Education Week reports (subscription) that only 40 states applied for Race to the Top funding from the federal government.
Reasons for not applying varied, but a general theme for many of the 10 states was not wanting federal intrusion into state operations, whether that involved mandating education policies that might not work or a general dislike of federal interference in a states’ rights area.
Kentucky, of course, is lined up at the trough, though its submission is anything but a shoe-in.
Aside from not having any charter schools, Kentucky also has its fouled up MUNIS financial accounting system. Race to the Top is supposed to require a lot of fiscal accountability, and that will be hard to provide unless MUNIS gets fixed quickly.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Ten states not wallowing at the Race to the Top Trough
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Those states not lined up at the trough for the RTTT probably can't be found in the bottom of the heap with most child abuse, number of females under 25 without college degrees or not married with children, high unemployment, estimated 16% of population living in poverty including one-out-of-4 children under five years of age * one-out-of-five seniors, inadequate opportunities,stagnated personal income.
Kentucky need not thak any of it's elected past officials; Mitch McConnell, Jim Bunning, Julian Carroll, John Y. Brown, Collins, Wilkinson, Patton, Jones, Fletcher and Beshear.
Join the team rather than trying to be an obstructionists. We have more of them than Ky needs. Stop this culture in state government of bringing home the bacon the the home folks and do it for Kentucky.
RE: Anonymous Jan 26 at 8:50 AM
I'm having trouble understanding some of your thoughts due to some typos and grammatical issues.
Your speculation that states not lined up at the trough are not near the bottom of the heap isn't completely correct. Here is the list of the 10 states: Alaska, Maryland, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Texas, Vermont, and Washington. As I pointed out recently (http://bluegrasspolicy-blog.blogspot.com/2010/01/is-kentuckys-poverty-rate-really.html) Texas and Mississippi both have notably higher poverty rates than Kentucky.
I hope you will clarify what you are trying to say in your last paragraph.
Are you upset because local politicians are always going after the "bacon," or do you think this is a good idea?
Also, which team do you want people to join -- the team that doesn't like expensive handouts from DC that taxpayers can't afford, or the one that wants all the "pork" it can get?
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