Sentences with phrase «level grant competitions»

The money will be used in various ways, including for state - level grant competitions to replicate and expand charter schools and provide aid for planning, program design and launching of the schools.

The funding will enable them to run state - level grant competitions to support approximately 400 new and expanded public charter schools, according to the U.S. Department of Education.

Not exact matches

Good ideas and valid protocols were rewarded with grant money, despite the high level of competition.

Now, the school will take those efforts to a new level, after being awarded a $ 1.1 million grant from the American Medical Association in a national competition aimed at accelerating change in medical education.

Sponsored by the NAESP and the MetLife Foundation, this grant is part of a competition that supports elementary and middle - level principals as they foster and encourage strong school - community relationships.

The intense debate around teacher evaluation has been fueled in recent years by the federal government's efforts to spur the creation of more sophisticated evaluation systems at the state level, in large part through incentives embedded in the Race to the Top grant competition and No Child Left Behind waiver process.

Indiana didn't apply for a state - level award, but the Metropolitan School District of Warren Township in Indianapolis received a $ 28.5 million grant in the district - level competition.

At the federal level, former U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. prioritized school diversity through a number of federal grant programs, including the Investing in Innovation Fund, or I3, Magnet School Assistance Program, and Charter School Program grant competitions.11 Additionally, in December 2016, the U.S. Department of Education announced the Opening Doors, Expanding Opportunities grant competition, which will use funds from the 2016 fiscal year to support school districts in increasing socioeconomic diversity in their schools.12

Race to the Top District, or RTT - D, which supports innovation and improvements at the local level, and Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge, or RTT - ELC, a grant competition to strengthen early learning, also grew out of ARRA's RTT initiative through congressional appropriations beginning in fiscal year 2011.

Eleven of the 16 winners are in states that did not win Race to the Top grants in the original state - level competition.

The grant program began in 2002 to help small communities address the challenges of local air service, such as high fares, insufficient levels of service, and lack of competition.

Granted, the VW Jetta starts at $ 18,700 or so, within a few hundred bucks of the Civic and a thousand or so of the Ford Focus, and if this car was «entry level» some of the nitpicks could be forgiven; it's not, though — this is a $ 23k car with a lot of competition in that price range.