History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
Youth Voice in School Finance
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Without Dollars and Sense Powerpoint
Past Educational Opportunity Reports
We lost again in Race to the Top. Now what?
- 08-25-2010
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Blog by Corey G. Johnson/California Watch
Well, as of yesterday, the final bell rung on California's foray into Race to the Top. And the results were sobering: After two stabs at hundreds of millions in federal dollars, there's no cash to show for it. The winners were Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island and the District of Columbia. California hoped to gain up to $700 million. Now larger questions loom. What does the twice-abysmal performance say about the current state of California education? Will the results spur California education leaders to do a major self-reflection or a systemwide reassessment? Or will the state chug along on the same course at the same pace, as if Race to the Top never happened? Official comments about what worked and what didn't in California's application will be accessible sometime today. (more…)
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