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Duncombe, Chris; Syverson, Eric – Education Commission of the States, 2023
Innovation in education is vital for responding to emerging challenges, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, and for building progress on longstanding challenges in schools. The infusion of substantial, highly flexible pots of federal relief dollars created an opportunity to pilot new programs and initiatives. Many states and districts opted to invest…
Descriptors: Grants, Elementary Secondary Education, Emergency Programs, Pandemics
McMurrer, Jennifer – Center on Education Policy, 2012
Several hundred of the nation's lowest-performing schools have recently undergone major changes in leadership and teaching staff to comply with federal requirements for using school improvement grants (SIGs) financed by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). In particular, schools that receive stimulus-funded SIG awards must…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Grants, Federal Legislation, School Turnaround
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Rosenbaum, Rene P.; Smith, Julia; Zhang, Gaoming – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2006
This paper considers the case of the Michigan Migrant Head Start program to describe and analyze the labor market conditions and teaching staff characteristics to identify the challenges faced by Migrant Head Start grantees in attracting, hiring, retaining, and training degreed teachers. The emphasis is on describing and analyzing the child care…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Labor Market, Young Children