Fla.'s Race to Top Ambitions Tangled in Health Care Opposition
Florida Gov. Rick Scott wants to have his state apply for up to $100 million through the latest edition of the Obama administration's Race to the Top competition. But he will have to figure out a way around his state's previous opposition to the president's healthcare overhaul to do it.
The latest Race to the Top competition offers a total of $500 million to states to support improvements in early-childhood education. Thirty-six states, plus the District of Columbia, have told the U.S. Department of Education they intend to apply for the Early Learning Challenge grants.
The new competition is funded through the fiscal 2011 budget deal approved by Congress in April. (The previous,