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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- New Hampshire has missed out on federal Race to the Top funding twice, but is moving ahead with some education reforms anyway, especially new ways to evaluate teachers. The Department of Education is working on a new system to determine what teachers should be doing to be effective and develop a model evaluation for the state's school districts. The U.S. Department of Education rejected New Hampshire's applications both in the first and second rounds of the Obama administration's competition for funding to help revamp states' education systems. Paul Leather, New Hampshire's deputy education commissioner, said the state used the process to develop a state plan for education reform. He estimated reforms now would take four or five years.
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