Sentences with phrase «from federal race»

Funding for the Innovation Zones was made possible through funds from the federal Race to the Top — Early Learning Challenge, which expired in December 2016.

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.

(Upon receiving $ 400 million from the federal Race to the Top fund that is partly responsible for that shift, Georgia promised to evaluate educators under a system that counts scores for half of their reviews.)

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

After the sweetness - and - nice between New York State Education Department (NYSED) and the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) to win $ 700 million from the federal Race to the Top fund last year (see my Education Next story), NYSUT yesterday sued the state's Board of Regents and NYSED's acting commissioner John King over the decision last May to ratchet up the importance of student test scores in a teacher's annual evaluation.

Though New York was the only state to spend the money it won from the federal Race to the Top competition to build a curriculum, its policymakers seem to have tapped a nerve — and a deep well of demand for Common Core - aligned materials far beyond their borders.

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.

Not exact matches

In the tight three - way race of this year's federal election, the focus has shifted from the reliability of any single research firm to the wisdom of the collective pollster mind, with news outlets arguing over who can aggregate the polls in the most reliable fashion.

Canadian Lawyer Mag - Lawyers Filling up Federal Liberal Leadership Race If you've been called to the bar and succeeded, you're not a far cry from the world of politics, say lawyers vying for the Liberal Party's top job.

The fortunes of Cambridge Analytica were closely tied to the Trump campaign's successful win for the White House, and some of the fallout from the Facebook data scandal has overlapped with federal investigations into that 2016 race.

The week before, after three days of hearings in a U.S. District Court in Indianapolis, Federal Judge James Noland reversed a USAC ban that would have kept six CART teams — numbering among them drivers such as defending Indy champ Al Unser, his brother Bobby, and former winners Johnny Rutherford and Gordon Johncock — from competing in this year's race.

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This act and subsequent revisions bar any agency involved in adoption that receives federal funding from discriminating because of race when considering adoption opportunities for children.

Because of campaign - finance laws, there are restrictions for transferring money from a state race to a campaign for federal office.

While operatives say there is still plenty of time for candidates to jump into the race, the next Federal Election Commission reporting period runs from July 1 through Sept. 30, and Democratic candidates may want to declare soon to raise as much money as possible before the quarter ends as a measure of their viability and popularity heading into the election year.

Eight members of the state Assembly from Queens have signed on to a bill that would push Primary Day for state races from September to June to offset a new federal law that would force New York to hold separate primaries for Congress and the U.S. Senate.

Parties and groups have made nearly $ 8.7 million in independent expenditures for the race, according to online reports from the Federal Election Commission.

Also, recall that the RNC isn't going to be giving federal Victory funds for the statewide GOTV effort to the state party due to a lack of confidence in Cox, stemming in part from his failed effort to woo party - switching Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy into the governor's race and get him on the ballot.

Tenney, a three - term member of the State Assembly, enters the primary race with a campaign debt of $ 110,000 from her last congressional bid, according to Federal Election Commission records.

Cuomo's deal, which was approved by the state Legislature last month, does not preclude bingo halls, horse racing tracks, charitable games of chance, or any gaming facility operated pursuant to the federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act from operating within the counties where Indian casinos were granted exclusivity.

A former federal prosecutor, Katko stepped down from the U.S. Attorney's Office in January to enter the 24th District race.

The disgraced former politician, who was removed from the state senate for assaulting his girlfriend and served time in federal prison for fraud, said he's «the candidate of the people, not of the special interest like other candidates in this race.»

While as many as 680 were arrested in the first week of February throughout Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, San Antonio, and New York City areas by raids conducted by ICE agents, according to Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, the legislation seeks to codify language to prevent Westchester County from aiding the federal government in investigations made on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, and national origin.

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.

Filings with the Federal Elections Commission show that Democrat Zephyr Teachout has outraised Republican John Faso in the race for the 19th Congressional District by relying largely on small donations from her activist base.

Tenney, a first - term lawmaker in the House, knocked Brindisi for the support he's receiving from Cuomo, who is making a push to aid Democrats running in key legislative swing races at both the state and federal levels.

These are the «open» seats, as are those in three other races: District 21 Council Member Julissa Ferreras - Copeland announced she would not be running for reelection, opening up her seat for a competitive battle; in District 44, Council Member David Greenfield made a relatively late announcement that he will not seek reelection, but he is expected to be replaced by his chosen successor and close ally Kalman Yeger; and in District 28, Ruben Wills was recently removed from office when he was convicted on federal public corruption charges — there is a crowded competition to replace him.

