History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
Youth Voice in School Finance
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Without Dollars and Sense Powerpoint
Past Educational Opportunity Reports
Oakland, LAUSD to get SIG money after all
- 08-25-2010
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
With an hours-old waiver from the federal government in hand, the state Board of Education on Tuesday approved spending $416 million to turn around 92 of the state’s lowest performing schools. That will include $100 million from a reserve that the feds now said could be divided among two dozen schools in Oakland, Los Angeles, Santa Cruz and other districts that had argued they’d been unfairly excluded. The vote ends the suspense for districts that started the school year having made commitments to hire teacher coaches, add programs and extend the school day without knowing whether they’d get federal School Improvement Grant money. Some had put off critical planning for their school transformations during the summer because of approval delays. The larger schools will receive as much as $6 million over three years as long as they adopt one of four improvement models prescribed by the Obama administration. Faced with time pressures, board members approved the grant recommendations of Department of Education staff with some sharply voiced misgivings. (more…)
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