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Gallup Poll Shows School Funding is a Major Public Concern
Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup released the results of their annual poll on education issues this week, and there is a steep increase in the number of participants that list a lack of financial support as the biggest problem facing community schools.
Another interesting finding of the poll is that just 34 percent respondents give President Obama an [...]
EETT Survives First Step in Congressional Funding Process
Last week, the House Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee passed it’s version of the FY 11 appropriations bill and included $100 million for the Enhancing Education Through Technology program.
This funding level, while inadequate to serve the current need and a far cry from the program’s highest [...]
Advocate for Ed Tech at ISTE 2010
Today’s ABC’s of Advocacy Workshop brought together leaders from across the education world to discuss and learn ways to advocate on a local level to affect global change.
If you weren’t able to make this afternoon workshop, of if you’re attending ISTE 2010 virtually, there are still lots of ways you can learn about ed tech [...]
Projected Federal Budget Cuts Could Spell Trouble for Education
It looks like the 2011 federal budget package could be even leaner than anticipated. Democrats are looking to cut an additional $7 billion from President Obama’s proposed spending plan.
According to a recent article in Government Executive,
“House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., in May unveiled an $84 billion war supplemental spending package that included [...]
Ed Sec. Duncan’s Video Shows Priorities for Public Education
Eduflack wrote a thought-provoking blog post this week titled Social Media Failure in our Schools. About three weeks ago Secretary of Education Ame Duncan offered up a video for school principals where he “lays out the Administration’s education priorities, funding commitments for programs like Title I and IDEA, and plans for improving the federal [...]
Tweeters Voice Support for Ed Tech Funding
Thank you for joining in yesterday’s call to support the Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) program at $500 million for FY 2011. Nearly 700 tweeters sent more than 1,500 messages, reaching a total readership of more than 300,000 readers, to support of federal funding for education technology. You’ve spoken and we here at ISTE will [...]
Tweet for Ed Tech Today!
Join the campaign! Advocates from across the country are tweeting for education technology funding today. Funding for classroom technology is in jeopardy, but together we can make our tweets heard and urge Congress to fund the Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) program at $500 million for FY 2011. President Obama provided no funding for the [...]
Educators Must Stand Up for Education: Tweet for Ed Tech May 12
“Why should I fight for education?” That statement was actually uttered a few short years ago by a state senator. I thought anyone with a brain could have answered that question, but then he went on to say something that changed the way I thought about advocacy. He simply said, “Give me something to fight [...]
Support EETT! Tweet for Ed Tech, Wed. May 12
Tip O’Neill – former Massachusetts congressman, Speaker of the House, and all around Washington powerhouse – is famous for saying that all politics is local. Even in this era of a flat world, 24-hour news cycle, and nonstop stream of information on the Internet, there is still no getting away from this belief, particularly when [...]
Join the Campaign! Tweet and Blog for Ed Tech May 12
Funding for Classroom Technology is in jeopardy! Join ISTE members and education technology advocates from across the country for a day of blogging and tweeting in support of 21st century learning.
President Obama’s budget provides no funding for education technology. The Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) program, which was funded at $100 million in 2010, is [...]
