Sentences with phrase «use competitive grants»

Don't rely on a specific grant While many communities successfully use competitive grants, such as the Full Service Community Schools or Promise Neighborhoods grants, this funding is often not sustainable.

The Assembly's budget resolution proposed that the $ 100 million would be allocated using a competitive grant process similar to the one Cuomo used to distribute $ 25 million in full - day pre-K funds this year.

Not exact matches

Grants can be very competitive with application requirements that are very specific regarding the type of business you can have and what the funds will be used for.

Prior to the 1964 Games in Tokyo a small grant was made to study how industrial facilities could be used to develop athletes of international competitive caliber.

Klein said it's «too early» to say for certain whether de Blasio's pre-K plan is «right» compared to the one the governor is proposing, which calls for using $ 1.5 billion over five yreas to fund pre-K statewide ($ 100 million total in the first year, $ 25 million of which is renewing the existing competitive pre-K grants).

Senate Democrats earlier this year pushed for a community schools grant program that would provide wraparound social services and empower the education commissioner to award competitive grants to eligible school districts that use existing buildings for community - based hubs.

The Community Development Block Grant is a competitive grant available to municipalities that can be used to encourage residential and economic growth and fund social progGrant is a competitive grant available to municipalities that can be used to encourage residential and economic growth and fund social proggrant available to municipalities that can be used to encourage residential and economic growth and fund social programs.

Despite the uproar in New Paltz over granting what critics consider excessive tax breaks for developers, the IDA will continue to offer Pilots, the chairman said, «because the use of Pilots makes us competitive with other counties.»

Also look for competitive requests for proposals (RFPs), a mechanism a small but growing number of companies use to provide grants to academic researchers.

The center also participates in the national «MICROMouse» program, which awards competitive one - year grants up to $ 75,000 for research projects that have the potential to enhance and advance the mission of the MMPC as a resource for scientists using mice to study diabetes and obesity.

In 2010, ANet won a competitive $ 5 million Investing in Innovation (i3) grant from the U.S. Department of Education, which it is using, in part, to fund a large randomized study of its impact.

After a protracted debate, delegates to the National Education Association have voted to take a position of «no confidence» in the U.S. Department of Education's Race to the Top guidelines and in the use of competitive grants as a basis for the reauthorization of ESEA.

And via adroit use of competitive grants and — at least as important — the presidential bully pulpit, Uncle Sam may be able to give a modest boost to the movement to put families, rather than bureaucracies, in control of their children's education.

Schools used their share of $ 4.3 billion in federal Race to the Top competitive - grant money to make significant progress in areas including state data systems and instructional resources for teachers.

They could link monetary awards to the use of direct student services and provide additional funding for choice opportunities through the competitive grant framework.

Twenty five percent of a competitive Title II D grant - funded project must be used for professional development.

New York state's Socioeconomic Integration Pilot Program, for example, provides grants of up to $ 1.25 million to schools that use socioeconomic integration to increase student performance in the state's lowest performing schools.118 Also, states can incentivize charter school diversity through competitive grant programs such as the Charter Schools Program State Educational Agencies competition.119

A proposed provision that declares that nothing in future education policy would prevent the passage of Parent Trigger laws or other Parent Power efforts would be meaningful if it also proposed a competitive grant program to encourage states to enact such laws; as is, there is nothing in federal law that restricts states from passing Parent Trigger laws or keeps families from using them.

Will states take advantage of the opportunities available under ESSA through competitive grants and mandates that could be used to incentivize school diversity?

It also used Race to the Top, its competitive grant program, as an inducement, saying that states adopting «college and career ready» standards had a better chance of winning federal dollars under the program.

In the Department's fiscal year (FY) 2006 appropriations bill, Congress also included language overriding the statutory provision that SEAs use 50 percent of the amount available for grants to Local Education Agencies (LEAs) for formula awards and 50 percent for competitive awards.

