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Washington, Aug. 27 — Proposed guidelines for targeting $3.5 billion in Title I school improvement money would require participating states to give priority to districts that use radical interventions to transform their lowest performing schools — including, for the first time, middle and high schools that don’t receive Title I funds.

Washington, July 30 — States that want to receive their share of the remaining $12.1 billion in “stabilization” funds will have to meet augmented data collection and reporting requirements that go beyond the basic law, according to tentative guidelines released July 24 by the U.S. Department of Education (ED).

Washington, July 27 — Friday, the United States Department of Education (ED) released the draft priorities, requirements, definitions and selection criteria for the $4 billion Race to the Top grant program (RTT) of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). The program is ambitious and demanding.

Washington, July 24 — With a $4.3 billion carrot, you don't need much of a stick.

Washington, July 6 — Applications will soon be invited for billions of dollars in stimulus funding to expand high-speed Internet services to communities with slow or no Internet connections.