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September 30, 2009

• Education Secretary Duncan Announces $43 Million in Grants to Improve Teaching in High-Need Schools

September 29, 2009

• $6.6 Million in Striving Readers Grants Awarded to help Struggling Readers

September 25, 2009

• Student Art Exhibit from Chesterfield, Virginia to be displayed at U.S. Department of Education

September 24, 2009

• Secretary Duncan Says Rewrite of 'No Child Left Behind' Should Start Now; Reauthorization Can't Wait

September 23, 2009

• White House Hosts New Hampshire Town Hall on Importance of Fatherhood and Education

• U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan Issues Statement on Report on High School Dropout and Completion Rates

September 22, 2009

• U.S. Department of Education Awards More Than $108.8 Million in Early Reading First Grants to Help Prepare Young Children to Read

• Education Secretary Duncan and HHS Secretary Sebelius Announce Winner of 2009 H1N1 PSA Contest

September 21, 2009

• Statement by U.S. Education Secretary Duncan on Draft College- and Career-Readiness Standards in English-Language Arts, Mathematics

• U.S. Department of Education Video Contest Challenges Students to Take Responsibility for Their Education

September 17, 2009

• Statement by Secretaries Duncan and Sebelius on House Passage of Early Learning Challenge Fund

• Statement from U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on House Passage of the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act

• Secretary Duncan Names 72 Jacob K. Javits Fellows

September 15, 2009

• Education Secretary Arne Duncan Designates 314 Schools as 2009 Blue Ribbon Schools

September 14, 2009

• Student Loan Default Rates Increase

September 11, 2009

• $12.4 Million Awarded to School Systems in 24 States, D.C. to Promote Instruction of Critical Foreign Languages

September 4, 2009

• Recovery Act Funds Accelerated to Save Jobs, Drive Reforms in Schools with Students in Greatest Need

September 3, 2009

• 2009 Back-to-School Forecast -- Record Numbers of Students

• U.S. Department of Education Closes Out Summer Reading Initiative—"Read to the Top!"—With Record Success