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Education in the News
05-26-2011
By Jodi Weigand
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Pennsylvania could win up to $50 million in federal money if it's among the
best of the rest from the Race to the Top grant competition.
The Department of Education announced Wednesday that $200 million is...
05-26-2011
By Troy Graham
Inquirer Staff Writer
On Tuesday, Mayor Nutter promised to write the School District of
Philadelphia a check for $75 million to $110 million, and now he has to
come up with the money.
The mayor seems unwilling to do so by cutting city services, and he's...
05-26-2011
School budget discussions this spring have been riddled with talk of
unpopular cuts, delays and freezes.
Central Dauphin teachers and administrators accepted pay freezes.
Harrisburg School District officials are talking of giving up full-day
kindergarten. Juniata County School District cut athletics. East Pennsboro...
05-26-2011
ATLANTA — A new $500 million federal grant competition announced
Wednesday aims to do away with an uncoordinated system of preschool
programs that often leave the poorest children without options and allow
bad schools to go unchecked...
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