Posted on 08/09/2010 1:38:18 PM PDT by goldendays
How 'Race to the Top' is rewriting U.S. education WASHINGTON — When Education Secretary Arne Duncan inserted a half-page program description into the economic stimulus act last year, few except top Democratic leaders knew that it would create Race to the Top, a multibillion-dollar sweepstakes to overhaul U.S. schools that gave Duncan's department unprecedented power.
With only $4.3 billion — less than 1 percent of federal, state and local education dollars — Race to the Top is one of many small, relatively inexpensive projects that lawmakers plopped into the recovery act.
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The list, ping
When they say “Race to the Top” do they mean that racial issues are supposed to be the top priority in education?
Probably.
“The talk at the time was about this was going to be Arne Duncan’s slush fund,” said Grover “Russ” Whitehurst , a former Education Department official who’s now with The Brookings Institution , a center-left policy research organization in Washington . “I don’t think the administration knew what it was going to be or that Congress knew what it was going to do.”
Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon of California , who was then the top GOP member on the House education panel, still pleads ignorance, and called Race to the Top an “administration deal,” though he said he didn’t press for answers at a small White House education lunch in February 2009 . As Rep. Dale Kildee , D- Mich. , put it, “You could figure it out if you wanted to.”
No, it's "race to be a 'top' ....", i.e. all about adult, recruiter homosexuals' access to the kids.
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