'Race to the Top' winners announced

[charlie and algernon]

Source: CNN.com

Washington (CNN) -- The District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, and Rhode Island are all to receive a portion of the $3.4 billion remaining in the "Race to the Top" fund for education in those states.

"Race to the Top" is an Obama administration initiative to award money to states that show that they have a plan for school reforms in four main areas: turning around low performing schools, adopting college and career ready standards, effective teachers and principals, and using data systems to support student achievement.

Tennessee and Delaware both won grants under the program in the first round which was announced earlier this year.

For the second round, the Department of Education announced that it would be limiting the amount that any given state can receive. The limits are based on the student population of that state. So, large states like New York and Florida can receive as much as $700 million while smaller states like Hawaii, Rhode Island, and the District of Columbia are limited to $75 million grants.


Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/08/24/schools.winners/

[Scurrilous]

1. K & R

:thumbsup:

[kwassa]

2. we can get up to $250 million here in Maryland

I wonder how much we will get and how it will be allocated.

[mike r]

3. How much of that is going to the pockets of charlatans like Jeffrey Hernandez

and their corrupt patrons in the school districts?

[nyy1998]

4. Congrats to all those states(and district).

Interested to see what plan on DC put forward.

[w4rma]

5. A list of states getting their public education systems screwed over.

Will this money actually be used on education, or just to convert public schools to money taking charter school schemes?

I'm happy to say that my state, Virginia, did not even participate in this farce.

[denverbill]

6. Too late for that in CO.

The Democratic legislature rammed through some changes on the theory that if we implemented them, it would increase our chances of 'winning' RTTT funds. And of course, we didn't win anyway.

[w4rma]

9. Damn. They screwed up. I hope they fix their mistake. (nt)

[hack89]

11. Rhode Island screwed over their education system a long time ago

we are the poster child for why the status quo is broken.

[izquierdista]

7. Video of the winning principals

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hly0vuXPG-M

[Lifelong Protester]

8. Watch out for the poisonous barbs embedded in those

lofty sounding goals.

I'm fed up with money being handed out in competitive grants. Criteria, yes, competition, no. The former gives everyone a chance, the latter for sure creates a losing class.

Which children are not worthy, I ask?

[mbperrin]

10. So if these are winners, everyone else is a loser.

What a nice philosophy of education. Labels all around!

[alp227]

12. I live in California, and California lost

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/08/24/BA6J1F2HOM.DTL

But then again these funds are tied directly to the Obama admin sham reforms like charter expansions anyway. And California still hasn't completed its budget, and the school system is going near bankrupt with pretty much everything besides the basic classes getting chopped.