Sentences with phrase «competitive grant»

Although we appreciate the $ 300 million in new Title I funds to reward successful schools, we are concerned about a significant shift in support toward competitive grant programs and away from the formula programs, notably Title I and IDEA, which provide the vast amount of federal support for K — 12 schools and students.

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.

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.

«Small and rural districts, as well as financially strapped districts, do not have the capacity to complete competitive grant applications.»

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.

Two multi-billion-dollar competitive grant programs are a big part of the legacy left by U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, pictured here in a 2014 visit to a D.C. school.

Tell that to the school choice activists who have successfully passed voucher measures in more than 13 states, the children who attend the 1,091 new charter schools opened between 2010 and 2013, and families in cities such as Adelanto, Calif., who have taken over failing schools using Parent Trigger laws passed as a result of the competitive grant competition.

«For this reason, ESEA should not divert substantial federal resources into competitive grant programs.

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).

Supporting schools by creating competitive grant programs to incentivize schools and districts to adopt non-punitive approaches, such as restorative justice.

The BEST Program is a competitive grant program available to all public school districts, charter schools, institute charter schools, boards of cooperative educational services, and the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind.

The Dept. of Education announced a new competitive grant that is compatible with ESSA for states that want to «ditch fill - in - the - bubble tests» with modern, «competency - based tests.»

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.

TCEP is a competitive grant application process.

Open to all start - up charter schools statewide, Latin College Prep was one of many public charter schools that applied for this highly competitive grant.

This should be done through a competitive grant program that is targeted at low - income schools.

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

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.

Our focus needs to be on restoring funding for those programs and services, not on additional competitive grant programs that don't serve all children.»

Although the FY11 budget request includes a $ 38.9 million increase in funding to support teaching and learning in the arts, history, civics, foreign languages, geography, and economics, the administration proposes to combine eight subject - specific grant programs into a single competitive grant program.

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.

Schools were selected based on a competitive grant review process.

The Obama administration has promoted the system, setting up a competitive grant program that encouraged the move.

Applications for 21st CCLC competitive grant funds must be received by 4 p.m. on Friday, April 13, 2018.

Preparing for the Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Program - The Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Program (SRCLP) is federally funded competitive grant program intended to improve the literacy skills of children birth through 12th grade, with a priority on serving children living in poverty, English learners, and children with disabilities.

The bill would amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) and create a $ 120 million competitive grant program to support new and existing voluntary efforts that promote racial and socioeconomic diversity in schools.

ESSA also reauthorized the Magnet Schools Assistance Program (MSAP), authorizing increased competitive grant funding for magnet schools to $ 4.1 million by 2020.

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.

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.

High schools were selected based on a competitive grant review process.

We encourage school districts and community organizations to start preparing now for this competitive grant opportunity.

In 2016, an estimated 360,000 students participating in AmeriCorps state and national programs showed improved academic performance, and an estimated 152,000 students showed improved academic engagement.31 A majority of AmeriCorps» competitive grant awardees in 2016 were educational programs that reached schools and students in 41 states and Washington, D.C. 32 Additionally, state service commissions distributed more than $ 130 million from the CNCS — a significant portion of which likely went to education programming.33

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.

New York state's Socioeconomic Integration Pilot Program, for example, provides grants of up to $ 1.25 million to schools that use socioeconomic integration to increase student performance in the state's lowest performing schools.118 Also, states can incentivize charter school diversity through competitive grant programs such as the Charter Schools Program State Educational Agencies competition.119

MCAN expects a highly competitive grant process.

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

What to watch: As indicated by state stakeholders, Illinois plans to develop a competitive grant program in which a district, school, or portion of faculty can propose a problem of practice important to teacher leadership at the school and / or district; develop a plan in which the problem of practice is investigated; and report findings.

But changes over the weekend through a manager's amendment removed the requirement from the bill, instead shifting the teacher evaluation component to a competitive grant program called the Teacher Incentive Fund.

Legislation that would create a competitive grant program to support facility and equipment purchases that would create opportunities for lessons on sustainable energy advanced through an Assembly committee Monday.

The U.S. Department of Education should establish a new competitive grant to encourage more economically diverse districts.

Additionally, ISBE will develop a Request for Proposal for an Innovative Fieldwork competitive grant program to support teacher residency programs.

CSDC received a $ 10 million competitive grant from the initial demonstration program in 2002 and subsequent competitive grants of $ 5 million in 2004, $ 6.6 million in 2006, $ 2 million in 2010 and $ 5 million in 2015 to partially capitalize its Building Block Fund and Indianapolis Building Block Fund.

Competitive grant programs do not weaken local leadership.

They could link monetary awards to the use of direct student services and provide additional funding for choice opportunities through the competitive grant framework.

As part of his education plan, Obama wants to establish a competitive grant process open to existing or proposed public / private partnerships or entities that are pursuing evidence - based models that have been proven to reduce dropouts — such as Diploma Plus or Teacher Advisor programs.

Rep. Reuven Carlyle, D - Seattle: «The number one state in the nation in winning competitive grant dollars for education.»

In October 2015, the Department of Education advanced a regulation that would, in its words, «require all copyrightable intellectual property created with Department discretionary competitive grant funds to have an open license.»

Section 1003 (b)(1)(B) is for districts that need heavier state «direction» than they would otherwise receive through a competitive grant process (under Choice 101).

If Congress can not help itself and must promote particular reforms, it should do it via competitive grant programs rather than universal mandates and formulas.

For instance, thoughtfully crafted competitive grant programs, like the Teacher Incentive Fund, CAN move the reform ball down the field.