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Jan 20 | ESEA Template: Race toTop

Most of the money allocated to US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan from the reauthorized Elementary and Secondary Education Act may prove to be more difficult to access than the funds he has available to him through the No Child Left Behind Act. Why? It appears that most of the money will be allocated by formula instead of competition.

Advocates for education in our nations capital suggest that there will be four familiar themes from the upcoming re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act which will incorporate four assurances of improvement efforts that the ACT will demand from states hoping to tap economic-stimulus aid. School officials want to stabilize their budgets when tapping into the $4 billion in Race to the Top Funds grants.

Familiar Four Themes Are:

1) Turn around lowest-performing schools

2) Bolster state data systems in order to link K - 12 systems with early learning, high education, workforce, social services and other state data.

3) Improve teacher quality and the distribution of effective teachers.

4) Strengthen standards and assessments.

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