Sentences with phrase «models grant funded»

This is an innovative models grant funded by the federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau.

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Frustrated by the traditional foundation model in which programmatic impact is limited to the small grants budget, the foundation's board agreed to invest some endowment assets in ventures and funds that generated social and environmental benefits along with attractive returns.

He proposed a new program for distributing education funds modeled on President Barack Obama's state competitions that will grant awards based on school performance and administrative efficiencies.

The question before progressive advocates of public campaign financing in New York State is whether we push for full public campaign finance on the Clean Money model of equal and sufficient funding grants for all qualified candidates, or whether we settle for partial public campaign financing on the Matching Funds model used for presidential primaries since 1976 and for New York City local elections since 1989.

As part of Governor Cuomo's efforts to improve the state's economic development model, a NYS Consolidated Funding Application (CFA) was created to streamline and expedite the grant application process.

This singular focus on research arises from a longstanding funding model that uses students and postdocs as inexpensive labor on professors» grant projects while neglecting their own professional development, which leads to another question McNutt posed: Should federal and state governments consider new models for financing research?

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The survey coincides with a shift in ecology away from teaching and research rooted in natural history and toward modeling, laboratory and theoretical research, which tend to attract more grant funding and publications in higher - impact academic journals.

Liska's study, which was funded through a three - year, $ 500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, used carbon dioxide measurements taken from 2001 to 2010 to validate a soil carbon model that was built using data from 36 field studies across North America, Europe, Africa and Asia.

It's not clear what would happen to the rest of NCRR's portfolio, which includes support for construction and instrumentation, primate centers and other model animal resources, and grants for minority institutions and states that don't have much NIH funding.

Paula Stephan, an economist at Georgia State University in Atlanta and a member of the current report's modeling subcommittee (Stephan was also a member of that 1998 NRC committee), writes to Science Careers in an e-mail that it's «disappointing to see that NIH did not figure out a way to shift more funds into training grants and fellowships and away from research assistantship stipends» or «implement any requirement for limiting the amount of salary that can be written off of grants — something that could dampen the demand for graduate students.»

It urges the government to foster cooperation — as well as healthy competition — among the centers and between them and outside labs by following a U.S. - style funding model that emphasizes research programs that cut across many institutions rather than block grants to individual facilities.

The mouse model work was supported through funding from Wellcome, MRC and CRUK, and the spleen work was funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Inititative (Grant 2017-174169).

Dr. Gabbay leads a federally funded State Innovation Model Planning Grant for the state of Pennsylvania funded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid redesign health care for the state.

This research was supported by the NIH (R01 AR062368, R01 AR062920 to A.J.G and R01 DK055679, R01 DK059888, DK055679, DK059888, and DK089763 to A.N.), and J.R.S. is supported by the Intestinal Stem Cell Consortium (U01DK103141), a collaborative research project funded by the National Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and by the NIAID Novel, Alternative Model Systems for Enteric Diseases (NAMSED) consortium (U19AI116482), PHS Grant UL1TR000454 from the Clinical and Translational Science Award Program, and a seed grant from the Regenerative Engineering and Medicine Research Center between Emory University, Georgia Tech and the University of GeoGrant UL1TR000454 from the Clinical and Translational Science Award Program, and a seed grant from the Regenerative Engineering and Medicine Research Center between Emory University, Georgia Tech and the University of Geogrant from the Regenerative Engineering and Medicine Research Center between Emory University, Georgia Tech and the University of Georgia.

2012 — MHRP Researchers awarded $ 5 million grant to fund research into a novel heroin / HIV vaccine — The innovative dual - vaccine model would concurrently address the entwined epidemics of heron abuse and HIV and could provide considerable public health benefits.

The diversification includes an initial funding model based on a combination of private fees, government funding sources, insurance, individual and business donations, grants, and volunteerism.

Innovation Fund grant to support work on a School Happiness Index, a new metric that schools and districts could use that is conceptually modeled after the Global Happiness Index now being used by the United Nations.

We were lucky enough to fund our makerspace with grant money, and we passed that model on by allowing students to write mini-grants to us for projects that they wanted to complete in the space.

During that time they have seen a lot of change in terms of the curriculum and support needs of schools, as well as having to adapt to the challenges of moving from a grant funded model to a full cost recovery traded service providing services for schools in Havering and beyond.

The federal government has a critical investment role to play in 1) supporting the replication and scale - up of the best providers through its grant programs; 2) improving access to low - cost public facilities for charter schools through its own funds and by leveraging existing public - school space; 3) pushing states and local districts toward more equitable funding systems for all public school students, including those in charter schools; and 4) supporting efforts to create early - stage, innovative, and scalable models that incorporate greater uses of learning technology.

There are a lot of programs now that are being funded by small grants and what have you that are all about finding some of those mentors, some of those role models, and making them available and accessible, getting them into schools, having them as a resource for teachers to draw from — it's quite exciting actually when you see a lot of the things happening.

The instructional model, Every Child Ready, was developed in - house by AppleTree Institute, the charter school's research - focused sister organization, using funding from an Investing in Innovation (i3) grant.

This study's analysis of the effect of receiving a SIG grant on student outcomes looked at fewer than 200 of those schools, all of which implemented a SIG - funded model in 2010 - 11.

It is time to try a different funding approach, and Pell Grants, the college scholarships offered to low - income students, provide a useful model.

The Coalition for Evidence - Based Policy has proposed language that would simply allow the Department of Education to reserve up to one percent of funding of all ESEA programs (except Title I) to award grants for innovation and research, with grant amounts based on the tiered evidence model used in i3.

