Monday, March 30, 2009

Stimulus and Autism Awareness Month

  • Tomorrow the U.S. Department of Educaiton is scheduled to release guidelines on how states can spend millions in education stimulus. As they wait, Georgia public schools ponder how they'll use their funds. State Superintendent Kathy Cox says: "We’re going after every dollar out there and we’re going to spend wisely everything that comes our way.”
  • As National Autism Awareness Month starts this week, some schools are saying they're having trouble meeting the needs of a growing populations of autism-diagnosed students.
  • Not only are there more special needs students, it's gotten to be more expensive to educate them over the last decade, a report to Pennsylvania school board found.