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A national town hall meeting for students, is planned for December 15 (2:00-3:00 p.m. ET). The Secretary will take comments and questions from students in the studio audience and around the country via telephone, email, and video.

Chamber released the second in its “Leaders and Laggards” series of state report cards.

profile of each state that summarizes any restoration of education budgets by ARRA funds per program and compiles all reported information regarding the state’s use of ARRA funds per program. To summarize: over $67 million in formula grants were awarded by the Department as of September 30, 2009. Roughly 400,000 jobs have been created or saved through these formula grants. Of those, 325,000 are education jobs; the remaining portion is attributable to general public service positions.

The Department has moved quickly to award more than $67 billion in education stimulus aid to date to stabilize state budgets and save jobs,” he said. “We are now asking states to implement reform-based action items in order to get the remaining $11.5 billion. Specifically, the Department is asking states to provide basic information on the four key measures of reform

Race to the Top Grant first round will accept states’ applications until January 19, 2010.