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.

In 2010, when New York, like other states, was recovering from recession, it won nearly $ 700 million in education incentives from the federal «Race to the Top» program.

The topsy - turvy race between Republican U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm and his Democratic opponent, Domenic Recchia, which has seen everything from a 20 - count federal indictment against the incumbent to the challenger being lampooned by Jon Stewart on «The Daily Show,» was hit with another bombshell on Friday when the results of the latest

Seven races are considered competitive (things got easier this week when Democratic candidate Dave Denenberg withdrew amid allegations he defrauded his law clients) and there are three wild card senators: the ever - flirting Ruben Diaz Sr. of the Bronx, I'll - go - with - whoever's - in - charge Simcha Felder of Brooklyn and John Sampson, a Brooklyn Democrat who was expelled from his party's conference because he's facing two federal indictments.

Known as the Immigration Protection Act, it aims to prevent Westchester County emergency services from aiding the federal government in investigations made on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity and national origin.

In the one month since Nixon entered the race, Cuomo has put an end to the IDC, said «the facts have changed» about legal recreational marijuana, announced plans to restore voting rights to felons on parole in New York, killed an offshore natural gas pipeline that had been in the works, and issued an executive order to prevent federal immigration official from state buildings.

He also hauled in $ 67,454 from Dec. 2 to Dec. 31 for the congressional race and has spent only $ 43, federal campaign filings show.

Katko and Deacon have benefited from nearly $ 4 million spent by groups outside of Central New York on the 24th Congressional District race this year, according to Federal Election Commission records.

The Liberty Act would also prohibit state and local agencies from expending resources to help the federal government create or maintain a database or registry based on race, color, creed, gender, sexual orientation, religion, or national or ethnic origin — a response to President Donald Trump's so - called «Muslim ban,» an executive order barring immigrants from seven Muslim - majority countries from entering the country.

We look at New York, from the local (Binghamton City Council race) to the federal (NY - 22 congressional race), for a few examples of the misleading of the public.

In addition to providing more choice and opportunity for parents and kids, he said it would boost the cash - starved state's chances of obtaining up to $ 700 million in «Race to the Top» funds from the federal government.

Over the last several months, discussions of the Common Core State Standards have been eclipsed by the public's reaction to major issues which have arisen in their implementation — issues such as declining student test scores, and the role of such test scores in teacher evaluations, evaluations mandated if a state was to receive its share of federal money from the «Race to the Top» funds.

WASHINGTON — Erin Cole, an Army veteran and former state and federal official who two months ago became the first Democrat to announce plans to challenge Rep. Chris Collins next year, withdrew from the race Monday.

Although the ID debate was not an issue in most congressional races, voters may have punished Santorum because the once - vocal ID supporter tried to distance himself from the movement after a federal judge struck down an attempt last year by the Dover, Pennsylvania, school board to insert ID into the curriculum.

Holbein looked at local school board races from 2004 - 2012 in North Carolina communities where schools failed to make adequate yearly progress (AYP) as defined by the 2001 federal No Child Left Behind legislation.

What starts as a race from religious extremists and local law enforcement quickly escalates to a nationwide manhunt involving the highest levels of the Federal Government.

On August 24, the Obama Administration is releasing results from the second round of its Race to the Top (RttT) initiative, which invites states to compete for over four billion federal dollars.

While the No Child Left Behind Act has faced a lot of criticism from Democratic candidates for federal office this election season, a Republican running in the hotly contested U.S. Senate race in Colorado isn't exactly a big fan of the law either.

In using its Race to the Top grant program and waivers from No Child Left Behind to promote Common Core, the Obama administration has opened the door to increasing federal influence over what gets taught and tested in schools.

It's time for states to apply for a part of the federal stimulus plan's $ 4.35 billion in Race to the Top innovation grants, and direction from individual schools can make a difference.

When the federal government arrogates to itself too much power from the states (e.g., NCLB, Race to the Top), or when states impinge on local authority (e.g., curricular or staffing requirements), the policy disequilibrium results in political disquiet.

While no one knew it for sure at the time, there would be no federal Race to the Top funding, nor even, as it turned out, a federal waiver from No Child Left Behind that would free up existing federal dollars for new programs in Chicago.

Nearly all the states committed to a federal timeline in order to compete for federal Race to the Top funds and to get out from under NCLB's most onerous provisions.