Race to the Top - Finalists Announced Today
August 24, 2010
The announcement of Race to the Top awardees today: Washington, D.C., Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, and Rhode Island - marks the most significant milestone yet of President Obama's signature education reform initiative.
The change unleashed by conditioning federal funding on bold and forward-looking state education policies is indisputable. Under the President's leadership, local civil rights, child advocacy, business, and education reform groups, in collaboration with those state and local teacher unions ready for change, sprung into action to achieve things that they had been waiting and wanting to do for years.
Read more of our analysis of the changes brought about thus far by Race to the Top across the 50 states in our Policy Briefs and Memo Section
