California loses bid for federal Race to the Top education grant

08-24-2010

Blog by Howard Blume/Los Angeles Times

California has fallen short in its bid to win a controversial federal Race to the Top school-reform grant. The winners, just confirmed by federal officials, are Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island and the District of Columbia. Had they prevailed, participating California school systems stood to receive as much as $700 million. The Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation's second-largest school system, was in line for about $120 million; Long Beach Unified would have received at least $18 million. The Obama administration created the competitive grant program to spur its vision of reform nationwide. A total of $3.4 billion was available. In California, school districts had pledged to pursue reforms that included linking teacher evaluations to the standardized test scores of their students. The grant application committed them to using this test-score analysis for at least 30% of a teacher's evaluation. (more…)

Also: Education Week, Washington Post

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