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, Albert Sanchez, the director of competitive grants for the 402,000 - student Chicago school system, wrote that the district would terminate its grant as of July 30.

Sacramento, Calif — Four California corporations, partners in what they believe is the nation's only privately funded statewide program of competitive grants for school districts, are actively recruiting more corporate sponsors.

Not exact matches

Grants can be very competitive with application requirements that are very specific regarding the type of business you can have and what the funds will be used for.

With the objective of learning from the rich experiences and lessons that other countries have gained from their own programs, in early 2016, the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada announced a competitive policy research grant for research on best practices by foreign SME export assistance programs.

Specifically, the PBFA has called for: Support for specialty crops; research on plant protein; removing» anti-competitive» policies to bridge the large competitive gap between commodities and specialty crops; support for organic crops; inclusion of transparency and accountability provisions; and referencing «plant - based foods that are major sources of Nutrients of Concern» in 7 USC Section 3157 under «competitive special and facilities research grants.»

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 Baxter Equipment for Education Grant will award equipment to a school district in need of improving its school meal kitchen facilities through a competitive grant proGrant will award equipment to a school district in need of improving its school meal kitchen facilities through a competitive grant progrant process.

But while cheerleading has not traditionally been considered a Title IX sport in college athletics, at least one major high school athletic association has granted cheerleading competitive status for most of the past decade.

«Grant money is such a competitive thing and such a needed thing — that's one of the reasons why we have the (park district confirm resources are) there because we don't want communities who can't actually meet the requirements applying for the grant,» McCloud Grant money is such a competitive thing and such a needed thing — that's one of the reasons why we have the (park district confirm resources are) there because we don't want communities who can't actually meet the requirements applying for the grant,» McCloud grant,» McCloud said.

The bill also provides $ 30 million for competitive grants to State agencies for sub grants to local educational agencies and schools to purchase equipment with a value of at least $ 1,000.

The Baxter Equipment for Education Grant awards equipment to one school in need of improving its school meal kitchen facilities through a competitive grant proGrant awards equipment to one school in need of improving its school meal kitchen facilities through a competitive grant progrant process.

Klein said it's «too early» to say for certain whether de Blasio's pre-K plan is «right» compared to the one the governor is proposing, which calls for using $ 1.5 billion over five yreas to fund pre-K statewide ($ 100 million total in the first year, $ 25 million of which is renewing the existing competitive pre-K 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.

On Tuesday Gov. Andrew Cuomo held the districts up as models for the rest of the state, while promising them $ 12 million in competitive grants over the next three years.

The Task Force began their anti-fraud investigations in mid-April of this year, after Erie County was awarded a competitive grant for this purpose from the New York Office of Children and Family Services.

Westchester, NY — Westchester Congress Members Eliot Engel (NY - 16), Nita Lowey (NY - 17), and Sean Patrick Maloney (NY - 18) announced today that Westchester County has been awarded a $ 3.6 million federal grant from the United States Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration for new vehicles under the Bus and Bus Facilities Competitive Grant Progrant from the United States Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration for new vehicles under the Bus and Bus Facilities Competitive Grant ProGrant Program.

As more is revealed about what really went on then that is still existing, and how the AG covered it up by refusing to indict the corruption now running the State Agencies and Authorities in Albany for massive Civil Service Law abuse and the granting of Pension System Final Average Salaries (FAS) way above the their permanent competitive status, you'll hear more excuses than a corrupt regime gives when it is about to collapse and they're in total fear.

ALBANY — Only 88 school districts in New York state have applied for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's competitive pre-kindergarten grants, representing about a quarter of the 345 districts that were eligible.

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.

Despite the uproar in New Paltz over granting what critics consider excessive tax breaks for developers, the IDA will continue to offer Pilots, the chairman said, «because the use of Pilots makes us competitive with other counties.»

As the Times Union reported in 2015, the Birches at Schoharie received state support despite getting a low initial score from the staff of Homes and Community Renewal, which allocates competitive state and federal grants and tax benefits for affordable housing projects.

Downtown Revitalization Initiative: Similar to 2016's Downtown Revitalization Initiative, Phase II would create a competitive grant program for place - making strategies to revitalize the downtown areas of suburban small cities, villages and towns in the greater Buffalo / Niagara area.

