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Download full textNational Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2023
Ensuring students' equitable access to talented educators remains a national priority. Congress established the Teacher and School Leader (TSL) Incentive competitive grant program in 2015 to help address this goal, providing financial support to selected school districts to improve their systems for hiring, supporting, and retaining educators,…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Educational Finance, Incentive Grants, School Districts
Wellington, Alison; Gleason, Philip; Gonzalez, Naihobe; Hallgren, Kristin; Meer, Jennifer; Reid, Maya; Welch, Erin – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2023
Ensuring students' equitable access to talented educators remains a national priority. Congress established the Teacher and School Leader (TSL) Incentive competitive grant program in 2015 to help address this goal, providing financial support to selected school districts to improve their systems for hiring, supporting, and retaining educators,…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Access to Education, Incentive Grants, Federal Aid
National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2019
Four recent publications describe the progress of nine states that received Round 1 Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC) grants in implementing systems that rate early learning and development programs on quality and help them improve. These systems are known as tiered quality rating and improvement systems (TQRIS). RTT-ELC had…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
Wayne, Andrew; Garet, Michael; Wellington, Alison; Chiang, Hanley – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2018
Having a more effective teacher or principal can substantially improve students' academic outcomes. The Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) program, established in 2006, provided competitive grants to help states and districts implement a multi-strategy approach to enhancing educator effectiveness. TIF grantees were required to measure educator…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Improvement, Change Strategies, Incentive Grants
Fox, Lindsay; McCullough, Moira; Caronongan, Pia; Herrmann, Mariesa – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2019
The Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC) grants program, sponsored by the U.S. Departments of Education and Health and Human Services, aimed to improve children's access to high quality early care and education. RTT-ELC awarded more than $1 billion over three rounds of grants to help states develop and implement systems that rate…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
Herrmann, Mariesa; Kirby, Gretchen; Deutsch, Jonah; Wolfendale, Clare; Esposito, Andrea Mraz; Caronongan, Pia Carmina; Dragoset, Lisa – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2019
The Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC) grants program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education (ED) and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), aimed to increase the number of high quality early learning and development programs. RTT-ELC awarded $520 million in the first of three rounds of grants to help states…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
Kirby, Gretchen; Herrmann, Mariesa; Wolfendale, Clare; Esposito, Andrea Mraz – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2019
The Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC) grants program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, aimed to improve children's access to high quality early learning and development programs. RTT-ELC awarded $520 million in the first of three rounds of grants to help states…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
Kirby, Gretchen; Caronongan, Pia; Esposito, Andrea Mraz; Murphy, Lauren; Shoji, Megan; Del Grosso, Patricia; Kiambuthi, Wamaitha; Clark, Melissa; Dragoset, Lisa – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2017
This report focuses on the progress made and challenges faced by the nine states in achieving the first three objectives for which they were held accountable for use of their Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge (RTTELC) funds. It discusses discrete findings related to these objectives in relevant chapters of the report: Tiered Quality Rating…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Accountability, Audits (Verification), Efficiency
