Here it is

The list of requirements in order to apply for round two of the fiscal stabilization fund (or stimulus funding, etc) are here (that's the DoE's draft for the Federal Register which will come out on Thursday). For those of you who don't want to read 403 pages (?!), here's a bit of a summary (borrowed more or less intact from Education Week, lest you think I read all 403 pages this evening):

• There are 35 items the states need to answer
• 8 can be answered using already existing data
• 13 require a "yes" or "no" response
• in the "turnaround" section (you'll remember that this was one of the four sections), they want growth-related data, including AYP data for subgroups dealt with under NCLB
• in a point newly interesting to me, they want to know what schools are eligible but don't get Title 1 funds
• plenty on charters: how many do you have, how many have closed, what ones do you have
• plenty on teacher evaluation, including the big one on using standardized tests to evaluate teachers
• graduation data, higher ed data

Some of this data a state has already (they generate the AYP data, for example), but much of it is going to have to come from the districts. One wonders: can the state require the districts to supply it, even if the district has no intention of applying for RTTT? And how much power does the fed have to make the states do what it wants, and in turn, how much power does the state have to make the districts do what it wants?

And is anyone remembering the Tenth Amendment here at all?

I guess we're going to find out.