Charter school battle didn't affect New York's chances of winning $700M in aid, report says
NY ended up winning RTTT $ with enough points to spare that it likely would have won even had it not lifted the charter cap – but of course nobody knew that, so this underscores the brilliance of RTTT: states all scrambled to do MORE reform than the bare minimum that was necessary (plus 34 states enacted at least some reforms yet it didn't cost taxpayers a dime):
New York would have won millions in education aid even without Albany's legislative dustup over raising the charter school cap, a review of the results shows.
The state won $700 million Tuesday in the second round of Race to the Top, garnering so many points that it came in second place among 10 winners.
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Charter school battle didn't affect New York's chances of winning $700M in aid, report says
BY Rachel Monahan and Meredith Kolodner
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Thursday, August 26th 2010, 4:00 AM
posted by Whitney Tilson at 6:43 PM
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