How Race to the Top is like ‘Queen for a Day’
This was written by James Arnold, superintendent of Pelham City Schools in Pelham, Ga.
By James Arnold
How wonderful it was when we were told that Georgia had won the second round of the Race to the Top sweepstakes. The application -- submitted by then-Gov. Sonny Perdue and his team and amended from the first application, which was almost but not quite good enough -- had been successful in conducting a survey that nobody remembered taking AND in meeting the U.S. Education Department guidelines. And our lucky state was about to receive $400 million dollars and a little change.
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