{"id":15139,"date":"2012-11-28T12:11:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=15139"},"modified":"2012-11-28T12:11:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T17:11:03","slug":"five-florida-districts-selected-as-race-to-the-top-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/11\/28\/five-florida-districts-selected-as-race-to-the-top-finalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Florida Districts Selected As Race To The Top Finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15140\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 224px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/11\/28\/five-florida-districts-selected-as-race-to-the-top-finalists\/11-28-racetothetop\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15140\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15140\" title=\"11-28 RaceToTheTop\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/11\/11-28-RaceToTheTop-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/11\/11-28-RaceToTheTop-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/11\/11-28-RaceToTheTop.jpg 374w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">peapodsquadmom \/ Flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Five Florida school districts are finalists in the latest round of Race to the Top grants.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Five Florida districts have been chosen as <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/programs\/racetothetop-district\/index.html\">finalists for a total of $400 million in federal Race to the Top grants.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Broward, Charlotte, Manatee, Miami-Dade, and Seminole county schools were among the 61 finalists chosen from 372 applications. The department expects to award 15 to 25 grants, which will be announced by year&#8217;s end.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/programs\/racetothetop-district\/rttd-applicants.pdf\">The Florida Virtual School and 27 Florida school districts &#8212; some in partnership &#8212; applied for the grants.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The grants are intended &#8220;to support locally developed plans to personalize and deepen student learning, directly improve student achievement and educator effectiveness, close achievement gaps, and prepare every student for success in college and careers,&#8221; according to the agency. <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/programs\/racetothetop-district\/2012-fast-facts.pdf\">For more details on what the agency is looking for, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese finalists are setting the curve for the rest of the country with innovative plans to drive education reform in the classroom,\u201d U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said in a statement. \u201cThis competition was designed to support local efforts to close the achievement gap and transform the learning environment in a diverse set of districts, but no matter who wins, children across the country will benefit from the clear vision and track records of success demonstrated by these finalists.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five Florida districts have been chosen as finalists for a total of $400 million in federal Race to the Top grants. Broward, Charlotte, Manatee, Miami-Dade, and Seminole county schools were among the 61 finalists chosen from 372 applications. The department expects to award 15 to 25 grants, which will be announced by year&#8217;s end. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":15140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1017,670],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}