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Fewer districts follow through with MOU
- 01-11-2010
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
A few stragglers may yet come it, but fewer than half of the 800 charter schools and school districts that had expressed interest in Race to the Top have ended up signing a Memorandum of Understanding committing to participate in the state’s competition for a piece of the $4.3 billion federal program. The state Department of Education reported 346 MOUs were in as of 11 a.m. Saturday. Many of these were individual charter schools. However, school boards in 10 of the 30 biggest districts in the state did vote to join, and they alone comprise 19 percent — 1,170,000 — of the state’s 6.2 million students. Los Angeles Unified, the largest with 687,000 students, was joined by Long Beach Unified (2nd with 88,000) and Fresno (fourth with 77,000). (more...)
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