Kasich Wants $300 Million School Grants Similar to Obama’s

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Ohio Governor John Kasich is proposing a $300 million program that resembles President Barack Obama’s Race to the Top plan by allowing schools to apply for grants to fund innovative ideas.

The initiative, which the first-term Republican calls the “Straight-A Fund,” is part of an education plan that he described today in Columbus. It’s part of the two-year state budget proposal he is to release Feb. 1.