Still no FY 2011 Circular A-133 Compliance Supplement from the Office of Management and Budget. But that doesn’t mean there’s nothing interesting going on!  Like a woodchuck after a spring rain, the “social impact bonds” funding option that we discussed…

(This post was written by Travis Hicks, one of Thompson’s federal education policy editors, and originally appeared on Title I-Derland, Thompson’s blog on federal K-12 policy.) The U.S. Department of Education yesterday released its state-by-state program allocations for the 2011-12…

Yes, another snail. Nothin’ doin’ on the Compliance Supplement today, either.  I just got off the phone with a couple of professional associates who were remarking that OMB seems unusually tight-lipped about the release at this point.  Maybe they’ve tired…

Our offices are located within blocks of the White House. And more importantly, to my mind, as the spring growing season kicks into high gear—just around the corner from the White House farmers’ market.

No new information has been released about when the Office of Management and Budget’s FY 2011 Circular A-133 Compliance Supplement will actually — finally — be released. Given the March 31 target release date that OMB originally gave the Government…

The responses keep rolling in about The Washington Post‘s recent “Million-Dollar Wasteland” series on HUD-funded affordable housing projects, which I discussed here on Monday.  While the Post skewered the agency over $650 million in delayed or halted projects, the National…

Research grantees take note. As called out by our friends at the Grants World Blog here, the Department of Health and Human Services is seeking comments on changes to the Standard Form 424 Research and Related family of forms. Comments…

(This story is excerpted from the May 23 Local/State Funding Report.) According to a recently released report from the Government Accountability Office, Grants.gov faces funding and governance challenges that adversely impact the site’s operations. Specifically, GAO said the initiative is…

Amid all the chatter about the debt ceiling, other ceilings were the focus of a major investigation by The Washington Post that was unveiled on its front pages over the weekend. Its “Million-Dollar Wasteland” series takes a deep dive into…

“Today, the United States has reached the statutory debt limit.” That’s not really the sentence that you want to read with your Monday morning coffee, but today, that was the introductory sentence in the letter that Congress received from Treasury…