Sentences with phrase «federal competitive grants»

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 Board of Education is committed to the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL) program and opposed to adoption of the newly developed Common Core State Standards as a prerequisite for participation in federal competitive grant and entitlement programs.

Third, it is proposing a new regulation that would require any copyrightable intellectual property created with support of federal competitive grants to have an open license.

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

Challenges faced by these districts often include the lack of personnel and resources needed to compete effectively for Federal competitive grants and formula grant allocations in amounts too small to be effective in meeting their intended purpose.

The Common Core standards were developed by a group of state education leaders, but were promoted by the federal government, particularly through Race To The Top, a federal competitive grant program that required the adoption of standards that promote college - and career - readiness, such as the Common Core.

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 evaluation system was a requirement of New York's $ 750 million Race To The Top award, a federal competitive grant the state secured in 2010.

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