Sentences with phrase «school scholarship opportunities»

Other medical school scholarship opportunities include the National Medical Fellowships, which is a group of scholarships awarded to students who are underrepresented within the medical community and who are committed to practicing in underserved areas.

Not exact matches

TricorBraun was the winner in the distributor category, and it was given the opportunity to select the school to receive the Future Leaders scholarship funds.

Find an accredited culinary school program, apply for scholarships or explore apprenticeship opportunities.

Keep in mind, Jenkins winning would not force any school to pay more in an athletic scholarship — a victory would only provide eligible schools an opportunity to pay more.

For more than 30 years, the School Nutrition Foundation has been raising funds to provide SNA members with the opportunity to achieve their higher education goals through a wide variety of scholarships.

Learn more about SNF's 50th Anniversary Celebration, as well as donation and scholarship opportunities, and join us tonight for our Celebration of School Nutrition Heroes!

Since its founding in 1964, SNF has raised millions of dollars to provide a wide variety of scholarships, grants, research, training opportunities and technical assistance to school nutrition professionals at every level.

The scholarship enabled me to complete a Master's Degree — an accomplishment that opened doors to new opportunities in school nutrition that later empowered me to seek a Ph.D, and still greater opportunities for all children to have healthy meals and develop healthy food habits.

Make sure you stop by the SNF booth to learn more about Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom, and the many opportunities for scholarships, grants, and professional development available to you through your SNA membership and the School Nutrition Foundation.

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.

For over 20 years, the School Nutrition Foundation has been raising funds to provide SNA members the opportunity to achieve their higher education goals through a wide variety of scholarships.

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.

Grateful for the opportunity to ease some of that financial burden through an SNF scholarship, Sarah throws herself into her schoolwork in an effort to learn as much as possible, so she can bring that knowledge back to a school nutrition arena after graduation.

This event is an opportunity to applaud this year's honorees, share memories with old and new friends, celebrate our successes and raise funds to ensure that SNF can continue to support education, research and scholarships for the benefit of the school nutrition community and the millions of students SNA members serve every day.

Visit the following links to find out more information about the Kathleen Stitt Award, and other scholarship opportunities through School Nutrition Foundation.

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.

The new donations for scholarships would make private and parochial education a reality for families seeking new quality educational opportunities and assist those already enrolled who are struggling to afford tuition at schools that best meet their needs.

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.

• Providing these students with financial - planning advice early on, including information on private need - and merit - based scholarships, private loans, and school loans, as well as creating paid opportunities like paid research and internships.

When I was in school, I took an opportunity, got a scholarship to write a first case study, got published in the peer - reviewed journal and it — the door opened up where, you know, you can have a couple different tracks.

Enacted in 2012, the Opportunity Scholarship Act went into effect for the 2013 - 14 school year.

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.

We will also broker mentoring and development opportunities for those who take up the scholarship with schools, universities and major employers.

Parents whose children used an Opportunity Scholarship also expressed greater confidence in their children's safety in school than parents in the control group.

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.

I just didn't feel that I wanted to put him in D.C. public school and I had the opportunity to take one of the scholarships, so, therefore, I can afford it and I'm glad that I did do that.»

They mean that the students in the control group would need to remain in school an extra 3.7 months on average to catch up to the level of reading achievement attained by those who used the scholarship opportunity to attend a private school for any period of time.

Additional opportunities for private - school choice via taxpayer - funded scholarship programs.

In January, the Florida Supreme Court dismissed a legal challenge to the state's Tax Credit Scholarship Program, thereby preserving financial aid opportunities for thousands of low - income students to attend private schools.

Trump's conception, now reinforced by the DeVos appointment, promotes choice, broadly construed, to authorize charter schools, vouchers and opportunity scholarships including public, private, for profit, and maybe even religious schools.

Lawyers for each side sparred over the role of religion in many of the private schools that receive vouchers under Florida's Opportunity Scholarships program.

The attorney representing the Duval school board, Ron Meyer, had also represented the Florida Education Association, the statewide teachers union, when it challenged the Opportunity Scholarship program in Holmes.

«Today's reauthorization of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program should send a strong message to parents across the country who seek to fight for their children's rights: If you fight for your children and you never give up, the road will not always be easy, but in the end, justice will prevail,» said Virginia Walden Ford, executive director of D.C. Parents for School Choice.

Conclusions School voucher initiatives such as the District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program will remain politically controversial in spite of rigorous evaluations such as this one, showing that parents and students benefited in some ways from the program.

It's important for youngsters to seize every opportunity and I'm pleased through my Foundation to give back in such a wonderful way in association with not only the scholarships but also in supporting further enrichment programmes with Raynes Park High School in the areas of science, technology, engineering and maths, computer coding, through sport and helping the growth of a community tennis programme.»

School vouchers provide funds to parents to enable them to enroll their children in private schools and, as a result, are one of the most controversial education reforms in the United States (to see an interview with Patrick Wolf about his evaluation of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program and about its likely future please click here).

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.

In 2006, the court had struck down the state's Opportunity Scholarship Program, a voucher program for students trapped in failing public schools (see «Florida Grows a Lemon,» legal beat, Summer 2006).

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.

«Offered jointly by HGSE and GSAS, this new Ph.D. program will expand our intellectual and programmatic collaboration with other Schools at Harvard, while opening an opportunity for critical interdisciplinary scholarship in the area of education policy and practice,» said Michael D. Smith, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

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.

Since 2000, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has invested nearly $ 4 billion in grants and scholarships to increase opportunity in the U.S. by improving high school graduation and college readiness rates, and expanding access to college.

Despite the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program's five - year record of success in helping children from low - income D.C. families attend the best schools they have ever known, President Obama, Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D - Ill.)

I am a fierce supporter of school choice — and that includes vouchers, tax credits, opportunity scholarships and all the other devices that make private schools part of the choice equation — and I am broadly on team two, believing we have a moral obligation to empower parents with more choices and greater freedom in how they choose to educate their child.

Specifically, for students who had attended public schools deemed to be failing before the students took part in the voucher program — a high - priority target for the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program — the new federal study shows no statistically significant impacts on their test scores.

As a young girl from Queens, Natasha Daniella Rivera participation in programs run by Prep for Prep — a leadership development organization for gifted students of color in New York City public schools — opened doors to many opportunities including a scholarship to an elite private school and paid internships.

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.

After supporting lifting the cap on charter schools, and sponsoring opportunity scholarship legislation for children with special needs and low - income students, I was ostracized by my party and progressive institutions in North Carolina.

As a teenager, an A Better Chance scholarship afforded him an opportunity to study at a college prep school.