Sentences with phrase «competitive education grant»

Another competitive education grant program from the Obama administration — this one designed to overhaul the teaching profession — has state and local policymakers concerned about equity and flexibility.

Still be haggled over is how where and how allocate $ 250 million worth of competitive education grants, plus language that Gov. Andrew Cuomo is seeking that would expand his post-budget powers by transferring money between agencies.

Not exact matches

The IPT grant program is a competitive grant program focusing on innovative and effective investor education and protection programs delivered at the local, State and regional level.

It has been nurtured in many ways: by research into basic issues in theological education underwritten by competitive grants offered by the Association of Theological Schools (ATS) and funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc.; by the work of some theological educators commissioned by the Endowment to think about these questions; and by a series of seminars and conferences convened by the ATS to discuss some of the results of this research and reflection.

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The Baxter Equipment for Education Grant awards equipment to one school in need of improving its school meal kitchen facilities through a competitive grant proGrant awards equipment to one school in need of improving its school meal kitchen facilities through a competitive grant progrant process.

The budget is due Sunday, but already lawmakers are putting the finishing touches on a deal that includes plans to merge gambling oversight, a new infrastructure improvement plan for the state and a 4 percent boost in education spending through competitive grants.

Senate Democrats earlier this year pushed for a community schools grant program that would provide wraparound social services and empower the education commissioner to award competitive grants to eligible school districts that use existing buildings for community - based hubs.

One of the last stumbling blocks remains education aid and the amount of money to be allocated through competitive grants.

Ball has also co-sponsored a bill to ditch the Common Core altogether, along with the federal competitive grant program Race To The Top, which is President Obama's signature education initiative.

New York received a $ 750 million competitive grant award in 2010 as part of President Barack Obama's signature education initiative.

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan delivered a scathing critique of teacher training colleges on Feb. 15 as he unveiled a $ 5 billion competitive grant program to encourage states to overhaul the teaching profession.

Some education advocates have blasted Cuomo's competitive grants because they are limited in scope and inherently unsustainable.

Cuomo and the state Education Department recently awarded competitive grant funding to launch or expand pre-K programs in 27 school districts, which will allow thousands more students to begin full - day programs throughout the state.

The Common Core standards were developed by a group of state education leaders but promoted by the federal government, particularly through Race To The Top, a nationwide competitive grant program that required the adoption of standards that boost college - and career - readiness.

The fellowship program, supported by a competitive National Science Foundation GK - 12 grant, provides students with partial tuition, a stipend, and an opportunity for community outreach and training in education as they continue their graduate education.

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.

NIFA replaces the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, which distributes $ 200 million in competitive grants and about $ 280 million in «formula funding» to land - grant universities.

The biggest change in the renamed MSP program at Education would be to shift to competitive grants.

Acknowledging the importance of energy education for today's students, the department's Institute of Education Sciences gave high marks to the new study, which is one of only 26 funded this year through the competitive education research grantseducation for today's students, the department's Institute of Education Sciences gave high marks to the new study, which is one of only 26 funded this year through the competitive education research grantsEducation Sciences gave high marks to the new study, which is one of only 26 funded this year through the competitive education research grantseducation research grants program.

Exxon Education Foundation 1997 report containing grant to Competitive Enterprise Institute for «Climate Change Program»

Crittenden has published 27 peer - reviewed journal articles and eight peer - reviewed book chapters thus far, has received a Regents» Rising Researcher Award from the Nevada System of Higher Education, has been awarded several highly competitive research grants, and has demonstrated a commitment to increasing inclusiveness and diversity within the STEM fields through several mentorship initiatives she participates in.

In voting 96 - 1 to renew the Higher Education Act for five years, the Senate last month accepted a proposal that would authorize $ 300 million over five years in competitive grants to improve teacher education and recruitment Education Act for five years, the Senate last month accepted a proposal that would authorize $ 300 million over five years in competitive grants to improve teacher education and recruitment education and recruitment programs.

In 2010, ANet won a competitive $ 5 million Investing in Innovation (i3) grant from the U.S. Department of Education, which it is using, in part, to fund a large randomized study of its impact.

Less than half of California school districts and only about a quarter of teacher unions have promised to make key education reforms required for the state to win $ 700 million in competitive federal grants, officials said Wednesday.

