Sentences with phrase «race to the top money»

All I can tell you is the law that passed in 2010 was part of our Race to the Top application and New York state as you know, came in number two natiowide with that law in terms of getting Race to the Top money.»

Albany, NY — The State Education Commissioner has teamed up with the teachers unions to come up with a teacher evaluation system that Commissioner David Steiner says could improve New York's chances of winning federal Race to the Top money.

The U.S. Department of Education tightened the noose last week when it announced New York could lose its federal Race to the Top money because it lags behind in complying with the terms of its grant.»

The state was prepared to use part of its federal Race to the Top money to pay Wireless Generation to develop software to track student test scores, achievement and so on, creating a system similar to the Achievement Reporting and Innovation System, or ARIS, that it developed for the city schools.

Paul G. Pastorek, Louisiana's superintendent of education, says the way the state hammers out rules for its new «career diploma» will help determine whether it lands up to $ 200 million in the national competition for federal Race to the Top money.

Once you know where you stand, you can decide how you want to speak out on state policies that might hurt chances of getting Race to the Top money.

The Department of Education will announce Phase 1 winners of Race to the Top money in April.

Race to the Top money gets to schools in two ways: Half goes out based on the percentage of federal funding that schools get for low - income students (Title I), and the other half is discretionary.

Last month, Education Secretary Arne Duncan warned that those states risk losing their share of $ 4.3 billion in federal Race to the Top money offered as an incentive to improve schools.

The testing groups Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers and Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium are developing exams for students» mastery of those standards using Race to the Top money.

The standards were generally adopted by governors» offices and state boards of education eager for Race to the Top money.

Core adoption was technically voluntary: States could refuse to seek Race to the Top money or waivers, and a few did.

States qualify for Race to the Top money based on a scoring system that gives states with charter schools a significant advantage.

Still, most states eyeing Race to the Top money opted for the easiest route and signed onto the Common Core.

State officials said they may be interested in directing part of their Race to the Top money to groups of districts where they believe the most good can be done.

There's no guarantee Michigan will get Race to the Top money.

A separate $ 350 million pool of Race to the Top money will go to help states develop common academic assessments.

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.

Mr. Duncan said that, in those interviews, peer reviewers will be paying particular attention to how practical a state's plan for the Race to the Top money is to implement and whether a leadership team is in place to ensure reforms are sustainable.

To boost the chances of receiving Race to the Top money, the governor should give school managers the authority they're asking for to build a high - quality teaching workforce in Washington public schools.

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.

That certainly goes beyond what the state had laid out for teacher evaluations in its first crack at Race to the Top money.

The move toward more high - quality charter schools began with the state's successful bid for Race to the Top money and accompanying legislative changes, plus the commitment to create a public - private fund to incubate new high - quality charter schools and scale up top CMOs.

The Utah state school board on Friday voted 12 - 3 to withdraw from the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium — one of two state - based consortia working off of $ 360 million in federal Race to the Top money to have outside companies develop assessments that test the Common Core State Standards, the Salt Lake Tribune reports.

Charters could also decide whether they wanted to participate in the program or not — though if they didn't, they wouldn't be able to access the Race To The Top money.

Race to the Top money is just one - time money.

With $ 360 million in additional Race to the Top money, it is backing work by states to design new testing systems that it says will measure student growth — rather than capture a snapshot of achievement — supply real - time feedback to teachers to guide instruction, and include performance - based items to gauge more types of learning.

Would the Race to the Top money end up getting doled out like any other federal spending program, and thus end up subsidizing the status quo?

Over the summer, the Department of Education indicated that most states would not qualify for Race to the Top money.

Media outlets like the Tribune are still using this sort of empty cheerleading to prop up Fed Ed Head Duncan's demand, funded by millions in Race to the Top money, that we must move fast to fire experienced teachers and replace them with, well, other people.

Of course, all of the requirements tied to the Race To The Top money are, in themselves, the subject of much debate.

The Washington Legislature passed its versions of those reforms in the most recent session, and the Race to the Top money will help districts implement reforms.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in October signed a measure allowing teacher evaluations to be linked student performance, removing a prohibition that would have doomed the state's chances in the competition for up to $ 700 million in Race to the Top money.

«We hear lots from teachers, parents, and kids about the burdensome testing regimen, and a lot of it is a result of [federal] Race to the Top money,» said Horn, who noted that those federal dollars are coming to an end soon.

The state school board last week, approved a resolution supporting legislation to allow charter schools, a step aimed at helping the state's application for $ 200 million in Race to the Top money.

But now that Race to the Top money has been spent, states are belatedly taking a clear - eyed look at Common Core.

The district is implementing Robert Marzano's teacher evaluation model, thanks to $ 46,480 in Race to the Top money, according to Lyn Langford, director of curriculum and instruction at the school district.

In fact, The New York Times» own columnist Michael Winerip wrote about that evaluation system last year in this story, which noted that then - Superintendent Jerry Weast had rejected $ 12 million in Race to the Top money because it required districts to use test scores to evaluate teachers.

The Obama Administration plans to do an end - run around the Constitution and the federal law by tying the Common Core Standards to the granting or denying of federal appropriations, both the $ 4.35 billion Race To The Top money and even Title I funding.

The externships are part of a larger math - science - integration initiative that began four years ago, when the district won $ 5 million in Race to the Top money for STEM innovation.

That was what Race to the Top required in order for states to be eligible to apply for Race to the Top money; so states incorporated student test scores in their teacher evaluation process.

«And the fact that the district has continued to provide those trainings even after the Race to the Top money was gone has been a game - changer for us at this point.»

It was a year ago and a week that Gov. Chris Christie fired Bret Schundler as his education commissioner over what was a mishap on the state's failed application for federal Race to the Top money, a grant that aimed to put in place this very evaluation system statewide.

At the time, Arizona was vying for Phase 1 Race to the Top Money.

Many states adopted these standards as part of applying for Race to the Top money.

According to the state's grant application, early childhood initiatives that would be added or expanded using Race to the Top money include:

In many cases, the Race to the Top money would expand or build upon existing programs funded by the state or by stimulus funds.

Some moved further than others either because the lure of the Race to the Top money trumped the unions» opposition, or because political leaders and educators were able to persuade union leaders to get on the train instead of standing in front of it.

AS JOHN KING struggled to prepare New York's application, he knew that the entire school system could benefit from Race to the Top money if the state lifted the charter - school cap.

States are competing for $ 4.35 billion in Race to the Top money from the Obama administration.