Race to Top jitters

01-08-2010

Editorial/Ventura County Star

Change is coming to Ventura County schools, regardless of whether school districts sign a Memorandum of Understanding for the state of California’s Race to the Top application to the federal government for a one-time infusion of $700 million. In bills passed by the Legislature this week, among the changes, districts with failing schools will be required to take aggressive steps to turn their schools around and students enrolled in the state’s worst 1,000 schools would be allowed to transfer to higher-performing schools. But millions of federal dollars to assist with reforms will not be coming to school districts that pass up the opportunity to sign the MOU due to the state today. The state wants to have all the MOUs in today to meet its Jan. 19 deadline to have its application in to the federal government. (more...)

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