Sentences with phrase «federal races»

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.

Winners of federal Race to the Top grants are states undertaking admirable school reforms.

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.

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

However, those serving our country abroad are equally entitled to have a fair opportunity to vote in local as well as federal races.

Start 6 - 12 months before election day for local races and 12 - 24 months for statewide and federal races before you have to compete for attention.

The deal secured nearly $ 1 billion in federal Race to the Top funds that were contingent on a statewide teacher evaluation system.

«This bill will allow New York State to submit a competitive application for federal Race to the Top funding and increase our chances at receiving up to $ 700 million for our schools,» said Assembly Education Committee Chair Catherine Nolan, according to a statement from Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's office.

Only 55 staff remain to support low performing schools, down from 145 staff that were funded in part by federal Race to the Top funds, according to DPI.

Around half of the funding for that support comes from federal Race to the Top dollars that are scheduled to dry up soon, hampering the state's ability to continue to provide interventions to the schools that need it.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said before Cuomo's bill was released that the teachers union and state education department are already working on a policy to replace LIFO as part of the requirements for receiving federal Race to the Top funding in time for the 2012 - 2013 school year.

Spending on state races isn't new for the teachers» unions, which are still putting millions of dollars into federal races, particularly the slew of U.S. Senate contests expected to decide control of that chamber.

In 2011, Minnesota was one of nine states awarded federal Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge (RTT - ELC) funds.

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Counsel for a national food products manufacturer in a multi-plaintiff multi-count federal race discrimination case.

With a «toss - up» of a race, Levy, the Siena pollster, said the winner will be dictated by «turnout, turnout, turnout» in an election that is likely to draw low participation because there are no state or federal races at play.

Report author Grace Aylmer found that the Chamber «was the second largest overall non-disclosing (or «dark money») outside spender in 2016 federal races after the National Rifle Association, and was the largest non-disclosing outside spender on 2016 congressional races.»

But the real money in federal races came not from maxing out under federal giving limits or hosting fundraisers — as he also did for Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk, California Senate candidate Kamala Harris and Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton — but from PAC spending around gun control.

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

This is part of a 2010 law that New York State passed to try to get Federal Race to the Top money.

Disagreements also recently plagued the negotiation of the details of agreements the UFT and city reached to help secure federal Race to the Top funds.

But several key federal races are taking shape in Nevada.

Republican spokesperson David Laska said the party's record at fund - raising and winning offices appears stronger if it includes federal races in New York.

Donovan, who now has two PACs others created to fund - raise for him, will have to fundraise from scratch for the congressional campaign and can not use existing campaign funds he has, as campaign laws governing federal races differ from local races.

As he has in the past, Astorino offered one option as resurrecting the «lost standards,» a set of guidelines commissioned and subsequently scrapped by the Board of Regents in 2010 when the education policy - making panel decided instead to adopt the Common Core and accept federal Race To The Top grant money.

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.

The American Federation of Teachers, which is expected to spend about $ 20 million, has the same strategy, though it hasn't made public exactly what proportion is being directed to state vs. federal races.

While the Obama administration did not have a hand in creating the Common Core standards, it has endorsed them and linked federal Race to the Top aid to «college - and career - ready» standards, which most states have interpreted as Common Core.

After muscling its way to the top as the largest contributor to federal races last year, RPAC now faces a new challenge: playing a decisive role regarding the issues and races that will be critical to the real estate industry.

Senate Democrats claimed publicly that they decided to back a measure that even some of their leaders had recently opposed in order to put New York in the running for the next round of federal Race to the Top funds.

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.

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.

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.

«We already have a model that works and there is evidence to support it's working,» said Hall, referring to a school turnaround model funded by federal Race to the Top dollars that has shown to help some of the state's poorest - performing public schools improve academically over the past few years.

But such a consortium would be at a distinct financial disadvantage — both PARCC and Smarter Balanced received federal Race to the Top dollars to design their tests.

In 2011, Minnesota was one of nine states awarded federal Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge (RTT - ELC) funds.

The team decided to use federal Race to the Top funds to contract with selected language arts, math, and science teachers to develop curriculum maps, content - area resources, and formative assessments.

In May 2010, the New York State Legislature — in an effort to secure federal Race to the Top funds — approved an amendment to Educational Law 3012 - c regarding the Annual Professional Performance Review (APPR) of teachers and principals.

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.

Global Strategy Group has become an issue in yet another federal race, this time in NY - 23, where GOP candidate Doug Hoffman is calling on Democratic Rep. Bill Owens to dump the consulting / polling firm in the wake of its $ 2 million settlement for its role in the AG Andrew Cuomo's pay - to - play pension fund probe.

He's got about $ 300K in the bank, but he won't be able to spend that on a federal race, and unless he is secretly wealthy, I have no idea how they expect him to raise the millions he would need to be credible.»

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.

Others took issue with the federal Race to the Top grant money awarded to the state, saying the funds do not cover the full cost of revamping teacher evaluations, devising even more tests, and other requirements.

Kerry established a separate political action committee, Keeping America's Promise, which declared as its mandate «A Democratic Congress will restore accountability to Washington and help change a disastrous course in Iraq», [128] and raised money and channeled contributions to Democratic candidates in state and federal races.

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.

Yet the decision by Mr. Cuomo to wade into the federal races has added an interesting dynamic to the contests — one that the Republicans do not seem to mind at all.