From Electronic Education Report , January 3, 2014 The Department of Education in December awarded $120 million to five grantees in the second round of its district-level Race to the Top competition. The winners are: Clarendon County School District Two (consortium of four rural districts), South Carolina, $25 million; Clarksdale Municipal School District, Mississippi, $10 million; Houston Independent School District, Texas, $30 million; Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative (consortium ...
January 6, 2014From Electronic Education Report, April 10, 2015 Funding for Title I, the largest elementary and secondary education program that funds support for low-achieving children especially in high-poverty schools, climbed in fiscal year 2014, ended Sept. 30, 2014, to $14.38 billion, up from $13.76 billion in fiscal 2013 when sequester budget cuts took effect. The 50 school districts that receive the largest Title I allocations were scheduled to receive $3.67 billion of the grants allocated to local...
April 13, 2015From Electronic Education Report, May 22,2015 The demand for E-Rate funding for the year running July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2106 is $3.92 billion, down almost $900 million from fiscal year 2014. That estimate came in May from the Universal Service Administrative Co., the administrative arm of the Federal Communications Commission, which oversees E-Rate. Early indications are that the FCC will be able to fully fund, or come close to fully funding, the 48,404 applications filed for fiscal 2015. ...
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