American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), Section 14005-6, Title XIV, (Public Law 111-5)
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On November 18, 2009, the Department of Education published notices in the Federal Register inviting applications and announcing final priorities, requirements, definitions, and selection criteria for the Race to the Top Fund. On April 14, 2010, the Department published the notice inviting applications for the Phase 2 competition.

• Notice Inviting Applications for Phase 2 (April 2010) PDF (4.6M)

• Notice of Final Priorities (November 2009) PDF (5.1M)

The Department has issued a new rule for the Phase 2 competition. In order to fund as many strong applications as possible, we are requiring budgets in Phase 2 to be within the ranges that were suggested in the original notice inviting applications. For the Phase 2 competition, we will not review applications whose budgets exceed the top of the State's range.

Included as Appendix B to the November 18 notices (above) was the Scoring Rubric that the Department developed for the scoring of State applications submitted under this program. The following notices make several corrections to Appendix B to the November 18 notices.

• Correction Notice for the Notice Inviting Applications (January 2010)
• Correction Notice for the Notice of Final Priorities (January 2010)
• The Department has created a corrected version of the Scoring Rubric based on these notices. PDF (331K)