History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
Youth Voice in School Finance
NEW REPORT: Los Angeles' road to A-G for all
Without Dollars and Sense Powerpoint
Past Educational Opportunity Reports
Assembly bill to State: Keep hands off bulk of Race to the Top dollars
- 12-04-2009
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
Assembly Education Committee Chairwoman Julia Brownley may be offering what it takes to pique school districts’ interest in the federal Race to the Top competition: a promise of more money. Her bill, ABX5-8, would require that at least 80 percent of dollars from the Race to the Top be reserved for school districts. That’s 30 percentage points more than the minimum of 50 percent that the federal regulations call for. That would mean a lot less money for the Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell and the state Department of Education, which may have been coveting a very green Obama Christmas. California, in theory, could be entitled to as much as $700 million in one-time money under the $4.3 billion program, assuming it submitted a spectacular application. So the districts could get as much as $560 million. (more...)
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