Often bypassing Congress, Duncan used the money to work directly with states, persuading them to adopt favored policies by providing incentives through Race to the Top, a $ 4.35 billion competitive grant program in which states were awarded points for adopting ideas such as performance - based teacher and principal evaluations, higher academic standards, and raising charter school caps.

The funds generated through the sale of these special plates would be used to provide competitive grants under the School Safety and Violence Prevention Strategy Program or other school violence prevention purposes determined by the CDE, according to the author.

Tell that to the school choice activists who have successfully passed voucher measures in more than 13 states, the children who attend the 1,091 new charter schools opened between 2010 and 2013, and families in cities such as Adelanto, Calif., who have taken over failing schools using Parent Trigger laws passed as a result of the competitive grant competition.

Additionally, the U.S. Department of Education began using state charter laws as a consideration in the awarding of the federal Race - to - the - Top competitive grant program.

In the Obama administration's 2009 Race to the Top competitive grant program, for example, the federal government favored states that permitted the use of student test scores in teacher evaluations.

The Common Core, teacher evaluation using student tests scores, Common Core tests, the expansion of charter schools and other disruptive change strategies were pushed by the $ 4.35 billion competitive grant known as Race to the Top.

The consortium of 16 states and the District of Columbia uses a federal competitive grant to develop Common Core - aligned, mostly computer - based exams.

One of the most contentious aspects of Governor Malloy's «education reform» proposal was the section granting Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, the power to take over a local district school, ban collective bargaining, fire the staff and hand the school over to a third party who would then be exempt from having to follow Connecticut's laws about competitive bidding and the law limiting the use of consultants.

The Obama administration's proposal to reserve 25 percent of Title II, Part A funds for competitive grants to states and districts to improve educator evaluation and licensure is a modest first step, but states and districts must also be held accountable for the use of these federal dollars.

The Department of Education shall give school divisions containing at - risk schools preferential treatment when considering applications and may otherwise use competitive criteria in reviewing grant applications for funding.

States should also leverage competitive grant programs with rigorous review processes to ensure that funds are allocated first to districts most likely to use them well, while giving other districts time to develop and demonstrate similarly strong plans, evidence, and commitment.

State lawmakers agreed to begin using student data in teacher evaluations when applying this year for a competitive federal education grant known as Race to the Top.

Establishes annual competitive grants ranging from $ 50K to $ 750K for alliance and non-alliance districts seeking to improve student performance using methods included in alliance district improvement plans.

Costs for a program of this type could be calculated by using funding allocations for previous competitive federal - to - district grant programs and might include expenses such as release time, resident or prospective teacher stipends, and training for mentor teachers.

Several points that I felt were imperative: 1) Everyone at the federal level knows that the current law is disliked and must change, 2) There is a recognized effort to make the language and details of the next ESEA reauthorization more user - friendly — all stakeholders of a school community should be able to understand the legislation and be vested in the success of schools, and 3) Legislators are seeking the right balance between formula funding and competitive grants — one area of consideration is the consolidation of educational programs or initiatives, which will allow federal monies to be used more effectively to help schools and children.

The National Clean Diesel Emerging Technologies Program awards competitive grants for projects that spur innovation in reducing diesel emissions through the use, development and commercialization of emerging technologies.

Subtitle G: Diesel Emissions Reduction -(Sec. 792) Instructs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to use: (1) 70 % of certain allocated funds to provide grants and low - cost revolving loans on a competitive basis to eligible entities to achieve prescribed reductions in diesel emissions; and (2) 30 % of certain allocated funds to support grant and loan programs administered by states that are designed to achieve similar diesel emission reductions.

(Sec. 388) Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to grant, on either a competitive or noncompetitive basis, a lease, easement, or right - of - way on the outer Continental Shelf for activities not otherwise authorized under specified laws, if those activities: (1) support exploration, development, production, transportation, or storage of oil, natural gas; (2) produce or support production, transportation, or transmission of energy from sources other than oil and gas; or (3) use, for energy - related or marine - related purposes, facilities currently or previously used for activities authorized under this Act, unless prohibited by moratorium.

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