Sentences with phrase «grant competition for»

The funding from Title II, Part B from the U.S. Department of Education supports a competitive grant competition for projects that increase the academic achievement of students in mathematics and science by encouraging state education agencies, institutions of higher education, local education agencies, elementary schools, and secondary schools to participate in programs that improve instruction and upgrade the status and stature of mathematics and science teaching.

The U.S. Department of Education has opened the third round of its $ 140 million Investing in Innovation (i3) grant competition for districts, groups of schools, and nonprofit organizations to improve student results through innovative practices.

The U.S. Department of Education recently announced the start of the 2014 grant competition for the Investing in Innovation (i3) program's Scale - up and Validation categories.

The U.S. Department of Education announced today a $ 4 million grant competition for planning and launching high - quality public charter schools through the non-state educational agency grant program.

In 2013, in partnership with Next Generation Learning Challenges, CityBridge launched Breakthrough Schools: D.C., a Washington, D.C. - based grant competition for educators and school leaders to completely redesign and launch schools for the next generation.

Smith convinced Basam Shakashiri, then director of the Education and Human Resources Directorate at the National Science Foundation (NSF) to use the concept of systemic reform for a grants competition for states to take on building standards - based reform in K - 12 science.

Since its founding in 1996, AES has secured hundreds of millions of dollars in education grant competitions for school districts and has evaluated a wide range of education programs.

The Future of Life Institute has stated that the open grants competition for the AI safety research project will be administered through an online application to be made available from its website next week at: http://futureoflife.org. According to the Institute, «anybody can send in a grant proposal, and the best ideas will win regardless of whether they come from academia, industry or elsewhere.»

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.

The Middle East Financial Health Competition, an initiative of MetLife Foundation and Village Capital, has awarded three MENA - based fintech startups grants worth a total of US$ 50,000 for their solutio...

Both Lyndon and Madeleine applied, but only Madeleine, who had played for both the U.S. and South African national teams and had won many national competitions, was granted a visa.

If you apply for a grant, keep in mind that competition is fierce and the chances of rejection are relatively high.

Last month, AbbVie reassured investors that Humira would be safe from competition for at least a few more years, granting rival Amgen Inc (AMGN.O) a non-exclusive license to sell a copycat version in the United States, but not before 2023.

Grant Maheu (captain), Daniel Johansson and Matthew Nakaska won an all - expenses paid trip to Boston as a result of winning the regional competition for the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute Research Challenge in February 2018.

The content is tailored primarily for those preparing proposals for the Animal Advocacy Research Fund, but should generalize in some ways to other granting competitions as well.

Not taking the lack of competition for granted, Iveson has kept up a healthy pace of campaigning and policy announcements, and has been spotted lending his support to a handful of incumbent City Councillors running for re-election — Andrew Knack in Ward 1, Dave Loken in Ward 3, Michael Walters in Ward 10 and Moe Banga in Ward 12.

It is another brand in the William Grant & Sons portfolio that has been recognized for quality, having earned a gold best - in - class award at the International Wine & Spirits Competition.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has granted authorisation allowing a group of small business owner drivers to collectively bargain with Toll Transport Pty Ltd for the supply of air freight courier transport services at the Toll Priority Brisbane depot.

Jerome Marks - Gardener stood out amongst considerable competition, and following the announcement of his success he commented: «I'm thrilled about winning the Ian Murray scholarship and I can't thank William Grant & Sons and Ian's family enough for their decision.

-- Entrants acknowledge that by entering the competition they grant the Promoter a right to use their entry for the purpose of administering this competition.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has decided that it will not apply for judicial review of the decision by the Australian Competition Tribunal to grant conditional authorisation to AGL Energy Limited's (AGL) proposed acquisition of Macquarie Generation.

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).

Jese has been scouted on a number of occasions by our club, and has a respectable goal tally of 13 La Liga goals despite only being granted under 2000 match minutes, due to the strong amount of competition for places with the Bernabeu club.

The three - time All - Delta - League selection and leading scorer for the Grant Pacers last year landed awkwardly after going up for a layup during AAU competition over the summer and heard a pop.

For those players who did play for their respective nations this summer at Euro 2016, but have since been knocked out of the competition, they have been granted an extended holiday period by Wenger, to ensure they have a well earned rest away from the pitFor those players who did play for their respective nations this summer at Euro 2016, but have since been knocked out of the competition, they have been granted an extended holiday period by Wenger, to ensure they have a well earned rest away from the pitfor their respective nations this summer at Euro 2016, but have since been knocked out of the competition, they have been granted an extended holiday period by Wenger, to ensure they have a well earned rest away from the pitch.

