Sentences with phrase «teachers grant which»

She loves to travel and in 2010 she was a recipient of a Fund for Teachers grant which sent her to Madagascar to study the rainforest, community development, and environmental education.

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In 2006, state lawmakers passed legislation establishing a Farm to School grant program, which helps fund school gardens, teacher professional development, farm field trips, local food taste tests and the integration of nutrition into the curriculum.

I spent almost 4 years of my life trying to get the funding for that Point of Sale system — we applied for grants, we looked for a private funder, we approached the city — until finally we were able to get it funded through a parcel tax which was sold to the voters as a pay increase for our hard working and underpaid teachers, but which also contained a small portion vaguely dexcribed as «technology.»

«It eliminates the secretary's power to grant waivers, which is where the requirement to assess teachers according to their students» test scores is based.»

The governor also touted the state's new teacher evaluation system, which he championed, as it was a requirement of New York's $ 750 million Race To The Top federal grant award.

It is also endangering tens of millions of dollars in federal Teacher Incentive Fund grants earmarked for its teachers, because it has not adopted a system which recognizes and highlights great teaching.

Cuomo championed the teacher evaluation system, which is a requirement of the federal Race To The Top grant program, through which New York won $ 700 million in 2010.

The negotiations, which both sides agreed to in writing, were aimed at creating a system for fairly evaluating teachers, using both student performance and observation, in the 33 schools receiving federal school improvement grants.

New York State's latest teacher evaluation system, which was supposed to be in place by Nov. 15, has essentially been put on hold as 90 percent of school districts have been granted waivers to delay its implementation.

Cuomo proposed $ 25 million for competitive grant programs, which includes $ 20 million to establish a fund to supplement high - performing teachers» salaries and $ 5 million to expand early college high schools throughout the state.

The city DOE and United Federation of Teachers had spent weeks in closed door meetings trying to hammer out the details of a «meaningful teacher evaluation system» in order to qualify for up to $ 65 million in federal funding in School Improvement Grants over the next two years, which is distributed by the state.

Dozens of teacher trainees besieged the Ministry of Education Wednesday morning to put pressure on the government to pay the feeding grant, which they claimed had not been paid to them.

The state's latest teacher evaluation system, which was supposed to be in place November 15, has essentially been put on hold, as 90 percent of school districts have been granted waivers to delay its implementation.

As a member of the Education & Workforce committee, I strongly oppose recent efforts to reduce federal funding in these areas, and I am the author of H.R. 258, the STEM Master Teacher Corps Act, which would award competitive grants to school districts or states to partner with colleges and universities or nonprofit organizations to establish a program which will develop, support and retain exceptional teachers in the STEM disciplines.

D'Arcy's best English - speaking screen role of the»30s was as Irene Dunne's amorous music teacher in The Awful Truth (1937), in which he was hilariously beaten to a pulp by jealous husband Cary Grant.

It was abundantly clear that in most districts there was no effective accountability for teachers after they were granted tenure, which in most locations requires only a few years of teaching....

With the help of a J - Term grant from the Harvard University Center for African Studies, Nalani investigated ways in which AYLE could better incorporate teachers and school leaders into its programs.

Gates is a major supporter of the Hope Street Group, a national think tank and consulting firm that formulated the language for the Obama administration's Race to the Top grant program, which is opposed by many teachers and union leaders.

• The state could prohibit collective bargaining agreements which elevate seniority over competency in layoffs and which facilitate the «Dance of the Lemons» (such as when senior teachers are granted «bumping rights» over less senior teachers working at other schools).

The grants, which are funded by the Atlantic Richfield Foundation and administered by the National Association of Secondary School Principals, are intended to enable principals, joined by their administrators and teachers, to take «essential steps» to further excellence in their schools, said Ernest L. Boyer, president of the foundation and author of High School — A Report on Secondary Education in America.

In April, the California Court of Appeal overturned the trial court's ruling in Vergara v. California [i], in which a group of families had challenged the constitutionality of state laws governing teacher tenure [ii](California state law automatically grants tenure to teachers after sixteen months, provides extra due process protections to teachers over and above those available to other state workers, and requires schools to use seniority rather than competency in layoff decisions.)

U.S. Senators Thad Cochran (R - MS) and Christopher Dodd (D - CT) have introduced the Teaching Geography Is Fundamental Act (S. 749), which would authorize competitive grants through the Department of Education to improve K - 12 geography curriculum, teacher training and materials.

When time came to resubmit a proposal for a $ 200,000 state grant, which they had received each of the past six years, they came up with a plan to infuse more developmental activities into the kindergarten program, provide more professional development for teachers, and buy instructional materials.

