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Online petition urges computer science education funding

May 5, 2016May 5, 2016 by Laura Devaney, Director of News, <a href='https://twitter.com/esn_laura' target='_blank'>@eSN_Laura</a>

An online petition urges Congress to provide $250 million to help schools and districts integrate computer science into the curriculum. In a letter sent to Congress, the authors…

April: 5 education grants you don’t want to miss

April 4, 2014April 4, 2014 by By Laura Devaney, Managing Editor, <a href='https://twitter.com/esn_laura' target='_blank'>@eSN_Laura</a>

School funding difficulties show no sign of abating, and school budgets are stretched to the limit. Many educators and administrators rely on school grants to fund important projects…

4 ways to leverage federal funds for ed-tech

March 27, 2014 by By Laura Devaney, Managing Editor, <a href='https://twitter.com/esn_laura' target='_blank'>@eSN_Laura</a>

Education technology is a priority in today's classrooms, and this includes ensuring that students have access to technology tools and high-speed internet to access digital learning resources. While…

House committee targets education funding

May 22, 2013 by From staff and wire reports

Republicans controlling the House of Representatives pressed ahead May 21 with a plan to slash spending on certain domestic programs—including education—far deeper than the cuts these departments already…

Obama, Romney spar over education funding

October 5, 2012October 4, 2012 by From staff and wire reports

President Barack Obama said his Republican rival for the presidency, Mitt Romney, favors cutting the Education Department's budget by up to 20 percent, while Romney insisted that was…

Bleak outlook for education spending under sequestration

September 24, 2012September 21, 2012 by By Laura Devaney, Managing Editor

As schools face ever-increasing budget dilemmas, education stakeholders are desperately hoping to avoid sequestration, or across-the-board cuts, to domestic spending next year—cuts that could devastate education programs and…

Nearly 900 districts to apply for Race to the Top funding

September 4, 2012 by From staff and wire reports

Nearly 900 school districts across the nation intend to apply for a slice of close to $400 million in grants that the U.S. Education Department will distribute in…

What ‘sequestration’ could mean for school grant seeking in 2013

October 26, 2012September 1, 2012 by By Deborah Ward

You might already know that the Budget Control Act of 2011 created a Joint Commission of Congress that is charged with identifying budgetary savings of at least $1.2…

Debt-ceiling bill forces cuts to education spending

August 3, 2011August 2, 2011 by From staff and wire reports

After weeks of political posturing, the agreement reached by lawmakers to raise the nation’s debt ceiling contains some good news for low-income college students—and bad news for other…

Opinion: Our broken escalator

July 19, 2011 by staff and wire services reports

The United States supports schools in Afghanistan because we know that education is one of the cheapest and most effective ways to build a country, says New York…

Online petition urges computer science education funding

April: 5 education grants you don’t want to miss

4 ways to leverage federal funds for ed-tech

House committee targets education funding

Obama, Romney spar over education funding

Bleak outlook for education spending under sequestration

Nearly 900 districts to apply for Race to the Top funding

What ‘sequestration’ could mean for school grant seeking in 2013

Debt-ceiling bill forces cuts to education spending

Opinion: Our broken escalator

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