Sentences with phrase «competitive grant money»

Aside from the waivers, President Obama could also highlight the competitive grant money his administration offered to states through programs such as «Race to the Top.»

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.

Not exact matches

Hamilton Grant shed new light on our existing recipes, allowing us to refine and improve these by standardising on a smaller number of ingredients — saving money and ensuring that we could meet competitive price points.

«Grant money is such a competitive thing and such a needed thing — that's one of the reasons why we have the (park district confirm resources are) there because we don't want communities who can't actually meet the requirements applying for the grant,» McCloud Grant money is such a competitive thing and such a needed thing — that's one of the reasons why we have the (park district confirm resources are) there because we don't want communities who can't actually meet the requirements applying for the grant,» McCloud grant,» McCloud said.

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.

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

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.

But other housing authorities have received money from the state through competitive grant programs.

But pork - barrel spending has crept back into the state budget in the form of capital grants doled out at the discretion of the governor and favored legislators — to the tune of $ 1.1 billion over three years, with no competitive bidding or disclosure of which politicians requested what money.

The money was part of a $ 75 million package of competitive grants that Cuomo unveiled in his State of the State address last year, including $ 25 million for pre-K.

«I think we should be advocating for new money in the coming budget, and the money that is set aside for competitive grants should be repurposed for professional development,» Flanagan told Capital on Thursday.

His pre-k initiative is a $ 25 million competitive grant program that will reward winning districts with money to expand both full - and half - day pre-k.

Postdocs often receive grant money to raise their salaries to an acceptable level, «but it is not competitive with western countries, so there is a continuous drain of Czech postdocs to the west and across the Atlantic.»

«I would be thrilled if I obtain an important raise» from the government, Petit says, but he also hopes to raise more money from competitive grants in France and the European Union and from industry partnerships.

By folding MSP into a broader competitive grants program, she says, the same amount of money is now distributed among more programs, and not every state gets a piece.

The causes of such unpredictable results, Harris said, can include bad ingredients in the lab, including contaminated and misidentified cell lines; poor research design, including insufficient numbers of mice in animal studies; statistical error and overreach, including «HARKing» (hypothesizing after the results are known), a push beyond the limits of the data; and funding pressures, which can lead scientists to hype or exaggerate their results to remain competitive for additional grant money.

The dysfunction stems from a Spanish peculiarity: In the national science budget, the government not only includes lump sums to public research institutes and competitive grants to research teams, but also a pot of money aimed at supporting companies, universities, and public research institutions with loans.

(3) Since research grants by their nature are competitive, the present shortage of research grant funding results in the very best applicants being fully funded, but most of the others are out of luck; we need more money in order to support all our dedicated university scientists!

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.

ED put money into competitive grants rather than categorical programs such as Title III, the main vehicle for federal ELL funding.

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.

States were desperate for money for their schools, and RTT was offering billions of dollars in competitive grants.

«We promise there will be plenty of money left in phase two,» Joanne Weiss, the department's Race to the Top director, told states gathered in the Baltimore area for a department - sponsored technical seminar on the competitive - grant program.

Stimulate the creation of early college programs through competitive grants or availability of seed money.

Often bypassing Congress, Duncan used the money to work directly with states, persuading them to adopt favored policies by providing incentives through Race to the Top, a $ 4.35 billion competitive grant program in which states were awarded points for adopting ideas such as performance - based teacher and principal evaluations, higher academic standards, and raising charter school caps.

Education Week President Barack Obama's budget unveiled Wednesday proposes new money for a big expansion of prekindergarten programs, a new competitive - grant program for high school improvement, a new...

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.

There's incentive money for teacher merit - pay systems, as well as the proposed Early Learning Challenge Fund to increase access and quality of preK education, which includes $ 9.3 billion available in competitive grants over the next decade.

Earlier versions would have paid for the jobs funding by adding to the deficit, or by trimming from money already promised for education - reform initiatives through Race to the Top and other competitive grants.

In its race to meet a looming deadline to apply for a competitive federal grant, the State Board of Education adopted a series of legislative proposals to overhaul how Connecticut's charter schools are funded — proposals that are neither realistic nor reasonable and that could ultimately siphon money from communities for traditional public schools.

The U.S. Department of Education will be awarding the money in competitive grants to states.

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.

The administration also leveraged $ 4.3 billion in stimulus money that Congress approved for education, creating a series of competitive grants known as Race to the Top, pumping to a new level this type of award.

The last paragraph in comment # 53 would seem to imply that the field of climatology may have become more competitive with the lure of more grant money.