Sentences with phrase «provide competitive grants»

An additional $ 750 million would provide competitive grants to states to implement high - quality preschool programs.

The funds generated through the sale of these special plates would be used to provide competitive grants under the School Safety and Violence Prevention Strategy Program or other school violence prevention purposes determined by the CDE, according to the author.

The purpose of this program is to provide competitive grants to applicants with a record of improving student achievement and attainment in order to expand the implementation of, and investment in, innovative practices that are demonstrated to have an impact on improving student achievement or student growth, closing achievement gaps, decreasing dropout rates, increasing high school graduation rates, or increasing college enrollment and completion rates.

A cleaner, greener environment: Governor Cuomo will create the «NY Cleaner, Greener Communities Program» to provide competitive grants that will encourage communities to develop regional sustainable growth strategies in housing, transportation, emissions control, energy efficiency.

• A cleaner, greener environment: Governor Cuomo will create the «NY Cleaner, Greener Communities Program» to provide competitive grants that will encourage communities to develop regional sustainable growth strategies in housing, transportation, emissions control, and energy efficiency.

«These partnerships go well beyond just providing competitive grants to academic researchers and include numerous cooperative institutes, joint programs with academia and nongovernmental organizations, involvement with students at all levels, and participation in international organizations,» he says.

In my piece I cited a randomized controlled trial of the Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF), which provided competitive grants for districts to revamp their evaluation and compensation systems.

The School Leadership program provides competitive grants to assist high - need local educational agencies (LEAs) with recruiting, training, and retaining principals and assistant principals.

From 2003 — 2006, WKCD provided competitive grants to high school students nationwide, inviting them to tackle important school and community issues.

Enacted under Title IV, Part B of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the 21st CCLC program provides competitive grant funding to support before school, after school, and summer learning programs that focus on improving the academic performance of students in pre-Kindergarten through grade 12.

From 2003 — 2006, What Kids Can Do provided competitive grants to high school students nationwide, inviting them to tackle... Read More»

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FrieslandCampina will also provide financial support in the form of granting preferential loans to farmers, as well as training and technical advice on how to produce hygienic and quality milk at competitive prices.

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 Winston Foodservice Equipment Grant provides 10 pieces of equipment from Winston Foodservice to one school district in need of improving its school meal kitchen facilities through a competitive grant proGrant provides 10 pieces of equipment from Winston Foodservice to one school district in need of improving its school meal kitchen facilities through a competitive grant progrant process.

The USDA's Farm to School Grant Program — originally funded as part of the Healthy Huger - Free Kids Act of 2010 — provides resources on a competitive basis to schools, nonprofits, farmers and government entities to assist in implementing farm to school programs that improve access to local foods in eligible schools.

If elected, Faso has proposed to establish a competitive grant program at the federal level to fund qualified nonprofits that provide peer - to - peer counseling services to veterans suffering from PTSD, TBI and other trauma.

Cuomo's office said that grants made available through the program «will be awarded through a competitive process, with priority given to nonprofits with State contracts that provide direct services in high - need communities, particularly smaller nonprofits and nonprofits that lack access to other capital funding opportunities.»

A bill that would provide direct state funding to museums through a competitive grant program is gaining ground in the Legislature.

Senate Democrats earlier this year pushed for a community schools grant program that would provide wraparound social services and empower the education commissioner to award competitive grants to eligible school districts that use existing buildings for community - based hubs.

The proposal also builds on Governor Cuomo's pre-K competitive grant program initiated this year, which will provide full - day programs to several thousand additional 4 - year - olds.

The fellowship program, supported by a competitive National Science Foundation GK - 12 grant, provides students with partial tuition, a stipend, and an opportunity for community outreach and training in education as they continue their graduate education.

The top scientists, the ones most qualified to provide objective and transparent scientific advice to EPA, are of course the scientists who will likely be most successful at obtaining highly competitive federal grants.

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

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.

Monell's major source of funding comes from competitive government research grants, primarily through the National Institutes on Deafness and Other Communicative Disorders at the National Institutes of Health, which provides support for both research and training.

It also will provide faculty a competitive advantage when applying for future research grants.

«CBN venture grants and postdoctoral fellowships have provided a wonderful mechanism for developing novel research projects and for generating critical preliminary data needed to make our NIH grants competitive,» said CBN Researcher Larry Young, Ph.D., of Emory University.

