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Stimulating School Reform: The American Recovery And Reinvestment Act And The Shifting Federal Role In Education, Benjamin Michael Superfine
Stimulating School Reform: The American Recovery And Reinvestment Act And The Shifting Federal Role In Education, Benjamin Michael Superfine
Missouri Law Review
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), aimed at stimulating and stabilizing the American economy during the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, reflects significant new dimensions of federal action in the area of educational reform. In addition to saving jobs in the educator workforce, the ARRA was designed to spark the implementation of specific reform strategies in states and schools and lay a foundation for the Obama administration's subsequent educational reform efforts, including the impending reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. While the goals of the educational reform provisions of the ARRA are laudable, …