Sentences with phrase «signature education initiative»

Hours after CNN reported on an internal document advising administration employees that Michelle Obama's signature education initiative would not be maintained, the White House said the program had not changed.

The Trump administration is discontinuing a signature education initiative — the «Let Girls Learn» program — championed by former first lady Michelle Obama.

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.

King and Board of Regents chancellor Merryl Tisch have long warned that amending the evaluation system could jeopardize federal funding, and not only from Race To The Top, a competitive grant program that is President Obama's signature education initiative.

Global Tech, a school where most kids are poor, black or Latino — and about 40 percent have special - needs certifications — has become a showcase for one of the Bloomberg administration's signature education initiatives: the so - called innovation zone or iZone.

But Success now finds itself in the awkward position of offering a DOE program that also happens to be de Blasio's signature education initiative.

In a new Education Next forum on Race to the Top, Rick Hess and Joanne Weiss debate the impact of the Obama administration's signature education initiative.

Race to the Top was the Obama administration's signature education initiative.

We've just marked the fifth anniversary of Race to the Top, the Obama administration's signature education initiative.

The second year of de Blasio's signature education initiative, a $ 300 million program to provide free, full - time pre-K to all New Yorkers, began this fall with troubling data suggesting that it is badly misfiring.

President Barack Obama is forcefully defending his signature education initiative, the $ 4.35 billion Race to the Top program, which has come under fire from civil rights groups that worry the competitive nature of the program creates a system of winners and losers that could hinder schools serving poor and minority students.

President Obama is slated to visit a Fairfax County school Tuesday to announce plans to seek $ 1.35 billion in his next budget to expand his signature education initiative to improve schools.

No Child Left Behind, which had strong bipartisan backing when it passed in 2001, was the signature education initiative of George W. Bush, who said the failure of public schools to teach poor students and minorities reflected the «soft bigotry of low expectations.»

The bill continues to fund Race to the Top — the Obama administration's signature education initiative — but is only providing $ 250 million for early learning challenge grants, significantly less than the $ 1 billion the administration sought.

Chicago Mayor Richard Daley said about the Obama administration's signature education initiative, Race to the Top:

His administration also is seeking money to launch a new version of «Race to the Top» competitive grants, this time aimed at reinventing high school, though the budget request doesn't refer to it as «Race to the Top» — a sign of the controversy swirling around Obama's signature education initiative.

Through Bloomberg's signature education initiative, called Bloomberg Startup, the award winners and alumni will also get access to a broad range of support including bespoke workshops and mentoring.

Expanding upon President Obama's signature education initiative, the U.S. Department of Education announced Sunday that it has finalized the application process for the 2012 Race to the Top - District competition.

Exhibiting the administration's patented disinterest in the niceties of the U.S. Constitution, he announced that he's getting ready to waive NCLB requirements for states if they agree, as the New York Times put it, «to embrace President Obama's education priorities, a formula the administration used last year in its signature education initiative, the Race to the Top grant competition.»

The city's Department of Education was forced this month to admit, in effect, that Mayor de Blasio's signature education initiative, the «Renewal Schools» program, is flailing — with students fleeing in droves.

The survey showed that the public rejects school accountability built on standardized tests, which has been federal policy through No Child Left Behind, the signature education initiative of President George W. Bush.