for our state's public education system; ensuring affordable college for all New Yorkers, including DREAMers; additional support for Planned Parenthood; and ethics and voting reforms,» said Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins.

Sam Rowser, deputy executive director of On Point for College, said that the self - sustaining fund makes a «tremendous difference» in the lives of students his organization works with.

«I am calling for a Green New Deal for New York to establish the human right of all New Yorkers to economic security and prosperity, including decent jobs, living wages, publicly - funded health care, good public education from pre-K through college, and affordable housing, mass transit, and clean energy,» said Hawkins, a working Teamster who unloads trucks at night at UPS in Syracuse.

Among the top issues he is working on are preventing the sale of Plum Island, doubling funding for the Long Island Sound Program to $ 8 million and fully funding the Peconic Estuary Program, to $ 26.7 million, and the National Sea Grant College Program, which will help grow Long Island's seafood economy, to $ 72.5 million, according to Jennifer DiSiena, Mr. Zeldin's communications director.

Bill Lipton, New York State director for the Working Families Party, argued CUNY funding intersects with a host of other liberal goals — including passing the DREAM Act, which would make undocumented college students eligible for state tuition assistance.

Multi-center, international collaboration The publication is the result of a collaboration between the Medical University of Vienna (Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, working group led by Winfried Mayr), the Otto - Wagner Hospital (Neurology Center, Heinrich Binder), Vienna University of Technology (Institute for Analysis und Scientific Computing, Frank Rattay) and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX (Milan R. Dimitrijevic) and is funded by the Vienna Science, Research and Technology Fund (WWTF) and by the «Wings for Life — Spinal Cord Research Foundation.»

«In these times of recession and pay - as - you - go sweeping the country, this seems like a great way to fund higher education for students, without further burdening taxpayers,» says Kanter, who came to Washington, D.C., in 2009 after working for three decades in the California community college system.

They will be representing the majority of teachers and a voice for the education profession, including support staff, lecturers and leaders working in state - funded and independent schools and colleges.

16, works for Summer Search, an organization that mentors low - income students from their sophomore year in high school through their college graduation, and provides them with fully funded summer experiences like academic programs or wilderness opportunities.

His current work includes a project on the evaluation of high school performance using non-test score outcomes that is funded by the Spencer Foundation, and an IES - funded project on the outcomes of students who attend for - profit colleges.

Thousands of schools for African American students across the Jim Crow South were built with the backing of the Rosenwald Fund, one of the earliest and most important foundations in education; philanthropist Grace Dodge founded Teachers College, now at Columbia University, in 1887, which led to training of teachers in pedagogy; the Ford Foundation was involved in promoting the employment of classroom aides, National Merit Scholarships, and the development of Advanced Placement curricula and tests; the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards grew out of work funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York, which also funded the Educational Testing Service to develop objective ways of measuring academic merit, which led to the SAT.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

For example, in my own work with several colleagues, which was partially funded by IES, we demonstrated that providing low - and moderate - income families with streamlined personal assistance to complete the federal college financial aid application had large effects on college attendance and persistence.

A third report, Small High Schools at Work: A Case Study of Six Gates - Funded Schools in New York City, from the Academy for Educational Development, takes a close look a handful of these new small schools, focusing on particular practices associated with student success: intermediary support, personal and academic support, effective instructional practices, and college preparation.

Funded by: U.S. Department of Education - IES Amount: $ 1,000,000 Dates: 7/1/14 — 12/31/18 Summary: The Massachusetts Institute for College and Career Readiness (MICCR) will promote working alliances between researchers and policymakers in the use and interpretation of data and evidence to guide decision - making and improve student outcomes through meetings with MA Gateway City school and government leaders, as well as collaboration between researchers and teachers in the target communities.

Good news for Careers in general but unless the funding is spread across the spectrum of 14 — 18 in schools and colleges, advice and guidance will continue to be fragmented, some unbiased and many of our learners will not have access to one - to - one guidance because of the huge numbers involved and the high work load of those responsible for delivering the service in schools and colleges.

We also are working with music teachers to raise funds for talented RCSD high - school students who need quality musical instruments to audition for college music programs - and working to support present and future student needs.

Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, told Schools Week that although schools work hard to provide young people with support, equipment and skills for studying at home, their ability to offer the level of provision disadvantaged young people require «is being seriously eroded by the ongoing education funding crisis».

I secured funds to reduce overcrowding and improve the quality of education by upgrading outdated classrooms and science labs, repairing deteriorating schools to improve student safety, and creating new, smaller neighborhood schools so students are better prepared for college and to get the job skills they need to work in a 21st Century economy.

Before joining the Education Fund he worked at California Tomorrow as Senior Associate for Public Education, Advocacy, and Alliance Building for the Community College Access and Equity Initiative.

With your support of publicly funded programs such as quality early childhood education, college and career prep, STEM initiatives, arts education, and extended - day learning, we will help existing schools work towards closing the achievement gap and help prepare our students for success in academics and in life.

This is a call for proposals as part of a # 5 million, three - year funding programme that will support work in colleges, sixth form centres, schools and other providers across England.

NewSchools Venture Fund is a not - for - profit organization working to close the achievement gap by funding and supporting entrepreneurs who are creating innovative solutions to the problems in public education so that all children have the opportunity to succeed in college and beyond.

Meanwhile it has ceded ground to Parent Power groups such as the Connecticut Parents Union and the Black Alliance for Educational Options, old - school civil rights organizations as the United Negro College Fund and 100 Black Men, and players such as Newark Mayor Cory Booker and Dr. Steve Perry, who are doing the work for which the NAACP was once known.

While MCAN's primary strategy to achieving Goal 2025 remains the development and support of Local College Access Networks, MCAN will now also provide grant funding to direct service programs for innovative work in support of the Big Goal.

Teach for America begun a major expansion several years ago, funded by a grant from the federal government and likely facilitated by a weak labor market for college graduates, who may have increasingly turned to teaching after failing to find other work.

Holiday Fair: Our Holiday Fair in December allows student entrepreneurs and groups to showcase their work or product and raise funds for different purposes; such as college, school trips, activities or simply to have a little extra cash in their pockets.

At The Leadership Conference Education Fund and The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, we work to transform American public education so that all young people attend and are fully included in responsive, welcoming, rigorous, and fairly resourced schools that prepare all of them, beginning in early childhood and continuing throughout their K - 12 years, for college and career.

While at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, Upenyu has worked as an Academic Lead for a Pre-college program serving college - bound students from minority backgrounds; Teaching Assistant at undergraduate and graduate levels; and Academic Coordinator for the State Department - funded Mandela Washington Fellowship / Young African Leaders Initiative.

In this two - year study, Research for Action (RFA), working in collaboration with Jeffrey Henig of Teachers College, assessed the formation and development of a coalition of organizing and advocacy groups, funded by the Donors» Education Collaborative (DEC), and their impact on the debate about the mayoral control of schools in New York City (NYC).

She works on behalf of 28 public school systems to secure funding for and collaborate on the design and delivery of sustained professional development experiences primarily in the areas of college and career readiness, literacy, and principal leadership.

Sandoval says he is still working with state and federal officials to find ways to pool different funding streams to support the framework, and has found opportunities in the push to ensure students are ready for college and careers.

This bill would authorize funding for the development of alternatives for high school juniors and seniors to take college - level courses and work toward an associate's degree or take courses at a career or technical college.

Membership of this Network is open to grant - makers with an active interest in funding work to address educational disadvantage within state - funded schools and colleges for children and young people aged 5 - 18.

Fostered through a demonstration project funded by The James Irvine Foundation, Linked Learning is part of a vanguard of programs designed to attain these dual goals by integrating rigorous, college - preparatory academics with career - technical education and exposure to work - based learning experiences in high school career pathways that afford both equitable access and the opportunity for full participation to all students.

She has worked on a number of other studies, including a longitudinal study of the effectiveness of inclusive STEM high schools funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Evaluation of Writing Project Professional Development for the National Writing Project, the National Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund Program for the U.S. Department of Education, evaluations of several school reform initiatives in Chicago, and the Bridging the Divide study that examined the transition from high school to college for the U.S. Department of Education.