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...fact, the initiative might never have gotten off the ground without a lot of help from Washington. Half the $200 million price tag of the first phase of the project will come from federal stimulus spending, and there's more to come. Along with the $3.3 billion in grant money set aside by the Department of Energy for smart-grid tech, another $615 million is set to be spent on projects for energy storage and monitoring. To Washington, building the smart grid is about more than energy - it's about creating jobs, an investment that will stimulate the economy today...
Cambridge Public Schools will receive $1.2 million for special education programs and $760,000 for high poverty schools over the next two years as part of the Obama administration’s economic stimulus package...
About 80 percent of the stimulus plan, which was announced in February, has been allotted for education. The funds that Cambridge will receive come from two sources: the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, which supports special education initiatives, and Title I, the portion of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act that addresses the needs of disadvantaged students...
...district has not determined exactly what it plans to do with the stimulus money, although Spinner said the funds, which are expected to be temporary, should not be used to create programs or hire personnel that will need to be sustained for longer than two years...
Marc C. McGovern, another school committee member, said that he would like to see the stimulus money pay to place social workers in schools, if possible...