Author: Kay Casey | Posted: 30. November 2012 06:28
The agenda for the Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2012 was committed to completing the review of American Recovery and Investment Act of 2009 (ARRA) funding distributed across multiple programs and received by numerous state agencies as well as community action agencies (CAA). In FFY 2012, 23 reports were completed and posted for the Administration for Children and Families (ACF). [More]
Author: Tom Entrikin | Posted: 7. September 2012 08:25
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published final rules in the September 4, 2012 Federal Register on “stage 2” criteria that eligible professionals, general hospitals, and critical access hospitals must meet to qualify for Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments for the adoption and meaningful use of electronic health record (EHR) systems. The rules are authorized under Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. [More]
Author: Patsy Crawford | Posted: 19. July 2012 10:26
On July 18, 2012, the Center on Education Policy (CEP) released a report on its study showing that federal stimulus funds saved education jobs and encouraged a common education reform agenda among states. The 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) provided approximately $840 billion in federal appropriations in an effort to stimulate the nation’s recessed economy. The stimulus included approximately $100 billion in appropriations for education programs, including the education of disadvantaged students and students with disabilities and new competitive grant programs to spur education reform and innovations. [More]
Author: Sam Fish | Posted: 1. March 2012 08:50
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released proposed rules on February 23 specifying “stage 2” criteria that eligible professionals, general hospitals, and critical access hospitals must meet by 2014 to continue to qualify for Medicare and Medicaid payment incentives for the adoption and meaningful use of electronic health record (EHR) systems under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). [More]
Author: Patsy Crawford | Posted: 28. October 2011 08:44
According to U.S. Department of Education (ED) data, 587 applicants are vying for awards in the second round of the Investing in Innovation (i3) competitive grant program. Under the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), $650 million was allocated for i3 awards in 2010 and, in the fiscal 2011 budget, Congress appropriated an additional $150 million for second round of i3 awards in 2011. ED’s website states that the purpose of the i3 program is to provide competitive grants to applicants with a record of improving student achievement and attainment in order to expand the implementation of, and investment in, innovative practices that are demonstrated to have an impact on improving student achievement or growth, closing achievement gaps, decreasing dropout rates, increasing high school graduation rates, or increasing college enrollment and completion rates. [More]
Author: Patsy Crawford | Posted: 1. June 2011 07:32
On May 25, 2011 the U.S. Department of Education (ED) issued two press releases regarding the $700 million Race to the Top (RTT) appropriation provided by Congress in the FY 2011 budget bill passed on April 14th. One press release announced that $200 million of the RTT allocation will be used to fund a third round of the RTT competition initiated under the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The other press release announced that the remaining $500 million will be used to launch a new RTT-Early Learning Challenge. [More]
Author: Patsy Crawford | Posted: 29. April 2011 06:30
Under the 2002 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), U.S. public schools and school districts must make adequate yearly progress (AYP), as determined by the percentage of the schools’ or districts’ students that score proficient on state-specified tests and other performance indicators. Various interventions are imposed on schools and districts that repeatedly fail to make AYP. The NCLB goal is that all students will score proficient on tests in specified academic courses by 2014. [More]
Author: Patsy Crawford | Posted: 29. April 2011 06:26
No Child Left Behind (NCLB) included the School Improvement Grant (SIG) program, which was intended to help improve the nation’s lowest-performing schools, those schools that persistently fail to meet AYP. The 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) re-energized the SIG program with $3 billion in funding, but added restrictions on how school improvements can be made. According to an April 27, 2011 Education Week article, over 730 schools across the country participate in the SIG program, but some efforts may be hampered by the restrictions included in ARRA. [More]
Author: Patsy Crawford | Posted: 18. February 2011 11:24
February 17, 2011 marked the two-year anniversary of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009 (ARRA). ARRA allotted $814 billion in an economic stimulus package aimed at addressing the nation’s worst economic recession since the Great Depression. [More]
Author: Kay Casey | Posted: 4. February 2011 09:56
The 2011 Office of Inspector General (OIG) work plan identifies all programs that will be audited in this federal fiscal year. It appears that the work will focus on the appropriate claiming, reporting, and liquidation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds for all federal agencies that received funding. [More]
