Sentences with phrase «competitive grant made»

Charlotte, N.C. (April 11, 2017)-- Read Charlotte has for the first time issued a request for proposals (RFP) for data services to learn about the early language and literacy development of children from birth to five years in Mecklenburg County.This will be the first competitive grant made from Read Charlotte's Transformation Fund.

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The Rehabilitation / Reconstruction Program is a competitive grant to help families reconstructing or making major repairs to their home to bring it up to code.

Prior to the 1964 Games in Tokyo a small grant was made to study how industrial facilities could be used to develop athletes of international competitive caliber.

Cuomo's office said that grants made available through the program «will be awarded through a competitive process, with priority given to nonprofits with State contracts that provide direct services in high - need communities, particularly smaller nonprofits and nonprofits that lack access to other capital funding opportunities.»

Treanor is lobbying to make the Nevele the second Catskills region casino, with approvals granted at the same time so Monticello would not get an insurmountable competitive advantage.

In response to the court decisions, the supplemental grants were removed from the state's campaign financing law; the basic grant of public money to gubernatorial candidates was doubled to make participants more competitive and a low, $ 100 limit was placed on lobbyist contributions, thus limiting their influence.

Despite the uproar in New Paltz over granting what critics consider excessive tax breaks for developers, the IDA will continue to offer Pilots, the chairman said, «because the use of Pilots makes us competitive with other counties.»

Downtown Revitalization Initiative: Similar to 2016's Downtown Revitalization Initiative, Phase II would create a competitive grant program for place - making strategies to revitalize the downtown areas of suburban small cities, villages and towns in the greater Buffalo / Niagara area.

Now that she has her ERC grant — which she applied for convinced that she had what it takes to carry out her idea but doubting that her CV would be competitive with others — she has the opportunity to make her research vision a reality.

Although temporary teaching jobs look very attractive to new Ph.D. s looking for teaching experience, Nyhus warns that the heavy teaching load makes it very difficult to remain competitive in terms of grants, publications, and job applications.

But its version of MSP makes competitive grants to university faculty members who have teamed up with local school districts to improve student learning.

That would make the positions more stable and less vulnerable to changes in NIH budgets and competitive grant renewals.

The Secretary shall make grants on a competitive basis for --

The call is competitive and the final decision on granting the traineeship is made by the ESA.

«CBN venture grants and postdoctoral fellowships have provided a wonderful mechanism for developing novel research projects and for generating critical preliminary data needed to make our NIH grants competitive,» said CBN Researcher Larry Young, Ph.D., of Emory University.

Through a periodic competitive review of NSF - funded facilities, make existing funds available for grants or for new or improved facilities, depending on scientific priorities.

The grants will help the four researchers conduct initial experiments that will make them more competitive for other grants.

He also, unexpectedly, made the case for the continuation of the Race to the Top approach of federal incentives for state - level reforms (presumably via competitive grant programs).

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.

Grant districts the right to provide SES, even if the district is failing to make AYP, but also require districts to provide a fair and competitive marketplace for all providers.

If, for example, it releases funds as formula grants, which are distributed to all states on the same basis, it can ensure universal adoption of programs like Title I. Competitive grants like Race to the Top arguably make policy implementation more efficient: the executive branch can regulate, clarify, and be selective about its enforcement of the law.

If the extension makes it into the final spending bills for fiscal year 2011, advocates say, that could mean more states will take the reform - minded steps emphasized in the Race to the Top program, such as revamping their teacher - evaluation systems and lifting caps on charter schools, in order to get a slice of the competitive grants.

Schools used their share of $ 4.3 billion in federal Race to the Top competitive - grant money to make significant progress in areas including state data systems and instructional resources for teachers.

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.

With respect to the per - pupil facilities aid program (under which the Secretary makes competitive matching grants to states to provide per - pupil financing to charter schools), the bill allows states to: (1) partner with organizations to provide up to 50 % of the state share of funding for the program; and (2) receive more than one program grant, so long as the amount of the grant funds provided to charter schools increases with each successive grant.

