Education Law

Insights into education funding in President Obama’s upcoming budget

With the new 2012 federal budget proposal to come out shortly, the Obama administration is revealing information on what education priorities they will have for the upcoming year.

The White House is promoting, “developing new initiatives to improve K-12 education with an emphasis on graduating every student from high school ready for college and a career.”

The administration?s proposed budget will include the creation of the Advanced Research Projects Agency ? Education (ARPA-ED) to “support research on breakthrough technologies to enhance learning.”

The budget also will support continuation of Race to the Top, with an “expanded focus on school districts prepared to implement and sustain comprehensive reforms.”

Additionally, working with a coalition of private sector leaders called Change the Equation, the administration is “encouraging public-private partnerships that inspire more students ? including girls and other currently underrepresented groups ? to excel in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).” The administration will also recruit 100,000 STEM teachers over the next decade with a down payment in the 2012 budget to start recruiting more STEM teachers and improve STEM teacher training.

Full post as published by BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog on February 07, 2011 (boomark / email).