Sentences with phrase «said of the competitive grant»

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Vilsack said that the Agriculture Department's general counsel has determined that the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act «specifically prohibits me from granting a waiver that relates to the nutritional content of program meals served or the sale of competitive foods.»

Klein said it's «too early» to say for certain whether de Blasio's pre-K plan is «right» compared to the one the governor is proposing, which calls for using $ 1.5 billion over five yreas to fund pre-K statewide ($ 100 million total in the first year, $ 25 million of which is renewing the existing competitive pre-K grants).

About $ 1.5 billion is distributed through a «partially competitive» process, mostly large construction grants administered by the State University of New York, the report said.

«This is more about timing than anything else,» he said, when asked if he's unhappy with the results of Cuomo's competitive grants program.

Despite the uproar in New Paltz over granting what critics consider excessive tax breaks for developers, the IDA will continue to offer Pilots, the chairman said, «because the use of Pilots makes us competitive with other counties.»

By folding MSP into a broader competitive grants program, she says, the same amount of money is now distributed among more programs, and not every state gets a piece.

Honjo says he is eager for feedback to fine - tune the process, which ministry officials hope will eventually cover the entire portfolio of competitive grants programs.

The causes of such unpredictable results, Harris said, can include bad ingredients in the lab, including contaminated and misidentified cell lines; poor research design, including insufficient numbers of mice in animal studies; statistical error and overreach, including «HARKing» (hypothesizing after the results are known), a push beyond the limits of the data; and funding pressures, which can lead scientists to hype or exaggerate their results to remain competitive for additional grant money.

«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.

Language: Korean Genre: Horror / Drama MPAA rating: R Director: Jae - yeon Yun Actors: Ji - hyo Song, Han - byeol Park, An Jo Plot: At a competitive all - girls arts school there are a set of stairs that are said to grant a wish to those who find the 29th step.

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.

Obama programs such as «Race to the Top,» a $ 4 billion competitive grant program that rewards states that develop reforms, has some support from states but is «not easy to explain,» said Jal Mehta, an assistant professor of education.

In awarding grants for homelessness programs, federal housing officials will give a «competitive advantage to providers who keep families together and strengthen the family structure,» Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry G. Cisneros said in announcing the policy last month.

If the extension makes it into the final spending bills for fiscal year 2011, advocates say, that could mean more states will take the reform - minded steps emphasized in the Race to the Top program, such as revamping their teacher - evaluation systems and lifting caps on charter schools, in order to get a slice of the competitive grants.

It also used Race to the Top, its competitive grant program, as an inducement, saying that states adopting «college and career ready» standards had a better chance of winning federal dollars under the program.

But this legislation to change how charter schools receive funds, «the charter schools would get a percentage of the indirect costs that we sought for in the competitive grant process,» said Carr.

The Obama administration has said that such restrictions would hurt a state's chances of getting part of the $ 5 billion competitive grant fund, dubbed «Race to the Top.»

He says competitive grants for academics prioritise projects that answer questions of global significance, which would leave projects like the CSIRO's Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator, which provides better forecasting of fire, cyclones and floods across Australia.