Multiple Stimulus Aid Streams Flow to Ed Tech

State education officials and local school districts are working to use technology money from the federal economic-stimulus package to develop initiatives that do everything from consolidate data systems to create high-quality digital content for school laptops.

But much of the $650 million in stimulus funding for Enhancing Education Through Technology —the federal government’s main educational technology program—has yet to trickle down to districts. Some schools instead are looking to other pots of money in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the 2009 stimulus law, to shore up their technology investments more quickly.

A handful of programs that received money through the recovery act allow districts to get creative about how to pay for technology, said Douglas A. Levin, the executive director of the State Educational Technology Directors Association, based...