{"id":4613,"date":"2010-04-05T13:48:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T18:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4613"},"modified":"2010-04-05T13:48:49","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T18:48:49","slug":"race-to-the-top-competition-collecting-new-opponents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4613\/race-to-the-top-competition-collecting-new-opponents\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Race to the Top&#8221; Competition Collecting New Opponents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Texas Governor Rick Perry isn\u2019t the only state official who thinks the Obama Administration\u2019s \u201cRace to the Top\u201d education funding competition is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/48-education\/490-texas-governor-rick-perry-says-no-to-obama-education-departments-race-to-the-top-initiative- \" target=\"_blank\">a game not worth the candle<\/a>.\u00a0 With 45 states participating, and 14 making the final round, only 2 states (Delaware and Tennessee) won.\u00a0 The Department of Education also announced a cap on future awards \u2013 but not on federal requirements that follow the money \u2013 prompting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/05\/education\/05top.html?emc=eta1\" target=\"_blank\">several states to reconsider before reapplying<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But there is one benefit so far:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Colorado, Van Schoales, executive director of Education Reform Now, a national advocacy group that supports Colorado\u2019s participation in the competition, said the new award limit had strengthened the hand of teachers\u2019 unions and rural school boards that, in opposing further participation, denounce federal intrusion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m surprised to see that there is a growing tide of people, an unholy alliance between unions and rural educators, who want us to say no to reapplying,\u201d Mr. Schoales said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If such an \u201cunholy alliance\u201d is what it takes to get states to kick their addiction to quick-fix federal dollars, so be it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Texas Governor Rick Perry isn\u2019t the only state official who thinks the Obama Administration\u2019s \u201cRace to the Top\u201d education funding competition is a game not worth the candle.\u00a0 With 45 states participating, and 14 making the final round, only 2 states (Delaware and Tennessee) won.\u00a0 The Department of Education also announced a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1065,1066,838,1067],"class_list":["post-4613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-department-of-education","tag-race-to-the-top","tag-rick-perry","tag-school-reform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4613"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4616,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613\/revisions\/4616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}