Duncan Touts Recovery Assistance, 2011 Budget Request in House Testimony

WASHINGTON, March 3 — The U.S. Education Department (ED) has distributed to states more than two-thirds of all education-related stimulus funding. The $69 billion already in state coffers is intended to shore up state governments and school districts — money that is saving jobs but also laying the groundwork for “needed reforms” in education, according to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan.