Swine flu is thought to have killed nearly 4,000 people in the United States, including more than 500 children, health officials said after ...
Obama uses stimulus money to coax states to embrace his school agenda Using stimulus dollars as bait, President Barack Obama is coaxing states ...
Education Secretary Arne Duncan, right, hold up a document as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009, before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on the swine flu. He is joined by Health and Human ...
WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 21: (L-R) U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, and Education Secretary Arne Duncan testify during hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill October 21, 2009 ...
A massive 787-billion-dollar stimulus package passed by Congress earlier this year saved at least 250,000 education jobs across the country, the White House said Monday. "This is one more indication of how the Recovery Act is helping soften the blow of tough ...
On nationwide math tests, fourth-grader progress stalls but eighth-graders improve New math scores show fourth-graders made no gains since 2007, the first time in two decades they have failed to improve. Eighth-graders advanced for yet another year. Education officials called the results ...
AP Interview: Education secretary reminds states that extra school dollars are for reform With states jockeying for extra school dollars from the economic stimulus, Education Secretary Arne Duncan reminded them Tuesday the point is to help kids do better. Cash-strapped states are ...
US education chief calls for new teachers, says education is civil rights cause of our time U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan appealed Friday for a new generation of extraordinary teachers, calling education the civil rights cause of our time. Duncan told about ...
In this Friday Oct. 2, 2009 photo Chicago Police officers watch students as they leave classes at Christian Fenger Academy High School on the city's South Side. The fatal beating two weeks ago of 16-year-old Fenger honor student Derrion Albert prompted President ...
School districts, nonprofits can get extra stimulus dollars for Obama-backed school reforms School districts and nonprofit partners can benefit from a $650 million competitive grant fund for school reforms pushed by President Barack Obama. The money is part of the economic stimulus ...
Attorney general, education secretary to visit Chicago to discuss honors student beating President Barack Obama is sending Attorney General Eric Holder and Education Secretary Arne Duncan to Chicago next week to discuss the recent beating death of a 16-year-old honors student. White ...
Report: Despite Obama's wishes, some states use stimulus to make up for education cuts An internal watchdog at the Education Department says states are using money from the economic stimulus to plug budget holes instead of boosting aid for schools. President Barack ...
