Race to the Top support is tepid Local school districts cool to strings, but fear backlash

http://www.columbian.com/news/2010/may/13/race-to-the-top-support-is-tepid/

Evergreen district Superintendent John Deeder said Gregoire has watched legislators gut supplemental classroom spending authorized by voter-passed Initiative 728, without much of a fuss.

“With one stroke of the pen, we eliminate $480 (state funds per student, per year),” Deeder lamented at Tuesday’s school board meeting. “And now we’re supposed to jump through all these hoops, for $24.49 (per student)?”