When we were told that states had to ask for grant money just so they could hire consultants to fill out Race To the Top (RTT) applications, we had to know that the costs of administering and reporting would be high. However, no one guessed just how high those costs would actually be. Here are two examples:

• A school district in Geauga County (OH) calculated it would have gotten $100,000 but needed to spend $212,000 on the needed changes.
• In Rockville Centre Union Free School District on Long Island, Superintendent William Johnson estimates it would get less than $10 per student from the Race to the Top grant that New York state won, but would need to spend $13 to $15 per student for a new teacher evaluation system.

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