Sentences with phrase «education grant made»

In focusing on individual school models and putting forth an open call for ideas — rather than insisting on a prescribed list of policy - related preferences — the initiative appeared to depart significantly from the kind of education grant making that has been practiced for the past 15 years by philanthropists such as the Gates, Walton, and Broad families.

Not exact matches

They were on hand to visit a classroom and to promote the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's philanthropic initiatives — not to mention the millions in grants it's made possible — to expand education reforms in the Bluegrass State.

Instead, she has redoubled her commitment to Emerson Collective, the organization she formed about a decade ago to make grants and investments in education initiatives and, more recently, other areas.

The earlier $ 2 million grant is already supporting 159 food banks across Canada to provide operational support for retail food pick - up programs; education resources to improve safe food handling; and grants helping 50 local organizations to purchase equipment to expand cold chain capability to make fresh and perishable foods more accessible.

Pagels grants that many Christians were themselves slave owners, yet says others went among the Roman Empire's wretched outcasts with the message of radical equality — that class, education and gender «made no difference.»

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.

The Carnegie Corporation, it should be said, is not the author, owner, publisher or proprietor of these or of the other publications issued by the staff of The Study of Theological Education in the United States and Canada, and is not to be understood as approving by virtue of its grant any of the statements made or views expressed therein.

Thus the G.I. Bill, the Public Facilities Act, the National Defense Education Act, and the various forms of student aid initiated in the 1960s — BEOGs, SEOGs, Work - Study, Pell grants, etc. — have subsidized the survival of many colleges and universities, but inexorably they have served as well to make the grantee institutions more anxious to observe the laws and regulations of the State than the strictures of the Church whose sponsorship is, by comparison, so intangible.

Cain's tenure as warden came on the heels of The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act passed in 1994, which made prisoners ineligible for Pell Grants and devastated education within the penal system.

We saw that the picture of our rational powers taken for granted by this position is controversial, and so is its thesis that logically we have to adopt this view of reason to make sense of the enterprise of theological education.

Insofar as government can legitimately facilitate moral education, it should not make direct money payments to churches and synagogues, nor should it grant anything like establishment status to any sect or family of faiths.

They will also discuss the progress made by the FVIAC's five Working Groups, which cover the following topics: 1) Ports of Entry Inspection Delays, 2) Research and Grant Funding, 3) Agricultural Labor, 4) Education and Branding, and 5) Food Safety.

Consider this epistle from the Seton Hall Basketball School in South Orange, N.J., where the Detroit Pistons» Grant Hill made a featured appearance: «Then Grant asked why education is so important.

MMSD has also taken advantage of grant opportunities, including Chef Ann Foundation's Project Produce, to make more farm to school education possible.

We invite you to come learn more about: costly mistakes parents make; amount you need to save for college; pros and cons for different education savings plans; applying for scholarships, grants, and student loans; and more!

Because this is a free resource, made possible by the Department of Health grant, PATS encourages viewers to participate in the education series.

Donations and grants are vital for us to continue to achieve our mission of making breastfeeding the norm through education, advocacy and collaboration.

SNP policies designed to «make life easier» for families include; flexible working, improved access to childcare, investment in education including small class sizes, first - time buyers» grants worth # 2,000 to help young buyers, abolishing the council tax, more police and protecting local health services.

In fulfilment of government's promise to make basic education free and ensure participation by all, the Capitation Grant was increased by 100 percent from GH cents 4.50 per capita to GH cents 9.00 in 2017.

Last year, after de Blasio began the session calling on the Senate to make mayoral control permanent, the Republicans granted just a one - year extension, which was explicitly justified as a referendum on the mayor's education agenda.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos signaled he would be supportive of granting Gov. Andrew Cuomo more authority over the state's education policy making.

In one of her most significant actions as state education commissioner, MaryEllen Elia has granted Buffalo Superintendent Kriner Cash unprecedented power to make changes at the district's most struggling schools, bypassing the teachers union contract and sparking a likely court battle.

Black was granted a waiver by the state Monday to make up for the fact that she lacks any education experience — a requirement for the job.

On August 25, 2010, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced $ 400 million in federal Race to the Top education grants to New Jersey would not be funded due to a clerical error in the state's application made by an unidentified mid-level state official.

In fulfillment of its promise to make basic education free and accessible to all, government has announced plans to increase capitation grant from GHC 9.00 to GHC 10.00 in 2018.

