Groff has indicated his belief that the federal education programs No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top have been failures and that school regulation should be a local, not a federal, matter.
The amendment, which passed the House on July 1, 2010, proposed siphoning off $500 million from the Race to the Top fund as well as $300 million designated for charter schools and teacher incentive pay.
Virginia filed an application for the first round of federal Race to the Top funding, but finished 31st out of 41 states in the first round, and did not receive funds.
National policies such as No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top have influenced the recruitment and retention of future engineers.
Similarly, the 2009 United States Department of Education program Race to the Top, designed to spur reform in K-12 Education, and awarding $4.35 billion in funds, has been controversial for its emphasis on testing to evaluate schools, an approach which contrasts positive schooling techniques, and data regarding its effectiveness has yet to be produced.
Race to the Top, an education initiative announced in 2009 by Secretary Arne Duncan
It is funded by the ED Recovery Act as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and was announced by President Barack Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on July 24, 2009.
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