Creative Race to the Top Lawmaking
Being the federal education policy nerd that I am, I'm wading through a 367-page transcript of the technical assistance planning seminar the U.S. Department of Education held in Denver to help states understand the Race to the Top competition.
Since I attended a similar seminar in Baltimore, many of the questions were predictable.
However, I came upon one question that was particularly interesting, and foreshadowed a creative lawmaking strategy that state legislators may use to make their states more competitive for Race to the Top, but only if they win Race to the Top. The question came from Rick Miller, a deputy state education superintendent in California, and was answered by Race to the Top Director Joanne Weiss.