The Department of Education will reportedly be reviewing its federal granting process over the next few months:
One of the main goals is to see what lessons other competitive grant programs overseen by the department—agency officials say they manage dozens of competitions each year—could learn from the Race to the Top process and i3.This could affect everything from School Improvement Grants to the Teacher Incentive Fund ('though I notice there's no mention in either report of Title I; there have been some hints that the DoE was considering tying that to particular kinds of school improvement as well).
One assumes this will be taken care of just in time for the FY12 budget.
There was rumor when RTTT came out that they would be following a similar approach with other grants, including existing grants. Tighten the screws and centralize authority. I still have no real clue what the Obama Administration thinks it's doing with education. Sure I have some thoughts, but no clear picture about what he wants.
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