Sentences with phrase «public grants given»

Now Mr. Ganim believes he should qualify for public grants given to candidates who run for statewide office.

Not exact matches

It gave only one grant, of $ 50,000, to a charity called the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

While traditional polls grant precision, social polls can give a broad representation of the public.

The nitrate work print of the film — which was never shown in public — was given by Cinemazero to one of Italy's major film archives, the Cineteca del Friuli in nearby Gemona, before being transferred to the George Eastman House in order to be preserved with a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation.

A New York Times report in April found that he has earned at least $ 3.2 million in board fees and stock grants from public companies and given more than 100 speeches for which he is typically paid $ 50,000 each.

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 outGiven 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 oupublic 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 ouPublic 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 oupublic 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 outgiven 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.

In order to fund public projects, states often issued grants to private entities allowing them to collect drawings until a given sum had been raised.

Noting that more than 10 percent of New York City school students are Muslim, he suggests that the public school calendar grant the Islamic community the same holiday leisure as it already gives to Christian and Jewish students.

But granted this, the ordinary believing Christian will find today that those who are with him in church will be, like him, concerned to grow in faith, to deepen their relationship with God, and to learn from public prayer ways in which their devotion, in private prayer and otherwise, may be given more reality.

But this is a far cry indeed from the public controversies that our current epidemic of so - called realist atheism has given rise to, such as whether it is permissible to pray or celebrate Christmas in schools and other public institutions, or to grant government support of one kind or another to private religious education.

Hours later, Attorney General Jeff Sessions hit back at Chicago, saying the Trump administration «will not simply give away grant dollars to city governments that proudly violate the rule of law and protect criminal aliens at the expense of public safety.»

Among 17 phone - hacking victims given public apologies by News International in the High Court were Sarah, Duchess of York, actors Hugh Grant and Christopher Eccleston, the Catholic parish priest of singer Charlotte Church, singer James Blunt, Uri Geller, Geoffrey Robinson, the former Labour minister, and Colin Stagg, the man wrongly accused of the murder of Rachel Nickell.

Granted, it's affected Trump and lead him to drop some bombs on an airport (after giving the Russians a head up) and it lead Trump to make a threatening tweet, but for the voting american public the use of chemical weapons doesn't move the dial that much.

Senate Republicans granted at least one of the de Blasio administration's wishes: it joined with Assembly Democrats in rejecting a Cuomo proposal to subject bonds for housing to approval by the state's Public Authorities Control Board, a maneuver that would have given Albany veto power over a significant slice of the city's housing program.

Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr. is giving out grants, from $ 808 million worth of criminal penalties against three international banks, for public and private criminal justice programs in New York and around the nation.

Under this grant, the Erie County Sheriff's Office has been given the task to educate and train law enforcement officers, prosecutors, EMS and firefighters about human trafficking, as well as training non-government organizations, including the public.

Still, because lawmakers» grants are only listed as coming from the Senate or Assembly, it's difficult for the public to trace whether a grant recipient has, for instance, given campaign donations to their benefactor.

There's a massive amount of cost on the public purse too given [refugees] could be working if they were granted status.

Rather than give me any exposure to the public, the station manager granted the entire airtime to Hinchey.

«(Consolidation is) unlikely to reach the voters at this point, given the strong push - back against it, coming not only from communities in the city, but also much of the suburbs,» said Grant Reeher, director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute and a political science professor in Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, in an email.

Grant Shapps said «it was clear she did something wrong in the court of public opinion», but declined to give his own view about whether she had done anything wrong, when asked by Andrew Neil on the Daily Politics.

He knew that public national funding calls in Portugal were irregular, so «it was an objective to have an ERC grant so it would give me stability,» he says.

Yet, industry grants are perceived as «not peer - reviewed and not as prestigious» as public funding, Campbell says, so they may not be given as much weight in the tenure process.

OST supports the six grant - giving research councils and the major public research labs.

Whereas other programmes, such as Ramón y Cajal, also aim to give postdocs the opportunity to lead their own research team within a public research centre, they often have to apply for grants independently to fund their research.

Grant's work points to a more fundamental problem: the current binary» advisory scheme — wherein a warning sign is either posted or not, giving the public no further information — is intrinsically error prone, he asserts.

