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Tag: Race to the Top

Ante Up

By Rougman, Section News
Posted on Wed Feb 17, 2010 at 10:49:31 PM EST
Tags: Education, Michigan, Race to the Top (all tags)

cross posted at a prognosticating Rougblog

Race to the Top is an incentive program designed by the Obama administration to encourage state departments of education to make what it feels are necessary educational reforms. The incentive is cold taxpayer cash, borrowed from the Chinese, to be repaid by the grandchildren of the kids needing a decent education.

Michigan, like forty other states and the District of Columbia, rushed to push through a number of changes to make it more likely to receive the promised cash infusions. As we all know, if there is one thing that Michigan needs, it is some free federal dollars.

Many of the worst performing school districts were all for the state's application and signed on even before their next check could bounce. Many other districts refused to sign on, particularly those who noted that the checks might come with the big fat mandates that the checks might not cover.

What is known by Lansing's elite is that there is money to be had and, by gum, that money is needed!

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