Let’s Copy “Race to the Top”
Posted March 29, 2010 at 4:04 pm 
Filed in: The Department of Education’s “Race to the Top,” is a competition between states that will award funds to states that are leading the way with ambitious plans for implementing coherent, compelling, and comprehensive education reform. Forty states participated in the first round of the competition, and 15 and Washington DC were chosen as finalists. Earlier today, Tennessee and Delaware were announced as winners, receiving as much as $600 million between them.
In a sense, the Race to the Top is similar to the proposals outlined in the Electrification Roadmap. The Roadmap proposes a competition between communities to serve as deployment clusters – Electrification Ecosystems – which will serve as large scale pilot deployments from which we can learn and design future deployments. Similarly, states will watch the success of innovative programs undertaken by winners in Race to the Top, and will hopefully emulate those ideas the work.
There is some concern that Congress may be reluctant to implement a proposal that will not spread benefits across the country. Yet, the Race to the Top demonstrates that that is not the case. In fact, we believe that it is the quickest way to nationwide deployment of grid-connected vehicles, in that it will ensure that we have a system that works before we deploy it all around the nation.
Let’s take the example that has been widely embraced in the education world and use it to help transform our energy future.
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