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

Chapter 13 of the City Charter requires sealed competitive bidding for virtually every purchase or grant awarded by the city.

As the Times Union reported in 2015, the Birches at Schoharie received state support despite getting a low initial score from the staff of the state Division of Housing and Community Renewal, which allocates competitive state and federal grants and tax benefits for affordable housing projects.

NSF is committed to increasing its support of basic research, mostly through competitive merit - reviewed grants, by shifting resources away from facilities and instrumentation support, a commitment that shows in its 3.8 percent increase for basic research to $ 2.1 billion.

For the 26 most competitive programs, less than 15 % of applicants were awarded the grants.

Some of the LDCs have also become competitive for research grants in particular diseases or disciplines.

With a 5 - year term for research grants and a competitive renewal rate of about 53 %, supporting an expanded scientific workforce is a tall order for NIH, even as the research budget continues to grow at a modest pace.

At UCR, however, she has yet to get the much - coveted National Institutes of Health R01, an increasingly competitive grant that supports a research project for up to five years and an unspoken tenure requirement at many institutions.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced on 3 Feb. that the White House will request a doubling of funding for competitive grants under the department's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) in the president's FY 2017 budget, to be released next week.

NSF Troubles, and Other Depressing Topics 12 August 2005 The news coming out of the National Science Foundation isn't good, and a reader asks, are clinicians more competitive for grants?

Although temporary teaching jobs look very attractive to new Ph.D. s looking for teaching experience, Nyhus warns that the heavy teaching load makes it very difficult to remain competitive in terms of grants, publications, and job applications.

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.

Meanwhile, the Wellcome Trust in London released a report yesterday calling for the United Kingdom to pay to participate in future Framework Programs, the main source of competitive grants from the European Union, as an «associated country,» like Norway and Switzerland; in return, the country should also retain a voice in setting framework strategies even after it leaves the European Union.

Also look for competitive requests for proposals (RFPs), a mechanism a small but growing number of companies use to provide grants to academic researchers.

Since the 1940s, when the U.S. government began to invest seriously in civilian research, the work has been done largely at the nation's universities and paid for through competitive, temporary grants awarded to individual professors by federal funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.

In fact, however, only about 25 percent of those earning American science PhDs will ever land a faculty job that enables them to apply for the competitive grants that support academic research.

We are engaged in the never - ending futile competitive cycle of publishing five replica papers that show that oranges, grapes, mangoes, bananas, and pears respectively follow the rules of gravity (apple being the first) so that we can apply for grants and publish five more papers showing five more fruits also follow the same rule.

Honjo says he is eager for feedback to fine - tune the process, which ministry officials hope will eventually cover the entire portfolio of competitive grants programs.

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 total funding of physical sciences from all Commonwealth competitive grants schemes in 1992 - 93 was A$ 31 million, compared with A$ 130 million for the life sciences.

After decades of flat funding, agricultural research seems to have caught the attention of U.S. policymakers, as Congress gave a 30 % boost to the main competitive grants program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), raising it to $ 263 million for 2010.

One of the grants was received under the highly competitive CPRIT's Individual Investigator Program for $ 674,465.

Supporters of agricultural research credit him for helping to secure a 30 % boost in competitive grants and a 64 % boost in the agency's budget request.

Even if some institutions do allow postdocs to apply for grants, postdocs are rarely competitive, because they don't have the «institutional commitment» of a tenure - track professor, and they haven't won the endorsement of a major university hiring committee.

For example, in fiscal year 2006, ending 30 September 2006, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded 1 in 5 competitive grant applications.

Funding for NEPAN has been provided through competitive research grants and various programs within the U.S. Department of Defense and Department of Energy, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), Department of Defense's Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP), the U.S. Navy's Living Marine Resources Program (LMR) and the Naval Operations Energy and Environmental Readiness Division (N45), with some funding provided by the NOAA Ocean Acoustics Program, and the NOAA Office of Protected Resources.

He pursued and eventually secured, despite two rejections, a National Institutes of Health grant to fund a university program targeted at helping minority postbaccalaureate students remain competitive for admission to top - tier research institutions.

Acknowledging the importance of energy education for today's students, the department's Institute of Education Sciences gave high marks to the new study, which is one of only 26 funded this year through the competitive education research grants program.