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California Budget Proposal Endangers Stimulus Funds for Education

Trapped in a deepening fiscal quagmire, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) has proposed a budgetary shift that could jeopardize federal stimulus funding for education, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
Although $10 billion in stimulus funds for education has been granted to the state, those funds come with a caveat, as outlined by the U.S. Department of [...]


Obama Taps Duncan as Education Secretary

Speaking in the American flag-adorned gym of Chicago’s Dodge Renaissance Academy, a public elementary school, President-elect Barack Obama named Arne Duncan as his secretary of education this morning.
Duncan (his first name is pronounced AR-nee), the CEO of the Chicago public school system, has a reputation as a consensus builder, having won friends in both the [...]