Sentences with phrase «scholarship programs serving»

«The scholarship program serves as a lifeline to thousands of Louisiana schoolchildren from low - income families who would otherwise have to attend an underperforming public school.»

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He started the Education Freedom Fund, which awarded more than 4,000 scholarships to underprivileged children in Michigan, the West Michigan Aviation Academy, (a High School that aims to provide a rigorous educational program through an aviation focus), and has served on the State Board of Education.

Taco Bell also provides education opportunities and serves the community through its nonprofit organization, the Taco Bell ® Foundation ™, and connects fans with their passions through programs such as the Live Mas Scholarship program.

I am attending UTD thanks to the Terry Scholarship Program and serve as an Enrichment Advisor to the freshman class of Terry scholars.

The Executive Budget extends the Physician Loan Forgiveness Program, the McGee Nursing Faculty Scholarship Program and the Nursing Faculty Loan Forgiveness Program, which provide benefits to physicians who agree to practice in areas with physician shortages and to nurses who agree to serve as educators in nursing programs, respectively.

These programs include need - based scholarships, after - school programs for under - served youth, in - school arts education programs, arts enrichment for Port Chester Head Start, a dance program for people with Parkinson's Disease, and more.

As a member of the communications department, she acts as administrative coordinator for the communications director and group and assumes additional program duties such as proofreading and editing as well as serving as the project professional development registrar and scholarship coordinator.

After high school, Ford attended Clark Atlanta University, earning a B.S. and M.S. in a 5 - year accelerated program in chemistry at the minority - serving institution with a PRISM - D (Program for Research Integration and Support for Matriculation to the Doctorate) Scholprogram in chemistry at the minority - serving institution with a PRISM - D (Program for Research Integration and Support for Matriculation to the Doctorate) ScholProgram for Research Integration and Support for Matriculation to the Doctorate) Scholarship.

The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program was established by Congress in 1986 to honor Senator Barry Goldwater, who served for 30 years in the U.S. Senate.

Our McKay Scholarship Program now serves more than 26,000 students with learning disabilities.

A more likely scenario could be an effort to reform the tax code to offer tax credits for donations to organizations that provide scholarships to low - income students — an approach that could serve much the same purpose as school vouchers but would not require the creation of a new direct - spending program.

Opportunity Scholarships Currently, 13 directly funded voucher programs operate in four U.S. cities and six states, serving approximately 65,000 students.

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 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 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 program outside of or «parallel» to the public school system.

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.

The Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries, launched at the New Brunswick, N.J., campus this month, will promote further study of the potential for school libraries to support instruction, the dynamics of effective programs, and the training and resources that library staff members need to best serve students.

Experimental evaluations take the complete population of students who are eligible for a choice program and motivated to use it, then employ a lottery to randomly assign some students to receive a school - choice voucher or scholarship and the rest to serve in the experimental control group.

Students Hard Work Educates Community About Recycling Begun by Purdy (Missouri) High School students, the Purdy Recycling Project has become a community - wide program that is turning a profit, raising scholarship money for students, and serving as a model for similar programs in other communities.

Yet once in office, his administration aggressively sought to defund the DC Opportunity Scholarship program, a federally funded model voucher program serving about 1,500 students in Washington, D.C. Early on, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs made it clear that Obama's open - mindedness had reached its expiration date: «The president doesn't believe that vouchers are a long - term answer to our educational problems.»

The Mississippi Speech - Language Therapy Scholarship For Students With Speech - Language Impairments Program, enacted in 2013, is a special needs voucher program, serving students gradesProgram, enacted in 2013, is a special needs voucher program, serving students gradesprogram, serving students grades K - 6.

Mississippi The Dyslexia Scholarship voucher program was enacted in 2012, and serves students, grades 1 - 6, who have been diagnosed with dyslexia.

This tax - credit scholarship program was enacted and launched in 2001 to serve students from low - income households.

In its first year, the scholarship program aims to serve about 2,400 students.

For instance despite the constant refrain from choice opponents that private schools would cream and that public schools take «everyone» (i.e. everyone who can afford to live in their attendance boundary) the McKay Scholarship program has been statewide in FL since 2001, was still the nation's largest voucher program last time I checked, and only served special needs children.

The Louisiana Scholarship Program, which aims to serve low - income students in «low - performing» public schools, is the state's first school voucher pProgram, which aims to serve low - income students in «low - performing» public schools, is the state's first school voucher programprogram.

The D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program is now in its 13th year serving Washington's most disadvantaged students.

Erica previously worked in student support and program management with LINK Unlimited Scholars, a scholarship and mentoring organization serving African American students in Chicago, where she specialized in academic programming, curriculum development, and strategic analysis to improve program design and effectiveness.

