Will Stimulus Money Make It To Classrooms and Students?

"A key goal of the stimulus law is to patch holes in state budgets and save and create jobs. Educators agree that $54 billion to be funneled to states will prevent thousands of teacher layoffs and drastic program cuts and that schools would be in dire straits without that bailout. An additional $25 billion will target aid to students who are disabled or in poverty, groups the federal government has long helped educate.

But President Obama has linked the funding to high expectations for schools. The administration wants school systems to consider lengthening the school day, expanding charter schools and experimenting with merit pay plans. Obama challenged the country to have the highest rate of college graduates in the world by 2020."

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