That's what happened in Buffalo, where failed attempts to negotiate plans for 20 receivership schools led Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia to grant Superintendent Kriner Cash power to make certain contractual changes without union consent.

But much major legislation failed to get through in time, including Shirley Williams» education bill, which would have extended parental choice, made school governors more representative and introduce maintenance grants for 16 - to - 18 year - olds.

Yet, plants are often taken for granted by the general public and often made to take a back seat to the allure of studying animals in K - 12 education.

These fellowships are made possible through a grant from the Education and Research Foundation for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.

In the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that blends adaptive online learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edX.

With millions of grant dollars on the line, representatives of the 16 state finalists for federal Race to the Top prize money will go to Washington next week to make final, in - person pitches to the U.S. Department of Education for investment in their brand of school reform.

In that position, in addition to his management responsibilities, his grant making work focused on education reform and the development of quality teachers and administrators.

Federal Pell Grants, for instance, can be used for remedial education; institutions are more than happy to take the money, even if they are terrible at remediating students» deficits, which is why I've proposed making remedial education ineligible for Pell financing.

The experiment in place - based education earned the 17,000 - student Grand Rapids school district a coveted $ 10 million grant from XQ: The Super Schools Project in 2016, one of 10 awards made to schools and districts around the nation that challenge conventional ideas of what high school is.

EPE believes that the diversification of its revenue sources — including subscriptions, other paid content, advertising, and foundation grants — is a guarantor of independent decision - making by Education Week across its print, digital, and video platforms, as well as a wise business strategy that best ensures the long - term sustainability of the organization's editorial mission and independence.

Inspiring a generation In Autumn 2015, the DfE awarded St John Ambulance a portion of its Character Education Grant funding with the aim of developing 100,000 students» skills in areas such as integrity, confidence, resilience and inspiring them to make a difference in communities.

In voting to reauthorize the Higher Education Act of 1965, the Senate Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and the Humanities last month made several other changes in existing law that would limit students» access to federal loans and grants, but would increase the amounts students who qualify could receive.

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.

That competition offers an enticing carrot — grants ranging from an estimated $ 20 million to $ 700 million each — to states that make strides in four education redesign areas.

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.

Of the $ 2.2 billion in education - related grants made by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in the past five years, about $ 647 million has gone to support the creation of smaller, more personalized high schools.

The Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University (CEPR) and the Harvard Graduate School of Education today announced a $ 15 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to launch a new, national education initiative to help school district and state leaders increase student achievement and attainment through data - informed decision Education Policy Research at Harvard University (CEPR) and the Harvard Graduate School of Education today announced a $ 15 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to launch a new, national education initiative to help school district and state leaders increase student achievement and attainment through data - informed decision Education today announced a $ 15 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to launch a new, national education initiative to help school district and state leaders increase student achievement and attainment through data - informed decision education initiative to help school district and state leaders increase student achievement and attainment through data - informed decision - making.

Many of the controversies explored in this book involve education, and Viteritti makes a strong case for resisting the urge to drive religion from the public (school) square, for allowing religious institutions to perform some public functions, and for granting deeply religious parents greater accommodations when their children attend public schools.

The Congressional Research Service (CRS), asked by a House committee for a legal analysis, replied that the secretary of education has broad authority to grant waivers, but hedged on the question of whether these waivers could be made conditional.

As governors and state legislators gear up for a new year of budget action and policymaking, the federal Race to the Top competition is helping to drive a flurry of measures nationwide aimed, at least in part, at making states stronger candidates for a slice of the $ 4 billion in education grants.

The U.S. Department of Education has finalized its rules governing $ 3.5 billion in school improvement grants for states and districts, making only small changes despite criticism that its four models for turning around the nation's worst schools are too prescriptive.

What we were particularly interested in were those philanthropic grant making foundations or trusts in Australia that have a specific interest in education.

Parents armed with $ 500 grants would go directly into the education marketplace, encouraging the same dynamics of choice and competition that have made American universities the envy of the world.

Once you understand this basic lens through which the Obama administration * sees the world, all of its major education initiatives — such as Race to the Top, School Improvement Grants, and NCLB waivers — make a lot more sense.

Author Bio: Jim Peyser is Managing Partner for City Funds at NewSchools Venture Fund, a non-profit grant - making firm that seeks to transform public education by supporting innovative education entrepreneurs.