[Libs-Or] Information: Obama to ask for increase to Race to the Top education program

[Diedre Conkling]

 Obama to ask for increase to Race to the Top education
program<http://www.wo.ala.org/districtdispatch/?p=4284>

By Jenni Terry on Race to the Top

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President Obama met yesterday with a group of students at Graham Road
Elementary School in Falls Church, Va., and announced that he will be asking
Congress for $1.35 billion to extend Race to the Top.  Race to the Top is an
education program that came out of last year’s $787 billion stimulus and
offers grants to states and local school districts that change their
policies to emphasize performance rather than simply receiving federal money
every year regardless of student performance.

The White House also announced that the President will give his first State
of the Union Address to Congress on January 27, and he will submit his
budget to Congress on February 1.

Jeff Kratz <jkratz at alawash.org>
Assistant Director, OGR

http://www.wo.ala.org/districtdispatch/?p=4284


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Diedre Conkling
Lincoln County Library District
P.O. Box 2027
Newport, OR  97365
Work phone & fax:  541-265-3066
Work email:  diedre at beachbooks.org
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