Activities include participation in adopt - a-school programs, financing mini-grants, sponsoring scholarships, providing training for employees to help them help their children learn, donating equipment or materials, serving on school committees, sponsoring field trips, providing tutoring and mentoring, and participating in a joint Chamber of Commerce and schools initiative.

Serving Our Children (SOC) believes it is important that you understand how to apply for, and best use your scholarship under the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Proscholarship under the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship ProScholarship Program (OSP).

Dyslexia Scholarship: Mississippi's first school choice program, which serves students who have been diagnosed with dyslexia, has 202 students this fall, up from 159 last year.

But this is progress, and we welcome scrutiny in order to better serve those served by the scholarship program.

Education Scholarship Account: The Special Needs ESA program was established in 2015, and expanded in 2016, to provide children with special needs an opportunity to attend a private school if they are not being well - served in their current educational setting.

The study's authors speculate on four potential explanations for the large negative effects that their program evaluation found: misalignment of private school curriculum to the Louisiana State Standards; differences between serving scholarship students with achievement gaps and traditional private school students; success of other education developments, especially in New Orleans; and the overall quality of private schools willing to participate in the program.

The Rural Educator Support and Training Act (REST Act S. 457), and the Native Education Support and Training Act (NEST Act S. 458), provide financial and instructional support via a scholarship - for - service program component for teachers in training who will serve in rural and Indian country districts; a loan repayment component for teachers currently serving in rural and Indian country districts; and a professional development / advanced credentialing component.

The Dyslexia Scholarship is an example of a government program that is working to meet the needs of the audience it is designed to serve.

The Louisiana Scholarship Program may be flawed in many respects but it isn't bureaucratic burden or testing that deters the best private schools from participating in the program — it is the obligation to accept and serve all students through an open - enrollment lProgram may be flawed in many respects but it isn't bureaucratic burden or testing that deters the best private schools from participating in the program — it is the obligation to accept and serve all students through an open - enrollment lprogram — it is the obligation to accept and serve all students through an open - enrollment lottery.

Our nonprofit, Step Up For Students, oversees the scholarship program, which will serve more than 60,000 low - income students this fall in more than 1,400 private schools in the state.

The scholarship program is the only one that exclusively serves low - income kids in our state.

Thanks to the Louisiana Scholarship Program, Pamela was able to enroll Joseph in Greater Baton Rouge Hope Academy — a school that serves children with special needs.

«The scholarship program already serves as a lifeline to thousands of Louisiana schoolchildren from low - income families.»

Good Morning A school choice victory in Oklahoma — as the the Oklahoma Supreme Court upheld the state's special needs voucher program, the Lindsey Nicole Henry Scholarship for Students with Disabilities Program, which has been serving special needs students sincprogram, the Lindsey Nicole Henry Scholarship for Students with Disabilities Program, which has been serving special needs students sincProgram, which has been serving special needs students since 2010.

Education Scholarship Accounts (ESA): The Special Needs ESA program was established in 2015, and expanded in 2016, to provide children with special needs an opportunity to attend a private school if they are not being well - served by the public education setting.

A school choice victory in Oklahoma — as the the Oklahoma Supreme Court upheld the state's special needs voucher program, the Lindsey Nicole Henry Scholarship for Students with Disabilities Program, which has been serving special needs students sincprogram, the Lindsey Nicole Henry Scholarship for Students with Disabilities Program, which has been serving special needs students sincProgram, which has been serving special needs students since 2010.

The Dyslexia Scholarship is an example of a government program that is meeting the needs of the audience it is designed to serve.

Enacted in 2008 by a bipartisan group of legislators, the Louisiana Scholarship Program currently serves 7,632 students in 131 schools and 47 school districts across the state.

More than 8,700 students currently benefit from the Louisiana Scholarship Program, Tuition Donation Credit Program and School Choice Program for Certain Students with Exceptionalities, which serves students with disabilities.

The school's leadership saw the newly conceived Student Scholarships for Education Excellence Program (now the Louisiana Scholarship Program) as a way to serve more students.

The Louisiana Scholarship Program was expanded by a bipartisan group of legislators in the spring of 2012; prior to that, the program served students in Orleans Program was expanded by a bipartisan group of legislators in the spring of 2012; prior to that, the program served students in Orleans program served students in Orleans Parish.

St. Benedict the Moor School is a high - performing Louisiana Scholarship Program school serving pre-K through 4th grade students.

Those six voucher programs currently serve more than 22,000 students a year, totaling nearly $ 22 million in publicly funded scholarships — far outstripping the $ 5 million allotted for the new scholarships for special needs and foster children.

BAEO believes in the program and we will continue to fight for parental choice options like the Louisiana Scholarship Program for the families we serve,» said Stacy Martin, State Director, Louisianprogram and we will continue to fight for parental choice options like the Louisiana Scholarship Program for the families we serve,» said Stacy Martin, State Director, LouisianProgram for the families we serve,» said Stacy Martin, State Director, Louisiana BAEO.