Sentences with phrase «districts than grant»

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Eleven cities and towns around the U.S. are sharing more than $ 1.5 million in preservation grant funds, recently awarded by American Express and the National Trust for Historic Preservation to preserve unique features of downtown districts.

On January 17, 2012, Judge Carol E. Jackson of the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri granted the SEC's request for emergency injunctive relief (including an asset freeze and appointment of a receiver) against Burton Douglas Morriss as well as several investment management companies and private equity funds operated by Morriss in response to the SEC's complaint alleging that Morriss misappropriated more than $ 9 million in investor assets from 2005 through 2011.

After taking a look at Lion Kona beans processing equipment and drying porch, the tour moved to farming land in Hawaii is leased from the school district, which was granted ownership of more than 365,000 acres of land in 1883 as part of a bequest from Princess Bernice Pauahi, the last royal descendant of the Kamehameha line.

Despite his background at the Park District, Uhlir says he has no problem with Millennium Park performing a rather more refined role than, say, its immediate neighbor to the south, Grant Park.

Schools applying for the grant program must have support from their school principal, district school nutrition director and school nutrition manager, have school enrollment of at least 500, have a breakfast participation level less than 40 % and demonstrate an opportunity to raise breakfast participation.

Multiple schools within a district are encouraged to apply, and must participate in NSLP and SBP; free / reduced eligibility must be greater than 40 percent to be eligible, and priority selection will be granted to schools with a student enrollment greater than 500 students.

OLYMPIA FIELDS — After coveting the property for more than two decades, the Olympia Fields Park District has added 25 acres of forest and wetland to its parks inventory, thanks to the efforts of a non-profit conservation group and a $ 157,500 state grant.

CHICAGO — Seeking more than $ 1 million, the Chicago Park District filed suit Tuesday in Cook County Circuit Court against the company that operated concessions at a number of district locations, including GraDistrict filed suit Tuesday in Cook County Circuit Court against the company that operated concessions at a number of district locations, including Gradistrict locations, including Grant Park.

Responding to more than a year of lobbying by South Loop residents, the Chicago Park District is homing in on a final site for a fenced dog run in Grant Park.

The village could offer more than $ 5 million in TIF dollars for the project, according to officials, with the remainder from grants and park district funds.

Since then, the park district was awarded an Illinois Outdoor Recreation Grant, which, with bonds, was intended to fund the project's more than $ 2.2 million cost.

Park districts in Naperville, Wheaton and St. Charles and the Kane County Forest Preserve District are among 81 agencies in Illinois that will share more than $ 22 million in grants administered by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

After signing a 10 - year contract last year with the Chicago Park District that will keep Lollapalooza in Grant Park through 2022, Jones said daily capacity was capped at 100,000, which makes its daily attendance bigger than any destination rock festival in North America, including Coachella in California and Bonnaroo in Tennessee.

Several park districts in southern Cook and Will counties have been awarded more than $ 1.1 million in grants by the state and federal government, according to the Illinois Department of Conservation.

Furthermore, our legislators play favorites to some groups by using «member items,» which are nothing more than legalized bribes, to grant money to for specific voter groups in their home districts.

Running for a second term in a swing district that hasn't granted more than two years to House representatives over the last several cycles, Katko faces Democrat Colleen Deacon.

North Fork school districts will be getting more money back from Albany next year, after state leaders passed a 2014 - 2015 budget Tuesday that will grant more than $ 265,000 than previously suggested by Gov. Andrew Cuomo earlier this year.

According to the State Education Department, 420 of the state's more than 700 school districts have been granted waivers.

If the grant only serves districts with more than half their students from families poor enough to qualify for the free and reduced lunch program, as some of the grant programs do, J - E, at 34 percent, would not qualify.

Mr. Biden, who is said to be considering a presidential run, was joined today by U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr., and actress and advocate Mariska Hargitay, to announce the $ 79 million in combined federal and city grants that will be distributed nationwide to test more than 60,000 sexual assault evidence kits.

The Association of Public and Land - Grant Universities (APLU)-- which comprises more than 230 institutions and university systems from every state, the District of Columbia, Mexico, Canada, Guam, Samoa, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands — has formed a task force on laboratory safety.

Less than a month after a San Diego Superior Court ruled that the Encinitas Union School District (EUSD) can legally continue teaching yoga to its students, the EUSD has received a $ 1.4 million grant in support of the yoga program's expansion.

Yet among the 41 states (and the District of Columbia) with charter laws, only 17 provide some kind of direct facilities aid, either capital grants or per - pupil funding, and just three of those provide annual per - pupil capital funding of more than $ 1,000.

According to a G.A.O. report, which was done at the request of Representative William H. Natcher of Kentucky, chairman of the appropriations subcommittee on labor, health and human services, and education, two - thirds of rural districts that receive federal drug - free school grants say the money covers more than half of their total drug - education program.

