Details are starting to emerge about a study planned by the U.S. Department of Education to determine what states are doing with their education money under the economic-stimulus law and whether the efforts being funded improve schooling.
“Most of the money is really for stabilization, but $10 billion is going to be for competitive grants,” John Q. Easton, the director of the department’s Institute of Education Sciences, told his advisory board at its Nov. 9 meeting. “I certainly don’t want to be here in three years and have somebody say, ‘What did we get for that $10 billion?’ ”
“We’ve got to be learning from this,” he added of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding. “It’s too huge...
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