History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
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Past Educational Opportunity Reports
State on no one’s Race to the Top short list
- 03-02-2010
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
Word in the education blogosphere is that the Department of Education will announce the finalists for Race to the Top competition on Thursday, and none of the handicappers – surprise! – has listed California among them. The finalists –likely a dozen or fewer states – will be invited to make their pitch in person in Washington on March 15, with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announcing the winners of the first round in April. The losers – the large majority of the 40 states and District of Columbia that applied for a piece of the $4.35 billion prize – will each get an eight-to-10 page critique of their applications and an invitation to apply for the second round for whatever money is left over. (more...)
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