Sentences with phrase «education incentive programs»

The Navy Student Loan Repayment Program is one of several Navy enlistment education incentive programs designed to pay federally guaranteed student loans (up to $ 65,000) through three annual payments during a Sailor's first three years of service.

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The U.S. has taken a number of policy approaches aimed at increasing the country's innovation output, from boosting STEM education programs to offering tax incentives on R&D research.

That includes funding programs that teach STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) to young people in underserved areas, collaborating with higher education institutions, investing in women and minority - owned companies and creating bolder hiring and retention incentives and programs to encourage diversity within Intel.

Let me briefly mention a few steps that could be taken to increase the economy's potential over time — immigration policies that attract workers with scarce skills to the United States; education policies and job retraining programs that build and replenish human capital; spending on infrastructure to remove bottlenecks; tax simplification and the elimination of tax policies that distort investment and saving decisions; regulatory policies that are attentive to costs and benefits and that emphasize getting the incentives right.

Via the Homeowners Armed with Knowledge program, the FHA plans to grant incentives to first - time buyers who agree to home counseling and financial education.

To arrest population growth the Chinese regime created a program of mass «ideological education» and a system of economic incentives to encourage people to have fewer children.

In New York City, between 2007 and 2010, Fryer oversaw and evaluated a program jointly administered by the city's education department and its teachers union that distributed $ 75 million in cash incentives to teachers in some of the city's most low - performing schools.

Despite education programs, one of the key incentives for breast - feeding is personal.

In 2009 the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) received a $ 14.4 million incentive grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs as part of the American...

The Buffalo school district is partnering with the Buffalo Teachers Federation and SUNY Buffalo State on a new program that will recruit students while they are still in high school and offer them incentives to pursue a career in education.

In an attempt to diversify its teaching ranks, the Buffalo school district is partnering with the Buffalo Teachers Federation and SUNY Buffalo State on a new program that will recruit students while they are still in high school and offer them incentives to pursue a career in education.

The omnibus education bill included funding for the «Schools of Hope» program, which encourages charter schools to open in low - performing school districts by giving them incentives.

In 2010, when New York, like other states, was recovering from recession, it won nearly $ 700 million in education incentives from the federal «Race to the Top» program.

Joined by area politicians and community leaders, the parents, students and teachers rallied in support of the Education Investment Tax Credit which would increase support for public and religious schools by creating a tax incentive for individuals and corporations to donate to scholarship programs administered by nonprofit educational organizations.

Upholding federal support for STEM education initiatives through incentives and corporate and philanthropic partnerships, for instance, will become more critical to help states and local governments improve their STEM programs.

Building upon his past analysis of CCT programs in Bogota, Colombia, Harvard Graduate School of Education economist Felipe Barrera - Osorio has found that these programs — depending on their structure — can increase educational attainment for as many as eight years after the incentives were provided.

Some found the double classrooms a hassle to coordinate, says Elisabeth Woody, one of the researchers hired to evaluate the program, some felt they weren't seeing an improvement in overall education, and some simply lost their incentive once the money ran out.

Washington — State officials who oversee programs funded by Chapter 2 education block grants appear to disagree over whether master - teacher plans and other pay - incentive schemes are allowable expenses under that statute.

Read «Early Retirement Payoff: Incentive programs for veteran teachers may boost student achievement» online at http://educationnext.org and available in the Summer issue of Education Next.

«Over the years, I used a variety of incentive programs for classroom management, but Kelley Kash was my favorite,» Donna Kelley told Education World.

In the Fall 2008 issue of Education Next, economist C. Kirabo Jackson reported that the Advanced Placement Incentive Program, which pays both high school students and their teachers for receiving passing scores on AP exams, boosted AP participation rates in participating schools (no big surprise!)

As Education Next editors Rick Hess and Chester Finn recently observed, NCLB is a «Christmas tree of programs, incentives, and interventions that are more an assemblage of reform ideas than a coherent scheme.

In the world of K - 12 education, incentive pay for teachers — programs that reward good teaching and encourage the most effective educators to share their talents with the highest - need students — have become the reform du jour.

One Obama aide said similar incentives would be incorporated into education programs to be introduced later in the spring.

But in stark contrast with traditional education schools» incentives, the architects of the MET program designed their program to have financial incentives that align with the ultimate goal of producing good teachers.

The 1996 - 97 school incentive program awarded $ 5 million to 301 schools, according to State Superintendent of Education Barbara S. Nielsen.

U.S. Wants Teacher Training Programs to Track How Graduates» Students Perform New York Times, 11/25/14» «It's all too easy to create perverse incentives,» said James E. Ryan, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.»

Kohn and other education writers demonstrated how incentives can backfire, and they bolstered their cases with memorable anecdotes of daffy incentive initiatives, such as a Denver Planned Parenthood program's offer to pay teenage girls a dollar a day not to get pregnant.

