URLs for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009:
1. The U.S. Department of Education -- stimulus page is http://www.ed.gov/policy/gen/leg/recovery/index.html
Guidance and Facts Sheets now available for the Department of Education stimulus funds at www.ed.gov – top of the page. The Department has released a PowerPoint presentation on guiding principles and funding availability. The ARRA contains more than $100 billion in direct education funding for the next two fiscal years and $39 billion in bonding authority and tax credits. FOR MORE INFORMATION, GO TO http://www.ed.gov/policy
· Preliminary information about each State’s IDEA allocation: http://www.ed.gov
· Preliminary estimates of Title I, Part A recovery allocations to each State and LEA are available at: http://www.ed.gov
· SFSF Questions:
· IDEA Questions:
· Title I Questions: ; and The ESEA Title I LEA Allocations of AARA funds on the web at http://www.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/titlei/fy09recovery
· The Department of Education’s webpage now includes the timetable for funding available under ARRA: http://www.ed.gov/policy/gen/leg/recoverY It is the first thing listed on the recovery page as you scroll down, in Excel and PDF versions.
· Web resource page for states and LEAs on the best ideas on school modernization. - http://www.ed.gov/policy/gen/leg/recovery/modernization
2. Tax Credit Bond information released by Treasury and IRS – go to the following websites:
· Build America Bonds and Direct Payment Subsidy Implementation --http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-09-26.pdf
· Qualified School Construction Bond Allocations for 2009 -- http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-09-35.pdf
· Qualified Zone Academy Bond Allocations for 2008 and 2009 -- http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-09-30.pdf
3. NEW -- ASCD has a very useful stimulus resource page to be added to your list of stimulus URLs – http://www.ascd.org/educationstimulus
4. EducationCounsel (http://www.educationcounsel.com/) – Under what’s new has information and analysis about the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
5. The Education Recovery and Reinvestment Center, sponsored by Learning Point Associates, has been updated to include all the latest news on the recently released funds and guidance, including Impact Aid and McKinney Vento Homeless Assistance grants that were released this week. It’s now easier than ever to see the total amount of federal funding that has been released to each state with the updated Fund Finder tool! Choose your state and school district to see how much was distributed through the many federal programs that were funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Visit www.learningpt.org/recovery to learn more. Fund Finder tool quickly calculates the amount of funds a school district will receive under Title I and IDEA . Also, a TQ Research and Policy Update is posted on the site that addresses The Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Opportunities and Strategies to Advance Teacher Effectiveness.
6. Resource website is http://www.nwrel.org/nwarra
7. Stimulus coverage from Ed Money Watch can be found here: http://www.newamerica.net/blog/topics/education-stimulus-0;
8. National Clearinghouse on Education Facilities -- Go to www.ncef.org for information on school construction and the Clearinghouse’s stimulus page is: http://www.ncef.org/school-modernization/
9. ED ARRA news by visiting www.ed.gov/recovery/ or by subscribing to the ED ARRA RSS feed at http://www.ed.gov/rss/arracomms.xml. If you are interested in other ED news and resources (in addition to the ARRA), subscribe to the ED RSS feed at http://www.ed.gov/rss/edgov.xml or track ED on Twitter at http://twitter.com/usedgov/.
10. White House information on the stimulus package – go to: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/White-House-Releases-State-by-State-Numbers-American-Recovery-and-Reinvestment-Act-to-Save-or-Create-35-Million-Jobs/
11. To obtain a copy of the bill go to: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h1enr.txt.pdf
12. To get a copy of the conference report: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_reports&docid=f:hr016.111.pdf