By now you probably know that the official notice for the Race to the Top Fund disqualifies states that prevent the linking of student achievement data to specific teachers for use in evaluation. You probably also know that this is a big problem for states like New York, Wisconsin and California, where legislation bans exactly that.

One might hope that this would pressure states and legislatures to remove the bans and move forward. Instead, so far, the noise from New York and California is a bunch of technical garbage about how their laws don't really disqualify them, if you look at them sideways through a prism and close your left eye.

Charlie Barone has more on New York and California.