TODAY'S TOP STORIES | Rhode Island, Massachusetts and 12 other finalists lost out to Delaware and Tennessee in the first round of the Obama administration’s high-profile Race to the Top competition for $4.4 billion in education funding. | | This e-newsletter sponsored by: | To unsubscribe from this newsletter, click here. PROVIDENCE BUSINESS NEWS | 220 WEST EXCHANGE STREET | PROVIDENCE R.I. | (401) 273-2201 |