Ed. Dept. Gears Up for 'Innovation' Grants
As U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan visited Florida this week to shine a light on innovative education initiatives, his department was preparing to kick-start a $650 million grant competition for school districts that can best execute his vision of school reform.
Even before the U.S. Department of Education unveils the criteria on which school districts will be judged, federal officials are grappling with several challenges.
First, the department is working to widen eligibility for the innovation grants, because the criteria written into federal law would eliminate hundreds of school districts from the running. The department is also bracing for 2,000 to 3,000 applications from school districts—all of which need to be processed quickly by the department and...
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