Sentences with phrase «state education grants»

(VI) State education grants, scholarships, or financial aid funds administered by or on behalf of a State.

Along with adjustments to the ECS grant funding level, the budget adjustment agreement also alters the funding levels — in comparison to the FY 2019 appropriated amounts contained in the biennial budget — for some other state education grants, including the Excess Cost grant and grants for the Connecticut Technical Education and Career System, vocational agriculture programs, Priority School Districts, and the Open Choice program.

The final report for the State of Connecticut's Task Force to Study State Education Funding features recommendations to address problems with the Education Cost Sharing (ECS) grant formula, which distributes the largest share of state education aid to towns, and certain other major state education grants.

Rather than streamline state education grants while allowing inequality to persist for individual students, the state should simplify its funding mechanism and guarantee equality for all Illinois» students.

This month 85 school districts expect to see their share of state education grants cut to zero while 54 others would see significant cuts.

We do not charge a tuition fee and students are entitled to receive SU (a study grant from the Danish State Education Grant and Loan Scheme).

Not exact matches

For example, the US Department of Education's Race to the Top Fund, which offered $ 4 billion in grants to states that developed successful educational reforms, spurred innovations that hold promise for school systems across the country.

They were on hand to visit a classroom and to promote the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's philanthropic initiatives — not to mention the millions in grants it's made possible — to expand education reforms in the Bluegrass State.

The IPT grant program is a competitive grant program focusing on innovative and effective investor education and protection programs delivered at the local, State and regional level.

Florida schools have been granted a two - day hurricane reprieve from the state education commissioner.

The state is currently moving closer to adopting a bill that would subject religious higher - education institutions to regulations forbidding them to act on their religious tenets if their students receive state grants to support their studies.

Yet the draft describes wide - ranging protections, saying, «Persons and organizations do not forfeit their religious freedom when providing social services, education, or healthcare; earning a living, seeking a job, or employing others; receiving government grants or contracts; or otherwise participating in the marketplace, the public square, or interfacing with federal, state, or local governments.»

We need to be reminded that it was once taken for granted that authentic education was built upon the teaching and practice of the human and theological virtues, that education, as St Thomas Aquinas put it, is «the progression of the child to the condition of properly human excellence, ie to the state of virtue».

Dr. Theophilus once went to the United States on a church grant, and managed to complete a Ph.D. in education from Iowa State in only two and a half years.

Created Race to the Top: With funds from stimulus, started $ 4.35 billion program of competîtive grants to encourage and reward states for education reform.

The Carnegie Corporation, it should be said, is not the author, owner, publisher or proprietor of these or of the other publications issued by the staff of The Study of Theological Education in the United States and Canada, and is not to be understood as approving by virtue of its grant any of the statements made or views expressed therein.

This American ideal for education was institutionalized in the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862, encouraging the state schools oriented toward agricultural and technical education that developed as alternatives to the liberal arts colleges.

Thus the G.I. Bill, the Public Facilities Act, the National Defense Education Act, and the various forms of student aid initiated in the 1960s — BEOGs, SEOGs, Work - Study, Pell grants, etc. — have subsidized the survival of many colleges and universities, but inexorably they have served as well to make the grantee institutions more anxious to observe the laws and regulations of the State than the strictures of the Church whose sponsorship is, by comparison, so intangible.

Today, federal, state and local governments, land - grant universities and other organizations nationwide are pursuing organic agriculture research and education programs.

The states and territories are addressing consumer food waste by introducing public food waste education and awareness initiatives, and grants programs.

Each year, NABCA provides an opportunity for the control states to receive a grant towards developing or continuing an alcohol education / awareness program within their state.

Guidance Materials: The State Board of Education and the Illinois Nutrition Education and Training Program provides districts with wellness policy resources, including a Local Wellness Policy Toolkit (2005) that includes an action plan checklist, a needs assessment and annual evaluation tool, a model policy developed under a USDA Team Nutrition grant, and other resources for developing local wellness policies.

The AAP opposes the current bill in the U.S. House of Representatives, H.R. 5003, the Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016, because it would reduce access to free breakfast and lunch for children under the Community Eligibility Provision, endanger our child nutrition programs through a harmful 3 - state block grant program, weaken the evidence - based school nutrition standards, and fail to adequately invest in WIC, child care and summer feeding programs.

Just one day before the scheduled markup of the House Education and the Workforce Committee «s «Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016» (an Orwellian name if there ever was one, given how the bill would gut child nutrition), Congressman Todd Rokita (IN - R), chair of the subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education, introduced a substitute amendment which, among other things, proposes a three - state block grant pilot for school breakfasts and lunches.

