Error on New Jersey’s Race to Top Forms Found too Late, Panel is Told
A Newark public school official assigned to help present New Jersey’s Race to the Top application in Washington detected the error that contributed to the state’s losing $400 million in federal education aid, but was told it was too late to fix, according to testimony Tuesday.
At an Assembly Appropriations Committee hearing convened to probe the failed grant application, Daniel Gohl, Newark’s chief for school innovation and change, said he pointed the mistake out to a staff member of Wireless Generation, a consulting firm contracted to help with the application, days before the state made its Aug. 11 presentation.
But the consultant told him the application was “time-stamped” June 1, the deadline for submission, and could not be changed, Gohl said.
He said he did not tell Education Commissioner Bret Schundler, who was fired during the resulting controversy, of his discovery because he was “playing catch-up” in a group he thought was more familiar than he was with the process.
Gohl and four state education officials were grilled for hours Tuesday by Assembly members.
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