If you’re a teacher-policy geek like me, you’ll want to check out all the teacher-related details in the completed stimulus. My colleague Michele McNeil has the scoop at Politics K-12 (disc: I helped a little).
In my view, the most important piece of this is the requirement for states to improve teacher effectiveness. The language is pretty much the first toe the government’s really put into that particular (swampy) pond. As with much in this huge bill, whether or not it really means anything is going to depend on Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s following up on it.