Sentences with phrase «federal grant competition»

Washington state has won another federal grant competition, this time earning an $ 11.5 million award to continue its nationally recognized home visiting work.

Under a law passed last year that helped the state win $ 700 million in a federal grant competition, known as Race to the Top, each school district must find a way to evaluate teachers on a scale from «ineffective» to «highly effective,» with teachers facing potential firing if they are rated ineffective for two years in a row.

But other Democrats joined with Republicans to pass Colorado's law, the most comprehensive of a dozen similar bills passed around the nation this year, in part to increase states» chances in a $ 4 billion federal grant competition.

Twenty states are overhauling their teacher - evaluation systems, partly to fulfill plans set in motion by a $ 4 billion federal grant competition, and they are eagerly awaiting the research results.

If Obama is elected for another term, he is likely to continue to drive school reform through federal grant competitions, like Race to the Top; recognize and support the hard work teachers do; and make postsecondary education more accessible and affordable.

Not exact matches

Competition for the money is fierce but the federal government allocates $ 2B a year in grants for early stage ideas few investors will touch.

Today the High Court of Australia granted Fortescue Metals Group Ltd and the National Competition Council leave to pursue appeals in relation to the decision of the Full Federal Court.

Last year New York seemed like a loser in the competition for federal rail funds — being granted only $ 151 million of the $ 4 billion it applied for while California received over $ 2 billion.

Details of the plan, which some likened to the federal Race to the Top grant competition, were left unclear.

Beaudet also indicated CIHR is postponing the deadline on a forthcoming grant competition until after the working group meets, and Philpott said the results of the meeting will be expected to inform the findings of a recently launched Advisory Panel for the Review of Federal Support for Fundamental Science.

And as federal and state funding continues to hang in the balance, along with ever - increasing competition for grant dollars, this makes looking for alternative funding sources a priority.

Senate lawmakers would also like to see DHS consider a grant program aimed at increasing the amount of extramural research funding going to universities in states whose scientists typically fare poorly in the competition for federal science dollars.

Because competition for federal research grants has intensified with declining federal support, the average age at which an investigator receives his / her first grant from the National Institutes of Health has now risen to 41!

Every year, more and more doctoral scientists are seeking to acquire research grants; the intense struggle to win federal funding for research is so enormous that it must be termed a hyper - competition (see: «All About Today's Hyper - Competition for Research Grants!&ragrants; the intense struggle to win federal funding for research is so enormous that it must be termed a hyper - competition (see: «All About Today's Hyper - Competition for Research Grantcompetition (see: «All About Today's Hyper - Competition for Research GrantCompetition for Research Grants!&raGrants!»).

Every year, more and more doctoral scientists compete to acquire research grants; the intense struggle to win federal support for research is so enormous that it must be termed a hyper - competition (see: «All About Today's Hyper - Competition for Research Grants!&ragrants; the intense struggle to win federal support for research is so enormous that it must be termed a hyper - competition (see: «All About Today's Hyper - Competition for Research Grantcompetition (see: «All About Today's Hyper - Competition for Research GrantCompetition for Research Grants!&raGrants!»).

The intense debate around teacher evaluation has been fueled in recent years by the federal government's efforts to spur the creation of more sophisticated evaluation systems at the state level, in large part through incentives embedded in the Race to the Top grant competition and No Child Left Behind waiver process.

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 blow to states - rights principles from national standards could be softened with pledges to block - grant federal education spending and encourage competition through charter schools or school vouchers, along the lines described in the contribution from Chester Finn and Michael Petrilli in this issue (see «A New New Federalism,» p. 48).

The article examines how the 16 U.S. school districts awarded federal grants through the Race to the Top (RTT) competition are applying the funds to personalized learning initiatives.

