This may change as NIH grant requirements drive a greater degree of adherence to standards.
The requirement for even distribution of sites across Research Centers was a function of the CJ-DATS structure and NIDA grant award requirements.
"I spend a lot of time with clients on grants, grant requirements, monitoring payouts," she said.
As part of the settlement, reached on Tuesday, WNET.org and the Educational Broadcasting Corporation agreed to adopt a plan to ensure compliance with federal grant requirements.
Daniel Silverman, a spokesman for the Irvine foundation, said the foundation had adjusted the terms of its grants with about 10percentt of the roughly 300 organizations it supports, agreeing to extend when payments are due, say, or reduce matching grant requirements.
"I am not prepared to talk about the individual grant requirements, but if their positions are distracting to how we are going to meet the energy needs of the world, then we didn't want to fund them," he said.
Don't include people just to check off grant requirements.
The report calls for funders to therefore be more flexible in their grant requirements.
State health department spokesperson Jodi Camp said the Weld and El Paso programs are fully compliant with grant requirements, even without providing the Plan B pills.
In addition, in response to federal Race to the Top grant requirements there is now debate statewide over using student test scores as supposedly objective measures to rate teachers, determine tenure, assign bonuses, and fire teachers whose students perform poorly.
