Sentences with phrase «grants last school year»

According to the district's preliminary data sheet, 14.5 percent of students at Wexler / Grant last school year transferred in after Oct. 1.

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Last school year, 40 of the 321 colleges in California that were eligible for Cal Grants had policies the bill would prevent, like requiring biological bathroom use or preventing same - sex relationships.

In fact, last school year Liberty awarded the most student state grant aid in Virginia.

When Duke became the only school to repeat in the last 28 years, it did so by relying on Grant Hill, Bobby Hurley and Christian Laettner, its core from the previous season.

The SNA is particularly alarmed by a proposal in the House last year to block grant school meals in three states.

There is a grant program for farm to school in the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act that passed last fall and that funding would become available next year.

Last year we partnered with Dairy Council to highlight how we come together to support National School Breakfast Week: USDA was here, Action for Healthy Kids was here, too — they provide funding through grants — and the Texas Hunger Initiative.

Pupil Premium Grant (PPG) Revision of the premium grant expands this allocation to include not only pupils currently on FSM but all pupils who have been eligible for FSM within the last six years and registered at our scGrant (PPG) Revision of the premium grant expands this allocation to include not only pupils currently on FSM but all pupils who have been eligible for FSM within the last six years and registered at our scgrant expands this allocation to include not only pupils currently on FSM but all pupils who have been eligible for FSM within the last six years and registered at our school.

The NRA has given more than $ 7 million in grants to hundreds of U.S. schools in recent years, according to an AP analysis, but few have shown any indication that they'll follow the lead of businesses that are cutting ties with the group following last month's massacre at a Florida high school.

Last year's budget gutted the funding formula to shortchange needier regions, and granted privately run charter schools double the amount per child that public schools received.

The Legislature snubbed Mr. de Blasio last year by granting him only a one - year renewal of his control over the public schools.

Last year, he announced $ 25 million in competitive grants to fund pre-K in some schools.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats surveyed 1,630 schools in Wales to seek their views and experiences so far in implementing the grant that was introduced last year.

The letter, which could win the Sir Humphrey Appleby award for lack of clarity, explains that the government is not paying councils the last instalment of the school standards grant before it is abolished at the end of the financial year and the money merged into school's mainstream funding.

Last year, he announced a pilot pre-K program funded by $ 25 million in competitive grants which will serve 27 of New York's roughly 700 school districts.

Last year, when Mr. de Blasio went to Albany seeking renewal of mayoral control of schools, originally granted to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg in 2002, Mr. Flanagan made sure he received only a one - year extension.

And fifty - five percent of all year - 2000 medical school graduates managed to find grants or fellowships last year, according to a survey conducted by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).

Last year's (2012 — 13) Kindergarteners were the biggest voucher class in the school, with twenty - nine out of thirty youngsters receiving a grant.

Last year, an extra # 3,000 per year was granted to 2,867 smaller schools to help them cope with the financial demand of UIFSM.

Assistant Professor Nonie Lesaux was named a William T. Grant Scholar last week earning a $ 350,000 award to be given over five years in support of her research on English - language learners in urban public schools.

The Ford Foundation, into which much of this largesse was poured, has given the Fund for Public Schools at least four grants totaling $ 2.5 million in the last five years.

Last year, the caucus helped 85 of its members get elected to the 350 - member union House of Representatives and promoted the election a union president who appears to be amenable to reforms; the union has since agreed to grant individual schools flexibility over the school calendar, hiring and assignment of teachers.

Our school was one of two charter schools throughout California to win a Dissemination Grant last year.

The foundation in which he invested his fortune has given at least seven grants totaling $ 8.5 million to the Fund for Public Schools in the last five years.

The National Endowment for the Humanities last week announced a $ 66.1 - million grants program for the coming year that will not only extend the agency's summer institutes for teachers (see Education Week, Aug. 24, 1983), but will also introduce summer programs for secondary - school principals and students.

The first proposal would reinstitute provisions of the Emergency School Aid Act (esaa), which the Reagan Administration last year combined with other federal education programs into block grants to the states.

