Race to the Top - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Index / Policies Race to the Top Transcripts Melody Barnes ...that, and ultimately that led to the Race to the Top program, which was a competition—fiv... ...through a program we ultimately called Race to the Top . That was the centerpiece of the earl... Cecilia Muñoz ...big reforms in the K–12 system. The Race to the Top program—which was part of the Recover... ...a small number of states actually got Race to the Top money, but by creating a big fund an... ...but first, I know that you worked on Race to the Top . When you were in Intergovernmenta... ...sort of architects and the force behind Race to the Top . But I do remember helping set up th... ...where there was plenty of resistance, Race to the Top was a smashing success. It was a gran... ...In the Recovery Act, they not only did Race to the Top , but they actually remade the financ... ...the competition would do something that Race to the Top did, which was, even if you didn't ge... Show more... Randi Weingarten ...was, attached to that, something called Race to the Top . So there was a big rescue pla... ...and attached to the rescue plan was Race to the Top . And a lot of the strategies in Rac... ...the Top. And a lot of the strategies in Race to the Top were strategies that were abou... ...thinking. So there were pieces of Race to the Top that we had embraced, including Commo... ...Common Core, and there were pieces of Race to the Top that we thought were antithetical t... ...was a lot of fracturing because of Race to the Top , which makes it all the mor... Show more... Rob Nabors ...stuff. Your high-speed rail or your Race to the Top or TIGER [Transportation Investmen... Martha Kanter ...of years, it was the Recovery Act and Race to the Top for K-12 and standards, state standard... ...Education, got a lot of attention. With Race to the Top , definitely. With the Office o... ...a whole lot of money. Same thing with Race to the Top . Seven hundred million for a larg... Arne Duncan ...a chance to drive some change. So, the Race to the Top stuff—which we can talk about today o... ...programs, which was reflected in Race to the Top . Can you talk a little bit about ho... ...foundation. Where did the idea of Race to the Top come from? Was it something you though... ...went on. One of the behaviors that Race to the Top tried to change was the ways tha... ...first session, we talked a bit about Race to the Top . Why give funding through ... ...we thought were better educating kids. Race to the Top also tried to incentive lifting the ca... ...rights groups expressed concern that Race to the Top would widen rather than narrow th... ...of things we incentivized through Race to the Top . There was only one thing we required... ...only requirement [laughs] to enter the Race to the Top , and every single one of those state... ...that say about the teaching profession? Race to the Top had support from a number o... ...announce winners of the first phase of Race to the Top . How important was that politically? ... ...was actually directly around Race to the Top . So he used that leverage to get t... ...was how much interest there was in Race to the Top . Again, we anticipated fifty percen... ...a blind eye to hard stuff. To promote Race to the Top , you put together a tour. I should sa... ...to ask just a few more questions about Race to the Top . You had an evolving relationship wit... ...rid of bad teachers. Did they support Race to the Top ? That's a complicated question. ... ...we required states to do to come in to Race to the Top is to work with unions, and that for m... ...for early childhood education. We did Race to the Top in early childhood, and that was a to... Show more... Byron Auguste ...where the first term came from, called Race to the Top as a package. This was in 2007 now. T... ...this was the idea on the table. So Race to the Top became part of that. In fact, when th... ...And they were going to cut all the Race to the Top , which had started out as fiftee... ...the part of it for education was this Race to the Top , which I think these were al... ...Group and the experience of that work, Race to the Top and so forth—and even the work we di... Brian Deese ...on was that, unlike something like Race to the Top [Fund] in education, where if you hol... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Chicago Chicago go to the Transition Transition go to the Black Politics Black Politics go to the The People's House The People's House go to the Democrats Democrats