Sentences with phrase «student grants available»

There are student grants available to international students, although they are typically lower than programs for domestic students.

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Add in a slew of grants such as the Ontario Tuition Grant, which is available to all students with a family income under $ 160,000, and you quickly realize that almost no one is actually paying the sticker price.

The good news is that financial aid through federal and school grants is more widely available than ever, making it possible for many students in need of college funds to attend a postsecondary school.

STARS (Southeast Top Agricultural Recruits Scholarship) is the Southeast Produce Council's scholarship program available to outstanding students who are agriculture majors in Southeast - based land grant universities.

Grants will only be available in select states and the award amounts will be based on building enrollment, project type, potential impact, and a school's ability to mobilize parents and students around school wellness initiatives.

Equipment grants are also available annually from industry partners who want to assist school nutrition programs that need equipment to provide the healthy food provided to students.

Government - sponsored school - or student - focused nutrition education funding is available, as well as targeted private grants and partnerships with nonprofits and businesses.

There are a number of Healthy Living Grants available for schools, school districts, and students.

Besides freezing tuition, Heastie's plan would boost grants available to low - and moderate - income students and funds available for campus infrastructure.

Grants are available for students from developing countries.

Federally funded grants are also available to eligible students.

Free admittance to the opening day of ResMed is available for two undergraduate students or one student and one faculty member, thanks to a generous grant from the Pfizer Undergraduate Research Endeavors program and the Independent College Fund of New Jersey.

Up to 40 travel grants of 1,000 US$ each are made available to students associated with any of the six lead centers of RICE (AfricaRice, CIAT, IRRI, Cirad, IRD, JIRCAS) and conducting their research in the RICE program.

The grants were available only for students attending classes in the fall and the spring.

As an international student, I wasn't eligible for many grants and relied too much on the funding that was available to my PI and lab.

Students planning a full Master's degree abroad, for which national grants or loans are seldom available, will benefit from a new loan guarantee scheme run by the European Investment Fund.

According to the College Board, students with annual family incomes under $ 65,000 received enough grant aid to cover the entire cost of tuition at community colleges in 2011 12 (the most recent federal data available).

The legislature's Senate education committee recently discussed ways of changing the Texas Grant Program, not long after TheDallas Morning News reported last month that $ 27 million out of $ 120 million available to students went unused over the 2001 - 02 academic year.

The SMART Grants — for National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent — and the Academic Competitiveness Grants were signed into law in early 2006 and became available to students starting in the 2006 - 07 school year.

The media and observers across the ideological spectrum were surprised and, in some cases, disconcerted in July 2014 when at the annual American Federation of Teachers (AFT) convention in Los Angeles, the union's leadership team announced that its Innovation Fund grants of $ 20,000 to $ 30,000 were going to be made available to state and local affiliates to critique the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), the massive multistate effort to improve student achievement.

Immigrant students also face challenges in terms of securing financial aid, but we've done extensive research on available funding and continue to help them navigate the process of qualifying for scholarships and grants.

Government grants and scholarships are available in Chile, but students must obtain a minimum test - score in the Chiles's high school exit test (among other criteria, such as family income level and institution status) to be eligible.

It also has created a student assistance fund that provides grants for student needs identified within the schools and classrooms when there are no other resources available.

Overall, the grant would be available to about 60 percent of America's 50 million primary and secondary school students, those whose families earn $ 53,000 or less.

In summary, the share of students who received a Pell Grant is a widely used proxy for low - income students because grants are awarded mainly to those students; data on how many students at each institution of higher education receive a Pell Grant is readily available; and finally, data on student incomes at each institution of higher education has only recently become available and does not cover all students at each institution.

For teachers who don't want to wait, the lesson plans developed by Rose and Indarawis, thanks to a National Science Foundation grant, are now available through Fishwick's Web site, as are several articles on aesthetic computing, links to free software developed by students of Fishwick, and a discussion area.

Grants are available for state and local programs in which students are systematically and explicitly taught five key early reading skills.

An LEA shall use these grant funds to support direct student services including: (1) a student's enrollment and participation in academic courses not otherwise available at the student's school; (2) credit recovery and academic acceleration courses that lead to a regular high school diploma; (3) activities that assist students in successfully completing postsecondary level instruction and examinations that are accepted for credit at institutions of higher education; and (4) if applicable, transportation to allow a student enrolled in a low - performing school to transfer to another public school.

