Sentences with phrase «system of education grants»

It is our view that we need to review the existing system of education grants and loan forgiveness.

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In order to create tax cuts in the province's education and healthcare systems, the party is also looking to find savings by reducing the number of grants and tax credits going to businesses.

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.

Cain's tenure as warden came on the heels of The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act passed in 1994, which made prisoners ineligible for Pell Grants and devastated education within the penal system.

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.

But most humiliating, he was granted mayoral control of the city's school system for a mere year — meaning he's going to have to beg Albany yet again to let him stay in charge of city schools, even though no rational person really believes New York City would be better off with the old Board of Education.

The state's education commissioner says she's open to granting waivers to delay new teacher evaluation for an additional year, saying the new systems should not be hastily pushed through because of an arbitrary date.

The mass granting of waivers to delay the new teacher rating system comes as political leaders, including President Obama and his Education Secretary Arne Duncan, are shifting away from an emphasis on standardized testing.

The grants were announced yesterday by Governor Deval Patrick are through the state's Performance Incentive Fund, which is part of the administration's pledge to strengthen the state's public education system via the Vision Project.

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With a $ 9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education, 11 institutions are now launching randomly controlled trials of the GSU system on their own campuses.

Funding: This work was supported in part by the Grant - in - Aid for Scientific Research (B) and Grant - in - Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas «Systems Molecular Ethology» from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan.

Crittenden has published 27 peer - reviewed journal articles and eight peer - reviewed book chapters thus far, has received a Regents» Rising Researcher Award from the Nevada System of Higher Education, has been awarded several highly competitive research grants, and has demonstrated a commitment to increasing inclusiveness and diversity within the STEM fields through several mentorship initiatives she participates in.

The five - year grant funds the Northern New Jersey Spinal Cord Injury System (NNJSCIS), a comprehensive system of care, research, education and dissemination aimed at improving quality of life for people with spinal cord iSystem (NNJSCIS), a comprehensive system of care, research, education and dissemination aimed at improving quality of life for people with spinal cord isystem of care, research, education and dissemination aimed at improving quality of life for people with spinal cord injury.

This study was supported, in part, by research funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81325003, 81520108003 and 81670716), Chang Jiang Scholars Program, the Shanghai Commission of Science and Technology (16JC1405800), Shanghai Municipal Education Commission Gaofeng Clinical Medicine Grant Support (20152206 and 20152208), Clinical Research Plan of SHDC (16CR2017A), Multicenter Clinical Research Project by Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine (DLY201601), Collaborative Innovation Center of Systems Biomedicine and the Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation.

Northern New Jersey Spinal Cord Injury System with support from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, U.S. Department of Education, Grant #H133N110020

This grant funds the Northern New Jersey Spinal Cord Injury System (NNJSCIS), a comprehensive system of care, research, education and dissemination aimed at improving quality of life for people with spinal cord iSystem (NNJSCIS), a comprehensive system of care, research, education and dissemination aimed at improving quality of life for people with spinal cord isystem of care, research, education and dissemination aimed at improving quality of life for people with spinal cord injury.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

I've written previously about its role in creating proof points capable of scaling for the field that help propel the education system more toward a fully competency - based, student - centric one, and now NGLC is at it again (full disclosure: I serve as a reviewer for their grants).

After receiving a grant through the state education department's Accessible Buildings Program, the school was able to install sound field systems in almost all of its classrooms.

This month, the U.S. Department of Education released the guidelines for school systems applying for funds through the Physical Education for Progress Grant Program.

Washington — The new education block grants are a «political football» that state departments of education and local school systems risk fumbling to state legislators and governors around the country unless they act quickly.

Since last year, the U.S. Department of Education has awarded nearly $ 75 million in grants to schools and school districts interested in developing systems that reward good teaching and compensate teachers for taking jobs in hard - to - staff schools (low - performing and typically high - poverty schools).

OECD that reports the findings of tri-annual PISA surveys concludes that education systems that grant more autonomy to schools to define and elaborate their curricula and assessments tend to perform better than systems that don't grant such autonomy.

Do conservatives want to continue to live under a waiver policy that grants the U.S. Department of Education the authority to micromanage states» annual tests, accountability systems, and teacher evaluation approaches?

But such a policy could easily be implemented through a system of means - tested grants and tuition discounts, like the current U.S. system, without providing costly tuition benefits to students who can afford to pay at least part of their higher education expenses.

