Race to Top: In Defense of New Jersey
New Jersey state officials, and Gov. Chris Christie's administration in particular, have taken a beating over the state's failed Race to the Top application, and a crucial error that may have cost them $400 million.
Now an official from a schools organization offers a spirted defense of the state's actions, arguing that the Obama administration had good reason to cut the state some slack.
David Griffith, the public policy director at ASCD—formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development—says in an online essay that federal officials could easily have allowed New Jersey officials to