Race to the Top: Smaller is Better?
President Barack Obama proposed extending Race to the Top to school districts in his budget request this year. We still don't know whether Congress is going to take him up on that suggestion, but we don't have to wait until they do to see how the program operates when it's basically just at a district level. Two of the winners, the District of Columbia and Hawaii, include just one school district (not including charters, which sometimes count as their own district.)
And, if you think about it, small may have been an (inadvertent) advantage in the application process. Two of the other winners, Delaware and Rhode Island, are tiny states. A smaller size might make it easier to get buy-in and
