Sentence examples for grant competitions from inspiring English sources

And building on the success of the "Race to the Top" competitions in K-12 education, the administration has proposed grant competitions among states and colleges to improve affordability and completion rates.

A combination of factors — the education reform movement, slow economies that have pinched spending for new teachers, and federal grant competitions like Race to the Top that encourage states to change their policies — have led lawmakers to tighten the requirements not only for earning tenure, but for keeping it.

These are grant competitions, basically, and NASA received 1,278 proposals, of which it accepted 399.

She can also help scientists find open grant competitions that best match their research interests.

"Many universities fear they could lose the hundreds of millions of pounds that their researchers win in grant competitions run by the European Union, such as Horizon 2020.

And although grant competitions usually require fully developed proposals written by acknowledged experts, Frangione said, prizes can inspire applicants from outside the academic mainstream.

FedEx introduces a small-business grant competition.

About 40 states have told the Education Department that they will apply for the grant competition by Tuesday.

A $4.35 billion federal grant competition, Race to the Top, intends to reward states that promote innovations in education.

Mr. Duncan set aside $350 million from the billions that Congress voted last year for the Race to the Top grant competition to finance the testing initiative.

Those requirements match the criteria the administration used last year in picking winning states in its two-stage Race to the Top grant competition.