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Questions Abound As Districts Shift To Merit Pay For Teachers

| Scott Elliott and Sarah Butrymowicz | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Public Schools, Video, Indiana Department of Education, Race to the Top, Teacher Merit Pay, Merit Pay for Teachers, Merit Pay, Teacher Pay, Teachers, Federal Grants, Indiana Schools, Education News

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. If your child's teacher seems a little bit on edge this year, it might not be your imagina...

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Federal Investments in Scientific Research Must Remain a Priority

Michael Ham | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Taxes, Science, Funding, Congress, Medicine, Ivf, Scientific Research, Federal Budget Deficit, Scientific Funding, Federal Grants, Science News
Michael Ham

Pages of facts and statistics cannot adequately describe the impact research has on the lives of everyday Americans and the necessity of federal science funding.

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Andrea Stone

Homeland Security Budget Cuts Leaving Cities On Their Own

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 12.29.2011

Read More: Natural Disasters, Police, Homeland Security, Homeland Security Funds, Department of Homeland Security, Video, Minneapolis Bridge Collapse, Counterterrorism, Janet Napolitano, Homeland Security Grants, Gabrielle Giffords, Fusion Centers, Joplin Tornado, Dhs, Uasi, Federal Grants, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- When the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis collapsed in 2007, a specially equipped urban search and rescue team based in the Twin Cities respo...

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Hawaii Chided For 'Unsatisfactory' Race To The Top Performance

AP | By KIMBERLY HEFLING and JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER | Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Unsatisfactory Performance, Unsatisfactory Rating, Neil Abercrombie, Arne Duncan, Race to the Top, Race to the Top Grants, Federal Education Grant, Hawaii, Hawaii Education, Hawaii Schools, Hawaii Race to the Top, Hawaii Education Department, Federal Grants, Education News

WASHINGTON -- An Education Department official on Wednesday admonished Hawaii for its "unsatisfactory" performance under a $75 million federal grant t...

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Q&A: Local Debt-Ceiling Repercussions? County Layoffs, Delays

Richmond Heights, MO Patch | Nate Birt | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Debt Ceiling Repercussions, St. Louis, Debt Ceiling, Local Employees, Debt Ceiling Local Repercussions, Roadway Projects, Missouri, Debt Ceiling Negotiations, Federal Grants, Politics News

In light of the Tuesday deadline for Congress to raise the federal debt ceiling, Clayton-Richmond Heights Patch spoke with St. Louis County's chief op...

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Tiny Towns Spend Big Bucks On Lobbyists

OpenSecrets.org | Zachary Newkirk | Posted 07.04.2011

Read More: Madison County, Alaska City, Joe Bereskin, John Roots, Lobbying, Lobbyists, Oneida Indian Nation, OpenSecrets Blog, Federal-Grants, Galena, Alaska, Alaska Government, Kent Dawson, Aleutian Islands, Politics News

From OpenSecrets Blog: Eighteen months ago, the tiny Alaskan city of Galena faced its demise. The municipal government couldn't make payroll. And r...

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New York State Lawmakers Just Failed Public School Kids

Juli Charkes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Education, Charter Schools, Mayor Bloomberg, Race to the Top, Governor Paterson, Joel Klein, Legislature, New York State, School Aid, Lawmakers, Federal Grants, Home News
Juli Charkes

They blew it. When New York State Legislators barely made yesterday's deadline to submit an application for federal "Race to the Top" education grant...

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