Sentences with phrase «top competitive grants»

However, he opposes current legislation aimed at improving the state's eligibility for up to $ 700 million in the federal Race to the Top competitive grants.

In particular, the Obama administration, through its Race to the Top competitive grants and its waivers of No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) requirements, is putting pressure on states to incorporate student test scores as a significant component of any new teacher evaluation system.

He listed the following as Regents» achievements: winning $ 700 million through the federal Race To The Top competitive grant program, raising standards, achieving a significant new investment in pre-kindergarten and increasing graduation rates.

Critics note, however, that the federal government has encouraged states to adopt the Common Core through the Race to the Top competitive grant program and a streamlined path to waivers from the provisions of No Child Left Behind.

The Education Department also on Thursday released a report on the Obama administration's $ 4 billion Race to the Top competitive grant program, describing how it ushered in sweeping policy changes in many states, including some that proved controversial, such as new teacher evaluations tied to student test scores.

Additionally, the U.S. Department of Education began using state charter laws as a consideration in the awarding of the federal Race - to - the - Top competitive grant program.

In the Obama administration's 2009 Race to the Top competitive grant program, for example, the federal government favored states that permitted the use of student test scores in teacher evaluations.

As a staffer in the administration of former Tennessee governor Phil Bredesen, Pinkston was instrumental in devising the state's successful proposal to receive money from the Obama administration's Race to the Top competitive grant program.

Not exact matches

In 2009, through the «Race to the Top» program, the federal government offered $ 4.35 billion in competitive grants to states that adopted Common Core standards and developed plans to improve state test scores and teacher evaluation results.

Ball has also co-sponsored a bill to ditch the Common Core altogether, along with the federal competitive grant program Race To The Top, which is President Obama's signature education initiative.

The Common Core standards were developed by a group of state education leaders but promoted by the federal government, particularly through Race To The Top, a nationwide competitive grant program that required the adoption of standards that boost college - and career - readiness.

The top scientists, the ones most qualified to provide objective and transparent scientific advice to EPA, are of course the scientists who will likely be most successful at obtaining highly competitive federal grants.

He pursued and eventually secured, despite two rejections, a National Institutes of Health grant to fund a university program targeted at helping minority postbaccalaureate students remain competitive for admission to top - tier research institutions.

He also, unexpectedly, made the case for the continuation of the Race to the Top approach of federal incentives for state - level reforms (presumably via competitive grant programs).

Obama programs such as «Race to the Top,» a $ 4 billion competitive grant program that rewards states that develop reforms, has some support from states but is «not easy to explain,» said Jal Mehta, an assistant professor of education.

It seems almost peevish to criticize U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's game - changing Race to the Top plan that dangles $ 4 billion in new competitive - grant funding before states willing to reform their schools.

Duncan announced Race to the Top (RttT), a competitive grants program that had been authorized and funded by the education stimulus package.

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.

The Race to the Top program, announced in 2009, allotted $ 4.35 billion for competitive state grants and encouraged states and districts to revamp their teacher evaluations.

If, for example, it releases funds as formula grants, which are distributed to all states on the same basis, it can ensure universal adoption of programs like Title I. Competitive grants like Race to the Top arguably make policy implementation more efficient: the executive branch can regulate, clarify, and be selective about its enforcement of the law.

After a protracted debate, delegates to the National Education Association have voted to take a position of «no confidence» in the U.S. Department of Education's Race to the Top guidelines and in the use of competitive grants as a basis for the reauthorization of ESEA.

If the extension makes it into the final spending bills for fiscal year 2011, advocates say, that could mean more states will take the reform - minded steps emphasized in the Race to the Top program, such as revamping their teacher - evaluation systems and lifting caps on charter schools, in order to get a slice of the competitive grants.

With the Department of Education proposing a new $ 5 billion Race to the Top — style competitive grant program aimed at teacher policy, however, it's worth taking a closer look at Race to the Top's results.

Schools used their share of $ 4.3 billion in federal Race to the Top competitive - grant money to make significant progress in areas including state data systems and instructional resources for teachers.

Third, the Education Department could mount a competitive - grant program akin to Race to the Top for states and / or districts that want to engage in more school choice.

Earlier in 2009, also through Race to the Top, the administration had offered $ 4.35 billion in funding through a competitive grant program designed to encourage states to enact the feds» preferred school - reform policies — including the adoption of better standards and assessments.

