Sentences with phrase «federal races came»

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Cantor predicted a slew of contested races at the local, state and federal levels in the coming year (recall that all the House and state legislative seats will be up for grabs with new district lines, which further boosts the possibility of competitive contests).

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.

The governor's comments came at a press conference where elected officials were celebrating the state's success in landing federal «Race to the Top» funds.

The latest immigration bill, which was sponsored in February by Majority Leader Catherine Borgia, an Ossining Democrat, came in response to Republican President Donald Trump's nationwide initiative to deport undocumented immigrants, and would have prevented the county's emergency services from aiding the federal government in investigations made on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity and national origin.

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.

Close of candidate qualifying for federal office — 3; Mother's Day — 12; Deadpool 2 release — 17; Solo: A Star Wars Story premier — 24; Memorial Day — 27; Father's Day — 47; Close of candidate qualifying for statewide office — 52; Deadline for filing claim bills — 92; «The Race for Governor» Republican gubernatorial debates — 92; «The Race for Governor» Democratic gubernatorial debates — 93; Start of the U.S. Open — 118; Primary Election Day — 119; College Football opening weekend — 121; «Before You Vote» Florida U.S. Senate debate — 175; «Before You Vote» Florida Governor debate — 176; General Election Day — 189; «Hamilton» comes to the Straz Center — 289; 2019 Legislative Session starts — 308.

Close of candidate qualifying for federal office — 2; Mother's Day — 11; Deadpool 2 release — 16; Solo: A Star Wars Story premier — 23; Memorial Day — 26; Time Warner / AT & T merger ruling — 41; Father's Day — 46; Close of candidate qualifying for statewide office — 51; Deadline for filing claim bills — 91; «The Race for Governor» Republican gubernatorial debates — 91; «The Race for Governor» Democratic gubernatorial debates — 92; Start of the U.S. Open — 117; Primary Election Day — 118; College Football opening weekend — 120; «Before You Vote» Florida U.S. Senate debate — 174; «Before You Vote» Florida Governor debate — 175; General Election Day — 188; «Hamilton» comes to the Straz Center — 288; 2019 Legislative Session starts — 307.

Mayor de Blasio, who came under federal scrutiny for his role in supporting Democratic campaigns in state Senate races two years ago, is also expected to stay out of the fray.

The filing deadlines in the governor's race come after those for federal office.

The arrests came two days after federal authorities arrested state Sen. Malcolm Smith in an alleged plot to bribe his way into the New York City mayor's race.

I think we may eventually come to view the Race - to - the - Top and ESEA - flexibility requirements related to assessing teachers as the apotheosis of federal K — 12 technocracy.

Finding that «local policy prerogatives and dire financial conditions trumped federal pleas for reform and led to the spending of massive amounts of aid on preserving the status quo and protecting existing jobs and programs,» Smarick urges policymakers to heed the lessons learned from that experience and to focus on reducing the gulf between reforms promised and reforms delivered when it comes to the Department of Education's $ 4.35 billion Race to the Top fund.

This is both because of the virtues of localism and civil society and because the federal government is by no means always on the side of the angels when it comes to fairness — remember the Fugitive Slave Act, Dred Scott, Plessy, the WWII - era internment of Americans of Japanese descent, race - based redlining.

On the federal Race to the Top competition for hundreds of millions of dollars awarded for showing past achievements and ambitious plans for students, Washington came in 32nd out of 36 states.

He called their political posture, including the past decision not to support the state's application for a federal Race to the Top Grant, «one of the reasons I was so thrilled to come here.»

«We hear lots from teachers, parents, and kids about the burdensome testing regimen, and a lot of it is a result of [federal] Race to the Top money,» said Horn, who noted that those federal dollars are coming to an end soon.

In this Best of Dropout Nation from November 2009, Dropout Nation Editor RiShawn Biddle observed the first moves by states looking to get their hands on the federal cash that came as part of Race to the Top — and the battles with teachers unions that marked those steps.

OTOH the lobbying done by the unions to block the «Race to the Top» funding and failure to come up with a credible application for $ 300 million in Federal funds leaves me with no choice but to say «no» to any proposed tax increases for those poor, picked on teachers.

The money comes from a federal Race to The Top grant that is meant to improve teaching and learning in North Carolina.

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.

Many of the ideas Duncan pushed states to adopt through Race to the Top, the $ 4 billion grant fund created by the 2009 federal stimulus law, come straight out of playbooks developed by Gates and other foundations.

Obama has also made an effort to devote more spending to education, with $ 80 billion given to K - 12 districts in the stimulus bill and his Race to the Top program offering states and addition $ 4.35 billion in federal funds if they can come up with innovative reform plans.

California's designation Tuesday as one of 19 finalists in the second round of the federal Race to the Top competition has already put a significant imprint on public schools - but a wider impact in years to come is far less certain.

They were developed at the behest of the state governors and chief state school officers to avoid the charge of federal intrusion — which came nonetheless after the Obama administration advocated for the CCSS in the Race to the Top funding competition and provided the financing for the Common Core testing consortia.

The truth is that while the Every Student Succeeds Act continues much of the test and punish elements of the No Child Left Behind Act and the Race to the Top Program, the federal law does provide states with greater flexibility when it comes to how it relies on the use of unfair, discriminatory and inappropriate standardized testing schemes.

I really am interested in how a former undersecretary of education has come to the point that he is so determined to attack teacher tenure, teacher unions and «restrictive work rules» for teachers — especially during a time when public schools have been systematically defunded, forced to jump through hoops (Race to the Top) in order to get what remains of federal funding for education, like some kind of bizarre Hunger Games ritual for kids and teachers, and as curriculums have been narrowed to the point where only middle class and wealthier communities have schools that offer subjects like music, art, and physical education — much less recess time, school nurses or psychologists, or guidance counselors.

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.

ECOA prohibits lenders from discriminating against credit applicants on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, age, the fact that all or part of the applicant's income comes from any public assistance program, or the fact that the applicant has exercised any right under any federal consumer credit protection law.

The Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) prohibits creditors from discriminating against credit applicants in any aspect of a credit transactions on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex or marital status, or age; the fact that all or part of the applicant's income comes from any public assistance program; or the fact that the applicant has in good faith exercised any right under certain federal consumer credit protection laws.

He came to see opportunism in some of those loudly sounding the global warming alarm — especially as they raced to obtain a piece of the growing pot of federal research funding on the topic.

There's also a lot of talk about a federal election coming up next spring and a big mayoralty race in Toronto.