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November 12, 2009

Every Thursday, REL-NEI highlights state-based resources, press releases, and news around the Northeast and Islands Region related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). For a listing of REL Issues & Answers Reports categorized under ARRA topics and domains, click here.

Deputy Secretary Miller at ARRA Forum in NH

Appearing in person with three associates, Deputy Education Secretary Tony Miller laid out the challenges and framed a holistic interrelated system of educational reform, focused on K–12 teaching and learning in a continuum from support for early education through college graduation and career preparation. “It starts with teachers and learners in the classroom,” he said, “that is what we have to get right.” Miller encouraged participants to approach the “once in a generation, unprecedented” education stimulus funding opportunity—close to $100 billion—in an equally holistic, strategic, and integrated way. “Money and ideas should be aligned where possible,” he said. “The grants are aimed at challenging and stimulating thinking.”

View video from the November 10th event in Bedford.

For more information, visit these ARRA-related websites across the Northeast and Islands Region:

U.S. Department of Education

http://www.ed.gov/policy/gen/leg/recovery/index.html

State Recovery Sites

http://www.recovery.gov/?q=content/state-local-tribal-and-territorial-resources

State Education Agency Recovery Sites

Connecticut: http://www.sde.ct.gov/sde/cwp/view.asp?a=2703&Q=322296
Maine: http://www.maine.gov/education/recovery/index.html
Massachusetts: http://www.doe.mass.edu/arra/
New Hampshire: http://www.ed.state.nh.us/education/recovery/index.htm
New York: http://uspeny.nysed.gov/arra/
Rhode Island: http://www.ride.ri.gov/Finance/Funding/ARRA/
Vermont: http://education.vermont.gov/new/html/dept/recovery_act.html
Puerto Rico: http://www.buengobiernopr.com/arra/index.html
U.S. Virgin Islands: http://www.governordejongh.com/recovery/index.html

Education Week’s “Schools and the Stimulus”

http://www.edweek.org/ew/collections/schools-stimulus/index.html