For a good shot at the $4 billion in grants from the federal Race to the Top Fund, states will need to make a persuasive case for their education reform agenda, demonstrate significant buy-in from local school districts, …
Read Original Story: Rules Set for $4 Billion 'Race to Top' Contest – Education Week News (subscription)
WASHINGTON — A handful of states stand to win significant federal funding to revamp schools and impose strict testing standards under an Obamaadministration effort to alter educational practices across the country. …
Read Original Story: Stimulus to Reward States That Overhaul School Systems – Wall Street Journal
Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) — The US Education Department’s finalrules in a competition for $4.35 billion in education stimulus grants include union-backed changes to teacher- assessment requirements. The Obamaadministration wants public …
Read Original Story: Teacher Unions Win Changes in US Education Grant Rules – Bloomberg
WASHINGTON (AP) – More stimulus money will be available for schools, but there will be more strings attached. Education Secretary Arne Duncan says they’re making it tougher because the administration wants states to adopt President Barack Obama’s …
Read Original Story: Latest stim money to come with strings – WOOD-TV
Education Secretary Arne Duncan, shown in a September photo, called the program a "game-changer." (Matt Rourke/associated Press) By Nick Anderson Educators argue endlessly about the merits of one idea or another to improve schools. …
Read Original Story: Scoring system for school aid – Washington Post
President Barack Obama says American kids spend too little time in school, putting them at a disadvantage with other students around the globe. The president, who has a sixth-grader and a third-grader, wants schools to add time to classes, …
Read Original Story: The New NYC High School? – Examiner.com
Three months after provoking an outpouring of criticism with preliminary plans for the nation’s largest competitive education grant program, the Obamaadministration has added flexibility in the finalrules, released Wednesday, …
Read Original Story: After Criticism, the Administration Is Praised for Final Rules on Education Grants – New York Times
WASHINGTON — States are jockeying for a new $5 billion pot of education money even before the contest has begun. The Obamaadministration was opening the competition Thursday for grants for ideas like charter schools or judging teachers based on …
Read Original Story: Obama uses school dollars to prod states to change – The Associated Press
The federal Department of Education released final guidelines for its competitive $4.3 billion Race to the Top grant program this evening, with the eligibility requirement that could ban New York State from applying for the funds still …
Read Original Story: Final Race to the Top guidelines keep rule that may exclude NY – GothamSchools
Nebraska schools earned two F’s and one A in a national report that calls the US education system “archaic and broken.” The system is a relic of a time when high school graduates could expect to live prosperous lives, when steel and auto …
Read Original Story: Bad report card for schools – Omaha World-Herald
