Sentences with phrase «scholarship opportunities which»

From NCAA Division I to junior colleges, injuries, academics, homesickness, playing - time issues or job changes can all create immediate roster spots and scholarship opportunities which may not have been available one month ago.

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Founder Jared Schreiber, a graduate of MIT, was a founding member of the Pat Tillman Foundation which supports active - duty military service members, veterans and their spouses with academic scholarships and professional development opportunities.

Was on the board of the Thorn Tree Project and the Samburu Scholarship Fund, which provide educational opportunities for nomadic children in northern Kenya.

Doris Ng, owner and co-founder of GingeRootz Asian Grille in Appleton, Wis., and Caitlin Suemnicht, the managing partner and sommelier of Food Fight Restaurant Group, in Madison, Wis., were the recipients of the Aspire Higher Scholarships, which provide leadership development opportunities, financial assistance and mentoring to high - potential women in the food industry.

Nuffield Australia is an organisation which provides an opportunity to Australian farmers to travel overseas on an agricultural research scholarship.

On the hill above town was Sul Ross University, to which Kokernot annually donated bushels of scholarships — one year he handed out 52 — so that young Texans might have the opportunity to make something of themselves.

To date, the School Nutrition Foundation has awarded SNA members over $ 2 million in scholarships, which have helped provide opportunities for SN professionals to pursue higher education, career training, and attend professional conferences across the United States.

Ultimately our son chose a university based on the quality of the programs he thinks he wants to pursue (math, biology, research), learning community opportunities, cost, and which school offered him the most attractive scholarship.

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During his tenure, ECIDA's affiliate lending company made some 396 loans for over $ 61 Million, established an innovative loan program which allowed for structured participation loans with local commercial lenders, initiated the ECIDA's participation in the SBA Micro Lending program, and launched a minority entrepreneur loan / scholarship program aimed at creating entrepreneurial opportunity in the minority community.

Coalition for Opportunity in Education, a group whose advocacy is focused exclusively on the Education Investment Tax Credit, which would incentivize donations to private school scholarships or public schools, spent $ 659,404.

That includes the scholarship program which helps individuals in need to ensure all kids have the same opportunity to participate.

I am eagerly looking forward to continuing to lead the fight for toll relief, and to work on important issues like prescription drug abuse and the heroin epidemic and the education tax credit, which expands scholarship and programming opportunities.

There will almost always be less data to present, which may lead to less opportunities to speak, less favorable performance reviews (because, let's face it, you have less data), fewer publications (because you have less data) and less competitive scholarship applications (also because of the data).

He invites them to contact the ACS subdivision, which offers resources such as networking opportunities, an online journal club, and a scholarship that helps cannabis scientists present papers at subdivision - sponsored sessions at ACS meetings.

With this in mind, I've long supported opportunity scholarships, which allow students transfer from underperforming schools to higher achieving schools where they can take advantage of the best our education system has to offer.

Threads was created as part of The Shine Scholarship Project, in order to give these deserving kids an opportunity for successful employment, which in turn instills work ethic and values into their lives.Continue Reading...

The court voted 5 - 2 to end the Opportunity Scholarships program, which provides students who decide to leave some of the state's lowest - rated public schools with about $ 4,350 in tuition aid they can use in private or religious schools.

Thus far, there is only one active scholarship organization, the Network for Educational Opportunity (NEO), which distributed $ 128,340 in scholarships to 103 students.

«Stephanie's high - profile research, which is influencing both practice and policy, is a great example of what we are trying to accomplish across HGSE — producing scholarship that directly translates into expanded and improved educational opportunities for all.

If one's purpose is to evaluate the effects of a specific public policy, such as the District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP), then the comparison of the average outcomes of the treatment and control groups, regardless of what proportion attended which types of school, is most appropriate.

In Bush v. Holmes (2006), the state supreme court struck down Florida's Opportunity Scholarship Program, a small voucher program serving fewer than 800 students, on the grounds that it fell afoul of the state constitution's «uniformity» clause, which allegedly prevents the state from funding any program outside of or «parallel» to the public school system.

The D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, which allows low - income Washington D.C. children to use school vouchers to attend the private schools of their parents» choice, was scheduled to be terminated as its funding had run its course.

STANFORD — While the recent debate in Washington, D.C. over the Opportunity Scholarship Program, which serves low - income children, has highlighted a sharp political divide in our nation's capital over school choice, outside the beltway special education voucher programs tell a different story.

Mr. Wolf, a professor of education reform at the University of Arkansas, is the principal investigator of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, which allows low - income children to attend private schools.

