Sentences with phrase «education agency grants»

HISD receives no state or federal money to support the Apollo 20 program specifically, Baker says, instead relying on Texas Education Agency grants and support from the community.

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Furthermore, when appropriations for education are made directly from the public treasury, they should be granted to politically independent agencies so that government financial support does not become a means for political domination of education.

As a registered 501 (c)(3) non-profit, the Institute relies on private donations, corporate sponsors, and various grant funding agencies and foundations interested in sports safety education and awareness, to fund our operations.

The following materials were funded by a USDA Specialty Crop Block Grant through the Vermont Agency of Agriculture and are a collaboration of the Vermont Agency of Education, Vermont FEED (Food Education Every Day) and Green Mountain Farm to School.

LINCOLN, MA — Mass Audubon, in partnership with the Connecticut Audubon Society and the Audubon Society of Rhode Island, has been awarded a $ 69,632 Environmental Education grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to inform their members and the public about climate change and its impacts on local ecosystems.

Information setting out the process that may lead to a grant funding arrangement with the Education and Skills Funding Agency for the delivery of education provision for high needs Education and Skills Funding Agency for the delivery of education provision for high needs education provision for high needs students.

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.

Part of the objectives of the Foundation was to sponsor students by way of scholarships, grants and organizing capacity building seminars, workshops and other related activities and opportunities to students and young people, as well as collaborating with other stakeholders such as government agencies, NGOs, foreign bodies to raise awareness on the state of education in Nigeria and intervening with solutions.

Agencies under the UJA - Federation umbrella have lost a total of $ 6 million due to Paterson's veto of legislative earmarks known as member - item grants, the latest in eight cycles of budget cuts that have rocked the non-sectarian network of special education, child care, mental health, immigrant and other services, lowering revenue by 5 to 7 percent, said Soloway.

Wagstaff, a chemist with a Ph.D. in STEM education research and an affinity for increasing diversity and inclusion in STEM, led an agency - wide effort to broaden NIJ's pool of peer reviewers, STEM graduate fellows, and R&D grant applicants.

Some $ 76 million of the research increase, however would come from giving NSF control of three research programs now at other agencies: the Sea Grant marine research program controlled by the Department of Commerce, and hydrology and environmental education programs run by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Environmental Protection Agency, respectively.

At the team's request, and with the close collaboration of two state agencies (BabyNet / First Steps and the SCDDSN), approval was granted by the U.S. Department of Education to use BabyNet funds to pay for ABA therapy for children who failed a two - stage screening process, even if they had not yet received a formal diagnosis.

Although it did get some small education grants from the National Science Foundation, major government research agencies generally wouldn't touch the place.

Funding for the study was provided by Japan Science and Technology Agency Strategic Basic Research Program ACT - C and Grant - in - Aid for Scientific Research (B) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan.

See the Grants & Funding section of the website to stay informed about select funding opportunities and provide background information on the key public and private agencies supporting plant biology research and education.

Responsive to the needs of the community, the AAS reviews and issues small research and travel grants (sponsored by the AAS, NASA, and the NSF), holds town meetings with agency representatives, and has recently demonstrated its leadership in preparing The American Astronomical Society's Examination of Graduate Education in Astronomy (funded by the NSF; AAS, 1997).

In an Education Week commentary essay about school boards in 2009, I wrote, «[M] y sense of things, after two stints on my local school board... is that school boards have been overtaken by the «educatocracy,» by powerful trade unions, certified specialists, certification agencies, state and federal rule - makers and legislators, grants with strings, billion - dollar - contractor lobbyists, textbook mega-companies, professional associations, and lawyers — the list could go on.»

Introduced in the House of Representatives in January 2017, H.R. 610 would replace parts of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act and would, among other changes, establish a voucher program «through which each state shall distribute block grant funds among local educational agencies.»

The National Endowment for the Humanities last week announced a $ 66.1 - million grants program for the coming year that will not only extend the agency's summer institutes for teachers (see Education Week, Aug. 24, 1983), but will also introduce summer programs for secondary - school principals and students.

The five - year grant, awarded Sept. 10 by the federal agency's Institute of Education Sciences, establishes the National Research Center on Rural Education Support, based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

In June 1997, the California Department of Education awarded $ 10 million in grant money to local education agencies for truancy prevention and public safety Education awarded $ 10 million in grant money to local education agencies for truancy prevention and public safety education agencies for truancy prevention and public safety programs.

The money is in addition to the $ 370 million in grants provided last summer to all state education agencies to help meet the testing requirements under the law, a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Educaeducation agencies to help meet the testing requirements under the law, a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary EducationEducation Act.

Funding Source: Federal Perkins Grants Amount: $ 67,637,415 Number of Programs: 540 Local Education Agencies offering 27,5000 courses Number of Students: 1,021,496 Status: Ongoing

The Trump administration's FY2019 budget request proposes a 5 percent reduction in spending on programs managed by DOE, eliminating grants focused on a variety of K — 12 and higher - education programs, and ultimately reducing spending for the agency by $ 3.6 billion.

The 89 grants, ranging from $ 23,641 to $ 499,951, were given to local education agencies, community - based organizations, and education partnerships located in areas with high dropout rates.

Three federal agencies have unveiled a $ 30 million grant program to support cross-disciplinary research in education.