The Commission will examine factors contributing to teacher recruitment and performance including: incentives to hire and retain high - quality teachers; improvements in the teacher evaluation system to ensure New York is implementing one of the strongest evaluation systems in the country; the use of teacher evaluations for decisions regarding promotion, hiring and termination as required in the teacher evaluation law; and teacher preparation, certification and education programs to ensure that teachers are properly trained to best educate our students.

Results Mixed on Teacher Incentives News Press, October 13, 2012» «These programs have not been successful at all,» said Susan Moore Johnson, education professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Eeducation professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of EducationEducation.

Instead of encouraging teachers to create their own unique but unproven teaching styles, teacher education programs will now have powerful incentives to equip teachers with proven teaching methodologies.

Public and private school officials have quite different obligations and incentives to classify students as participants in these federal programs: a) the Title I program for disadvantaged students; b) the free and reduced - price lunch programs; c) programs for those classified as Limited English Proficient (LEP); and d) special education, as indicated by having an Individualized Education Programprogram for disadvantaged students; b) the free and reduced - price lunch programs; c) programs for those classified as Limited English Proficient (LEP); and d) special education, as indicated by having an Individualized Education Progreducation, as indicated by having an Individualized Education ProgrEducation ProgramProgram (IEP).

«There are many training programs for school principals, but few exist for top state and district education leaders who establish policies, incentives, and cultures that enable those principals to succeed in lifting student achievement,» added M. Christine DeVita, president of The Wallace Foundation.

For example, Maine recommends that districts adopt «longevity pay incentives» and create teacher leader programs in high - poverty schools.54 The plan also states that the Maine Department of Education will work with teacher preparation programs to assess the type and level of preparation afforded to aspiring teachers wishing to teach in high - poverty schools, isolated schools, and high - risk school settings with the goal of offering more supports, including housing, loan forgiveness, and housing for teachers in these types of schools.55

ISSUE 3: Bonuses for AP Teachers Arizona Department of Education will be administering an AP incentive program in which $ 450 per passing score is distributed to schools serving 50 % or more FRL students and $ 300 per passing score goes to all other schools.

A $ 16.5 million, five - year program supported by the U.S. Department of Education's Teacher Incentive Fund, Learning Leaders sought to increase student achievement in eight of Henrico's lowest performing schools by focusing intensively on instructional improvement.

Subject to proviso in the General Appropriations Act, the Commissioner of Education may use funds appropriated by the Legislature and funds from federal grants and other sources to provide incentives for teacher recruitment and preparation programs.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals examined only federal Establishment Clause precedent and held that Louisiana's special education program did not offend the Establishment Clause because (1) the statute's purpose of improving educational opportunity for disabled students was secular, and (2) the statute did not have the effect of advancing religion because it provides no incentive for parents to select religious institutions.

HOUSE COMMITTEE PASSES BUDGET WITH STEEP CUTS: Doesn't include money for full - day pre-kindergarten, teacher incentive pay, arts education and numerous other school programs.

Insight is incredibly excited to announce a new partnership with five districts across four states funded by the Teacher and School Leader Incentive Program (TSL) Grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

The purpose of the program is to provide to education paraprofessionals a system of career development which is based upon education and training advancement, and to furnish economic incentives to encourage excellence among education paraprofessionals.

A $ 10.9 million, five - year program supported by the U.S. Department of Education's Teacher Incentive Fund, TIPA sought to increase student achievement in PWCS's 30 lowest performing schools by focusing intensively on instructional improvement.

Consistent with the current emphasis on performance - based accountability in K - 12 education, several states and a few local districts have introduced school - based incentive programs.

In a separate executive order, the Governor directed the Texas Education Agency (TEA) to create a $ 10 million teacher incentive program to reward teachers who have the most impact on student achievement through objective, quantifiable measures.

The agriculture incentive program, which subsidizes educational agencies that provide farm - based curriculum to some 74,000 students in 315 high schools statewide, is actually facing a nearly $ 8 million cut since local districts must match state funding, according to Aschwanden, a former member of the California State Board of Education under former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

So does Snyder's proposal to require districts and other online learning providers to prove the success of their programs in order to gain funding; this, along with other proposed incentives, would actually force online providers and districts to provide high - quality education to the kids in their care.

The Department of Education has promoted teacher leadership in multiple ways through grants such as Supporting Effective Educator Development (SEED), Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) and Investing in Innovation (i3), as well as through programs such as the RESPECT Project, which engaged educators in a nationwide dialogue for transforming the teaching profession and resulted in a blueprint.

Direct aid to public education — Funding appropriated for the operation of public schools, including funding for school employee benefits, Standards of Quality, incentive - based programs, allotment of sales tax and lottery revenues, and specific appropriations for programs such as Governor's Schools and adult literacy initiatives.

The automatic cuts to education and many other federal programs, known as «sequestration,» were intended as an incentive for lawmakers to reach an agreement on lowering the federal budget deficit by $ 1.2 trillion, but were triggered when Congress failed to do so in late 2011.

The Governors proposed budget provides funding for the state share of all Standards of Quality (SOQ) programs, and the continuation of all existing incentive, categorical, school facilities, and supplemental education programs in Direct Aid.