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Support for Education Jobs : Florida, Hawaii, Missouri, Ohio, Puerto Rico, and the Northern Mariana Islands are among the states that will receive funding to support education jobs.
Two years of cuts in state support saddled the Natomas Unified School District in Sacramento this spring with what school board president B. Teri Burns calls “horribly painful” choices: fewer teachers and larger classes, or keeping teachers but cutting athletics, counseling and after-school programs.
NEW YORK — For their first fire drill, students at the Refugee Youth Summer Academy trooped out of the building behind their teachers. All that was missing were the sirens
Additional Recovery Funds for Texas, Vermont : Vermont and Texas among the states that will receive additional Recovery Act funds to support jobs and drive education reforms.
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is defending his administration’s education policies, responding to criticism that so far they have not substantially helped minority students. The president blames some of the criticism of his plan on teachers and others resistant to change.
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
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