Sentences with phrase «funding under this initiative»

We have provided examples of school libraries throughout the county which have received funding under this initiative.

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In regard to primary and secondary education, initiatives include imposing caps on class sizes; ensuring schools have the necessary support staff; funding full - day kindergarten and half - day junior kindergarten for vulnerable children; eliminating fees and fundraising for learning essentials, such as computers; phasing out private schools and bringing charter schools under the jurisdiction of school boards; and providing breakfast and lunch programs.

Ensure that funds collected under the new foreign buyer tax are appropriately and transparently allocated to affordability initiatives;

Capital initiatives in this company are co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund and Enterprise Ireland under the Border, Midland and Western Regional Operational Programme 2014 - 2020.

This clarification was necessitated when our Global Council, on behalf of IBFAN, had to take a strategic decision whether or not and under what conditions IBFAN should participate in two new initiatives by UNICEF and WHO, WHO NetCode, and the UNICEF Breastfeeding Advocacy Initiative, both receiving funding from the BMGF, which has direct links and gets its returns from the baby food industry and also engages with entities such as the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) that create situations of risk of conflicts of Interest in infant and young child feeding.

Small campaigns and state parties rely on a handful of under - funded initiatives and start - ups for their tech needs.

Bridge repairs, resurfacing projects and flood resilience initiatives are among major local road schemes to have received investment this week under the Government's Challenge Fund.

The Executive Budget includes no new resources to expand the state's under - funded early childhood quality initiative, QUALITYstarsNY.

CIVIC CENTER — Domestic violence victims will get paid time off from their jobs and city - funded lawyers to help them keep their homes under new initiatives unveiled Wednesday by Mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife Chirlane McCray.

Ghana has made the list of countries that are eligible to receive assistance under the Highly Indebted Poor Country initiative by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

He thus enumerated a number of initiatives that were known to have led to the siphoning of state funds under then President Mahama.

The kitchen was funded by HCR with a $ 750,000 award from the Community Investment Fund (CIF) under Governor Cuomo's $ 1 billion HOUSE NY initiative.

The mayor has also praised the city's increase in funding to pay for legal assistance to prevent tenants from ever becoming homeless, through initiatives developed under Banks» guidance.

It's hard to imagine a constituency that has been more invisible to city government and under - served by society at large» The funding came from the initiative created and sponsored by Councilman Ritchie Torres.

Speaking to reporters afterward, Flanagan said the pay issue was «water under the bridge» but insisted the Senate would not be bashful about questioning Cuomo's much - touted initiatives — including his use of the so - called Regional Economic Development Council's to dole out economic development funds.

UPDATE: Murphy's campaign said the initiative «organized under the umbrella of Murphy's re-election committee, will fund organizers to work in collaboration with the campaigns of the Connecticut Congressional delegation and the Connecticut Democratic Party to recruit and train volunteers, offer action alerts to existing organizing groups, provide messaging help to grassroots activists, and provide a conduit between local activism and the fight in Washington to defeat the reckless policies of the Trump administration.»

He laid out the major new investments from the preliminary budget — including $ 115 million for the $ 15 minimum wage for city employees and contracted workers, investments in public safety, funding education initiatives under the mayor's Equity and Excellence agenda, investments in transportation and social services, along with a few Council priorities.

Under Cuomo's initiative, three of seven competing Upstate regions will each receive $ 500 million in state funding over five years.

Neuroscience has gained mega-science status in recent years, with massive funding in the U.S. and the U.K. and major new initiatives under way in Japan and China.

Agencies should better coordinate existing federal research efforts into pollinators, but some research will require new funding from Congress, the task force says; the scientific findings that emerge would feed into policy actions taken under the broader pollinator health initiative.

Ryan is a researcher at the University of Limerick and a contributing partner to the Vision Inspired Driver Assistance Systems (VI - DAS) initiative, a grant - funded project under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme.

Government funding for microengineering, under the Department of Trade and Industry's Link initiative, runs out in less than a year.

The Texas cancer agency would absorb a devastating funding cut under starting - point state budgets filed Monday, a clear signal of the Legislature's displeasure with the turmoil - ridden initiative.

«Under the CMI, this initiative will provide private and federal funding opportunities as well as commercialization efforts for projects that are currently siloed in either individual labs or different institutions,» says Pierce.

