Indiana: State calls off race for education reform grant

[tonysam]

Good for them:

Indiana will not apply a second time for a piece of the $4.4 billion pot of federal "Race to the Top" education reform money because state officials could not secure union support.

Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Bennett, who last summer lauded the state's chances of scoring big bucks from the program, announced Thursday that he would stop efforts under way to write an application.

Without support from teachers unions, he said, it wasn't worth the state's time to apply again.

Union leaders shot back that Indiana's original application had fallen so far below the scoring threshold in the first round that their support alone would not be enough to salvage the state's plan.

Indianpolis Star

[LWolf]

1. Good.

[AwakeAtLast]

2. Here's ISTA President's reply

http://www.ista-in.org/blog.aspx?blogid=27468

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. I spent the weekend with some teachers from Indiana

Their state is a mess. The state superintendent sounds like a nutcase. Their latest battle is the plan to tie 51% of teacher pay to student performance.

[Dinger]

4. Good, Hopefully There'll Be More Of That

:)