Sentences with phrase «federal race to the top»

But Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver noted to reporters this afternoon that it was the 2010 law that helped New York place second in the federal Race to the Top application process.

He played an instrumental role in ensuring New York State qualified for, and won, $ 700 million in Federal Race to the Top dollars, a US Department of Education sponsored effort to spur innovation and reform in state and local district K - 12 education.

The failure so far to agree on the teacher evaluation plans is also jeopardizing up to a billion dollars in federal Race to the Top grants.

King recently expressed extreme frustration with the teachers union and school administrators in several large cities downstate and upstate, over what he said was a failure to come up with a teacher evaluation plan by a December 31 deadline, to meet requirements for the federal Race to the Top grant awards.

New York faces a June 1 deadline for relaxing rules for charter schools to boost its chances of winning about half a billion dollars from the federal Race to the Top program.

Iannuzzi says if Cuomo wants to reduce the schools bureaucracy, he should address the State Education Department's denial of some of the federal Race to the Top funds.

New York State has agreed to adopt high - stakes testing and controversial teacher evaluation systems tied to Common Core State Standards for a one - time installment of $ 700 millions in federal Race to the Top grant money.

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.

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 cap was extended in 2007 and again in 2010, when it was linked to the state's push to win federal Race to the Top funds.

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.

New York state has until June 1 to submit its application to try to win up to $ 700 million in federal Race to the Top funds.

The nation's top education official will be in Albany next week to discuss the federal Race to the Top competition.

Albany, NY — The State Education Commissioner has teamed up with the teachers unions to come up with a teacher evaluation system that Commissioner David Steiner says could improve New York's chances of winning federal Race to the Top money.

That's what is driving a new summer professional development program for teachers this year, funded through federal race to the top dollars.

New York committed to the evaluation system and to controversial Common Core learning standards under the federal Race to the Top grant and in waivers under the broad federal No Child Left Behind education law.

The teacher evaluations, agreed to as part of New York's federal Race To The Top grant, will be completed by schools within the next year.

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.

On August 25, 2010, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced $ 400 million in federal Race to the Top education grants to New Jersey would not be funded due to a clerical error in the state's application made by an unidentified mid-level state official.

The U.S. Department of Education tightened the noose last week when it announced New York could lose its federal Race to the Top money because it lags behind in complying with the terms of its grant.»

Details of the plan, which some likened to the federal Race to the Top grant competition, were left unclear.

The state was prepared to use part of its federal Race to the Top money to pay Wireless Generation to develop software to track student test scores, achievement and so on, creating a system similar to the Achievement Reporting and Innovation System, or ARIS, that it developed for the city schools.

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.

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, who earlier warned that such a measure might jeopardize New York State's federal Race to the Top funding, embraced the legislation.

Paul G. Pastorek, Louisiana's superintendent of education, says the way the state hammers out rules for its new «career diploma» will help determine whether it lands up to $ 200 million in the national competition for federal Race to the Top money.

With millions of grant dollars on the line, representatives of the 16 state finalists for federal Race to the Top prize money will go to Washington next week to make final, in - person pitches to the U.S. Department of Education for investment in their brand of school reform.

When federal Race to the Top dollars became available, Pawlenty launched a statewide charter school initiative and moved to hone math and science instruction in schools.

Driven in large part by the pursuit of federal Race to the Top funds, Indiana adopted Common Core in 2010, and the decision went largely unremarked.

Under the umbrella of Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) the group coordinated a major effort in 2010 to urge the New York State legislature to lift a charter school cap that had been a stumbling block in the state's first bid to win a federal Race to the Top (RttT) grant.

Indeed, one of the most contentious education reforms of the last decade was the effort, spearheaded in the federal Race to the Top initiative, to create accountability around teachers» performance.

They are right that President Obama politicized the standards by using federal Race to the Top dollars to coerce their adoption by the states.

Author Bio: Joanne Weiss, is the former chief of staff to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and director of the federal Race to the Top program.

The federal Race to the Top initiative has empowered teachers» union presidents as brokers of education policy.

Though New York was the only state to spend the money it won from the federal Race to the Top competition to build a curriculum, its policymakers seem to have tapped a nerve — and a deep well of demand for Common Core - aligned materials far beyond their borders.

While no one knew it for sure at the time, there would be no federal Race to the Top funding, nor even, as it turned out, a federal waiver from No Child Left Behind that would free up existing federal dollars for new programs in Chicago.

As governors and state legislators gear up for a new year of budget action and policymaking, the federal Race to the Top competition is helping to drive a flurry of measures nationwide aimed, at least in part, at making states stronger candidates for a slice of the $ 4 billion in education grants.

Nearly all the states committed to a federal timeline in order to compete for federal Race to the Top funds and to get out from under NCLB's most onerous provisions.

According to the National Council on Teacher Quality, 32 states and the District of Columbia altered their teacher - evaluation policies in recent years to incorporate multiple methods of assessing and evaluating teachers, spurred in part by the federal Race to the Top competition.

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.

Joanne Weiss is the former chief of staff to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and director of the federal Race to the Top program.

Mississippi legislators are considering a charter school proposal that proponents say could better position the state for the federal Race to the Top competition and provide an option for parents with children in struggling schools.

Ohio still received its full complement of federal Race to the Top funds.

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.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which earlier handpicked 15 states to receive up to $ 250,000 each to help prepare applications for federal Race to the Top Fund grants, will now offer aid to the other 35 states, too — if they meet eight education reform criteria.

Meanwhile, initiatives across the country, sparked by the federal Race to the Top competition, which link teacher evaluations in part to student achievement, have pushed our data - driven system into new frontiers.

In 2010, 11 states and the District of Columbia received funding to develop program report cards as part of their federal Race to the Top grants.

As part of the federal Race to the Top grant obligation, the state will require end - of - the - year tests for every subject to help evaluate teachers whose pay and job will be tied to scores.

In fact, the Common Core isn't a national policy, though the federal Race to the Top initiative did provide encouragement and funding to states that adopted the standards.

Through the federal Race to the Top, states had to «enter binding agreements to adopt and fully implement a single set of federally defined content standards and to utilize assessment products created by a federally sponsored «consortia.