Through the Department of Education Elementary & Secondary Education Account, which will go to the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.  Essentially, the Redesign 2.0 combines the learning of two state pilots (incorporating technology with curriculum redesign) into a model, and then implements that model in several additional pilot schools in several North Carolina counties.  The model can serve as a national model to ensure that we are fully engaging and motivating our students.  The national role is to provide consistency, information sharing as to what works (and what does not), and to ensure that we are addressing our educational challenges in a comprehensive manner.  This country faces a high school dropout rate that has been estimated to be upwards of 30%.   At the same time, this country is facing tremendous challenges encouraging our students to study the STEM core competencies. Together, these challenges raise troubling issues about whether this nation is educating the workforce that we will need for the future, not just to stay competitive, but to maintain a high standard of living.  Solving this problem is not simply a matter of providing more state funding, or even more federal funding.  We must all work together in public-private collaborations in our pursuit of new and innovative approaches.