The twitterverse is telling us that several winners for Race to the Top applications will be announced next week even though the official announcement date was April. In California, some legislation had to be passed in order to make it possible for the state to commit to the four assurances:
- Adopting standards and assessments
- building data systems that are based on individual student data
- teacher and principal quality, recruitment, alternative certification and performance-based compensation
-turning around a percentage of the lowest achieving schools
California State Board Association published an outstanding overview of the impacts and delineated the impacts would happen tied to CA's RacettT application and which would happen no matter what. click here
