{"id":21694,"date":"2014-03-19T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=21694"},"modified":"2014-03-19T11:38:49","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T15:38:49","slug":"florida-still-has-lengthy-to-do-list-for-federal-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2014\/03\/19\/florida-still-has-lengthy-to-do-list-for-federal-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Still Has Lengthy To-Do List For Federal Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21695\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"The U.S. Department of Education says Florida is one of those kids in the back when it comes to meeting the requirements of its $700 million Race to the Top grant.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/03\/3-19-KidsRacing.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21695\" alt=\"The U.S. Department of Education says Florida is one of those kids in the back when it comes to meeting the requirements of its $700 million Race to the Top grant.\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/03\/3-19-KidsRacing-300x198.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/03\/3-19-KidsRacing-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/03\/3-19-KidsRacing-620x409.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/03\/3-19-KidsRacing.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Studio H (Chris) \/ Flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The U.S. Department of Education says Florida is one of those kids in the back when it comes to meeting the requirements of its $700 million Race to the Top grant.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The U.S. Department of Education says Florida trails other states in meeting the requirements of its $700 million federal Race to the Top grant, <em>Education Week<\/em> reports. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edweek.org\/ew\/articles\/2014\/03\/19\/26rtt.h33.html\">From the story<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yet even with billions of dollars and the political cover that came with winning a grant, the annual reports show that states still struggle mightily with how to improve teacher evaluations and the profession as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>The 2013-14 school year is, for the most part, the final year of implementation for the four-year, state-level contest that has become one of the administration\u2019s most important domestic policy initiatives. And Race to the Top will certainly be a key piece of Secretary Duncan\u2019s K-12 legacy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Even though much of the work is supposed to be completed, some states still have lengthy to-do lists, including Florida, which has experienced big delays in implementing common-core-aligned interim and final assessments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Education says Florida trails other states in meeting the requirements of its $700 million federal Race to the Top grant, Education Week reports. From the story: Yet even with billions of dollars and the political cover that came with winning a grant, the annual reports show that states still struggle mightily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":21695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[1157,1017,1119],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21694"}],"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=21694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21697,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21694\/revisions\/21697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}