Scholarships are granted to 501c3 organizations serving low - income families and schools with 95 % or more of their students approved for free and reduced price meals (as cited by the Illinois State Board of Education for the 2016 - 2017 school year).

Following the Obama Administration's announcement of the Promise Neighborhood grant in April, the U.S. Department of Education stated that the program would be based in part on the Harlem Children's Zone model.

ECCS grants help states and communities to build and integrate early childhood service systems in the areas of a) access to health care and medical homes, b) social - emotional development and mental health, c) early care and education, d) parenting education, and e) family support.

On Thursday, August 31, 2017, the USDA announced that 11 states were selected to receive a total of $ 5.3 million in grants for new resources for nutrition education and food service training.

AB 2271 requires the State Department of Education to provide a state grant of up to $ 100,000 to a school food authority that participates in the National School Lunch Program and receives a federal equipment assistant gState Department of Education to provide a state grant of up to $ 100,000 to a school food authority that participates in the National School Lunch Program and receives a federal equipment assistant gstate grant of up to $ 100,000 to a school food authority that participates in the National School Lunch Program and receives a federal equipment assistant grant.

As reported here back in May, the School Nutrition Association (SNA) has parted ways with its former House Republican allies over the latter's controversial proposal, contained in the House Education & the Workforce Committee's Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) bill, to block grant school food in three states.

In 2009 the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) received a $ 14.4 million incentive grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs as part of the American...

The budget is due Sunday, but already lawmakers are putting the finishing touches on a deal that includes plans to merge gambling oversight, a new infrastructure improvement plan for the state and a 4 percent boost in education spending through competitive grants.

This is the logic of things such as the apparent «positive freedom» granted by, for example, state funded adult education and / or vocational courses.

State Education Commissioner David Steiner, who is under intense pressure to either grant or deny a waiver to Mayor Bloomberg's NYC schools chancellor pick, Cathie Black, is keeping a fairly low profile these days, but he did respond to a letter from minority lawmakers who hoped to meet with him prior to his decision.

Part of the objectives of the Foundation was to sponsor students by way of scholarships, grants and organizing capacity building seminars, workshops and other related activities and opportunities to students and young people, as well as collaborating with other stakeholders such as government agencies, NGOs, foreign bodies to raise awareness on the state of education in Nigeria and intervening with solutions.

He proposed a new program for distributing education funds modeled on President Barack Obama's state competitions that will grant awards based on school performance and administrative efficiencies.

«This grant money will directly benefit New York's students and schools,» State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia said.

In late December, the state's education commissioner froze some of the state's $ 700 million dollars in Race to the Top grants, saying some schools, including in New York City and several upstate cities, had not complied with the teacher evaluation requirements.

«Prior to granting any significant extension of this authority, the Senate believes public hearings should be held to assess the current structure and identify any possible areas of improvement including but not limited to creating heightened parental involvement in Community Education Councils and the Panel for Education Policy,» the resolution states.

«Cutting Pell Grants and Medicaid funding without addressing the underlying causes of rising higher education and healthcare costs, simply represents a shift of costs to state and local governments who would be overburdened and unable to provide for vulnerable populations.»

A state grant is helping Hamburg Central School District construct a new area for teacher training, student learning and community education and collaboration.

Amber Rudd (Hastings and Rye): Will the Secretary of State join me in congratulating Conservative - run East Sussex county council, which, after a disappointing grant from the Department for Education, has stepped in with # 12 million of capital that it had not planned to give to ensure that the St Leonards academy is rebuilt to provide better education in Education, has stepped in with # 12 million of capital that it had not planned to give to ensure that the St Leonards academy is rebuilt to provide better education in education in Hastings?

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Monday announced more than $ 35 million in grants for capital projects at higher education institutions across the state.

Kaduna State government has benefted from the $ 100m World Bank education grant meant to rehabilitate and renovate schools, train teachers and motivate girl child education.

No waivers for chancellor: State Education Law should be revised so that waivers can no longer be granted by the State Education Department to allow non-educators to serve as chancellor.

90 % of school districts have been granted waivers from the state education department that put off the new teacher performance standards until at least next March.

It is unclear whether federal acting secretary of education John King — New York's former state education c ommissioner who championed the Common Core and helped usher in the use of teacher evaluations tied to state assessments under No Child Left Behind and the federal Race To The Top grant program — will give his blessing.

And now the state's education commissioner, Mary Ellen Elia, who's been on the job since early July, says she's open to granting the waivers if meeting the deadline puts more pressure on already overtaxed school districts.

Further the STEM Education grants to provide funding for projects to leverage state and federal funds for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).

Members of the public granted seats in the hearing room must arrive at the State Education Building by 8:30 a.m. each day of the hearing.