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ED issues rules on ed-tech stimulus funds
Wed, Jul 29, 2009 Primary Topic Channel: Fed
The U.S. Department of Education (ED) has issued new guidance to help states and school systems use ed-tech stimulus funding to drive lasting education reforms and improve student achievement. Key words: ARRA, EETT, ed tech fund, department of education, guidelines [ Read More ]

$5 billion carrot for schools overhaul
Mon, Jul 27, 2009 Primary Topic Channel: Fed
Dangling the promise of $5 billion in grants, President Barack Obama on July 24 pressured states to embrace his ideas for overhauling the nation's schools -- ideas that include performance pay for teachers and more charter schools. Key words: Race to the Top Fund, Obama, education grants, performance pay, charter schools, technology [ Read More ]

Endowment losses from Harvard to Yale leave universities poorer
Wed, Jul 22, 2009 Primary Topic Channel: Funding , Endowment
Harvard University and Yale University are preparing for an extended period of austerity as U.S. colleges are forced to cut spending next year and beyond to offset the biggest investment losses since 1974, Bloomberg reports. [ Read More ]

School technology teaching receives financial boost
Tue, Jul 21, 2009 Primary Topic Channel: Funding
A new program is being introduced to improve the quality of technology teaching in the UK, according to an IT sector skills council, BCS reports. [ Read More ]

ISTE urges tech training for future teachers
Thu, Jul 16, 2009 Primary Topic Channel: Tech Leadership , Budget
Educational technology advocates are hoping that Congress amends the fiscal 2010 budget to include funding for a grant program that focuses on improving new teachers' abilities to use technology in the classroom. Key words: PTDAL, Preparing Teachers for Digital Age Learners, ISTE, FY10 Budget [ Read More ]

Stimulus eases community college troubles
Thu, Jul 02, 2009 Primary Topic Channel: Budget
States are digging into their federal stimulus money to help finance community colleges, where rising tuition, soaring enrollment, and budget cuts threaten to shut students out of the system, Stateline.org reports. [ Read More ]

Facing deficits, some states cut summer school
Thu, Jul 02, 2009 Primary Topic Channel: Budget
Nearly every school system in Florida has eviscerated or eliminated summer school this year, and officials are reporting sweeping cuts in states from North Carolina and Delaware to California and Washington, reports the New York Times. [ Read More ]

Pa., Maine faced with ed-tech budget woes
Thu, Jul 02, 2009 Primary Topic Channel: Funding
Two states are taking very different approaches when it comes to managing spending cuts and sustaining education technology budgets. In Pennsylvania, Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell has proposed cutting his signature Classrooms for the Future initiative, which provides laptops and training to the state's schools. Maine, despite economic worries of its own, is expanding its one-to-one laptop initiative to all state high schools. Key words: education technology funding, Maine school technology funding, Pennsylvania technology funding, Maine Learning Technology Initiative, Classrooms for the Future, education, technology [ Read More ]

Scholarships for college dwindle as providers pull back their support
Tue, Jun 30, 2009 Primary Topic Channel: Funding
Students looking for college scholarships are going to have a harder time this year as providers, hammered by falling investment returns and declining philanthropic support, cut back, the New York Times reports. [ Read More ]

For modest earners, relief repaying student loans
Tue, Jun 30, 2009 Primary Topic Channel: Funding
Repaying a student loan could soon be a little less painful, according to the Associated Press. Starting this week, anyone with a federal student loan can apply for a program, run by the Department of Education, that caps monthly payments based on income, and forgives remaining balances after 25 years. Those choosing to work in public service could have their loans forgiven after just 10 years. [ Read More ]

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