Sentences with phrase «promise of federal grants»

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While we're all breathlessly awaiting the federal government's long - promised revisions to the Copyright Act, interested parties may want to check out Bill C - 47, the federal government's proposed legislation to grant extra special intellectual property right protection for the Olympic movement and its related symbols. For a summary of the legislation, check out the Library of -LSB-...]

In an accompanying blog post, she quotes Arne Duncan, the secretary of education, on whether communities applying for Promise Neighborhood grants need to be «shovel - ready» to have a shot at federal support:

A former insurance executive, Gregorius enjoys delving into the details of capped Medicaid expenses and cost - sharing plans, the possible effects of federal block grants versus needs payments, and ensuring that people make decisions based on real information, and not just emotions or campaign promises.

Probably, to give bite to the President's promise to deal with forces threatening the corporate survival of the country, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has approached the Federal High Court for the revocation of the bail granted the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, by Justice Binta Murtala Nyako of the same court, last April.

Interest has been so great that the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has had to push back the first round of grants, which the FRA initially promised to award by late summer, until early next year.

The award program is one of several University «seed grants» that help investigators develop preliminary data and proof of concept for promising projects, in hopes of leveraging larger awards from federal agencies or foundations to carry the projects to fruition.

The Institute actively seeks gifts of all sizes to support promising «high - risk» concepts with potential for «high payoff» medical application, but which are not yet sufficiently developed and tested to qualify for federal or foundation grant support.

Less than half of California school districts and only about a quarter of teacher unions have promised to make key education reforms required for the state to win $ 700 million in competitive federal grants, officials said Wednesday.

Jeffrey Mirel in «Unrequited Promise» tells the fascinating story of how New American Schools evolved from an ambitious plan to foster education change into a Beltway enterprise dependent largely on federal grants.

In the case of Title I and IDEA, states were provided grants under their existing program agreements, meaning the federal government provided billions without extracting new reform promises.

HCZ is the granddaddy of nearly 50 Promise Neighborhood programs scattered throughout the United States, many seeded since 2010 by federal grants.

They also agreed to a scaled - back block - grant proposal that would have allowed 7 states and 25 school districts to sign a performance contract with the federal government that would free them of most federal education regulations in exchange for a promise to improve student performance.

The decision three years ago by President Barack Obama to not push for a budget for 2010 - 2011, a move to which Democrats who controlled all of Congress at the time had acquiesced (even as it was clear that the party would lose control of the federal lower house), has resulted in sequestration - triggered budget cuts that denies the administration funding it can leverage through competitive grant programs such as Race to the Top in order to force states to fulfill their promises under the waiver.

The administration promised $ 1 billion in new spending on preschool; spurred states to adopt controversial K - 12 reforms such as performance - based teacher evaluations and the adoption of the Common Core State Standards through its Race to the Top grant program and waivers to the No Child Left Behind law; significantly expanded the federal School Improvement Grant program to turn around low - performing schools; targeted for - profit colleges and attempted to increase accountability in the higher education sector; and pushed a proposal by the president to make community college grant program and waivers to the No Child Left Behind law; significantly expanded the federal School Improvement Grant program to turn around low - performing schools; targeted for - profit colleges and attempted to increase accountability in the higher education sector; and pushed a proposal by the president to make community college Grant program to turn around low - performing schools; targeted for - profit colleges and attempted to increase accountability in the higher education sector; and pushed a proposal by the president to make community college free.

As a part of its application for the $ 400 million Race to the Top federal grant that North Carolina received, the state promised to align its standards with the Common Core, which gave it an edge in competition.

The Common Core was also sold as a voluntary initiative which states would agree to: it was agreed to state by state with the promise of federal funding from Race to the Top grants, not imposed through federal legislation, and was said to be designed by and for educators.

In the midst of the financial crisis, the federal DOE enticed states with promises of funding via the Race to the Top grant competition.

On higher education, California and the administration found much more common ground with initiatives such as the expansion of Pell grants, simplifying the federal application for student financial aid, and its crackdown on for - profit colleges that did not deliver on their promises.

Given the lack of Congressional action and recognizing the promising policies states were pursuing on their own, in 2011, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan began granting waivers to provide states relief from some of the federal requirements that were most at odds with current knowledge and practice.47

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan thanked the commission for its recommendations and indicated that the department could build on its work to marshal resources from across federal agencies to serve «zones of poverty» through efforts similar to the Promise Neighborhoods grant competition.