I'm doing a clinical research, writing grants, writing papers, and going down the academic route, but I care so much about the world that I'm also teaching the public, doing TED Talks, creating a website, writing books, and giving the public the same tools that I'm researching and letting them know, «Here's the science behind why I've designed it this way and why I'm doing the science this way.»

Permission is granted to use or adapt these prayers in public worship with the condition that if a prayer is reproduced in a printed order of worship attribution is given.

Assistant Professor Nonie Lesaux was named a William T. Grant Scholar last week earning a $ 350,000 award to be given over five years in support of her research on English - language learners in urban public schools.

The Ford Foundation, into which much of this largesse was poured, has given the Fund for Public Schools at least four grants totaling $ 2.5 million in the last five years.

The foundation in which he invested his fortune has given at least seven grants totaling $ 8.5 million to the Fund for Public Schools in the last five years.

In April 2007, Lesaux was named a William T. Grant Scholar earning a $ 350,000 award to be given over five years in support of her research on English - language learners in urban public schools.

The Annenberg Foundation announced last week that it will give a five - year, $ 2.5 million grant to the Chattanooga Public Education Foundation to support a new school system to be created from the Chattanooga and Hamilton County school districts.

Not only has President Barack Obama announced a $ 250 million public - private initiative to recruit and train more STEM teachers, but also the U.S. Department of Education's Race to the Top Fund grants competition is giving bonus points for applications that stress STEM instruction.

The Trinity case was filed by a Missouri church that had been denied a state grant to help pay for playground resurfacing, because state policy prevented any public funds from being given to religious organizations.

The bill would give states the option of using the funds now distributed through a host of federal programs — amounting to about $ 24 billion a year on the whole — as a single block grant to states for public and private school vouchers.

In the 1980s, the maximum Pell Grant — the money the federal money gives to low - income students to attend college — covered more than half the cost of a four - year public school, according to The Institute for College Access and Success, a think tank focused on college affordability.

The block grants essentially froze school funding at the level of the 2013 - 14 school year, to give the Legislature two years to rewrite the formula for paying for public education.

The state's largest teachers union has blasted a new proposal from three lawmakers to give grants to advanced learners who live in low - income households, saying the proposal is another way to send public money to private education providers.

26 Accountability Measures In The Special Needs Bill March 3, 2015 by Grant Callen and Brett Kittredge Senate Bill 2695, The Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act, creates a pilot program to give parents the option of withdrawing their child from a public school and receiving an Education Scholarship Account (ESA) with $ 6,500 to help pay for educational expenses outside the traditional public school.

AB851 would require the UW to award grants to public school districts, privately run charter schools and voucher schools to support dual enrollment programs taught in high schools, giving high school students the opportunity to gain credits in high school and a UW System school or technical college.

Senate Bill 193 would allow parents to use 90 percent of the per - pupil grant the state gives to local public schools and instead put it toward alternative educational expenses, including private school tuition or homeschooling.

With little or no general public funding left to address the necessary conditions for learning, the initiative process in California gave us Healthy Start, Family Preservation and Support, First Five, mental health in schools, and vast afterschool programming, too many of which were designed as short - term grants that required annual renewals and proof of sustainability rather than the ongoing funding we know the neediest schools must have consistently.

In some states, scholarship - giving nonprofits also provide innovation grants to public schools and / or transportation assistance to students choosing alternative public schools.

The two words actually mean a lot in the charter world, given that charter schools are beholden to the boards that grant them charters to operate, not the general public, and that they are not required to reveal key information about their finances and governance to the public.

The CSP provides grants to fund the creation and expansion of public charter schools across the nation, giving students access to more options for their education.

Beyond giving two additional public schools over to the quasi public - private model, funding from this grant will enable HPS staff to attend Achievement First «s New Coach Training.

The Foundation's primary function appears to be to give out «mini-technology grants» to students and teachers and provide teacher recognition awards to Colorado public school teachers.

The Malloy administration gave Jumoke / FUSE charter school company no - bid contracts to run public schools in Hartford and Bridgeport and was granted management of a new charter school in New Haven.

Grants all professional educators» associations same level of access to employees of public schools.The house education policy committee gave the bill a favorable report.