An email from Lori Crouch at the Education Writers Association brings glad tidings?about a light in?the black hole of the bureaucracy:
EdMoney.org, a project of the Education Writers Association with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,?now lets?you track spending on K-12 education from the federal economic-stimulus law in states and school districts nationwide. The site?currently?features data on $62.1 billion in grants from the American?Recovery and Reinvestment Act, including?39,594 grants?to?12,408 school districts and other education agencies across the country.
EdMoney.org,?which was developed in collaboration with?Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Matt Waite,?is?the only national website to link district-by-district spending with demographic data from the federal Common Core of Data.
Reminds me of the Van Morrison tune, ?So believe no lies, Dry your eyes and realize by surprise?.????Maybe not, with Edmoney.org.
?Peter Meyer
