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Afterschool Alliance

• Afterschool and the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act
• Afterschool's Wiki for questions, answers, and ideas

Alliance for Excellent Education

• Implications for Secondary Schools Fact Sheet
• Meaningful Measurement: The Role of Assessments in Improving High School Education in the Twenty-First Century. A collection of essays by leading education experts.

American Association of School Administrators

• AASA Stimulus Page
• "New Study Finds School Budgets for 2009-10 Take a Hit in Response to Economic Downturn" (press release, March 25, 2009)
• "Schools Forced To Cut Jobs in Response to Economic Downturn, According to New AASA Survey" (press release, January 16, 2009)
• "AASA Survey Identifies Public School Projects That Would Stimulate Economy, Improve Schools" (press release, December 15, 2008)
• "AASA Releases Study of the Impact of the Economic Downturn on Schools" (press release, November 12, 2008)

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

• Education Stimulus Watch: Special Report 1. The first in a quarterly series of special reports on the K–12 education implications of ARRA.

American Library Association

• American Library Association Recovery site
  • What Librarians Should Know About ARRA
  • Top Ten Things You Can Do Now to Get Broadband Stimulus Funding for Your Library
• "ALA: Spend Stimulus Funds on School Libraries," eSchoolNews, April 7, 2009

Appalachian Regional Commission

• ARRA Education Grant Information

Arizona State University

• Federal Economic Stimulus Plan: PK-12 Education Analysis

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)

• Education Stimulus Resource Web page. Details state-by-state ARRA resources on an interactive map.
• ASCD Summary of Major Education Funding Within the ARRA
• ASCD Whole Child Blog
• Understanding the Education Stimulus Package (archived Whole Child podcast from April 16, 2009)
• Planning the Possible: How Schools Can Use Stimulus Dollars for Lasting Impact (archived webinar from April 27, 2009)
• Planning the Possible: How Schools Can Use Stimulus Dollars for Lasting Impact. Interactive resource that lays out ARRA funding clearly and identifies several ASCD programs, products, and services that can improve teacher effectiveness.

Association of School Business Officials International

• ASBO International’s Blog on Economic Recovery Planning
• Summary of the 2009 Economic Stimulus Package for School Districts
• Summary of 2/11/09 Conference Call With Secretary of Education Arne Duncan

Brookings Institution

• Innovation, Motherhood, and Apple Pie, by Grover "Russ" Whitehurst

Education Alliance at Brown University

• ARRA Info

Catalyst Notebook

• Millions More at Stake for Early Childhood Education

Center for American Progress

• Realigning Resources for District Transformation: Using American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Funds to Advance a Strategic Education Reform Agenda (report prepared by the Center for American Progress and Education Resource Strategies)
• Paying Teachers for Results: A Summary of Research to Inform the Design of Pay-for-Performance Programs for High-Poverty Schools
• Ensuring Effective Teachers for All Students: Six State Strategies for Attracting and Retaining Effective Teachers in High-Poverty and High-Minority Schools
• So Long, Lake Wobegon? Using Teacher Evaluation and Tenure Systems to Strengthen the Teaching Workforce (archived panel discussion from June 25, 2009)

The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement

• Central office reform resources

Center for Law and Social Policy

• Child Care and Early Education: Opportunities to Serve More Low-Income, Working Families—2/25/09 audioconference [requires installation of Windows Media]
• Title I Early Education: Models for Using ARRA Funds. This report discusses ways that Title I funds can be used to support early education in schools and community-based programs. The document includes models from school districts currently making these choices.

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

• Economic Recovery Watch
• Education Provisions Fact Sheet
• If States Fail to Use Stimulus Funds as Intended, Efforts to Strengthen Economy Could Be Undercut
• Stabilization Fund Fact Sheet

Center on Education Policy

• The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and the Public Schools
• Who Gets Title I Funds From the Economic Stimulus Package?

Center on Reinventing Public Education, University of Washington–Bothell

• Ranking the States: Federal Education Stimulus Money and the Prospects for Reform. Report projecting changes in state K–12 education spending that accounts for state revenue gaps and the addition of ARRA funds, ranking states according to the net effect on state education spending.