At the federal level, former U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. prioritized school diversity through a number of federal grant programs, including the Investing in Innovation Fund, or I3, Magnet School Assistance Program, and Charter School Program grant competitions.11 Additionally, in December 2016, the U.S. Department of Education announced the Opening Doors, Expanding Opportunities grant competition, which will use funds from the 2016 fiscal year to support school districts in increasing socioeconomic diversity in their schools.12

$ 19.4 M Federal SEED Grant Will Grow Ranks of Accomplished, Board - Certified Teachers Teaching and Leading in High - Need Schools ARLINGTON, Va. — October 6, 2015 — The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards has been awarded a $ 19.4 - million grant from the U.S. Department of Education through the 2015 Supporting Effective Educator Development (SEED) grant competiGrant Will Grow Ranks of Accomplished, Board - Certified Teachers Teaching and Leading in High - Need Schools ARLINGTON, Va. — October 6, 2015 — The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards has been awarded a $ 19.4 - million grant from the U.S. Department of Education through the 2015 Supporting Effective Educator Development (SEED) grant competigrant from the U.S. Department of Education through the 2015 Supporting Effective Educator Development (SEED) grant competigrant competition.

From the initiation of federal aid to local school districts in 1965, Democratic administrations had insisted on formula grants, which distributed federal money to schools and districts based on the proportion of students who were poor, not on a competition among states.

The Obama administration has encouraged the transition through several federal grant programs including the Race to the Top competition.

A national movement, spurred by competition for federal grants like President Barack Obama's $ 4.3 billion Race to the Top, is aiming to change that.

Since the beginning of the federal Race To The Top grant competition, Value - Added Measurement (VAM) has captured the attention of the American public through high - profile media representations of the

An effort by the Los Angeles Unified School District to win a high - profile $ 40 - million grant has unraveled after the L.A. teachers union declined to sign the application, a condition for the competition imposed by the federal education department.

As a part of its application for the $ 400 million Race to the Top federal grant that North Carolina received, the state promised to align its standards with the Common Core, which gave it an edge in competition.

Rhode Island was one of 16 finalists in the first round of the federal Race to the Top competition for education grants.

Investing in Innovation The department has announced that all 23 Investing in Innovation (i3) grant finalists successfully secured a total of $ 18 million in private donations, ensuring that they have met the competition's matching requirement and qualifying them to receive $ 150 million in federal funding from the i3 program.

Already a two - time loser in the federal Race to the Top competition, California education officials learned Wednesday that they've been given two new chances to win a share of the reform grant money.

Remember, the 2010 evaluation law was critical to the state's successful bid for $ 700 million in federal money in the Race to the Top grant competition.

A consortium of 28 school districts in northwest Wisconsin was named one of 61 finalists, and the only one from Wisconsin, in the $ 400 million federal Race to the Top district grant competition.

In the midst of the financial crisis, the federal DOE enticed states with promises of funding via the Race to the Top grant competition.

The bill funds federal education programs at $ 2.9 billion below President Obama's FY13 budget request and $ 1.8 billion above the FY12 education budget; it is a marked departure from the Senate's recently approved appropriations bill, which maintains the aforementioned grant competitions.

Duncan encourages these models with financial incentives such as School Improvement grants and Race to the Top, a federal competition encouraging education reform that Colorado lost.

He said the national policy moment that resulted in teacher evaluation laws and regulations stems from both the financial crisis and Race to the Top, a federal competition for grant money in exchange for the pursuit of specific education reforms.

Federal auditors will focus attention in 2013 on selected recipients of grants issued under the Race to the Top competition, Vocational Rehabilitation State Grant Program and the Investing in Innovation fund.

Finally, Race to the Top, last year's federal competition for $ 3.4 billion in grants to support education reform, emphasized improving the training and evaluation of principals as much as it did the training and evaluation of teachers.

The federal Race to the Top grant competition tried to stimulate competition among state departments of education to evaluate teachers and commit their state to participate in statewide tests (based on Common Core's inferior standards), as if teachers, in general, were the problem, and as if these state departments of education, in general, were staffed by people who had effectively addressed low achievement.

In particular, the federal Race to the Top (RTT) grant competition encouraged states to adopt new teacher evaluation policies.

Federal and state policies such as the US Department of Education's Race to the Top state grant competition and Illinois» Performance Evaluation Act of 2010, which prioritize building effective principal and teacher evaluations systems to improve student achievement outcomes, have ratcheted up the need for data - driven teacher evaluation in Illinois.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan thanked the commission for its recommendations and indicated that the department could build on its work to marshal resources from across federal agencies to serve «zones of poverty» through efforts similar to the Promise Neighborhoods grant competition.

