Sentences with phrase «get big grants»

If someone who makes good money has a disabled child they can get some big grants which is fine, but what about lower income families who can't save easily for a contribution?

School districts still get big grants, and the foundation still supports progressive initiatives like High Tech High and Ed Visions, a group of charter schools run as teacher cooperatives.

But then, yes, the Obama administration fatefully decided to award extra points to states adopting the Common Core when deciding which would get big grants under its stimulus - funded Race to the Top program.

Not exact matches

Granted that your employees love what they do — they will be your biggest brand advocates because they get what they're doing and they want to talk about it.

I've even been patient through your fashions, civilizations, wars and schemes, and the countless ways you take Me for granted until you get yourselves into big trouble again and again.

Granted you would have to drink the entire pitcher of THIS particular fresca to get that, you get the idea — these little suckers pack a big nutrition.

Nothing like a wedding, a.k.a., the biggest get together of your life, to remind you not to take all the people around you for granted.

Grant Perry, who showed Saturday he could be in for a big season for the Wolverines, said the following after getting a silly penalty for spinning the ball after a catch vs. Florida:

Granted, McDermott did it against much better competition in the Missouri Valley and Big East, but buckets are buckets and Daum can get them regardless of who he's playing.

So it's possible that some of the Big 12's teams will get poached by other conferences once the grant of rights nears its expiration.

Granted, this is still an offense that doesn't want to pass — Air Force was 1 - 4 when he threw more than eight passes in a game and 3 - 2 when he didn't — but he's got big - play guys.

Erie County Legislator Betty Jean Grant got a pretty big boost in her efforts to unseat fellow Democrat Tim Kennedy in the New York State Senate.

What's more, New York also stands to lose a big chunk of its federal Medicaid funding if Congress ever manages to get a deal on repeal and replacement of Obamacare, with the most recent proposal — Cassidy - Graham — calling for block granting those funds, in a move that would hurt New York more than any other state, Cuomo said.

Well the doctors all donated to Cuomo's 2014 reelection campaign then they get a big $ 25 million grant to do something or another but I'm sure it was important.

«We [the legislature] got over $ 150 million for SUNY New Paltz,» he said, rattling off a list of big - ticket legislative grants in the recent past.

«The fight against lead in Erie County just got a big shot in the arm with the announcement of these grant funds and accompanying Healthy Homes funds,» he said.

Everyone congratulates the person who gets the professorship at a big - name university or a huge grant.

Beyond that, adds Cerullo, who is also a faculty member at the University of Helsinki, «the training that I got for my pitch has served me very well in all my speeches including the interview for big grants.»

«The problem with regular turbines is the bigger they get, the harder they work, and the more likely the force of the water is to damage the turbine,» says Andrew Grant, an ESRU mechanical engineer.

«My biggest surprise was how slow and hard it is to get a grant — all the writing, nuances, and time.»

In Getting to the Top of a Big Pile, contributing editor Elisabeth Pain offers advice gleaned from interviews with reviewers of ERC's Starting Independent Researcher Grant applications.

It was based largely on an NIH study finding that productivity gains per grant slow as labs get bigger, and that NIH could move funds from large labs to small ones without lowering overall productivity.

I get the impression that her problem is more in the fact that she's not competitive for big grants, due to lack of facilities.

As my friends would say, I have a great personality, a big heart, kind and a lot of times to forgiving and get taken for granted a lot, but I guess that's me.

Because Lee Byung - hun is one of the biggest stars on the planet, he gets about five minutes of screentime in this American production — which is a lot if you're not an evil scientist making dinosaurs, granted.

The legendary society lady and tone - deaf diva gets a lavish big screen biopic from director Stephen Frears, with great turns by Streep and Hugh Grant

Plus you get to see some titties in it... Which, granted, isn't that big a deal in the age of the internet, but hey.

