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• Same As It Ever Was: Investing in Innovation Fund (i3), Student Support Services (SSS), TRIO, and More to Come

  
  Grant Writing Confidential — Authority: 108
  As grant writers, we usually don’t pay much attention to new grant programs as they move through the regulation writing process, since we are focused on writing proposals, not the policy minutia of federal regs. A caller last week, however, got me to look at the birthing of the Investing in Innovation Fund (i3), ...
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• Arlington, Texas Railroad Commissioner both backing propane fuel

  
  Extra Credit — Authority: 130
  Railroad Commissioner  Michael L. Williams and other alternative-fuel vehicle supporters stopped in Fort Worth today to talk to local municipal and school officials about turning to propane vehicles, especially school buses. Arlington schools , which received the green-light from voters Tuesday on a $197.5 ...
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• Opinion: Special ed underfunding causes inequitable treatment

  
  Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com — Authority: 437
  From the Muskegon [MI] Chronicle:Public school superintendent Steve Cousins writes that special education is the largest underfunded mandate for Michigan school districts.  While Michigan works to provide special-education services to a wider range of people than any other state, lack of federal and state funding ...
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• Mo’ money for schools

  
  Joanne Jacobs — Authority: 613
  The school funding crisis is “phony,” writes James Guthrie, a professor of public policy and education at Vanderbilt,  in Education Next. Chicken Little reporters highlight “budgetary shortfalls, school district bankruptcies, teacher and administrator layoffs, hiring and salary freezes, pension system ...
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• National Community College Aerospace Scholars (NCAS) – NASA Johnson Space Center – Deadline Dec 15, 2009

  
  OSGC Educational Resources Blog — Authority: 128
  National Community College Aerospace Scholars (NCAS) is a pilot program funded by NASA’s Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD) and administered by NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC). Community college students from across the nation who are interested in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and ...
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• Today’s Quotable and Notable

  
  Flypaper — Authority: 542
  Quotable : “There is just no excuse not to deal with this issue and deal with it quickly, deal with it directly, and deal with it in a straightforward manner. Put the kids back in school, get the instructional days back on the board, and then face up to whatever else you have to do in order to meet your ...
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• NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) Program – Application Deadline February 1, 2010

  
  OSGC Educational Resources Blog — Authority: 128
  NASA announces a call for graduate fellowship proposals to the NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) program for the 2010-2011 academic year. This call for fellowship proposals solicits applications from accredited U.S. universities on behalf of individuals pursuing Master of Science (M.Sc.) or Doctoral ...
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• Will More Early-Childhood Education Funding Improve Young People’s Fitness for Military?

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 558
  Secretary of Education Arne Duncan Not surprising because he’s a liberal, Arne Duncan believes throwing more money at early-childhood education programs will ensure that a more-qualified pool of applicants will be available for future military service. On Thursday, according to a media advisory , the former head ...
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• It takes a… by Rebecca Egler

  
  Kicking Ass Ann Arbor — Authority: 427
  So the budget swept in and began to pillage Every school in our own Arboreal village - But, wait, with your vote We could all take note That fix could come with a “Yes!” to the millage.
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• Ph.D. Training Program in Space Life Sciences, Texas A&M University – Applications Due February 15, 2010

  
  OSGC Educational Resources Blog — Authority: 128
  The National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI)-sponsored Ph.D. Training Program in Space Life Sciences at Texas A&M University (TAMU) is currently accepting applications for Fall 2010. Students participating in this program work toward a Ph.D. in Nutrition, Kinesiology or Nuclear Engineering (Health ...
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• The Bodhi Tree Foundation launches to protect the world through travel

  
  TerraCurve.com: Go beyond green. | Responsible travel news, places, people and events. — Authority: 125
  Founded by travel industry veteran Jena Gardner, The Bodhi Tree Foundation aims to unite travelers to protect places, help people, and preserve cultures. Gardner, President and CEO of JG Black Book of Travel founded The Bodhi Tree Foundation as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that identifies and offers ...
  2 weeks ago

• Arlington bond backers close in on goal

  
  Extra Credit — Authority: 130
  Expect to hear more in the coming weeks from Citizens for Arlington , the political action committee formed to support Arlington’s $197.5 million bond issue. Craig Forster , treasurer for the group, said Wednesday the group has raised more than $31,000 for automated phone calls, mailers and other publicity. ...
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• What do MPs get up to all week? Teignbridge MP Richard Younger-Ross begins a column on the PRSD

  
  People's Republic of South Devon The Peoples Republic of South Devon — Authority: 140
  Teignbridge MP Richard Younger-Ross begins his column of the People’s Republic of South Devon with coincidences, schools visits, sailing and smiling at Fields of Gold. Find out what a South Devon MP gets up to. Mixed Doubles Coincidence There is a mathematician that has worked out why you never see a bus for ...
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• What’s a Few Hundred Teacher Jobs Lost Here, When 250,000 Have Been Saved Elsewhere?

  
  City Desk — Authority: 702
  Don’t wallow in the District’s bad news about teacher layoffs! While hundreds are being booted from schools here under orders from Michelle Rhee , some 250,000 teachers elsewhere across the country are celebrating. Yay! Here’s a sampling of the education jobs the Obama administration says have been saved or ...
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• Nobody plays music like this anymore

  
  Deep Sea News — Authority: 473
  Here it is Saturday at 5pm and we still are short of our goal to fund these projects.  I warned people that Kevin and I would hijack the blog and make people regret not opening their wallets.  So below is what you get.  Sure you could not play the video…just go about your life.  But, [...]
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• I warned you

  
  Deep Sea News — Authority: 473
  In the past 36 hours there were no donations in our Donor’s Choose challenge.  We are still well below our target with 5 classrooms to fund.  So step up and donate.  Listen, I know many of you think you don’t have any money donate. Spending the last 10 years of my life as a poor [...]
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• students at columbia college fight to save MAP grants

  
  propositions press — Authority: 106
  Students at the school that employs me, Columbia College Chicago, have been very active in trying to save the Monetary Award Program in Illinois. This publicly funded program helps tens of thousands of young people in Illinois gain access to highe... Read and post comments | ...
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• Redbraes Hydro Feasibility Study Confirmed

  
  Greener Leith News — Authority: 415
  Greener Leith is pleased to announce that Community Energy Scotland have awarded funding to support a coalition of Edinburgh based community groups, including Greener Leith, to conduct detailed feasibility studies on developing hydro electricity generation on four sites along the Water of Leith. The Redbraes weir ...
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• San Francisco adds $2 million to special ed budget

  
  Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com — Authority: 437
  From the San Francisco Examiner:The San Francisco school district is increasing its special education budget by $2 million this year, at a time when the district is seeing a steep increase in autism diagnoses. The district saw a 22 percent increase in students diagnosed with autism between 2007 and 2008, even as its ...
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• Oceans in the Classroom Initiative

  
  Deep Sea News — Authority: 473
  A lot of progress made since we started this challenge just over a week ago.  Ocean Bloggers (Southern Fried Science, Blogfish, Oyster’s Garter, Echinoblog,Cephalopodcast, Drop In, The New Blue, The Right Blue, Natural Patriot, Memories of Ocean & Island Life, and of course Malaria, Bedbugs, Sealice, ...
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