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Top White House strategist Kellyanne Conway on Thursday wouldn't say whether President Trump will discipline her after a watchdog group said she violated federal ethics law by endorsing a Republican candidate in an Alabama Senate race.

Out of the top ten races with the most outside spending, the Chamber was the highest spender among non-disclosing groups in five races.

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Wilshere will be pleased, of course, that England are now back on course to not only qualify but top their group but he must also be a bit pleased that his rival has so far failed to nail down his place and has been a shadow of the player he was for the spuds as they chased Leicester City in the Premier League title race.

Racing, who are top of Group 8 with two wins from two games, face Peruvians Sporting Cristal at the Estadio Juan Domingo Peron in their third game.

Where the Varsity Boys race had a group of four off the front and coming to the final few turns together, the Varsity Girls race appeared to be more of an individual effort where each girl put the hammer down until one after another the cracks developed and the top five each came in with daylight between them after 18 + miles.

But McLaren is willing to enter that group and I think in the next couple of races hopefully we forget the middle group and we look forward to [joining] that privileged three top teams.

This season, United may not be happy about competing from the group stages of Europe's secondary competition, but it is a trophy the club have never won, so Jose Mourinho may look into having a go at winning it now the winner's gain UEFA Champions League qualification, which may come in handy should the race for top four be as competitive as it was last season.

'' The next issue of Athletics Weekly, out on Thursday April 25, features in - depth coverage from the 2013 Virgin London Marathon, including elite race coverage, wheelchair races, top age - group performances and Mini Marathon action.

Spending in the race from the independent expenditure groups could top $ 1 million in addition to the seven - figure expenditures from the campaigns themselves in what is shaping up to be one of the costliest Senate campaigns in years.

Education Reform Now, a coalition of groups pushing for changes that would improve New York's chances at landing «Race to the Top» funds, launched a statewide TV ad that blasts the teachers union for the state's Round I failure.

Here's yet another TV ad from the pro-charter school group Education Reform Now, which is pushing Albany to raise the charter cap in advance of the next «Race to the Top» funding application deadline on June 1.

Moving the horse racing at Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park, Queens, to Belmont Park in Elmont is one of the top policy priorities of Long Island's largest business group.

The Long Island swing district is on Democrats» radar as a top target and has drawn early attention from outside groups, indicative of the likely high level of spending that will pour into the race during the 2016 cycle.

The report also reveals the number of Medicaid recipients by age and race, the growth rate of enrollees per year, the average cost per enrollee per demographic group, and the top twelve local zip codes for number of recipients.

Trump's absence in North Carolina might seem strange, but in many of the dozen top Senate races this election, leading Democratic groups and candidates have avoided using the GOP presidential nominee in their paid media campaigns.

The poll indicates that while some voters are concerned by allegations that Cuomo's top aide discouraged the commission from investigating groups linked to the governor, the episode hasn't significantly altered the race.

The race for New York's newly drawn 19th District was a top priority for both major parties and attracted heavy spending by outside groups.

While not every Democratic member who lost in 2010 will be a top priority recruit for Israel, staying in touch with such a wide group of former members allows him to gauge levels of interest and push the right buttons for those who the DCCC wants in races.

Two House Democratic groups are stepping into a California race just weeks before the June 7 top - two primary to make the case that the Republican, an immigrant from Lebanon, is no different from Donald Trump.

Democrats and Republicans have identified the 22nd Congressional District race as one of their top priorities in the 2018 mid-term election, and the national parties and special - interest groups are expected to spend millions on the race.

The Common Core standards were developed by a group of state education leaders but promoted by the federal government, particularly through Race To The Top, a nationwide competitive grant program that required the adoption of standards that boost college - and career - readiness.

And in 2013, Democrats defeated NRA - backed candidates in the top three statewide races in Virginia, where the gun - rights group is based.

In 2012, NRA - backed candidates lost in six of the top seven Senate races the group targeted.

In other news this week, Republicans learned that a GOP - leaning outside group, American Crossroads, is exceeding its fundraising goals and will spend additional money on top House races.

It's also not lost on observers that Education Reform Now, the group that has been running an ad campaign accusing the UFT of blocking a measure to lift the charter school cap and causing the state to lose out in the first round of «Race to the Top» cash, is being repped by KnickerbockerSKD — a firm that also works for Bloomberg.

Hanna has received the majority of endorsements in the race from top Republican groups and business organizations across the district.

