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Influential Report Explores College Prep Funding Fixes
   A recent Brookings Institution event focused on improving higher education outcomes for low-income students and provided insights on improving efforts at the K-12 andhigher education levels. Brookings' Ron Haskins says the Obama administration and the previous Bush White House made important chan...
posted 5/14/13 12:25 PM  read complete story

Program Ensures Quality Principals
   Agency official has been keeping FAM updated for months.
posted 5/10/13 11:28 AM  read complete story

New ‘Promise’ Awards Uncertain
   An official at the Office on Innovation & Improvement (DoEd) tells FAM a decision on new Promise Neighborhoods awards remains very much up in the air. Right now, the official, who asked to remain anonymous, says a solicitation for new awards likely won't happen, based on the initial review of...
posted 4/29/13 09:53 AM  read complete story

Official Provides Details on Technology Funding
   An official at the Office of Special Education Programs (DoEd) tells us the Steppingstones of Technology Innovation for Students with Disabilities Program (CFDA Number: 84.8327A) is being phased out and replaced by the $3 million Stepping-UpTechnology Implementation Program (CFDA Number: 84.327S). ...
posted 4/23/13 12:38 PM  read complete story

Agency Serious About New Child Care Awards
   An Office of Postsecondary Education (DoEd) official assures FAM new awards will be made under the upcoming FY 2013 solicitation for its Child Care Access Means Parents in School Program (CFDA Number: 84.335). OPE's Antoinette Clark tells us the agency expects to make 100 new awards, in addition to...
posted 4/18/13 09:58 AM  read complete story

Reader Benefit: HRSA Research Uncovers Good News
   After CD Publication's recent free audio, "How to Find New K-12 Funding Sources inUncertain Times," Shawna Erickson, grant officer of Regis C colleges in Weston, MA, asked about the fate of four funding programs at the Health & Human Resources Admin. (HHS). The programs are: (1) Nurse...
posted 4/12/13 07:56 AM  read complete story

Low-Income Students Receive Testing Assistance
   FAM provides seven months of advance notice.
posted 4/4/13 08:46 AM  read complete story

Park Service Confirms Aug. 1 Deadline
   Physical activity programs can receive assistance.
posted 3/28/13 09:28 AM  read complete story

Analysis: Latest CR Spares OVW, Some Programs Will See Increases
   Domestic violence programs will be spared the sequestration cuts, and some will even see increases, under the Senate-passed version of the FY 2013 continuing resolution (HR 933). The full Senate approves the measure 73-26 on March 20, with the House expected to quickly pass the bill and send i...
posted 3/22/13 10:06 AM  read complete story

Republicans Praise Chair’s Efforts
   Republicans are putting much stock in the ability of Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), the new Senate Appropriations Committee chair, to reach a bipartisan FY 2013 budget measure – one which both parties can accept. FAM has reported (http://www.cdpublications.com/fam/11205) that Mikulski is working clo...
posted 3/11/13 07:48 AM  read complete story