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$100,000 from Able Information Technologies to eight Arizona schools

June 1, 2009 by ESchool News

Able Information Technologies has completed a contest to reward Arizona schools for their exemplary use of technology to improve education. The contest, which awarded $100,000 worth of prizes…

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$300,000 in middle school scholarships and grants from Raytheon

June 1, 2009 by ESchool News

Raytheon Co. of Waltham, Mass., celebrated Math Awareness Month in April by awarding $1,000 scholarships to 150 middle school students and matching grants to the students' schools. The…

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$550,000 from Toyota to 82 science teachers nationwide

June 1, 2009 by ESchool News

Toyota Motor Sales USA has announced $550,000 in Toyota TAPESTRY grants to 82 teachers in grades K-12 nationwide for their outstanding science project proposals. The winners were chosen…

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$600,000 from the National Governors Association to improve low-performing schools

June 1, 2009 by ESchool News

The National Governors Association's Center for Best Practices has awarded grants of $150,000 to Colorado, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Mississippi to support the development of a comprehensive strategy aimed…

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Allow plenty of time for writing federal grant proposals

June 1, 2009 by By Deborah Ward

One question I'm frequently asked during my grant-writing workshops is, "Just how long does it take to write a federal grant proposal?" My response is usually 60 to…

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Economic woes could reduce technology in K-12 classrooms

May 26, 2009 by ESchool News

A report released by the American Association of School Administrators reveals that many school budgets will be cut during the 2009-10 school year because of reduced funding --…

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Amazon cloud offer appeals to colleges

April 8, 2010May 11, 2009 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

David J. Malan's Harvard University computer science students completed projects last fall that would have proved difficult -- if not impossible -- without cloud computing. Malan secured a…

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Amazon cloud offer appeals to colleges

May 11, 2009 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

David J. Malan's Harvard University computer science students completed projects last fall that would have proved difficult -- if not impossible -- without cloud computing. Malan secured a…

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Six tips for securing federal stimulus money for your schools

May 8, 2009 by By Deborah Ward

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…

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Three sticking points could stunt stimulus education reform

May 5, 2009 by ESchool News

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…

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This Land: Ohio Serenade

April 28, 2009 by ESchool News

The New York Times reports that in Newark, Ohio, a shifting economic landscape is affecting even the town's high school musicians.

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Teen sues over stimulus funds

April 23, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

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…

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California first state to receive stimulus funds

April 21, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

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…

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School stimulus money is ‘falling off the truck’

April 14, 2009 by ESchool News

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…

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Wyoming gets stimulus funds for cleaner school bus emissions

April 13, 2009 by ESchool News

Wyoming's school bus passengers will breathe a little easier thanks to a $1.73 million grant from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act to clean up diesel emissions, reports…

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Online-learning grant program eliminated

April 7, 2009 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

Higher-education officials will have to seek new avenues for funding and seed money for online programs after the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced this week that its online-education…

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Online-learning grant program eliminated

November 5, 2013April 7, 2009 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

Higher-education officials will have to seek new avenues for funding and seed money for online programs after the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced this week that its online-education…

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Six ways to ensure successful collaboration on grant projects

April 3, 2009 by By Deborah Ward

Collaboration is a common occurrence in grantsmanship today. Even when funders do not require it, many applicants find that in order to carry out a project successfully, they…

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Sanford gives in on stimulus, will seek funds for South Carolina

April 3, 2009 by ESchool News

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…

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Tanking property values might halt new Broward schools construction, technology

March 25, 2009 by ESchool News

Throw the Broward County, Fla., school district's five-year construction and technology plan out the window, district financial staff told school board members at a March 24 workshop, reports…

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GOP governors spurn stimulus funds

March 24, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

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…

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Ambitious school technology plans run up against budget deficits

March 19, 2009 by ESchool News

All 1,000 students at Oak-Land Junior High in Lake Elmo, Minn., have laptop computers supplied by the Stillwater School District that they take to every class and can…

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Duncan: Schools must improve to get stimulus money

March 17, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

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…

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New fed funding for ed tech nears $1 billion

March 12, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

New federal funding for education technology approaches $1 billion. The federal Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) program will receive nearly $270 million for fiscal year 2009, thanks to…

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Utah to buy educational technology with stimulus funding

February 27, 2009 by ESchool News

Utah will use some of its federal stimulus money to pay for high-tech teaching software and new computer labs in the state's poorest schools as part of an…

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Education snags $105.9B in stimulus package

February 17, 2009 by By Laura Devaney, Senior Editor

The final $787 billion stimulus bill that President Obama is expected to sign today contains $105.9 billion for education, including $650 million for the federal Enhancing Education Through…

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Editorial: Morning in America

February 17, 2009 by Gregg W. Downey, editor

Default Lines for eSchool News, print edition, March 1, 2009--After a years-long slumber, it's time to stretch, yawn, and notice a new day dawning all around us. In…

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Schools would get $106 billion from federal stimulus package

February 13, 2009 by ESchool News

The massive federal economic stimulus package hammered out by Congress this week contains about $106 billion earmarked for education, an unprecedented expansion of federal spending into the nation's…

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Stimulus deal addresses school modernization

February 12, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

Senate and House negotiators agreed Feb. 11 on a compromise, $789 billion economic stimulus bill that includes some funding for school modernization, a priority item for President Obama…

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Schools lose in Senate stimulus ‘compromise’

February 10, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

Despite $1 billion in ed-tech funding and increases in college Pell Grants, education took a major hit when the U.S. Senate cut all $20 billion in proposed funding…

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Five ways to attract investors to campus technology

February 9, 2009 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

Universities can support costly technology projects by teaming up with venture capitalists seeking sound investments, but higher-education officials should beware the potential for investor money to become bogged…

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FETC 2009: Purchasing, Professional Development, Consulting

January 30, 2009 by ESchool News

Funds For Learning said it helped Oklahoma’s Okaloosa County School District secure more than $500,000 in funding for telecommunications services ... Read more

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Gates Foundation to show excellent teaching

January 27, 2009 by By Dennis Pierce, Managing Editor

Billionaire philanthropist and former Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates says his foundation hopes to post online videos of exemplary teachers plying their craft as a way to inspire…

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$3.77M from Gates Foundation to help fund Dallas ISD academic database

January 22, 2009 by ESchool News

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will announce a nearly $3.8 million grant today to help fund a mega-database that gives Dallas school educators instant access to student…

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Stimulus bill includes $142B for education

January 16, 2009 by From staff and wire reports

Some $20 billion for school modernization and $1 billion for educational technology are among nearly $150 billion in funding targeted toward education in the House version of the…

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