The LessEn league table Last year, we analysed data provided by 11,993 primary and secondary schools in England and Wales that have been granted a DEC (Display Energy Certificate) rating.

Since last year, the U.S. Department of Education has awarded nearly $ 75 million in grants to schools and school districts interested in developing systems that reward good teaching and compensate teachers for taking jobs in hard - to - staff schools (low - performing and typically high - poverty schools).

The Annenberg Foundation announced last week that it will give a five - year, $ 2.5 million grant to the Chattanooga Public Education Foundation to support a new school system to be created from the Chattanooga and Hamilton County school districts.

The grant would last one year only, to contribute towards the initial recruitment costs, but we would then expect the role to become self - sustaining as the schools start to reap the benefits of that expertise.»

Last year, heeding calls for «local control» of education decisions and less invasive interventions in underperforming schools, Congress passed the Every Student Succeeds Act, granting states and local school boards, rather than the federal government, broad latitude in determining how to rate the performance of schools and how to intervene when performance lags.

An extra # 3,000 a year was granted last year to 2,867 smaller schools - those with 150 pupils or fewer - to help them cope with the new financial demand of UIFSM.

Late last year, the U.S. Department of Education's independent research arm, the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), released a preliminary but highly informative report on the School Improvement Grant program (SIG).

The Joyce Foundation announced a three - year, $ 15 million grant initiative last week to improve the quality of teaching in Chicago, Cleveland, and Milwaukee schools.

The $ 4 billion in Race to the Top grants, which seek to reward states for their commitment to reforming teacher effectiveness, data systems, low - performing schools, and academic standards and assessments, are paid for through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passed last year by Congress.

In addition to receiving an increase in the base categorical block grant to accommodate projected increases in charter school enrollment and not being singled out for any additional cuts, new and growing charter schools retained the supplemental block grant of $ 127 per pupil that was created last year as a result of our advocacy highlighting this inequity.

«Our current system, in many respects, rewards mediocrity, punishes excellence by granting unlimited job security to all who teach a few years,» Berger said last March at a news conference to unveil his Excellent Public Schools Act of 2013 — which contained language that ended career status and was ultimately inserted into the budget bill passed last summer.

«Last year was the first year for Reach Higher grants, and they created the push we needed to help develop these goals inside Michigan high schools,» said Brandy Johnson, executive director of the Michigan College Access Network.

Last year, 100 high schools across the state received more than $ 500,000 in grants as a part of the Reach Higher program.

Last Year: I was the Program Coordinator for the Expanded Learning Program at Grant Elementary School in Richmond, CA.

President Donald Trump is seeking a roughly 5 percent cut to the U.S. Department of Education's budget for fiscal 2019 in a proposal that also mirrors his spending plan from last year by seeking to eliminate a major teacher - focused grant and to expand school choice.

Just five state schools have opened cadet clubs since former chancellor George Osborne announced a # 50 million grant last year to boost the number of units five-fold.

Schools also suffered a further blow last year when the government got rid of its annual # 2,300 grant for institutions with 150 or fewer pupils which had helped them fund the meals.

The commissioner said the grant would allow Connecticut to move forward on some significant education reform proposals, such as the high school reform plan proposed last year but never approved because of state budget problems.

Weald of Kent grammar school was granted permission to open an annexe for around 450 pupils at a site around seven miles away, in Sevenoaks, by former education secretary Nicky Morgan in October last year.

Since last school year, West Seattle has narrowed the achievement gap due in part to receiving a School Improvement Grant school year, West Seattle has narrowed the achievement gap due in part to receiving a School Improvement Grant School Improvement Grant (SIG).

The partnership, announced last week, comes with an initial $ 100,000 grant, to enable the state to develop a five - year strategic plan for implementation of blended learning in all of Rhode Island's 296 public schools, along with a communications campaign to spread awareness about it.

Last year, 29 grants were distributed to districts across the state to support charter schools.

New changes to the tenure - granting process were introduced last school year.

The Connecticut Education Association provided a two - year, $ 10,000 grant to launch his after - school enrichment program, which, over the last five years, has opened the eyes of more than 15,000 students and their families to STEM skills and careers.