Big incentive for school attendance: Cash (St. Louis, MO)
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ST. LOUIS • Stacey Wright had more than a dozen choices when it came to enrolling three of her children in an elementary school, from charters to magnets to traditional public schools in every corner of the city. She chose Jefferson Elementary School, the brick St. Louis public school across the street. And for that, she may get $900. For the first time, a local organization is offering parents a cash incentive to enroll their children at Jefferson. ~ SNIP ~ Proponents say the cash rewards are no different from offering college scholarships to top achievers at a high school,...
Published on Monday 6th of September 2010 06:38:06 PM
Joe full of 'bull' on economy (Biden says stimulus worked--Repubs are skeptical)
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VP Biden's bullish remarks--that $862B stimulus created or saved some 3.6M jobs--are part of a WH push to convince deeply skeptical voters that the economy is on a comeback.......Repubs question the validity of the numbers.
Published on Monday 6th of September 2010 06:38:06 PM
Restrictions on Education Grants under Consideration
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Concerned that too many students are using federal grants to attend the “wrong kind of schools,” the US Department of Education is weighing new rules that would restrict grant money from being used to pay for schooling provided at for-profit institutions. For-profit schools provide training in fields like information technology, health care, criminal justice, and automotive repair. Enrollment at these for-profit schools has increased by 20% since the recession knocked so many out of their jobs. “Increasing enrollment in these private for-profit schools is not what the President had in mind when he expanded the grant program last year,” said...
Published on Monday 6th of September 2010 06:38:06 PM
Huntington County Indiana loses again
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Huntington County Indiana has applied for, and been denied, an Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant.
Published on Monday 6th of September 2010 06:38:06 PM
Lesser long-nosed bat surveys
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Description Provides funding for surveys to locate roost sites of lesser long-nosed bat in Arizona to update inventory of sites for management purposes. Also work to design an improved monitoring protocol for the species
Published on Monday 6th of September 2010 06:38:06 PM
Ed Dept: $437 million in teacher incentive grants
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. Department of Education will give $437 million in competitive grants to districts that reward teachers for improving student achievement in high-need schools.
Published on Monday 6th of September 2010 06:38:06 PM
Will IITs, IIMs fall victim to poaching by foreign universities?
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MUMBAI: In 2008, when Atlanta-based Georgia Tech University bought 250 acres of land in Hyderabad it left many gaping. It did something even more astonishing shortly afterwards: it invited its own faculty members to quit their jobs and consider moving to India. A professor in the computer science department of the university told TOI: ‘‘Each one of us got a formal note. Even more amazingly, he added, all of us were offered the same salary that we were getting in Georgia. It was clearly an offer very few would even think of refusing; given the cost of living in India,...
Published on Monday 6th of September 2010 06:38:06 PM
STUPAK ANNOUNCES $726,409 FOR AIRPORTS IN ALPENA, DELTA AND CHIPPEWA COUNTIES
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WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Congressman Bart Stupak (D-Menominee) announced three airports in northern Michigan have received grants totaling $726,409 for airport maintenance and improvements. The funding was provided by the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration. “This federal funding will help these airports better provide critical services to communities in northern Michigan,” Stupak said. “I am pleased the FAA has made this investment in our local airports and the individuals and businesses they serve.” Alpena County Regional Airport received a grant of $85,500 to acquire friction measuring equipment, specifically a decelermeter and tow vehicle, to replace equipment that has...
Published on Monday 6th of September 2010 06:38:06 PM
Number of illegal immigrants getting in-state tuition for Texas colleges rises
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The number of illegal immigrant college students paying in-state tuition and receiving financial aid at Texas' public colleges and universities continues to climb, according to state higher education records. During the fall semester, 12,138 students – about 1 percent of all Texas college students – benefited from the state law granting in-state tuition, according to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. Most of the immigrants among those students are illegal, and some others are not legal permanent residents or U.S. citizens. Texas awarded about $33.6 million in state and institutional financial aid to those students between fall 2004 and...
Published on Monday 6th of September 2010 06:38:06 PM
Anticrime effort jolted by arrests (In Massachusetts: good intentions + funding = ????)
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Three Boston street workers hired to steer young people away from lives of crime have themselves been arrested since June, challenging ambitious efforts by the city and the Boston Foundation to guide gang members toward rehabilitation. Last month, a 44-year-old street worker funded by the Boston Foundation was arrested in Newton and charged with heroin possession and passing about $1,500 in counterfeit bills to buy goods at T.J. Maxx. Two months earlier, another worker hired through the foundation was charged with assaulting a police officer on a Dorchester street. And last June, a street worker hired by the city was...
Published on Monday 6th of September 2010 06:38:06 PM
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