Race To The Top Faltering?

From Fox News: "President Obama’s $4 billion education initiative to spur school reform has become a veritable piñata as the program heads into its second round. Not only has Congress raided the account to pay for teacher layoffs to be averted, prompting a White House veto threat of the war supplemental to which it’s attached, but there’s a quiet rebellion going on by some in the education community to ditch the program. So why has the contest lost some of its shine? According to the ranking member on the House Education and Labor Committee, it’s a loss of confidence in the system.
“Competition is generally a good thing,” says Minnesota Republican Representative John Kline. “The question is fair, whose doing the judging? How’s the point system put together? Let’s face it, in anything like this where you have judges, whether it’s an Olympic diving competition or something like this, you have some subjectivity. In your state you would like to know what the rules are and want as little subjectivity as possible.”
Minnesota recently joined eight other states in opting out the second round of the contest."
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As I stated in a previous post, this is evil money.
With No Child Left Behind, there was a goal to get as many kids to be proficient int he basics as possible. It was a good program until it's goals became unrealistic, like saying 100% of students will be proficient. That's impossible and that is why NCLB, while starting good has ended up as a failure.
The Race To The Top is just a liberal education fad and it is not realistic. Why should states have to compete against each other? If everyone meets a certain standard, everyone should share in the pie. It should tell you something that 8 states won't even bother putting in applications.
The Race To The Top money is evil and Nevada shouldn't even bother going after it. We are just jumping through hoops and for what? Being told by Washington D.C. how to run our school districts and our schools. For me, no thank you.