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For months, pink-slipped teachers across the USA have waited for long-sought federal funding to save their jobs. And Congress finally appropriated $10 billion this month to bring back thousands of teachers, nurses, bus drivers and others.
ATLANTA (AP) — The U.S. Education Department said Tuesday that nine states and the District of Columbia will get money to reform schools in the second round of the $4.35 billion “Race to the Top” grant competition
ATLANTA – The U.S. Education Department said Tuesday that nine states and the District of Columbia will get money to reform schools in the second round of the $4.35 billion “Race to the Top” grant competition. Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island and Washington, D.C., will receive grants, department spokesman Justin Hamilton said
As schools handed out pink slips to teachers this spring, states made a beeline to Washington to plead for money for their ravaged education budgets.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Department of Education has selected 19 states to vie for $3.4 billion in grants aimed at improving their schools, Secretary Arne Duncan said in a speech on Tuesday. He added that 10 to 15 of those states are expected to win money from the federal stimulus-funded program known as “Race to the Top.” The program is President Barack Obama’s pet project, offering federal grants to states for improving education and supporting semi-autonomous charter schools – in what Duncan called the “quiet revolution” in education.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The fight to win extra federal funding for states for education jobs is growing fiercer in the U.S.
LOS ANGELES — In an era of yawning budget deficits and teacher layoffs, schools in the Los Angeles area are looking at a nontraditional source for some extra cash — Hollywood.
LOS ANGELES – In an era of yawning budget deficits and teacher layoffs, schools in the Los Angeles area are looking at a nontraditional source for some extra cash — Hollywood . School districts from Lawndale to Glendale are seeking to earn thousands of dollars a day from renting their campuses as locations for movies, TV shows , commercials, and even truck parking.
WASHINGTON — The debate in Congress over an $82 billion war spending bill has opened up a war of a different sort — a fierce clash between House Democrats and the Obama White House over two highly sensitive issues: the nation’s huge budget deficit and the lingering wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Related White House Memo: Spend or Scrimp