Sentences with phrase «into federal races»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Trump and his allies have seized on the report to question the origins of the federal probe into his campaign and Russian efforts to meddle in the 2016 presidential race, which the president had labeled a «witch hunt.»

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.

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.

As predicted, the Senate Democrats are seizing on today's «Race to the Top» announcement, declaring both a policy and political victory in their ability to push through changes that helped again push New York into the list of finalists for federal education cash.

The already heated race went into overdrive in April when Grimm was indicted on federal charges.

The three - way race for the NY - 22 seat of retiring Rep. Richard Hanna has turned into an $ 8.8 million battle, making it one of the most expensive House races in New York, new federal campaign finance records show.

A half - dozen Democrats jumped into the race after Republican councilman Dan Halloran announced he would not seek re-election and instead focus on defending himself against a federal corruption charge.

An investigation into the mayor's fundraising practices and efforts to help state Senate Democrats in key battleground races was closed by federal prosecutors, but became an additional irritant for de Blasio during his first term.

Tensions between Cuomo and Kennedy simmered for years while the two were married, and exploded into an ugly divorce battle in 2003 — a year after Cuomo, a former federal housing secretary, lost his first race for governor — following revelations that Kennedy was having an affair with a married and wealthy polo - playing family friend, Bruce Colley.

Supreme Court Justice Concerned Over Federal Judge Requiring Race And Gender Be Taken Into Account In Selecting A Legal Team

After the Dems won, Chris Dodd, the Chairman of the Banking and Housing Committee, immediately jumped into the presidential race to promote his book - KNOWING federal regulators and Repubs had WARNED that Fannie and Freddie were on a collision course.

A sprawling federal investigation into a bribery scheme hatched during the 2013 mayoral race led to the successful prosecutions of Malcolm Smith, a former state senate majority leader, and Dan Halloran, a former Republican city councilman.

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.

The federal investigation was launched by crusading Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara, who began with a corruption probe into two shady de Blasio allies and then expanded it into other business owners and a political race in Westchester.

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.

SECRECY — «A House of Representatives report concluded that «the Federal Government has mired the American scientist in a swamp of secrecy» and that the classification of scientific information played a part in «the nation's loss of the first lap in the race into space.»

In some ways, the XQ competition resembled Race to the Top (RttT), the $ 4.3 billion federal education program tucked into Barack Obama's 2009 economic stimulus package.

Knowing this, Duncan designed Race to the Top, an ingenious program that gave states the chance to dip into a $ 4.35 billion pot of federal money if they adopted certain accountability and school choice policies.

Meanwhile, initiatives across the country, sparked by the federal Race to the Top competition, which link teacher evaluations in part to student achievement, have pushed our data - driven system into new frontiers.

Signs of such deterioration abound, as conservatives push to loosen the grip of governments and unions so as to maximize the freedom of families and schools to chart their own course, and as liberals redefine education reform into a «social justice» crusade, construe today's problems in race and gender terms, and press government to do more to advance and protect selected subgroups — a trend that's been welcomed and in fact quickened by the Obama administration's eagerness to nationalize these endeavors and institute federal regulations that further them.

Rick Perry's imminent entry into the 2012 GOP presidential race suggests that, for the second time in less than a dozen years, we could see a Texas governor try to make the federal role in education conform to his own preconceptions and lessons learned in Austin.

A few weeks ago, 40 states and the District of Columbia jumped into the high - profile education competition known as Race to the Top, submitting applications up to 1,000 pages long to make their case for a share of $ 4.35 billion in federal prize money...

In March 2011, as part of Florida's participation in the federal Race to the Top initiative, Governor Rick Scott signed into law a sweeping education bill that would effectively overhaul a teacher evaluation system that had been entrenched for decades.

In the United States, educational reform financed by federal Race to the Top funds and standardized through the Common Core State Standards Initiative has brought buzzwords like «grit» and «rigor» into the national lexicon, while quietly doing away with play - based developmental learning in the lower grades in favor of an increasingly academic structure.

In particular, the federal Race to the Top grant program requires that states receiving grants incorporate student assessment data into their educator evaluation process.

Twenty - one New Jersey school districts are among more than 370 nationwide to apply for $ 400 million in federal Race to the Top funds, as the sweeping and sometimes controversial competition goes local with a push into specific instruction models and technology.

The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced today that it has entered into a resolution agreement with Harmony Public Schools in Texas, to ensure compliance by its charter schools with federal civil rights laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, national origin and disability.

NYS passed a flawed evaluation system into law in order to receive federal Race to the Top funds.

This group sees the Common Core as federal intrusion into state and local control over education because of the Obama administration's support of the Common Core in Race to the Top.

The unprecedented federal intervention into local schools has been welcomed by some cash - strapped states, but it's also meeting resistance from high - achievers like Minnesota and Massachusetts, which wonder whether the second round of Race to the Top is even worth winning.

Louisiana's tapped federal dollars that flowed into the state after Hurricane Katrina, while Tennessee allocated $ 22 million from its successful Race to the Top application.

The federal Race to the Top initiative in 2009 provided states with incentives to put tracking systems into place.

This would be quite a move from 2011 when the state (as backed by state Republicans, not backed by federal Race to the Top funds, and as inspired by Michelle Rhee) passed into policy a requirement that 50 % of all Nevada teachers» evaluations were to rely on said data.

Coupled with the Obama administration's Race to the Top program, its disregard for the constraints negotiated into NCLB, its expansive and troubling use of NCLB waivers, its aggressive efforts to dictate school discipline and to attack state - based voucher programs, and much else, there is cause to question how much restraint federal officials will show going forward.

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The Federal Equal Credit Opportunity Act prohibits creditors from discriminating against credit applicants on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, age (provided that the applicant has the capacity to enter into a binding contract); because all or part of the applicant's income derives from any public assistance program; or because the applicant has in good faith exercised any right under the Consumer Credit Protection Act.

The Federal Equal Credit Opportunity Act prohibits creditors from discriminating against credit applicants on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, marital status or age (provided the applicant has the capacity to enter into the binding contract); because all or part of the applicant's income derives from any public assistance program; or because the applicant has in good faith exercised any right under the Consumer Credit Protection Act.

The federal Equal Credit Opportunity Act prohibits creditors from discriminating against credit applicants on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, age (provided the applicant has the capacity to enter into a binding contract); because all or part of the applicant's income derives from any public assistance program; or because the applicant has in good faith exercised any right under the Consumer Credit Protection Act.

The Federal Equal Credit Opportunity Act prohibits creditors from discriminating against credit applicants on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, age (provided the applicant has the capacity to enter into a binding contract); because all or part of the applicant's income derives from any public assistance program; or because the applicant has in good faith exercised any right under the Consumer Credit Protection Act.

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Some of my co-authors on this paper and I conducted some national benchmarking and strategic planning projects for the federal government that gave us better insight into other farm, security, government, assistance and racing dog welfare issues.

The yellow band in the graph is, in essence, a portrait of the space race as reflected in federal money for basic R&D related to going into orbit and to the Moon.

NASCAR racing team owner Richard Childress has an op - ed in the Charlotte Observer this week in which he renders a full - throttle endorsement of E15 gasoline and the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), the federal program that requires more and more ethanol be blended into the nation's fuel supply.