Thirty years ago, on June 5, 1981, the Centers for Disease Control published its first report on cases of a rare lung disease (pneumocystis carinii pneumonia or PCP) that had infected several gay men in Los Angeles who were also…

Need some summer reading?  Look no further than the just-released FY 2011 Circular A-133 Compliance Supplement.  It’s a hefty 1,544 pages of the latest guidance from the Office of Budget and Management about conducting audits for the fiscal year beginning…

The FY 2011 Circular A-133 Compliance Supplement is out!  It was just posted on the Office of Budget and Management’s website this afternoon.  You can access it by clicking here (if you’re inside this specific blog post) or by copying…

Welcome to the June edition of the FY 2011 Circular A-133 Compliance Supplement watch!  There’s still no news or hint of news from the Office of Budget and Management on an updated ETA.  Going back into our files, I was…

Among the barbeques, the houseguests, the sightseeing and the yard work, I spent a portion of my Memorial Day weekend reading some excerpts from Sen. Tom Coburn’s (R-Okla.) 73-page report on wasteful spending at the National Science Foundation. The report,…

(This story is excerpted from the June 6 Local/State Funding Report.) Spending and deficit reduction talks continued throughout May, with Congress taking a series of symbolic votes on budget proposals that have already been dismissed as dead on arrival.

Sorry, Charlie.  With the hours in May waning, it doesn’t look like the new Circular A-133 Compliance Supplement will be released by the Office of Budget and Management this month.  Cross your fingers that we’ll see it in June!

It was a busy week for the education space leading up to the holiday weekend. New initiatives, studies and funding opportunities abounded as the current school year winds to a close. Here’s a rundown of who was talking about what…

The Office of Management and Budget had better release the FY 2011 Circular A-133 Compliance Supplement soon; we’re running out of pictures of snails!  Only one more workday left for OMB to get the supplement released this month. Where’s Agent…

(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.) Although trumpeted as the passage of its first “education reform bill,” Wednesday’s vote by…