Sentences with phrase «race to the top awards»

As of May 2011, a year after the first Race to the Top awards, just over $ 80 million of the $ 4 billion in funding had actually been spent.

Now that the first round of Race to the Top awards have been announced, we can appreciate the impact that this new federal initiative is having on stimulating new thinking at state and local levels.

Applications for the second round of Race to the Top awards are due in June.

In response to a reporter's question on Jan. 19, he spoke directly to the situation in New York state, where Gov. David Paterson, a Democrat, is building a $ 750 million Race to the Top award into his fiscal 2011 budget proposal.

It has been endorsed by the U.S. Department of Education, which gave priority in recent Race to the Top awards to applicants that had developed personalized instructional plans.

The application asks what our goals would be if we do not receive a Race to the Top award.

October 19, 2012 For the first time, Race to the Top awards will be based partially on social - emotional learning (SEL) components to their districts plans.

In December, Mr. Dupree scored his biggest victory yet on that front when the Clarksdale district won a $ 10 million federal Race to the Top award.

ASD is a newly formed district comprised of existing public schools in Tennessee's Race to the Top award - winning grant.

Not exact matches

At major competitions such as nationals, points are awarded to each boat in three 2,000 - meter races: the varsity eight (the boat with the eight strongest oars and the top coxswain), the second eight and, finally, the four, a smaller craft with only four rowers in which the cox must lie supine in the bow.

The championship leader at the end of the normal 26 - race section will be awarded «regular season champion» and get 15 additional playoff points, with the rest of the top 10 also getting them on a 10 (for second) to one (for 10th) playoff point basis.

Here are 10 strikers who will be looking to be in the race for the qualifying competition's top scorer award:

The top betting year in U.S. racing history saw the major award go to Nashua for a sensational record in a season of many other distinguished performances

Just one goal behind James Rodriguez in the race for the top scorer award and having done more than anyone to drag Germany to the quarter finals, Muller deserves as much respect as other contenders with more exotic names and trendy haircuts.

In 2012, Wisconsin reapplied for and was awarded the Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge (RTT - ELC) grant and proposed the following targets to improve its early learning and development (ELD) sy...

In 2012, Wisconsin reapplied for and was awarded the Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge (RTT - ELC) grant and proposed the following targets to improve its early learning and development (ELD) systems.

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Using Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge funds, Pennsylvania awarded one - year mini-grants to align over 300 early childhood education courses.

King recently expressed extreme frustration with the teachers union and school administrators in several large cities downstate and upstate, over what he said was a failure to come up with a teacher evaluation plan by a December 31 deadline, to meet requirements for the federal Race to the Top grant awards.

The teacher evaluation requirement originated in 2010 after New York was awarded a grant of nearly $ 700 million under the federal Race to the Top program.

The governor also touted the state's new teacher evaluation system, which he championed, as it was a requirement of New York's $ 750 million Race To The Top federal grant award.

Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch yesterday notified U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan that New York intends to reenter the competition for Race to the Top funding in the government's second round of awards.

As the New York Racing Association planned to raise admission prices for live thoroughbred horse races, it awarded raises to some of its top officers.

Another effort, «Race to the Top — Early Learning Challenge,» has awarded funding to 20 states for their plans to improve early childhood learning and development programs, she added.

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Forty years after Annie Hall topped Star Wars for Best Picture at the Oscars, we take a look at the awards race to see if the «right» film won.

Bringing an end to one of the most wide open best picture races in years, «The Shape of Water» — a fantastical fable about a mute woman who falls in love with an aquatic creature — claimed the top prize Sunday night at the 90th Academy Awards, beating out...

The Oscars race so far is considered wide open, and by winnowing the field down to five movies for its top award on Wednesday, the Screen Actors left out many frontrunners.

And though at this point in time, Spotlight seems to be sitting comfy in that cushy top slot, the award's race is still very much alive.

That's not necessarily enough to push it to the top of the best - picture race at the Oscars, says Tom O'Neil, founder of awards prognostication site GoldDerby.com.

Bringing an end to one of the most wide open best picture races in years, «The Shape of Water» — a fantastical fable about a mute woman who falls in love with an aquatic creature — claimed the top prize Sunday night at the 90th Academy Awards, beating out a strong field of eight rivals that included box office hits such as «Dunkirk» and «Get Out» as well as smaller, more intimate fare such as «Call Me By Your Name» and «Lady Bird.»

That has made them more influential to the Oscar race and less in agreement except for last year when they gave Spotlight their top award and the Academy followed suit.

• Hope Street Group, a consulting firm that was instrumental in formulating Race to the Top, sponsors a Teaching Fellows program that awards $ 5,000 stipends for teachers who are involved in implementing reforms, such as rigorous teacher evaluations, in their respective states.

All but four states submitted Race to the Top proposals, and 18 states and the District of Columbia received awards.

At the same time, the Race to the Top program offered competitive grants that awarded points to states based on their implementation of policies like performance - based evaluations.

In the scoring rubric for Race to the Top, 40 of the 500 total points were awarded for «standards and assessments.»

But then, yes, the Obama administration fatefully decided to award extra points to states adopting the Common Core when deciding which would get big grants under its stimulus - funded Race to the Top program.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan picked 18 states and the District of Columbia to advance to the final round of the Race to the Top competition, where 10 to 15 grants totaling $ 3.4 billion will be awarded in September to applicants he believes have the boldest, most sustainable plans for education improvements.

• Race to the Top's awards for Instructional Improvement Systems (IIS), totaling around $ 500 million, required state education departments to create statewide systems for delivering content and assessments and collecting and reporting performance data.

Now that the first round of Race to the Top (RttT) awards have been announced, we can appreciate the impact that this new federal initiative is having on stimulating new thinking at state and local levels.

The grant requests, totaling approximately $ 330 million, are part of the Race to the Top competition and will be awarded to the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and the SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) in the amounts of approximately $ 170 and $ 160 million respectively.

The expanded federal role has been most evident in a thoroughly revamped National Assessment of Educational Progress (1988); the Clinton administration's Goals 2000 Act (1994); the Bush administration's No Child Left Behind Act (2001); and, most recently, the «Race to the Top» component of the 2009 economic stimulus act, which will award competitive grants to states that, in the judgment of the Obama administration, have what it takes to turn around failing schools and boost student achievement.

As states consider whether to apply for the first or second round of Race to the Top Fund grants under the economic - stimulus program, the U.S. Department of Education is emphasizing that they shouldn't worry about being first in line to win a piece of the $ 4 billion being awarded.

The article examines how the 16 U.S. school districts awarded federal grants through the Race to the Top (RTT) competition are applying the funds to personalized learning initiatives.

On the federal Race to the Top competition for hundreds of millions of dollars awarded for showing past achievements and ambitious plans for students, Washington came in 32nd out of 36 states.

Race to the Top (RTTT) grants had been awarded after considering whether states would adopt high academic standards, implement prescribed strategies in low ‐ performing schools, and use student test scores to determine the effectiveness of teachers.

States and education groups are curious about whether, if they win a grant, they can award a portion of their Race to the Top money to a select group of school districts, or if they have to dole out money to all of them.

The article profiles 16 U.S. school districts awarded grants through the Race to the Top educational program.

Secretary Duncan revises the final Race to the Top grant criteria so that adopting the Common Core standards is not a mandatory action for receiving an award; instead, states receive bonus points on their award applications for adopting the standards.

The number of students served in the program the Race To The Top money would support determines the amount of the award districts could receive.