Denise Juneau had an interesting op-ed in last week's Missoulian regarding the Race to the Top. The key paragraph:
Other states, during their application process, passed charter school laws, tied teacher performance to student test scores, adopted national standards that have not yet been finalized and fired teachers and staff wholesale. None of this is proposed in the Montana Plan because they will not work in our state. Montana has not changed its laws or administrative rules to apply for one-time-only federal funding.
?Andy Smarick
Disclosure: I lent a hand to NJ's RTT application so I'm no longer an impartial observer. Please judge all of my future RTT comments with this in mind.