Raise to the Top Fail
Race to the Top was a $4.35 billion educational grant from the United States Department of Education, and states were in a bidding war to get it. Unfortunately, New Jersey failed to attain the grant once again when the administrations filling the application out used data from 2011 instead of 2009 like the application required.
As a result, New Jersey fell 3 points short of winning the grant. So, they did not come out on top in their Race to the Top, and the ones that had the most to lose from all this were the students.