Coalition for Community Schools

• American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) [brief]

Coalition for Healthier Schools

• American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: Renovate-Repair Our K-12 Schools

Coalition for Student Achievement

• Smart Options: Investing the Recovery Funds for Student Success

Collaborative for Teaching and Learning

• CTL and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

Congressional Quarterly

• Funds allocated through the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund (alphabetized list)

Council for Exceptional Children

• How the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Impacts Special Education and Early Intervention

Council of Chief State School Officers

• Council of Chief School Officers Recovery site
• Smart Options: Investing the Recovery Funds for Student Success
• How to Allocate ARRA Money, including Section 1003(g) funds (archived resources and webinar from May 11, 2009)

Council of State Governments

• Guide for State and Local Governments
• StateRecovery.org—A Service of The Council of State Governments for Economic Recovery

Democrats for Education Reform

• Race to the Top Issue Briefs
  • Public Charter Schools and High Quality Pre-K (June 17, 2009)
  • Unleashing Innovation in America's Schools (June 18, 2009)
  • Enhancing Entry Points to the Teaching Profession (June 19, 2009)
  • World Class Standards and Assessments (June 22, 2009)
  • Growing Innovative Charter Schools (June 23, 2009)
  • A Great Teacher for Every Child (June 24, 2009)

Education Commission of the States

• The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Education Spending Fact Sheet
• Maximizing Education Reform in the Stimulus Bill: Building State Innovation Funds
• Race to the Top: Promising State Models
• Proposed State Uses of Stabilization Funding
• State Budget Shortfalls: Postsecondary Education Impacts

Education Counsel

Education Development Center

• EDC and the Education Stimulus

Education Resource Strategies

• Finding the Silver Lining: Tough Times as a Catalyst for Change

Education Sector

• Ensuring Accountability for Federal Incentive and Innovation Funds (archived panel discussion from April 29, 2009)

Education Trust

• Education Watch 2009 State Summary Reports
• Education Watch: Tracking Achievement, Attainment, and Opportunity in America’s Public Schools (press release)

Education Week

• Education Week's daily Stimulus update
• The Education Week webinar Economic Stimulus and Powering Through the Recession will be available online in audio format until September 8, 2009, at 11:59 a.m. Eastern Dayllight Time.
• The Education Week webinar Stimulating Ed-Tech Investments: How to Maximize Stimulus Dollars will be available online in audio format until October 29, 2009, at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.

Edvantia

• Edvantia Recovery site

Empirical Education

• Empirical Education Recovery site

eSchool News

• Stimulating and Sustaining Improvement: Longitudinal Data Systems and the ARRA (archived webinar from April 28, 2009)

George Washington University

• Research at George Washington University Recovery site

Hope Street Group

• Analysis of Education Reform Under ARRA

Indiana Afterschool Network

• Using Indiana Education and Stimulus Funds for Afterschool.

Inside Higher Ed

• The Final Stimulus Bill
• U.S. Offers More Guidance on State Stimulus Funds

Knowledge Alliance

• Knowledge Alliance Recovery site

KnowledgeWorks Foundation

• 2020 Forecast: Creating the Future of Learning (archived webinar from April 21, 2009)

Market Data Retrieval

• Federal Stimulus Dollars: Facts, Figures, and How MDR Can Help

Mid-Continent Regional Educational Laboratory

• ARRA resources page

National Association for the Education of Young Children

• Recovery site

National Association of Elementary School Principals

• Recovery site

National Association of Federally Impacted Schools

• ARRA Summary Report
• Economic Stimulus Allocations

National Association of Secondary School Principals

• Narrative and Summary of NASSP’s Financial Needs Survey
• NASSP Member Economic Survey Results

National Association of State Boards of Education

• NASBE 2009 Legislative Conference Keynote Address, Marshall S. Smith, senior adviser to Secretary Arne Duncan (summary and MS PowerPoint)
• "Education Secretary States His Mission: Reform U.S. Schools," San Diego Union Tribune, April 5, 2009

National Association of State Directors of Special Education

• National Center to Improve Recruitment and Retention of Qualified Personnel for Children With Disabilities: Personnel Improvement Center (PIC)
  • Strategies for Attracting, Developing, and Supporting New and Existing Personnel: Stories From the Field (archived webcast from May 14, 2009)

National Association of State Title I Directors

• Flowchart of ARRA fund distribution

National Center for Learning Disabilities

• ARRA summary

National Center for Summer Learning at the Johns Hopkins School of Education

• National Center for Summer Learning Recovery site
  • ARRA Education Funding Streams

National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities

• Federal Stimulus Funding for School Construction

National Conference of State Legislatures

• Economic Stimulus 2009
• Education Funding Summary
• Maintenance of Effort Fact Sheet
• The 2009 National Education Seminar: The Best Ideas in Finance and Policy (February 27–March 1, 2009 (archived meeting summaries, presentations, and handouts)
  • "Education Provisions in the ARRA," David Shreve, federal affairs counsel, National Conference of State Legislatures, Washington, DC, February 28
  • "School Finance 101," Daniel Thatcher, policy associate, National Conference of State Legislatures, Scottsdale, Arizona, February 27
  • "Talent and Education Human Capital: State Strategies," Allan Odden, codirector, Strategic Management of Human Capital, February 28
  • "National Education Forum," Celinda Lake, president, Lake Search Partners, Washington, DC, March 1

