Sentences with phrase «competitive grant competition»

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.

Tell that to the school choice activists who have successfully passed voucher measures in more than 13 states, the children who attend the 1,091 new charter schools opened between 2010 and 2013, and families in cities such as Adelanto, Calif., who have taken over failing schools using Parent Trigger laws passed as a result of the competitive grant competition.

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.

Not exact matches

Through its competitive Global Startup Competition, Arch Grants retains and attracts the most innovative entrepreneurs to the St. Louis region.

Van Gaal's squad currently features 19 players aged 23 or under who he has signed, played, given competitive debuts to or otherwise sought to involve in United's first - team squad — including them in training, naming them on the bench or registering them for cup competitions, and granting them a shirt number — but which youngsters will stand the test of time and become his legacy on the pitch at Old Trafford for the next decade to come?

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 2017 - 18 Section 99k - Cybersecurity Competition Event Grant is made available to public school districts that provide pupils in grades 6 - 12 with expanded opportunities to improve computer science skills by participating in cybersecurity competitive events hosted by Mertit Network, Incorporated, known as Michigan High School Challenge, or hosted by the Air Force Association, known as Cyberpatriot.

The proposal, entitled Los Angeles» Bold Competition: Turning Around and Operating Its Low - Performing Schools, was rewarded this summer with a highly competitive $ 6 - million, three - year i3 grant.

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.»

The charter grants are available to states on a competitive basis and then, in turn, are awarded to qualified charter school developers also in competition with one another.

Expensive data may be collected in an expectation that a given lab's ownership of the data may give it a competitive advantage in later grant competitions.

«Not only did we make gains with the Race to the Top early learning challenge, we just won one of 13 preschool expansion grants in a competitive national competition — $ 19 million over four years with a focus on low income children.