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Article: COLLEGE SEES FEDERAL STIMULUS PACKAGE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- February 25, 2009
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SHORELINE, Wash., Feb. 23 -- Shoreline Community College issued the following news release:
Shoreline Community College officials got a glimpse at the size of the federal stimulus package for education and it appears to be big, really big.
Public schools in Washington, both K-12 and higher education, could receive more than $1 billion in direct federal dollars with millions more coming in additional aid to students, tax breaks, job training and new grants. And all of it intended to be spent In the next two years.
"This is an unprecedented partnership we are seeing unfold between higher education and our federal government," Molly Corbett Broad of the American Council of Education said ...