Sentences with phrase «education grants schools»

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«We have dramatically increased access to school options for Newark families, provided grants directly to teachers at 37 schools, given 300,000 books to Newark students through the My Very Own Library program, and just recently, we committed to a $ 1 million initiative to improve early childhood education in Newark,» the foundation said in a statement to CNBC.

For example, the US Department of Education's Race to the Top Fund, which offered $ 4 billion in grants to states that developed successful educational reforms, spurred innovations that hold promise for school systems across the country.

Florida schools have been granted a two - day hurricane reprieve from the state education commissioner.

Your top 16 % person probably went to a top rated school where they paid top dollar for their education (even after grants etc).

After completing her master's degree in alternative education, she wrote and received a grant to design and implement a middle school...

That Christian education must be given in the churches and through church schools, 10 if the Christian heritage is adequately to be transmitted, can be taken for granted without argument.

But it was just the opposite; grant maintained schools had far more autonomy than schools under the thumb of the local education authority.

This American ideal for education was institutionalized in the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862, encouraging the state schools oriented toward agricultural and technical education that developed as alternatives to the liberal arts colleges.

It has been nurtured in many ways: by research into basic issues in theological education underwritten by competitive grants offered by the Association of Theological Schools (ATS) and funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc.; by the work of some theological educators commissioned by the Endowment to think about these questions; and by a series of seminars and conferences convened by the ATS to discuss some of the results of this research and reflection.

But this is a far cry indeed from the public controversies that our current epidemic of so - called realist atheism has given rise to, such as whether it is permissible to pray or celebrate Christmas in schools and other public institutions, or to grant government support of one kind or another to private religious education.

The scholarship applications have updated and are now in four categories; high school students, college students, professional chefs (for help with continuing education), and culinary team grants (for competing culinary teams participating in ACF regional conference competitions or ACF national convention).

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.

In 2010, the city took advantage School Improvement Grant from the Department of Education to drastically overhaul the way things worked at Douglass.

Please note that while we are affiliated with Stanford University's Graduate School of Education, we receive no direct funding from Stanford, and the education reform efforts that we promote are often overlooked by common funding mechanisms such as foundatioEducation, we receive no direct funding from Stanford, and the education reform efforts that we promote are often overlooked by common funding mechanisms such as foundatioeducation reform efforts that we promote are often overlooked by common funding mechanisms such as foundation grants.

On March 27, 2015 the Association for Waldorf Schools of North America (AWSNA) and the Alliance for Public Waldorf Education (the Alliance) announced a collaborative licensing agreement, which grants the use of the service mark Public Waldorf to the... more

On March 27, 2015 the Association for Waldorf Schools of North America (AWSNA) and the Alliance for Public Waldorf Education (the Alliance) announced a collaborative licensing agreement, which grants the use of the service mark Public Waldorf to the Alliance.

Our numbers have expanded to 45 known schools and initiatives, and we've started to see the Public Waldorf Education impulse move from its spiritual home in the West towards its historical roots in the East... with a few stops in between: schools based on the principles of Public Waldorf Educationwere granted charters in Colorado, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Idaho and Florida this year and are set to open in the fall.

She has received multiple grants and certifications for TRCCS, including the Green and Healthy School's highest ranking Sugar Maple Status and US Department of Education's National Green Ribbon Schools Award in 2014.

To apply for the Baxter Equipment for Education Grant, you must be an active SNA director - level member who has been a member of SNA for at least one year, as of January 1, 2015, and be the person responsible for directing the school nutrition program of the school district.

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

The AAP opposes the current bill in the U.S. House of Representatives, H.R. 5003, the Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016, because it would reduce access to free breakfast and lunch for children under the Community Eligibility Provision, endanger our child nutrition programs through a harmful 3 - state block grant program, weaken the evidence - based school nutrition standards, and fail to adequately invest in WIC, child care and summer feeding programs.

The Baxter Equipment for Education Grant awards equipment to one school in need of improving its school meal kitchen facilities, and the winning school foodservice director also receives a $ 500 scholarship toward registration and travel expenses to attend and be recognized at SNA's Annual National Conference.

OSPI Partnerships In addition to working with Nutrition Services on school meals and Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Grants, we partner with the Environmental & Sustainability Program, Family & Consumer Science Program and Agriculture & Horticulture program on school gardens, community partnerships, and integration of Farm - to - School education in currischool meals and Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Grants, we partner with the Environmental & Sustainability Program, Family & Consumer Science Program and Agriculture & Horticulture program on school gardens, community partnerships, and integration of Farm - to - School education in currischool gardens, community partnerships, and integration of Farm - to - School education in curriSchool education in curriculum.

The Baxter Equipment for Education Grant will award equipment to a school district in need of improving its school meal kitchen facilities through a competitive grant proGrant will award equipment to a school district in need of improving its school meal kitchen facilities through a competitive grant progrant process.

Just one day before the scheduled markup of the House Education and the Workforce Committee «s «Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016» (an Orwellian name if there ever was one, given how the bill would gut child nutrition), Congressman Todd Rokita (IN - R), chair of the subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education, introduced a substitute amendment which, among other things, proposes a three - state block grant pilot for school breakfasts and lunches.

As a recipient of a five - year NIH grant in sleep education, the Sleep Academic Award, Owens has developed educational materials for the Brown Medical School and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM).

Deirdre herself authored several grant requests that brought funding to the Worcester Public Schools and Mass Audubon to support nature - based education.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS — Efforts to build a playground for special education students at Miner School in Arlington Heights have been boosted by neighbors» contributions and a matching grant of up to $ 18,000 from Ronald McDonald House Charities.

