Sentences with phrase «offered competitive grants»

At the same time, the Race to the Top program offered competitive grants that awarded points to states based on their implementation of policies like performance - based evaluations.

For the last 10 years, it has offered competitive grants for districts to revamp their teacher evaluation and compensation systems.

Massachusetts and Tennessee identify the highest - performing 5 percent of schools and incentivize them to give back to the lowest performing schools by offering competitive grants.

Budgeted at $ 400,000, a program of direct artist grants will offer competitive grants to artists living in the city.

It says it will now achieve its 5 % emissions reduction target, compared with 2000 levels, by 2020 with its Direct Action policy, which will offer competitive grants over the next four years to companies and organisations that voluntarily reduce emissions.

The Greater Kansas City Community Foundation: This foundation offers competitive grant opportunities, scholarships, and links to web sites of funders in the Kansas City area.

Not exact matches

Given the absence of a public trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic outlook.

It has been nurtured in many ways: by research into basic issues in theological education underwritten by competitive grants offered by the Association of Theological Schools (ATS) and funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc.; by the work of some theological educators commissioned by the Endowment to think about these questions; and by a series of seminars and conferences convened by the ATS to discuss some of the results of this research and reflection.

In 2009, through the «Race to the Top» program, the federal government offered $ 4.35 billion in competitive grants to states that adopted Common Core standards and developed plans to improve state test scores and teacher evaluation results.

He offered $ 25 million in competitive grants for low - income school districts to either build or expand pre-K programs.

The state also plans to offer another $ 75 million for the competitive grants.

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.»

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.

Nearly half of the 773 grants awarded to schools have gone to JROTC programs, which put students through a basic military curriculum and offer an array of small competitive clubs, like the rifle team at Broward's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

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.

And Louisiana describes how 16 rural districts will receive funding via the U.S. Department of Education Teacher Incentive Fund grant to offer more competitive compensation structures.

ED shall award competitive grants to eligible entities for the establishment of Presidential and Congressional Academies for the Teaching of American History and Civics, through which seminars or institutes shall be offered to teachers and students.

States were desperate for money for their schools, and RTT was offering billions of dollars in competitive grants.

Andy knows that I've offered much more extensive discussions of the pros and cons of RTT (given that he's pushed back on several of my points in his blog and over beers), but I thought this phrase pithily captured the problems with RTT as an example of competitive grants.

The new competitive funding program would offer planning and implementation grants for voluntary, community - developed socioeconomic integration plans.

State and federal entities could also offer grant funding and technical assistance for competitive service scholarship programs for principal preparation to attract exemplary candidates to the field and allow them to participate in internships with expert principals — a key feature of effective programs.

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

The $ 4.5 billion «Race to the Top» competitive school funding grant program encourages states to offer merit pay as an incentive.

The Part B Preschool grant offers both formula and competitive grants for special education programs for children ages 3 - 5 with disabilities.

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.

It was not a major focus for Democrats, but it would have been a small win had an amendment offered by Sen. Ed Markey (D - MA) providing for a competitive grant program to support the development of materials that would teach the scientific evidence of climate change, passed.

That's why he introduced the School Principal Recruitment and Training Act, a measure that would fund a federal program that offers school districts competitive grants for principal training.

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.

Of the proposed $ 3.5 billion increase for education, $ 3 billion will be offered in the form of competitive grants.

Aside from the waivers, President Obama could also highlight the competitive grant money his administration offered to states through programs such as «Race to the Top.»

States would have to set aside 3 percent of their Title I funds for a competitive - grant program that would allow districts to offer public school choice or free tutoring.

But winning the necessary six votes in favour of Direct Action — which offers competitive government grants to reduce greenhouse emissions — could be much more difficult.

The European Dendroecological Fieldweek is supported by the Association of Tree - Ring Research ATR which offers a few grants on a competitive basis.

Nearly half of the 773 overall school grants have gone to JROTC programs, which put students through a basic military curriculum and offer an array of small competitive clubs, like the rifle team at Broward's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.