Education Next – Paul Peterson
“The $4.35 billion or so dollars spent on the Obama Administration’s Race to the Top (RttT), coupled with the extra billion now proposed by the president, is small beer compared to the $75 billion dollars that the stimulus package handed over to local school districts for programming as usual. Yet the Administration has succeeded in persuading the allegedly skeptical, tough-minded reporters in Washington that RttT is the biggest federal education program ever mounted.”(more)