Sentences with phrase «performance funding»

Attendees also elected new officers and participated in discussions about the impact of new funding statutes, including a shift to performance funding for higher education and a statute allowing students eligible for free - and reduced - price lunch to take two concurrent enrollment courses for free.

«While there is no perfect performance funding model, our study can help inform policy discussions about the ways in which Texas» model for community colleges could be improved,» McKinney said.

«State performance funding falling short in student retention, degree completion, experts say.»

Introduced in 2007, Washington's initiative is one of the nation's longest - operating performance funding programs currently in place, and it has been widely recognized as one of the most carefully - designed performance accountability systems in the country.

A recent recipient of The Franklin Furnace Performance Fund Grant, a Rhizome Internet Art Microgrant, a Danish International Visiting Artist Grant and the Terminal Award, Washko's practice has been highlighted by Creative Time, Time Magazine, The Guardian (UK), ARTnews, VICE, Hyperallergic, Rhizome, the New York Times, The Creator's Project and more.

She is an assistant professor of art at Carnegie Mellon University, a fellow at the Frank - Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, and a recent recipient of a Franklin Furnace Performance Fund grant, a Frank - Ratchye Fund for Art at the Frontier grant, and a Rhizome Internet Art microgrant.

American performance funds which was changed to Cavanal Hill Funds is one of the best mutual fund firm in entire area.

A sounder way forward would give virtual schools some up - front funds for these fixed administrative and technology costs (such as furnishing students with a laptop and home Internet connection), and then fund schools with a weighted per - pupil rate as students mastered competencies and made academic progress, which embeds performance funding in the formula and is similar to how New Hampshire's Virtual Learning Academy Charter School is funded.

Products will also likely be streamlined as high - fee, low - performance funds lose favor.

If teacher evaluations have been completed by September 1, 2012, those school districts will be eligible for bonus points towards competitive performance funding.

An education bill is sparking debate about how universities receive performance funding and lawmakers are facing an important decision about the future of the program.

«Talk about performance funding.»

Research Performance Fund — A $ 30 million fund announced in 2000 to help support the indirect costs associated with research, such as heating, electrical power, technology transfer offices, libraries, and computer networks.

State higher education performance funding is falling short of its intended goals of raising student retention and degree completion rates at community colleges, according to new research published today in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, a peer - reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association.

Recognizing that Florida's School Readiness Program provides early learning opportunities to children at risk for school failure, the Florida Legislature created the Early Learning Performance Funding Project (ELPFP).

The Commission for Higher Education tweaked the state's performance funding formula for colleges in November, aiming to incentivize universities to graduate more students on - time.

The funds offer other share classes subject to different fees and expenses that will impact their performance

His piece would be helped here — as would a couple pieces now in the Fordham series — by some more grounding in the current pay - for - performance funding models developing in the online - learning world in Utah and Florida, which haven't seemed to be nearly as onerous as he implies they would be.

The Legislature rejected the state colleges» request for $ 40 million in state performance funding, which would have been a $ 10 million increase.

Since the mid-2000s, performance funding programs, which fund colleges based on institutional «output» measures — including retention and graduation rates — rather than «inputs» such as the number of students enrolled, have gained in popularity.

Niagara County Community College has been awarded $ 129,500 through the SUNY Investment and Performance Fund for first year costs of implementing a new Educational Opportunity Program.

The results of the study, which focused on Washington State's Student Achievement Initiative (SAI)-- widely recognized as a model for performance accounting systems in the United States — are in line with recent results in Tennessee and Pennsylvania indicating that performance funding has not improved retention and graduation rates.

«Considering the popularity of Washington's performance funding model, we are surprised the impacts on associate's degree productivity are so modest,» wrote the authors.

This finding has a significant impact on teachers and schools as policy makers put more emphasis on the labels for performance funding, teacher evaluations and other accountability measures.

Education reforms from the recent session include increased funding for the Bright Futures merit scholarship program and performance funding to the State University System.