Sentences with phrase «top grants receive»

States applying for Race to the Top grants receive points for building statewide longitudinal data systems and using that data to improve instruction.

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Congratulations to all those institutions whose scholars and students received Fulbright grants this year and especially to those listed in this year's top producing lists.

Small and medium - sized enterprises (SMEs) can receive grants covering up to 40 % of their expenditure, while the proportion available for large companies potentially tops out at 20 %.

Each category's top recipient received a $ 1,500 grant.

In December, 2013, New Jersey became one of the six newest states to receive a Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge (RTT - ELC) grant.

All ten regions competing for economic development money were awarded some portion of $ 788 million dollars in funds in a ceremony led by Governor Cuomo Thursday, but some regions were more equal than others, with four areas receiving the top grant prizes.

Cuomo announced about $ 750 million for pet projects in 10 regions of the state, including $ 63.9 million for the Finger Lakes — a region that historically has been among the top award getters but received the smallest total grant this year.

In order for the state to receive a $ 700 million federal «Race to the Top» grant it won in 2010, a teacher evaluation program must be implemented.

In 2015, the top 10 % of grant - winning universities received 75 % of the NIH total, whereas the bottom 40 % won only 0.6 %.

The top 10 % of NIH grant winners (by total award) received about 37 % of NIH funding in 2015 — up from the 32 % the top group got in 1985, but down a bit from a peak of 40 % of total funding in 2010, according to an analysis published last week by researchers at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

For example, the Brazilian marine and coastal protected area initiative will receive $ 98.4 million on top of its GEF grant, including $ 20 million from Petrobras, a Brazilian energy company based in Rio de Janeiro.

8/1/2007 UCSD's Igor Grant Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Neuropsychology Igor Grant, M.D., F.R.C.P. (C), Professor and Executive Vice-Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine has received the top national award from the National Academy of Neuropsychology (N...

Funding for this new project came in part from an arts leadership grant Cueva received last May through From the Top, a radio program that serves as a platform for young classically - trained musicians.

As one of the two state - led collaboratives developing new assessments that align with the Common Core Standards, PARCC received a $ 186 million Race to the Top grant.

• The rise in standards between 2013 and 2015 was not concentrated in states receiving Race to the Top (RttT) grants.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which earlier handpicked 15 states to receive up to $ 250,000 each to help prepare applications for federal Race to the Top Fund grants, will now offer aid to the other 35 states, too — if they meet eight education reform criteria.

Moreover, these rankings were used to grant a standard reward to a top group of teachers, not to make fine distinctions in the amount of compensation that teachers received.

For example, U.S. News reports the «economic diversity» of what it ranks as the top 25 national universities using the share of undergraduates at each school who received Pell Grants.

In 2010, 11 states and the District of Columbia received funding to develop program report cards as part of their federal Race to the Top grants.

On March 29, the U.S. Department of Education announced that Tennessee was one of just two states to receive a Race to the Top (RTTT) grant in the first phase of the competition.

As with the No Child reauthorization plan put together by Alexander, Kline's proposal would restrict the Obama Administration and its successors from requiring states to implement high - quality curricula standards or specific accountability systems as condition of receiving Title 1 dollars or funds from competitive grant programs such as Race to the Top.

Secretary Duncan revises the final Race to the Top grant criteria so that adopting the Common Core standards is not a mandatory action for receiving an award; instead, states receive bonus points on their award applications for adopting the standards.

After the states applied for Race to the Top grants and promised to implement common academic standards and assessments, Secretary Duncan announced that consortia of states boasting at least 15 members could receive part of $ 362 million to craft standardized assessments based on the Common Core.4 To be considered, applicants had to submit assurances from each state in their consortium that they would:

In April 2010, he announced another set of Race to the Top challenges: consortia of states boasting at least 15 members could receive part of $ 362 million to craft the assessments based on the Common Core.11 Applying consortia had to submit evidence from each member state that it would adopt standards «substantially identical across all States in [the] consortium,» fully implement whatever assessments were produced by 2014 — 15, and expand their its collection systems.12 In late 2010, two consortia were granted $ 170 million and $ 160 million to develop assessments for use in their 45 member states (combined total at the time).

