Learning Point Associates

In the News

• "Will Stimulus Money Lead to Actual Education Reform?" U.S. News & World Report, April 9, 2009
• "GAO: States Worried About Tracking Funds," Philadelphia Inquirer, April 24, 2009
• "46 States Commit to Common Standards Push," Education Week, June 1, 2009
• "Despite Stimulus, Schools Feel Budget Pain," Stateline.org, June 11, 2009

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.

Council of Chief State School Officers

• Maintenance of Effort and Supplement Versus Supplant Memo (MS Word)

Council of State Governments

• www.staterecovery.org
• Guide for State and Local Governments

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

National Conference of State Legislatures

• Economic Stimulus 2009
• Explanation of "Maintenance of Effort" Requirement for State Fiscal Stabilization Fund
• State-by-State Oversight of Federal Stimulus Funds

• State Implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
• Early Childhood Programs
• K-12 Education
• Postsecondary Education (Title VIII)
• State Fiscal Stabilization Fund (Title XIV)

Progressive States Network

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

Stimulus Watch

• Research and Rate Proposed Projects

U.S. Conference of Mayors

• Mainstreet Economic Recovery Report (School Programs)