Sentences with phrase «through education stimulus»

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In any case, his book should be a major stimulus for thinking through the relationship between religion and higher education.

His U.S. Department of Education received $ 3 billion in «school improvement funds» through the stimulus legislation that might be applied to these activities.

As the Sept. 30 deadline passed for states and districts to spend the majority of their education stimulus funds, more than $ 2 billion was still left, at least on paper, according to the latest U.S. Department of Education spending report updated through the end of laeducation stimulus funds, more than $ 2 billion was still left, at least on paper, according to the latest U.S. Department of Education spending report updated through the end of laEducation spending report updated through the end of last month.

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.

Programs serving the nation's economically disadvantaged students and those with disabilities are receiving massive funding boosts through the federal stimulus package — $ 13 billion for Title I aid and $ 11.3 billion for special education — but how school districts choose to use the money may set them up for problems when it dries up.

Duncan has used the Race to the Top fund, created through the economic stimulus law, as leverage to drive the president's education agenda in Rhode Island, Tennessee, Colorado and elsewhere.

Over the last two years, the Department has been able to support 300,000 education jobs through stimulus funding provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

recognizing the importance of the matter, president Obama and congressional leaders included $ 650 million in the federal stimulus package for the enhancing education Through technology (eett) state grant program — 25 percent of which must be used for professional development on the best uses of technology — that will begin flowing to schools later this month.

He protected state and local public employment through the stimulus package but his Race to the Top education program was anathema to teachers unions.

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

First established as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (otherwise known as the «stimulus» legislation), and now continued as a regular Department program in the fiscal 2012 year, i3 was intended to shift the innovation ecosystem toward greater quantity, rigor and diffusion of innovation, to thread innovation into the way the Department itself works (including the use of a «field scan» mechanism) and to align funding for the «supply» of innovation with the «demand» the U.S. Department of Education had created through other federal programs.

Joanne Weiss, who is now an «independent education consultant,» writes at the Stanford Social Innovation Review that the RttT grant program, funded through President Obama's 2009 stimulus bill in the name of helping low - income, poor - performing schools, «offers lessons in high - impact grantmaking that are applicable not only in education but also in other fields.»