Comments on: Race to the Top Round 2 Finalists http://neatoday.org/2010/07/27/race-to-the-top-round-2-finalists/ The National Education Association online news and information resource. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:12:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Jon-Paul Roden http://neatoday.org/2010/07/27/race-to-the-top-round-2-finalists/comment-page-1/#comment-244 Jon-Paul Roden Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:58:39 +0000 http://neatoday.org/?p=2708#comment-244 Hi Lily - Many states enacted legislation or changed regulations to conform to the USDE model of "change" and did so in anticipation of and with the expectation that federal funding would pay for these changes. Now that only a few of the state proposals have been accepted, will the "non-selected" states now have to have their legislatures or state education agencies go back into a special session to "un-do" the changes that now would translate to another unfunded mandate that would impact state and local budgets? Hi Lily -
Many states enacted legislation or changed regulations to conform to the USDE model of “change” and did so in anticipation of and with the expectation that federal funding would pay for these changes.

Now that only a few of the state proposals have been accepted, will the “non-selected” states now have to have their legislatures or state education agencies go back into a special session to “un-do” the changes that now would translate to another unfunded mandate that would impact state and local budgets?

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