stimulus

I was invited to attend the ARRA briefing over at the US DOE today. For us, the briefing actually provided a little more information than previous top line discussions. In times of great change, effective organizations over-communicate. With ARRA, the US DOE is definitely making sure that they do that and it is appreciated by many. This extra communication is certainly keeping people from finding things not to like about the recovery money (see – I didn’t call it stimulus so their communication plan is working).

For Part 5, the final in our series on teaching jobs, I was hoping to have more information about the billions going to protect teaching jobs, but I guess that is going to have to wait for a few months once we see what really happens.

I must admit that I am very impressed with two big statements from the Obama administration this week. It is refreshing to see such honesty and transparency in public policy especially in the critical area of education.

The first came from Vice President Biden in Delaware while addressing the teacher's union highlighting the need to get results from the stimulus dollars for education: