Title: Schools Say Stimulus Package Is Too Late
Summary: Discusses how a 2-year stimulus package can’t help teachers in the long run.
Topic: Should President Obama reform the No Child Left Behind law?
Category: Journalistic, Multimedia
What is it? National Public Radio (NPR), 02/26/08
Publication Information: Multimedia clip (radio broadcast) and transcript from National Public Radio (NPR) news.
Author: None given.
Location: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95413820
Accessed: 3/11/09
Support: President Obama is mentioned in terms of an address he gave to Congress about education and the stimulus package. Kevin Christian is from the Marion County Public School District in Florida and isn’t sure how much stimulus money his school will receive. Ray Cortines is a school superintendent in Los Angeles, California and discusses necessary budge cuts.
Audience and Agenda:
National Public Radio (NPR) is a producer and distributor of noncommercial news, talk and entertainment programming. The program is available to the general public and is widely listened to, up to 26 million viewers a week.
Usefulness:
This article was useful in its explanation about how a 2-year stimulus package can’t help schools hire more teachers in the long run.
Works Cited:
http://www.npr.org/
Filed under: Assignments for Gateway II, Source Notes Tagged: | Assignments, Gateway, Gateway II, Journalistic, Multimedia, No Child Left Behind, politics, Source Notes
