According to the State Collaborative on Reforming Education, SCORE, very few state Race to the Top applications included more than a paragraph discussing how they would implement their promises. Tennessee superintendents, who would execute the proposed reforms, had little knowledge about RttT details or how their districts would be allowed to spend the federal money. Tennessee only had 90 days to help 136 school systems decide how to spend $250 million. SCOPE did not explain how it was humanly possible to meet those deadlines while also establishing an
