Sentences with phrase «grants from the state education»

Hawkins added that Sophie B. Wright last year received a $ 200,000 grant from the state education department, in addition to a competitive three - year 21st Century grant worth nearly $ 1 million.

Albany, NY - The Northeast Charter Schools Network today congratulated eight New York charter schools awarded $ 4 million as part of the federally funded Charter School Dissemination Grants from the State Education Department.

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Florida schools have been granted a two - day hurricane reprieve from the state education commissioner.

Dr. Theophilus once went to the United States on a church grant, and managed to complete a Ph.D. in education from Iowa State in only two and a half years.

Created Race to the Top: With funds from stimulus, started $ 4.35 billion program of competîtive grants to encourage and reward states for education reform.

In 2009 the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) received a $ 14.4 million incentive grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs as part of the American...

State Education Commissioner David Steiner, who is under intense pressure to either grant or deny a waiver to Mayor Bloomberg's NYC schools chancellor pick, Cathie Black, is keeping a fairly low profile these days, but he did respond to a letter from minority lawmakers who hoped to meet with him prior to his decision.

Amber Rudd (Hastings and Rye): Will the Secretary of State join me in congratulating Conservative - run East Sussex county council, which, after a disappointing grant from the Department for Education, has stepped in with # 12 million of capital that it had not planned to give to ensure that the St Leonards academy is rebuilt to provide better education in Education, has stepped in with # 12 million of capital that it had not planned to give to ensure that the St Leonards academy is rebuilt to provide better education in education in Hastings?

Kaduna State government has benefted from the $ 100m World Bank education grant meant to rehabilitate and renovate schools, train teachers and motivate girl child education.

90 % of school districts have been granted waivers from the state education department that put off the new teacher performance standards until at least next March.

The Buffalo Public Schools District received word from the State Education Department Thursday that it would approve improvement grants for six city schools.

It said it was also false that a fresh N25 billion loan was applied for; saying that; «the only fresh loan taken by the government of Fayose was the N10 billion grant from the Excess Crude Account, which was released to all States for capital projects, N2.8 billion requested from Wema Bank to pay State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) counterpart fund out of which N1 billion has been accessed and N600 million for MDGs counterpart fund, which has been repaid.»

Cuomo announced the recipients of $ 35.3 million from the Higher Education Capital Matching Grant Program, which requires grantees match about $ 3 for every $ 1 the state awards.

Lawyers for the parents, who filed three separate lawsuits in Albany County Supreme Court this month, argued that State Education Commissioner David Steiner erred in granting Black a waiver from a requirement that she possess a master's degree — something they said he doesn't have the power to do.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is running for reelection and faces a Democratic primary challenge from actress and education activist Cynthia Nixon, promised to grant 35,000 felons currently on parole in New York State the right to vote.

«I wouldn't have gotten a degree,» he acknowledged, without help from the state's Tuition Assistance Program and Pell Grants, but Rhodes isn't one who believes the higher education system is broken in giving opportunities to deserving students.

Ninety percent of school districts have been granted waivers from the state education department that put off the new teacher performance standards until at least next March.

On the controversial N852.9 State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) fund, the commission said it was clear that the Government of Dr Fayemi hoodwinked the federal government into paying its own matching grant by obtaining N852, 936,783.12 loan from Access Bank on November 25, 2013 without perfecting documentation in respect of the loan, thereby flouting the provisions of Section 11 (2) of the UBEC Act, 2004.

State law dictates that the New York City schools chancellor has to be certified as a superintendent, which requires three years of education experience, or obtain a waiver from the state, which would be granted by SteState law dictates that the New York City schools chancellor has to be certified as a superintendent, which requires three years of education experience, or obtain a waiver from the state, which would be granted by Stestate, which would be granted by Steiner.

90 percent of school districts have been granted waivers from the state education department that put off the new teacher performance standards until at least next March.

«The only fresh loan taken by the government of Fayose was the N10bn grant from the Excess Crude Account, which was released to all states for capital projects, N2.8 bn requested from the Wema Bank to pay the State Universal Basic Education Board counterpart fund out of which N1bn has been accessed and N600m for MDGs counterpart fund, which has been repaid.»

Through an NSF - IGERT (Integrative Graduate Education Research and Training) grant from the National Science Foundation, Wayne State University (WSU) in Detroit, Michigan, has funding to support graduate research fellowships in the applications of high - performance computing.

The next year, he taught animation and Web design to twenty students and received a $ 50,000 grant from the state Board of Education to create a Web site, complete with streaming video.

Schools can secure a grant from their state's Department of Education or local funders.

Waiver: Comprehensive flexibility that the U.S. Department of Education has granted to more than 40 states and the District of Columbia from key requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act (the current version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act) in exchange for embracing certain Obama administration education - redesign priorities on teachers, testing, standards, and school turEducation has granted to more than 40 states and the District of Columbia from key requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act (the current version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act) in exchange for embracing certain Obama administration education - redesign priorities on teachers, testing, standards, and school turEducation Act) in exchange for embracing certain Obama administration education - redesign priorities on teachers, testing, standards, and school tureducation - redesign priorities on teachers, testing, standards, and school turnarounds.

The U.S. Department of Education so far has granted conditional waivers to 26 states from mandates such as the 2013 - 14 deadline for bringing all students to proficiency on state tests and the NCLB law's teacher - quality requirements.

