May 31, 2011, 12:05 AM
The governor's office and the California Department of Education are pondering whether to participate in a new version of the federal "Race to the Top" competition. The U.S. Department of Education announced last week that California and eight other states could vie...
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October 11, 2010, 12:05 AM
The long effort to create a system to track the progress of students from kindergarten through college and into the workplace received another setback when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger eliminated $6.8 million in state funds intended for the project. * This is the second major setback for the...
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August 25, 2010, 12:05 AM
Well, as of yesterday, the final bell rung on California's foray into Race to the Top. And the results were sobering: After two stabs at hundreds of millions in federal dollars, there's no cash to show for it. The winners were Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New...
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August 24, 2010, 12:05 AM
UPDATE: California's application for Race to the Top education bonuses was rejected this morning by the U.S. Department of Education. **** As California educators wait anxiously to hear whether the state will be awarded funds from the $4.3 billion Race to the Top...
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June 11, 2010, 12:44 AM
Facing tough competition from other states, California has been denied education stimulus funds twice in the past three months by the U.S. Department of Education. The culprit? Not politics, say federal officials. Not a belief that California is too far gone to be saved. Rather, officials say...
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May 26, 2010, 12:11 AM
On the state's bandwagon for federal reform dollars, many teachers' unions are noticeably absent. The deadline passed Friday for unions, school districts and charter schools to sign agreements indicating their willingness to implement the state's prescribed reforms and participate...
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May 24, 2010, 12:08 AM
It was bad enough that California, with a population of 36.9 million, was rejected by the Obama administration in its request for hundreds of millions of dollars in federal education Race to the Top funds. In that grant competition, Delaware and Tennessee, with populations of only 885,000 and...
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May 7, 2010, 12:04 AM
Still smoldering over a disappointing showing in round one, California has decided to take one more stab at the hundreds of millions of dollars offered in the federal Race to the Top contest. The state's new strategy involves showcasing school districts in LA, San Francisco, Long Beach,...
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