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Round-one applications are due on January 19, 2010... CALIFORNIA Bay Area schools are Racing to the Top ( Contra Costa Times ) ILLINOIS 70 percent of districts on board ( Peoria Journal Star ) IOWA RttT bills on the Legislature's agenda today ( Des Moines Register Iowa Politics blog) Seven largest school districts oppose Governor's plans ( Des Moines Register ) KENTUCKY Governor signs low-performing schools bill ( Louisville Courier-Journal ) MASSACHUSETTS Sweeping education bill passes legislature ( Boston Globe ) NEW YORK Unions opposing charter cap lift ( New York Post ) RHODE ISLAND No agreement between state, teachers' unions ( Providence Journal ) TENNESSEE Bill advances in House, headed for Senate vote ( The Tennessean ) TEXAS Editorial: Governor Perry is all 'rhetoric' ( Houston Chronicle ) Op-ed: Perry's 'smokescreen' ( The Dallas Morning News blog) UTAH Three fourths of school districts on board ( The Salt Lake Tribune ) WASHINGTO...

Playing catch up following the holidays and the birth of our second child ... here are the major Race to the Top updates a week before round 1 applications are due on January 19th... NATIONAL 39 States and DC to apply in round one (U.S. Department of Education) 'Race To Top' Viewed as Template for a New ESEA ( Education Week ) 'Race To Top' Driving Policy Action Across States ( Education Week ) Two State Unions Balking at 'Race To Top' Plans ( Education Week ) CALIFORNIA Assembly passes reform bill ( Sacramento Bee ) Governor signs bill to improve state eligibility in Race; opposed by teachers' unions ( Los Angeles Times ) Governor seeks to ease teacher firings ( Los Angeles Times ) COLORADO Summary of state plan ( INDenver Times ) FLORIDA Unions: State RttT plan is 'fatally flawed' ( Orlando Sentinel ) Editorial: Unions must not walk ( Miami Herald ) Editorial: Racing to the top ( Orlando Sentinel ) ILLINOIS Editorial: State legislature t...