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| | February 27, 2004 -- ED Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | The Office of Elementary and Secondary Education has held conference calls and meetings with state Title I directors, initiated a new program of conference calls with local Title I directors, hosted eight national conferences, and sent 500 letters to various state and local offices. |
 | | The one-pagers at http://www.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/statefactsheets/ provide official estimates as of February 14, including Title I, special education, Pell Grants, Reading First, choice/options, teacher quality, annual assessments, educational research, and English language acquisition. |
 | | Meanwhile, it is important to remember that, historically, budgetary increases have not produced proportional gains on the nation's report card, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), either in overall student achievement or in the significant narrowing of the achievement gap between students of different races, ethnicities, and socioeconomic backgrounds. |
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