Sentences with phrase «in race to the top»

«There's great risk,» that another country could overcome the U.S. in the race to the top for AI talent.

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New York has just received more than $ 600 million in Race to the Top funding.

In late December, the state's education commissioner froze some of the state's $ 700 million dollars in Race to the Top grants, saying some schools, including in New York City and several upstate cities, had not complied with the teacher evaluation requirements.

«By passing legislation to raise the charter cap, reform charter schools, improve teacher evaluation, and invest in tracking educational outcomes, the Senate Democratic Majority helped give New York the competitive advantage it needed to become a finalist in the Race to the Top,» Sampson crowed.

«I am sure Commissioner Elia will solicit input from external stakeholders before submitting a proposal to avoid some of the pitfalls encountered in the Race to the Top application,» Borges said.

I'm in a race to the top at the moment.

«And I don't think they should do it just because of the federal funding,» Clinton said, referring to New York's plan to apply for up to $ 700 million in Race to the Top grants.

These shortcomings, federal officials told Cuomo, mean the state could lose $ 1 billion in Race to the Top and other federal money.

New York will get $ 700 million in federal education grants after being named as a winner in the Race to the Top program.

It could just as persuasively be argued that he, Andrew Cuomo, is the one primarily responsible for «blocking progress» toward a statewide teacher evaluation format that would pass muster with the feds for $ 700 million in Race to the Top funds, the State Education Department and the unions.

IN THE race to the top of the breeding tree, meerkats pig out to boost their own growth in response to a rival gaining weight.

By pitting sperm from the two species against each other in a race to the top of a test tube, Hopi Hoekstra, a Harvard University evolutionary geneticist, and her group found that the fastest sperm are ones that have tails with a longer midsection.

Finally, as Danny Kavadlo stress out, if you trivialize the role of rest and recovery in your race to the top, you will eventually end up screwing up your muscle building efforts.

She has achieved a lot in her career and can prove to be an asset in your race to the top spot in any company.

Ease of use: In the race to the top spot, a lot of dating sites continue adding top — notch features and end up making the platform complicated and unusable.

We're going to have trouble competing in the Race to the Top.»

The Department of Education's decision to link federal funding to the Core in its Race to the Top program, its NCLB waiver effort, and its «ESEA blueprint,» and the provision of $ 350 million in federal funds for Core - related tests, all alienated anti-Washington conservatives who would have remained neutral if the question had merely concerned states collaborating to set standards in math and English language arts.

The discussions about the future of teacher evaluation and teacher tenure are going to pick up speed all over the country and the origins are going to turn out to be in Race to the Top....

Maranto and McShane emphasize the strong push in Race to the Top in the direction of national standards.

The Obama administration used the fine print in its Race to the Top scoring rubric to ensure that there would be only one set of national standards.

We do have funding in Race to the Top to help with this professional development, but it's still an enormous task.

Others are free to exit from it (though doing so would, for some, violate commitments they made in their Race to the Top proposals.)

There was the fiscal «incentive» in Race to the Top for states to adopt the Common Core as evidence of their seriousness about raising academic standards.

We have 22 million dollars or so in Race to the Top for that work.

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.

And he charged out of the gate, instituting tougher benchmarks for the state's 3 — 8 tests, initiating a major effort to write a statewide curriculum, and leading the charge to win a berth in the Race to the Top winner's circle.

The intense debate around teacher evaluation has been fueled in recent years by the federal government's efforts to spur the creation of more sophisticated evaluation systems at the state level, in large part through incentives embedded in the Race to the Top grant competition and No Child Left Behind waiver process.

that the Department had «enhanced» the «discretionary grant process to ensure maximum integrity and transparency» in the Race to the Top process?

For example, it's more than twice the total sums invested (over multiple years) in Race to the Top.

If the extension makes it into the final spending bills for fiscal year 2011, advocates say, that could mean more states will take the reform - minded steps emphasized in the Race to the Top program, such as revamping their teacher - evaluation systems and lifting caps on charter schools, in order to get a slice of the competitive grants.

Committing to the common standards earned states points in the Race to the Top application, but it wasn't a «condition.»

The Obama Administration has pressured states to adopt the Common Core State Standards Initiative, conditioning more than $ 4 billion in Race to the Top grants on its adoption.

Earlier this year U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced the third phase in the Race to the Top competition.

If Secretary Duncan somehow concludes that Wisconsin is ready to partake in the race to the top, it will be an ominous sign that he does not mean business.

Just for starters, it would appear that the waiver «winners» just promised to adopt narrow, prescriptive teacher evaluation and school improvement policies that apply to charter schools as well as district schools — but not even charter authorities are entirely clear on how this will play out in reality or if these commitments should be taken any more seriously than so many empty promises in the Race to the Top applications.

The $ 4 billion in Race to the Top grants, which seek to reward states for their commitment to reforming teacher effectiveness, data systems, low - performing schools, and academic standards and assessments, are paid for through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passed last year by Congress.

Lawyers and ethics officers from the department did most of that work, although four career and four political staff members also reviewed the applicants to make sure they had expertise in the four school improvement areas emphasized in Race to the Top.

Flexibility, Transparency While many of the comments focused on the broader school improvement issues entangled in the Race to the Top program, common themes on some of the finer points of the criteria emerged, too.

(«$ 3.4 Billion Remains in Race to Top Fund,» April 7, 2010.)

Mr. Pastorek said the state must still work with school districts to figure out what other factors on which teacher evaluations should be based, but the goal would be for all districts participating in the Race to the Top initiatives to use a uniform system.

Districts in Massachusetts that participate in Race to the Top have clear expectations based on the memorandum of understanding that was signed.

«Gaining support from all districts and unions will surely help us in our Race to the Top,» Ms. Gist said in a statement.

Districts in Rhode Island that participate in Race to the Top have clear expectations based on the memorandum of understanding that was signed.

State's entry idling at start line in Race to Top While 40 states and the District of Columbia have jumped into the high - profile education competition known as Race to the Top, Washington state has yet to reach the start line.

Districts in Georgia that participate in Race to the Top have clear expectations based on the memorandum of understanding that was signed.

«Of all the things in the Race to the Top guidelines, this is the one that's given us the most pause, the most concern,» said AFT president Randi Weingarten.

Districts in New York that participate in Race to the Top have clear expectations based on the memorandum of understanding that was signed.

What's more, the criteria seek to judge states on how much support their reform plans have from the community, including local school districts that plan to participate in Race to the Top - financed initiatives.

High schools are seeking to build systems that ensure success for every student; this is being further emphasized by the Obama administration, which has identified the following four Race to the Top priority areas in the Race to the Top Executive Summary (2009): «adopting standards and assessments that prepare students to succeed in college and the workplace and to compete in the global economy; building data systems that measure student growth and success, and inform teachers and principals about how they can improve instruction; cultivating effective teachers and principals, especially where they are needed most; and turning around struggling schools» (p. 1).