That competition offers an enticing carrot — grants ranging from an estimated $ 20 million to $ 700 million each — to states that make strides in four education redesign areas.

This got much easier recently when House Education Committee Chair John Kline and K - 12 Subcomittee Chair Todd Rokita introduced the Student Success Act, which bars the feds from offering grants or policy waivers contingent on a state» s use of certain curricula or adoption of certain assessment policies.

Obama programs such as «Race to the Top,» a $ 4 billion competitive grant program that rewards states that develop reforms, has some support from states but is «not easy to explain,» said Jal Mehta, an assistant professor of education.

Amid continuing legal and political battles over the eight charter schools without walls now operating in the Keystone State, the legislature shifted the power to grant charters for such Internet - based schools from local school districts to the education department.

The Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University (CEPR) and the Harvard Graduate School of Education today announced a $ 15 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to launch a new, national education initiative to help school district and state leaders increase student achievement and attainment through data - informed decision Education Policy Research at Harvard University (CEPR) and the Harvard Graduate School of Education today announced a $ 15 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to launch a new, national education initiative to help school district and state leaders increase student achievement and attainment through data - informed decision Education today announced a $ 15 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to launch a new, national education initiative to help school district and state leaders increase student achievement and attainment through data - informed decision education initiative to help school district and state leaders increase student achievement and attainment through data - informed decision - making.

So the Obama administration offered states a deal: it would grant states «waiver» relief from NCLB sanctions if they stuck with the program on education policy.

This gap exasperates Steiner, himself the former state education commissioner of New York, where he championed the creation of the EngageNY curriculum website with funding from the state's $ 700 million Race to the Top grant.

President Obama sparked much debate in Washington with his plan to grant states waivers from provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), conditional on their willingness to embrace certain reform proposals sketched out in the administration's March 2010 proposal, «A Blueprint for Reform: The Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.»

There is often a rigorous application process for securing federal pass - through grants that come to you from your state education department.

She also was one of several researchers to receive a $ 3.3 million grant from the MacArthur Foundation to study children's use of digital media and its implications for education here in the United States.

Education schools have long been propped up by a variety of government subsidies, from federal support for tuition to state grants.

The blow to states - rights principles from national standards could be softened with pledges to block - grant federal education spending and encourage competition through charter schools or school vouchers, along the lines described in the contribution from Chester Finn and Michael Petrilli in this issue (see «A New New Federalism,» p. 48).

Officials from National - Louis University's college of education said the 7,500 - student university grants more master's degrees in education annually than any other public or private institution in the United States.

Inspired by a lecture from Albert Shanker, the longtime president of the American Federation of Teachers (whom Reichgott Junge heard describe charter schools as «the best answer so far» to the ills of the American education system) she worked with civic leaders and fellow representatives to draft and implement a bill granting greater autonomy for a subset of the North Star state's schools.

Except as otherwise provided for State test or examination requirements pursuant to subdivision (f) of this section, the commissioner may grant variances from the provisions of this Part upon a finding that a variance will enable a school to implement a program designed to provide excellence in education.

It is being widely reported this morning that in September U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will publish criteria states will have to meet to be granted waivers from the No Child Left Behind Act.

The congressional watchdog agency, in a report dated Oct. 3 but released this month, surveyed 10 states that received the largest share of funding from the abstinence education grant program.

The Obama administration spent over $ 3 million on School Improvement Grants to states to help them turn around their lowest - performing schools, but a new report from the Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education finds that most states lacked the capacity to improve those schools.

The three - year grants from the department's Fund for Innovation in Education were awarded to the education departments of 13 states: Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Vermont, and WEducation were awarded to the education departments of 13 states: Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Vermont, and Weducation departments of 13 states: Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Vermont, and Wisconsin.

Providing children with access to quality early childhood education from birth to age 5 by providing Early Learning Challenge Grants for states to implement and expand universal pre-K programs, expanding Head Start, and quadrupling Early Head Start enrollment.

I - DEA was one of eleven schools to receive a Tech Pilot grant from the State Department of Education.

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.

August 24, 2010 Education Grants Announced At a time of strapped school budgets, educators had a shot at grants worth from $ 75 million to $ 700 million per Grants Announced At a time of strapped school budgets, educators had a shot at grants worth from $ 75 million to $ 700 million per grants worth from $ 75 million to $ 700 million per state.

In 1965, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District in Virginia found in Griffin v. State Board of Education that vouchers from the state's tuition grant program could not lawfully be used to fund schools that discriminate based on race.27 While not citing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as a legal basis for its ruling, the court nonetheless relied on the law's definition of a public school — any institution that was «operated wholly or predominantly from or through the use of governmental funds or property.&rState Board of Education that vouchers from the state's tuition grant program could not lawfully be used to fund schools that discriminate based on race.27 While not citing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as a legal basis for its ruling, the court nonetheless relied on the law's definition of a public school — any institution that was «operated wholly or predominantly from or through the use of governmental funds or property.&rstate's tuition grant program could not lawfully be used to fund schools that discriminate based on race.27 While not citing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as a legal basis for its ruling, the court nonetheless relied on the law's definition of a public school — any institution that was «operated wholly or predominantly from or through the use of governmental funds or property.»