Thought Public Schools ($29 million) and Harmony Public Schools ($thirty million) are amid xvi district winners of Race to the Top grants from the U.South. Department of Educational activity.

News coverage:

  • "Idea Public Schools wins $29 million in the Race to the Height District Contest", IDEA Public Schools news release, Dec xi, 2012.
  • "Arne Duncan Picks 16 Race to Elevation District Winners", Michele McNeil, Politics K-12 web log (Education Calendar week), December 11, 2012.
  • "Ii Texas charter schools named Race to the Top winners" , Maria Luisa Cesar (with Lindsay Kastner), San Antonio Express-News, December 12, 2012.
  • "IDEA, Harmony charter schools win coveted federal grant", Kate Alexander and Melissa B. Taboada, Austin American-Statesman, December 11, 2012.
  • "Two Texas Charter Schools Win Race to the Top Grants", Morgan Smith, Texas Tribune, December 11, 2012.
  • "Harmony charter school system wins federal "Race to the Height" education grant", Richard Dunham, Texas on the Potomac weblog (Houston Relate), December 11, 2012.
  • "Two Texas public lease schools win Race to the Top-District contest", Texas Lease Schools Association news release, December 11, 2012.
  • "NAPCS Congratulates recipients of the Race to the Summit District Grant", Kristin Yochum, The Charter Weblog (National Alliance of Public Lease Schools), December xi, 2012.

Thought and Harmony are based in Texas and have campuses in San Antonio. These two charter management organizations are the only Race to the Pinnacle winners from Texas.

One other lease school system, KIPP DC, likewise won a Race to the Top grant.

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