The U.S Department of Education recently announced Florida is one of nine states that will receive funding from the Obama administration's Race to the Top program.
Florida, along with New York, will receive $700 million -- the largest grants in the initiative for education reform.
The remaining winners include Georgia, North Carolina and Ohio with $400 million each, Massachusetts and Maryland with $250 million each, and Rhode Island and the District of Columbia with $75 million each.
The $4 billion that Congress approved for the program last year was awarded in two rounds of funding that started in March beginning with Delaware, which received $100 million, and $500 million awarded to Tennessee.
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