Bonn, 14 December 2017 — French President Emmanuel Macron announced in his closing statement Tuesday that the Land Degradation Neutrality Fund is one of the 12 global initiatives that will be supported under the One Planet Summit, stating that protecting land and water resources from the effects of climate change would the second of the Summit's 12 engagements.

Jan. 11, 2018 - The Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) today announced the funding of $ 450,000 for the first two private - public partnerships under a brand - new initiative aimed at discovering, designing and scaling up production of novel materials for severe environments.

In fact, many countries no longer explicitly fund nanotechnology, although it may be a part of initiatives that are funded under different technology support programs.

Indiana University has announced that the Precision Health Initiative, a research initiative focused on patient - centered precision medicine therapies, is the first recipient of funding under the university's new $ 300 million Grand Challenges Program.

They are looking both at strategies for increasing the likelihood that newly funded initiatives will succeed and at better ways to measure the effectiveness of programs already under way.»

Evidence is mounting that federal employees and their agents may have directed or even pressured states to choose specific assessments, consultants, and the criteria for evaluating core reading programs as conditions for getting funding under the Reading First initiative, possibly in violation of federal law.

The Education Department's 1994 budget proposes to spend $ 15 million in discretionary funds under the Secretary's Fund for Innovation on an «urban - rural initiative,» which Administration officials said last week would be spent on the «enterprise schools.»

The 73,000 - student district is the largest to lose funding under the $ 1 billion - a-year initiative launched more than three years ago.

Publicly funded school choice has increased considerably in recent years, helped by a variety of initiatives, including public charter schools, transfer options for students under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), inter-district enrollment programs, and a variety of policies to subsidize private - school tuition.

In 2014, parents of students at Horace Mann Elementary School in Northwest Washington, D.C., spent over $ 470,000 of their own money to support the school's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income families.6

Funding for college work - study programs would be cut in half, public - service loan forgiveness would end and hundreds of millions of dollars that public schools could use for mental health, advanced coursework and other services would vanish under a Trump administration plan to cut $ 10.6 billion from federal education initiatives, according to budget documents obtained by The Washington Post.

When Education Secretary Michael Gove announced that 261 schools would be built under the priority building programme, he said the majority, 212, would be built and funded by private finance initiatives.

The other projects are to be funded through Private Finance Initiatives under the # 2bn Priority School Building Programme.

As the district's first SLO Specialist, he spearheaded the SLO work under the Leadership for Educators» Advanced Performance initiative, funded by the Teacher Incentive Fund.

Some federal funding under Title II of the Every Student Succeeds Act was allocated in 2017 to implement some of these initiatives through the California Educator Development (CalEd) competitive grant program.

The Ministry of Education has developed a Literacy and Numeracy strategy; initiatives under this strategy range from placing Literacy Development Officers and tutors in schools to making additional funding available to schools with interesting proposals to improve their literacy rates.

Rabinowitz questioned whether the embattled charter organization, also known as Family Urban Schools of Excellence, should continue running Dunbar School under a year - old arrangement through the state Commissioner's Network, a reform initiative that gives millions in extra funding to struggling schools that implement a three - to 5 - year «turnaround» plan.

Another key administration initiative, the Investing in Innovation Fund, which received $ 650 million under the recovery act, was also extended, albeit not at the level the administration wanted.

The initiative — part of a larger city - wide improvement effort called the Greater Carlisle Project — is one of many federally funded transportation projects in 32 states, two U.S. territories and 40 communities nationwide selected to receive approximately $ 484.5 million under the U.S. Department of Transportation's (USDOT) FY 2016 Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) program.

While funding will be provided under the Investment in Affordable Housing initiative, provinces and territories will not be required to cost - match these investments.

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Under the umbrella of the Thoma Art Foundation, he and his wife Marilynn lend and exhibit works from their collection, support innovative individuals, and fund pivotal initiatives.

The artworks in the exhibition, along with others acquired as part of the initiative, will become part of the Guggenheim's permanent collection under the auspices of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Purchase Fund.

Certain other projects were recognized under the aegis of NEH on the Road, an initiative that supports the adaptation of projects to fit into spaces smaller than 2,000 square feet, so as to help with wider distribution of NEH grant - funded exhibitions.

Benezra did not feel free to explain his optimism, except to mention the initiative, already designed and partially funded, to build a sculpture garden outside the museum's fifth floor, a project he hopes will get under way in February.

Under his artistic and executive directorship, KW and the Berlin Biennale were started as self - inventive initiatives and are now federally and state funded institutions.