By pitting sperm from the two species against each other in a race to the top of a test tube, Hopi Hoekstra, a Harvard University evolutionary geneticist, and her group found that the fastest sperm are ones that have tails with a longer midsection.

Recently, Steph finished in the top - 3 for her age group in the NYRR's Jingle Bell Jog (2016), Al Gordon (2017), and Brooklyn R - U-N 5K (2017) races.

We also determined the results of stratified analysis by age group (< 60 years vs ≥ 60 years), sex, race / ethnicity, educational attainment (< 12 vs ≥ 12 years), physical activity (≥ 5 times / wk of moderate - intensity vs vigorous activities vs others), HEI score (top 50 % [score ≥ 63.5] vs other), and BMI (normal vs overweight / obese).

Many similar groups will likely be collecting input to aid state officials on the Race to the Top applications.

As with Race to the Top, we tend to roll out reforms broadly, with no comparison group in mind, and hope for the best.

• Hope Street Group, a consulting firm that was instrumental in formulating Race to the Top, sponsors a Teaching Fellows program that awards $ 5,000 stipends for teachers who are involved in implementing reforms, such as rigorous teacher evaluations, in their respective states.

While the nation seemed transfixed by No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, and Common Core State Standards, «one of the most wide - ranging reforms in public education» during that time, according to a group of researchers from Duke and MIT, «was the reorganization of large comprehensive high schools into small schools» in New York City.

Under the umbrella of Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) the group coordinated a major effort in 2010 to urge the New York State legislature to lift a charter school cap that had been a stumbling block in the state's first bid to win a federal Race to the Top (RttT) grant.

Moreover, if a group of schools run by the same nonprofit — for example, an outstanding CMO — wanted to apply for, say, Race to the Top — District, it couldn't.

The Hope Street Group is a national think tank and consulting firm that formulated the language for the Obama administration's Race to the Top grant program.

Gates is a major supporter of the Hope Street Group, a national think tank and consulting firm that formulated the language for the Obama administration's Race to the Top grant program, which is opposed by many teachers and union leaders.

Republicans and Education (10/15/10) After Rhee (10/7/10) At the Movies with Paul and Checker (10/1/10) Race to the Top Round 2 (8/9/10) Common Standards Remarkably Uncontroversial (8/9/10) After Bucking Unions, Obama Administration Breaks Ranks with Civil Rights Groups over Charter Schools (8/4/10) Virtual Education and Common Core Standards (6/23/10) Bang for the Buck from Race to the Top (6/16/10) Teacher Bailout Bill, R.I.P.?

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.»

To recap, thanks largely to Race to the Top incentives (a cool $ 700 million), a group of New York State reformers, including the state's Commissioner of Education and its Chancellor (the head of the Board of Regents) had pushed for teacher evaluation reforms that included linking those evaluations to student performance.

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.

He then argues that unless the federal government is very careful, the forces and factors that led to these distressing spending patterns — like huge state budget deficits, local resistance to federal education guidance, and interest group focus on jobs — could similarly influence the Race to the Top, compromising its ultimate impact.

Intense small - group activity as students race in adding algebraic expressions to the top of the pyramid.

Due to the highly technical nature of the Race to the Top Assessment Competition, the Department sent invitations to two groups of individuals to serve as peer reviewers: 1) experts who served as panelists for the Race to the Top Assessment public meetings (these were nominated by the director of the National Academies of Sciences» Board on Testing and Assessment, by the U. S. Department of Education's National Technical Advisory Council chair, and / or by Department experts); and 2) persons experienced as peer reviewers in the Title I review of State assessment systems (all recruited on the basis of assessment expertise).

The testing groups Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers and Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium are developing exams for students» mastery of those standards using Race to the Top money.

In addition to the Race to the Top program, which rewarded some states for adopting the standards, the Obama administration gave more than $ 350 million dollars to two groups to develop Common Core tests.

Prior to serving as a reviewer for the U.S. Department of Education in the 2010 and 2012 Race to the Top competitions, he served on the department's Working Group for Postsecondary Linkage Efforts to Improve College Readiness and on the independent Annenberg Commission on Public Schools for their Institutions of Democracy Project.

State officials said they may be interested in directing part of their Race to the Top money to groups of districts where they believe the most good can be done.

States and education groups are curious about whether, if they win a grant, they can award a portion of their Race to the Top money to a select group of school districts, or if they have to dole out money to all of them.