The funding model for this academy helped by putting in start - up grants, and the best way I can describe these is to say they provided for the management of a larger school in the early days of start - up, and that was essential to turn the corner.

To build on the success and insights gained from the Breakthrough School Models grant and accelerate New Designs for Schools, NGLC joined with regional incubators to kick off the Regional Funds for Breakthrough Schools in September 2013.

The first grant opportunity for Breakthrough School Models for College Readiness launched in October 2011 and awarded grant funding to 20 districts and charter school operators developing new, whole school mModels for College Readiness launched in October 2011 and awarded grant funding to 20 districts and charter school operators developing new, whole school modelsmodels.

Other recent work includes developing a school funding model to simulate the impact of student - based budgeting at the state level, evaluating a rural school grant, and providing strategic and research support for a nonprofit working to build the supply of great public schools in a Western state.

Assistance from City Year Corps, which provides schools with tutors, mentors and role models, is funded through the federal School Improvement Grant program.

Winner of a Gates - funded Next Generation Learning Challenges grant (and discussed in an NGLC blog), Cornerstone Charter Health High School is a Carpe Diem - like flex model featuring Apex curriculum.

As national leadership development strategist for NYCLA, Gutierrez works to build leadership capacity with current and aspiring principal supervisors in 12 states across the U.S.. Also a national leadership development strategist, Polo - McKenna splits her time between coaching school leaders and leadership teams nationally and working on the federal i3 grant - funded Teaming Model project, which pairs aspiring principals and assistant principals and places them as teams in struggling New York schools.

Massachusetts also funded a grant program ($ 200,000) to support pilot programs as models for creating safe and supportive schools.

PEFNC outlined here that upon passage of a 2012 bill that would grant state tax credits for donations to tax - exempt scholarship - granting organizations that would fund scholarships for low - income students to use at private schools, PEFNC would administer that scholarship program, which was modeled after a program in Florida called Step Up For Students.

While the ever - expanding role of the U.S. Department of Education in state and local level matters remains a concern, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) acknowledges benefits of the proposed revisions to the School Improvement Grants (SIG) program, extending the grant period from three to five years, and allowing local education agencies to use SIG funds to implement, in one or more SIG eligible schools, a state - determined intervention model.

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.

The latest announcement of grant winners represent the second of three cycles of funding in NGLC's $ 12 million third investment wave focused on identifying and supporting new secondary school and college models that use technology to reach targets for affordability and student success, especially for low - income students.

With a start - up grant from the Abell Foundation and the New Schools Venture Fund, the Urban Teacher Center (UTC) was founded in September, 2009, creating a new model to train and certify highly effective teachers in Baltimore and Washington, DC.

The problem with this strategy, though convincing in theory, is that there is little incentive for the heads to do so on the current model, which provides inadequate capital for the development of such arrangements, and constrains these trusts in important ways from attracting and deploying the resources necessary for sustainable school improvement, such as constraints on the pooling of General Annual Grant funding, accumulation of surpluses, borrowing (whether secured against assets or on funding agreements), deployment of capital, and acquisition and disposal of fixed assets — all inhibit chains from deploying resources where they are needed most.

Modeled on the successful Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) national grants, Breakthrough Schools: D.C. is supported by NGLC funders (the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Broad Foundation, and the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation in Texas) and by a growing group of other local and national investors.

Numerous provisions contained in S. 1177 represent a huge step forward from current legislation: the elimination of adequate yearly progress and the 100 percent proficiency requirements, tempering the test - and - punish provisions of No Child Left Behind; the continued requirement of disaggregated subgroup data; removal of the unworkable school turnaround models required under the School Improvement Grant and Race to the Top programs; clarification of the term school leader as the principal of an elementary, middle or high school; inclusion of the use of Title II funds for a «School Leadership Residency Program»; activities to improve the recruitment, preparation, placement, support, and retention of effective principals and school leaders in high - need schools; and the allowable use of Title II funds to develop induction and mentoring programs that are designed to improve school leadership and provide opportunities for mentor principals and other educators who are experienced and effective.

Funders to be willing to take much greater risks in supporting break - the - mold school models by creating innovation divisions within their grant - making operations; investing in intermediaries that are comfortable with risk; and investing in already successful operators to create breakthrough models.

He has co-directed a number of federally funded model demonstration projects and research studies, and he has directed or co-directed several state and regional grants and contracts that have examined the improvement of schools and student achievement through the development of teachers» knowledge and practice.

Another competitive grant effort, the Investing in Innovation program, has poured dollars into proven curricula and reform models that would have otherwise gone without funding (and, like programs such as Direct Instruction, would have merely been allowed to go unnoticed).

It will require groups of schools (e.g., League of Innovative Schools, Great Schools Partnership, New Tech Network, etc) to agree on competency - based protocols and use their market leverage (and some grant funding) to drive investment to solutions for their instructional model.

Professional development activities funded by the PT3 grant allowed university faculty members and K - 12 teachers to model skills and understandings of the NETS - T improving their professional technology skills, experimenting with integrating technology into instruction, and expanding learning experiences for students.

The NGLC Regional Fund in Oakland Redwood Heights is just one of ten schools in Oakland, California awarded planning grants this past spring to support the design of personalized learning models.

Beyond giving two additional public schools over to the quasi public - private model, funding from this grant will enable HPS staff to attend Achievement First «s New Coach Training.

Performance Pay Policies: Oregon allows school districts to participate in the School District Collaboration Grant Program, which provides funding for implementing new approaches to compensation models and evaluation processes for teachers.