Sentences with phrase «of federal race»

Newark Public Schools and a consortium of Monmouth County school districts led by Neptune Township are among 61 finalists for the next round of federal Race to the Top funding, culled from more than 20 initial applicants from New Jersey.

The session focused on how the Kentucky Education Association (KEA), state Department of Education, school districts and National Board Certified Teachers (NBCT) are reforming education in Kentucky despite not receiving the first round of federal Race to the Top funding.

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.

Despite prior setbacks, California was named Friday as one of winners of the federal Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge bringing a $ 52.6 million grant to support pre-K programs.

Additionally, the U.S. Department of Education began using state charter laws as a consideration in the awarding of the federal Race - to - the - Top competitive grant program.

Rhode Island was one of 16 finalists in the first round of the federal Race to the Top competition for education grants.

OLYMPIA — With about 90 percent of districts signed on statewide, Washington joined 34 other states and the District of Columbia and met the deadline to apply for money in the second round of the federal Race to the Top competition.

Teacher evaluation not only is a major component of the federal Race to the Top initiative and NCLB waiver program, but also touches the state - led Common Core State Standards movement.

Since the beginning of the federal Race To The Top grant competition, Value - Added Measurement (VAM) has captured the attention of the American public through high - profile media representations of the

At the midway point of the federal Race to the Top program, the list of accomplishments for the 11 winning states and the District of Columbia is getting longer, but the challenges are getting more formidable as the time frame gets shorter, according to a progress report issued by the U.S. Department of Education last week.

Those efforts, along with push by then - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Democrat - controlled legislature to gain a share of federal Race to the Top funding, led to the passage of the nation's first Parent Trigger law.

Drama and deadlines marked New Jersey's bids for funding in the first three rounds of the federal Race to the Top competition.

Weiss is the former chief of staff to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and director of the federal Race to the Top program.

OLYMPIA - With about 90 percent of districts signed on statewide, Washington joined 34 other states and the District of Columbia and met the deadline to apply for money in the second round of the federal Race to the Top competition...

Winners of federal Race to the Top grants are states undertaking admirable school reforms.

On an evaluation of the federal Race to the Top and School Improvement Grant initiatives, she was a content area expert advising on development of protocols, data collection instruments, and reports, examining how states and districts use grant funds to improve teacher quality.

As part of the federal Race to the Top grant obligation, the state will require end - of - the - year tests for every subject to help evaluate teachers whose pay and job will be tied to scores.

In 2010, 11 states and the District of Columbia received funding to develop program report cards as part of their federal Race to the Top grants.

Ohio still received its full complement of federal Race to the Top funds.

Joanne Weiss is the former chief of staff to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and director of the federal Race to the Top program.

Author Bio: Joanne Weiss, is the former chief of staff to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and director of the federal Race to the Top program.

Driven in large part by the pursuit of federal Race to the Top funds, Indiana adopted Common Core in 2010, and the decision went largely unremarked.

Districts also would be able to compete for some $ 200 million in special state grants, under a New York version of the federal Race to the Top program.

The state was prepared to use part of its federal Race to the Top money to pay Wireless Generation to develop software to track student test scores, achievement and so on, creating a system similar to the Achievement Reporting and Innovation System, or ARIS, that it developed for the city schools.

With the balance of power in the Senate at stake, the 2012 Republican and Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate in Montana spent an average of $ 41.61 per vote — one of the highest of any federal race in the country.

Cuomo championed the teacher evaluation system, which is a requirement of the federal Race To The Top grant program, through which New York won $ 700 million in 2010.

Not exact matches

Canada's federal and provincial governments are racing ahead with drastic changes to housing regulations — without having a good grasp of current reality

Mr Drake - Brockman noted that an employee who was terminated or disadvantaged by an employer for a discriminatory reason - for example, on the basis of sex, race or disability - would still be able to access «unlawful termination» remedies under the new workplace relations laws or seek redress under State and Federal anti-discrimination laws.

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.

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.

Uncertainty about the U.S. presidential race in the near term may produce periods of volatility for the U.S. dollar, yet RBC maintains that the U.S. currency will post modest gains against the Euro, Canadian dollar and sterling as markets look for a U.S. Federal Reserve policy rate increase in the first half of 2017.

As Paulson, Geithner and the Federal Reserve chairman, Ben Bernanke, raced to bail out banks and companies like A.I.G., Bair resisted, fearing that they were being overly generous by putting the interests of bondholders over those of taxpayers.

«The White House doesn't take kindly to being told they have a gender problem on their economic team,» the Washington Post «s Ezra Klein noted a few weeks ago writing about the race to succeed Ben Bernanke as the new chair of the Federal Reserve.

After losing the governor's race to Chris Christie, Mr. Corzine returned to Wall Street, presiding over the collapse of the brokerage firm MF Global and becoming a target of federal investigators.

The American Bankers Association said the lack of federal enforcement proves discrimination is not rampant, and individual lenders told Reveal that they had hired outside auditing firms, which found they treated loan applicants fairly regardless of race.

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 Daily News - Kamloops - Trudeau casts Liberals in poor light, candidate says Trudeau might be the star of the federal Liberal leadership race, but his criticisms of Alberta prove he's not the only candidate for the job, hopeful Alex Burton said Friday... Read More

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 Orangeville Banner - Liberal leadership contender stops in Orangeville Alex Burton is looking to preach outside of the usual choir targeted during the race for leader of the Federal Liberal Party... Read More

The upcoming selection of a new chairman of the Federal Reserve is being cast as a three - way race, in the sense that President Obama mentioned exactly three names in discussing the choice with Congressional Democrats: Larry Summers, Janet Yellen and Donald Kohn.

-- Having the Blue Jays in the race for the World Series at the same time as the federal election has been a bit of a boon for the Conservatives, given that they share the same colours.

But Federal Reserve Vice Chair Janet Yellen, his chief opponent in the tight race to replace Ben Bernanke at the helm of the U.S. central bank, is not exactly struggling financially.

At the federal level, the Department of Education can implement STEM as a requirement in America's classrooms, and fund more initiatives like Race to the Top, a $ 4 billion dollar program that to incentivizes states to develop next - generation educational standards.

Cordray, most recently the director of the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, was up 28 % -13 % after the previous poll showed a smaller 23 % -16 % Cordray lead, although a huge number of undecideds means the race could break in unexpected ways at the end.

Adam is the federal head of the entire human race.

The Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America renounces the pattern of segregation in race relations as unnecessary and undesirable and a violation of the gospel of love and brotherhood.

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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.

It is the policy of Linden Waldorf School to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, disability, marital status, status as a covered veteran, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status, in accordance with federal and state law, and not to discriminate on the basis thereof.