WASHINGTON — When Learning Secretary Arne Duncan  inserted a half-page program nature into the commercial stimulus step model year, few except pinnacle Democratic leaders knew that it would fashion Race meeting to the Pre-eminent, a multibillion-dollar sweepstakes to overhaul U. S.  schools that gave Duncan's subdivision unprecedented power.

With merely $4. 3 billion — less than 1 percent of federal, say and specific education dollars — Race meeting to the Top is anybody of various minute, extent inexpensive projects that lawmakers plopped into the advancement act.  What's fabulous about the competition, which awards millions to the states that choicest take up Duncan-backed policies, is that the secretary arguably got more states to acquire his variety of modification in 18 months than any other U. S.  middle school chief had in the Cabinet-level Lesson Part's 29-year history.
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