Stimulus Tensions Simmer: States and School Districts in Delicate Dance on Funds

Autor/in	Klein, Alyson
Titel	Stimulus Tensions Simmer: States and School Districts in Delicate Dance on Funds
Quelle	In: Education Week, 28 (2009) 36, S.1 (3 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0277-4232
Schlagwörter	Federal Legislation; Money Management; Economic Opportunities; Responsibility; School Districts; Educational Improvement; Conflict; Special Education; Individualized Education Programs; State School District Relationship; Funding Formulas; Colorado; Iowa; New Jersey; South Carolina + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bundesrecht; Verantwortungsübernahme; Zuständigkeit; School district; Schulbezirk; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Konflikt; Special needs education; Sonderpädagogik; Sonderschulwesen; Individualized education program; Individualisierendes Lernen; Staatliches Schulamt; Funding; Finanzierung
Abstract	The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is clear: States are on the hook for advancing education improvement goals spelled out in the law as a condition for receiving up to $100 billion in economic-stimulus aid to education. But school districts are the ones that must decide how to spend most of that aid--including hefty, one-time increases for Title I and special education funding--and tensions already are starting to emerge. Take the Phillipsburg, N.J., school district, for example. The 3,500-student system had hoped to use roughly $150,000 in special education stimulus funds for technology to better track students' records, including individualized education programs, and to keep better tabs on students' nutritional choices in the school lunch program, among other uses. But the state, which had final approval over the use of that money, rejected the district's proposal because it didn't seem clear that all of the proposal would benefit special education students, said Beth Auerswald, a spokeswoman for the New Jersey Department of Education. Phillipsburg is permitted to reapply for the special education funding later in the year. But William A. Bauer, the district's business manager, said he could have used clearer guidance from the state about what it was looking for. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10