Today’s roundup of stimulus coverage:
There’s $4.35 billion in Race to the Top education grants, but the spoils may go to only a few winners. In what The Wall Street Journal calls “one of the most significant competitions” of the stimulus package, the number of states that will get a share of the money may be less than 15. Using an elaborate scoring system just announced, the program will benefit only those states that have already taken steps to shake up their school systems, the Journal reports. “This is going to be highly competitive, and there are going to be a lot more losers than winners,” Education Secretary Arne Duncan told reporter Neil King Jr. Preliminary plans for the program provoked an outpouring of criticism.
You know this will only go to strong liberal states.
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