Quotable:
"Primarily the stimulus in Texas was used to just move dollars around and you didn't have the level of benefit that the stimulus was designed to create."
-Rep. Jim Dunnam (D-Waco), chair of Texas's Select Committee on the Federal Economic Stabilization Funding
"Stymied by Stimulus?" Texas Tribune
Notable:
$1 Million:
Size of a grant the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has given to the PTA to organize parents behind efforts to set more uniform academic standards in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and New Jersey.
"PTA Launches Campaign Backing Common Standards," Education Week (subscription required)