Federal grants are the main source of drug - education and prevention funding in more than half of the nation's rural school districts, the General Accounting Office has found.

Waiver: Comprehensive flexibility that the U.S. Department of Education has granted to more than 40 states and the District of Columbia from key requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act (the current version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act) in exchange for embracing certain Obama administration education - redesign priorities on teachers, testing, standards, and school turnarounds.

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.

As I switch the metric from per - Title I eligible (i.e., from child poverty counts) as in the district - level calculations in Table 1 to per - FRPL - eligible student, the grant amounts shrink as more students participate in free and reduced - price lunch than are poor (and counted for district - level allocations).

This is all of particular relevance today, as more than 2,000 districts, schools, and nonprofits have notified the U.S. Department of Ed that they'll be submitting applications for i3 grants.

«Teachers at the school can apply for grants,» principal Tony Pallija told Education World, «and, this year, Hoover Vacuum matched the district's contribution of more than $ 200,000 to create a state - of - the - art TV studio that just opened.»

As of fall 2007, more than 6,000 elementary schools in 1,700 districts had received Reading First grants, about 10 percent of the public elementary school market.

It is unclear to us how releasing states and school districts from federal accountability and granting them maximum flexibility is anything more than a return to the status quo.

More than one district has used extra funding for disadvantaged kids, rather than general grant money, to augment school policing.

However, fewer than half the districts planned to keep offering performance bonuses once the grant was over.

Chiefs for Change (CFC), a coalition of over two dozen state and district education chiefs, serving 5.3 million students and 330,000 teachers, and dedicated to excellence and equity for all students, urge Congress to fund the Title II, Part A (Supporting Effective Instruction State Grants) at no less than $ 2.055 billion, the FY 2017 appropriation.

In 2005 - 2006, about 60 percent of all California students were concentrated in large urban districts whose per - pupil base state grant was $ 85 less than the average grant statewide.

Section 1003 (b)(1)(B) is for districts that need heavier state «direction» than they would otherwise receive through a competitive grant process (under Choice 101).

Alabama also enacted tuition grant state laws permitting students to use vouchers at private schools in the mid-1950s, while also enacting nullification statutes against court desegregation mandates and altering its teacher tenure laws to allow the firing of teachers who supported desegregation.50 Alabama's tuition grant laws would also come before the court, with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama declaring in Lee v. Macon County Board of Education vouchers to be «nothing more than a sham established for the purpose of financing with state funds a white school system.»

The projects have served over 2,000 schools in more than 300 urban, suburban, and rural school districts in 36 states and Washington, D.C. Based on the core premise that educators have the greatest impact on student learning across various in - school factors, TIF awards competitive grants to States, districts, or partnerships with non-profit organizations.

By 1969, more than 200 private segregation academies were set up in states across the South.38 Seven of those states — Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana — maintained tuition grant programs that offered vouchers to students in an effort to incentivize white students to leave desegregated public school districts.39 Between the 1969 - 70 and the 1970 - 71 school years, Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi saw tens of thousands of students flee to newly opened segregation academies.40 In a single school year, Mississippi led the trio with almost 41,000 students having left the state's public schools.

The 18 - month grant will support ongoing communication efforts to assist the than 860 school districts move forward productively with the new performance evaluation system.

All states would be required to either continue to match the grant amount with state funds on an annual basis or implement fully progressive funding systems that provide more resources to low - income districts than high - income districts.

Researchers found that teachers who were extended were more than 50 percent more likely to transfer to another school within the district or to exit teaching in the district than otherwise similar teachers who were granted tenure.

Introduced in February of this year, AB 1619 would have required school districts with fewer than 250 students to grant tenure to teachers after three years.

«There are more than 115,000 students who wake up, eat breakfast and walk out that door to attend failing school districts,» Grant Callen, with Empower....

A Fellow can be expected to bring in more than $ 500,000 in sponsorships, grants, and donated services to the school district he or she serves during the Fellowship tenure.

Like school districts, charter schools receive a base grant for each student enrolled, plus supplemental grants for students who qualify for free and reduced - price meals or are English learners, homeless, or in foster care — and an additional concentration grant if these students make up more than 55 % of the enrollment.

63 More than 56,000 public schools currently receive grants through Title I, Part A, but few districts are using these funds to support students» learning mindsets and skills in a targeted, coherent, and systemic way.64

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced that six states and the District of Columbia will receive more than $ 38 million to continue efforts to turn around their persistently lowest - achieving schools through new awards from the Department's School Improvement Grants (SIG) program.

Conversely, the U.S. Department of Education's proposed investment in IDEA Part B grants doesn't reflect the amount promised when the law was initially enacted, nor is it commensurate with the needs and services that our nation's school districts provide for the more than 6.5 million students who are educated through the program.