CT didn't get the ed.gov award because of *Corruption*

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Subject: CT didn't get the ed.gov award because of *Corruption*

Date: Dec 16, 2011 7:40 AM

CT didn't get the ed.gov award because of *Corruption*

Site Stats.

http://www.actionlyme.org

Ed.gov can see where the money goes
whenever Uncle Sam gives ct.gov
any money.

;)

Insider info.

They're probably afraid the money
will pay some pedophile State
employee too much money to abuse
these kids.

Additionally, any outsider would wonder
what kind of education retarded Corrupticut
could think up especially given the Stupidological
we've seen from Yale and UConn on something
as big as TLR2 agonism.


KMDickson

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http://www.courant.com/news/education/hc-race-to-the-top-grant-1216-20111215,0,4994409.story


For the third time, Connecticut has lost its bid for a federal Race to
the Top grant — this one to improve educational programs for very
young children.

Connecticut had applied to the U.S. Department of Education program
for $49.9 million.

Word came late Thursday afternoon that Connecticut was out of the
running. The winners are to be announced Friday at 10 a.m.

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Liz Donohue, the Malloy administration's policy director and lead
administrator on the application, said 35 states applied for a grant.
She did not know how many would receive one. "We're disappointed, but
we'll keep on working," Donohue said. "We'll move forward."

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, who has promised to dedicate the next
legislative session to education, expressed disappointment over the
news.

In a prepared statement, Malloy said that "high-quality education for
all of Connecticut's children is a top priority for my administration,
and we should be pleased with the strong application that we
submitted; it will serve as a road map as we move forward on education
reform."

Malloy added: "We were aware going in that we were at a disadvantage —
a lack of investment over the past decade meant that we did not have
the infrastructure in place, or have a well-developed or coordinated
early learning system. That will change. This federal funding would
have accelerated our efforts, but we are determined to move forward to
improve early learning in Connecticut."

Sen. Beth Bye, D-West Hartford, who has been a leader on early
childhood issues, said that although everyone is disappointed, "the
time and energy spent on this is not lost because the grant really
forced us to come up with a plan. … We are going to move forward with
the strategies we came up with to improve the early childhood system."

"It would have been easier with the funding," Bye said, "but we will
continue to look for opportunities for federal funding."

Patrick Riccards, chief executive officer of ConnCan, a nonprofit
education reform group, said it was not surprising that Connecticut
lost this round.

Riccards, who has worked with other states on Race to the Top
applications in the past, said: "I think we have to remember we were
going up against other states that had really put in significant time
and effort into developing their first two applications. They came
ready to play when the third round came out.

"For us, we were essentially starting from scratch. … The first two
rounds we went to the plate with the bat on our shoulder," Riccards
said. "At least this time, we went down swinging. We put forth a great
effort."

"The first two rounds for Connecticut were a disaster," Riccards said.
"In the first round when just about every state in the union applied,
we left more than 100 blanks. It was not an application that anyone
could take seriously."

"This was a strong application," Riccards said of the third try. "I
think that Gov. Malloy and his team and the folks at [the Department
of Education] really put together a thoughtful application."

While the first two Race to the Top programs were designed to reform
the entire educational system — from kindergarten through 12th grade —
this round was aimed at preparing young children for success, so that
they arrive in kindergarten ready to learn.

The expectation was that Connecticut's Race to the Top plan would
halve the number of children who enter kindergarten unprepared to
learn; the state estimates that nearly one in four children are not
prepared now.

Connecticut educators say that preparing students early will help
close the achievement gap — one of the largest in the country —
between well-to-do children and poor children, between white children
and minority children, and between the suburbs and the cities.

Maggie Adair, executive director of the Connecticut Early Childhood
Alliance, said the loss hurts but "we are confident that the governor
is committed to early childhood and building a birth to 8 system."

"It's too early to hypothesize about why we didn't get it," she said,
though she added that some states are ahead of Connecticut in the
development of a quality assurance and improvement system for early
childhood programs. "Connecticut has pieces of it."

Connecticut lost out on the first round of Race to the Top money in
March 2010, when, Riccards said, almost all of the states applied but
only two were awarded grants. The second time — later that year —
Connecticut was among 39 applicants, and 10 received grants, Riccards
said.

He said he expects six to eight winners to be announced Friday
morning.

KMDickson