The team will test the predictions of current theories of gravity, including Einstein's theory of General Relativity, The funding is provided in the form of a «Synergy Grant», the largest and most competitive type of grant of theGrant», the largest and most competitive type of grant of thegrant of the ERC.

He was instrumental in securing the USDA Competitive Grants Program that brought funding and scientific rigor to plant biology, recognized early on the value of recombinant DNA technology to agricultural sciences, and provided leadership and vision during the initial international meetings on plant molecular biology.

The Ronald B. and Cynthia J. McNeill Fund for Cancer Research will provide some of the vital funds for young investigators to collect initial data and position them to be more competitive in the quest for larger government and foundation grants.

Several social enterprises funded by employment grants from Kessler Foundation are providing competitive jobs for people with disabilities.

Competitive grants and contractual research with the private sector provide additional funds.

The award grants $ 75,000 per year to the recipients, via their respective institutions, selected by the ACMG Foundation through a competitive process and will provide a two - year sponsorship for the trainee's clinical genetics subspecialty in translational genomics following residency.

Grant districts the right to provide SES, even if the district is failing to make AYP, but also require districts to provide a fair and competitive marketplace for all providers.

The most appropriate role for the federal government may be to provide resources to states through categorical formula funding or a competitive grant program that would allow policy design to fit the local context rather than try to act as a national school board from Washington, DC.

A natural federal role is to provide resources to support such varied efforts through formula funding or competitive grant programs.

That grant, managed jointly by the Florida Department of Education and the Florida Department of Labor and Employment Security, resulted in the development of a number of programs designed to provide students with the means to achieve economic independence and to provide employers with a competent and competitive workforce.

Properly designed competitive grant programs provide an opportunity for Congress to target resources at federal priorities and encourage innovative problem - solving while avoiding federal mandates.

With respect to the per - pupil facilities aid program (under which the Secretary makes competitive matching grants to states to provide per - pupil financing to charter schools), the bill allows states to: (1) partner with organizations to provide up to 50 % of the state share of funding for the program; and (2) receive more than one program grant, so long as the amount of the grant funds provided to charter schools increases with each successive grant.

Passed by Congress in 1997, it provided about $ 150 million for competitive grants to aid schools in adopting «proven» whole - school reform models.

They could link monetary awards to the use of direct student services and provide additional funding for choice opportunities through the competitive grant framework.

New York state's Socioeconomic Integration Pilot Program, for example, provides grants of up to $ 1.25 million to schools that use socioeconomic integration to increase student performance in the state's lowest performing schools.118 Also, states can incentivize charter school diversity through competitive grant programs such as the Charter Schools Program State Educational Agencies competition.119

The 2017 - 18 Section 99k - Cybersecurity Competition Event Grant is made available to public school districts that provide pupils in grades 6 - 12 with expanded opportunities to improve computer science skills by participating in cybersecurity competitive events hosted by Mertit Network, Incorporated, known as Michigan High School Challenge, or hosted by the Air Force Association, known as Cyberpatriot.

Impact Aid provides formula and competitive grants directly to eligible school districts serving federally connected children on military bases, Indian lands, and subsidized housing.

The Florida Department of Education has provided two competitive grants to Duval County and Miami - Dade County to foster district - charter collaboration.

Often bypassing Congress, Duncan used the money to work directly with states, persuading them to adopt favored policies by providing incentives through Race to the Top, a $ 4.35 billion competitive grant program in which states were awarded points for adopting ideas such as performance - based teacher and principal evaluations, higher academic standards, and raising charter school caps.

Although we appreciate the $ 300 million in new Title I funds to reward successful schools, we are concerned about a significant shift in support toward competitive grant programs and away from the formula programs, notably Title I and IDEA, which provide the vast amount of federal support for K — 12 schools and students.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Wendy Spencer, chief executive officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), today announced a new competitive grant program that will provide $ 15 million in public funds over three years to reinforce and accelerate intervention efforts in the nation's lowest - performing schools.

But the Obama administration did provide incentives for states to adopt the standards through its competitive Race to the Top grant program and the waivers it granted to states seeking to avoid certain provisions of the No Child Left Behind law.

Thanks in large part to the research and background information provided by the grants and research team, we won a highly competitive grant last year that will allow us to train teachers district - wide in Capturing Kids» Hearts.