Andy, who is credited with authoring a Brookings white paper that helped inspire RTT, points out that «In the case of Race to the
Top, while it wasn't a disaster, there were enough problems that some people
favorably inclined... are now asking if the federal government, with all the political and substantive constraints
upon it, can really run a reliable high - stakes competition.»
He said while an MPS governance change is not explicitly called for in the criteria released for Race to the
Top, it was clear from [President] Obama's address [in Wisconsin November 4] that such a change would be looked
upon favorably in the application.