2010年1月27日星期三

Yahoo! News: Education News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Education News


Obama to seek up to $4B in new education spending (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2010 02:09 PM PST

AP - President Barack Obama will ask Congress to boost federal spending on education by as much as $4 billion in the coming 2011 budget year, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Wednesday.

SC gets cash to replace school cited by Obama (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2010 01:08 PM PST

Train tracks run by Ty'Sheoma Bethea's school, J.V. Martin Jr. High School, background left, in Dillon, S.C. on Wednesday Feb. 25, 2009. More than a year before Obama mentioned J.V. Martin Junior High in his speech to Congress Tuesday night, he visited the school in the poor, rural city of Dillon and saw how 'the paint peels off the walls, and they have to stop teaching six times a day because the train barrels by.'   Bethea was in the audience for Tuesday night's speech, sitting next to the first lady. (AP Photo/Willis Glassgow)AP - On the eve of President Barack Obama's first State of the Union, officials in a South Carolina town announced funding for a crumbling school he had cited in a speech nearly a year earlier as an example of how the federal government should help with school construction.


Education, R&D Are Among White House Cyber Czar's Goals (PC World)

Posted: 27 Jan 2010 12:30 PM PST

PC World - Educating Web users about risks, working better with other governments, and increasing federal support for cybersecurity research and development will be among the top priorities for the new U.S. White House cybersecurity director.
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