(The U.S. grants travel licenses to Cuba for public performance, exhibitions or athletic competition, but discourages U.S. citizens from spending money there.)

Competition is good people, gives options to the coach and makes the people fighting for the glory and not taking it for granted.

In Martin Jenkins v. NCAA (a.k.a. the related case In re: NCAA Athletic Grant - in - Aid Cap Antitrust Litigation), the NCAA will need to persuade Judge Wilken that athletic scholarship caps promote competition more than they harm it in the market for student - athletes» athletic services.

With such hot competition Liverpool can't take anything for granted, but Klopp's excellent record for bringing through youngsters should count in his favour if it comes down to Tielemans making the call between clubs.

Van Gaal's squad currently features 19 players aged 23 or under who he has signed, played, given competitive debuts to or otherwise sought to involve in United's first - team squad — including them in training, naming them on the bench or registering them for cup competitions, and granting them a shirt number — but which youngsters will stand the test of time and become his legacy on the pitch at Old Trafford for the next decade to come?

With the competition so fierce though, Tottenham most certainly can not take anything for granted and Pochettino is expected to strengthen his squad during the January transfer window in order to give his side a better chance of a top four finish.

Again, the burden of playing the competition on Thursday nights and having to compete in the league on Sundays has proven to be difficult to cope with, this has led to suggestions from some fans that Wenger should take the competition for granted and focus on winning the Premier League.

Third, acknowledging that some of the blame for the biased and one - sided media reporting on head injuries rests with some members of the scientific community who issue one - sided press releases and feed cherry - picked results about their findings to selected members of the media, the authors look to a day when the «harsh division and polarization» in the research community (an almost inevitable byproduct, unfortunately, of the intense competition for grant money in Concussion, Inc.), gives way to greater collaboration among researchers and a more «cordial discourse» between scientists via letters and responses to journal editors and back - and - forth debates at large academic conferences.

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.

Cuomo and legislative leaders have agreed to begin a second round of competition for the grants early next year.

Now in its second year, the 43 North competition will see ideas from around the globe submitted in hopes that they will be among 11 chosen companies to share in the $ 5 million in prize money granted as part of Cuomo's Buffalo Billion initiative for Western New York.

Cuomo also proposed an eighth Regional Economic Development Council competition, in which 10 regions vie for up to $ 750 million in state tax credits and grants.

Those plans include what has been labeled by some advocates as a «Hunger Games» style competition between upstate localities for up to $ 500 million in state grants, three of which are available for seven regions to compete for.

Senate Republicans are balking at Cuomo's plan to create a competition for upstate development grants, and state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli is warning that the $ 1.5 billion fund is being shifted among state agencies — giving the governor «great latitude in spending.»

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.

The governor says schools that achieve their agreements early, by September, will get credit toward a competition for $ 250 million dollars in grants that Cuomo intends to award, as part of his school aid budget.

The reaction from the organization representing New York's cities and villages was mixed: grateful for additional funding from Albany, but not sure that a competition for a single jumbo grant is the best way to distribute the money.

The Governor is also asking for $ 750 - million to fund the sixth round of the Regional Economic Development grant competition.

Economic development officials in Lake Placid and the surrounding region earlier this year put forth a proposal to study a new Olympic bid as part of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's $ 1.5 billion Upstate Revitalization Initiative, a plus - sized version of the annual statewide competition for grants and other forms of aid.

Rutherford said the report, which will cost WLDC $ 40,000, is the kind of investment New York officials want to see when cities apply for any kind of state grants and competitions.

This finding seems to upend the widespread impression that older scientists have higher success rates than their juniors in the competition for grants.

The incentives created by the way grant dollars flow to and through faculty members» labs encourage them, as rational actors, to follow the course that maximizes their advantage in the fierce competition for professional survival.

Under the new budget proposal, furthermore, competition for new and continuing research grants will stiffen slightly and early - career scientists» prospects of establishing themselves as independent researchers will not improve.

But at NSF it projects both a drop in research grants and a rise in graduate fellowships, which together will eventually increase competition for postdoc jobs.

The NRC report inspired another of the initiatives: a new grant competition at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) for investigators lacking enough preliminary data for a full - fledged NIH proposal.