Sentences with phrase «competitive federal education grants»

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.

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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.