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ARRA Smart Options for Recovery Funds [PDF]

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Realigning Resources for District Transformation

Concrete ideas from the Center for American Progress for strategic spending in three key areas-taking stock of current practices, focusing on support for quality instruction, and making transitional investments-in order to give some guidance to those districts seeking to balance the act's short-term focus on preserving jobs with its long-term goals of promoting student achievement.

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Social Media Tools for Local Government Reporting

This is a fabulous Stimulus Package Reporting idea - something that I've been thinking about too. It could work for every sector. Social media tools could play a huge role in organizing projects, monitoring progress and keeping everything transparent. I love all the concepts in this web site. Excellent work! Training would be needed however, because project leads are not necessarily the kind of people who normally use these tools.

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Ed Secy: Stimulus Money is for the Next Two Years

The top education official in the Obama administration says that federal stimulus dollars for school districts are meant to be spent over two years, which aligns with the position of L.A. school officials in their ongoing political war with employee unions over looming layoffs. The comment by Education Secretary Arne Duncan is significant because unions have been campaigning for district officials to spend as much of the stimulus money as needed to save jobs now. District officials have countered that employees must agree to conditional salary concessions if all jobs are to be saved. District officials have argued that federal stimulus money should be split over two years, in large measure because both years are likely to prove economically dire.

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- This is two-year money and so spreading it some—again I don’t have any of the specific details there, but just big picture—spreading it between the years makes a lot of sense.”
Expanded Learning Time in Action: Initiatives in High-Poverty and High-Minority Schools and Districts

The Center for American Progress has identified more than 300 initiatives in high-poverty, high-minority schools, among them many charter schools, that have significantly expanded learning time. The stimulus funds provide an opportunity to scale up these practices.

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- In a world of competing priorities and limited resources, there is great need for help that is targeted to those who need it most. Arguably, too many of our nation’s low-income and minority public school students fall into this category. But the reforms that are necessary to upgrade our nation’s public school system and ensure that these students receive a high-quality education require considerable investment. Weighed against other policy strategies, education reform initiatives too often remain near the bottom of the list.
- This report examines whether high-poverty and high-minority schools and districts are rethinking the school calendar, if they are adding learning time to the calendar in a significant way, and if they are using learning time differently. To address these questions, the Center for American Progress has conducted research over a two-and-a-half year period to identify and study schools and districts across the country with more learning time. This report identifies more than 300 current initiatives in high-poverty and high-minority schools across 30 states, implemented between 1991 and 2007.
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- - this report touches on why schools and districts choose to expand learning time, how that time was added to the calendar, and what additional time means for schools and students.
Expanded Learning Time: Initiatives in High-Poverty and High-Minority Schools [pdf]

The Center for American Progress, along with our partners, has carefully crafted a policy definition of expanded learning time. Aimed at high-poverty, underperforming schools, expanded learning is the lengthening of the school day, school week, or school year for all students in a given school by at least 30 percent-the equivalent of roughly two hours per day or 360 hours per year. To be \neffective, the concept of expanded learning requires the complete redesign of a school's educational program in a way that combines academics with enrichment for a well-rounded student experience and that supports teachers by giving them more time for planning, training, and professional development. \n

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Five Ways to Innovate in Education

The following five reforms can help states and school districts to implement innovative initiatives as they allocate their stimulus dollars across schools:

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- The call for higher, more rigorous standards and increased global competitiveness have made the traditional school day and calendar largely insufficient to ensure that all students graduate from high school with a diploma and ready for college. Expanded learning time, a schoolwide strategy that entails redesigning and lengthening the school day and/or year by at least 30 percent to help support teaching and learning for all students, can be particularly beneficial for low-income students, minority students, and English language learners.
No Quitters in High School

The Secondary School Innovation Fund Act would provide critical resources for innovative secondary school redesign to dramatically raise high school graduation rates and stem the flow of high school dropouts.

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Stimulus funds to advance national standards

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan is offering federal cash incentives to achieve one of his top priorities: developing national standards for reading and math to replace a current hodgepodge of benchmarks in the states. Duncan said June 14 that the efforts of 46 states to develop common, internationally measured standards for student achievement would be bolstered by up to $350 million in federal funds to help them develop tests to assess those standards.

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