Twenty - two Democratic senators are telling U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan that he should make sure rural schools get a fair shot at the roughly $ 3 billion in new competitive - grant money the Education Department is seeking in the president's fiscal 2011 budget request.

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.

It seems almost peevish to criticize U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's game - changing Race to the Top plan that dangles $ 4 billion in new competitive - grant funding before states willing to reform their schools.

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.

Duncan announced Race to the Top (RttT), a competitive grants program that had been authorized and funded by the education stimulus package.

After a protracted debate, delegates to the National Education Association have voted to take a position of «no confidence» in the U.S. Department of Education's Race to the Top guidelines and in the use of competitive grants as a basis for the reauthorization of ESEA.

With the Department of Education proposing a new $ 5 billion Race to the Top — style competitive grant program aimed at teacher policy, however, it's worth taking a closer look at Race to the Top's results.

And via adroit use of competitive grants and — at least as important — the presidential bully pulpit, Uncle Sam may be able to give a modest boost to the movement to put families, rather than bureaucracies, in control of their children's education.

That grant, managed jointly by the Florida Department of Education and the Florida Department of Labor and Employment Security, resulted in the development of a number of programs designed to provide students with the means to achieve economic independence and to provide employers with a competent and competitive workforce.

At $ 4.35 billion, RTTT is petite compared to other ARRA programs, but as a competitive grant program, it represents by far the largest amount ever at the discretion of an education secretary (see Figure 1).

Third, the Education Department could mount a competitive - grant program akin to Race to the Top for states and / or districts that want to engage in more school choice.

Under the fiscal 2011 proposal unveiled last week, a roster of 38 relatively small, targeted grant programs would be regrouped into broader, more flexible funding streams — many of them competitive — aimed at furthering the administration's education redesign goals.

Increased reliance on competitive grants has been arguably the defining feature of the Obama administration's K - 12 education policy.

And Louisiana describes how 16 rural districts will receive funding via the U.S. Department of Education Teacher Incentive Fund grant to offer more competitive compensation structures.

Bilingual program administrators in districts with high percentages of English learners — such as Fresno Unified, Los Angeles Unified and Santa Ana Unified — plan to apply for the competitive grants once details are issued by the state Department of Education.

In his State of the Union address, President Obama outlined his plans for reforming U.S. public education, including distributing competitive grants, raising test scores, and holding teachers accountable for student achievement.

In addition, ED shall annually award competitive grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements to eligible entities for the purposes of enriching students» academic experience by promoting: (1) arts education for disadvantaged and disabled students, (2) school readiness through the development and dissemination of accessible instructional programing for preschool and elementary school children and their families, and (3) support for high - ability learners and high - ability learning through the Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Educationeducation for disadvantaged and disabled students, (2) school readiness through the development and dissemination of accessible instructional programing for preschool and elementary school children and their families, and (3) support for high - ability learners and high - ability learning through the Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students EducationEducation Program.

(Sec. 6002) The bill retains competitive grant funding for Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaska Native Education.

In the study, to be published in the Spring 2011 issue of Education Next and available at www.educationnext.org, authors Stuart Buck and Jay P. Greene examined the key characteristics of performance pay plans currently in place in school districts, in light of increased attention given to merit pay in national debate and in the Obama Administration's Race to the Top (RttT) competitive grant program.

And the present decade opened with the Race to the Top, the brainchild of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, based on the bold hypothesis that sizable grants of federal dollars, disbursed via a competitive process, can induce states to jump through reform policy hoops that they likely would not otherwise have attempted.

In October 2015, the Department of Education advanced a regulation that would, in its words, «require all copyrightable intellectual property created with Department discretionary competitive grant funds to have an open license.»

Rep. Reuven Carlyle, D - Seattle: «The number one state in the nation in winning competitive grant dollars for education.»

As part of his education plan, Obama wants to establish a competitive grant process open to existing or proposed public / private partnerships or entities that are pursuing evidence - based models that have been proven to reduce dropouts — such as Diploma Plus or Teacher Advisor programs.

The U.S. Department of Education should establish a new competitive grant to encourage more economically diverse districts.

The U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday invitations for another round of competitive grants through the Investing in Innovation program.