On Monday, June 8, the New America Foundation's Federal
Education Budget Project released "Equitable
Resources in Low Income Schools: Teacher Equity and the Federal Title I
Comparability Requirement" at an event on Capitol Hill. This event
featured representatives from the White House, Representative George Miller's
committee staff, and the National Education Association to discuss teacher
equity and the comparability requirement in the law.
... hard drive when it's mounted to an EC2 instance, which is a virtual machine," said Eric Gundersen, president of Development Seed, which is using the TIGER data as part of a school district mapping project for the nonprofit New America Foundation. ...
In May of 2008, Congress passed the Ensuring Continued Access to Student Loans Act (ECASLA) in response to concern that credit market conditions could disrupt federal student loan availability. The law gives the U.S. Department of Education temporary authority to purchase federally backed student loans made by private lenders, effectively providing a secondary market for the loans. Congress opted to leave the new purchase authority largely undefined in statute, giving the Department considerable discretion to design and administer it.
... already decided how to allocate the education funds they're receiving from the federal stimulus package are directing the bulk of the money to elementary and secondary education, according to an analysis of 13 states by the New America Foundation. ...
President Barack Obama submitted his first budget request to Congress on May 7, 2009. This request follows the initial summary budget request he submitted in February that included only aggregate funding levels for federal programs and agencies.
"Charters will have less structure in place for that kind of work," said Jennifer Cohen, a policy analyst with the nonprofit New America Foundation, which is studying stimulus spending. Some stimulus money can be spent on overhead. ...
The New America Foundation, a Washington think tank, spent the day combing through the proposal and developed dozens of questions to consider. Has your organization developed a set of questions about how Mr. Obama's spending policies should be ...
WASHINGTON,
D.C. -- The New America Foundation's Federal Education Budget
Project (FEBP) today released "Key Questions on the Obama Administration's 2010 Education Budget". This rapid
response document identifies key issues for policymakers and the media to ask
as they review the President's budget.
WASHINGTON,
DC -- Today the New America Foundation's Education Policy Program
released a new version of its Federal Education Budget Project (FEBP) website,
www.EdBudgetProject.org. Since its official launch in June of 2008, the FEBP website
and database have provided state and school district funding, demographic, and
achievement data to policymakers, the media, and the public.
President Barack Obama submitted his first budget request to Congress on Thursday, May 7, 2009. This request follows the initial summary budget request he submitted in February that included only proposed funding levels for federal programs and agencies in aggregate. The detailed budget request includes proposed funding levels for federal programs and agencies in aggregate for the upcoming five to ten fiscal years, and specific fiscal year 2010 funding levels for programs subject to appropriations. The president's 2010 budget request… more
