Sentences with phrase «in federal grant money for»

He congratulated the department for using $ 4 million in federal grant money for professional development but stressed a bigger investment would be necessary as teachers and students adjust.

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Competition for the money is fierce but the federal government allocates $ 2B a year in grants for early stage ideas few investors will touch.

A Maryland town hall attendee who works for Secular Coalition for America asked Obama about statements he made as a candidate in 2008 when he said, «If you get a federal grant, you can't use that grant money to proselytize to the people you help, and you can't discriminate against them - or against the people you hire - on the basis of their religion.»

Rejman said the Park District won $ 3.1 million in federal grant money earmarked for projects that benefit short - stay boaters.

New York State has agreed to adopt high - stakes testing and controversial teacher evaluation systems tied to Common Core State Standards for a one - time installment of $ 700 millions in federal Race to the Top grant money.

The library paid for the upgrades with $ 8.7 million in grant money from Onondaga County, New York State, the federal government and several private grants, Mitchell said.

But it remains unclear how the state will ultimately pay for the project in the long run, though a mix of federal loans and grants, along with state financing and windfall settlement money has been mentioned.

Justice Muslim Hassan, who granted the interim order, had given 14 days for anyone interested in the funds to appear before him to show cause why the money should not be permanently forfeited to the Federal Government.

Suffolk Police Commissioner nominee Geraldine Hart said she wants to work closely with authorities in El Salvador to help fight the deadly MS - 13 gang's activities in the county and plans to use her knowledge of federal programs to push for more grant money.

The evaluations are required in order to qualify for federal grant money that New York State won under the Race to the Top program.

Major money is headed to the Buffalo City Mission for its work to help the homeless in the region: The mission received a $ 3.26 million grant from the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York, sponsored by M&T Bank.

Last year New York was only allowed to give out $ 10 million in federal money as grants to towns villages for sewer projects.

«We received [$ 10,000 in] grant money from [state] senator George Amedore's office, an $ 8000 grant from the federal government for ballistic helmets, and we received $ 13,000 from the Department of Homeland Security for a new canine and a $ 10,000 sustainability grant.

The state awarded the hospital another $ 12 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency grant money for the effort.

That money, most of it from federal grants through the Human Genome Project, has paid for the first rough guides to the 3 billion nucleotides in human DNA: maps studded with thousands of landmarks called «sequence tagged sites» (Science, 25 October 1996, p. 540).

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.

To pay for the lessons, Ms. Johnson used some of the $ 8,000 in federal money her school, Handley Middle School in Roanoke, Ala., received this year under the Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities grant program.

The money was designated for participants in the federal work - study program, the Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant program, and the Perkins Loan Program, but was unspent for various reasons.

For example, some have noted the state's participation in the federal Reading First program, in which public schools received grant money to implement instructional and assessment tools.

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.

Schools used their share of $ 4.3 billion in federal Race to the Top competitive - grant money to make significant progress in areas including state data systems and instructional resources for teachers.

As a result of this legislation, over 350,000 education - related jobs were saved, state governments devised ambitious plans to compete for $ 4 billion in «Race to the Top» grants, and the federal government put forth solutions to the problems faced by the nation's weakest schools But the long - term impact of the stimulus money is much more unclear, according to a nationwide review led by the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media and the Education Writers Association.

In the 1980s, the maximum Pell Grant — the money the federal money gives to low - income students to attend college — covered more than half the cost of a four - year public school, according to The Institute for College Access and Success, a think tank focused on college affordability.

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.

Teachers Union Refuses to Sign Off on LAUSD Plan for Race to the Top Grant The Los Angeles teachers union has refused to sign off on Los Angeles Unified's bid for a prestigious Race to the Top grant, costing the district a shot at winning $ 40 million in federal money, sources said SatuGrant The Los Angeles teachers union has refused to sign off on Los Angeles Unified's bid for a prestigious Race to the Top grant, costing the district a shot at winning $ 40 million in federal money, sources said Satugrant, costing the district a shot at winning $ 40 million in federal money, sources said Saturday.

Alabama has filed an application for federal grant money from the U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) to establish a statewide longitudinal data system (SLDS), but won't learn the results of their application until some time in September.

