Sentences with phrase «federal school improvement grants over»

The agreement will qualify the city to receive up to $ 65 million in federal School Improvement Grants over the next two years.

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Schools Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott and UFT President Michael Mulgrew on July 15 announced an important agreement that will help secure up to $ 65 million over the next two years in federal School Improvement Grants, a U.S. Department of Education program that provides funding to help transform our nation's struggling sSchools Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott and UFT President Michael Mulgrew on July 15 announced an important agreement that will help secure up to $ 65 million over the next two years in federal School Improvement Grants, a U.S. Department of Education program that provides funding to help transform our nation's struggling schoolsschools.

The city DOE and United Federation of Teachers had spent weeks in closed door meetings trying to hammer out the details of a «meaningful teacher evaluation system» in order to qualify for up to $ 65 million in federal funding in School Improvement Grants over the next two years, which is distributed by the state.

Under the Obama administration, the federal government spent over $ 7 billion in an effort to turnaround failing schools via the School Improvement Grant (SIG) program.

This year, most of those schools in every state received substantial federal School Improvement Grants, often a million dollars over three years, with the expectation that they will be «turned around» or made into much better schools.

In a letter the state department's Julia Rafael - Bar wrote to Brown on March 25 about the situation, she also said that the district could jeopardize its $ 11 million in School Improvement Grant funding from the federal government for 2012 - 13 (and $ 40 million over the remaining life of SIG for Buffalo) if it did not conform to state law about teacher evaluations.

This won't come as a surprise to anyone who has worked in one of these agencies or tracked their struggles to improve failing schools under NCLB, turn around the troubled districts that they've taken over, ensure that new educator evaluation systems end the «widget effect,» complete Race to the Top deliverables on time, or successfully administer federal School Improvement Grants.