Stimulus Part II
The details of the Federal Stimulus are starting to come out. It appears that most of the money earmarked for Title I and Special Education programs will merely be replacing lost State funding that the School District's would have had to provide from their fund balance.
It was disappointing to see such a small amount ($84,000) appropriated for building construction/renovation, an area where jobs can be created. In that aspect, the Stimulus package will not really deliver as advertised.
The verdict is not final since the package itself my be revised again before the fund are sent to the various schools.
It was disappointing to see such a small amount ($84,000) appropriated for building construction/renovation, an area where jobs can be created. In that aspect, the Stimulus package will not really deliver as advertised.
The verdict is not final since the package itself my be revised again before the fund are sent to the various schools.
Labels: stimulus money for schools
posted by Paul Sroka at
1:05 PM
3 Comments:
I'd like to know how the Obama administration and Congress decided exactly what the education dollars in the stimulus would pay for...
on the flipside, you have people like Palin who turned down stimulus money, including $160M for education for her state .. check it out @ http://tinyurl.com/chya3f
I think it makes sense to not take the money if it's going to tie a state's hands in the long run and make it have to spend even more money. I don't know if it will in Alaska or any of the other states whose governors say they aren't taking all of the money.
But some districts here say they won't hire people with the stimulus money because they don't want to have to pay for those positions after the stimulus money has been spent. To me, it's the same idea ... let's look at the impact of the money in the long run before deciding whether to take it and how to spend it.
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