Nine States Collectively Win $500 Million for Race to the Top—Early Learning Challenge Fund

On December 16, 2011, the White House announced that nine states—California, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Washington—will collectively receive $500 million to help make pre-kindergarten and other early-learning programs  accessible and better capable of narrowing the achievement gap between students who start kindergarten without prior formal schooling and those who do.

This post is based on a press release by the Office of the Press Secretary of the White House.