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  $5 billion carrot for schools overhaul
  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 ]

   

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  ED issues rules on ed-tech stimulus funds
  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 ]

   

   

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  Schools suffer despite stimulus funding
  The nearly $100 billion for education in the federal stimulus package is helping school districts staunch the bleeding as the recession gashes their operating budgets. But though state and school district leaders from coast to coast say they're grateful for the additional money, many say it isn't nearly enough to meet their needs. Key words: stimlulus, state budgets, layoffs, education, recession [ Read More ]

   

   

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  Stimulus funds to advance national standards
  U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan is offering federal cash incentives to achieve one of his top priorities: developing national standards for reading and math to replace a current hodgepodge of benchmarks in the states. Key words: national standards, common standards, math standards, reading standards [ Read More ]

   

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  Stimulus eases community college troubles
  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 ]

   

   

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  Six tips for securing federal stimulus money for your schools
  The passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 has provided unprecedented levels of federal funding for education, and it has prompted most grant writers across the country (from all disciplines, not just education) to prepare themselves for a deluge of funding announcements--many of which will require quick turnaround times for proposals. [ Read More ]

   

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  Stimulus aims to help close digital divide
  With more than $7 billion of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act set aside for increasing broadband access in the United States, the stimulus presents a huge opportunity for schools and communities to help close the digital divide. Key words: digital divide, stimulus package, broadband access, Recovery and Reinvestment Act, education, technology. [ Read More ]

   

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  Three sticking points could stunt stimulus education reform
  President Obama is asking states to make education reforms in exchange for nearly $40 billion in stimulus funds for schools. But his aspirations might be on a collision course with several competing realities, writes Allison Armour-Garb with the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government in a commentary for Stateline.org. [ Read More ]

   

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  Teen sues over stimulus funds
  A South Carolina high school student on Thursday asked the state's highest court to quickly clear the way for millions of federal stimulus dollars to flow to schools by ending Gov. Mark Sanford's ability to decline the money. [ Read More ]

   

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  California first state to receive stimulus funds
  Education Secretary Arne Duncan on April 17 released nearly $4 billion to California, the first state to benefit from a special fund for states that was created by the economic stimulus law.[ Read More ]

   

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  School stimulus money is 'falling off the truck'
  Educators across the country are counting on a federal stimulus windfall to prevent teacher layoffs and improve schools. But while Washington is giving, some state and local governments are taking away, reports the Washington Post. [ Read More ]

   

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  Schools eye stim funds for energy efficiency
  The $787 billion economic stimulus package contains billions of dollars to help make school buildings more energy efficient--upgrades that could save individual schools thousands of dollars in operating expenses. Key words: stimulus, green technology, green schools, energy efficiency, education [ Read More ]

   

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  Tech giants help clients tap stimulus funds
  With the recession forcing many institutions to cancel projects, technology suppliers are eyeing the economic stimulus package as an elixir to keep revenue flowing -- and many are offering advice that could help schools and other customers land stimulus grants, reports the Wall Street Journal. [ Read More ]

   

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  ALA: Spend stimulus funds on school libraries
  As school leaders prepare to spend billions of dollars in federal stimulus money, the American Library Association (ALA) is lobbying to have some of those dollars used to keep school libraries up to date during hard economic times. [ Read More ]

   

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  Sanford gives in on stimulus, will seek funds for South Carolina
  South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford will comply with a midnight stimulus deadline and become the last governor in the nation to seek millions of dollars in federal economic-recovery funds for his state, McClatchy reports. [ Read More ]

   

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  Education Secretary says aid hinges on new data
  Education Secretary Arne Duncan told the nation's governors on April 1 that in exchange for billions of dollars in federal education aid provided under the economic stimulus law, he wants new information about the performance of their public schools, much of which could be embarrassing, reports the New York Times. [ Read More ]

   

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  GOP governors spurn stimulus funds
  A growing chorus of Republican governors say they will not accept a portion of the federal stimulus funding their states are eligible to receive, putting schools in the middle of a heated political squabble that is sure to affect their budgets. [ Read More ]

   

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  Some rich districts get richer as aid is rushed to schools
  In pouring cash into school districts, Washington is using a tangle of well-worn federal formulas that seem to take little account of who needs the money most, reports the New York Times. [ Read More ]

   

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  Duncan: Schools must improve to get stimulus money
  Education Secretary Arne Duncan says schools must make dramatic changes to get money from a special $5 billion "Race to the Top" fund included in the economic stimulus package. [ Read More ]

   

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  Schools should see stimulus funds in April
  School districts across the United States should begin receiving billions of dollars in stimulus funding in late March and early April, and administrators are advised to “spend carefully” and keep detailed records of their expenditures, the American Association of School Administrators (AASA) said on March 10. [ Read More ]

   

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  Duncan wants stimulus to transform schools
  President Barack Obama and his Education Secretary, Arne Duncan, want to do more than save teachers' jobs or renovate classrooms with the new economic recovery law. They're hoping to reinvent education for the 21st century--while transforming the federal government's role in public education in the process... [ Read More ]
  

   

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  Education gets $105.9B in stimulus package
  The final $787 billion stimulus bill President Obama signed Feb. 17 contains $105.9 billion for education, including $650 million for the federal Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) program. Although encouraged by an increase of more than double its current funding level, ed-tech advocates said they were disappointed EETT did not receive the $1 billion it was slated to receive in earlier drafts of the package... [ Read More ]

   

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  Stimulus to kickstart cash-strapped higher education
  Higher-education officials are awaiting an injection of $32 billion in federal money after Congress passed the economic stimulus bill Feb. 13, aiming to jumpstart a slumbering economy in part by making college more affordable and funding campus projects that have run out of state funds in recent months... [ Read More ]

U.S. Department of Education (ED):
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
http://www.ed.gov/policy/gen/leg/recovery/index.html

ED’s State-by-State Stimulus Projections
http://www.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/news.html#FY2009action

American Association of School Administrators’ stimulus page
http://www.aasa.org/content.cfm?ItemNumber=11157

Recovery.gov: Federal tracking of stimulus spending
http://www.recovery.gov

ASCD Report -- Planning the Possible: How Schools Can Use Stimulus Dollars for Lasting Impact
http://stimulus.ascd.org/ascd/2009/?u1=texterity