Sentences with phrase «program grant competitions»

At the federal level, former U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. prioritized school diversity through a number of federal grant programs, including the Investing in Innovation Fund, or I3, Magnet School Assistance Program, and Charter School Program grant competitions.11 Additionally, in December 2016, the U.S. Department of Education announced the Opening Doors, Expanding Opportunities grant competition, which will use funds from the 2016 fiscal year to support school districts in increasing socioeconomic diversity in their schools.12

Call For Peer Reviewers: Charter Schools Program Grant Competition The U.S. Department of Education, Office of Innovation and Improvement, is seeking individuals to serve as peer reviewers for the Fiscal Year 2018 Charter Schools Program (CSP) Grant competitions.

Not exact matches

Culmination of the program is a competition to create a digitally - oriented solution to a company - specific business challenge with the winner receiving a grant and additional advanced education and consultation.

Typically, this venture may have small amounts of funding through grants, university programs or competitions but has not taken any significant private investment.

He proposed a new program for distributing education funds modeled on President Barack Obama's state competitions that will grant awards based on school performance and administrative efficiencies.

The next CIHR competition for its two major grant programs — «Foundation scheme» and «Project scheme» grants — is slated for this fall.

The Advocate Grant Program seeks to open the door to scientific research for these students, many of whom are unaware of or unable to take advantage of science fair competitions.

The breakdown of that number is not clear, but the House version contained $ 2 billion more for research grants; $ 900 million for three infrastructure programs, including a revived $ 200 million extramural facilities competition; and $ 100 million for two education programs.

Because the competition for the K99 / R00 awards is so stiff, Anthony Carter, a program director in the Division of Genetics and Developmental Biology at NIGMS in Bethesda, Maryland, has been encouraging some prospective applicants who are eligible for other training grants, such as K08s, to go after those awards instead.

Senate lawmakers would also like to see DHS consider a grant program aimed at increasing the amount of extramural research funding going to universities in states whose scientists typically fare poorly in the competition for federal science dollars.

It urges the government to foster cooperation — as well as healthy competition — among the centers and between them and outside labs by following a U.S. - style funding model that emphasizes research programs that cut across many institutions rather than block grants to individual facilities.

NIAID K01 awardees may be eligible for the Limited Competition: Small Research Grant Program for NIAID K01 / K08 / K23 Recipients (R03) to help start a research career.

NIAID K01, K08 and K23 awardees may be eligible for the Limited Competition: Small Research Grant Program for NIAID K01 / K08 / K23 Recipients (R03) to help start a research career.

Although some may wonder how this fits into a design competition meant to propel blended - learning schools, from my perspective it's a smart grant because the reality is that many districts are unlikely to convert or open entire schools as full blended - learning programs.

Partly because of the XQ project's upbeat, open approach, the competition was the first major education - grant program in recent years that didn't set off an immediate wave of public alarm from critics.

In October 2015, Arete (originally named Interstellar), a software program created by entrepreneur Tim Kelley, received a grant from the National Science Foundation to further develop its NCAA tournament - style academic competition, which reached over 15,000 students at 600 schools in 2014.

An advanced instructional program in the workings of the U.S. government that is class infused with competition, We the People was established by the Center for Civic Education in 1987; a grant from the U.S. Congress has funded it each year.

Instead of mandating a uniform approach to school turnarounds, convert the School Improvement Grants program into a competition and support states that take this effort seriously.

Late in 2009, the Obama administration, through its Race to the Top (RttT) program, announced a competition for $ 350 million in grant money to spur the development of «next - generation» tests aligned to the Common Core.

But failure in the highly competitive grants competition produced a constructive counter-reaction here, where the lack of targeted state funding for dropout programs might have made the loss seem doubly discouraging.

The risk with these competitions when carried out by the Office of the Secretary is that they become politicized, that they are judged by review panels without methodological competence, and that they are overseen, once awarded, by career staff in program offices that do not have the background to monitor what is, at root, a program evaluation grant.

Rules that grant greater discretion over admission and expulsion decisions to schools may lead to competition based on the composition of enrollments rather than the quality of academic programs.

Support for competitive programs, even among reformers, is apt to plummet as it becomes clear that the vagaries of peer reviewers and the prowess of grant writers are what drive results in such competitions, not true policy change, political courage, leadership or public commitment to reform.

New York state's Socioeconomic Integration Pilot Program, for example, provides grants of up to $ 1.25 million to schools that use socioeconomic integration to increase student performance in the state's lowest performing schools.118 Also, states can incentivize charter school diversity through competitive grant programs such as the Charter Schools Program State Educational Agencies competition.119

The U.S. Department of Education (ED) recently opened two competitions of interest to GRC members - the Centers for International Business Education Program and the Teacher Quality Partnership Grant Program.

School Improvement Grants, a signature program of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, have poured about $ 4.6 billion into roughly 1,500 schools, at a cost to the government greater than the entire Race to the Top competition.

The U.S. Department of Education announced the start of the $ 150 million 2013 Investing in Innovation (i3) grant competition with the release of the program's invitation for pre-applications for the i3 «Development» grant category and the notice of final priorities for the i3 program overall.

The Obama administration has encouraged the transition through several federal grant programs including the Race to the Top competition.

The U.S. Department of Education announced the start of the $ 134 million 2014 Investing in Innovation (i3) grant competition with the release of the program's invitation for pre-applications for the i3 «Development» grants (up to $ 3,000,000 each).

The U.S. Department of Education announced today a $ 4 million grant competition for planning and launching high - quality public charter schools through the non-state educational agency grant program.

Following up on the state - based Race to the Top competition that saw 19 states receive more than $ 4.3 billion in grants, the district - based program is meant to spearhead specific programs that involve «personalized learning,» which includes specific instruction strategies or the use of technology and online learning.

The U.S. Department of Education recently announced the start of the 2014 grant competition for the Investing in Innovation (i3) program's Scale - up and Validation categories.

Additionally, in the Cohort 4 grant competition, more than 600 elementary, middle and high schools requesting over $ 100,000,000 dollars were denied funding for the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program.

Investing in Innovation The department has announced that all 23 Investing in Innovation (i3) grant finalists successfully secured a total of $ 18 million in private donations, ensuring that they have met the competition's matching requirement and qualifying them to receive $ 150 million in federal funding from the i3 program.

The U.S. Department of Education kicked off the Validation and Scale - Up grant competitions that are part of its $ 150 million 2013 Investing in Innovation (i3) program, which is designed to help school districts and nonprofit and school partnerships implement innovative ideas that improve student learning.

The funding from Title II, Part B from the U.S. Department of Education supports a competitive grant competition for projects that increase the academic achievement of students in mathematics and science by encouraging state education agencies, institutions of higher education, local education agencies, elementary schools, and secondary schools to participate in programs that improve instruction and upgrade the status and stature of mathematics and science teaching.

Successful bidders in this grant competition were required to describe the teacher preparation program in terms of teacher competencies (see Houston & Howsam, 1972, for a description of the early work in the CBTE movement).

I knew that the U.S. Department of Education's Race to the Top program was unlike any grant competition I had ever seen when I watched my printer spit out the application page by page.

The U. S. Department of Education is announcing today the first grant competition under the Teacher and School Leader (TSL) program to provide funding for states, districts, and nonprofit organizations to support, train, and reward excellent teachers and school leaders.

The Madison School District, where President Barack Obama announced his signature education reform program at Wright Middle School in 2009, won't apply for the latest round of the grant competition geared toward districts trying to close achievement gaps.

Some argue that states were coerced into adopting Common Core by the Obama administration as a requirement for applying for its Race to the Top grant competition (and No Child Left Behind waiver program).

The competition, Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination Grants Program, is open to applicants from school districts or nonprofit or governmental arts organizations that partner with school districts.

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 bill funds federal education programs at $ 2.9 billion below President Obama's FY13 budget request and $ 1.8 billion above the FY12 education budget; it is a marked departure from the Senate's recently approved appropriations bill, which maintains the aforementioned grant competitions.

The House panel cut all funding for the Race to the Top program -LRB-- $ 550 million), School Improvement Grants -LRB-- $ 533 million), and the local Investing in Innovation grant competition -LRB-- $ 150 million).

Federal auditors will focus attention in 2013 on selected recipients of grants issued under the Race to the Top competition, Vocational Rehabilitation State Grant Program and the Investing in Innovation fund.

Sen. Jack Reed (D - R.I.) also took issue with Duncan's competitions, calling such initiatives «untested, large - scale competitive grant programs» employed «at the expense of some proven research - based programs.»

Since its founding in 1996, AES has secured hundreds of millions of dollars in education grant competitions for school districts and has evaluated a wide range of education programs.

The grant competition, Personnel Preparation in Special Education, Early Intervention, and Related Services (PDF), is seeking applications from programs that prepare personnel to serve infants, toddlers, and preschool - age children with disabilities; serve school - age children with low - incidence disabilities; and provide related services to children, including infants and toddlers, with disabilities.

The money will be used in various ways, including for state - level grant competitions to replicate and expand charter schools and provide aid for planning, program design and launching of the schools.