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New Opportunities, New Impacts: Using Title I and ARRA Funding to Support Early Education and K-12 Success
11/17/2009
Online Web Seminar

11-12:15 Pacific Time (2-3:15 Eastern Time)

Web Seminar Presented Jointly by Grantmakers for Education's Education Policy Working Group and Grantmakers for Children, Youth & Families' Early Childhood Funders Collaborative

How can education funders and communities leverage the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and Title I funding to expand and improve early education programs for better K-12 alignment? Join Barbara Reisman of the Schumann Fund for New Jersey, Danielle Ewen from the Center for Law and Social Policy and Gerrit Westervelt from the Build Initiative to learn more about strategies for leveraging these funds to improve student learning in early childhood and beyond.

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