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<div class="MsoNormal">Amount rescinded to help free up money to pay teachers<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 8/11/2010 </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/455927-NTIA_Broadband_Stimulus_Funding_Cut_By_302_Million.php?rssid=20065">www.broadcastingcable.com/article/455927-NTIA_Broadband_Stimulus_Funding_Cut_By_302_Million.php?rssid=20065</a>
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<div class="MsoNormal">The National Telecommunications & Information
Administration will have $302 million less in broadband stimulus grant money to
give out by the end of next month, about 10% of what it still has left to hand
out in the next six weeks.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">That comes after that amount was rescinded from the BTOP
(Broadband Technology Opportunities Program) to help free up money to pay
teachers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">NTIA is giving out $4.7 billion in grant money for broadband
deployment and adoption. It is in the second round of funding and has to finish
giving out the money by the end of next month. As of July 2, NTIA had given out
113 grants totaling approximately $1.6 billion, so it has more than $3 billion
to give out by its Sept. 30 statutory deadline.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">House members returned this week to pass HR 1586, which will
help pay for potentially hundreds of thousands of education jobs that were at
risk in cash-strapped state budgets as the new school year approached,
according to the House Education and Labor Committee. Congress is not slated to
return until mid-September, after most school bells would have rung in the new
academic year.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">NTIA was just one of many agencies to have to take a cut in
funds to help pay the teachers. Others having to share the load included the
Departments of Defense and Agriculture, the Park Service, and ironically, the
Department of Education.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">The bill was passed Tuesday and signed by the president. The
White House says the bill prevented up to 160,000 teacher layoffs.</div>
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