Sentences with phrase «in education grants»

Gates also supports charter schools, but the Walton Family Foundation ($ 164 million in education grants in 2013) stands out because of its uncompromisingly ideological approach to public education and its strong support for policy advocacy in line with that approach.

It told states that if they sign onto Common Core, they'll have a greater chance of getting millions of dollars in education grants.

Technology in the Classroom Equate to Success CenturyLink Invests $ 50k a year in education grants in Utah

In the competition for $ 3.4 billion in education grants under President Obama's Race to the Top, Washington is near the bottom.

As governors and state legislators gear up for a new year of budget action and policymaking, the federal Race to the Top competition is helping to drive a flurry of measures nationwide aimed, at least in part, at making states stronger candidates for a slice of the $ 4 billion in education grants.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced Tuesday that 19 states are finalists in the second round of the «Race to the Top» competition for a share of $ 3.4 billion in education grants.

The sad thing is that our local community in New Square is described in Wikipedia as a place where «four Hasidic men created a nonexistent Jewish school to receive $ 30 million in education grants, subsidies, and loans from the U.S. federal government.

Moreover, during the past 25 years the share of master's and doctoral degrees in education granted by top - tier public and private research universities has declined dramatically.

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.

Not exact matches

In order to create tax cuts in the province's education and healthcare systems, the party is also looking to find savings by reducing the number of grants and tax credits going to businesseIn order to create tax cuts in the province's education and healthcare systems, the party is also looking to find savings by reducing the number of grants and tax credits going to businessein the province's education and healthcare systems, the party is also looking to find savings by reducing the number of grants and tax credits going to businesses.

After selling Trader Classified Media in 2006, John MacBain has been focused on philanthropic work, founding the Geneva - based McCall MacBain Foundation, which grants funding for efforts in education, health and the environment.

«We have dramatically increased access to school options for Newark families, provided grants directly to teachers at 37 schools, given 300,000 books to Newark students through the My Very Own Library program, and just recently, we committed to a $ 1 million initiative to improve early childhood education in Newark,» the foundation said in a statement to CNBC.

Future Engineers is a 2016 Small Business Innovation Research grant awardee from the US Department of Education and was named a Breakthrough Award winner by Popular Mechanics in 2015.

For example, the US Department of Education's Race to the Top Fund, which offered $ 4 billion in grants to states that developed successful educational reforms, spurred innovations that hold promise for school systems across the country.

They were on hand to visit a classroom and to promote the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's philanthropic initiatives — not to mention the millions in grants it's made possible — to expand education reforms in the Bluegrass State.

The conservative Public Notice Research and Education Fund took in $ 1,821,000 in grants in 2011, $ 1,244,000 of which — almost 70 percent — came from Donors Trust.

H.B. 929 Status: Failed Relates to promotion of cybersecurity in the Commonwealth, initiates several efforts to promote economic development, research and development, and workforce development of the cybersecurity industry in the Commonwealth, creates two new matching grant funds, adds one administered by the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Investment Authority for private entities that collaborate with one or more public institutions of higher education on research and development related to cybersecurity.

Low - income students can take advantage of federal Pell grants, which aim to provide need - based grants to low - income undergraduate and certain graduate or professional students, in order to promote access to postsecondary education.

Instead, she has redoubled her commitment to Emerson Collective, the organization she formed about a decade ago to make grants and investments in education initiatives and, more recently, other areas.

In addition to tax advantages, we also receive an education grant, which matches upto 20 % of the saved amount (upto a max of $ 500 per year).

Through an exciting first - time $ 1 million grant program, NICE is directly investing in strengthening regional talent pipelines by supporting partnerships between employers, education, workforce, economic development and non-profit institutions committed to developing cybersecurity training aligned with employer needs.

After completing her master's degree in alternative education, she wrote and received a grant to design and implement a middle school...

To continue to support women in business, look for charities that help aspiring women entrepreneurs and students by providing capital, grants or education opportunities, or help the NextGen of women - owned businesses by supporting education, mentorship and leadership development opportunities for girls and teens.

The extent of the decline is surprising given the nature of the components in this category — transfers to First Nations for education, health, social assistance, agricultural subsidies, student assistance, transfers to granting councils, among others.

Since 2004, employees have logged more than 650,000 volunteer hours and donated more than $ 5.2 million in Grants for Great Hours, which allows PNC employees volunteering at least 40 hours over a 12 - month period at a qualified, early education nonprofit, to donate a $ 1,000 grant to that nonprofit.

Financial aid encompasses grants, scholarships, low - interest loans, or work - study arrangements.The Four Primary Sources of Financial AidThe U.S. Federal GovernmentNot surprisingly, the federal government is the largest sponsor of education in the country.