They lead AES proposal writing teams that customize grants for each client making them highly competitive and insuring that they meet the needs of the district, the schools, their teachers and all of their students.

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.

These are initiatives that President Obama wants, and they will make us more competitive for an RTTT grant.»

The initiative makes competitive grants available to school districts or consortia of districts «interested in exploring ways to foster socioeconomic diversity.»

This competitive grants program required states to hold teachers accountable in a way that made student test scores a «significant factor» in personnel decisions.

These programs were made possible through competitive, one - time federal grants.

Fund the congressionally authorized Augustus F. Hawkins Centers of Excellence Program for competitive grants to teacher - preparation programs at minority - serving institutions to make such programs more rigorous — including raising entry and exit standards for the programs; at the same time, students would receive help in meeting those standards.

Duncan has $ 4.3 billion in competitive grant money to parcel out to schools that meet his standards for innovation, and California's perverse position on teacher pay and firing isn't likely to make the grade.

They were developed by state governors and school officials, but the Education Department encouraged states to adopt them by making higher standards part of the qualifications for competitive grants.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan has encouraged school systems and states to adopt performance pay, and he made them a factor in decisions for Race to the Top, a $ 4 billion competitive grant program.

The SAHE works in conjunction with the SEA to make competitive subgrants to partnerships of IHEs, high - need LEAs, and other entities (for competitive grants) through specific activities that focus on professional development for teachers, highly qualified paraprofessionals, and, if appropriate, principals.

In addition to formula allocations, at times the federal government makes discretionary awards through competitive grant processes.

Tennessee's intensive Common Core coaching effort — the largest and most expensive in the country — is just one item on a laundry list of commitments the state made in order to win a slice of the $ 4 billion Race to the Top grant, the Obama administration's signature competitive education program.

The money includes $ 4.35 billion in competitive grants for states that make the most progress in raising academic standards, tracking student gains, boosting teacher quality and improving failing schools.

Several points that I felt were imperative: 1) Everyone at the federal level knows that the current law is disliked and must change, 2) There is a recognized effort to make the language and details of the next ESEA reauthorization more user - friendly — all stakeholders of a school community should be able to understand the legislation and be vested in the success of schools, and 3) Legislators are seeking the right balance between formula funding and competitive grants — one area of consideration is the consolidation of educational programs or initiatives, which will allow federal monies to be used more effectively to help schools and children.

i3 funds are competitive grants (Development, Validation and Scale - up) given to LEAs and nonprofit organizations that have significantly closed the achievement gaps between economically disadvantaged students, students from major racial and ethnic groups, students with limited English proficiency, students with disabilities; or have demonstrated success in significantly increasing student academic achievement for all groups of students; or have made significant improvements in other areas such as graduate rates or increased recruitment and placement of high - quality teachers and principals.

The Secretary shall solicit grant applications and make grants for eligible projects on a competitive basis.

With the competitive - grant model, on the other hand, people have to apply and compete and they have to make a case.

«Making higher education more accessible and affordable for students is a priority of» Republican Lynn Jenkins who went on to list «grants, federal student loans, and competitive scholarships» as important tools to pay for school according to her education page.

It was a little whiny (granted it's a rant video) but there were some points that I agreed on like how the past Dragon Ball developers wanted to replicate the anime but in order to make a truly competitive game you need to make sacrifices.

The legislation would give states the opportunity to become the primary regulators of hemp, allow hemp researchers to apply for competitive federal grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, ensure growers in the West can access water, and make hemp farmers eligible to apply for crop insurance.

(Sec. 923) Directs the Secretary to make competitive, merit - based grants to consortia for the development of micro-cogeneration energy technology.

To help you make ends meet, we'll also provide you with a competitive maintenance grant.

«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.