Healthy Schools BC Regional Grants aim to build regional capacity amongst health, education and community partners to collaboratively work through new approaches and designs for learning (such as the Healthy Schools BC Learning Framework, Spiral of Inquiry and innovative prototyping) for district / group - level initiatives that are directly related to mental well - being.

Scholarships are granted to 501c3 organizations serving low - income families and schools with 95 % or more of their students approved for free and reduced price meals (as cited by the Illinois State Board of Education for the 2016 - 2017 school year).

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.

Project Produce is a grant program sponsored by Healthy Skoop and the Walmart Foundation which helps schools increase kids» access to fresh fruits and veggies and provides nutrition education through fun, lunchroom learning activities.

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HB 2025, which establishes a composting grant pilot project in Hawaii Department of Education schools passed Committee on February 14th.

AB 2271 requires the State Department of Education to provide a state grant of up to $ 100,000 to a school food authority that participates in the National School Lunch Program and receives a federal equipment assistant school food authority that participates in the National School Lunch Program and receives a federal equipment assistant School Lunch Program and receives a federal equipment assistant grant.

Government - sponsored school - or student - focused nutrition education funding is available, as well as targeted private grants and partnerships with nonprofits and businesses.

Healthy Schools BC Regional Grants are meant to support school districts and groups of First Nations and / or independent schools, in identifying, addressing and assessing priorities in the area of mental well - being through strengthening partnerships within the health and education sectors, and with community paSchools BC Regional Grants are meant to support school districts and groups of First Nations and / or independent schools, in identifying, addressing and assessing priorities in the area of mental well - being through strengthening partnerships within the health and education sectors, and with community paschools, in identifying, addressing and assessing priorities in the area of mental well - being through strengthening partnerships within the health and education sectors, and with community partners.

Based on a shared vision from DASH, Healthy Schools BC, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education, the grants support education and health - sector professionals to collaborate and build relationships, create a plan for identifying and addressing priorities and taking collaborative action regarding mental well - being to create healthy sSchools BC, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education, the grants support education and health - sector professionals to collaborate and build relationships, create a plan for identifying and addressing priorities and taking collaborative action regarding mental well - being to create healthyEducation, the grants support education and health - sector professionals to collaborate and build relationships, create a plan for identifying and addressing priorities and taking collaborative action regarding mental well - being to create healthyeducation and health - sector professionals to collaborate and build relationships, create a plan for identifying and addressing priorities and taking collaborative action regarding mental well - being to create healthy schoolsschools.

SNA said it supports the Senate agreement on school nutrition standards, and opposes the House bill, H.R. 5003, the Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016, which would restrict school eligibility for CEP and institute a block grant pilot that would cut funds for school meal programs.

Place change request outcomes will inform the place numbers in further education college, commercial and charitable provider, and academy 16 to 19 student number statements, issued from the end of January 2016; and 2016 to 2017 general annual grant statements for academies and free schools, issued from February 2016.

A Cherokee County School District educator has won a 2016 Georgia Education Technology Innovation Grant from the Georgia Educational Technology Consortium!

Tina Farmer, Supervisor for School Nutrition, who currently serves as a grants program consultant for the Georgia Department of Education;

As reported here back in May, the School Nutrition Association (SNA) has parted ways with its former House Republican allies over the latter's controversial proposal, contained in the House Education & the Workforce Committee's Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) bill, to block grant school food in three sSchool Nutrition Association (SNA) has parted ways with its former House Republican allies over the latter's controversial proposal, contained in the House Education & the Workforce Committee's Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) bill, to block grant school food in three sschool food in three states.

Since then, the school has secured a $ 4,600 grant from Lowe's Toolbox for Education program to expand the garden to seven beds and hosted a sold - out Farm to School roundtable discussion to discuss school policies and encourage community involvschool has secured a $ 4,600 grant from Lowe's Toolbox for Education program to expand the garden to seven beds and hosted a sold - out Farm to School roundtable discussion to discuss school policies and encourage community involvSchool roundtable discussion to discuss school policies and encourage community involvschool policies and encourage community involvement.

The Baxter Equipment for Education Grant awards equipment to one school in need of improving its school meal kitchen facilities through a competitive grant proGrant awards equipment to one school in need of improving its school meal kitchen facilities through a competitive grant progrant process.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D - Manhattan, told Fred Dicker in a radio interview this morning that he hoped Gov. Andrew Cuomo would intercede in the ongoing dispute between the New York City education department and United Federation of Teachers over school improvement grant funding.

State Education Commissioner David Steiner, who is under intense pressure to either grant or deny a waiver to Mayor Bloomberg's NYC schools chancellor pick, Cathie Black, is keeping a fairly low profile these days, but he did respond to a letter from minority lawmakers who hoped to meet with him prior to his decision.

«The question that we should ask is how can you inherit a budget deficit of 9.3 % of GDP, proceed to reduce taxes, bring down inflation, bring down interest rates, increase economic growth (from 3.6 % to 7.9 %), increase your international reserves, maintain relative exchange rate stability, reduce the debt to GDP ratio and the rate of debt accumulation, pay almost half of arrears inherited, stay current on obligations to statutory funds, restore teacher and nursing training allowances, double the capitation grant, implement free senior high school education and yet still be able to reduce the fiscal deficit from 9.3 % to an estimated 5.6 % of GDP?

But with the law granting mayoral control over city schools set to expire at midnight June 30 — and Albany's legislative session ending Wednesday — Hizzoner faced the prospect of a crushing defeat that he has said would return «chaos» and «corruption» to education in the city.

He proposed a new program for distributing education funds modeled on President Barack Obama's state competitions that will grant awards based on school performance and administrative efficiencies.