Update: January 2010
State education officials submitted Minnesota’s official application for President Obama’s Race to the Top (RTTT) initiative with overwhelming support from the state’s schools and districts. Links to additional information provided at bottom of this page.
Tracking Progress
MMEP's mission will be influenced, hopefully to the better, by how education stimulus funds are allotted in Minnesota. MMEP leadership will be following the developments of Race to the Top spending and communicate periodic updates to MMEP members and community.
RTTT Overview
The $4.35 billion Race to the Top Fund, a component of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, is the largest ever federal competitive investment in school reform. It will reward states for past accomplishments and create incentives for future improvements. The funding criteria that the U.S. Department of Education proposed to use will challenge states to create comprehensive strategies for addressing the four central areas of reform that will drive school improvement:
· Adopting internationally benchmarked standards and assessments that prepare students for success in college and the workplace;
· Recruiting, developing, retaining, and rewarding effective teachers and principals;
· Building data systems that measure student success and inform teachers and principals how they can improve their practices; and
· Turning around our lowest-performing schools
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