Tennessee’s public school teachers have been promised better raises over the next few years. But top officials are holding off on saying just how much that will be.
Did Tennessee Win Race To The Top By Knowingly Setting Impossible Goals?
A new report from the liberal Economic Policy Institute suggests Tennessee won half a billion dollars in education funding – in part – by exaggerating what it could do with the money. The Washington think tank is trying to keep Race to the Top from being a model for education spending going forward.
Metro Schools Makes Its Own Try for Race to the Top
Nashville is up against New York, Seattle, and Dallas in trying to pull down $40 million for its school system. The competition is part of the federal grant program known as Race to the Top.
Tennessee was one of the first recipients of Race to the Top money, in the state competition. Now Metro is trying to get money to work with students one on one.
Huffman: Clock Ticking on Race to the Top
Tennessee’s education commissioner says schools need to decide soon how to spend their Race to the Top money. The state won half a billion dollars from the federal government two years ago and all of it has to be spent by 2014.
Tennessee Used as National Education Example
US Education Secretary Arne Duncan says Tennessee is “Exhibit A” for changes he says treat teachers as professionals rather than “interchangeable cogs in an educational assembly line.”
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