Sentences with phrase «includes federal races»

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With the president's party controlling the Senate by just one seat and the Senate holding not only the power to pass or block legislation, but also to confirm nominees to federal positions, including the Supreme Court, the race in Arizona to replace the departing Sen. Jeff Flake is one of several to watch this fall.

Covariates included mother's age, education, smoking during pregnancy, and participation in the federal nutritional support program for Women, Infants, and Children; and infant's gender, race, birth weight, congenital malformation reported at birth, live birth order, and single or multiple birth.

These included fathers» age in years, race and ethnicity, household poverty level (as a percentage of the federal poverty level), educational level (less than high school, high school or equivalent, some college or more), employment status (reporting regular work in the last week), and marital status with the child's mother.

Using the Federal Election Commission's October Quarterly campaign finance filings, the Brennan Center for Justice at The New York University School of Law published a report on October 22nd focusing on the 25 House races rated most competitive by The Cook Political Report, including the race for Illinois» 13th.

Using the Federal Election Commission's October Quarterly campaign finance filings, the Brennan Center for Justice at The New York University School of Law published a report on October 22nd focusing on the 25 House races rated most competitive by The Cook Political Report, including the race for Texas» 23rd.

Using the Federal Election Commission's October Quarterly campaign finance filings, the Brennan Center for Justice at The New York University School of Law published a report on October 22nd, 2012 focusing on the 25 House races rated most competitive by The Cook Political Report, including the race for New York's 18th.

Using the Federal Election Commission's October Quarterly campaign finance filings, the Brennan Center for Justice at The New York University School of Law published a report on October 22nd focusing on the 25 House races rated most competitive by The Cook Political Report, including the race for Minnesota's 8th.

Using the Federal Election Commission's October Quarterly campaign finance filings, the Brennan Center for Justice at The New York University School of Law published a report on October 22nd focusing on the 25 House races rated most competitive by The Cook Political Report, including the race for Florida's 18th.

At 6 p.m., City & State holds «The Great Debate» on the 2016 presidential race, with participants including Assemblyman Michael Blake on behalf of Clinton, NYC Councilman Eric Ulrich on behalf of John Kasich and former Sen. Tom Duane on behalf of Sanders, Federal Hall 15 Pine St., Manhattan.

Using the Federal Election Commission's October Quarterly campaign finance filings, the Brennan Center for Justice at The New York University School of Law published a report on October 22nd focusing on the 25 House races rated most competitive by The Cook Political Report, including the race for California's 36th.

Hanging over state business are both the federal corruption trial of Governor Andrew Cuomo's former top aide, Joe Percoco, which is now in jury deliberations after closing arguments last week and this year's state - level elections, including the race for governor.

There have been a number of charges and countercharges in the race, including the controversy over an anti-corruption commission shut down by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and now under federal investigation.

There have been a number of charges and countercharges in the race, including the controversy over an anti corruption commission shut down by Governor Cuomo, that is now under federal investigation.

Early bellwethers for 2018 last week included high - profile races in Westchester and Nassau counties that saw voters elect Democratic candidates who promised to stamp out corruption (It didn't hurt that Nassau's county executive had been indicted on federal corruption charges.)

In federal races, losing candidates included South Florida's Tim Canova, who tried unsuccessfully to tie incumbent opponent Debbie Wasserman - Schultz to the sugar industry.

As part of New York's Race To The Top federal grant, the state is working with data integration companies to build a database of student information, including demographics, test scores and behavior records.

Democrats are expected to endorse Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky — a former federal prosecutor who has a stellar anti-corruption résumé, including the successful prosecution of former Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. (D - Bronx)-- for the Skelos seat, while Nassau Republicans, who suffered a surprise upset defeat in the race for district attorney last month, are having trouble recruiting a candidate.

Using the Federal Election Commission's October Quarterly campaign finance filings, the Brennan Center for Justice at The New York University School of Law published a report on October 22nd focusing on the 25 House races rated most competitive by The Cook Political Report, including the race for Arizona's 1st.

There have been a number of charges and countercharges in the race, including the controversy over an anti-corruption commission shut down by Governor Cuomo, that is now under federal investigation.

The voters surveyed had a variety of views on some of the big issues in the race, including the Affordable Care Act, immigration reform and whether the federal minimum wage should be raised.

