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 With ongoing thanks to Mark Lieberman for keeping his eyes on this:  Congress in February approved more than $12.5 billion for K-12 schools...

 Because OB3, Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" has a provision for vouchers by state in the language, you knew that others wou...

 DESE sent this update out late last week: DESE has received some additional projected figures from the federal government that have allowed...

 You might be concerned or confused by headlines that came through over the weekend like this:  Did we just DO a federal budget? We did, but...

 Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not...

 Three things that stuck with me from this meeting:  Both the Commissioner and CFO Bell gave a "yikes*" when it comes to federal g...

 "real challenge" per Martinez at federal level on funding, related to enrollment decline and other things pay attention when thin...

 And when it comes to education funding, well, I'll let Mark Lieberman of EdWeek take this:  You can read Mark's coverage (which I ...

 I entirely understand how it is that people might have missed this, but if you do pay attention to school funding, you may have caught U.S...

 This came out from DESE's grants office this morning. While it is not new information, I thought it was a useful summary:  On November ...

It was another of those news rounds where if, like me, you were offline for an hour, you missed a major thing and had to play catch-up. On T...

I've been in a couple of sessions recently on federal grants (most recently DESE did one this morning), so providing a few highlights: A...

 asking for the Board to waive the requirement that charter schools submit single audit by November 1 prior to the government shutdown those...

  I'm at the ASBO conference this week in Fort Worth--ASBO is the Association of School Business Officials--and one of the "must at...

 I did want to call to your attention this recently released report from the Center on Poverty and Inequality from Georgetown Law which ana...

 And while we've been over this a few times, here's Politico   on what this means for education. The two big PreK-12 hits are Head S...

 ...as the federal fiscal year ends October 1 (like me, you may be surprised to learn that is next Wednesday), and Congress is not showing s...

You may have caught last week that the House Appropriation Committee moved a 26% cut to Title I . Please continue to keep in mind a few thin...

Statue of St. George slaying a dragon. Sainte-Georges, Quebec, Canada As we've entered this school year, I've noticed as I keep an e...

First, while we should be attentive to the "House GOP eyes 27% cut to Title I" headline, what do we know about how the federal bu...