On Monday, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced that Delaware and Tennessee won grants in the first phase of the Race to the Top competition. Delaware will receive approximately $100 million and Tennessee will receive $500 million over the next four years to implement their reform plans.
The winning states included plans for plans such as tying teacher evaluation to student performance, charter schools and STEM. They also received approval of their applications from every school district in their states, and got support from nearly all of their teachers’ unions.
The Department will have about $3.4 billion available for the second phase of the Race to the Top competition.
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