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The news is out, Washington state is one of the winners of the Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC). What does it mean, you ask? Washington state, along with California, Minnesota, Ohio, North Carolina, Maryland, Delaware, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island will share $500 million dollars to go towards early learning initiatives. That’s a [...]
The race is on again! And this time Washington State is serious contender. A couple of months back, Congress announced new funding for Race to the Top. In total, Congress appropriated $700 million, of which a whopping $500 million is set aside specifically for early learning – the Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge [...]
President Obama tied our nation’s future to our ability to “out-educate and out-innovate” the rest of the world in his State of the Union address last night. Obama dedicated roughly a third of his remarks to education, citing a statistic we often use–that half of all new jobs in the next decade will require training [...]
As we continue to read through the pages (and pages) of reviewer comments on Washington’s Race to the Top (R2T), phase 2 application, here’s a look at each state’s scores as percent of points possible, and rank. Ranks in the top 10 in each category and overall are shaded gray, and there’s a trend among R2T [...]
Yesterday the U.S. Department of Education annouced the 10 winners of the second round of Race to the Top (R2T), along with all applicants’ scores. Today the scores breakdown and reviewers comments were released (Washington’s are here and here). We will continue to pour over the pages of information, but here’s some initial takeaways: There is a [...]
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan named 10 winners in the second round of the Race to the Top competition today. The round two winners are the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, and Rhode Island. About $3.4 billion in federal funding will be divided among these states [...]
This week, the U.S. Department of Education selected 18 states and the District of Columbia as finalists in round two of Race to the Top. These states will compete for $3.4 billion in federal funding to innovate and reform their public schools. The winners are expected to be announced in September. The Partnership for Learning [...]
What lessons should we learn about our efforts to win a Race to the Top grant? Peter Callaghan from the Tacoma News Tribune pinpoints some of them in his column today. Here’s an excerpt below. Wouldn’t it be better to pass a great bill than a good bill? Probably. But Gregoire had developed a strategy [...]
Having sat out round one, Washington’s round two application for Race to the Top funds fell short of making it as a finalist. Disappointing? Yes. Surprising? Not so much. While we’ve pressed hard for real change in our system statewide, Washington started well behind the most competitive states, and in a strategy that sadly mirrors [...]
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