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UPDATED! NATIONAL List of Contending States Grows ( Education Week Politics K-12 blog) 37 States to Apply in Round 1 ( Education Week Politics K-12 blog) Will Local Teachers' Unions Sign Off On State RttT Plans? ( Education Week Teacher Beat blog) A RttT Scorecard (National Council on Teacher Quality) A Race to Nowhere ( Education Week - Bridging Differences blog) FLORIDA Editorial: Districts should embrace teacher merit pay and RttT ( Orlando Sentinel ) KENTUCKY Districts sign off on RttT ( The State Journal - Frankfort) MAINE In for round 2 (Maine School Management Association) MASSACHUSETTS RttT bill weakened, critics charge ( Boston Globe ) Commentary: Whose needs come first in schools? ( Boston Globe ) MINNESOTA Teachers' union may withhold support for state application (Minneapolis Star Tribune ) NEVADA Legislative attempt to qualify for competition ( Las Vegas Sun ) NEW YORK Governor Paterson: Raise charter school cap ( New York Post ) OHIO Troubled wat...

CALIFORNIA: State can't seem to put one foot in front of the other ( Education Week ) District officials wary of Race to the Top ( The Press-Enterprise - San Bernardino) HAWAII: ED official pushes solution to teacher furlough debacle ( Honolulu Advertiser ) ILLINOIS: State 'fine tunes' application ( Chicago Current ) INDIANA: Disagreement over using student test scores to evaluate teachers ( Fort Wayne Journal Gazette ) LOUISIANA: Teacher evaluation reform central to state proposal ( The Advocate - Baton Rouge) MINNESOTA: Star-Tribune editorial says state 'must compete' ( Minneapolis-St. Paul Star-Tribune ) NEW JERSEY: Led by lame-duck governor, state now WILL apply in round one (NJ.com) NEW YORK: State senate ed chair asks for clarification of state's eligibility (NY1) WISCONSIN: Gov. Doyle meets with ED counsel, former Boston sup Payzant on mayoral control ( Chicago Tribune ) --------------------- Past "Updates on the Race"