Race to the Top: Education Money Awarded

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Remember the brouhaha about the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s grants to a small number of states to help them apply for Race to the Top moneys from the U.S. Department of Education? There was lots of criticism, which got the Gates Foundation to expand the availability of its support to more states.

The results are now in. Only two states out of 41 that applied got the awards—Tennessee for $500 million and Delaware for $100 million, leaving the bulk of the money ($3.4 billion) for a second round of applications, due on June 1st.

Did the Gates money help? Although many of the finalists were recipients of Gates support, only Tennessee made it to the finish line this week. Delaware wasn’t on the Gates list. What happened? This one is like telling the future from chicken entrails.

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