Nine states will receive Race To The Top Early Learning grants, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius announced Friday.

In particular, the federal Race to the Top grant program requires that states receiving grants incorporate student assessment data into their educator evaluation process.

The U.S. Departments of Education (ED) and Health and Human Services (HHS) announced today that California, Colorado, Illinois, New Mexico, Oregon and Wisconsin will each receive a supplemental award from the 2013 Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge (RTT - ELC) grant fund to improve quality and expand access to early learning programs throughout their states.

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.

California's effort to improve early learning programs, supported by a Race to the Top grant, has received a rare sign of support from the Obama administration after completing its first year - news of a pending supplemental grant expected to be about $ 22 million.

As a part of its application for the $ 400 million Race to the Top federal grant that North Carolina received, the state promised to align its standards with the Common Core, which gave it an edge in competition.

Under the Preschool Development Grant program, states with either small or no state - funded preschool programs will be eligible for Development Grants, while states with more robust state - funded preschool programs, or that have received Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge grants, will be eligible for Expansion GGrants, while states with more robust state - funded preschool programs, or that have received Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge grants, will be eligible for Expansion Ggrants, will be eligible for Expansion GrantsGrants.

It also offers a few data points: In the District and 11 states that received Race to the Top grants in 2010, graduation rates rose from 76.5 percent to 79.9 percent.

Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge Nine states — California, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Washington — will receive grants from the $ 500 million Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge, a competitive grant program jointly administered by the U.S. Departments of Education and Health and Human Services.

Wisconsin applied for but has not received any funding so far under the Race to the Top state grant program.

The Obama administration asked states that received Race to the Top grants and flexibility on requirements in the No Child Left Behind Act to create improved learning opportunities for teachers; it can continue to press for these in its monitoring of Race to the Top grantees and the states that received Elementary and Secondary Education Act flexibility waivers.

As a staffer in the administration of former Tennessee governor Phil Bredesen, Pinkston was instrumental in devising the state's successful proposal to receive money from the Obama administration's Race to the Top competitive grant program.

It did however receive $ 75 million in Early Learning Challenge grants for early education and preschool initiatives from the Race to the Top fund.

Six states — California, Colorado, Illinois, New Mexico, Oregon, and Wisconsin — with grant proposals that were partially funded as part of the Department of Education's Race to the Top Early - Learning Challenge (RTT - ELC) will now receive a combined $ 89 million in supplemental awards to help improve early childhood education.

Colorado and Delaware are among the 20 states that received more than $ 1 billion in federal Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge grants to bolster the quality of early learning education and to make it more widely available.

Figure 7 shows states that have received Race to the Top grants.

The same year, the Obama administration encouraged the idea, making the adoption of rigorous «common standards» a criterion for receiving a portion of the more than $ 4 billion in Race to the Top grants.

She has been with MDE since 2012 when the state received a Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge grant.

Dear Beloved Stranger: I know nothing about this new Top Self - distributed project from artist Dino Pai, save for the fact that it received one of the very last Xeric grants, making it effectively a self - published work wide - ish distribution.

Achieving a top score shows that you are a low risk and that lenders are very likely to receive payment on loans they grant to you.

(Though the fundamental basic - income guarantee involves an unconditional grant to every citizen, no matter their wealth or age, other versions wouldn't cut checks to those in top tax brackets or those receiving Social Security.)

According to Wahl Pets, the top three shelters (affiliated with the winning dogs» extreme dog makeovers) will receive grants from GreaterGood.org in the amount of $ 5000, $ 2000, and $ 1000.

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Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy Receives Major Grant to Support New Tunnel Top Parkland and Expanded Youth Campus at the Presidio A gift of $ 25 million from the S. D. Bechtel, Jr..

And, although the Union of Concerned Scientists receives most of their funding from member donations and fees, they also receive funds and grants from several large foundations (Web archive) that explicitly regard reducing the effects of man - made global warming as top priorities.

The Guerreiras Project received a seed grant through WJP's World Justice Challenge to begin training 25 of Brazil's top women soccer players as «ambassadors» to address gender discrimination and accessibility for women in sports.