Sentences with phrase «include competitive grants»

The state allocated about $ 21.1 billion to schools this year, including the competitive grants.

He ended up including competitive grants for some of those programs in his budget, and they were passed into law by the state Legislature.

The 2018 spending bill approved by Congress this week gives a slight but meaningful boost to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) research accounts — including its competitive grants program for universities and other institutions.

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Van Gaal's squad currently features 19 players aged 23 or under who he has signed, played, given competitive debuts to or otherwise sought to involve in United's first - team squad — including them in training, naming them on the bench or registering them for cup competitions, and granting them a shirt number — but which youngsters will stand the test of time and become his legacy on the pitch at Old Trafford for the next decade to come?

The budget is due Sunday, but already lawmakers are putting the finishing touches on a deal that includes plans to merge gambling oversight, a new infrastructure improvement plan for the state and a 4 percent boost in education spending through competitive grants.

According to MultiChoice Ghana's statement of claim, SuperSport was granted exclusive rights by the English Premier League, through a competitive bidding process to broadcast the football matches of the EPL for the 2015/2016 football season within Sub-Saharan Africa including Ghana.

The total increase includes $ 50 million in competitive grants and $ 81 million for charter schools.

The money was part of a $ 75 million package of competitive grants that Cuomo unveiled in his State of the State address last year, including $ 25 million for pre-K.

Cuomo proposed $ 25 million for competitive grant programs, which includes $ 20 million to establish a fund to supplement high - performing teachers» salaries and $ 5 million to expand early college high schools throughout the state.

The proposed increase is slightly smaller than what Cuomo presented last year: in 2013, he offered an $ 889 million boost, including funding for competitive grants.

A competitive faculty application package, I was told, should include publications in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nature, or Science; evidence of fundraising such as travel grants and in - kind research support; and teaching experience as a teaching assistant or guest lecturer.

«These partnerships go well beyond just providing competitive grants to academic researchers and include numerous cooperative institutes, joint programs with academia and nongovernmental organizations, involvement with students at all levels, and participation in international organizations,» he says.

The causes of such unpredictable results, Harris said, can include bad ingredients in the lab, including contaminated and misidentified cell lines; poor research design, including insufficient numbers of mice in animal studies; statistical error and overreach, including «HARKing» (hypothesizing after the results are known), a push beyond the limits of the data; and funding pressures, which can lead scientists to hype or exaggerate their results to remain competitive for additional grant money.

The dysfunction stems from a Spanish peculiarity: In the national science budget, the government not only includes lump sums to public research institutes and competitive grants to research teams, but also a pot of money aimed at supporting companies, universities, and public research institutions with loans.

The team will test the predictions of current theories of gravity, including Einstein's theory of General Relativity, The funding is provided in the form of a «Synergy Grant», the largest and most competitive type of grant of theGrant», the largest and most competitive type of grant of thegrant of the ERC.

She also kept a handful of competitive grant programs alive, including one for magnet schools.

Given the statute's scope, today's debate could include countless issues, such as possible changes to Title II rules on educator effectiveness, the expansion of the charter school grant program, the introduction of a private school choice initiative, reconsideration of competitive grant programs (RTTT, TIF, i3), and much more.

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.

Earlier in 2009, also through Race to the Top, the administration had offered $ 4.35 billion in funding through a competitive grant program designed to encourage states to enact the feds» preferred school - reform policies — including the adoption of better standards and assessments.

A competitive grant program that includes these design elements need not be called i3.

In his State of the Union address, President Obama outlined his plans for reforming U.S. public education, including distributing competitive grants, raising test scores, and holding teachers accountable for student achievement.

The NEA criticized the draft for including «no requirement for multiple measures of school or student performance» and for not requiring non-test-based teacher evaluations under the Teacher Incentive Fund, which doles outs competitive grants.

But Duncan can also leverage his competitive grant programs — including Race to the Top — for this purpose by requiring additional data collection to be a condition of gaining those funds.

Although the FY11 budget request includes a $ 38.9 million increase in funding to support teaching and learning in the arts, history, civics, foreign languages, geography, and economics, the administration proposes to combine eight subject - specific grant programs into a single competitive grant program.

In the Department's fiscal year (FY) 2006 appropriations bill, Congress also included language overriding the statutory provision that SEAs use 50 percent of the amount available for grants to Local Education Agencies (LEAs) for formula awards and 50 percent for competitive awards.

Yet the «educator in chief» also offered reassurance and rewards, including a chance to win hundreds of millions of dollars in competitive grants.

The Education Department also on Thursday released a report on the Obama administration's $ 4 billion Race to the Top competitive grant program, describing how it ushered in sweeping policy changes in many states, including some that proved controversial, such as new teacher evaluations tied to student test scores.

