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Good try but no Race to the Top award
- 08-25-2010
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
Sixteenth place California came up six spots and 17.3 points short of getting a big piece of the $3.4 billion second round of Race to the Top. But its big improvement from the first-round application prompted U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to tell reporters Tuesday that he was “sad and disappointed” there wasn’t enough money in the pot for California – and for several other states with promising school reforms that ranked just out of the money. Duncan, who also awarded $600 million in the first round to two states – Delaware and Tennessee – has asked Congress for an additional $1.35 billion for a third round next year. (more…)
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