WASHINGTON — When Learning Secretary Arne Duncan inserted a half-page program account into the profitable stimulus sketch last year, few except top Democratic leaders knew that it would develop Course to the Top, a multibillion-dollar sweepstakes to reconditioning U.S. schools that gave Duncan's department unprecedented power.
With merely $4.3 billion — less than 1 percent of federal, form and specific tutoring dollars — Stock to the Outstrip is one of varied inconsequential, somewhat inexpensive projects that lawmakers plopped into the recovery act. What's striking regarding the event, which awards millions to the states that best adopt Duncan-backed policies, is that the secretary arguably got more states to acquire his mark of modification in 18 months than any other U.S. state school chief had in the Cabinet-level Edification Domain's 29-year history.
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