Politics
Race to the Top leaves state back at base camp
Washington finished well out of the money in the federal Race to the Top, the competition for school funds. But can the state take lessons from the effort?
Joe Copeland
Joe Copeland is the former senior editor for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi
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Politics
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Seattle & King County
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Politics
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