The states who have received funds from the Obama Administration’s Race to the Top, a $4 billion competitive grant program, have spent the past year putting their grant proposals into action. Race to the Top’s intent was to help states and districts close achievement gaps and get more students to be college and career ready by supporting several key reform strategies. Eleven states and the District of Columbia won grants in 2010.
The Center for American Progress convened a panel of education policy and state leaders and launched a new report by that examines the progress in states and early successes and failures.