Friday, November 20, 2009

Florida to ask U.S. for up to $1 billion for schools

Florida to ask U.S. for up to $1 billion for schools

BY HANNAH SAMPSON

hsampson@MiamiHerald.com

A couple hundred million ain't bad, but why not go for a billion?

Florida Education Commissioner Eric Smith on Wednesday said it looks like the state could end up asking the federal government for $1 billion in grant money earmarked for education.

``We are excited by what this means to the state, what it means to our children and what it means to our educators,'' Smith said in a call with reporters.

That amount would be nearly a quarter of the entire budget for Race to the Top, a $4.35 billion initiative that seeks to solve some of the most persistent problems in education by pouring money into innovative reforms.

Read more:

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/breaking-news/story/1340731.html

Thursday, November 05, 2009

S. 729: Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act of 2009 (GovTrack.us)

A bill to amend the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to permit States to determine State residency for higher education purposes and to authorize the cancellation of removal and adjustment of status of certain alien students who are long-term United States residents and who entered the United States as children, and for other purposes.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-729