Wow, I find myself in agreement with Texas Governor Rick Perry.

Whoodahthunkit!

Read the ed blog, link to the article in The Houston Chronicle, and post a comment on tampabay.com.
http://blogs.tampabay.com/schools/2010/01/...p.html#comments

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January 13, 2010

Texas governor says 'no' to Race to the Top
While Florida bends over backward to seek a share of Race to the Top, Texas isn't going there.

From the Houston Chronicle:

Gov. Rick Perry said today that Texas will not compete for up to $700 million in federal grant funding for schools.

His decision to snub the Race to the Top grant competition defied pleas from several Houston-area school leaders who said their districts could use the money. But Perry, joined by state Education Commissioner Robert Scott, said the money was not worth the federal mandates.

Texas, Perry said, “reserves the right to decide how we educate our children and not surrender that control to the federal bureaucracy.”