Fund the congressionally authorized Augustus F. Hawkins Centers of Excellence Program for competitive grants to teacher - preparation programs at minority - serving institutions to make such programs more rigorous — including raising entry and exit standards for the programs; at the same time, students would receive help in meeting those standards.

And the proposal also includes a new, $ 300 million competitive - grant program aimed at helping high schools better prepare students for post-secondary education and the workplace and focus on science, math, engineering, and technology.

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.

The report was updated to include context from two significant events that are pushing states to take a closer look at their accountability systems: the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (now known as ESSA) and the launch of the New Skills for Youth initiative, a competitive grant program funded by JPMorgan Chase & Co. that requires participating states to transform their systems to support high - quality career - focused education for all students.

While American moms won't soon enjoy the year of paid leave that a number of other wealthy nations offer, President Obama's budget proposal did include a $ 50 million State Paid Leave Fund, which would provide competitive planning grants to states to design and implement new paid family - leave insurance programs.

The state budget passed by the California Legislature in June 2017 included strategic investments to address California's growing teacher shortages, including approximately $ 9.4 million to create a competitive grant program, CalED.

For about a dozen states, including Tennessee, those changes began with the administration's signature competitive grant, Race to the Top, which offered states a piece of a $ 4.35 billion pie in exchange for adopting a range of significant education policy changes.

The money includes $ 4.35 billion in competitive grants for states that make the most progress in raising academic standards, tracking student gains, boosting teacher quality and improving failing schools.

The Wallace Foundation awarded a competitive grant to UChicago CCSR in 2013 to undertake the project, which included a review of relevant literature spanning decades as well as interviews with national experts in research, policy and practice, and young people and the adults who work with them in schools, programs and agencies throughout Chicago.

Establishes annual competitive grants ranging from $ 50K to $ 750K for alliance and non-alliance districts seeking to improve student performance using methods included in alliance district improvement plans.

Costs for a program of this type could be calculated by using funding allocations for previous competitive federal - to - district grant programs and might include expenses such as release time, resident or prospective teacher stipends, and training for mentor teachers.

President Obama is continuing to ask for a $ 5 billion investment from Congress to support a RESPECT grant program outlined in the RESPECT blueprint, including salaries for the teaching profession competitive with professions like architecture, medicine and law, more support for novice teachers, and more career opportunities for accomplished teachers.

Projects were selected through the FTA's competitive Fiscal Year 2011 Sustainability Initiative, which includes funding from two FTA programs: the Clean Fuels Grant Program and the TIGGER III (Transit Investment in Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reduction) Grant Program.

The competitive national grant was awarded to only 30 organizations in fall 2016 cycle, and, of the awardees, Franklin Street Works is the youngest not - for - profit to be included.

Between 2002 and 2013, the foundation gave out grants totaling over $ 61.5 million, including $ 8,268,000 to the Reason Foundation, $ 5,917,000 to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, $ 5,910,000 to the Institute for Justice, $ 5,055,000 to the Cato Institute and $ 3,806,500 to the Property and Environment Research Center.

Part 2: Advanced Vehicles -(Sec. 721) Directs the Secretary to establish a competitive grant pilot program through the DOE Clean Cities Program, to provide up to 30 geographically dispersed project grants to state or local governments or metropolitan transportation authorities for acquisition of alternative fueled vehicles, hybrid vehicles, or fuel cell vehicles, including the infrastructure necessary to support them directly.

We might begin by working with publishers to arrive at a fair and competitive market pricing for publishing an article (including platform costs and investments in future improvements), rather than replicating monopoly pricing determined by discipline grant levels.

Perks: Competitive salary; 25 days holiday (with an option to buy additional days) plus statutory bank holidays; Group personal pension plan with employer contributions; Flexible benefits including health / dental cover, child care vouchers, insurance and discounted shopping; Life assurance; Interest - free season ticket loans for travel; Funding for the GDL / LPC (including a maintenance grant); Membership to the JLD or equivalent.

On top of a very competitive and powerful spec, one which includes a 13.9 - inch 3K touchscreen with resolution of 3000 x 2000, this system also boasts an almost bezel - free design that grants it a 91 per cent screen - to - body ratio.

Accountable for preparing and reviewing competitive and non-competitive grant applications, requesting forward funding and no - extension for grants, timeline of grants and contracts due dates, documents for new hires, including foreign new hires with visas and payroll and timekeeping.

Recent account investments include $ 1 million in continued state support; two competitive, multi-year federal grants totaling nearly $ 27 million; and a 5 - year, $ 7.5 million commitment from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The MIECHV program included formula grants, which vary according to the number of poor children under five in a state, and competitive grants, which help states with specific projects to expand and develop their home visiting programs.