Jan. 13, 2010, Marion Star
By JESSICA ALAIMO
Central Ohio.com
The federal government is poised to give Ohio school districts up to $400 million to improve education, but 60 percent of them said no thanks.
The “Race to the Top” grant money is intended to create programs that will help students participate in the global economy, find innovative ways to track student success, reward teachers who are most effective and improve the lowest-achieving schools.
While state officials touted the grant program as positive in all aspects, local school officials had mixed reactions. Grant language is vague, and as a result officials had different interpretations of what it meant.
In Richland County, Clear Fork Valley Superintendent Daniel Freund said he’d like to use grant money to find ways to make quarterly assessments of both teacher and student performance. He also supports provisions in the grant that allow expansion of technology in the classroom.
“It’s an opportunity for school districts to look at and formally assess our evaluations of student programs, and teacher impact,” Freund said.
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