On Friday, March 31, 2017 CCSA learned federal authorities charged Ben Chavis, former director of three California charter schools collectively known as the American Indian Model Schools (AIMS), with mail fraud and money laundering in connection with the schools» applications for federal grant funds.

PCAPS Coordinator Ron Whitehorne outlined the strategy for getting 10 % of Philadelphia Schools to be Sustainable Community Schools in four years, focusing on the demand that federal School Improvement Grant money be used exclusively for that purpose.

At issue is roughly $ 1.3 million in federal School Improvement Grants, money earmarked for turnaround efforts that the schools received last year.

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.

Remember, the 2010 evaluation law was critical to the state's successful bid for $ 700 million in federal money in the Race to the Top grant competition.

Among the proposed cuts are grant programs, including Teacher Education Assistance grants (for those who agree to teach, after college, for four years in a public school serving low - income families) and Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants (additional grant money for qualified undergraduate students from the lowest income legrants (for those who agree to teach, after college, for four years in a public school serving low - income families) and Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants (additional grant money for qualified undergraduate students from the lowest income leGrants (additional grant money for qualified undergraduate students from the lowest income levels).

And for his part, President Donald Trump proposed allocating $ 20 billion in federal education money to create block grants aimed at providing low - income children with more educational choices.

He said the national policy moment that resulted in teacher evaluation laws and regulations stems from both the financial crisis and Race to the Top, a federal competition for grant money in exchange for the pursuit of specific education reforms.

On the right, advocates for vouchers and the free market are pushing for testing loopholes such as opt - out provisions and doling out federal money in block grants with no performance requirements whatsoever.

In its race to meet a looming deadline to apply for a competitive federal grant, the State Board of Education adopted a series of legislative proposals to overhaul how Connecticut's charter schools are funded — proposals that are neither realistic nor reasonable and that could ultimately siphon money from communities for traditional public schools.

It was a year ago and a week that Gov. Chris Christie fired Bret Schundler as his education commissioner over what was a mishap on the state's failed application for federal Race to the Top money, a grant that aimed to put in place this very evaluation system statewide.

But former Gov. Deval Patrick's administration traded away Massachusetts» proven, literature - rich English standards for $ 250 million in one - time federal grant money.

As part of the federal stimulus package of 2009, Congress provided jumbo - sized School Improvement Grant money to states in exchange for commitments to identify and restructure their most academically troubled schools.

Why does the University of Memphis collect hefty accounting fees for administering federal grants, when millions in private philanthropic money will pass through the university free of such charges?

The city schools system is planning to use up to one - tenth of its $ 256 million share of the federal grant money for as many as 16 new standardized exams to cover science, math, social studies and English in the 3rd through 12th grades.

Gresham was referring to the federal Education Department's signature program, which pit states against one another to compete for millions in grant money — initially $ 4.35 billion from the 2009 stimulus initiative.

From that website I learned of the department of education website where you can log on and review your student Fafsa report that shows a history of your student loans and grants received when in school and the payments paid during the repayment period (that is the money we pay to them for the loan) and found that not even one dollar of my payments have ever been reported by ACS, not even one, before the 10 years on the Income Based Repayment Plan, I was on a set plan that I had paid for 6 years $ 237 dollars each month on a fixed 3.25 % repayment plan, so why is it that not even one dollar is showing on the Federal Department of Education website showing any of those payments?

By signing this certification statement, you are saying that you are not in default on a federal student loan and do not owe money on a federal student grant and that you will use federal student loans only for educational purposes.

This can come in the form of Pell Grants for needy families or federal loans as part of the financial aid package for each student as nearly 70 % of all students have to borrow money during their college career to afford the already high tuition prices.

But that is exactly what ARENA does — and that is the nature of the state and federal grants that he enthused about for Carnegie Wave Energy — and its demonstration project would not have been built in Australia if it relied only on private money.

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We've been thru more then one rural town with population measured in the 100's with a nice 12 foot wide paved bicycle path paid for with federal or state «grant money».

The 2014 Form 990 (Schedule I) shows IGES paid a $ 100,000 grant using federal climate grant money to the Institute for Global Education Equality of Opportunity and Prosperity, Inc. (IGEP), which was incorporated in 2006 by Anastasia «Anne» Shukla at the residence address of the Shukla family in Rockville, Maryland.