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REL N

House GOP Looks to Slash Education Spending - 2 views

blogs.edweek.org/..._gop_slashes_education_sp.html

ADMS707 Federal Funding Cuts

shared by REL N on 13 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • REL N on 13 Feb 11
     
    GOP proposes numerous cuts in federal education spending. Significantly reduces or eliminates programs that the President proposed in his recent State of the Union speech.
Victoria Schnettler

Review of Military vs. Education Spending Worldwide - 0 views

www.globalissues.org/...world-military-spending

ADMS707 education funding

shared by Victoria Schnettler on 12 Feb 11 - Cached
  • Victoria Schnettler on 12 Feb 11
     
    Commentary and charts showing where tax dollars are being spent worldwide - especially interesting to see military vs. education here in the US.
Victoria Schnettler

Obama Still Increasing Education Spending in New Budget - 0 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...education-budget_n_823735.html

ADMS707 federal Obama spending education

shared by Victoria Schnettler on 16 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Victoria Schnettler on 16 Feb 11
     
    Seems Obama is serious about education even though the government is threatening a shut down over budgetary issues.
REL N

Highlights of Obama's 2012 spending plan - CNN.com - 0 views

www.cnn.com/...index.html

ADMS707 Niemeyer Budget

shared by REL N on 15 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • REL N on 15 Feb 11
     
    Obama requested $77.4billion for education. The latest republican cuts included reductions in Pell Grants and other education line items.
REL N

Obama's budget: A play for the center? - CNN.com - 0 views

www.cnn.com/...index.html

ADMS707 Niemeyer Budget

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  • While it's absolutely essential to live within our means ... we can't sacrifice our future in the process," he told reporters while touting some targeted new education spending. "We have a responsibility to invest in those areas that will have the biggest impact in our future" while "demanding accountability."
REL N

Lawmakers Grill Duncan on Spending, ESEA - Politics K-12 - Education Week - 0 views

blogs.edweek.org/...kers_grill_duncan_on_spen.html

ADMS707 Niemeyer duncan ESEA

shared by REL N on 10 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • REL N on 10 Mar 11
     
    Duncan said that 82% of the schools were on track to fail this year.
REL N

Education cuts coming, but fewer than GOP wanted - Washington Times - 1 views

www.washingtontimes.com/...eal-makes-giant-cuts-education

ADMS707 Niemeyer Federal Funding Cuts

shared by REL N on 14 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Striving Readers, a program to boost literacy rates among middle- and high-school students, takes a $250 million hit,
  • some programs not only were spared but will get more money than the administration was looking for. The Teaching of Traditional American History, designed to help fund classes devoted to U.S. history, will lose $73 million from 2010 levels but will get $46 million more this year than the administration requested.
  • Adult education will be cut by $31 million
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  • But the GOP is looking for bigger cuts and wants to reduce Pell Grant spending to “pre-stimulus levels,” cutting the annual federal allocation by about half while blaming Democrats for doubling the size of the program since Mr. Obama took office.
REL N

Education Week: State, Local Policies Seen to Slow Personalized Learning - 0 views

www.edweek.org/...25policies.h30.html

NIemeyer ADMS707 Technology Education Policy

shared by REL N on 07 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • K-12 education is at a policy crossroads, experts in educational technology policy say, as seat-time requirements, school funding models, textbook-adoption procedures, and teacher-certification requirements restrict the growth and effectiveness of emerging learning methods.
  • Moves to replace seat-time mandates, which set the amount of time students must spend in a class before completing it, with requirements that students demonstrate competency in the skills needed to master the course appear to be gaining traction
  • But some policy experts caution that a complete abolition of seat-time requirements could adversely affect the social and collaborative aspects of learning
REL N

Increase in education administrators causes New York State's public school spending to double - NYPOST.com - 0 views

www.nypost.com/...verhead_gnbt3xbRu6hnqPRqrCTZvO

NIemeyer ADMS707 Superintendents

shared by REL N on 07 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • The number of supervisory staff in public schools increased to 42,000 this year from 31,332 in 1997, even as student enrollment statewide fell and performance rankings sat stagnant, according to a Post analysis of state Education Department data. The state's student population dropped to 2.7 million from 2.8 million -- or 4.6 percent -- during that period.
  • According to the governor's research, 223 (33 percent) of school-district superintendents earn more than $175,000.
  • Heads of the smallest districts, which oversee up to 250 students, would get a $125,000 cap.
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  • The largest, with more than 6,501 students, would see a $175,000 cap.
  • School officials say state and federal mandates have, since the mid-1990s, forced them to cut class sizes, beef up teacher evaluations, improve special education, increase the amount of Regents diplomas, and enhance internal financial accounting.
  • REL N on 07 Apr 11
     
    Some interesting numbers and ideas to consider, although it is important to consider the source... The NY Post.
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