The US Department of Education issued its first Race to the Top State Specific reports tracking the progress of each of the 12 recipients of these federal grants. North Carolina’s report notes that we made significant progress toward raising standards with the adoption of the Common Core and Essential Standards, have substantially increased our professional development support for you and your colleagues and are working to better leverage technology tools to support teaching and learning. Without these funds, which continue into 2014, our agenda to reform the state’s public school system and to continue innovating and improving for our students would have been slowed to a crawl or to a complete stop given the state’s budget situation. If you would like to see North Carolina’s report, please visit the Department’s Race to the Top website at www.ncpublicschools.org/rttt.
With North Carolina winning a second round of RttT funding, how does this affect the state of education in North Carolina? Is this the answer to our educational woes or another passing fad?
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