Stimulating?

New CEP report looks at what’s happening with stimulus dollars around the country.   Couple of items worth paying attention to inside.

Stimulating!

The Times editorial board starts to worry about whether the stimulus dollars are going to buy any education reform.  The awkward tension around saving jobs and reforming schools — at the same time — is starting to surface.   In fact, you can’t help but think that if South Carolina Governor Sanford had actually put forward a sensible …

More Myths…And Colvin’s Stimulated!

In the WaPo Kalman R. Hettleman (who has a new book in the offing) offers-up five myths about school reform that are worth checking out.  And with a stimulus peg Richard Colvin offers a stage-setter on education politics in Ed Next.

Stimulating!

School construction bonds are back via the stimulus bill.    They are in there in two forms:  QZAB bonds, which have been around for a while, and school modernization bonds.  Both work through tax credits and given where the markets are this may be a good approach right now although a longer-term approach would have been preferable.   Regardless, good a time as …

Still Stimulating?

Two reasonable standards, it seems to me, for anything in the current economic recovery bill moving through Congress is that items should be either job creating or sustaining or should be reformist in nature, in other words improving on some status quo.   Many items can be both, but President Obama is basically channeling Keynes when he points out …

Stimulation By Coleman! Zimba! Staiger!

Lots happening on the stimulus bill.  Senators are split on some provisions including education and behind the scenes this is where a lot of the anti-No Child advocacy is starting to boomerang.  Turns out that “it sucks, fund it” isn’t such a great message after all.  Who knew?  Anyway, Senator Ben Nelson (NB) has emerged as the Dem lever …

Stimulating

So, you want to get your paws on some of that forthcoming stimulus money?   Thompson Publications is hosting a free call to show you how (and presumably entice you to use their services, but the call and information are free).

Stimulating

I’m starting to hear some rumbling that a big pre-K program would make a great stimulus package education component.   I’d argue that per-K should be a major –  even the major – education spending item for the Obama Administration.  But, as a matter of near-term economic stimulus doesn’t school construction make more sense?   There is a real …