Sentences with phrase «top grant program»

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...

States are still waiting for the final rules for the $ 4 billion Race to the Top grant program, which is meant to reward states for helping to close the achievement gap...

But in the last few years, the White House has become a vocal supporter of Common Core, including provisions in its Race To The Top grant program and No Child Left Behind waiver program that states implement «college and career ready standards.»

Prior to Tennessee's new system, created because of the Race to the Top grant program, teachers were only evaluated every five years.

While the Common Core State Standards might survive in some form without annual standardized testing, the testing consortia, Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and Smarter Balance Assessment Consortium (SBAC), began their work with the support of federal grants almost as soon as the standards were being adopted thanks to financial support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and federal incentives from the Race to the Top grant program.

Officials in Philadelphia say they will be using an $ 11 million grant from the Obama administration's Race to the Top grant program to help launch the new evaluations.

But the Obama administration did provide incentives for states to adopt the standards through its competitive Race to the Top grant program and the waivers it granted to states seeking to avoid certain provisions of the No Child Left Behind law.

Florida's revamped teacher - evaluation system is all part of the education reform agenda pushed by the Obama Administration, which is giving states $ 4.3 billion in its Race to the Top grant program to come up with new ways to grade teachers and tie student performance to their paychecks.

Meanwhile, the megabus maintains the Obama administration's prized Race to the Top grant program, but funds it at $ 550 million, which is a $ 150 million cut from last year.

Common Core really took off, though, with the Race to the Top grant program that was part of the 2009 federal stimulus package.

The administration promised $ 1 billion in new spending on preschool; spurred states to adopt controversial K - 12 reforms such as performance - based teacher evaluations and the adoption of the Common Core State Standards through its Race to the Top grant program and waivers to the No Child Left Behind law; significantly expanded the federal School Improvement Grant program to turn around low - performing schools; targeted for - profit colleges and attempted to increase accountability in the higher education sector; and pushed a proposal by the president to make community college free.

In particular, the federal Race to the Top grant program requires that states receiving grants incorporate student assessment data into their educator evaluation process.

Tying student growth to teacher and principal evaluations has proven difficult for states, but it's been a focus of several federal initiatives, including waivers and the Race to the Top grant program.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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Fliegel eventually studied government and legal studies at Bowdoin — and, in his senior year, won the Jefferson Davis Book Award, granted to the top student in the program.

The Women in Digital program also grants award winners access to a network of mentors including venture capitalists, successful entrepreneurs and top executives to help guide and accelerate their businesses.

Created Race to the Top: With funds from stimulus, started $ 4.35 billion program of competîtive grants to encourage and reward states for education reform.

WILMINGTON, Del., May 17, 2013 — DuPont celebrated the silver anniversary of its global packaging awards program last night, granting top honors to U.K. - based design firm pi global for AidPod, which delivers life - saving medicine to remote sub-Saharan villages.

At the silver anniversary of its global packaging awards program, DuPont granted top honors to U.K. - based design firm pi global for AidPod, which delivers life - saving medicine to remote sub-Saharan villages.

STARS (Southeast Top Agricultural Recruits Scholarship) is the Southeast Produce Council's scholarship program available to outstanding students who are agriculture majors in Southeast - based land grant universities.

The Vols have one of the top frontcourt players in the SEC in Grant Williams (16.2 ppg), which is something you expect to see from the program.

The benefit would come on top of other financial assistance already in existence and taken advantage of by hundreds of thousands of students, such as the state's Tuition Assistance Program and federal Pell Grant pProgram and federal Pell Grant programprogram.

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.

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.

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.

In order for the state to receive a $ 700 million federal «Race to the Top» grant it won in 2010, a teacher evaluation program must be implemented.

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 evaluations are required in order to qualify for federal grant money that New York State won under the Race to the Top program.

MANHATTAN — New York won $ 700 million in federal education grants when the US Department of Education's Race to the Top program winners were announced Tuesday.

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.

Among the top issues he is working on are preventing the sale of Plum Island, doubling funding for the Long Island Sound Program to $ 8 million and fully funding the Peconic Estuary Program, to $ 26.7 million, and the National Sea Grant College Program, which will help grow Long Island's seafood economy, to $ 72.5 million, according to Jennifer DiSiena, Mr. Zeldin's communications director.

New York will get $ 700 million in federal education grants after being named as a winner in the Race to the Top program.

Districts also would be able to compete for some $ 200 million in special state grants, under a New York version of the federal Race to the Top program.

The legislation follows through on New York's commitment to establish a real and effective teacher evaluations as a condition of the $ 700 million granted through the federal Race to the Top program.

The study was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (R01DK113144, R01DK100342, R01HL132996, R01CA112403, and R01CA193455), March of Dimes, Price Family Foundation, the National Key Research and Development Program of China, National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Program for the Top Young Innovative Talents of Fujian Province, and the International Collaborative Project of Fujian Province.

But Gottesman said the course preparation and teaching involved in a degree - granting program would «add to the intellectual excitement in our laboratories,» foster more interdisciplinary contact, and help NIH recruit top - level academic scientists who want to keep teaching.

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.

In managing RPB's extensive and highly regarded Grants Program, Patricia Moran interfaces with more than 50 of the nation's top departments of ophthalmology and more than 120 active researchers, coordinates the activities of RPB's grant review panels, and provides analytical support for special projects.

The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation has granted prestigious, four - year fellowship awards to 18 top young scientists, including Evan J. Worden, Ph.D., a post-doctoral fellow in the Biophysics & Biochemistry Program.

The AFS has become one of the nation's top film organizations showing over 200 films a year, has educational programs, and has given out over $ 1,500,000 in grants to Texas filmmakers since 1996.