Washington, DC Selected as Race to the Top Round II Winner

August 24, 2010-- Great news from the federal Department of Education: DC is one of the ten winners of the Round II Race to the Top competition. Through this award, the Office of the State Superintendent of Education will receive $75M over four years to support some of the city’s top education reform priorities, including key teacher quality initiatives within DCPS and at some of the city’s high-performing charters. Other winners were: Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio and Rhode Island. Delaware and Tennessee were the two states to win Round I awards.

Several local and national foundations made grants to support the writing of the city’s winning application. These foundations were: The Broad Foundation, CityBridge Foundation, Fight for Children, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Walton Family Foundation. We are tremendously grateful for their support.

Secretary Duncan’s announcement can be found here.

Further information can be found on DC’s Race to the Top application here, and on Race to the Top here.