National Council of Nonprofits

• Special Reports on Economic Stimulus and Recovery

National Education Association

• National Selected Federal Education-Related Programs Table
• Table of State-by-State House and Senate Conference Agreement, Major Federal Education-Related Programs
• Webcast PowerPoint, March 4 (MS PowerPoint)
• Webcast PowerPoint, February 25th (MS PowerPoint)
• Webcast PowerPoint, February 8th (MS PowerPoint)

National Governors Association

• ARRA Resource Center
• State Implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

National League of Cities Institute for Youth, Education, and Families

• ARRA Funding Overview
• Reinvestment Plans for America: What They Mean for Your Community's Children and Families (archived audioconference from March 26, 2009)

National School Boards Association

• ARRA Resource Center

National Science Teachers Association

• The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Investing in Science (fact sheet)

New America FoundationEducation Stimulus Blog [sample posts are given below]

• "Federal Education Stimulus Distributions to the States"
  • State-by-state spreadsheet
• "Department Releases Education Stimulus Guidelines"
• "Where's My Stimulus Money?"
• "Education Stimulus Distributions to Districts"
  • District-by-district spreadsheet
  • Spreadsheet of distributions to 50 largest school districts
• "Helping Homeless Students in the Stimulus"
• "Intricacies of the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund for Education"
• "Pell Grant Budget Mess"

• "A Stimulus for Second-Generation QRIS"

The New Teacher Project

• The Widget Effect: Our National Failure to Acknowledge and Act on Differences in Teacher Effectiveness. A report analyzing the results of a survey of more than 15,000 teachers and 1,300 administrators across four states and 12 districts.

North Carolina State University

• The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at NC State University
• NC State University Recovery site

Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory

• Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory Recovery site
• Principles for Investment of ARRA Funds

OMB Watch

• Accountability and Transparency Fact Sheet

Patton Boggs

• No Small Change: The Stimulus Package and Its Impact (Patton Boggs Analysis, March 9, 2009)

Pearson Education

• Recovery site

Pre-K Now

• Recovery site: Early Childhood Stimulus Information

Progressive States Network

• Implementing the Recovery Plan: A Resource Guide for State Legislators and Advocates

PBS NewsHour

• "Teaching the Stimulus"

Reading Recovery Council of North America

• Reading Recovery Council of North America Recovery site

Southeast Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL)

• SEDL—Decoding the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Southern Educational Foundation

• Southern Education and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: An Analysis of Historic Federal Funding to Improve the South’s Low-Achieving Schools

Stanford University

• The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Recommendations for Addressing the Needs of English Language Learners, from the Working Group on ELL Policy, March 20, 2009
  • Executive summary
  • Full report

State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA)

• SETDA Recovery site
  • Intelligent Uses of ARRA. Descriptions of ways in which technology can be leveraged most effectively in education, including examples of successful state models.
  • SETDA paper on ARRA Assurances

Stimulus Watch

• Search for projects

Teachscape

• ARRA Stimulus Services
  • Early Childhood
  • Education Technology
  • IDEA, Part B
  • Innovation Fund
  • Teacher Quality and Incentives
  • Title 1, Part A

University of California, Davis, School of Education

• Postsecondary Preparation and Remediation: Examining the Effect of the Early Assessment Program at California State University. A study of California's Early Assessment Program (EAP). Read more about the EAP in a case study as well as in Achieve's Measures That Matter high school assessment report.

University of North Carolina at Greensboro

• SERVE Center
• SERVE Center Recovery site

University of Northern Florida

• Questions and Answers on State Stabilization Fund

U.S. Conference of Mayors Searchable Site

• MainStreet Economic Recovery Report (Schools Programs)

WestEd

• Recovery site
• Early Head Start: Providing a Quality Comprehensive Program for Infants, Toddlers, and Their Families, Part I (archived webinar, presented April 7, 2009)
• Early Head Start: Providing a Quality Comprehensive Program for Infants, Toddlers, and Their Families, Part II (archived webinar, presented April 9, 2009)
• WestEd Making Progress on Essential Standards and Assessment Reform (archived webinar from April 21, 2009)
• Turning Around Chronically Low-Performing Schools: Resources From Doing What Works (archived webinar from May 19, 2009)
• WestEd Recommendations for Addressing the Needs of English Language Learners: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (archived webinar from May 26, 2009)

Wikipedia

• "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009"

Wireless Generation

• Funding

Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

• Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Special Education

Zero to Three

• Infants and Toddlers in the Economic Stimulus: Planning Tools and Resources for States
• Navigating the Opportunities for Families With Young Children in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. An interactive tool to help decision makers and advocates navigate the ways in which ARRA funds may be used to positively impact the healthy development of our youngest children.