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Download full textCoalition for Evidence-Based Policy, 2015
The Social Spending Innovation Research (SSIR) proposal seeks to replicate, in social spending, the great success of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program in technology development. The SBIR program funds technology development by entrepreneurial small companies. The program has spawned breakthrough technologies in diverse areas…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Financial Support, Educational Finance, Educational Policy
National Council on Teacher Quality, 2010
Early last week the U.S. Department of Education announced an unexpected 16 finalists for the first round of Race to the Top (RTT) funding--a veritable traffic jam in the Race to the Top. The finalists have requested a total of $6.5 billion in funds, but only $4.3 billion is up for grabs, and that needs to be spread over two rounds of competition.…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Performance Based Assessment, Academic Achievement, Evaluation
Strange, Marty – Rural School and Community Trust, 2011
The Investing in Innovation (i3) program is a U.S. Department of Education competitive grant program supporting innovation in public schools. To encourage projects focusing on rural education in its first round of grants in 2010 the Department offered two bonus points in the scoring system for "projects that would implement innovative practices,…
Descriptors: Innovation, Scoring, Grants, Rural Education
US Department of Education, 2010
This publication provides a nontechnical summary of the U.S. Department of Education's discretionary grants process and the laws and regulations that govern it. This document is intended for individuals and organizations that are interested in applying to the U.S. Department of Education (the Department) for discretionary grants and cooperative…
Descriptors: Grants, Grantsmanship, Federal Government, Federal Programs
National Council on Teacher Quality, 2010
The U.S. Department of Education recently announced the finalists for the second round of the Race to the Top (RTT) competition, with the winners to be announced in September. Round one of the competition yielded just two awards earlier this year, with Delaware and Tennessee claiming approximately $600 million of the available funds. Thirty-five…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Competition, Educational Change, Public Agencies
Executive Office of the President, 2011
On September 8, 2011, the President proposed the American Jobs Act to Congress, including investments of $25 billion to renovate and modernize at least 35,000 of America's public schools; $5 billion to upgrade infrastructure at America's community colleges; and $30 billion to keep hundreds of thousands of educators in the classroom. This report…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Federal Aid
Direct linkMetcalfe, Amy Scott; Fenwick, Tara – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2009
With the dissemination of its Innovation Strategy in 2002, the Canadian government further solidified its commitment to a knowledge-based national competitiveness strategy. Through the unfolding of a multi-million dollar Workplace Skills Strategy (WSS) agency, and the launch of two research agencies, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Innovation, Discourse Analysis, Program Descriptions
Peer reviewedScience, 1972
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Federal Government, Financial Policy, Program Proposals
Bowles, Jonathan; Colton, Tara; Fischer, David Jason; Giles, David; O'Grady, Jim – Center for an Urban Future, 2009
The inauguration of a new president is a typically a time of great hope, and this year is certainly no exception. But the advent of the Obama administration offers residents of New York and other city-dwellers special grounds for optimism: that the period of years, if not decades, when the federal government all but turned its back on the needs of…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Federal Government, Presidents, Safety
Cook, John J. – Bureau Memorandum, 1974
Outlined are goals and activities designated for the Great Lakes Regional Resource Center. (LS)
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Education, Federal Government, Handicapped Children, Program Proposals
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. – 1973
A proposal up for consideration before the United States Senate is discussed. The program suggested is a redesign of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in keeping with the principles of the New Federalism. The proposal touches every major area of HEW policy: it simplifies the Department's program structure; it narrows and focuses the…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Decision Making, Federal Government, Federal Legislation
Eshelman, William R. – Wilson Library Bulletin, 1974
Discusses the new National Program of Library and Information Service recently issued by the NCLIS. (JB)
Descriptors: Federal Government, Government Role, Information Networks, Library Networks
Alvir, Howard P. – 1976
This document contains two research exercises entitled: "Revising Rough Drafts into Short and Simple Texts" and "Developing Vote Curriculum Criteria Based upon Federal Guidelines." The first exercise can be used by educators wishing to conduct a proposal writing workshop centered around the development and writing of acceptable goals, objectives,…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Higher Education, Program Proposals, Proposal Writing
Peer reviewedMerrill, Mary Lou – Music Educators Journal, 1976
The United States Office of Education, in cooperation with the Alliance for Arts Education of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, is administering a program of grants and contracts to encourage and assist the establishment of arts education programs. Guidelines for qualifying for a grant or contact are provided. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Finance, Federal Government, Fine Arts
Ramsey, Leslie A.; Hale, Phale D., Jr. – 1994
The federal government administers hundreds of grant proposals each year, but many grant seekers fail to apply because they perceive the process as overwhelmingly complex and bureaucratic. This guidebook was written to help educators find the federal government grants they need. Seven chapters explain how federal agencies operate their grant…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid, Federal Government, Federal Regulation