In the experimental evaluation of the initial DC Opportunity Scholarship Program that I led from 2004 to 2011, the number of students in testing grades dropped substantially from year 3 to year 4, leading to a much noisier estimate of the reading impacts of the program, which were positive but just missed being statistically significant with 95 % confidence.

Mr. Wolf, a professor of education reform at the University of Arkansas, is the principal investigator of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, which allows low - income -LSB-...]

The House of Representatives voted yesterday on the reauthorization of the Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP), which has paid the private - school tuition of low - income students in the District of Columbia since 2004.

There has long been a monopoly problem in public education, which was why economist Milton Friedman called for opportunity scholarships (also known as vouchers) to create a powerful exit option.

The latest blow to the 5 - year - old Opportunity Scholarship program was dealt Nov. 12 by the full panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee, which voted 8 - 5, with one abstention, to uphold an August decision by a three - member panel of that court that found the program unconstitutional.

Among the most prominent efforts will be Congressional attempts to reauthorize the Washington, DC Opportunity Scholarship Program, which provides private school scholarships to low - income students in the nation's capital.

The awarding of scholarships by lottery created a rare opportunity in educational research: a field experiment in which students were assigned randomly to both public and private schools, thus allowing me to test the effects of receiving a voucher and, more generally, to compare the performance of public and private schools.

Their students then become eligible to receive vouchers, called opportunity scholarships, which they can use at another public school or at a private school.

Florida, ranked first, has a multitude of opportunities for parents including a scholarship program in which over 130,000 students participate, and a relatively strong charter school law.

Title I portability proposals should incorporate language similar to that included in the law authorizing the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, which provides scholarships to children from low - income families living in the nation's capital to attend a private school of choice.

That's even more reason to permanently authorize the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, which is providing a lifeline to thousands of impoverished kids in our nation's capital every day.

The House of Representatives will vote this week on the reauthorization of the Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP), which has paid the private - school tuition of low - income students in the District of Columbia since 2004.

The funding for the Opportunity Scholarship program, meanwhile, is frequently in political peril and delivers a much smaller level of funding, which is restricted to low - income students.

Opportunity scholarships, which are available to current low - income District residents, first pay for tuition, with any remaining amount available for qualified expenses.

The nation's capital became the epicenter for the private school choice battle in 2004 when President George W. Bush signed the District of Columbia School Choice Incentive Act, which created the Opportunity Scholarship Program.

The bill, which mirrors most of Governor Tom Corbett's educational reform plan, creates an opportunity scholarship program for low - income students, expands the current Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) program to provide for a variety of options for students and families and contains several charter school reform provisions.

Its partners receive access to a suite of resources for participating students, including: the Educators Rising standards, which provide a framework for the program; online resources with sample lesson plans for students; scholarship opportunities for students who wish to pursue teaching; specialized certifications, called microcredentials; and opportunities for students to grow their networks at Educators Rising conferences and other events.6

«AFC would like to thank the Nevada Legislature for passing a $ 20 million one - time increase in funding for the Opportunity Tax Credit Scholarship Program, which allows students from low - to - moderate income families attend the school of their choice.

Avoid expanding school privatization options, including privately - operated charter schools, vouchers and neo-vouchers, such as tax credits and opportunity tax scholarships, which research shows: (1) fail to deliver on the promise of better learning opportunities and student performance; (2) siphon limited resources from local community schools; (3) open up the potential for violating students» civil rights; (4) hinder transparency and accountability; and (5) tend to lead to more schools being racially segregated.

The Legislature passed SB 555, which allows an additional $ 20 million to be raised for the Nevada Opportunity Tax Credit Scholarship Program.

The plan vastly expands school choice opportunities in PA by creating an Opportunity Scholarship Program, which would provide tuition assistance for eligible students to attend a public or non-public school of their choice.

The Governor, a former teacher, earlier today introduced his ambitious education reform plan, which will expand school choice in the state via opportunity scholarships, expand the popular Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) Program, establish standards and enforcements for charter schools and peg student achievement to teacher evaluations — all without raising state taxes.

(Harrisburg, PA — June 30 2012)-- House Bill 761, the Omnibus Tax Reform Code which also expands the popular Educational Improvement Tax Credit Program (EITC) and creates the Education Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit Program (EISC), was passed out of the House and Senate late tonight and is headed to Governor Corbett's desk for his signature.

A call to the number on the voucher postcard sends you to a messaging company based in Maryland, which was hired by PEFNC to walk those interested in applying for the Opportunity Scholarships through the eligibility guidelines.

REACH remains committed to pursuing passage of Senate Bill 1, which provides opportunity scholarships for both public - to - public and public - to - private school choice.