Sentences with phrase «signature competitive grant»

For about a dozen states, including Tennessee, those changes began with the administration's signature competitive grant, Race to the Top, which offered states a piece of a $ 4.35 billion pie in exchange for adopting a range of significant education policy changes.

Its signature competitive grant programs require states to ease restrictions on charter schools.

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Ball has also co-sponsored a bill to ditch the Common Core altogether, along with the federal competitive grant program Race To The Top, which is President Obama's signature education initiative.

New York received a $ 750 million competitive grant award in 2010 as part of President Barack Obama's signature education initiative.

Tennessee's intensive Common Core coaching effort — the largest and most expensive in the country — is just one item on a laundry list of commitments the state made in order to win a slice of the $ 4 billion Race to the Top grant, the Obama administration's signature competitive education program.