Thank You to all our elected leadership who, yesterday, weighed in on Race to the Top.
http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/education/2015/02/18/lawmakers-grill-education-leaders-race-top/23645277/
My favorite quote comes from Harris McDowell:
"Most races have a tape that the racers get cross, a finish line. When is the finish line for Race to the Top?" asked Harris McDowell, D-Wilmington North, who co-chairs the JFC. "When do we finish this, or are we just building a permanent bureaucracy?"
Where were you Mr. McDowell back in 2008? 2009? 2010? and onward? There is no finish line. Just as there was no finish line with NCLB. RTTP was not the answer nor the panacea. It turned education into a competition. A sacred fundamental right, the greatest entitlement program of our time, sullied by a Race to Nowhere. RTTT hurt kids and it hurt teachers. It destabilized and devastated schools. It has been a time bomb. So please, don't let that bomb detonate on Delaware's tax payers. You and your colleagues have the ability to eliminate the overhead in DOE, at least $1.5 mil of it. De-fund the RTTT-created positions and send the carpetbaggers home. Tell the nation that the layovers in Dover have been grounded.
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