This post by my Ohio colleagues is very important. It forecasts a major challenge for Race to the Top (RTT) scoring.
Jamie and Eric suggest that Ohio got lots of its districts to sign on to its RTT application because the proposal is, well, pretty weak. We're seeing in lots of other places (Michigan, Florida, California, Louisiana, etc.) that stakeholders won't sign on when the application is strong.
So we have a problem. The Department wants both--strong applications and lots of stakeholder support--but these variables appear to be negatively correlated. We all hope for a couple outlier states, ones that are somehow able to move off the line and into the upper right corner.
But of those many states with proposals on the line, which will the feds favor? Which variable carries more weight?
--Andy Smarick