Everything about it promises negligibility, and the promise is kept: a less - than - super star (Coburn), a female lead whose potential has scarcely ever been fully realized (Lee Grant), some character actors who stopped getting — or making — good parts some time ago (Andrews, Hendry), a forgettable British sub-leading man who muffed his one big chance (Jayston — Nicholas of Nicholas and Alexandra), an anonymously pneumatic foreign blonde (Christiane Kruger), an English hack with conspicuously unimaginative pretensions to distinction (Hughes), and above all the tiresomely formulaic genre in which doublecrosses are so taken - for - granted by the audience that no degree of geometric complication can do more than increase the boredom.

Costner can spend twenty minutes having Costner and Greene bond, Costner and McDonnell appreciate each other's company — and Costner and Grant's relationship is maybe the film's most emotionally devastating — and then get into the bigger questions.

and I got along well with Hugh Grant here and that guy from The Big Bang Theory was great (though I couldn't place where I knew him from before I looked him up.

Likewise, we are permitted to get used to, while still wondering about, the sewn letters ticking off Wednesday, Thursday, etc. as the days of rehearsal and preliminaries to the big Miss California judging pass by; about the time we've taken the device for granted, the camera pulls back from «Sunday» to reveal it's stitched onto the panties of a contestant who's been very outspoken in her preference for «tits»n' ass» competition and who wears a special set of lingerie for each day of the week.

Those hoping for Ryan Reynolds» Deadpool and Hugh Jackman's Wolverine to team up on the big screen may be getting their wish granted, if a new report from TheWrap is to be believed.

I suspect Bell, Grant, Manville, KST & even Kaluuya (since they din really fall for Get Out big - time) are nominated more bcos they r British, but its kinda understandable tt they r skewed towards homegrown talents and stories since they wld otherwise be ignored stateside.

Granted, Will Ferrell isn't as relevant as he used to be, but like his «Get Hard» co-star, the «SNL» alum has a larger - than - life personality that spills out onto the big screen.

But Let's Get Cooking is best known for establishing England's biggest network of healthy, school - based cooking clubs for children and families with support from a # 20m grant from the BIG Lottery - reaching more than 1.5 million people.

Miles acknowledges that capital funds, bricks and mortar funding, can be hard to get, and so it was a big break when they were awarded a significant grant under the Victorian education department's Children's Facilities Capital program, which supports early childhood programs and services.

The biggest states would get grants of up to $ 700 million, according to those nonbinding estimates.

They then got a big boost with President Obama's Race to the Top grant competition starting in 2010 that all but required adoption, leading to New Jersey joining the list.

«Plan backwards» using the Understanding by Design work of Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe by starting with the big ideas you want students to be able to write about and then instructing content and writing tools to help them get there along the way.

These grants are helping to improve test scores, but better yet, they're getting kids to think bigger about their tomorrow.

While RttT seemed to get all of the publicity, another pot of money was almost as big — and it was spread among all states: $ 3 billion in school improvement grants aimed at fixing the schools that persistently rank in the bottom five percent in each state.

Granted it's not big enough to justify getting rid of the Range Rover.

The biggest selling point or differentiator, of the A8, from the rest of the rivals, is the 40 + driver assistance systems, that the new - gen limo gets; and this basically grants it Level 3 autonomy - a first, for a car, in this segment.

The actor behind Agent Grant Ward discusses that big midseason finale twist, what happens next, and how «SHIELD» got him back into comics.

«Granted, the big fear is that if you buy something on my system and take it to comiXology, then comiXology doesn't get to make money on that sale even though that person is using their system,» Baldwin said as a general example.

Flexibility is not a big problem and you may as well get that grant.»

Last, since innovation is a big way many people get rich no matter where they live, we looked at the number of patents granted in each county in 2011, based on data from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Finally, as innovation is a big way many people get rich, we looked at the number of patents granted in each area in 2011, using data from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

However, one of the biggest problems in getting a scholarship or grant is to find out what is available and appropriate for your circumstances.

Last, since innovation is a big way many people get rich, we looked at the number of patents granted in each area in 2011, using data from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.