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California's big whiff on education-reform money
- 04-08-2010
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By Jason S. Mandell/LA Weekly
For a minute there, it looked as if California might finally begin stitching up a few gaping wounds in its education system. State officials had spent much of the winter drafting reforms included in a proposal that they believed would charm Obama's Department of Education into handing over up to $700 million in "Race to the Top" funds. "I thought we had a really good shot," says Rick Miller, then–deputy superintendent of the Department of Education, who helped write the application to the feds. Miller and lots of influential players, from the media to politicians, were blindly optimistic about where California stood with Obama and his education czar, Arne Duncan. (more...)
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