I saw Tennessee and Deleware won Race to the Top Funding. Here's an EdWeek post on why Tennesee was selected:
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2010/03/why_delaware_and_tennessee_won.html� New state law, First to the Top Act of 2010, creates foundation for education reform: allows meaningful use of value-added data for teacher and principal evaluations and state intervention in persistently lowest-achieving schools
� Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System (TVAAS): build on data that's been collected since 1992 and now can be used for evaluations; state can move from the "highly qualified teacher" paradigm to an "effective teachers and leaders" model immediately; data will be accessible on-demand to all teachers and principals this year, and used (by law) as a significant part of evaluations by school year 2011-12
