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Vermont will not seek federal education grant
- 04-27-2010
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By Lisa Rathke/Boston Globe
Vermont will not seek millions of dollars in a federal grant program aimed at improving failing schools, joining a handful of states in dropping out of the "Race to the Top" program despite strapped budgets. The competitive grant requires states to link teacher pay to student performance and invest in charter schools, which would require policy and legislative changes in Vermont, commissioner Armando Vilaseca said Monday. After spending hundreds of hours reviewing the application and program, the state will not apply, Vilaseca said. "When we look at it realistically with limited resources we have to make sure we put our energies and our efforts into places that we know we can be successful in and that fit what the direction of Vermont education is moving in," Vilaseca said. (more...)
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