DOT has also established a Pilot Program for Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and Federal Transit Administration (FTA) grant recipients utilizing research authorities and authority under a General Provision in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 Consolidated Appropriations Act that enables such recipients to utilize local hiring preferences for purposes of evaluating the actual impacts on competition.

Conservatives: Continue push for greater choice and lower fees in the wireless sector; grant the federal Competition Commissioner the authority to investigate the Canada-U.S. «price gap» on consumer goods; banning «pay - to - pay» practices.

Clearance was granted by both the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the Canadian Competition Bureau with only a single business unit divestiture required.

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EARLE3407 Old Dobbin Road, Montgomery, Alabama 36116 - 1903Home Phone: [phone] Cell Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone] E-mail: [email protected] position managing legal discovery and document review with opportunity to assist attorneys with civil litigationBAR ADMISSIONAlabama State Bar, 1999LAW - RELATED EXPERIENCELaw Firm, AlabamaResearch Attorney for Special Projects, Mass Torts Department, November 2001 — February 2008 • Managed Multi-District Litigation (MDL) Document Depository (September 2002 to February 2008) o Reviewed more than 1 million pages of evidentiary documents for litigation purposes and for inclusion in electronic databaseso Coordinated document review assignments with attorneys at local depository and at other sites across the USo Retrieved, reviewed and coded documents in Concordance and Summation legal databaseso Prepared memoranda and spreadsheets providing detailed analysis of discovery materials • Aided attorneys and support staff with processing and preparation of personal injury claims and litigationo Conducted legal research and drafted pleadingso Conducted supplementary online research for additional documents and information pertinent to litigationo Assisted with preparation of correspondence to clients and referring attorneyso Contacted clients for additional information needed in case preparation, litigation, and potential settlementso Prepared and input case intakes and referrals into databaseLaw School, AlabamaStudent Intern, Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program (ADAP), August 1996 — June 1997 • Participated in law school clinical program under third - year law student practice rule (as authorized by Alabama Supreme Court) o Assisted attorneys and advocates in cases involving mentally ill patients confined to state mental health facilitieso Interviewed clients in person (at state facilities) and over the phoneo Worked with clients, attorneys, and social workers to investigate and resolve issues concerning involuntary confinement and treatmento Aided in legal research on an appellate brief submitted to the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (ruling granted in favor of our client) Faculty Research Assistant for Library Services, Bounds Law Library, March 1996 — June 1997 • Prepared research and teaching materials for law school faculty; worked 20 hours per week while matriculating 10 - 15 hours per semester) o Investigated copyright issues related to procuring and reproducing texts for academic useo Conducted legal research using WESTLAW, LEXIS and the InternetADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCEManufacturing Company (MC), Montgomery, AlabamaAdministrative Assistant and Cost Analyst, Materials Purchasing Department, April 1999 — September 2001 • Assisted materials buyers in negotiating and preparing commodities contracts between raw materials suppliers and MC for manufacturing plants in the US and Mexicoo Assisted Legal Department at MC's corporate headquarters with coordination and preparation of documents for litigationo Notified and educated suppliers about MC's freight - on - board policy and its corresponding Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) provisions; result was the reduction of freight claims for both the company and its supplierso Prepared contracts and purchase orders for raw materials and capital projects involving plant maintenanceo Solicited price quotations from current vendors and established Excel spreadsheet format which simplified quote submission process and allowed MC to track and compare usage volumes and costs over timeo Prepared and analyzed cost reports used by materials buyers and production planners in purchasing decisions, including cost reductions, materials consolidation, and selection of vendorso Acted as liaison between vendors and the