Sentences with phrase «stimulus money passes»

This time, we'll see a huge, absolute drop in funding after the massive one - time «bolus» of stimulus money passes through.

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MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- The Wisconsin Senate passed a series of education reform bills Thursday designed to make the state compete for nearly $ 4.5 billion in federal stimulus money.

While the recent passing of President Barack Obama's education stimulus package may come as a relief to many schools in the nation, it also raises serious questions about the distribution of funding, as well as the best ways to spend the money wisely.

Rather than press Congress to pass a law to replace No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the Obama administration used federal stimulus money to encourage states to accept its policy preferences and waivers from NCLB's penalties to ensure those policies were implemented.

As the House was passing its version of the stimulus package (see Figure 1), Frederick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute noted that most of the money simply gave states dollars to keep intact the programs of the past: «It's like an alcoholic at the end of the night when the bars close and the solution is to open the bar for another hour,» he told a New York Times reporter.

The Washington - based center took at look at how school districts have spent money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the economic - stimulus law passed by Congress last year.

The current Race to the Top program is funded by $ 4 billion in one - time money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the economic - stimulus package passed by Congress last year.

Legislators use Stimulus money, revenue from increased fees and money from the Seminole Indian Gaming Compact to balance and pass the state budget.