State lawmakers agreed to begin using student data in teacher evaluations when applying this year for
a competitive federal education grant known as Race to the Top.
Not exact matches
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.
As a member of the
Education & Workforce committee, I strongly oppose recent efforts to reduce
federal funding in these areas, and I am the author of H.R. 258, the STEM Master Teacher Corps Act, which would award
competitive grants to school districts or states to partner with colleges and universities or nonprofit organizations to establish a program which will develop, support and retain exceptional teachers in the STEM disciplines.
Less than half of California school districts and only about a quarter of teacher unions have promised to make key
education reforms required for the state to win $ 700 million in
competitive federal grants, officials said Wednesday.
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.
A proposed provision that declares that nothing in future
education policy would prevent the passage of Parent Trigger laws or other Parent Power efforts would be meaningful if it also proposed a
competitive grant program to encourage states to enact such laws; as is, there is nothing in
federal law that restricts states from passing Parent Trigger laws or keeps families from using them.
The Rural
Education Initiative is designed to address the unique needs of small, rural local education agencies (LEAs) that frequently lack the personnel and resources needed to compete effectively for Federal competitive grants and receive formula grant allocations under other programs in amounts too small to be effective in meeting their intended
Education Initiative is designed to address the unique needs of small, rural local
education agencies (LEAs) that frequently lack the personnel and resources needed to compete effectively for Federal competitive grants and receive formula grant allocations under other programs in amounts too small to be effective in meeting their intended
education agencies (LEAs) that frequently lack the personnel and resources needed to compete effectively for
Federal competitive grants and receive formula
grant allocations under other programs in amounts too small to be effective in meeting their intended purposes.
I am referring to the proposed radical shift away from formula driven
grants — the traditional mechanism for distributing
federal education funds — to
competitive funding.
They share concerns that President Obama's FY13 budget request emphasizes funding for new
competitive grant programs at the expense of investments in cornerstone
federal K — 12 programs like Title I and the Individuals with Disabilities
Education Act (IDEA).
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 its race to meet a looming deadline to apply for a
competitive federal grant, the State Board of
Education adopted a series of legislative proposals to overhaul how Connecticut's charter schools are funded — proposals that are neither realistic nor reasonable and that could ultimately siphon money from communities for traditional public schools.
The program ended when Congress failed to appropriate funds for its continuation in the 2015
federal spending bill.14 In some sectors, there is increased debate about whether
federal funds for
education are best allocated through formulas or
competitive processes, with opponents of
competitive grants citing a desire to reduce
federal influence in favor of state and locally - driven
education policies.
«Making higher
education more accessible and affordable for students is a priority of» Republican Lynn Jenkins who went on to list «
grants,
federal student loans, and
competitive scholarships» as important tools to pay for school according to her
education page.