Sentences with phrase «grant school districts money»

To provide additional funding for students «at risk» — those in poverty or headed for academic failure — most states adjust each district's aid level through a weight or use categorical programs to grant school districts money that typically must be spent on specific services.

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Schools and districts in Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah can apply NOW for breakfast - in - the - classroom grant money to cover the upfront costs often associated with the startup and implementation of breakfast in the classroom and «grab n» go» programs, such as purchasing equipment, outreach efforts to parents, program promotion, and other related expenses.

Grant money could become available, and the Park District stands a better chance of qualifying if the park and school districts are co-applicants, he said.

Handall raised the idea with Jon Clark, executive director of the James S. Bower Foundation, and before he knew it, the Santa Barbara school district had obtained grant money to send a contingency down to San Antonio to learn about the program.

North Fork school districts will be getting more money back from Albany next year, after state leaders passed a 2014 - 2015 budget Tuesday that will grant more than $ 265,000 than previously suggested by Gov. Andrew Cuomo earlier this year.

Ceretto said he gave money to others in Wheatfield, including a $ 5,000 grant to Das Haus, a German heritage museum, as well as grants to the Niagara - Wheatfield School District.

According to a G.A.O. report, which was done at the request of Representative William H. Natcher of Kentucky, chairman of the appropriations subcommittee on labor, health and human services, and education, two - thirds of rural districts that receive federal drug - free school grants say the money covers more than half of their total drug - education program.

The state would grant $ 500,000 to each district to help fund the schools, with the requirement that the money be divided equally between boys and girls.

Requiring «highly qualified early educators,» dedicating existing federal funds for an early - education matching - grant program, and giving districts more flexibility to use Title I money for pre-K-3 programs are some of the major recommendations in a report on revamping the federal No Child Left Behind Act to improve schooling for younger children.

The District of Columbia schools» work developing open resources was initially supported with a grant from the Obama administration's Race to the Top program seven years ago, and the school system has continued to devote its own money to sustaining and improving that academic content.

Seattle school district officials say they are working to resolve concerns raised by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which recently halted the payment of grant money to the 45,000 - student system.

The U.S. Department of Education's plan to grant states broad flexibility under the No Child Left Behind Act will free up as much as $ 800 million in money school districts now must set aside for tutoring students, but may mark a significant financial blow to an education industry that has grown up around serving low - performing schools.

The Fairfax County school system is part of a network of districts in Virginia that have received grant money to experiment with different student - led assessment practices.

Though a smattering of grants have benefitted local causes — after - school yoga ($ 31,000), book drives ($ 1.2 million), new district schools ($ 2.1 million) and sundry others — over 40 percent of the money granted to organizations has left the state.

While most school closures are decided locally, the Education Department's School Improvement Grant gives underperforming school districts money for shakeups or turnarounds, including closchool closures are decided locally, the Education Department's School Improvement Grant gives underperforming school districts money for shakeups or turnarounds, including cloSchool Improvement Grant gives underperforming school districts money for shakeups or turnarounds, including closchool districts money for shakeups or turnarounds, including closures.

More than one district has used extra funding for disadvantaged kids, rather than general grant money, to augment school policing.

Another criticism of the grant program, particularly in Colorado, is that even though schools are required to compete for the federal funds, every school district that applied in this state was awarded money.

Philadelphia, Guilford County, N.C., and four small districts in northern New Mexico have scooped up the last of the $ 42 million in federal grant money on offer this fall for rewarding teachers and principals who get higher student test scores in needy schools.

In 2006, Philadelphia received a $ 20.5 million grant from the U.S. government to develop a merit pay program, but the local union — which had initially supported the program — abandoned it, and the district gave the money to charter schools instead.

But district administrators might rationally conclude that whatever instructional reform activities a school undertakes with the money should be ones that do not continue to incur costs after the three - year grant ended.

Washington — An independent assessment of the Education Department's initial review of how federal block - grant funds have been used charges that many of the 23 jurisdictions whose programs were evaluated by the department have not adequately monitored local school districts» use of Chapter 2 money.

What's driving the recent efforts is frustration with longstanding school failure, not the lure of federal grant money that helped push the first three districts into being.

Although the grants run for three years, some school districts got their money just weeks before the start of the 2010 - 11 school year.

States and education groups are curious about whether, if they win a grant, they can award a portion of their Race to the Top money to a select group of school districts, or if they have to dole out money to all of them.

Grant money, which started going to the school district this year, funds SAISD's Pipeline for College Success program, an initiative aimed at increasing the number of students who enroll in and complete college.

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Wisconsin, which placed 26th in round one, got more buy - in from districts and their teachers» unions by offering districts more grant money for signing on and for giving them the flexibility to determine the scope and breadth of the changes they will implement, said state schools Superintendent Tony Evers.

Even before the Education Department and District 14 administrators chose his school for the grant, Mr. Martinez was looking for extra sources of money for the school.

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.

Evers» current budget request asks for $ 5.5 million to provide rural school districts with grant money to pay teachers to retain and recruit them; increase transportation funding for rural school districts and millions more in funding for bilingual - bicultural programs and programs aimed at students who are learning English as a second language.

Half of the money is to be distributed to school districts through a grant program, officials said.

«It causes a lot of uncertainty not knowing how many classrooms we're going to have,» said Pack, who said the current policy keeps charters from working collaboratively with district schools or applying for grant money to improve facilities.

Officials at one of the receiving districts, Amarillo Independent School District, said the new grant money will go toward the district's Path2Teaching program, which provides those who have or are close to completing a bachelor's degree with options to become certified tDistrict, said the new grant money will go toward the district's Path2Teaching program, which provides those who have or are close to completing a bachelor's degree with options to become certified tdistrict's Path2Teaching program, which provides those who have or are close to completing a bachelor's degree with options to become certified teachers.

(Texas) Through the state's new Grow Your Own program, 25 rural Texas districts have received grant money to promote teaching careers among high school students and help paraprofessionals already working in schools earn their credential.

The Obama administration has used federal money for the Teacher Incentive Fund, Race to the Top and School Improvement Grant program to encourage policymakers in states and districts to adopt new teacher evaluations that incorporate student test scores, despite the controversy surrounding them.

Grier affirmed that no money had been taken from other schools in the district and that funding for the project came from state grants, contract renegotiations made by the school board, and private contributions.

The Hartford Courant covers the new development in an article entitled, Some Struggling Districts Using State Grant For Unintended Purposes while the CT Mirror's story is entitled, Schools redirecting money intended for reforms, officials say.

The leader of United Teachers LA, the teachers union, called the grants «a PR stunt, not a genuine effort to fund schools in need» and called «on the district to uphold the vote by not accepting the grant money from GPSN, in any way.»

(The district is not named in the paper, but the demographics, along with other details of the case study, match those of the Broward County Public Schools system in Florida, which the same researchers got grant money to study a few years ago.)

The state was seen as dysfunctional, it couldn't win federal grant money, its budget was shattered, California was cutting school funds and districts were laying off teachers.

o Improve accountability by allowing public school choice for parents of students in the five worst performing school districts and adopt a «money follows the child» funding system with grants based on a child's needs.