Meeting Race to the Top Principles

There are four guiding principles specified by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for distributing the Race to the Top funds

• Spend funds quickly to save and create jobs
  • Aligned·By·Design is defined, detailed and ready to move out quickly to use funds and create jobs with proposals on the table
• Improve student achievement through school improvement and reform
  • Aligned·By·Design is all about improving student achievement through use of quality improvement and reform in the way of knowledge and skills connections for alignment, Student tracking, and improved data quality
• Ensure transparency, reporting, and accountability
  • Aligned·By·Design’s full participation, workflow, communications and sharing are the ultimate in transparency
  • Aligned·By·Design’s detail student achievement tracking provides a portfolio of powerful, easily understood, detailed reports in real-time which enables Administrators and Teachers to take immediate remediation action to effeciently close emerging gaps
  • Aligned·By·Design’s natural process and materials management along with concise student achievement results provide the clearest possible accountability
• Invest one-time funds from the economic stimulus program thoughtfully to minimize the ‘funding cliff’
  • Aligned·By·Design is inexpensive and provides efficiency and other ROI dividends that more than offsets the minimal sustainment costs