New Feed on AllEducationNews.com

I've added another feed from Education Week dedicated to stimulus funding news. You'll find it on the home page of AllEducationNews.com.

Education Week Blog - • Officials: Some states apparently in no hurry to apply for stimulus funds

Officials: Some states apparently in no hurry to apply for stimulus funds

An interesting blog post in Education Week about the delay for states' applications for stimulus funds. This reminds us that it isn't always so easy to grab what is being offered.

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2009/05/why_states_arent_rushing_to_th.html

English Language Learners and Federal Stimulus Funds

Large Districts To Use Stimulus For ELL Support
Education Week, May 18, 2009

At least four large urban school districts plan to spend a significant amount of their federal economic-stimulus money to support or improve programs for English-language learners, a fast-growing group in U.S. schools. The districts—Boston, New York City, St. Paul, Minn., and Seattle—have had varying degrees of success serving such students. (MORE)

Further into the Education Week article, I discovered a group called the ELL Working Group: http://www.stanford.edu/~hakuta/ARRA/ They have published a 22-page report about how schools can tap into stimulus funds for ELLs.

News Release: LEARNING PLANS ON DEMAND™ Recognized by Leading Education Magazine; Named Best in Tech Solution for Reading/RTI

STUART, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LEARNING PLANS ON DEMAND™ (www.LearningPlansOnDemand.com) has been named a 2009 “Best in Tech” product by Scholastic Administr@tor magazine. It was selected as one of the best technology solutions for schools in the category of Reading/RTI (Response to Intervention) Assessment. In addition to being profiled in the magazine, Learning Plans on Demand will be recognized at the National Educational Computing Conference in Washington D.C. in June 2009.

“The purpose of Learning Plans on Demand is to give the teacher a rapid and reliable way to individualize instruction for every student including those above or below grade level,” said Bill Tudor, founder and president of the International Learning Corporation. “Not only do we make the process easy but it is highly flexible and fits into how a teacher runs the classroom.”

ASCD Special Report on Funding

There are a lot of reports out there about the stimulus funds for education but this one is particularly good. ASCD (Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) has published part 1 of a detailed look at the monies.

Here is the link http://stimulus.ascd.org/ascd/2009/?u1=texterity

NOTE: If you cannot get there directly from this link, go to ASCD's site http://www.ascd.org/programs/ARRA_resources.aspx


If you do not subscribe to ASCD's SmartBrief, you should. It provides a good look at policy and larger issues affecting education policy (with a few local stories sprinkled in.) IN particular, look at the May 12 issue of SmartBrief for numerous articles on funding.