WASHINGTON — The Education Department's «peer review» system for judging grant applications is under attack again, this time because of allegations that a top department official sought special consideration for a teacher - education center at Michigan State UnEducation Department's «peer review» system for judging grant applications is under attack again, this time because of allegations that a top department official sought special consideration for a teacher - education center at Michigan State Uneducation center at Michigan State University.

Both grants announced today are a part of a larger three - year, $ 350 million commitment by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help all students achieve at high levels by recognizing and encouraging high - achievement models and developing strong leadership throughout the education system.

Inspired by a lecture from Albert Shanker, the longtime president of the American Federation of Teachers (whom Reichgott Junge heard describe charter schools as «the best answer so far» to the ills of the American education system) she worked with civic leaders and fellow representatives to draft and implement a bill granting greater autonomy for a subset of the North Star state's schools.

The ARCH project, developed through a Teaching American History grant partnership between the Howard County Public School System (Maryland) and the Center for History Education at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), is a framework for assessment that measures the process of historical thinking, as well as the retention of prior knowledge.

A U.S. Department of Education SEED grant is studying NISL's advanced credentialing system that aims to transform the principalship in America.

In 2011, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation created the Project Mastery grant program to support competency - based education initiatives in large school systems that serve a high proportion of disadvantaged youth.

Alabama also enacted tuition grant state laws permitting students to use vouchers at private schools in the mid-1950s, while also enacting nullification statutes against court desegregation mandates and altering its teacher tenure laws to allow the firing of teachers who supported desegregation.50 Alabama's tuition grant laws would also come before the court, with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama declaring in Lee v. Macon County Board of Education vouchers to be «nothing more than a sham established for the purpose of financing with state funds a white school system.»

That Administration initiative is their pride and joy, and 13 states are now revising their systems of education after receiving grants.

«The funds provided by Reach Higher System Impact Grants will provide the resources necessary for schools to implement bold changes to help their students prepare for a college education and future careers,» said Brandy Johnson, executive director of the Michigan College Access Network.

Aperture Education's Evo Social / Emotional Assessment and Intervention System supports the «absolute priority» for this program, which is that grants are to be used to expand the capacity of LEAs in communities that have experienced significant civil unrest to more effectively address the behavioral and mental health needs of affected students in those communities.

Alabama has filed an application for federal grant money from the U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) to establish a statewide longitudinal data system (SLDS), but won't learn the results of their application until some time in September.

And in a public education world where the unions have typically been able to protect even the lowest - performing teachers, that kind of quality upgrade seemed doable only because the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation had offered the city a grant that required the union to cooperate in return for a huge injection of funds into the school system.

Callen: Poll shows Mississippians want school choice Grant Callen, Guest Columnist, January 10, 2016 Over the past four years, our state Legislature has adopted a handful of key reforms designed to strengthen our education system by providing students with new education options and taxpayers with more accountability and transparency.

From our biennial report card on education, The State We're In, to examining the effect of School Improvement Grants on individual schools, we have our fingers on the pulse of the education system in Illinois.

Funded by NSF's Research on Education and Learning (REAL) program, this grant for exploratory research applies advanced topological, geometric, and Bayesian methods to analyze the shape of data generated by students taking mathematics courses via massive open online course (MOOC) systems.

Addressing members of the General Assembly's Education Committee during an information forum on the state's RTTT grant application process held April 16, State Education Commissioner Mark McQuillan said Connecticut needs RTTT funds to help build «a bold support system of emotional and academic support» for students.

The State Department of Education is planning support with educator evaluation through a variety of professional learning opportunities, a second offering of the Connecticut Academy for Professional Learning, and district - level grants of up to $ 25,000 to transform professional learning systems.

North Carolina, meanwhile, maintains a somewhat unusual authorization system for the public charters, granting express powers for opening or shuttering such institutions to the State Board of Education.

Patterson, who calls the shift in school culture a «total systems change,» uses scripts and flash cards in the Voyager Passport reading curriculum, purchased with a grant from the Oklahoma State Department of Education, to guide her building's noneducators through the lessons.

Grant Callen, Clarion Ledger Guest Columnist, January 10, 2016 Over the past four years, our state Legislature has adopted a handful of key reforms designed to strengthen our education system by providing students with new education options and taxpayers with more accountability and transparency.

LAUSD, 3 charter groups win grants to develop evaluation systems The Los Angeles Unified School District and three local charter - school groups have won federal grants to develop their teacher and principal evaluation systems, the U.S. Department of Education has announced.

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The Assembly Education Committee approved AB 851 / SB 711, which requires the University of Wisconsin System to award grants to school districts, independent charter schools and voucher schools to support dual enrollment programs taught in high schools.

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