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A Roadmap for California’s Race to the Top Application

April 20, 2010 at 8:30 pm arunramanathan Leave a comment

We’re tired of waiting for California’s leaders to signal  their plans for Round Two of Race to the Top. We’re the largest state in the nation. We have the largest student population, the largest achievement gaps and the biggest budget deficit. We’re in sore need of education reform focused on shifting our educational system from satisfying the needs of adults to meeting the needs of children. We have a chance to present the federal government with an application and a plan that leverages the best that California has to offer in education reform and have a chance at significant federal dollars in a time of budget crisis. Yet, we still have no idea whether our state’s education leaders are going to develop and submit a second round application.

Today, we released our easy to follow roadmap for California’s second round application. To construct this roadmap, we analyzed the comments of the reviewers of California’s application, the applications of the winning states Delaware and Tennessee and top-scoring applications from Florida, Illinois and New York. If our leaders needed a blueprint  to get them started, they have one now. If they needed a roadmap to figure out where to go for revisions and reforms, they have one now. The clock is ticking. The deadline is little more than a month away. There’s no more time to waste.

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