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Article: Education Stimulus Spending Spotlight: Data Made Transparent by Socrata Gives a Clearer View of Where Education Funds are Going
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- September 30, 2009
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SEATTLE, Sept. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --As students and their
tax paying parents settle into the return to school, most are in the
dark about the unprecedented $100 billion in education funds made
available through the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
This historic investment, focused on turning around the nation's
5,000 worst performing schools, is equal to nearly 16 percent of the
nation's annual expenditures on public K-12 education.
$10 billion of the new funding has been slated for Title I
programs to provide additional assistance to schools with a high ...