Sentences with phrase «federal competitive grant»

Supporting civic learning through federal competitive grant opportunities to fund innovation; research; and dissemination of model programs and best practices, especially for low - income schools and disadvantaged students.

The consortium of 16 states and the District of Columbia uses a federal competitive grant to develop Common Core - aligned, mostly computer - based exams.

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 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 purposes.

provide additional federal competitive grants for school - based and community - based teenage pregnancy intervention programs in minority communities

Not exact matches

If elected, Faso has proposed to establish a competitive grant program at the federal level to fund qualified nonprofits that provide peer - to - peer counseling services to veterans suffering from PTSD, TBI and other trauma.

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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.

In 2009, through the «Race to the Top» program, the federal government offered $ 4.35 billion in competitive grants to states that adopted Common Core standards and developed plans to improve state test scores and teacher evaluation results.

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 the Times Union reported in 2015, the Birches at Schoharie received state support despite getting a low initial score from the staff of Homes and Community Renewal, which allocates competitive state and federal grants and tax benefits for affordable housing projects.

As the Times Union reported in 2015, the Birches at Schoharie received state support despite getting a low initial score from the staff of the state Division of Housing and Community Renewal, which allocates competitive state and federal grants and tax benefits for affordable housing projects.

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.

The top scientists, the ones most qualified to provide objective and transparent scientific advice to EPA, are of course the scientists who will likely be most successful at obtaining highly competitive federal grants.

Since the 1940s, when the U.S. government began to invest seriously in civilian research, the work has been done largely at the nation's universities and paid for through competitive, temporary grants awarded to individual professors by federal funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.

For nearly seven decades, federal agencies and many private funders have financed medical research through competitive grants to individual scientists who submit proposals for particular projects.

-- At the conclusion of the rulemaking period under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall promulgate a rule governing a public, competitive grants process through which retail power providers may apply for Federal support under this section.

The proposed guidance required that unless prohibited by Federal statute for competitive grants and cooperative agreements, Federal awarding agencies must design and execute a merit review process for applications.

That provision would apply to every federal agency that awards competitive research grants.

The Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research is a federal grant program led by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to help states develop their research capabilities and institutions.

He also, unexpectedly, made the case for the continuation of the Race to the Top approach of federal incentives for state - level reforms (presumably via competitive grant programs).

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.

ED put money into competitive grants rather than categorical programs such as Title III, the main vehicle for federal ELL funding.

In awarding grants for homelessness programs, federal housing officials will give a «competitive advantage to providers who keep families together and strengthen the family structure,» Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry G. Cisneros said in announcing the policy last month.

It wouldn't be totally unreasonable to begin wondering if one of the administration's key initiatives (ESEA flexibility) ultimately undermines a number of its others (large competitive grants advancing federal priorities).

The most appropriate role for the federal government may be to provide resources to states through categorical formula funding or a competitive grant program that would allow policy design to fit the local context rather than try to act as a national school board from Washington, DC.

Federal bureaucrats would do well to focus on targeted competitive grant programs to encourage the adoption of their desired policies in places that really want to pursue them.

A natural federal role is to provide resources to support such varied efforts through formula funding or competitive grant programs.

The right kind of competitive grant, however, allows the federal government to set a priority while enabling state and local direction and innovation.

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.

And President Obama has announced that the federal Teacher Incentive Fund, a competitive grant program to support pay for performance plans, will increase five-fold, from $ 97 million to $ 483 million.

Properly designed competitive grant programs provide an opportunity for Congress to target resources at federal priorities and encourage innovative problem - solving while avoiding federal mandates.

Critics note, however, that the federal government has encouraged states to adopt the Common Core through the Race to the Top competitive grant program and a streamlined path to waivers from the provisions of No Child Left Behind.

The expanded federal role has been most evident in a thoroughly revamped National Assessment of Educational Progress (1988); the Clinton administration's Goals 2000 Act (1994); the Bush administration's No Child Left Behind Act (2001); and, most recently, the «Race to the Top» component of the 2009 economic stimulus act, which will award competitive grants to states that, in the judgment of the Obama administration, have what it takes to turn around failing schools and boost student achievement.

His program was a federal grant, called «Race to the Top,» which was doled out on a competitive basis.

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.

Section 4301 expands federal support for high - quality charter schools by authorizing more than $ 1.1 billion in competitive grants by 2020.

As I've stated previously, ESSA expanded federal support for charter schools by authorizing more than $ 1.1 billion in competitive grants by 2020.

Many of those laws were prompted by a desire to win competitive federal grants, notably the 2009 Race to the Top program, intended to induce states to mandate changes in the way districts assess both teachers and principals.

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.

One - time competitive grants — such as President Barack Obama's Race to the Top program — are nothing compared to the potential diversion to private schools of tens of billions of state and federal funding every year.

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.

State and federal entities could also offer grant funding and technical assistance for competitive service scholarship programs for principal preparation to attract exemplary candidates to the field and allow them to participate in internships with expert principals — a key feature of effective programs.

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).

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

This aspect of the program has been controversial, prompting some teachers» unions to refuse to endorse state applications for competitive federal grants.

Arizona was one of only eight states to receive the highly competitive $ 23.6 million federal grant to increase the number of high quality schools available to disadvantaged students.

However, he opposes current legislation aimed at improving the state's eligibility for up to $ 700 million in the federal Race to the Top competitive grants.