[1] In particular, Title V («Grants to Strengthen State Departments of Education») outlined Washington's commitment to «assist [state education] agencies in the establishment and improvement of programs to identify and meet the educational needs of stateEducation») outlined Washington's commitment to «assist [state education] agencies in the establishment and improvement of programs to identify and meet the educational needs of stateeducation] agencies in the establishment and improvement of programs to identify and meet the educational needs of states.»

The 17 - member group, financed by a $ 572,000 grant to the council from the Education Department and the National Science Foundation, will recommend to those agencies by next spring what items should be included in the assessment and ways the results should be reported.

The Education Department, along with other federal agencies and private funders, earlier this year awarded grants for the development of standards in science, history, and the arts.

The federal agency rejected a request for a two - year, $ 3.1 million grant for the Scope, Sequence, and Coordination of High School Science Education project run by the Arlington, Va. - based National Science Teachers Association.

10 years funded through 21st Century Community Learning Center grants through the Texas Education Agency (TEA)

Clarity of existing language to ensure that either the local education agencies or nonprofit partners can be the lead fiscal agent on 21st CCLC grants.

[13] Detailed guidance regarding the selection of schools to receive Title I grants and the allocation of funds among them may be found in Local Educational Agency Identification and Selection of School Attendance Areas and Schools and Allocation of Title I Funds to Those Areas and Schools, U.S. Department of Education, 2003, http://www2.ed.gov/programs/titleiparta/legislation.html.

In addition, ED issued guidance to provide assistance to state and local education agencies, and to schools in implementing the final requirements of the School Improvement Grants program on January 20, 2010.

These rules require state educational agencies (SEA) to report a list of the local education agencies (LEA), including their NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) identification numbers, that received a SIG award under section 1003 (g) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and the amount of teducation agencies (LEA), including their NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) identification numbers, that received a SIG award under section 1003 (g) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and the amount of tEducation Statistics) identification numbers, that received a SIG award under section 1003 (g) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and the amount of tEducation Act (ESEA) and the amount of the grant.

The congressional watchdog agency, in a report dated Oct. 3 but released this month, surveyed 10 states that received the largest share of funding from the abstinence education grant program.

WASHINGTON — The Education Department has awarded nearly $ 3 million in grants to help state education agencies and research institutions develop curriculum frameworks in the huEducation Department has awarded nearly $ 3 million in grants to help state education agencies and research institutions develop curriculum frameworks in the hueducation agencies and research institutions develop curriculum frameworks in the humanities.

It's a short essay, but is packed with evidence (from the Education Intelligence Agency) of NEA's multi-tentacled reach, from a $ 250,000 grant to the Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice («which has migrated to the University of Colorado at Boulder, which received another quarter million in direct funding,» says Peterson) to $ 100,000 for Media Matters, «a group that attacks conservative groups and commentators» and $ 35,000 for «the anti-accountability group,» FairTest.

On this occasion, the federal government invited state education agencies to apply and use the grants to increase the number of charter schools in the country.

The National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) is pleased to congratulate all state educational agency (SEA) grant recipients of the Department of Education Charter School Program (CSP) grant.

Under this plan, state education agencies would be granted flexibility in meeting certain NCLB requirements in exchange for «rigorous State - developed plans designed to improve educational outcomes for all students, close achievement gaps, increase equity, and improve the quality of instruction» (Department of Education, Octobeducation agencies would be granted flexibility in meeting certain NCLB requirements in exchange for «rigorous State - developed plans designed to improve educational outcomes for all students, close achievement gaps, increase equity, and improve the quality of instruction» (Department of Education, OctobEducation, October 2011).

In September 2011, President Obama announced ESEA Flexibility, a new public education waiver plan to grant state education agencies increased flexibility in meeting NCLB requirements.

In IDRA's recent work with San Marcos CISD and Texas State University through a grant from the Texas Education Agency to improve science achievement for students in kindergarten through eighth grade, we identified seven umbrella research - supported strategies to help ELs achieve in the science classroom.

CSDC was the lead catalyst, architect and advocate for the establishment of a $ 25 million Congressional demonstration program in 2001, the forerunner to the Credit Enhancement for Charter School Facilities Program administered by the U.S. Department of Education, which has provided several hundred million dollars in grants nationally for credit enhancement and revolving loan programs operated by nonprofit organizations and state agencies.

In 2016, the DC Public Charter School Board granted our Local Education Agency (LEA), Hope Community Public Charter School, continuance to operate in the District of Columbia at out 10 - year charter review.

Local education agencies (school districts, county offices of education, or charter schools) may apply for a grant.

While the ever - expanding role of the U.S. Department of Education in state and local level matters remains a concern, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) acknowledges benefits of the proposed revisions to the School Improvement Grants (SIG) program, extending the grant period from three to five years, and allowing local education agencies to use SIG funds to implement, in one or more SIG eligible schools, a state - determined interventiEducation in state and local level matters remains a concern, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) acknowledges benefits of the proposed revisions to the School Improvement Grants (SIG) program, extending the grant period from three to five years, and allowing local education agencies to use SIG funds to implement, in one or more SIG eligible schools, a state - determined interventieducation agencies to use SIG funds to implement, in one or more SIG eligible schools, a state - determined intervention model.

ESSA specifies that Local Education Agencies that receive $ 30,000 in Student Support and Academic Enrichment Grants (SSAE) must direct portions of that money toward three priorities:

Under the Ed - Tech program, the U.S. Department of Education provides grants to State educational agencies (SEAs) on the basis of their proportionate share of funding under Part A of Title I.

This grant funding is in addition to funding available from the Education and Skills Funding Agency and will be payable at the following rates: