Gates Broadening 'Race to Top' Aid
Grants Now Offered to All States for Help in Application Process
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which earlier handpicked 15 states to receive up to $250,000 each to help prepare applications for federal Race to the Top Fund grants, will now offer aid to the other 35 states, too—if they meet eight education reform criteria.
That’s according to a Sept. 21 memo that Vicki Phillips, the director of the foundation’s education initiatives, sent to the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers.
Before states can get an unspecified amount of money from Gates, they must meet foundation conditions that mirror the criteria by which the U.S. Department of Education has proposed judging applications for $4 billion in aid under the Race to the Top reform competition. ( "Hurdles Ahead in 'Race to Top'," ...
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