Helping our students race to the top

In July, President Barack Obama and Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education, announced guidelines for the Race to the Top Fund. This fund is a $4.3 billion competitive grant program rewarding states that have invested in education reform in the past and incentivizing states that want to create education reform initiatives in the future.

To receive a grant, states must meet certain guidelines:

• Adopt internationally-benchmarked standards and assessments that prepare students for success in college and the workplace
• Recruit, develop, retain, and reward effective teachers and principals
• Build data systems that measure student success and inform teachers and principals how they can improve
• Turn around our lowest-performing schools

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