Sentences with phrase «privately funded initiatives»

Examples of federal and privately funded initiatives can be found in the tool.

In some ways, these changes strengthened NASDC's claim of being a bold new venture in education reform, since few privately funded initiatives had ever committed to so ambitious a program.

Today, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History has announced a $ 30 million privately funded initiative on human evolution that will sponsor a permanent museum exhibit, educational programs, and research.

Not exact matches

She has long supported granting families tax - funded vouchers to help cover private school tuition, as well as initiatives expanding publicly - funded, privately - operated charter schools.

As privately funded organizations we focus on initiatives and services to help build stronger businesses and communities in Chautauqua County.

Funds for the Smithsonian - NHGRI exhibition and related initiatives were raised privately by both the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health.

This month, a privately funded project called Breakthrough Initiatives announced that it is partnering with the European Southern Observatory to use similar vortex technology to find and image a putative Earth - like planet in the nearby Alpha Centauri star system.

These are exciting times indeed, especially when one considers that this effort is among the largest privately - funded scientific initiatives to date.

The privately funded Achieving the Dream initiative, which started in 2004 as an effort to apply evidence - based reforms to more than 200 community colleges in 35 states, has disappointed.

A significant challenge in assessing the results of grant - funded initiatives lies in the nature of many privately funded projects.

The program grew from a privately financed initiative in Texas to encourage students to take more demanding high school classes to a federally funded national project that was plagued by poor management.

«Choice» has become a popular mantra in education - reform circles, used primarily to describe initiatives to increase the number of charter schools, which are publicly funded but privately operated, and to increase funding for private schools through voucher systems.

All together the various corporate funded «education reform» groups dropped another $ 1.4 million, over the last six months, to promote and lobby on behalf of Governor Dannel Malloy's anti-teacher, education reform initiatives that included diverting even more scarce public funds to privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools.

Dedicated to promoting the privatization of public education, more taxpayer funds for privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools, the Common Core, the Common Core testing scheme and a host of anti-teacher initiatives, Students for Education Reform, Inc. (SFER) was created in late 2009, according to their narrative, by a couple of undergraduate students at Princeton University.

Critics of reform efforts in Chicago say many of the well - funded initiatives to fix CPS involve opening more privately run charter schools and closing down the district's traditional neighborhood schools.

It's part of a $ 10bn publicly and privately funded digital learning initiative called ConnectEd, one of the aims of which is to get 99 % of students connected to high - speed broadband within five years.

The $ 7000 - plus purse of SPREAD gave sign of both the bonanza of community good will for the Meow Wolf collective, and reflected what some privately commented was effectively funding of Center for Contemporary Arts programming by SITE Santa Fe - run initiatives.

LAUNCH Together is a privately - funded initiative designed to replicate and expand the system and program successes of prior federally - funded efforts.

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