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ARRA Guiding Principles for Distribution and Use of Funds in Education
Curriculum Associates has put together an excellent summary of the four principles that guide distribution and use of ARRA funds.
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School Reform and Improvement Literature Database Search
Includes over 5,000 citations and abstracts of screened, high-quality research reports on school reform and improvement from scholars throughout the US
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Arne Duncan Launches National Discussion on Education Reform [Photo_Video]
Secretary Arne Duncan will travel to 15 or more states in the coming months to solicit feedback from a broad group of stakeholders around federal education policy in anticipation of the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The tour will gather input on the Obama administration's education agenda, including early childhood, higher standards, teacher quality, workforce development, and higher education.
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White House seeks input on education law
Embarking on a "listening tour," Education Secretary Arne Duncan asked teachers, parents and students Tuesday how they would improve No Child Left Behind, the controversial education law championed by former President George W. Bush.
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Whatever the administration decides to do, it needs the approval of Congress, which passed the law with broad bipartisan support in 2001 but deadlocked over a rewrite in 2007.
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Yet Duncan has many criticisms of No Child Left Behind, and he has plenty of company. Opponents insist the law's annual reading and math tests have squeezed subjects like music and art out of the classroom and that schools were promised billions of dollars they never received.
Critics also say the law is too punitive: More than a third of schools failed to meet yearly progress goals last year, according to the Education Week newspaper.
That means millions of children are a long way from reaching the law's ambitious goals. The law pushes schools to improve test scores each year, so that every student can read and do math on grade level by the year 2014.
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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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ARRA: Saving and Creating Jobs and Reforming Education
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) provides approximately $100 billion for education, creating a historic opportunity to save hundreds of thousands of jobs, support states and school districts, and advance reforms and improvements that will create long-lasting results for our students and our nation including early learning, K-12, and post-secondary education
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$3.1-billion economic stimulus windfall offers a chance to reform California schools, top education official says
As California received billions of dollars Friday to stave off widespread teacher layoffs, the state's highest elected education official pledged to reform schools, aligning academic standards with other states, rewarding teachers who work in the most challenging classrooms and improving student assessments.
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School Reform Means Doing What's Best for Kids
Article on School Reform and Charter Schools by Arne Duncan for the Wall Street Journal.
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How Schools Can Use Stimulus Dollars for Lasting Impact [Webinar]
Access this archive of the April 27th ASCD webinar to learn how the $100 billion of stimulus funds devoted to education programs can be used for school improvement activities, including professional development.
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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.
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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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ARRA - Enhancing Summer Learning Programs
A joint paper from the Education Commission of the States and the National Center for Summer Learning at Johns Hopkins University identifies how states can use summer learning programs to maximize new federal funds while also increasing their chances of receiving additional federal funding through the Race to the Top awards program. (Jeff Smink and Mike Griffith, Education Commission of the States and National Center for Summer Learning at Johns Hopkins University, April 2009)...
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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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A School Windfall That Set Off a Whirlwind of Controversy
The press got a hold of early drafts of stimulus package ideas that were being put forth at low performing schools in San Diego County Unified and they were posted online. In the rush to put forth ideas to meet deadlines, they’ve been met with the usual resistance from teacher union and parent groups who want input. I’m sure everyone will be struggling with these same issues. The ideas aren’t even fully formulated yet and already there’s dissent!
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Parents charged with overseeing federal money complain that they were not included in the plans that were hastily drafted by schools last week. Teachers and their union say the superintendent has sidestepped them. The school district refused to share the draft plans with the media on Friday. And some of the brief plans hashed out by schools, obtained from other sources by voiceofsandiego.org, raise a barrage of new questions, from whether schools can mandate that teachers stay in one area to curb turnover to how lengthening the school year would work.
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Morris said that schools had to hurry so that the plans could be brought to the school board before unrolling any major changes, such as changing the school calendar, which could take time to put together before next school year. The budget deadline is June 30. No final decisions have been made, the school board has yet to weigh in, and it is unclear when the final plans will be chosen
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In One Pocket and Out the Other for Preschool Funding
A promised deluge of federal stimulus funds for preschools, a major priority for President Barack Obama, will start flowing to centers in San Diego just as state funding is being clipped. That might sound like a blessing, but dollars from state, federal and other programs cannot be easily swapped to plug gaps. The push-and-pull on preschool money is putting many centers in the paradoxical position of juggling expected cuts with investments in better programs and training, benefiting some families and not others.
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Despite solid evidence that preschool can have lasting effects on children, even curbing dropout rates and slimming the achievement gap between disadvantaged students and their classmates, there is no uniform system for funding it. Preschools in California often rely on a complex web of funds to stay afloat. There are federal funds and state funds, temporary grants, dollars passed along from school districts and dollars handed down from county commissions funded by a statewide tobacco tax.
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Each fund is saddled with rules that limit which families it can be spent on, how many children can be grouped with each teacher, and how the money must be tracked. State preschool money, for instance, is supposed to be used to help families who earn less than 75 percent of the California median income -- roughly $44,000 for a family of four. But federal money for the Head Start preschool program has a lower threshold of about $22,000 for a family of four, according to figures supplied by the California Head Start Association.
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Education Secretary Duncan Speaks About Education Reform
Third, there’s more great ideas about what works around the country than ever before. What I’ve said repeatedly is I don’t have to come up with any great ideas. My job is to listen, to learn. And that in every inner-city community around the country and many, many rural communities, there are extraordinary schools, great educators who are beating the odds every day.
My job is to listen to them, to invest in them, to take to scale what works. And there’s been this blossoming of entrepreneurial ideas and energy around education over the past 10 to 15 years. And we know what is possible: Regardless of socioeconomic challenges, regardless of family background, when children have a chance to get a great education, they do very, very well.
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