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.

His program was a federal grant, called «Race to the Top,» which was doled out on a competitive basis.

In the study, to be published in the Spring 2011 issue of Education Next and available at www.educationnext.org, authors Stuart Buck and Jay P. Greene examined the key characteristics of performance pay plans currently in place in school districts, in light of increased attention given to merit pay in national debate and in the Obama Administration's Race to the Top (RttT) competitive grant program.

Everything else will be left on the cutting room floor — specific requirements about interventions in failing schools; mandates around teacher evaluations or «highly qualified teachers»; competitive grant programs a la Race to the Top.

And the present decade opened with the Race to the Top, the brainchild of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, based on the bold hypothesis that sizable grants of federal dollars, disbursed via a competitive process, can induce states to jump through reform policy hoops that they likely would not otherwise have attempted.

«We promise there will be plenty of money left in phase two,» Joanne Weiss, the department's Race to the Top director, told states gathered in the Baltimore area for a department - sponsored technical seminar on the competitive - grant program.

He also pressed for innovation by implementing competitive grant programs, such as Race to the Top and Inventing in Innovation (i.e., «i3»).

As with the No Child reauthorization plan put together by Alexander, Kline's proposal would restrict the Obama Administration and its successors from requiring states to implement high - quality curricula standards or specific accountability systems as condition of receiving Title 1 dollars or funds from competitive grant programs such as Race to the Top.

But Duncan can also leverage his competitive grant programs — including Race to the Top — for this purpose by requiring additional data collection to be a condition of gaining those funds.

There would be an additional $ 1.35 billion for Race to the Top, $ 500 million for a similar contest called Investing in Innovation and hundreds of millions of dollars for competitive grants to improve teaching and school leadership.

Many of those laws were prompted by a desire to win competitive federal grants, notably the 2009 Race to the Top program, intended to induce states to mandate changes in the way districts assess both teachers and principals.

It also used Race to the Top, its competitive grant program, as an inducement, saying that states adopting «college and career ready» standards had a better chance of winning federal dollars under the program.

One - time competitive grants — such as President Barack Obama's Race to the Top program — are nothing compared to the potential diversion to private schools of tens of billions of state and federal funding every year.

The decision three years ago by President Barack Obama to not push for a budget for 2010 - 2011, a move to which Democrats who controlled all of Congress at the time had acquiesced (even as it was clear that the party would lose control of the federal lower house), has resulted in sequestration - triggered budget cuts that denies the administration funding it can leverage through competitive grant programs such as Race to the Top in order to force states to fulfill their promises under the waiver.

What about the competitive grant process at the heart of Race to the Top.

Often bypassing Congress, Duncan used the money to work directly with states, persuading them to adopt favored policies by providing incentives through Race to the Top, a $ 4.35 billion competitive grant program in which states were awarded points for adopting ideas such as performance - based teacher and principal evaluations, higher academic standards, and raising charter school caps.

In his June 22 address Duncan also said, «States that slow innovation are limiting opportunities for students and placing themselves at a competitive disadvantage for $ 4 billion in Race to the Top Fund grants.»

But Obama has considerable leverage in his nearly $ 5 billion competitive grant fund, dubbed the «Race to the Top,» that was set aside in the economic stimulus law.

Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge Nine states — California, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Washington — will receive grants from the $ 500 million Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge, a competitive grant program jointly administered by the U.S. Departments of Education and Health and Human Services.

The $ 4.5 billion «Race to the Top» competitive school funding grant program encourages states to offer merit pay as an incentive.

Such behavior in the realm of absence hardly sounds conducive to school improvement, and it underscores broader concern with trust in the research literature on school improvement and in practical matters such as states» applications for competitive federal grants under the Race to the Top program.

President Obama in his state of the Union address indicated he would seek an additional $ 1.35 Million for Race to the Top even before the ink is dry on the first round of applications and his budget proposal consolidates many existing programs into yet more «competitive grants».

According to Representative Rosa DeLauro (D - CT), the top Democrat on the subcommittee, the proposed budget would increase competitive grants by 6.9 percent and cut formula grants by 4.9 percent.

Race to the Top states are having differing degrees of success with what has turned out to be one of the toughest tasks required by the Obama administration's marquee competitive - grant program: crafting new teacher evaluations that take student performance into account, according to a report released today by the Government Accountability Office, Congress» investigative arm.