TALLAHASSEE -- State Democratic leaders are adding their voices to the controversy surrounding Florida's bid for federal Race to the Top stimulus funds.
In a letter released Friday, the ranking members of House education committees asked Education Commissioner Eric J. Smith to "urgently revise" the application which teachers' unions have said they' [...]
Don't call it a second stimulus, but House Democratic leaders introduced a bill yesterday that's meant to help jump-start the still-sluggish economy, but includes some new money for K-12 education (although nothing on the scale of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, passed last winter).
The bill includes a $23' [...]
Congress has now given final approval to the long-delayed education spending bill for fiscal year 2010. If you leave out the stimulus, there was basically flat funding for most education programs, plus a huge boost for some Obama administration priorities. (School districts that want to try out merit [...]
Education stimulus funds only a trickle EdNews CO
Only $7 million out of $312 million in federal stimulus funds for education has actually been paid out to Colorado districts.
South Philly principal had troubles in NJ The Philly Notebook
South
Philadelphia High [...]
Fort Hays State is using federal economic recovery funds to pay $5 per credit for every grade of C or higher.
[...]The federal government made nearly $100 billion available to states and school districts for various education programs through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA.) Since the Department of Education first made [...]
NATIONAL:Texas education head warns of 'federal takeover'
Embrace of 'common standards' by Obama administration is first step to losing local control, Scott says.
States Seek Stimulus Funds Tied to Education Reform
PBS NewsHour
A report today says most [...]
When the first round of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act federal recipient reported data was released on www.recovery.gov in early November, we discussed the lack of comprehensive data available for [...]
New CEP report looks at what’s happening with stimulus dollars around the country. Couple of items worth paying attention to inside.
[...]U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan paid a visit to Education Week today, and spent an hour fielding questions from reporters about everything from No Child Left Behind Act reauthorization to the possibility of a second economic-stimulus package.
Duncan, who was accompanied by assistant secretary for planning, evaluation, and [...]
Lawmakers in high-minority areas send few to academies
USA Today
As
the nation's military academies try to recruit more minorities, they
aren't getting much help from members of Congress from big-city
districts ...
Stimulus Rules on 'Turnarounds' Shift EdWeek
The
guidelines for addressing low-performing schools' [...]
Media reports about inaccurate estimates of just how many jobs have been saved or created under the federal economic stimulus law came back to bite Obama administration officials testifying before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee this morning.
The hearing, which continues this afternoon, has been very partisan, with [...]
Rep. David R. Obey, the Democratic chairman of the House Appropriations Committee and a major architect of the stimulus law, ranted and raved yesterday in this statement about inaccurate reporting on Recovery.gov.
"Credibility counts in government and stupid mistakes like this undermine it," Obey said. "Whether the" [...]
Checker Finn describes my critique of his neo-Hooverite views on education policy and the stimulus bill as a “particularly dated defense of Keynesianism,” and asserts that borrowing money to prevent pro-cyclical mass layoffs and deep cuts in state and local education spending amounts to “Stalin-style job creation.”
This is [...]
WaPo ed board hits exactly the right notes in this ed on Race To The Top. Meanwhile, NYT ed board not so happy on the teacher pieces of the stimulus. Background here.
[...]At the National Review, Rick Hess and Checker Finn denounce the Obama administration for using stimulus funding to save the jobs of 400,000 teachers and college professors on the grounds that…this was a bad idea. Really:
It’s a fact that employment was an explicit purpose of stimulus funding — Congress [...]
Strings attached to stimulus dollars for schools AP
Education Secretary Arne Duncan said another $11.5
billion is available to states, which have already received more than
$67 billion.
Which states are innovative in education? CSM
The
report card aims to highlight the sorts of innovations in [...]
The number of teaching jobs increased last month, even while unemployment topped 10 percent, notes ABCTE blog. Stimulus money enabled districts to add 10,700 jobs.
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