The only Indiana school district to make it to the final round of the Race to the Top competition will receive approximately $28.5 million from the federal grant program, the U.S. Department of Education announced Wednesday. The Metropolitan School District of Warren Township was one of 16 school districts selected from more than 300 applicants. [...]
Of 24 Indiana school districts who initially applied for a Race To The Top grant, MSD Warren Township is the only one still in the running.
The notion that schools need to use technology to personalize instruction also happens to be the same idea behind the nationwide Race To The Top competition.
The previous Race To The Top competition — the original, started back in 2010 — has hit snags in a few states who’ve run into trouble implementing similar “strings-attached” policies.
23 Indiana school corporations have formally expressed interest in applying for a share in a $400 million pot of federal money at stake in a nationwide competition for school districts called Race To The Top. Obama administration officials will dole out the cash to districts who most impress them by “demonstrat[ing] how they can personalize education [...]
President Obama delivered a shot heard ’round the higher education world during his State of the Union address Tuesday. “Let me put colleges and universities on notice,” the President told Congress. “If you can’t stop tuition from going up, the funding you get from taxpayers will go down.” To carry out this vision, we learned [...]
With re-writes of the unpopular No Child Left Behind law stalled in Congress, President Obama could turn to the issue during his State of the Union address Tuesday night. It would be a logical step leading into a re-election campaign which might be driven as much by what Congress failed to do as it is by what the President managed to achieve during his last 4 years in office.
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