Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, OTEL - University of Illinois at Springfield

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Tuesday, September 11, 2001

http://chronicle.com./free/2001/09/2001091101u.htm

Education Department Cuts New Distance-Education Grants, Paying Off Old Ones Instead
By DAN CARNEVALE

The Department of Education won't award as many grants for distance-education projects this year as officials there had originally planned, because President Bush has proposed cutting new financing for the grant program in the 2002 fiscal year. So instead of making dozens of new three-year grants, the department is making a handful of larger grants, each for as much as the institutions would otherwise have received over three years. It is also paying off the second and third years of grants awarded earlier....

 



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