Sentences with phrase «in competitive grants over»

There's incentive money for teacher merit - pay systems, as well as the proposed Early Learning Challenge Fund to increase access and quality of preK education, which includes $ 9.3 billion available in competitive grants over the next decade.

On Tuesday Gov. Andrew Cuomo held the districts up as models for the rest of the state, while promising them $ 12 million in competitive grants over the next three years.

Not exact matches

The Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program awarded over $ 26 million in competitive grants, divided equally between the Farmers Market Promotion Program (FMPP) and the Local Food Promotion Program (LFPP).

Klein said it's «too early» to say for certain whether de Blasio's pre-K plan is «right» compared to the one the governor is proposing, which calls for using $ 1.5 billion over five yreas to fund pre-K statewide ($ 100 million total in the first year, $ 25 million of which is renewing the existing competitive pre-K grants).

In a statement, HCR spokeswoman Stephanie Davis noted the agency «has granted 180 awards over the last five years through its annual competitive funding application for tax credits and low interest loans, and these projects were given the same consideration as all the others.

But pork - barrel spending has crept back into the state budget in the form of capital grants doled out at the discretion of the governor and favored legislators — to the tune of $ 1.1 billion over three years, with no competitive bidding or disclosure of which politicians requested what money.

Despite the uproar in New Paltz over granting what critics consider excessive tax breaks for developers, the IDA will continue to offer Pilots, the chairman said, «because the use of Pilots makes us competitive with other counties.»

In voting 96 - 1 to renew the Higher Education Act for five years, the Senate last month accepted a proposal that would authorize $ 300 million over five years in competitive grants to improve teacher education and recruitment programIn voting 96 - 1 to renew the Higher Education Act for five years, the Senate last month accepted a proposal that would authorize $ 300 million over five years in competitive grants to improve teacher education and recruitment programin competitive grants to improve teacher education and recruitment programs.

Andy knows that I've offered much more extensive discussions of the pros and cons of RTT (given that he's pushed back on several of my points in his blog and over beers), but I thought this phrase pithily captured the problems with RTT as an example of competitive grants.

The projects have served over 2,000 schools in more than 300 urban, suburban, and rural school districts in 36 states and Washington, D.C. Based on the core premise that educators have the greatest impact on student learning across various in - school factors, TIF awards competitive grants to States, districts, or partnerships with non-profit organizations.

Tell that to the school choice activists who have successfully passed voucher measures in more than 13 states, the children who attend the 1,091 new charter schools opened between 2010 and 2013, and families in cities such as Adelanto, Calif., who have taken over failing schools using Parent Trigger laws passed as a result of the competitive grant competition.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Wendy Spencer, chief executive officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), today announced a new competitive grant program that will provide $ 15 million in public funds over three years to reinforce and accelerate intervention efforts in the nation's lowest - performing schools.

The Title II program awarded and supported over 90 competitive grants to states and to partnerships of universities and high need schools to improve the quality of teacher preparation policy and practice in the United States.

The nearly $ 15 million that will come over the next three years is the largest competitive grant awarded in Wake's history.

Through her work in governmental affairs, she earned the title of Principal Investigator within the UC system and received over $ 20M in competitive grant awards.

As a result of NISL's track record of success across the country, the U.S. Department of Education recently awarded NISL nearly $ 23 million in competitive grants, supporting the development of over 1,500 school leaders in California, Florida, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Mississippi.

Even critical participation has been absent in the conversations over the Commissioner's Network a «turn around,» competitive grant style school funding scheme.

In the first two years of existence, over $ 200,000 was generated by the fund which has been distributed via competitive grants to spay / neuter shelter pets prior to adoption.

There will be fights over where the line is drawn in regard to a «closely held» corporation, and whether having one company granted that status and another being denied confers an unfair competitive advantage to the former.

«Not only did we make gains with the Race to the Top early learning challenge, we just won one of 13 preschool expansion grants in a competitive national competition — $ 19 million over four years with a focus on low income children.

Donna has been awarded over $ 13m in competitive grants addressing child and adolescent health promotion.