New A-133 Compliance Supplement: Got Comments or Questions?

Still wading through the half a million words in the FY 2011 Circular A-133 Compliance Supplement that was published by the Office of Management and Budget on June 1? You certainly wouldn’t be the only one.
Read more ›Obama Versus Issa on Transparency, Accountability, Oversight

“The truth is, no one reads this thing,” declared President Obama, pointing to a stack of Federal Registers. Ceasing hard-copy publication of the Federal Register (which has been available online for years) is “just the tip of the iceberg” for…
Read more ›Breaking Silos in Title I and IDEA

(This post was written by Andrew Brownstein, one of Thompson’s federal education policy editors, and originally appeared on Title I-Derland, Thompson’s blog on federal K-12 policy.) Roughly 2.5 million students receive services under both Title I and the Individuals with…
Read more ›A Compliance Title Is Crowned!

OK, sports fans! This is a couple of months after the fact, but I thought I’d revisit my March Madness blog concerning the 14 compliance requirements (or in this case, “teams”) under the Office of Management and Budget Circular A-133…
Read more ›Bringing Clarity to a Clarification in the Circular A-133 Compliance Supplement

Do you ever read something that makes you stop in your tracks and say “Wait, what?” That was my reaction to one sentence in the 1,544 -page 2011 Office of Management and Budget Circular A-133 Compliance Supplement. That one sentence…
Read more ›L/SFR Sneak Peek: Budget Climate Makes Transportation Reauthorization Challenging

(This story is excerpted from the June 13 Local/State Funding Report.) Despite broad agreement that transportation infrastructure investments are critical, the U.S. still lacks a broad transportation reauthorization bill, injecting a high level of uncertainty into the conversations about transportation…
Read more ›New ED i3 Priorities, FWS Awards and SNAP Advocacy

It occurred to me this afternoon that FundingAttractions.com has been live for just over four months now. Since I’m a data geek (a Math Team veteran, actually), I wanted to see how that tallied up. The 137 posts we’ve published…
Read more ›Job Alert: Prince George's CC (Md.) Seeking Grants Director

If you’re in the D.C. metro area and looking for a new professional opportunity, you may want to consider this one at Prince George’s Community College in Largo, Md.:
Read more ›Reader Response: Additional Resources for HIV/AIDS Projects

In response to a reader comment on yesterday’s post about the 30th anniversary of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, here’s some additional information about funding.
Read more ›SIG Implementation: Depends on Where You Live

(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.) States’ implementation of the $3.5 billion School Improvement Grant (SIG) program is all over…
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