Sentences with phrase «education stimulus dollars»

The Sentencing Law & Policy blog posted a link yesterday to an article on al.com disclosing that the biggest beneficiary of federal education stimulus dollars given to Alabama has been the department of corrections.

Obama won't provide education stimulus dollars to states that refuse to link the two, but that doesn't bother the union.

Democratic lawmakers have been pushing for additional education stimulus dollars since last December, and at one point said $ 23 billion was needed to prevent massive layoffs.

«The group's proposed reforms correspond to criteria the federal government will use to award additional education stimulus dollars on a competitive basis starting this fall.»

As the first year of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ends and the second year begins, Education Week takes a close look at the impact education stimulus dollars have had and sheds light on what the next year will bring.

Not exact matches

District superintendents predict worse to come in 2011, when federal stimulus dollars for education run out.

The New York City - based Foundation Center has launched a Web portal to help the philanthropic community leverage federal education dollars, particularly the new grants available as part of the economic - stimulus package.

Billions in federal economic - stimulus dollars are slated to be spent to help improve public education, but Americans relying on traditional news outlets are likely to find out little, if anything, about what that effort might mean for the schools in their communities, a new report suggests.

Indeed, as early as February 2009 (registration required to read this and the next article) U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan stated that he was contemplating using «stimulus» dollars to drive adoption of national standards, and the CCSSI didn't even formally launch until April of that year.

(Andrew Kelly, writing at Rick Hess Straight Up, is right that education spending went up under a Republican Congress in the 1990s, but those increases were in the magnitude of a billion or two of new dollars a year, nothing like the $ 100 billion we saw in last year's stimulus bill or even the $ 10 billion in this year's edujobs payout.)

Amid fanfare around the billions of dollars being delivered to schools through the federal economic - stimulus package, members of the National Conference of State Legislatures are warning that the education agenda being pushed by the Obama administration is shaping up to be just as prescriptive and intrusive as the 8 - year - old No Child Left Behind Act.

These are federal stimulus dollars designed to spur education reform at the state level.

First, the lieutenant governor made no mention of the Great Recession, which was the worst since the 1930s, nor did he explain the degree to which federal stimulus dollars helped plug in the gaps in state funding for education.

To date, Oregon has received nearly $ 121 million in education stimulus funds — representing a combination of funding for Title I, IDEA, Vocational Rehabilitation grants, Independent Living grants, Impact Aid dollars and Homeless Educatioeducation stimulus funds — representing a combination of funding for Title I, IDEA, Vocational Rehabilitation grants, Independent Living grants, Impact Aid dollars and Homeless EducationEducation grants.

Obama, in contrast, has sent education dollars from the federal government to the states via grants and direct aid, under the economic stimulus program, to save programs and jobs.

So why, with over half a billion dollars in federal education stimulus money flowing to Connecticut — money intended to promote reform and protect jobs — is Hartford Public High School laying off teachers?

Through a 500 - point rubric, the Department of Education awarded $ 4.35 billion dollars of economic stimulus funding to 19 states.

The federal government has made hefty financial commitments to education in recent years, including the implementation of No Child Left Behind and the subsequent waivers from the standards - based law as well as the influx of about $ 89 billion in stimulus dollars to prevent teacher layoffs, keep class sizes down and avoid program cuts.