Sentences with phrase «competitive grants system»

One stipulates that all state research funding should be distributed via a competitive grants system.

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As more is revealed about what really went on then that is still existing, and how the AG covered it up by refusing to indict the corruption now running the State Agencies and Authorities in Albany for massive Civil Service Law abuse and the granting of Pension System Final Average Salaries (FAS) way above the their permanent competitive status, you'll hear more excuses than a corrupt regime gives when it is about to collapse and they're in total fear.

Fursenko also set up a system of multimillion dollar competitive grants to attract foreign researchers and emigres to come to Russian universities and set up labs there.

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.

For the last 10 years, it has offered competitive grants for districts to revamp their teacher evaluation and compensation systems.

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.

Rather than requiring states to develop prescriptive teacher evaluation systems, for example, create a competitive grant program (similar to the Teacher Incentive Fund) that rewards those that are keen to push this envelope.

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.

In my piece I cited a randomized controlled trial of the Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF), which provided competitive grants for districts to revamp their evaluation and compensation systems.

Through the Teachers and School Leader Incentive Program, ED shall award competitive grants to eligible entities for the development, implementation, or expansion of performance - based compensation systems or human capital management systems.

The Teacher Incentive Fund is a competitive grant program that supports performance - based teacher and principal compensation systems in high - needs schools.

In particular, the Obama administration, through its Race to the Top competitive grants and its waivers of No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) requirements, is putting pressure on states to incorporate student test scores as a significant component of any new teacher evaluation system.

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.

The Obama administration has promoted the system, setting up a competitive grant program that encouraged the move.

$ 5 billion in incentive grants to be distributed on a competitive basis to states that most aggressively pursue higher standards, quality assessments, robust data systems and teacher quality initiatives.

, Albert Sanchez, the director of competitive grants for the 402,000 - student Chicago school system, wrote that the district would terminate its grant as of July 30.

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.

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.

Through her work in governmental affairs, she earned the title of Principal Investigator within the UC system and received over $ 20M in competitive grant awards.

The report was updated to include context from two significant events that are pushing states to take a closer look at their accountability systems: the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (now known as ESSA) and the launch of the New Skills for Youth initiative, a competitive grant program funded by JPMorgan Chase & Co. that requires participating states to transform their systems to support high - quality career - focused education for all students.

The law does continue a separate, competitive funding program, the Teacher and School Leader Incentive Fund, to allow states, school districts, or non-profits or for - profits in partnership with a state or school district to apply for competitive grants to implement teacher evaluation systems to see if the country can learn more about effective and fair ways of linking student performance to teacher performance.

The Secretary shall establish a competitive grant program to accelerate the deployment, operation, systems management, intermodal integration, and interoperability of the ITS program and ITS - enabled operational strategies --

He says competitive grants for academics prioritise projects that answer questions of global significance, which would leave projects like the CSIRO's Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator, which provides better forecasting of fire, cyclones and floods across Australia.

The Modeling, Analysis, Predictions, and Projections (MAPP) Program is a competitive grants program in the NOAA Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research Climate Program Office with the mission to enhance the United States» capability to understand and predict natural variability and changes in Earth's climate system.

(Sec. 404) Directs the Secretary to award competitive, merit - based grants to institutions of higher education for the establishment of clean coal centers of excellence for energy systems of the future.

Grants are awarded through an annual, competitive process that ensures the legal aid system generates a return on LTF's investments.

On top of a very competitive and powerful spec, one which includes a 13.9 - inch 3K touchscreen with resolution of 3000 x 2000, this system also boasts an almost bezel - free design that grants it a 91 per cent screen - to - body ratio.

Superintendent's Competitive Grant $ 23,000 — 2004 • Superintendent's Competitive Grant $ 21,869 — 2002 • Learn and Serve Grant $ 8,000 — 2002 • Teacher of the Year - Gateway School — 2002 • Break the Mold Teacher Grant $ 1,500 — 2000 • Panel of Experts — 2000 • Disney's Teacherffic Award «Take out Totes Educational System» — 1999

MIECHV has supported the development of home visiting systems through the availability of competitive grants that reward program expansion and encourage the development of system infrastructure components.

Additionally, the Federal government has also awarded competitive grants to assist States in developing early learning systems and expanding programming expand Pre-K access.

According to the Administration, these competitive grants provide funding to help winning states «build the fundamental components of a high - quality preschool system or expand proven early learning programs in partnership with local governments, local education agencies, and other providers.»