Sentences with phrase «learn block grant»

Allocate money to Basic Education Funding instead of the Ready to Learn Block Grant program.

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Principals urged Congress to fund discretionary programs that provide principals with direct instructional leadership support and a newly - authorized Title IV block grant program that will help schools provide a well - rounded experience for all students through arts - integration and use of technology, as well as address issues such as providing school counselors, physical education programs, student mental health services, drug use prevention, and social and emotional learning.

This huge hike in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) block grant was signed into law last month and it may help your district acquire essential digital tools that support both teaching and learning in the schools that need it most.

Many educators, however, have been ambivalent regarding the role (s) such media should play in teaching and learning (Selwyn & Grant, 2009), with school districts often blocking access to popular social media sites.

Analogous to the Common Core standards incentivized by Race to the Top and the federal mandates for statewide standards and tests required by the 1994 version of the ESEA, there is a rapid spread of statewide or federal early learning standards and early childhood assessment incentivized by the 2011 and 2014 Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge (ELC) Grants and mandated by the 2007 Head Start and 2014 Child Care and Development Block Grant reauthorilearning standards and early childhood assessment incentivized by the 2011 and 2014 Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge (ELC) Grants and mandated by the 2007 Head Start and 2014 Child Care and Development Block Grant reauthoriLearning Challenge (ELC) Grants and mandated by the 2007 Head Start and 2014 Child Care and Development Block Grant reauthorizations.

Programs facing the chopping block include the aforementioned School Improvement Grants, 21st Century Community Learning Centers, and the Obama administration's favored Race to the Top, Investing in Innovation, and Promise Neighborhoods grant competitions.

The $ 241 million increase to Accountability Block Grant (ABG) funding proposed in the Ready to Learn program is clearly a nod to public sentiment.

LAC attendees will call for opposition to school meal block grant proposals, support for the Healthy Breakfasts Help Kids Learn Act (H.R. 3738) to expand USDA Foods to School Breakfast Program, and practical flexibility under school meal rules regarding sodium and whole grains.

Dr. Thompson has won numerous grants to support his research, continuing education, and teaching, including a U-M-Center for Research on Learning and Teaching Faculty Development Fund to support «Teaching Private Piano Lessons using Video Game Piano Transcriptions,» a UMOR Small Grant to Support Major Conferences to help fund «Hosting the 5th annual North American Conference on Video Game Music at U-M in 2018,» a U-M Center for Japanese Studies Faculty Research Grant to support «Recording of Recently Composed Japanese Oboe / Piano Duos,» an SMTD Faculty Block Grant to support «Translation of Japanese Video Game Piano Collections,» and multiple Arts at Michigan Course Connection grants that have allowed integration of live performances into his classroom teaching.

• Successfully instituted the Digi - Block grant, which offers teachers and teacher groups the opportunity to apply for materials and training valued up to $ 5,000 including curriculum development and implementation projects, staff development and training, after - school programs or co-curricular activities, and innovative assessment techniques using the Digi - Block Learning System.

In 2014, the Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG) was reauthorized with new federal guidelines and regulations to promote family economic self - sufficiency by improving the affordability of child care, and by enhancing the overall quality of early learning programs in order to foster healthy child development and school success.

We work to more effectively implement proven federal programs — including the Child Care and Development Block Grant, Head Start, and Early Head Start — that provide child care subsidies and early learning opportunities to low - income families.

Multiple state and local agencies administer the continuum of services and supports that comprise the early learning system in Illinois, including the Illinois State Board of Education (Preschool for All and Prevention Initiative, which together comprise the Early Childhood Block Grant), Department of Human Services (home visiting, Early Intervention, child care, WIC), Department of Children and Family Services (child welfare and child care licensing), and Department of Public Health (family case management, health programs).