Included are: the biggest increase in Pell Grants in 20 years; $ 1,500 HOPE Scholarships to make the first two years of college universally available; a 20 % tuition tax credit for college juniors, seniors, graduate students and for working Americans pursuing lifelong learning to upgrade their skills; and the use of Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) for educational savings.

But not only that, they want school choice options to be available to all students and they want their elected officials to support school choice too,» said Grant Callen, President of Empower Mississippi.

ESA Application Now Available June 18, 2015 by Grant Callen The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) has released the application for the Education Scholarship Account program for students with special needs.

Another proposal in this budget with broad support: making Pell Grants, which provide tuition aid for low - income students, available year - round.

The grant and webinar are available to any K - 12 school seeking to start a new or enhance an existing school garden for students.

The draft accountability rules, to be released this summer, will encourage states to identify high - and low - performing teacher preparation programs across all kinds of educational models, not just those based in colleges and universities; urge a transition from current input - based reporting requirements to a focus on more meaningful outcomes; and likely limit program eligibility for TEACH grants — which are available to students who are planning to become teachers in a high - need field in a low - income school — to only effective teacher preparation programs.

The Colorado Supreme Court upheld the Colorado higher education grant program against a challenge brought under one of its Blaine Amendments (Article IX, Section 7) because the program benefits students, not their schools, because it is available to private as well as public school students, and because it eliminates any danger of indirectly supporting religious missions by attaching statutory conditions on the use of the money.

The proliferation of digital primary source materials and lesson plans available online, funded largely through government and private grants to establish and utilize digital collections and libraries (Bolick, Hicks, Lee, Molebash, & Doolittle, 2004), offers students the opportunity to «do history» (Levstik & Barton, 2001) in ways that could not be accomplished or even imagined before the advent of the World Wide Web.

Arizona was one of only eight states to receive the highly competitive $ 23.6 million federal grant to increase the number of high quality schools available to disadvantaged students.

«High quality educational opportunities should be available to all students,» Grant Callen, President of Empower Mississippi, said.

Included among the LAO recommendations were suggestions to cap minimum district student populations at 100, cut certain grants available to small districts and repeal a law prohibiting districts from laying off classified employees two years following unification.

A report published by the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) identifies five key strategies for addressing SEL in ESSA plans, from articulating a well - rounded vision of student success and providing professional development that improves educator SEL capacity to using Title IV grants and making SEL data available to the public.

On a scale of 1 to 4 with 1 being not very useful, and 4 being very useful, the most useful elements from iQUEST are listed in order of rakings with the highest mean at 3.23 and the lowest mean being 2.61: (a) workshops, (b) collaboration with other project teachers, (c) equipment available for checkout by the project, (d) Lesson Study, (e) support from grant leadership, (f) support from computer science students, and (g) online resources.

Grants would be available to help states and districts provide all students with access to a well - rounded education in a wide range of subject areas, but the program pits the various subjects against one another for resources, which could ultimately lead to the opposite effect.

At the same time, the $ 34 billion a year pot of discretionary and mandatory funds available for providing Pell Grants to about 9 million low - income students attend college would take a major hit and force significant cuts in benefits and eligibility.

Local officials allocated $ 375,000 for tuition grants that were only available to white students, and just $ 189,000 to operate its entire integrated public - school system.

The grants were available to expand non-selective, high - performing magnet, pilot or traditional schools where at least half of the students met or exceeded proficiency in English or math on state tests and the school as a whole performed significantly better in math and English than surrounding schools with similar demographics.

Notwithstanding this subsection, upon application by the board of trustees of a charter school or by the persons or entities seeking to establish a charter school, the board may amend or grant a charter designating such school a regional charter school; provided, however, that such regional charter school shall be exempt from the local preference provision of this paragraph; provided further, that such regional charter school shall continue to grant a preference of siblings of currently enrolled students; and provided further, that if the number of applicants remaining is greater than the number of spaces available, such regional charter school shall conduct a single lottery to determine which applicants shall be admitted.

Several opportunities are available to help students cut the cost of college, including a tuition exchange program, merit - based scholarships, federal aid and pell grants.

Currently Pell grants are only available for students who attend institutions of higher education

Grants, loans, and work - study are the three major forms of student financial aid available through the federal Student Assistance Prstudent financial aid available through the federal Student Assistance PrStudent Assistance Programs.

Financial aid, such as scholarships, grants and loans are also available for eligible students.