If they had contributed the maximum of $ 2,500 per child per year, for a total of $ 20,000, they would have also received the maximum $ 500 Canada Education Savings Grant for each child each year, another $ 4,000 in total.

Grant you that faith in those fields have greatly diminished, but it's also going to have to take faith to improve our situation, whether it be faith in current leaders or faith to choose different leaders, faith to continue in ones education or to change fields of expertise, and within all the mix it may not even be of help to have faith in God.

I am quite willing to grant that the inequities in education in this country are not only or primarily a matter of funding.

And, of course, it is conservatives who are pressing for the basic justice of parental choice in education, a choice taken for granted by the affluent.

David received his Master of Arts from Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, after receiving a Lilly Grant for religious education for journalist.

That Christian education must be given in the churches and through church schools, 10 if the Christian heritage is adequately to be transmitted, can be taken for granted without argument.

Yet the draft describes wide - ranging protections, saying, «Persons and organizations do not forfeit their religious freedom when providing social services, education, or healthcare; earning a living, seeking a job, or employing others; receiving government grants or contracts; or otherwise participating in the marketplace, the public square, or interfacing with federal, state, or local governments.»

In May 1988 the Network Center for Study of Christian Ministry utilized a grant from Trinity Grants, New York City, to host a four - day consultation of ministry - based programs in seminary education from across the countrIn May 1988 the Network Center for Study of Christian Ministry utilized a grant from Trinity Grants, New York City, to host a four - day consultation of ministry - based programs in seminary education from across the countrin seminary education from across the country.

The grant of a high degree of freedom in education is, of course, for the sake of political democracy itself.

Liberalism's founders tended to take for granted the persistence of social norms, even as they sought to liberate individuals from those constitutive associations and the accompanying education in self - limitation that sustained these norms.

Dr. Theophilus once went to the United States on a church grant, and managed to complete a Ph.D. in education from Iowa State in only two and a half years.

The Carnegie Corporation, it should be said, is not the author, owner, publisher or proprietor of these or of the other publications issued by the staff of The Study of Theological Education in the United States and Canada, and is not to be understood as approving by virtue of its grant any of the statements made or views expressed therein.

It too developed its own degree program, granting master's degree in religious education, and establishing a group of specialists, lay directors and ordained ministers working in the field.

To reformers it seemed that colleges had to be freed from clerical control, and hence usually from traditional Christianity, in order to achieve something that we take for granted — the emergence of higher education as a separate profession, distinct from the role of clergy.

This American ideal for education was institutionalized in the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862, encouraging the state schools oriented toward agricultural and technical education that developed as alternatives to the liberal arts colleges.

Thus the G.I. Bill, the Public Facilities Act, the National Defense Education Act, and the various forms of student aid initiated in the 1960s — BEOGs, SEOGs, Work - Study, Pell grants, etc. — have subsidized the survival of many colleges and universities, but inexorably they have served as well to make the grantee institutions more anxious to observe the laws and regulations of the State than the strictures of the Church whose sponsorship is, by comparison, so intangible.

Cain's tenure as warden came on the heels of The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act passed in 1994, which made prisoners ineligible for Pell Grants and devastated education within the penal system.

If the government closed its eyes to the manner in which these grants are actually used it would be allowing public funds to promote sectarian education.

In the eighteenth and the early decades of the nineteenth century Nonconformists had «academies» which, while not granting degrees, gave fully as good higher education as did the universities at Oxford and on the Cam.

Simply within the framework of Stackhouse's proposal, even if the implied picture of reason is granted, it is unclear that it can coherently hold together the wissenschaftlich education required by focus on God's truth and the paideia in piety called for by focus on God's justice.

The National Institute of Mental Health in 1968 awarded a five - year grant to Christian Theological Seminary for the continuing education of the clergy in reference to mental health needs and services.

It has been nurtured in many ways: by research into basic issues in theological education underwritten by competitive grants offered by the Association of Theological Schools (ATS) and funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc.; by the work of some theological educators commissioned by the Endowment to think about these questions; and by a series of seminars and conferences convened by the ATS to discuss some of the results of this research and reflection.

It now seems fairly obvious that Mather's suggestion that all preaching be directed toward the conversion of sinners to God contained within it an emphasis that — granted the American situation — would in the long run tend to undermine his view of the kind of general education necessary for the minister.

But this is a far cry indeed from the public controversies that our current epidemic of so - called realist atheism has given rise to, such as whether it is permissible to pray or celebrate Christmas in schools and other public institutions, or to grant government support of one kind or another to private religious education.