Well, folks, I'd love to give some snippets from the latest MI report, but they've got copyright tags all over this one. So, you'll have to follow the link
http://www.massinsight.org/publications/stg-resources/125/file/1/pubs/2010/12/07/STG_-_School_Improvement_Grants_Take_2_Dec_2010__.pdf if you'd like to know how to write a SIG Grant application and win the Big Money! No whammy, no wammy, NO WHAMMY!
I will share that they go as far as encouraging state departments of education to turn the SIG process into a mini-RTTT competition! What a fabulous idea! (I hope you can taste my sarcasm.)
3 comments:
What are the implications for the program if it is awarded as a competition? Sh*t out of luck for those in need who can't afford experienced grant writers?
Nancy Willing
Precisely! Mass Insight's latest paper even empowers state departments of education to refrain from awarding funds to needy schools if schools can't show that they "are willing and able to take up the challenge." I can't think of one district that isn't ready for the challenge. They greet the challenge every morning and keep coming back to work day in and day out to fight the effect of poverty on childhood. MI's insight is just a perverse rationalization for only funding ideas that confirm to the will of business men trying to control education. Note - Mass Insight has ties to Shanghai, China, where Jack Markell just recently announced is the future of education. Strange how Delaware is a MI pilot state for the turnaround challenge, the gov. goes to China, and MI, on its corporation page is singing the praises of China.
No coincidence, methinks. *sigh* The rich white boyz are on a roll.
Nancy
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