EdMoney.org.
My colleagues at EWA have launched a new website, EdMoney.org, devoted to tracking stimulus spending on education and helping journalists and the public make sense of the issue. Eventually the site will offer lots of searchable data on spending in individual schools and districts. Until then you will find helpful links and posts on the latest in how the money is being used.
With billions spent, how is the economic stimulus reaching America’s schools? EdMoney tracks spending in public schools across the country to find out.
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Win -- or lose -- by joining Race to the Top
New Jersey can't afford this win, writes a guest columnist -- president of the 200,000-member New Jersey Education Association. "When it comes to testing, though, Race to the Top makes No Child Left Behind look like child’s play. It would expand the standardized testing mania to far more children, in ...
By: Nirvi Shah :: Jan. 18, 2010 1:41 p.m.
Bowing out of the race (to the top)
When it comes to Race to the Top money, for which some states and school districts are willing to make drastic changes to education policy, antagonize teachers unions and extend an olive branch to charter schools, two states won't even cross the starting line: Texas and Alaska.While other states wavered ...
By: Nirvi Shah :: Jan. 14, 2010 noon
States compete vigorously for Race to the Top stimulus funds
States are completing comprehensive proposals, negotiating with local teachers unions and passing legislation that would allow them to compete for $4.35 billion from the Race to the Top Fund as the deadline approaches Jan. 19. The Race to the Top initiative was designed to reward states that have raised student ...
By: Mc Nelly Torres :: Jan. 14, 2010 6 a.m.
Stimulus Tracking Focus of Bootcamp
Federal stimulus spending is definitely the focus for 15 of 20 reporters attending the annual EWA Education Research and Statistics Bootcamp Feb. 25-28 in Phoenix. The bootcamp usually focuses on the uses and misuses of test scores. But with the emphasis on extra education dollars from the federal government to ...
By: Lori Crouch :: Jan. 11, 2010 5:26 p.m.
Can a district use stimulus dollars to segregate disruptive special ed students?
Controversy about the uses of IDEA stimulus funding to build seclusion rooms for disruptive special education students sparked recently in Wisconsin as Greenfield School Board voted to use stimulus dollars for this purpose. Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, state legislators and disability groups, who are working to end such practices, ...
By: Mc Nelly Torres :: Jan. 11, 2010 noon
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Track New York's literal race... to the race to the top
With just hours before the state’s Race to the Top application is due in Washington, legislators in Albany are scrambling to deal with the cap on charter schools, considered a make-or-break component of the application.
Posted Jan. 19, 2010 1:06 p.m.
State gives Broward one more chance to join Race to the Top -- then takes it back
The Florida Department of Education has given the Broward school district a chance to reconsider its decision not to sign on to the state's application for millions in federal grant money -- and then took it back, Broward Superintendent Jim Notter said Tuesday.
Posted Jan. 19, 2010 10:19 a.m.
Obama to seek $1.35 billion more for Race to the Top program
President Obama is slated to visit a Fairfax County school Tuesday to announce plans to seek $1.35 billion in his next budget to expand his signature education initiative to improve schools.
Posted Jan. 19, 2010 9:33 a.m.
Race for more stimulus cash on to next step for Michigan
Kathleen Straus, president of the State Board of Education, signed on Saturday Michigan'sapplication to receive up to $400 million in additional federal stimulus funds, the Detroit FreePress reports.
Posted Jan. 19, 2010 9:31 a.m.
Michigan hopes reforms will win up to $400M in school aid
Michigan filed its application for federal funds to launch education reform with strong support from school districts but a dearth of union backing.
Posted Jan. 19, 2010 9:29 a.m.