Feds: Iowa schools not using grant money for reforms
By Sheena Dooley | Iowa Watchdog
DES MOINES — Leaders of the Iowa Department of Education failed to fulfill promises made in exchange for more than $17.6 million in federal money to improve six of the state’s poorest performing schools, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Education.
Read More →Five Missouri agencies on federal non-compliance list
By Johnny Kampis | Missouri Watchdog
ST LOUIS — Five government agencies and businesses in Missouri made the latest non-compliers list for failing to report how they used money from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
The list, for the fourth quarter of 2011, identified 418 stimulus-fund recipients that failed to submit reports as required. Thirty-four recipients nationwide did not [...]
Congressman Pitts’ campaign contributions advance out-of-touch image
By Eric Boehm | PA Independent
HARRISBURG — U.S. Rep Joe Pitts came off as more than a little out of touch, when he suggested that former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat should do more to advance the peace process in the Middle East.
Read More →Feds give IL $32M to set up health exchange despite law’s uncertainty
By Anthony Brino | Illinois Statehouse News
SPRINGFIELD — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services gave Illinois $32.7 million to set up a health insurance exchange — even as legislative efforts to do so were abandoned amid uncertainty about the national health-care law’s future.
Lines drawn in debate on student loan interest rates
By Marianela Toledo | Florida Watchdog
MIAMI — The U.S. Senate rejected a Democratic bill that would pay for extending interest rates by collecting $5.9 million in increased payroll taxes for businesses.
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