The Palisades School District, of which Durham Nockamixon is a part, sent a small group of interested teachers to a national conference on looping and multiage classrooms where, Tubiello says, they were inspired by the writings of educator Jim Grant, a passionate advocate of continuous learning and author of several books about looping.

In addition, the administration greatly expanded the TIF program, which awards grants to high - need districts to fund performance - based compensation systems, and established a new rule for winning applications: proposals would need to differentiate teacher and principal effectiveness, based in significant part on student growth, and create compensation systems that reflected those results.

Trump's budget proposes a 13.5 percent cut in the Education Department's 2018 budget, including a $ 2.3 billion cut that would eliminate Supporting Effective Instruction States Grants, which fund teacher training and development.

The unions have worked closely with SAP, which received an $ 18 million grant from the GE Foundation to create «immersion institutes» to familiarize teachers with the standards and to create a storehouse of materials for them to use in their instruction.

The Gates Foundation grant for the NEA's Master Teacher project, which has thus far supported 95 teachers developing Common Core lessons, included the creation of 24,000 resources or 3,500 lessons, delivered through Better Lesson, according to the foundation.

BASIS, which offers students a chance to pursue world - class academics at their own pace, also grants its students (and teachers) world - class freedoms.

At the end of those three years, the school district could recommend that the teacher be granted a five - year certification for professional, or Career Level I, status, which included a $ 1,000 salary supplement from the state.

The measure, which Gov. Carroll A. Campbell Jr. is expected to sign, would grant parents the right to remove their children from the classes and require that teachers stress sexual abstinence before marriage.

The grant, which is federally funded but awarded by the state, will allow the 41,000 - student district to hire teachers to help develop additional offerings.

Congress acted again in 2007 to provide more loan forgiveness, creating the TEACH Grant program for teachers and the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF), which benefits teachers and other public employees.

Add to that the TEACH Grants, which automatically transform to loans, with back interest due, if teachers fail to hew to all of the rules.

As part of the state's Race to the Top grant, Tennessee implemented a number of school turnarounds, all of which involved a change in school leadership and a substantial turnover of teachers.

In my piece I cited a randomized controlled trial of the Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF), which provided competitive grants for districts to revamp their evaluation and compensation systems.

One teacher said: «In a world of great political upheaval in which previous conventions have been swept away and nothing can be taken for granted, it is all the more vital that young people have a voice and know how to use it.

We were very fortunate to receive the grant, which is currently being used to assist our investigation, create positive psychology strategies and interventions to enhance teacher's wellbeing.

Retiring Headmaster, Andrew Grant, says when congratulating the students and teachers: «In a year in which, nationally, the proportion of the highest grades was widely predicted to have dropped, I am delighted to see how well ours, at St Albans School, have held up,» he says.

Buery and Fariña formally announced the partnerships at the Roberto Clemente School on the Lower East Side on Monday afternoon, joined by representatives from the United Federation of Teachers, the principals» union, and the United Way, which has funded the grant.

ED shall award competitive grants to eligible entities for the establishment of Presidential and Congressional Academies for the Teaching of American History and Civics, through which seminars or institutes shall be offered to teachers and students.

In the most recent state budget passed by the state legislature and signed by the governor last week, North Carolina lawmakers eliminated a provision — which exists in many states — that granted automatic pay raises to public school teachers who completed master's degrees.

It plans to create district grants for 30 -60-90-day research projects through which problems in teacher leadership practice are investigated, and the findings reported.

Empirical evidence should be the basis for a serious — and unprecedented — conversation among policymakers as well as the general public about the costs and benefits of teacher tenure and the circumstances under which it should be granted and revoked

The Washington - based group and the MetLife Foundation awarded $ 50,000 grants to each of the programs, which prepare teachers to staff high - need city schools.

The book, which was written by teachers, offers basic technical information on using computers, step - by - step instructions for creating a page on the Internet's World Wide Web, grant information, and ideas for classroom activities that attempt to go beyond prepackaged programs.

This evaluation examined an approach to PD in which teachers in a grant - funded graduate program provide PD to colleagues.

The $ 4 billion in Race to the Top grants, which seek to reward states for their commitment to reforming teacher effectiveness, data systems, low - performing schools, and academic standards and assessments, are paid for through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passed last year by Congress.

The NEA criticized the draft for including «no requirement for multiple measures of school or student performance» and for not requiring non-test-based teacher evaluations under the Teacher Incentive Fund, which doles outs competitive teacher evaluations under the Teacher Incentive Fund, which doles outs competitive Teacher Incentive Fund, which doles outs competitive grants.

Learn about the latest developments in Washington to inform your advocacy as well as resources to support you in applying for Teacher Quality Partnership (TQP) grants, for which funding was recently renewed in the omnibus legislation.