By SAM DILLON
Published: February 16, 2009: The New York Times
"WASHINGTON — The $100 billion in emergency aid for public schools and colleges in the economic stimulus bill could transform Arne Duncan into an exceptional figure in the history of federal education policy: a secretary of education loaded with money and the power to spend large chunks of it as he sees fit.
But the money also poses challenges and risks for Mr. Duncan, the 44-year-old former Chicago schools chief who now heads the Department of Education.
Mr. Duncan must develop procedures on the fly for disbursing a budget that has, overnight, more than doubled, and communicate the rules quickly to all 50 states and the nation’s 14,000 school districts. And he faces thousands of tricky decisions about how much money to give to whom and for what....."
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Fourth Circuit: Tax Exempt Status Is Not Federal Financial Assistance
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A federal appeals court has rejected the claim that tax exemption under
section 501 (c)(3) of the tax code amounts to “federal financial
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