Sentences with phrase «grant dollars»

With it had come many grant dollars for teacher and staff development, travel, and computers for students.

He oversees more than $ 60 million in grant dollars.

Results indicate an average increase of 50 percent in overall daily breakfast participation from the programs funded with grant dollars.

In 2016, donor - advised funds saw similar steady growth in every metric, including grant dollars, contributions, charitable assets and number of donor - advised funds (Table 1).

And the majority of institutional grant dollars are still awarded to students who depend on these funds in order to finance college.

However, missing those early grant dollars was not the only struggle.

Currently, property owners can not access mitigation grant dollars until after the property floods despite it being more cost effective to elevate or relocate beforehand.

RSVP is funded through $ 73,891 of federal grant dollars for the April 1, 2017 to March 31, 2018 fiscal year.

For the seventh consecutive year, there was growth in all key metrics — number of individual donor - advised funds, total grant dollars from them, total contributions to them and total charitable assets in them.

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.

With millions of grant dollars on the line, representatives of the 16 state finalists for federal Race to the Top prize money will go to Washington next week to make final, in - person pitches to the U.S. Department of Education for investment in their brand of school reform.

Tennessee will pursue and support districts with an interest in applying for additional grant dollars through ESSA's Title II, Part B Teacher and School Leader Incentive Fund Grant to establish such residency programs for both teachers and leaders in high - need schools.

Because different fields vary in research costs, instead of tallying an investigator's total grant dollars, NIH staff will calculate what it's calling a Grant Support Index (GSI).

On the agenda was how Rockland could capture more grant dollars by learning how to navigate the new Consolidated Funding -LSB-...]

Figure 1 shows that, in 2015 - 16, more than a third of Pell grant dollars flowed to community colleges, but these institutions received less than a quarter of SEOG dollars.

Rep. Reuven Carlyle, D - Seattle: «The number one state in the nation in winning competitive grant dollars for education.»

** Grant Payout = Grant Dollars divided by Charitable Assets at end of prior year multiplied by 100 to get a percentage.

Major challenges include convincing lab chiefs that higher paid staff scientists are as good an investment of scarce grant dollars as lower paid postdocs or graduate students.

Because some types of research cost more than others, the analysts didn't simply tally grant dollars; instead, they developed a point system that gives a standard R01 grant seven points, and other grants more or fewer points depending on how much of an investigator's time they require.

Nakamura, known as a low - key, steady - handed administrator, will likely face new stresses as his center is called upon to separate wheat from chaff in a time of intense competition for limited grant dollars.

Colleges generally attempt to measure the merit of faculty by tracking grant dollars generated, counting the number of publications produced, and administering teacher evaluations, among other criteria.

First, they depend on philanthropic support for start - up revenue; with the stock market, and thus endowments, down some 30 percent, it's not known whether there will be enough grant dollars to go around.

[xvii] Allowing students to use grant dollars from this program at one of the many private colleges in Massachusetts would likely mitigate that negative impact.

The Arizona Supreme Court had previously upheld a scholarship tax - credit law, which granted dollar - for - dollar tax credits to taxpayers in return for contributions to non-profit scholarship organizations that help families send their children to the schools of their choice.

Given a limited amount of money for student aid, the Secretary said, lawmakers have two options: concentrate grant dollars on the poorest students, thus forcing middle - income students to borrow to attend college; or bring more middle - income students into the grant - recipient pool and risk discouraging low - income students from college because they fear taking out loans.

The CLCs at Lawrence - Lawson and Meadowview are federally funded through grant dollars administered by the state Department of Public Instruction.

So will New York State, where the education commissioner, John King, has proposed to cut off federal School Improvement Grant dollars to districts that have not enacted the Empire State's teacher evaluation program.

«We've seen some pretty remarkable success in a first year of Denver Public Schools» effort here at Far Northeast Denver,» A + executive director Van Schoales said Wednesday as he stood in the lobby of High Tech Early College, one of the smaller schools opened with grant dollars awarded to remake long - struggling Montbello High School.

As a result of these efforts, Denver has received a lot of outside grant dollars and recognition for its work.

The state planted the seeds for implementing this type of reform in 2009 by passing legislation to pad its application for federal Race to the Top grant dollars, said Michael Addonizio, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies in the College of Education at Wayne State University, in Detroit.

The DPLA that Rothman referred to is the Digital Public Library of America, and initiative that was met with widespread accolades and more than a few grant dollars to make it a reality.

Each eligible veteran is granted a dollar amount of entitlement, which can be used in place of a down payment, and can result in a loan for 100 % of the purchase price.

Few things focus the attention of the nation's lab chiefs, department chairs, and university administrators more intensely than the risk of losing federal grant dollars.

It's not clear where researchers will find the money for this extra tab — the NIH hasn't promised an increase in grant dollars for people trying to fulfill the requirement.

They distribute more grant dollars and have higher aggregate charitable asset values.

As of September 30, 2016, Indiana had provided direct home visiting services funded by MIECHV Formula and Competitive grant dollars to 6,962 families through 146,338 home visits since the inception of MIECHV funding in 2011.

Down the road, perhaps, institutions will find ways to reward physician - scientists who manage to spend time moving between bench and bedside, without regard for the number of grant dollars and publications that this effort is able to generate.

Hours later, Attorney General Jeff Sessions hit back at Chicago, saying the Trump administration «will not simply give away grant dollars to city governments that proudly violate the rule of law and protect criminal aliens at the expense of public safety.»

I brought this resolution forward so we can ensure that Erie County's volunteers benefit from these grant dollars,» Legislator Rath said.

«Those who are on the tenure track do many things: teach, mentor, serve on committees, bring in grant dollars, publish in journals, and keep up with the latest in their field.»

However, it's a publish or perish world and to get published, you need dollars — grant dollars.

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.