Ed-Tech Advocates Look to Life After Federal Budget Cut
States, districts seek other other ways to fund tech programs, especially for professional development
On a trip to Washington this month to advocate for the federal Enhancing Education Through Technology program and testify at a Capitol Hill hearing, Terra Graves kept hearing the same responses.
“They were really impressed with what was done with the money, and said it was used effectively,” said Ms. Graves, an online professional-development coordinator for the 62,000-student Washoe County school district in and around Reno, Nev. “But they just said there was no money.”
By the time Ms. Graves wrapped up her overtures—which coincided with the release of a
report
highlighting programs that had benefited from the funding—and headed back west, lawmakers had acted on that assertion and...
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