Purchasing, Transportation and Accounting Departments on issues concerning inbound freight, commercial carriers, and payment terms for commodities, resulting in reductions in freight costs and greater payment discounts for raw materialso Established online databases and printed directories for the Purchasing Department, allowing buyers to have easier and faster access to current vendor informationo Completed Year 2000 (Y2K) compliance project, which involved data collection and communication with MC's past, present, and potential materials suppliers and service providersNot - For - Profit Organization, AlabamaAdministrative Assistant, Combined Federal Campaign, September 1998 — January 1999 • Aided Campaign Director with 1998 Federal Campaigns (CFCs) in City 1 and City 2, which together generated nearly $ 700,000 for more than 1,000 local, national and international charitieso Prepared weekly reports on donations using WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, Excel and dBase IVo Wrote script for Talent Showcase at City 1's 1998 CFC Kickoffo Assisted Director with merger of the City 1 and City 2 CFCs in 1999Regional Bank, AlabamaAdministrative Assistant, Year 2000 (Y2K) Department, March — June 1998 • Worked with Vice President of Corporate Projects on short - term project for the bank's Y2K Departmento Analyzed and processed data on Y2K readiness for all branches of Bank throughout the southeastern USo Organized meetings for personnel of Banko Communicated with vendors of computer hardware, software, and office equipment to request information on Y2K complianceo Prepared compliance files for Federal Reserve auditso Prepared in - house memoranda and reports using Microsoft Word and ExcelRecord / Music Promotion Company, AlabamaRecord Pool Co-Founder; Office Manager, September 1990 — December 1991 • Co-founded record pool to enhance promotion of music in Alabama and the southeastern USo Procured and distributed records from major and independent labels for club, radio and mobile disc jockeyso Coordinated jointly sponsored promotional events with record companies, radio stations and clubso Designed, wrote, and published bi-weekly reports and brochures to inform the music industry of the progress and popularity of music and performers in the region, with specific focus on the Alabama music sceneMajor University, AlabamaGraduate Research Assistant, AUM Department of Marketing, June 1989 — August 1990 • Worked 13 - 20 hours per week as a research assistant to Marketing faculty while carrying a full course load in the MBA programo Analyzed consumer surveys used in academic researcho Assisted Conference Chairperson with coordination for Atlantic Marketing Association (AMA) annual meeting (October 1989) o Co-authored five - year index and classification of AMA Proceedings (published Fall 1991) EDUCATIONLaw School, AlabamaJuris Doctor (JD), 1997 • Scholarshipso Seybourn H. Lynne Scholarship, 1996 - 97o Dexter C. Hobbs Memorial Scholarship, 1995 - 96o E. W. Godbey Memorial Scholarship, 1994 - 95 • Honorso Who's Who Among American Law School Students, 1996 - 94o Arthur Davis Shores Award, 1997 • Activitieso Frederick Douglass Moot Court Team Manager, 1996 - 97 Southern Regional Competition, Second Place National Competition, Eighth Placeo John A. Campbell Moot Court Competition, Spring 1996o Black Law Students Association Delegate, BLSA National Convention, 1997 Co-Chairperson, Public Relations Committee, 1996 - 97 Chairperson, Public Relations Committee, 1995 - 96 BLSA President's Award, 1996 and 1997o American Bar Association, 1996 - 97 Entertainment and Sports Industries Forum Intellectual Property Section Law Student Divisiono LAWS Student Group Leader, 1995 - 96Major University, AlabamaMaster of Business Administration (MBA), 1990Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (B.S.B.A.), 1988 (Major: Marketing — Advertising and Promotion Track) • Honorso Dean's List • Activitieso National Student Advertising Competition Team, 1988 - 90 Seventh District Competition: Third Place, 1990o Marketing Club, 1987 - 90 Vice President — Career Development, 1988 - 89o Public Relations / Advertising (PR / AD) Club, 1988 - 90 Charter Member, 1988 Active in fund - raising and membership driveso Theater Guild, 1988 - 90 Screening Committee, 1989REFERENCESAvailable upon request

TREB contends that, in the absence of clear language in section 79, it would be wrong to conclude that the Tribunal has been given the power to order a respondent to grant what are, in effect, compulsory licences, when, pursuant to section 32, the Federal Court can make such an order only after the applicant meets a competition impact test and only after defences based on international treaty rights are considered (Warner Music at paras 26 - 28).»