Education Week 

A rural education non-profit frustrated with the i3 grant process says it will investigate how small and rural school districts fare under the Obama administration’s policy of federal competitive grants.

The Rural Schools and Community Trust reported in Rural Policy Matters that it would look at the process and outcome of the current Investing in Innovation (i3) and Race to the Top competitions. Here’s a snippet: “We want to know not only whether competitive grants are reaching high-poverty and other rural areas, but to the extent they are not, why not. Competitive grants are important to (the Obama) administration, but as a principal tool for funding programs to reach high-poverty school districts, they are largely untested.”

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