Sentences with phrase «race to the top grant»

The failure so far to agree on the teacher evaluation plans is also jeopardizing up to a billion dollars in federal Race to the Top grants.

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 governor says if the Race to the Top grant is lost, it will hit the state's poorest schools the hardest.

In late December, the state's education commissioner froze some of the state's $ 700 million dollars in Race to the Top grants, saying some schools, including in New York City and several upstate cities, had not complied with the teacher evaluation requirements.

New York State has agreed to adopt high - stakes testing and controversial teacher evaluation systems tied to Common Core State Standards for a one - time installment of $ 700 millions in federal Race to the Top grant money.

It is unclear whether federal acting secretary of education John King — New York's former state education c ommissioner who championed the Common Core and helped usher in the use of teacher evaluations tied to state assessments under No Child Left Behind and the federal Race To The Top grant program — will give his blessing.

The movement gained momentum with the Obama administration's Race to the Top grant contest last year.

The action came the day after President Barack Obama came to Madison to tout the Race to the Top grant program.

New York committed to the evaluation system and to controversial Common Core learning standards under the federal Race to the Top grant and in waivers under the broad federal No Child Left Behind education law.

The teacher evaluations, agreed to as part of New York's federal Race To The Top grant, will be completed by schools within the next year.

The federal government incentivized adoption of the Common Core at the state level through its Race to the Top grants program, which garnered New York State $ 700 million that was then distributed to school districts.

Cuomo championed the teacher evaluation system, which is a requirement of the federal Race To The Top grant program, through which New York won $ 700 million in 2010.

The Governor's framework outlined a reasonable and rigorous evaluation system based on multiple measures of performance and fulfilled the commitment made by New York in its application for Race to the Top grant funding.

«And I don't think they should do it just because of the federal funding,» Clinton said, referring to New York's plan to apply for up to $ 700 million in Race to the Top grants.

An official from the U.S. Department of Education told Chalkbeat on Tuesday that $ 292 million of New York's $ 700 million Race To The Top grant was on the line.

Details of the plan, which some likened to the federal Race to the Top grant competition, were left unclear.

The teacher evaluations are required in order for the state to be eligible for $ 700 million dollars in federal funding, as part of the Race to the Top grants.

As one of the two state - led collaboratives developing new assessments that align with the Common Core Standards, PARCC received a $ 186 million Race to the Top grant.

Even so, despite the urgings of the caucus and the local chapters of E4E and Teach Plus, UTLA refused to endorse the Los Angeles district's application for a $ 40 million Race to the Top grant, because it required the adoption of a teacher - evaluation system based in part on student achievement.

States applying for Race to the Top grants receive points for building statewide longitudinal data systems and using that data to improve instruction.

The Hope Street Group is a national think tank and consulting firm that formulated the language for the Obama administration's Race to the Top grant program.

Gates is a major supporter of the Hope Street Group, a national think tank and consulting firm that formulated the language for the Obama administration's Race to the Top grant program, which is opposed by many teachers and union leaders.

After the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI) issued its standards in June 2010, the Department of Education insisted that states that wanted to compete effectively for Race to the Top grants had to adopt national standards by August.

In using its Race to the Top grant program and waivers from No Child Left Behind to promote Common Core, the Obama administration has opened the door to increasing federal influence over what gets taught and tested in schools.

This gap exasperates Steiner, himself the former state education commissioner of New York, where he championed the creation of the EngageNY curriculum website with funding from the state's $ 700 million Race to the Top grant.

The intense debate around teacher evaluation has been fueled in recent years by the federal government's efforts to spur the creation of more sophisticated evaluation systems at the state level, in large part through incentives embedded in the Race to the Top grant competition and No Child Left Behind waiver process.

STANFORD — As states catch their breath after rushing to meet the January 19 deadline for submitting applications for the first round of Race to the Top grants, education researcher Andy Smarick of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute warns that the administration must take steps to ensure that Race to the Top funds are spent in ways that promote reform.

In spring 2015, the Columbus Dispatch observed, «Four years and $ 400 million later, Ohio has met one of five goals for the federal Race to the Top grant program.

As part of the state's Race to the Top grant, Tennessee implemented a number of school turnarounds, all of which involved a change in school leadership and a substantial turnover of teachers.

In 2010, 11 states and the District of Columbia received funding to develop program report cards as part of their federal Race to the Top grants.

The Obama Administration has pressured states to adopt the Common Core State Standards Initiative, conditioning more than $ 4 billion in Race to the Top grants on its adoption.

As part of the federal Race to the Top grant obligation, the state will require end - of - the - year tests for every subject to help evaluate teachers whose pay and job will be tied to scores.

[2] Press release, «Nine States and District of Columbia Win Second Round of Race to the Top Grants,» U.S. Department of Education, August 24, 2010, at http://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/nine-states-and-district-columbia-win-second-round-race-top-grants (February 18, 2011).

Evaluating teachers by test scores is not part of Common Core, but it's been linked to it because of money the Obama administration gave to states as part of its Race to the Top grant program.

Following the introduction of Common Core, the Administration offered $ 4.35 billion in federal Race to the Top grant money, along with waivers from the onerous provisions of the widely derided No Child Left Behind Act.

Bush has also blamed Common Core's growing unpopularity among the Republican base on the Obama administration's embrace of the standards, including their linkage to the Race to the Top grants early in President Obama's first term.

Most of the teachers unions in the districts rejected pursuit of a joint CORE proposal for a Race to the Top grant last year because of the requirement.

Florida Race to the Top grant from the U.S. Department of Education to the Florida Department of Education, $ 5.2 million, 2011 - 2015

Apart from whatever platitudes are dispensed to American students, the President's real message on education reform will be delivered early next year, when Education Secretary Arne Duncan makes the first round of Race to the Top grants.

Moved in part by this report, Arne Duncan went on to use two tools at his disposal — Race to the Top grants and No Child Left Behind waivers — to pressure states to reform their teacher evaluation systems and to include student test scores in these evaluations.

The President's real message on education reform will be delivered early next year, when Education Secretary Arne Duncan makes the first round of Race to the Top grants.

As Peter Murphy of the New York Charter School Association noted (here), «what states are doing with charter schools... adds up to 40 points on the Department of Education's scoring rubric, or 8 percent of the total points for a Race to the Top grant.

Educators in Louisiana increasingly will have to prove their worth — quite literally — to advance in their careers, according to the nearly 200 - page application submitted last month to President Barack Obama's Race to the Top grant program.

With the approval of the Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC), Wisconsin legislators this week approved a decidedly tepid package of legislation supposedly designed to help the state win a Race To The Top grant.

In Tennessee, a Race to the Top grant winner and another state regarded as an exemplar of teacher - evaluation reform, 98 % of teachers were rated at or above expectations.

California's continued failure to win a federal Race to the Top grant may as much as any other factor reflect the state's continued fiscal troubles - a fact that may also jeopardize its pending application for a $ 100 million early learning grant.

The $ 4 billion in Race to the Top grants, which seek to reward states for their commitment to reforming teacher effectiveness, data systems, low - performing schools, and academic standards and assessments, are paid for through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passed last year by Congress.

The votes came after President Barack Obama came to Madison on Wednesday to tout the Race to the Top grant program and urge states like Wisconsin to make bold reforms.

From the sounds of it, Duncan has just handed teachers unions throughout the country virtual veto power over future Race to the Top grants.

But the movement didn't really take off until the Obama administration dangled incentives — through Race to the Top grants and No Child Left Behind waivers — for states to toughen up teacher evaluation.