Weiner, who was first elected to the 9th Congressional District in 1999, and Turner, a businessman who grew up in Woodhaven, sparred over a number of issues throughout the race, including campaign finances and the federal health care bill.

Our records currently include state legislative races since 1898 and statewide and federal offices back to 1849.

[v] Information on race is not collected on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), nor is it included in the National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS) which tracks outstanding debt and repayments.

I think [Common Core] is essentially a federal initiative at this point, having been created by a small group of people, including very few if any teachers, working in conjunction with the Duncan administration, and it has been at the very least aggressively encouraged for states to adopt, particularly through the Race to the Top funding.»

These characteristics include race, gender, eligibility for the federal lunch program, limited English proficiency, and, most important, previous student achievement.

For a final check, we added controls for a full set of cohort - level variables, including race, gender, participation in the federal subsidized lunch program, and median zip code income.

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.

The student data include test scores, race and ethnicity, eligibility for the federal free and reduced - price lunch program, and status as an ESL or special - education student.

Our data included each student's answers on each year's test; which school and classroom each student was in; each student's previous and future test scores; and demographic variables including each student's age, sex, race, and eligibility for the federal school lunch program, a widely used proxy for family income.

The federal government's Race to the Top competition had states vie for cash by doing such things as formalizing their teacher evaluations to include student test scores.

While federal policy from No Child Left Behind, to Race to the Top and the Every Student Succeeds Act defined multi-issue agendas that included elements of the accountability, choice, and equity agendas, within the advocacy sector, «education reform» has never been a unifying framework.

Past federal policies, including No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, pushed corporate - styled, top - down reforms such as high - stakes testing and draconian accountability schemes.

Tying student growth to teacher and principal evaluations has proven difficult for states, but it's been a focus of several federal initiatives, including waivers and the Race to the Top grant program.

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Financial incentives to improve teaching were included in the federal No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top initiatives.

Finally, we describe some particular types of governmental collaboration, including P - 16 and P - 20 councils, and consider what the federal «Race to the Top» competition teaches us about a possible federal role in bridging the gap between America's K - 12 and higher education systems.

That includes a 2014 federal Race to the Top grant of $ 26 million that the district is using to launch a high school that focuses on personalized learning, its 31st school.

The Obama administration has encouraged the transition through several federal grant programs including the Race to the Top competition.

Skeptical unions pose challenge to districts» Race to the Top Ed Source: Nearly 900 districts nationwide, including 76 districts and charter schools in California, have told the federal government that they plan to compete for the final $ 400 million Race to the Top district competition.

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.»

Supporters of the Rutherford County schools are quick to point out successes the school has had, including securing a federal «Race to the Top» grant to give every middle school student a laptop to use for schoolwork.

Then in 2010, a year after Schwarzenegger and the Democrat - controlled state legislature took advantage of the leverage given to them by the federal Race to the Top initiative and passed a series reforms (including the nation's first Parent Trigger law and requiring the state's teacher database to be tied to its student data system in order to allow for the use of student data in evaluating teachers), the NEA and AFT spent big to back once - and - future governor Jerry Brown's return to the top office, and successfully back traditionalist Tom Torlakson as state schools superintendent (while defeating longstanding Gloria Romero, the former state senate honcho who worked with Schwarzenegger to pass the reforms).

But officials said Tuesday that even if the state does win a federal grant of up to $ 700 million, there's unlikely to be any effort to mandate any of the more controversial aspects of the latest California Race to the Top application - including incentive pay for teachers and principals.

Researchers, as situated in the federal context surrounding these systems (including more than $ 4 billion now released to 19 states via Race to the Top and now 43 NCLB waivers also granted), examined the observational systems, rather than the VAMs themselves, as these observational systems typically accompany the VAM components in these (oft - high - stakes) systems.

Major initiatives at the federal level, including the Race to the Top competition and the No Child Left Behind state waiver requirements, have propelled these efforts.

Ravitch lamented Mayor Bloomberg's reform plan for the public schools, including the city's federal Race To The Top Grant.

The proposed revisions were adopted at the board's meeting yesterday so they could be included in the state's application for the federal Race to the Top (RTTT) grant that is due January 19.

Cash - strapped states that wanted to win federal Race to the Top dollars had to adopt the standards, and more than 40 states, including New York, did so.

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