Attention education Tableteers, Tablet and other mobile PC education entrepreneurs:
An Education Sector expert panel discusses the importance of ensuring accountability for federal incentive and innovation funds.
The Department of Education’s $5 billion “Race to the Top” and innovation funds provides a historic opportunity to reward states, school districts, and entrepreneurs for more learning (venture educators)doing good work for kids.
Much of the funding, $4.35 billion, will go to states that can document successful implementation of NCLB’s provisions—achieving equitable distribution of quality teachers, improving collection and use of data, implementing quality standards and assessments, and supporting struggling schools.
The rest, $650 million, is reserved for school districts and nonprofits implementing proven reform strategies.
The governance and accountability structures accompanying these funds will likely make or break their effectiveness.
How then should the department distribute these funds?
What criteria should be used?
How should the department evaluate recipients and ensure that the process is fair and transparent?
And, importantly, how can the administration support educational entrepreneurs without the perception of cronyism (i.e., Education Secretary Arne Duncan rewarding his education reformer friends)?
Attend or Monitor this Event: Ensuring Accountability for Federal Incentive and Innovation Funds
When: April 29 2009, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM (
Where: South American Room, Capital Hilton , 1001 16th Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20036 (Closest metro stop is Farragut West or Farragut North)